1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEP1DOPTERA. 119 



acquainted with that work very soon after its completion. If 

 " Qlyphipteryx, nob.'' of Curtis were an independent creation, the 

 name could not stand, as it was already preoccupied by Hiibner; 

 and if be were restricting Hiibner's genus Glyphipteryx, bis action 

 was inadmissible, for Glyphipteryx linneella, Hb. Verz. bek. Schm. 

 4101 (Hb. Tin. 436, Tort. 84), 'is bergstrcesserdla, F. (Stgr. Cat. 

 2306), a totally different insect from linneella, L. and Crt. * Glyphi- 

 pteryx, Crt. (necHb.), must sink as a synonym of Chrysoclista, 8tn. 



156. Glyphipteryx caedatella, sp. n. 



Antennai brownish gre} r . Palpi slender ; whitish. Head and 

 thorax shining olive-brown. Fore wings shining olive-brown, with 

 five short white costal streaidets ; the first two beyond the middle 

 oblique, tending to converge, emitting a steel-blue Hue running to 

 the tornus ; the third small and straight ; the fourth and fifth, 

 before the apex, tending to converge at their extremities, the outer 

 one of the two nearly meeting a short subapical white streak below 

 the dark ocellated apex, which contains a white spot within the 

 circular line running through the cilia and emitting a long uncate 

 dark apical streaklet ; on the middle of the dorsum is a conspicuous 

 white outwardly oblique cuueiform dash, its extremity slightly 

 curved over, and before the tornus is a much shorter one, straighter 

 and less conspicuous ; cilia pale greyish. Exp. al. 8 mm. Hind 

 wings and cilia greyish brown. Abdomen shining olive-brown. 

 Legs olive-brownish, tarsi spotted and tipped with whitish. 



Type, d 2 Mus. Wlsm. 



Ilab. West Indies — Grenada (Chantilly Estate, 350 ft. ; and 

 Balthazar, 250 ft., windward side, 13-20 IV.— II. II. Smith). Three 

 specimens. 



157. Glyphipteryx paradisea, sp. n. 



Antenna? brownish fuscous. Palpi smooth, slender, the second 

 joint about as long as the apical ; dirty whitish. Head and thorax 

 brownish fuscous. Fore wings brownish fuscous at the base, richly 

 ornamented beyond; with a broad triangular dorsal patch at one- 

 third, its apex reaching to the upper edge of the cell ; a short 

 scarcely oblique steel-blue costal streak a little beyond it terminates 

 on the cell in a space shaded with orange ochreous, which colour 

 also intervenes between it and a second slightly inverted steel-blue 

 costal streak slightly beyond the middle — the upper extremities of 

 these streaks form white spots on the costa ; from the middle of 

 the dorsum arises a longer steel-blue streak with lilac reflections, 

 its extremity equidistant between the ends of the costal streaks 

 above it; thence the ground-colour becomes dark greyish fuscous, 

 but is almost entirely superseded by a large brightly decorated 

 patch of black occupying the whole tornal angle —its upper portion 

 consisting of a steel-lilac spot, from which radiating lines of pale 

 ochreous dots traverse the black space, its lower portion with 

 three upright equidistant steel-lilac spots, the first larger than the 

 other two ; crossing the apical portion is a strong steel-blue streak 



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