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apex, where it forms a semicircular shade, and on a spot before the 

 margin, preceding the semicircle ; a pair of costal spots lie before 

 and beyond the middle, the second equidistant between the first 

 and the apex ; cilia above the apex white, at the apex shaded with 

 greyish ochreous, a slender shade-line running through them 

 towards the tornus, where also they become whitish. Exp. al. 

 8 mm. Hind wings very pale grey ; cilia whitish grey. Abdomen 

 white. Legs white, hind tarsal joints delicately spotted with 

 fuscous. 



Type, S Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. West Indies— Hatti (Port-au-Prince, 24 V.— Oudmann). 

 Three specimens. 



261. Tinea minutella, F. 



Alucita minutella, F. Ent. Syst. III. (2) 344, No. 51 (1794) l . 

 Tinea minutella, F. Sppl. Ent. Syst. 500. No. 110 (1798) 2 . Phalcena 

 (Alucita) minutella, Turton, Syst. Nat. III. 383 (1806) 3 . 



"minutella, 51. A. alis albidis : fasciis tribus fuscis. Statura 

 parva prsecedentium. Alse albida?, fasciis tribus fuscis, prima 

 baseos, tertia apicis. 



u Habitat in America; Insulis, Dom. v. Eohr." 1 . =West Indies 1 " 3 . 



262. Tinea plumella, Wlsm. 



Tinea plumella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 508-9, 544 

 (1892) \ 



Hab. West Indies— St. Croix, 21 IV. -7 V. (Hedemann); 

 St. Thomas, 10-26 IV. (Oudmann); St. Vincent 1 . 



Bred by Mr. Grudmann, who found the larva? very common on 

 walls and stone fences. 



263. Tinea tetraonella, sp. n. 



Antennce minutely annulated with brownish fuscous and whitish 

 ochreous ; ba'sal joint whitish ochreous. Palpi very short, drooping ; 

 wbitish, a minute fuscous ring round the apical joint. Head 

 brownish fuscous, mixed with whitish ochreous ; face whitish 

 ochreous. Thorax brownish fuscous, sprinkled and slightly mottled 

 with whitish ochi'eous. Fore wings brownish fuscous, sprinkled 

 and slightly mottled with whitish ochreous ; the only noticeable 

 spot of this colour being before the middle of the dorsum, this and 

 other smaller ones beyond it are minutely speckled with fuscous 

 scales ; cilia pale whitish ochreous with a dark parting line running 

 through them. Exp. al.§ mm. Hind ivings blue-grey ; cilia tawny 

 fuscous. Abdomen brownish fuscous. Legs brownish fuscous, hind 

 tarsal joints banded with white. 



Type, 3 Mus. Hedemann. 



Hab. West Indies — St. Croix, 28 IV. (Hedemann); St. Thomas, 

 12-28 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Four specimens. 



" Larva? on walls and stone fences, not so common as plumella, 

 Wlsm., and very difficult to breed" (Oudmann). 

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