1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 155 



Labial palpi slender, short, projecting ; second joint sparsely 

 hairy beneath, apical joint as long as the second. 



Maxillary palpi and haustellum obsolete. 



Head rough above, face smooth. 

 Thorax smooth. 



Fore wings lanceolate, somewhat widened in the middle, apex 

 depressed, slightly uncate, subacute. Neuration : 9 veins ; 7 and 

 8 stalked, enclosing the apex, 3, 5, and 10 absent. 



Hind ivings (under 1) lanceolate, acute, costal margin suddenly 

 depressed from the middle, cilia lg. Neuration: 7 veins ; 4 absent 

 (coincident with 5) ; 6 and 7 parallel. 



Legs : posterior tibia? clothed with long fine hairs. 



Allied to Cedestis, Z., but differing in the absence of the 

 haustellum. 



244. Lectcophasma piiantasmella, sp. n. 



Antennae, shining white. Palpi, head, and face white. Thorax 

 white with a golden-yellow tinge. Fore ivings white with a golden- 

 yellow suffusion, more apparent on the middle and towards the 

 apical portion of the wing ; a small fuscous dot lies at the extreme 

 apex surrounded by golden yellow ; cilia white with a golden- 

 yellow sheen. Exp. al. 11 mm. Hind ivings greyish white, cilia 

 with a yellowish tinge. Abdomen shining whitish ochreous. Legs 

 white ; hind tibia? clothed with long white hairs above. 



Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. West Indies — Grenada (Chantilly Estate, 350 ft., wind- 

 ward side, 13 IV. — H. H. Smith). Unique. 



97. Argyresthia, Hb. 

 245. Argyresthia percussella, Z. ('?). 



Arrpgresthia percussella, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 246-7 

 (1877) 1 . 



Hab. Colombia — Bogota, m. III. 1 [? West Indies — St. Thomas, 

 6-10 III. (Gudmann, Hedemann).'] 



Two specimens from St. Thomas are probably small varieties of 

 this species, but they are not in sufficiently good condition to 

 determine with certainty. 



VII. ERECHTHIANM. 

 98. Ereunetis, Meyr. 

 246. Eretjnetis minuscula, sp. n. ; iXr l^ <-,^ *s,.j,ii- 

 ( = Nolekenia minuscula, Z. MS.) <** r~ *• 



Antenna' rather stout, enlarged at the base, simple in the <3 ; 

 creamy-white. Palpi projecting more than the length of the head 

 beyond it, brush-like beneath ; creamy-white. Head rough ; cream- 

 coloured. Thorax cream-coloured. Fore wings cream-coloured, 

 more or less shaded and speckled with umber-brown, this shading 

 being concentrated (and therefore more conspicuous) from the 



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