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239. GrRACILARIA PULVERELLA, Sp. n. 



Antennae cinereous, faintly annulated. Palpi cinereous. Head 

 pale cinereous. Thorax dull pale greyish fuscous. Fore wings 

 dull pale greyish fuscous, somewhat mottled on their outer half 

 with shining s'eel-grey (visible only in a strong light) ; a pale line 

 along the base of the costal cilia continuing round the apex is 

 dilated to the tornus, covering one half the cilia on the terminal 

 margin, thus leaving a small dark hook beyond it at the apex, two 

 slender dark fuscous lines run along the base and along the middle 

 of the cilia respectively. Exp. al. 6*5 mm. Hind wings and 

 cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen with a slight reddish tinge. 

 Legs cinereous. 



Type, 9 Mus. Hedemann. 



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

 mann) ; St. Thomas, 2 IV. (Hedemann). Two specimens. 



240. GrRACILARIA UNHOSA, Sp. U. 



Antenna very pale fawn, faintly annulated. Palpi white. 

 Head very pale fawn. Thorax white. Fore wings very pale fawn, 

 with a slender sinuate white line from the base of the dorsum to 

 the termen below the apex, touching the dorsum at its two down- 

 ward bends ; three oblique white costal streaks, the first scarcely 

 before the middle, the third coalescing with an inverted white 

 spot before the apex, a few dark brown scales around the margins 

 of the streaks ; cilia pale fawn with a white streak through them 

 below the apex. Exp. al. 5'5 mm. Hind wings very pale greyish ; 

 cilia pale fawn. Abdomen pale fawn-ochreous. Legs white, spotted 

 with pale fawn. 



Type, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. West Indies — Hayti (Port-au-Prince, 23 V. — Gudmann) ; 

 St. Thomas, 20 III. (Hedemann). Two specimens. 



The smooth crown separates this species from Lithocollctis, to 

 which genus it might be referred at first sight. 



241. Gracilaria nesitis, sp. n. 



Antenna? as long as the fore wings ; yellowish white, faintly 

 barred above with brown. Palpi slightly recurved ; white, the 

 end of the second joint and a band above the middle of the third 

 joint brown. Head, yellowish white. Thorax white, mixed with 

 brown. Fore icings umber-brown, with a nearly straight yellowish- 

 white central fascia, before which are two slightly oblique ill- 

 defined transverse streaks, and beyond it a well-defined costal 

 spot and a few scales of the same colour along the dorsum ; cilia 

 pale brownish, at the apex white. Exp. al. 6 mm. Hind wings 

 brownish grey, with tawny-grey cilia. Abdomen pale cinereous. 

 Legs white, with brown tarsal annulations. 



Type, 2 Mus. Gudmann. 



Hah. West Indies — St. Thomas, T s -21 [II. (Gudmann, Hede- 

 mann). Two specimens. 



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