1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 93 



92. BLA.STOBASIS TRIANGULARIS, Sp. II. 



Antenna pale fawn-ochreous. Palpi dark fuscous, the tips of tin- 

 joints paler. Head cinereous ; face slightly ochreous. Thorax 

 dusky cinereous. Fore wings dusky cinereous ; the costa narrowly 

 subochreous throughout, the usual three spots almost obscured by 

 the dusky ground-colour, but traceable in the ordinary positions — 

 the first before and slightly above the middle, the other two corre- 

 sponding to the apical and tornal angles of the cell (there is a slight 

 sprinkling of scattered subochreous scales over the wing-surface in 

 a bred specimen) ; cilia cinereous, with a slight ochreous tinge. 

 Exp. al. 10-12 mm. Hind ivi.ni/x thinly scaled between the upper 

 veins in the d 1 ; brownish fuscous, with a faint purplish gloss ; 

 cilia inclining to ochreous. Abdomen brownish fuscous ; anal 

 tuft ochreous. Legs cinereous ; hind tarsal joints inclining to 

 ochreous. 



Type, d Mus. Hedemann ; £ Mus. Gudmann. 



Hob. West Indies — St. Thomas, 11 III.-15 IV. (Gudmawi, 

 Hedemann). Two specimens. 



Bred by Baron von Hedemann from a black larva feeding on a 

 low plant which was not identified. 



The $ has the hind wings much paler and less marked, and of 

 a greyer tinge ; the anal tuft is ochreous, as in the <3 . 



93. Blastobasis gracilis, sp. n. 



Antenncp, and palpi bone-colour, the latter slightly shaded ex- 

 ternally. Head and thorax bone-colour. Fore wings bone-colour, 

 with a slight vinous tinge, sparsely sprinkled and mottled with 

 pale brownish fuscous ; the usual three dots are fairly conspicuous, 

 but the first of these, scarcely before the middle, is preceded by a 

 slight indication of another spot immediately above the middle of 

 the fold ; the termen shows a very faint indication of a broken 

 fuscous line; cilia bone-grey. Exp. al. 11 mm. Hind wings 

 shining pale bone-grey : cilia with a slight vinous gloss. A//<Ji>,h< ,* 

 bone-grey ; anal tuft bone-colour. Legs pale cinereous ; hind 

 tibiae slightly shaded externally. 



Type, J § Mus. Wlsin. 



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

 side, 5-27 IV. — H. H. Smith). Four specimens. 



28. Pigritia, Clem. 



94. Pigritia? biatomella, sp. n. 



Antennce stoutish, greyish ochreous, the basal joint with a thick 

 tuft of mixed black and ochreous scales beneath. Palpi fuscous, 

 sometimes ochreous at the junction of the second ami terminal 

 joints, internally pale ochreous. Head ochreous, much mixed with 

 black. Fore wingsamoky at the base, pale greyish ochre. ms beyond, 

 more or less suffused with fuscous, with a small black dot at the 

 end of the cell, a second near the dorsum immediately below i) ; 

 cilia pale grevish. E.<p. ul. 9 mm. Hind wings ami cilia pale 



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