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tawny-brown spot, blending with the ground-colour above it ; 

 three shining steel-grey bands can be traced with the lens, the 

 first commencing on the costa at one-fifth and tending obliquely 

 outwards to the fold ; the second, commencing at the first costal 

 spot, runs almost straight to the fold, and slightly encroaches on 

 the ochreous baud beneath it ; the third, slightly preceding the 

 second costal spot at its lower extremity, reaches to the dorsum at 

 the termination of the ochreous band ; cilia tawny brown, with an 

 admixture of steel-grey scales. Exp. al. <3 8 ; 2 10 mm. Hind 

 ivings steel-grey ; cilia yellowish grey. Abdomen brownish grey. 

 Legs pale cinereous ; tarsi faintly spotted. 



Type, 6 $ Mus. Wlsm. 



Hub. West Indies— Grenada (Balthazar, windward side — H. 

 H. Smith). Three specimens. 



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50. Gelechia postpallescens, sp. n. i -^>' A 



Antennae brownish fuscous with whitish annulations. Palpi : 

 apical joint as long as the second joint ; whitish, with a fuscous 

 spot externally on the basal half of the second joint. Head and 

 thorax creamy ochreous, the latter margined at the sides with 

 brownish fuscous. Fore ivings narrow ; brownish fuscous, sparsely 

 sprinkled with ochreous scales ; a creamy-ochreous dorsal streak 

 occupies one-third the width of the wing and runs from the base 

 through the torual cilia ; a small creamy-ochreous costal spot lies 

 at one-fourth from the apex, and a few pale ochreous scales are 

 viable at the base of the brownish-fuscous terminal cilia. Exp. 

 al. 9 mm. Hind, wings and cilia grey. Abdomen brownish grey. 

 Legs whitish ochreous ; tarsi minutely spotted with fuscous. 



'Type, $ Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. West Indies — Grenada (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward 

 side, 15 IV. — H. H. Smith). Unique. 



51. Gelechia jamaicensis, sp. n. 



Antenna? creamy white, with greyish-fuscous annulations t 

 Palpi : apical joint as long as the second joint, the latter slightly 

 roughened beneath ; cream-white, the second joint doubly barred 

 with fuscous externally, the apical joint biannulate with fuscous. 

 Head creamy white. Thorax pale ochreous, whitish anteriorly. 

 Fore wings pale ochreous, with a slight admixture of creamy -white 

 and some ferruginous shadiug ; sprinkled and suffused with greyish 

 fuscous above the fold and along the costa (especially on its outer 

 two-thirds, where it extends to half the width of the wing), 

 presenting a peppered or irrorated appearance ; this irroration is 

 continued around the termen and in the base of the greyish cilia ; 

 two dark ferruginous-brown ocellated spots before the middle of 

 the wing, the first at the commencement of the outer third of the 

 fold, the other above and very slightly beyond it (in some speci- 

 mens these spots are hardly noticeable, while in others the upper 

 one is preceded and followed by similar spots). Exp. al. 8 mm. 

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