1897.] WEST-I>"DIA?f MICRO-TiEPIDOPTERA. 73 



with whitish ocbreous. Head whitish, mottled with dark brown. 

 Thorax dark brown, with faiut whitish specklings at the tips of 

 the scales ; a silvery spot behind at the base of the abdomen. 

 Fore winr/s dark brown, much mottled with whitish ocbreous, 

 mingled with iridescent green reflections; the paler colouring does 

 not extend to the base but only to the sinuate oblique outer edge 

 of a strongly-marked dark basal patch, the green metallic reflections 

 being especially noticeable beyond its outer margin; below the 

 middle of the costal margin is a small ocelloid spot with a dark 

 brown centre, and the pale upper margin is preceded by a smaller 

 one and followed by a third spot a little more distant from it, which 

 forms the outer extremity of a dark brown shade ; three patches 

 of raised whitish-ochreous scales, the first on the disc before the 

 middle, and two below the disc almost reaching the dorsum, the 

 one before the other behind the middle ; the apical portion of the 

 wing is much mottled and contains a paler costal patch at one- 

 fourth from the apex ; cilia dark brown, at the apex mottled with 

 whitish ocbreous and tending to dull grey at the tornus. Ex2y. al. 

 13 mm. Bind winr/s very transparent, the veins indicated by 

 greyish brown, the intermediate spaces except at the apex with 

 bright steel-blue iridescence ; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen greyish 

 brown. Hind legs dark brown, spotted and banded with whitish 

 ocbreous. 



Type, tS Mus. Gudmann. 



Hah. West Indies — Hayti (Cap Haiti, 18 V., Gudmann). 

 Unique. 



This species has somewhat the appearance of Xenolechia Jiumer- 

 alis, Z. 



41. GrELECHIA TRANSLUCIDA, Wlsm. 



Bn/otropha transhicida, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 520, 545 

 (1892) \ 



Hah. West Indies— Dominica ^ ; St. Vincent ^ ; Grenada 

 (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward side, 27 IV. ; Mount Gay Estate, 

 300 ft., leeward side, 3-10 IX.— H. H. Smith). 



In the original description, by a clerical error, the type was 

 recorded as a $ ; it is a d' . 



42. Gelechia sphenophoea, sp. n. 



Antennce brownish grey. Pal2n brownish fuscous ; apical joint 

 with a pale ocbreous spot at its apex. Head and thorax brownish 

 grey. Fore wings oHve-brown, inclining to ferruginous at the base, 

 the lighter basal patch is bounded externally by an obhque cunei- 

 form ocbreous streak, tending outwards from the costa at one-fifth 

 from the base and reaching to the fold ; a small ocbreous spot lies 

 at the end of the discal cell, and a larger, rather paler, costal spot at 

 the commencement of the costal cilia ; around the termen are four 

 or five ill-defined pale ocbreous spots before the commencement of 

 the olive-brown cilia. Exp. al. 10 mm. Hind ivings blue-grey ; 

 cilia brownish grey. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs whitish 



