1897.] WEST-INDIAN M1CRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 73 



with whitish ochreous. Head whitish, mottled with dark brown. 

 Thorax dark brown, with faint whitish specklings at the tips of 

 the scales ; a silvery spot behind at the base of the abdomen. 

 Fore wings dark browu, much mottled with whitish ochreous, 

 mingled with iridescent greeu reflections ; the paler colouring does 

 not extend to the base but only to the sinuate oblique outer edge 

 of a strongly-marked dark basal patch, the green metallic reflections 

 being especially noticeable beyond its outer margin ; below the 

 middle of the costal margin is a small ocelloid spot with a dark 

 brown centre, and the pale upper margin is preceded by a smaller 

 one and followed by a third spot a little more distant from it, which 

 forms the outer extremity of a dark brown shade ; three patches 

 of raised whitish-ochr-eous scales, the first on the disc before the 

 middle, and two below the disc almost reaching the dorsum, the 

 one before the other behind the middle ; the apical portion of the 

 wing is much mottled and contains a paler costal patch at one- 

 fourth from the apex ; cilia dark brown, at the apex mottled with 

 whitish ochreous and tending to dull grey at the tornus. Exp. at. 

 13 mm. Hind wings very transparent, the veins indicated by 

 greyish brown, the intermediate spaces except at the apex with 

 bright steel-blue iridescence ; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen greyish 

 brown. Hind legs dark brown, spotted and banded with whitish 

 ochreous. 



Type, <S Mus. Gudmann. 



Hah. West Indies — Hayti (Cap Haiti, 18 V., Gudmann). 

 Unique. 



This species has somewhat the appearance of Xenolechia humer- 

 alis, Z. 



41. Geleciiia translucida, Wlsm. 



Bryotropha translucida, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 520, 545 

 (1892) '. 



Hah. West Indies — Dominica l : St. Vincent ' ; Grenada 

 (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward side, 27 IV. ; Mount Gay Estate, 

 300 ft., leeward side, 3-10 LX.—H. H. Smith). 



In the original description, by a clerical error, the type was 

 recorded as a $ ; it is a tf . 



42. Gelechia sphenophora, sp. n. 



Antenna' brownish grey. Palpi brownish fuscous ; apical joint 

 with a pale ochreous spot at its apex. Head and thorax brownish 

 grey. Fore wings olive-brown, inclining to ferruginous at the base, 

 the lighter basal patch is bounded externally by an oblique cunei- 

 form ochreous streak, tending outwards from the costa at one-till h 

 from the base and reaching to the fold ; a small ochreous spot lies 

 at the end of the discal cell, and a larger, rather paler, costal spot at 

 the commencement of the costal cilia; around the termen are four 

 or five ill-defined pale ochreous spots before the commencemenl of 

 the olive-brown cilia. Exp. al. 10 mm. Hind wings blue-grey ; 

 cilia brownish grey. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs whitish 



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