94 LORD AVALSINGHAM OS [Jan. 19, 



greyish. Abdomen greyish ; anal tuft pale ochreous. Legs pale 

 ochreous. 



Type, 6 Mus. Wlsni. 



Hub. West Indies— St. Thomas, 15 III.-14 IV. (Gudmann, 

 Hedemann). Eight specimens. 



95. PlGRITIA MEDIOC illS, sp. II. 



Antenna' greyish, with a pecten at the base in the <$ . Palpi 

 very slender, recurved, greyish, with whitish lines along them 

 above and beneath. Head grey. Thorax and fore wings olivaceous 

 ochreous, the latter with a few greyish-fuscous scales sprinkled 

 over the dorsum and the outer end of the cell ; with a narrow line 

 of the same immediately below the costa reaching from the base 

 to half the wing-length, a line of similar scales runs along the 

 termen, sprinkling the paler cilia; with a small dot before the anal 

 angle. Exp. dl. 8 mm. Hind wings and cilia pale grey. Abdomen 

 pale olivaceous ochreous, tending to greyish posteriorly. Legs 

 cinereous. 



Type, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. West Indies — St. Croix, 26 IV.-6 V. {Hedemann) ; 

 St. Thomas, 12 III. (Gudmann). Six specimens. 



29. Auximobasis, Wlsm. 

 9b\ Auximobasis insularis, sp. n. 



Antenna' greyish ; the basal joint with a closely-packed shield of 

 scales. Palpi porreot, scarcely recurved, greyish fuscous externally, 

 an ashy ring around the end of the second joint. Head ashy grey. 

 Thorax greyish fuscous ; the tegula? paler. Fore wings pale greyish 

 fuscous, with an angular spot at the base of the costa, ochreous 

 edged with dark fuscous ; before the middle of the wing is an 

 outwardly angulated dark fuscous band, aud beyond the middle, at 

 about one-third from the apex, a line of dark fuscous mottlings, 

 forming a second band much less conspicuous than the first ; 

 cilia ashy grey. Exp. al. 12 mm. Hind wings pale grey; cilia 

 with a slight ochreous tinge. Abdomen and legs ashy grey ; anal 

 tuft ochreous. 



Type, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah. West Indies — St. Croix, 18 V. (Pontoppidan) ; St. 

 Thomas, 6 III .-15 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). 



This species differs from variolata, Wlsm., in the less attenuated 

 form of the hind wings, which have also a more obtuse apex. 



97. Al'XIMOBASIS VARIOLATA, Sp. U. 



Antennce with a distinct basal pecten ; cinereous. Palpi on the 

 outer sides brownish, with a pale baud around the junction of the 

 second and apical joints. Head ashy grey. Thorax pale brownish. 

 Fore ivings ashy grey, with pale brownish mottlings and dark 

 fuscous spots aud speckles, these latter consist of two ill-defined 

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