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Zeller's types, and to ray 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, and Mr. J. 

 H. Hart has also been good enough to collect for me ia Trinidad, 

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



Pterophoridjs. 

 Agbistin^. 

 scoptonoma, z. 

 SCOPTONOMA tipuloides, sp. n. 



AntenncB pale cinereous. 



Palpi whitish ochreous, streaked along the sides with black. 



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

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

 antennse and meeting above the haustellum. 



Thorax mottled with reddish brown, dark fuscous, and whitish 

 ochreous. 



Fore wings brownish, with numerous angulated 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 

 extending from the submedian 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 thirds from the base 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 hne (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 



