1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 85 



Thorax smooth. 



Fore wings narrow, elongate, of approximately even width 

 throughout, somewhat securiform, apex slightly uucate, termen 

 oblique, toruus angular. Neuration : 11 veins (7 and 8 coincident), 

 2 and 3 stalked. 



Hind wings trapezoidal, slightly broader than the fore wings, 

 dorsum sinuate, tornus obtusely angular, not incised beneath the 

 apex, costa straight, abdominal angle developed. Neuration : 8 

 veins, 6 and 7 connate, 3 and 4 from a short stalk, 5 approximated 

 to 3 + 4. 



Abdomen somewhat flattened, anal tuft rather strongly deve- 

 loped. 



Legs : hind tibise somewhat roughly (but not thickly) clothed. 



A II ifd to Strobisia^ Clem., but easily separated by the length of 

 the antenna 1 , the shape of the termen, and the longer palpi. 



71. Drepanoterma lacticaudellum, sp. n. 



Antenna^ dark fuscous, very faintly annulated ; basal joint whitish 

 beneath. Palpi bronzy brown, apical joint tipped with white. Head 

 and thorax' dark purplish. Fore wings shining ferruginous, the basal 

 third transversely blotched and striated with dark purplish fuscous 

 and dark ferruginous, the apex and termen also shaded with dark 

 purplish fuscous and illuminated with steel-grey patches ; cilia 

 whitish ochreous, with dark grey streaks running through them (to 

 the number of five or six), at the tornus purplish fuscous. Exp.al. 

 12 mm. Hind wings dark coppery grey with iridescent reflections 

 at the base of the cell ; cilia coppery grey. Abdomen dark purplish 

 fuscous, anal tuft conspicuous, whitish ochreous. Legs shining 

 creamy whitish, tarsi and tibia? shaded with greyish. 



Type, <$ Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. West Indies— Grenada (Chantilly Estate, 350 ft., wind- 

 ward side, 13 IV. — H. H. Smith). One specimen taken on the 

 banks of a stream. 



23. Menesta, Clem. 

 72. Menesta? cinereocervina, W 7 lsm. 



Gelechia cinereocervina, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 519-20, 

 545 (1892) \ 



Hab. West Indies — St. Vincent *. 



The neuration of the fore wings of this species as recorded 

 (I. c. 519) is erroneous. I find on a re-examination of the two 

 original specimens that they have only eleven veins, not twelve, and 

 therefore wish to amend my original description as follows : — 



Fore wings with 11 veins (7 and 8 coincident), 7 + 8 approxi- 

 mated to 9, running to the costa. 



With this correction Gelechia cinereocervina differs from Menesla 

 tortriciformeMa, Clem., in having 6 and 7 of the hind wings con- 

 nate instead of stalked, and in not having biciliate antenna;; but 

 for the moment 1 am unwilling to separate them genericallv. 



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