1891.] MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA OF THE WEST INDIES. 49'S 



Zeller's types, and to my friend Mr. Godman for placing this limited, 

 but interesting and valuable collection in my hands. Mr. Druce has 

 also kindly contributed several species from Dominica, ami Mr. ,). 

 II. Hart has also been gooi enough to collect for me in Trinidad, 

 and Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell in Jamaica. 



Pt i: r o p ii O R 1 D E. 



Agdistin&. 



ScOPTONOMA, Z. 

 SCOPTONOMA TIPULOIDKS, Sp. 11. 



Antenna pale cinereous. 



Palpi whitish oehreous, streaked along the sides with black. 



Head hrownish above, with a dark brown triangle in front mar- 

 gined with whitish-ochreous lines passing from the base of the 

 antennae and meeting above the haustellum. 



Thorax mottled with reddish brown, dark fuscous, and whitish 

 ochreous. 



Fore wings brownish, with numerous angu'ated whitish streaks, 

 intermixed with dark fuscous streaks, lines, and shading ; an 

 oblique whitish line from the dorsal margin near the base ter- 

 minates on the median vein at almost one third of the wing- 

 length, this is preceded and followed by a few blackish scales, 

 and the space within it has a somewhat longitudinally-striated 

 appearance : from near the middle of the dorsal margin arises 

 a second whitish oblique streak, angulated backwards about the 

 middle of the wing, and thence again outwards along the median 

 vein; throughout its length it is accompanied on its upper side by a 

 narrow black line which is continued beyond it, first towards the anal 

 angle and thence, after several deflexions, upwards to the apex and 

 costal margin ; this oblique double line forms the lower edge of two. 

 almost connected, angular transparent rosy-white patches, the first 

 e\tending from the sub median to the median vein, the second lying 

 above the median, decidedly triangular, its base upon the lower edge 

 of the cell, its apex reaching to the upper edge beyond the middle of 

 the wing : the inner margins of these triangular patches being con- 

 tinuous, give them the appearance of one single oblique patch, but 

 the ground-colour of the wing is carried through them very narrowly 

 along the median vein : a dark fuscous or blackish shade clearly 

 defines the inner and outer margins of the transparent patch, but 

 the space below it is more tinged with brown than the apical portion 

 of the wing beyond it, except along the costal and part of the apical 

 margin: at two (birds from the hase is a short semi-transparent 

 streak dark-margined within, a little beyond which is a pale costal 

 spot dark-margined on both sides: beyond this small costal spot we 

 come to the other end of the black line (already described as arising 

 from the dorsal margin before the middle in connexion with the pale 

 streak below it); tracing it therefore, in the opposite direction, we 

 find it arising at about one-sixth from the apex, running very obliquely 



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