78 lord walsingham on [Jan. 19, 



Ent. Am. V. 37 (1889) 5 ; Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891, 95, 

 96, PL VII. 78 (1891) 6 ; Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am. 104, 

 No. 5586 (1891) 7 . 



Hah. United States 1 " 7 , VIII. 1 West Indies— Jamaica 

 (Monteague, 1100 ft., XI.— Kendall) ; St. Thomas, 12 IIL-2 IV. 

 ( Gudmann, Hedemann). 



55. POLTHYMNO LATERESTRIATA, Sp. D. 



Antennce white, faintly shaded with greyish ochreous beyond the 

 base. Palpi white. Head white. Thorax greyish ; tegulae white. 

 Fore wings shining silvery white, the extreme apical portion bright 

 orange ; a very oblique brownish-grey costal streak, followed by a 

 scarcely less oblique white one, runs through the orange space 

 nearly to a conspicuous white-margined black spot at the apex, and 

 is met by a more slender oblique streak from the dorsum, also 

 followed by a parallel white streak, wider than the one above it, 

 and nearly divided at its middle by a slender dark line reverting 

 from the tornus ; cilia on their upper half with a shining bronzy 

 shade at their base and a grey line running through them obliquely 

 downwards from the apex ; on their lower half whitish. Exp. al. 

 10 mm. Hind wings whitish grey ; cilia white, a reduplicated dark 

 line running through them across the apex. Abdomen whitish, 

 shaded with grey above, with a series of oblique lateral grey streak- 

 lets on either side ; anal tuft whitish. Legs white ; hind tarsi 

 shaded and spotted with greyish fuscous. 



Type, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah. West Indies— St. Thomas, 30 III.-10 IV. (Hedemann). 

 Two specimens. 



56. POLYHYMNO SCIURELLA, Sp. n. 



Antennae white. Palpi shining white. Head and thorax shining 

 white. Fore wings shining bluish white, with an elongate bright 

 orange patch preceding the apex and reaching the costa but not 

 the dorsum ; this is preceded by a slight greyish shade, which does 

 not extend along its upper edge and is followed by a strong black 

 apical spot ; before and below the spot is an outwardly curved 

 greyish shade, partly enclosing an elongate silver-white oblique 

 streak along the tornus ; alternate orange and greyish-fuscous lines 

 diverge downwards from the apex through the upper half of the 

 cilia, which are plain greyish white about the tornus. Exp. al. 

 8 mm. Hind wings pale blue-grey ; cilia whitish grey, with two 

 slender dark lines crossing them at the apex. Abdomen silvery, 

 with a remarkably long and dense pale ochreous anal tuft in the 

 male. Legs : hind tibiae pale ochreous ; tarsi white, the spurs 

 tipped and the tarsi biannulate with greyish fuscous. 



Type, S Mus. Wlsm. 



Hub. West Indies— St. Thomas, 22-24 III. (Gudmann, Hede- 

 mann). Three specimens. 

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