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base, divei'ging outwards ; apical joint shorter than second, both 

 triangularly clothed with appressed scales, giving a truncate 

 appearance. 



Head densely clothed above and in front. 



Fore wings with the costa slightly arched, apex rounded, termen 

 oblique, dorsum straight. Newration : 12 veins all separate, 7 to 

 apex. 



Hind wings as broad as the fore wings, somewhat trapezoidal. 

 Neuration : 7 veins all separate. 



Abdomen somewhat flattened and laterally dilated. 



Hind tibice somewhat hairy above and beneath. 



This genus is founded upon the peculiar shape of the palpi, 

 which differ in form from those of all the genera of Micro- 

 Lepidoptera with which I am acquainted. 



154. DlTRlGONOPHORA MARMOREIPENNIS, Sp. n. 



Antenna? cinereous. Palpi silvery grey above, the second joint 

 shaded and the apical joint doubly barred beneath with brownish 

 fuscous. Head ochreous, mixed with brownish fuscous. Thorax 

 brownish fuscous, transversely banded with whitish. Fore wings 

 pale ochreous, thickly mottled with brownish fuscous, which is 

 separated into ill-defined spots and shades by slender silvery whitish 

 undulating lines ; a series of five or six slender silvery white oblique 

 costal streaks, the outer one of the series being in the middle of 

 an elongate brownish-fuscous patch, scarcely more than two-thirds 

 of the wing-length from the base ; a slender blackish line, slightly 

 angulated at the apex, runs along the base of the greyish-ochreous 

 cilia. Underside uniformly reddish grey. Expl. al. 5-7 mm. 

 Hind wings and cilia reddish grey. Underside uniformly reddish 

 grey. Abdomen reddish grey. Legs grey with white spurs, the 

 tarsi spotted with white. 



Type, S Mus. Wlsm. 



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

 side, 15 III. — H. H. Smith). Two specimens. 



These specimens were unfortunately almost destroyed by an 

 accident. 



53. Trapeziophora, Wlsm. 



155. Trapeziophora gemmula, Wlsm. 



Trapeziophora gemmula, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 530-1, 

 547, PI. XLI. 7 (1892) \ 



Hab. West Indies — St. Vincent \ 



54. GrLYPHIPTERYX, lib. 



= JEchhia, Tr. (nee auct.) ; = Ussasa, Wkr. 



Curtis, Br. Ent. IV. PI. 152 (1827), figured and specified Pha- 

 Icena linneella, CI., as the type of Qlyphipteryx. If he were quoting 

 Glyphiptcryx from Hiibner's ' Verzeichniss,' he must have been 

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