1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 141 



narrow; pale olive-grey ; cilia the same. Abdomen greyish. Leys: 

 hind tibite with profuse spiny hairs above ; pale greyish. 



Type, S Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 18 III.-2 IV. (Gudmann, 

 Hedemann). Three specimens. 



" In repose the moth resembles a Cicada and springs forwards " 

 (Hedemann). 



II. DENDHOXEURINM. 

 82. Dendeoneuba, Wlsm. - (Jhaf^^ .^.^W^ 

 212. Dendroneura pr.estans, Wlsm. Ji^j. H/s- r »**i 



Dendroneura prcestans, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 510, 544, 

 PI. XLI. 6, a-c (1892) \ 



Hab. West Indies — St. Vincent : ; Grenada (windward side, 

 Chantilly Estate, 350 ft., Balthazar, 250 ft., 13-20 IV.— H. H. 

 Smith). 



213. Dendroneura simplex, sp. n. 



Antennae rather shorter than the fore wings ; pale yellowish 

 fawn. Palpi short, flattened ; apical joint subovate, broader than 

 the second ; pale yellowish fawn. Head and thorax pale fawn. 

 Fore wings shining, pale yellowish fawn, with a bright yellowish 

 ferruginous spot before the apex, preceded by two oblique fuscous 

 streaks, one from a little beyond the middle of the dorsum, the 

 other commencing a little beyond it on the costa, the two nearly 

 meeting outwardly at their extremities (these appear to be com- 

 posed of very fugitive scales and are easily obliterated) ; beyond 

 the ferruginous spot a dark fuscous (almost black) slender curved 

 line passes from the apex through the silvery-yellowish cilia giving 

 a slight uncate appearance, tornal cilia yellowish grey. Exp. al. 

 8 mm. Hind wings and cilia yellowish grey. Abdomen pale 

 greyish. Legs shining straw-whitish. 



Type, c? Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. West Indies— San Domingo (Puerto Plata, 16 V., Gud- 

 mann). Two specimens. 



This differs from prcestans, Wlsm., the only other known species 

 of the genus, in the apparent absence of the tuft of long hair-scales 

 arising beneath the eyes, which, so far as I am able to determine, 

 does not exist in this species ; but such structures are often only 

 displayed in individual specimens, and in others are completely 

 hidden away. 



III. LYONETIANffl. 

 83. Leucoptera, Hb. 

 Leucoptera, Hb. Verz. bek. Sehm. 426 (1826). 

 = Cemiostoma, Z. Lin. Ent. III. 272-3 (1848). 



214. Leucoptera coffeella, Gruer.-Men. & Prrott. 

 = noctuella, Hdnr. 8 



Elachista coffeella, Guer.-Men. & Prrott. Me'in. Ins. Cafiers 

 Antill. 1-32, PI. 1.-IL (1842) ' ; Kev. Zool. 1842, 126-7 a ; Ann 



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