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brown spot at center of hind margin of mesoscutellum. Legs dirty 

 white to pale yellow or brown, fuscous along inner sides of foreleg 

 and with midlegs and hindlegs sometimes faintly banded. Abdomen 

 dirty white. Forewing above gray or grayish white, heavily irrorated 

 with light brown and with the following small dark brown or black 

 spots: one at costa near base of wing; one just below cell and at about 

 the basal one-fourth of cell; a row of four, crossing wing just before 

 middle, the first of these on costal margin, the third just below middle 

 of cell, and the fourth immediately below the third and on the anal 

 vein, the second out of line with the other three and located below 

 front margin of cell near origin of subcosta. There are three of these 

 spots just beyond end of cell, one near lower angle of cell at the base 

 of veins 3,4,5, one near upper angle of cell at the base of veins 6 and 

 7+8 + 9 and the third just above these on costal margin; tlii'ee or four 

 submarginal spots cross the wing from costa to hind margin, these 

 usually very indistinct. In the middle of cell near the outer end is a 

 minute orange or orange-yellow spot. Forewing below pale brown, 

 whitish along middle of costa, fringe dirty white above and below. 

 Hindwing above and below pale brown or light fuscous, base much 

 lighter, sometimes dirty white. A large patch of white or grayish 

 white specialized scales along middle of costa covered by forewing. 



Length of forewing, 8-9.5 mm. 



Male genitalia as illustrated (pi. 10, fig. 2) and with characters as 

 given in the key. 



Female.— H&bitiis entirely Uke the male. 



Length of forewing, 10 mm. 



Female genitalia as illustrated (pi. 11, fig. 8) and with characters 

 as given in the key. 



Type locality. — Jamaica. 



Additional type data. — Described from the holotype (as type), female 

 (Jamaica; J. J. Bowry; 9 genitalia preparation, British Museum No. 

 1947-272) and from a male (same locality as female) not designated 

 type in original description. 



Location oj type. — In the British Museum (Natural History.) 



Distribution. — Jamaica: St. Andrew Parish, Ivingston, Mount 

 Mansfield House, Gordon Town (July) ; Clarendon Parish, Milk River 

 (August); Manchester Parish, Mandeville (June, July, November), 

 Ne\^^)ort (February) ; St. Elizabeth Parish, Balaclava (June). Locality 

 in Jamaica for which the parish is uncertain: May Hill (July). 



Twenty-six specimens examined. 



Remarks. — The genitalia of the type of M. grisea was compared with 

 the figure of the female of this species (pi, 11, fig. 8) by D. S. Fletcher, 

 of the Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History). 

 He found the type of grisea to be the species I have illustrated. 



