1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOFTEHA. 105 



the apex. Exp. al. 8 mm. Hind wings grey ; cilia pale grey. 

 Abdomen ochreous. Legs whitish, obliquely blotched with fuscous 

 externally, spurs banded with black. 



Type, '<$ Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah. West Indies — Hayti (Cap Haiti, 18 V. — Gudmann) ; St. 

 Thomas, 12 IIL-17 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Five specimens. 



122. Batrachedra tarsi maculata, sp. n. 



Antennas whitish ochreous, thickly barred above with fuscous, 

 this colour forming three dark annulations before the apex. Palpi 

 whitish, second joint with two fuscous spots, apical joint with two 

 fuscous bauds, one before the apex, the second near its base. Head 

 whitish. Thorax dull straw-white. Fore wings dull straw-white ; 

 a short curved fuscous streak from the base below the fold ; a long 

 streak above it, also from the base, running along the costa to one- 

 third the wing-length, thence slightly deviating downwards to the 

 end of the cell; beneath its apex is a small dorsal spot, and above 

 its apex commences on the costa another dark streak, which 

 leaving the pale costal cilia runs to the apex and narrowly through 

 the apical cilia (these markings are all dark fuscous) ; cilia straw- 

 white, tending to greyish about the tornus. Exp. al. 6 mm. 

 Hind wings and cilia brownish grey. Abdomen shining whitish 

 ochreous. Legs straw-white ; hind tibiae obliquely banded exter- 

 nally and their tarsi distinctly biaunulate with dark fuscous. 



Type, 2 Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah. West Indies — St. Thomas, 6 III.-9 IV. (Gudmann, 

 Hedemann). Four specimens. 



III. COSMOPTERYGINM. 



40. Cosmopteryx, Hb. 



123. Cosmopteryx attenuatella, Wkr. 



n. s\i\. = lespedez^:, Wlsm. 



Gelechia attenuatdla, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXX. 1019 

 (1864) 1 . Cosmopteryx lespedezce, Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. X. 198 

 (1882) 2 . [? = Cosmopteryx (? gemmiferella, Clem.), Mschl. Ab. 

 Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 345, 354(1890) :) ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 

 1891, 536, 548 (1892)*.] Cosmopteryx lespedezoe, Biley, Smith's 

 List Lep. Bor. Am. 107. No. 5771 (1891) \ Gelechia attenitaft /In. 

 Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 519, 545 (1892) 8 . Cosmopteryx 

 lespedezcp, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 536, 548 (1892) 7 . 



Hah. United States 25 — Texas 7 , N. Carolina 7 . Larva Lespe- 

 deza 2 ''. West Indies— Jamaica 16 ; Hayti (Port-au-Prince, 22 

 V., Gudmann); [? Portorico 3 ' l ] ; St. Croix, 3-31 V. (Gudmann, 

 Hedemann, Pontoppidan) ; St. Vincent 7 ; Grenada (Balthazar, 

 250 ft., windward side, 15 III.-15 IV. //. II. Smith). 



Bred by Mr. Gudmann at St. Croix, but the plant not identified. 



Cosmopteryx gemmiferella, Clem., is not known to occur in the 



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