50G LORD WALSINGIIAM ON THE [Nov. 17, 



Hah. West Indies — St. Vincent (windward side, 1 specimen, 

 Smith). 



Type, 2 • 



Having only a 2 lam unable to be quite certain that this species 

 is rightly referred to Coptoloma, Ld. 



P.edisca, Tr. 



P.EDISCA LONGIPALPAXA, Mschl. 



Grapholitha (Pcedisca, Ld.) longipalpana, Mschl. Ab. Senck. 

 Nat. Ges. xv. pp. 333, 354 (1890). 

 West Indies — Portorico {Mschl. \ 



Ckocidosema, Z. 



Crocidosema PLEBEIAJsA, Z. 



Crocidosema plebeiana, Z. Is. 1S4 7, p. 721 ; Stgr. & Wk. Cat. 

 Lp Eur. (ii.) no. 1269, p. 2G3 (1871). 



Europe, Australia, South America {Wlstn.). 



West Indies — St. Vincent (Kingstown, 1 specimen ; windward 

 side, 3 specimens, Smith). 



Tliis genus is apparently widely distributed in South America, as 

 1 have specimens from Brazil, Peiu, and the Argentine Republic. 



Strepsicrates, Meyr. 



Strepsicrates, Meyr. Tr. N.-Z. Inst. xx. p. 73 (1887). 

 = § Strepsiceros, Meyr. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. vi. pp. 678-9 

 (1882). 



Strepsicrates smithiana, sp. n. 



Antennas cinereous. 



Palpi cinereous, mottled with brownish at the ends of the joints 

 externally, hoary on their inner sides. 



Head brownish cinereous, the lower half of the face hoary. 



Thorax cinereous. 



Fore wings dark brownish, pale cinereous along the dorsal margin 

 beneath the fold ; in the <5 the costal fold is dark brown with a 

 pale costal patch at its outer end, there is also a tuft of raised scales 

 below the middle of the fold, and tufts of similar darker scales near 

 the base above and below the fold : in the £ the tufts of raised 

 scales are absent, and there appears to be some slight variation in 

 the mottling of the wing-surlace, the dark brown ground-colour 

 becoming especially concentrated along the middle and above the 

 outer end of the fold ; the apical portion of the costa is much 

 inotth'd with pale cinereous, which is diffused across the wing 

 obliquely backwards towards the outer end of the fold ; some pale 

 cinereous scales about the anal angle ; cilia brownish, tending to 

 pale cinereous at the anal angle. 



Hind wings semittansparent, blue-grey, obscured with brown 

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