82 LOBD WALSiNGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 



64. Anaoampsis uesectella, Z. 



GelecJiia {Taclu/2)tilia) desectella, Z. Kov. SoG. Ent. Ross. XIII. 

 362-3, PI. V. 122 (1877)'. Tachi/ptilia desectdla, Wlsm. Pr. Z. 

 Soc. Loud. 1891, 523, 516 (1892)-. 



Hab. West Indies— Cuba '-. 



18. AcoMPSiA, Hb. 



Type, (Tinea) cinerella, CI. (Dp.). 



AcoMPSiA, Hb. Verz. bek. Schm. 409 (1826) ; Stph. 111. Br. 

 Ent., Haust. IV. 222-3 (1834); Dp. Hist. Nat. Lp. Fr. XI. 19 

 (1838) [ucc Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 633-4 (1895)]. 



= BRACJSTCitossATA, Heiu. Schm. Deutscli. Tin. 323-4 (1870); 

 Stgr. & Wk. Cat. 300 (1871). 



^Becurvaria (Hw.), Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 606-7 (1895). 



Westwood [Syn. Gn. Br. Ins. 110 (1840)], writing under the 

 heading "Acampsia," cites tinctella, Hb. (214), as the type. Staud- 

 inger and Wocke refer Hiibuer's figure of cinerella (I73 = tl37 

 Stgr.) to Clerck's species of this name ; but it certainly looks more 

 like an (Ecop)hora, and Westwood may have been justified in con- 

 sidering it to be the same species as tinctella, Hb. (214), otherwise 

 tinctella could not be a possible type of Acompsia, not being cited 

 by Hiibner. In either case Westwood's specification is inad- 

 missible, being subsequent to Dupouchel's citation of cinerella, CI. 

 (= ardeliella, Hb. 437), as the type of Hiibner's genus Acompsia. 

 Ha worth's genus Becurvaria was not published until 1828, and 

 Acompsia, lib. (1826), is therefore entitled to precedence. The 

 fourth part of Hawoi'th's Lp. Br., pp. 513-609, is usually con- 

 sidered to have been published in 1829, but the completed work is 

 reviewed, Mag. N. H. I. 348-9 (September 1828). 



Brachycrossata, Hein., must of course sink as a synonym which- 

 ever name is iised lor this genus ; and there appears to be no 

 justification for Meyrick's use of Acompsia for the (Ecophora of 

 Staudinger and Wocke's Catalog (HB. Br. Lp. 633-4), nor for 

 the employment of Eecurvaria, Hw. (in lieu of Acompsia, Hb.), 

 for Brachycrossata, Hein. 



65. Acompsia angulipeea, sp. n, 



Antennm greyish cinereous. Palpi smooth, slender, recurved ; 

 hoary grey, with a minute dark spot above near the apex. Head and 

 thorax hoary greyish. Fore icings hoary greyish, with slight greyish- 

 fuscous speckled shading ; at the base of the costa is a small 

 elongate blackish spot ; on the fold at one-fourth from the base is 

 a blackish transverse spot, followed by a smaller length-spot in the 

 fold ; at the middle of the costa is an outwardly oblique greyish 

 fuscous shade, mixed with some chestnut scales, terminating in a 

 slender curved line on the outer end of the cell ; before the apex 

 is a slender hoary whitish transverse fascia, slightly angulated 

 outwards on the middle and preceded by a greyish-fuscous shade 



