1897.] WEST-INDIAJf MICEO-LEPIBOPTERA. 57 



Ins. B. M. XXX. 934 (1864) \ Oxyptilus anisodactylus, Wkr. Cat. 



Lp. Ins. B. M. XXX. 9-34-5 (1 864) \ Pteropliorus cUffusalis, Wkr. 



Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXX. 945 (1864) '. Oxijijtilus caffer, Wlsm. 



Tr. Ent. «oc. Lond. 1881, 279'. Oxyptilus waWm, Wlsm. Tr. 



Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881, 279-80 '. Sjjlienarches sijnojjJinjs, Meyr. Tr. 



Eat. iSoc. Lond. 1886, 17-8 ^. Oxij2)tilus anisodactylus, Moore, Lp. 



CeyL III. 528 (1887) ». SpUnarches caffer, Meyr. Tr. Ent. Soc. 



Lond. 1887, 268 '". Oxyptilus anisodactylus, S\viuh. & Cotes, Cat. 



Moths Ind. 668. No. 4542 (1889) ". Splienarches caffer. Cotes, 



Ind. Mus. Notes, II. 20, figg. (1891) '^ ; Wlsm. Ind. Mus. Notes, 



IL 20-1 (1891)'=*; Cotes, Ind. Mus. Notes, II. 163 (1893) ». 



Larva. " Calabash " (Gambia) *' ; in pods of Bolichos lahlah 



(India) ^^-". 



Hah. S.A^BICA—CafErarial-^'^^ Natal, XI.-XTI.''»3 E. Africa 'I 



W. Africa — Gambia '^ Asia — Japan ", Ceylon ■'• ^-H' "^ India '--", 

 Burma '^. Australasia — New (South Wales, 11.^°, Queensland 

 (Moreton Bay) % New Hebrides ^ Tonga Ids.*" West Indies — St. 

 Thomas, 20 III. (Gudmann); Grenada (Balthazar, 250 ft., wind- 

 ward side, 15-20 IV.— iT. B. Smith). 



Oxyptilus periscelidactylus, Eitch, from the United States, 

 belongs to the genus Sphenarches, and is at least very closely allied 

 to caffer, Z. 



3. Platyptilia, Hb. 



3. PlATTPTILIA PrSILLIDACTTLA, Wkr. 

 = TECNIDIO]V, Z.* 



Oxyptilus pusillidactylus, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXX. 933 

 (1864) \ Platyptilia tecnidion, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 

 468-9, PI. VI. 162 (1877) ^ Platyptilia pusillidactyla, Wlsm. 

 Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 495, 542 (1892) ^ Amblyptilla pusilli- 

 dactyla, Hdm. Stett. Ent. Ztg. LVII. 8 (1896) \ 



Hab. West Indies— Jamaica '■=*; St. Croix,* 22 IV. {Oud- 

 mann) ; St. Thomas, II.^'^'* ; Grenada (Balthazar, 250 ft., and La 

 Eorce Estate, 350 ft., windward side, 5 IV.-5 V. — H. H. Smith). 



4. Platyptilia cosmodacttla, Hb. 



{?:=ACANTS0DACTYZT7S, Z.^) =DIBEPTALIS, Wkr.^ 



Alucita cosmodactyla, Hb. Samml. Eur. Schm. IX. PI. VII. 35-36 

 (1816 ?) \ Amblyptilia cosmodactyla, Hb. Verz. bek. Schm. 430. 

 No. 4183 (1826) ^, &c. [? Pterophorus acanthodactylus, Z. Hand!. 

 Kongl. Svensk. Vet.-Ak. 1852, 117 ^] Oxyptilus direptalis, Wkr. 

 Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXX. 934 (1864) \ Amblyptilia cosmodact^jla, 

 Stgr. & Wk. Cat. 342, No. 3131(1871)°. Ambliptilus cosmodactylus, 

 Wlsm. Pter. Cal. & Or. 23-5, PL II. 2-4 (1880) ' : Tr. Eut. Soc. 

 Lond. 1881, 277-8 (1881) ''. Platyptilia cosmodactyla, Meyr. 

 Tr. Eut. Soc. Lond. 1890, 486 (1890) ". 



Hab. Europe '■ ^' "■ * [larva, Aquilegia vulgaris. Geranium jjratense, 

 Salvia ylutinosa]. S. Africa — Transvaal '\ Cape Colony *, Natal, 



