1897.] WBST-INDIA.N UICHO-LEPIOOPrERA. Ill 



metallic. Legs whitish ; hiud tarsal joints handed above with dark 

 grey. 



Type, 3 Mus. Hedemann. 



btab. West Indies — Hayti (Port-au-Prince, 24 V. — Gadmann); 

 St. Thomas, 12 IV. {Hedemann). Two specimens. 



VII. SCYTHMNJE. 



44. (Ecia, g. n. 

 (ot(v'eios = belonging to the house.) 



Type, (Ecia maculata, Wlsin. 



Antenna? longer than the fore wings, simple, stout ; basul joint 

 without pecten. 



Labial palpi diverging, smooth; second joint porrect, rather 

 stout ; apical joint erect, nearly as long as the secoud. 



Maxillary palpi rudimentary. 



Ocelli present. 



Hausiellum absent. 



Head and thorax clothed with appressed scales. 



Fore wings elongate, costa rather straight, apex slightly 

 depressed, bluntly pointed ; termen oblique ; toruus not developed. 

 Nearation : 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex. 



Hind wings hardly as broad as the fore wiugs, costa straight, 

 abdominal angle distinct, dorsum tapering to the pointed apex ; 

 cilia 2. Neuration : 8 veins, G and 7 long- stalked, 3 and 4 remote, 

 5 almost parallel with 4. 



Abdomen slightly flattened. 



Legs : hiud tibia) and first joint of the tarsi with long loose 

 hairs above. 



Allied to Endrosis, 1Tb., and having apparently the same habits, 

 but differing in having vein 6 of the hind wings present, 3 and 4 

 separate, and the haustellum absent. 



138. (Ecia maculata, sp. n. 



Antennce smoky greyish. Palpi paleochreous. Head pale strave- 

 ochreous. Thorax pale straw-ochreous, shaded with smoky grey. 

 Fore 'wings pale straw-ochreous, blotched and margined with smoky 

 grey; this colour commencing near the base extends along the fold 

 and along the costa without including the costal cilia and embraces 

 the apex; on the middle of the fold is a stronger blotch of the 

 same colour, slightly diffused downwards to the dorsum ; a similar 

 blotch a little above and beyond it scarcely before the middle; a 

 third at the end of the cell extending almost across the wing; 

 cilia pale straw-ochreous. Exp. <tl. 10-12 mm. Hind wings 

 shining pale yellowish grey ; the cilia with a slight ochreous tinge. 

 Abdomen pale ochreous. Legs with the tibiae and tarsi somewhat 

 hairy ; whitish ochreous. 

 Type, J $ Mus. Wlsin. 



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