1831.] MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA OF THK WEST INDIKS. Oli.") 



POLYHYMNO, Chamb. 

 Polyhym.no? GOD MAN I, sp. 11. 



Antenna with the basal joint slightly enlarged ; pale grey. 



Palpi shining pale grey. 



Head shining pale grey ; face almost white. 



Thorax shining pale grey. 



Fore wings shining pale reddish grey, without markings to beyond 

 the middle ; the apical portion of the wing adorned, first by a 

 bright orange-yellow streak slightly above the middle of the wing 

 extending to the costal margin before the apex as far as a small jet- 

 black apical spot, from which two slender dark lines (which appear 

 to be produced by the iridescent effect of the waved lines of scales 

 rather than by any dark scaling) diverge downwards to the anal 

 angle, these are preceded by a bright silvery-white space which runs 

 obliquely backwards (and appears to be al<o dark-margined), and 

 followed by the shining lilac metallic cilia, which are gathered into 

 two distinct depressed points at the apex, giving the wing a falcate 

 appe trance; the cilia of the dorsal margin and anal angle are 

 reddish grey. 



Hind wings shining pale grey ; cilia purplish grey, with a distinct 

 black transverse line preceded by a pale space at the extreme 

 apex. 



Abdomen shining leaden grev. 



Legs very pale ochreous, with a black spot above the spurs ; hind 

 tibise clothed with long hairs above ; hind tarsal joints barred with 

 blackish scales above. 



Exp. <d. 1 1 millim. 



Hab. West Indies — St. Vincent (Kingstown and windward side, 

 5 specimens, Smith). 



Type, J . 



Additional material should enable this species to be ultimately 

 separated from the genus Polyhymno ; it agrees in structure with 

 my African Polyhymno 1 tenuis and also with Walker's Gelechia 

 animosella from India. 



Ypsolophus, F. 

 Ypsolophus manellus, Mschl. 



Ypsolophus manellus, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. (ies. xv. pp.344— 5, 

 354(1890). 



West Indies — Portorico (Mschl.). 



Ypsolophus rusticus, sp. n. 



Antennte pale greyish ochreous. 



Palpi with a strong triangular tuft, from the middle of which 

 arises the sharp, slender, apical joint; cinereous at the sides, with a 

 paler line along the margin of the tuft. 



Head pale greyish ochreous. 



'Thorax pale ochreous. 



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