1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 157 



"In repose the moth holds the end of the fore wings curved 

 upwards " {Hedemann). 



This obscure species, which is allied to minuscula, can be at 

 once separated by the brownish blotches on the antenna?. 



248. Ereunetis aeolella, sp. n. 



Antennae longer than the fore wings, slender ; pale cinereous. 

 Palpi slender, somewhat dependent ; second joint longer than the 

 apical, slightly clothed beneath; dirty whitish. Head rough-haired; 

 whitish cinereous. Thorax whitish cinereous. Fore wings with 

 the costa slightly arched, apex moderately acute ; pale brownish 

 fawn-colour, longitudinally streaked throughout with whitish- 

 cinereous lines running from the base to the termen — one above 

 the cell, two along it, and one along the fold ; the costa also w hitish 

 cinereous ; a few black scale-points around the termen at the 

 base of the cilia and one a little beyond the middle of the fold ; 

 cilia brownish cinereous. Exp. al. 8 mm. Hind wings and cilia 

 dull greyish. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs whitish cinereous ; 

 hind tibia? with slender greyish hairs above. 



Type, 6 2 Mus. Wlsm. ' 



Hah. West Indies— St. Thomas, 7 III.-12 IV. (Hedemann). 

 Three specimens. 



249. Ereunetis erontella, sp. n. 



Antenna} white, faintly annulated with fawn- brown. Head with 

 a long pointed frontal tuft reaching more than the length of the 

 head beyond it ; white. Labial palpi slender, the second joint 

 sparsely clothed at its apex ; white. Thorax whitish, shaded with 

 fawn-brown. Fore ivings whitish, with a broad longitudinal streak 

 of fawn-brown, sprinkled with black scales, extending from the 

 base to the apex, its width encroaching on the dorsal, but not on 

 the costal, half of the wing ; a narrower and slightly paler line 

 follows the dorsum throughout ; a slender black streak or spot on 

 the pale interspace at one-third from the base ; the costal half of 

 the wing is very obliquely striated with pale fawn-brown — the first 

 streak arising at the base, the second before the middle, a third 

 somewhat darker beyond the middle, and a fourth following the 

 margin to the apex, where there is an elongate black spot ; cilia 

 whitish, with a slender fawn-brown line running through their 

 base, defining very clearly the acuminate apex, a rather broader 

 shade of the same colour around their outer extremities (the longer 

 cilia on the dorsal margin are not thus marked). Exp. al. 9- 

 10 mm. Hind wings very pale greyish, with pale brownish- 

 ochreous cilia. Abdomen shining brownish ochreous. Legs with 

 long slender hairs above and beneath the tibia? ; yellowish white, 

 the tarsi faintly annulated. 



Type, 6 ? Mus. Wlsm. 



Hub. West Indies — St. Thomas, 13 III.-7 IV. (Qudmann, 

 Hedemann). Eight specimens. 



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