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than the second ; white. Head coppery fawn-brown, with a white 

 line on either side running hack from the base of the antenna' ; 

 face and tongue whitish ochreous. Thorax coppery fawn-brown. 

 Fore wings coppery fawn-brown, with a shining white streak 

 along the costa from the base to the costal cilia, the extreme costa 

 edged with bright ochreous throughout, including the costal cilia; 

 cilia coppery fawn-brown with a slight ochreous tinge. Exp. al. 

 10mm. Hind wings brownish grey ; cilia coppery fawn. Abdomen 

 dark brownish grey, anal tuft subochreous. Legs pale cinereous, 

 hind tibiae somewhat clothed above. 



Typ e i 6 Mus. Wlsm. 



Hob. West Indies — Hayti (Port-au-Prince, 23 V., Gfudmann) ; 

 St. Thomas, 10 IV. (Hedemann) ; Grenada (Balthazar, 250 ft., 

 windward side, 15 IV. — H. H. Smith). Four specimens. 



II. B A TEA CHEDEINM. 



37. Pammeces, Z. 



117. Pammeces lithochroma, sp. n. 



Antenna' (broken), basal joint elongate, enlarged posteriorly, 

 with a distinct long pecten ; stone-white. Palpi long and strongly 

 recurved, laterally ascending, second joint rather strongly tufted 

 above at its end ; apical joint long and thin, slightly shorter than 

 the second joint; pale stone-grey sprinkled with blackish atoms. 

 Head and thorax smooth : stone-grey. Fore -wings stone-grey, 

 sprinkled with blackish atoms, especially along the costa ; a minute 

 black spot on the middle of the fold, another on the dorsum at its 

 outer end, the latter somewhat elongate ; a third minute elongate 

 black spot lies at the end of the cell, and a few black dots around 

 the termen at the base of the stone-grey cilia. Exp. al. 16 mm. 

 Bmd wings pale grey ; cilia stone-grey. Abdomen stone-grey. 

 Legs stone-whitish ; hind tibiae hairy above. 



Typ e , 6 Mus. Grudmaun. 



Hah. West Indies— San Domingo (Puerto Plata, 16 V.—Ghtd- 

 mann). Unique. 



The antennae were between two and three times the length of 

 the fore wings (Gudmann). 



118. Pammeces? pallida, sp. n. 



Antennce longer than the fore wings, with a distinct pecten on 

 the basal joint ; dirty white. Palpi : the second joint with a sloping 

 brush above at its end, apical joint slender, naked, less than half 

 the length of the second : white, with a smoky shade on the second 

 joint externally. Head and thorax while. Fore wings shining 

 white, with two or three small fuscous spots along the fold, and 

 four minute fuscous dols on the costa along the base of the smoky 

 white cilia. Exp. al. 13 mm. Hind wings shining, very pale 



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