1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICEO-LEPIDOPT'ERA. 59 



t OiD^MATOFSonus, Wlgrii. Vet.-Ak. Handl. III. (7) 19 (1859). 



\_X(Edematopsobus, Wlgrn. Bib. Svensk. Vet.-Ak. Handl. III. 

 85 (1875).] 



= ^Leioptilus, WJgrn. Vet.-Ak. Handl. III. (7) 21 (1859). 



= *Alucita (L.), Meyr. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1890, 487. 



The type of Aluciia, L., Wiis fixed as pentadactyla, L., by Poda, 

 Ins. Mus. Grsec. p, 94 (1761), and Lamarck, Syst. An. sans Vert. 

 288 (1801), cited the same species as the type of Pterophorus, 

 Geoff r. ; hut this action was inadmissible, pentadactyla having 

 already been constituted the type of Alucita. Latreille, Prec. 

 Gen. Ins. 148 (1796), described the genus Orneodes, omitting to 

 cite the type ; subsequently, however, Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins. III. 

 418 (1802) : XIV. 258 (1805), this omission was remedied, hexa- 

 dactyla, L., being cited as the type. By this action and Poda's 

 the genus Pterophonis became monotypical with the type Alucita 

 monodactyla, L. In this sense it was used by Wallengren, but 

 Meyrick, Tr. Eut. Soc. Lond. 1890, 487, wrongly employed 

 Pterojihorus {ov pentadactyla, and Alacita for inouodactyla. 



7. Pteeophorus ixquinatus, Z. 



n. syn. —ambsosi^, Mrt. 



CEdematophorus inquinatus, Z. Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, XXII L 

 325 (1873) \ (Edematophonis ambrosia', Mrt. Am. Ent. III. 2,Hj 

 (1880) ^. (Edematophorus inquinatus, Cqllt. Pap. I. 61-2 (1882)'; 

 Hdm. Stett. Ent. Ztg. LVII. 9 (1896) \ 



Larva. Ambrosia urtemisicefolia ^'^ VII. ^ excl. VIII." 



Hab. United States — Texas, 23 VII.\ Missouri ^ West 

 Indies — Hatti (Cap Haiti, 19 VI. — Oudmann) ; St. Thomas, 7 IV.' 



8. Pteeophorus montis-cheisti, sp. n. 



= Mimaseoptilus gilvidorsis, Hdm. Stett. Ent. Ztg. LVII. 8-9 

 (1896), partim. 



(Antenme broken.) Palpi projecting scarcely beyond the head ; 

 pale cinereous. Head slightly tufted over the face ; hoary grey. 

 Thorax hoary greyish, whitish posteriorly. Fore luings hoary 

 grey, sparsely scattered vrith very minute fuscous speckling, which 

 is also noticeable along the base of the hoary-grey cilia, especially 

 on the dorsum. Exp. al. 17 mm. Hind luings shining hoary grey, 

 with a bronzy reflection on their cilia. Abdomen [in the two 

 specimens before me greasy and discoloured, but obvioasly paler 

 than the wing-colour, as indicated also by the very pale patuh on 

 the posterior portion of the thorax at the base]. Hind legs with 

 the spurs very long and slender; pale cinereous. 



Type, 6 Mus. Wlsm. ; $ Mas. Gudmann. 



Hab. West Indies— San Domingo (Monte Christi, 19 V. 

 1894 ; two specimens, " cJ & $ taken in copula," Gudmann) ; 

 St. Croix : 2-5 V. {Hedemann, two specimens) ; Grenada (Bal- 

 thazar, 250 ft., windward side, 15 IV., H.H.Smith; one specimen). 



