1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTER.4. 83 



mixed with some chestnut ; the pale fascia is connected at each 

 extremity with an internally dark margined pale line which passes 

 around the base of the cilia, interrupted only at the extreme apex 

 and forming a triangular pattern ; a reduplicated slender fuscous 

 and chestnut line runs through the hoary cilia along the termen. 

 Exp. al. 9 mm. Bind wings and cilia leaden grey. Abdomen 

 greyish. Ler/s hoary, speckled with greyish fuscous. 



Type, 6 Mus. Wlsin. 



Bab. West Indies — St. Croix, 7 V.-ll V. (Gudmann, Bede- 

 mann) ; Grenada (Balthazar, windward side, 5-27 IV. — B. B. 

 Smith). Eight specimens. 



Bred by Mr. Grudmaun from a plant which was not identified.' 



66. ACOMPSIA PSORICOPTERELLA, Wlsm. 



Brachycrossata psoricopterella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 

 523-4,546 (1892) ». 



Bab. West Indies — St. Vincent \ 



19. Helcystogramma, Z. 



=Bhaceycrossata (Hein.), Sect. B, Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 

 1891, 98-9. 



67. Helcystogramma obseratella, Z. 



Gelechia (Belcystogramma) obseratella, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Boss. 

 XIII. 371-3, PI. V. 127 (I877) 1 . Belcystogramma obseratella, 

 Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 523, 546 (1892) 2 . 



Bab. West Indies— Cuba : 2 . 



20. Trichotaphe, Clem. 



68. Trichotaphe trigonella, Wlsm. 



Trichotaphe trigonella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 523, 546 

 (1892) '. 



Bab. West Indies — S. Croix, 15 V. (Gudmann); St. Vincent 1 . 

 Bred by Mr. Grudmann, but the food-plant not determined. 



69. Trichotaphe tegulella, sp. n. 



Antenna? whitish ochreous, annulated with umber-brown. Palpi 

 much flattened laterally, smooth, second joint with closely ap- 

 pressed clothing ; umber-brown, on their inner side brownish 

 ochreous. Bead and thorax pale umber-brown ; tegula) con- 

 spicuously pale ochreous. Fore wings dark purplish fuscous, with 

 an elongate blackish spot on the outer third of the fold, separating 

 the dark upper portion of the wing from the narrow dorsal 

 portion, which, below and beyond the fold, is throughout pale 

 ochreous ; a small white spot lies at the end of the cell and a 

 larger white costal spot before the apex, this is connected with the 

 tornus by a narrow broken line of ochreous scales; along the 

 termen is a narrow blackish band preceded by a curved line of 



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