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Heligmocera calvifrons, sp. n. 



Antennce cinereous. 



Palpi cinereous. 



Head cinereous above ; face whitish. 

 Thorax cinereous. 



Fore wings (S) with a broad costal fold ; cinereous, mottled with 

 brownish ; with an ill-defined greenish basal patch, mottled with 

 brownish, extending along the dorsal margin to nearly one third the 

 wing-length, where is a patch of deep brownish fuscous scales ; 

 beyond it is a broad ill-defined pale space ; the apical half of the 

 wing mottled with greenish and brownish fuscous ; a chestnut- 

 browu spot immediately before the anal angle ; the costal margin 

 Tery pale cinereous, almost whitish, with a series of oblong brownish 

 fuscous streaks alternately short and long, the long ones terminated 

 by a few chestnut-brown scales ; there are some shining greenish- 

 grey metallic scales about the ocelloid spot which is separated from 

 the apex by a curved brownish fuscous line occupying the middle 

 of the apical margin, and recurved in the direction of the upper 

 angle of the cell, where it nearly joins the middle costal streak, the 

 extreme apex brownish fuscous ; cilia pale cinereous along their 

 base, brownish fuscous beyond. 



Hind wings semitransparent, iridescent, blue-grey, matted with 

 brownish cinereous scales about the abdominal margin, and with a 

 strong fringe of sul)Ochreous matted scales from the base near the 

 abdominal margin ; cilia greyish fuscous, with a pale line along 

 their base. 



Abdomen brownish fuscous mottled with pale cinereous, anal tuft 

 paler. Underside pale cinereous. 



Hind legs brownish fuscous mottled with pale cinereous, tarsal 

 joints also spotted with pale cinereous or subochreous. 



Epp. al. 13 millim. 



Hab. West Indies — St. Vincent (windward side, 2 specimens, 

 Smith). 



Type, cJ . 



T I N E I D ^. 



TlNEIN^. 



Tinea, L. 

 Tinea plumella, sp. n. 



AntenncB with the basal joint slightly hairy ; greyish, with indis- 

 tinct paler annulations. 



Maxillary palpi folded. 



Labial palpi short, projecting; greyish. 



Head hairy above and in front ; dingy grey. 



Thorax pale whitish grey. 



Fore wings dingy whitish, sprinkled with brownish-grey scales, 

 especially on the basal half; a brownish-grey spot at the base of the 

 fold ; an indistinct transverse fasciaform band of scattered brownish- 

 grey scales about the middle is diffused outwards on reaching the 



