^897.] ' WEST-INDIAN MlOEO-LEPlDOtTEEA. 85 



Thorax smootli. 



Fore ivings narrow, elongate, of approximately even width 

 throughout, somewhat securiform, apex slightly uucate, termen 

 oblique, tornus angular. Neuration : 11 veins (7 and 8 coincident), 

 2 and 3 stalked. 



Hind ivings trapezoidal, slightly broader than the fore wings, 

 dorsum sinuate, tornus obtusely angular, not incised beneath the 

 apex, costa straight, abdominal angle developed. Neuration : 8 

 veins, 6 and 7 connate, 3 and 4 from a short stalk, 5 approximated 

 to 3 + 4. 



Abdomen somewhat flattened, aual tuft rather strongly deve- 

 loped. 



Legs : hind tibiae somewhat roughly (but not thickly) clothed. 



Allied to Strobisia, Clem., but easily separated by the length of 

 the antenuse, the shape of the termen, and the longer palpi. 



71. Deepanoteema lacticaudellum, sp. n. 



Antennce dark fuscous, very faintly annulated ; basal joint whitish 

 beneath. Palpi bronzy brown, apical joint tipped with white. Head 

 and thorax dark purplish. Fore ivings shining ferruginous, the basal 

 third transversely blotched and striated with dark purplish fuscous 

 and dark ferruginous, the apex and termen also shaded with dark 

 purplish fuscous and illuminated ^ith steel-grey patches ; cilia 

 whitish ochreous, mth dark grey streaks running through them (to 

 the number of five or six), at the tornus purplish fuscous. Exp. al, 

 12 mm. Hind ivings dark cojjpery grey with iridescent reflections 

 at the base of the cell ; cilia coppery grey. Abdomen dark purplish 

 fuscous, anal tuft conspicuoLis, whitish ochreous. Legs shining 

 creamy whitish, tarsi and tibiae shaded with greyish. 



Type, S Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. West Indies — Geenada (Chantilly Estate, 350 it., wind- 

 ward side, 13 IV. — H. H. Smith). One specimen taken on the 

 banks of a stream. 



23. Menesta, Clem. 

 72. Menesta ? cineeeoceevina, "Wlsm. 



Oelechia cinereocervina, Wlsip. Pr. Z. Soc. Lend. 1891, 519-20, 

 545(1892)'. 



Hah. West Indies — St. Vincent \ 



The neuration of the fore wings of this species as recorded 

 (I. c. 519) is erroneous. I find on a re-examination of the two 

 original specimens that they have only eleven veins, not twelve, and 

 therefore wish to amend my original description as follows : — 



Fore ivings with 11 veins (7 and 8 coincident), 7 + 8 approxi- 

 mated to 9, running to the costa. 



With this correction GelecJiia cinereocervina differs from Menesta 

 tortriciformella, Clem., in having 6 and 7 of the hind wings con- 

 nate instead of stalked, and in not having biciliate antennae ; but 

 for the moment I am unwilling to separate them generically. 



