1897.] WEST- INDIAN MICBO-JjEPLDOPXEBA. 161 



at the end of the cell, with three or four minute black dots along 

 the outer half of the dorsum, and one near the upper angle of the 

 cell ; cilia pale brownish grey, with a smoky-brown line running 

 through them and continued around the apex. Exp. al. 8-10 mm. 

 Hind ivings pale grev ; cilia with a slight brownish tinge. Abdomen 

 pale yellowish brown. Legs hairy ; yellowish white, the tarsi 

 faintly annulated. 



Type, 6 ? Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. West Indies — St. Ckoix, 5 V. (Hedemann) • St. Thomas, 

 8 III. -13 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann) • St. Vincent (windward 

 side, H. H. Smitli). Nine specimens. 



258. Tinea tischeeiella, sp. n. 



Antennas yellowish, annulated with olive-brown. Palpi drooping; 

 yellowish. Head and thorax pale yellow. Fore ivings and cilia 

 shining pale yellow, with a broad olive-brown band (occupying more 

 than the costal half of the wing) extending from the base nearly 

 to the apex, with two very slight projections, one before and one 

 beyond the middle, encroaching upon the pale dorsal space. Exp. 

 al. 6 mm. Hind ivings very pale grey ; cilia with a faint aeneous 

 gloss. Abdomen pale shining ochreous. Legs hairy above ; whitish. 

 Exp. al. 6 mm. 



Type, S Mus. Hedemann. 



Hab. West Indies — Hatti (Port-au-Prince, 22 V. — Gudmann) ; 

 St. Thomas, 11 IV. (Hedemann). Two specimens. 



259. Tinea solenobiella, sp. n. 



Antenna' bone-whitish. Pcdpi very short, slender, drooping : 

 bone-white. Head and face rough ; bone- whitish. Thorax bone- 

 whitish, with a slight brownish tinge. Fore ivings whitish, sparsely 

 suffused with pale greyish brown, which colour also forms some 

 costal speckling as far as the middle and some ill-defined small 

 costal spots beyond the middle ; a spot lies on the disc a little before 

 the middle and there is more speckling of the same colour towards 

 the apex and on the outer half of the dorsum ; a waved line of 

 brownish-fuscous atoms runs through the bone-white cilia. Exp. 

 al. 9 mm. Hind wings shining whitish grey ; cilia bone-grey. 

 Abdomen greyish. Legs whitish ; hind tibia? with long slender 

 hairs above. 



Type, 2 Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. West Indies — St. Ckoix, 21 IV. (Gudmann); St. Thomas, 

 7-17 III. (Gudmann). Four specimens. 



A very inconspicuous and faintly-marked species of the group 

 allied to eloacella, Hw. 



260. Tinea tbagilella, sp. n. 



Antenna- yellowish white. Palpi very slender, drooping, nnkt d ; 

 white. Head and thorax white. Fore wings white, neath s] rckled 

 throughout with fuscous, tending to black around the extreme 



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