1897.] WEST-IIfDIAjr MIOBO-LEPIDOJIEBA.. 8^ 



= ^viA, Dp. (1836) ; = Ghaltbe, Dp. (1836) ; =Azims, 

 Wkr. (1863). 



80. EtHMIA CONF0SELLA, Wkr. 



■= STSIGOSELLA, Wkl'.' ; 11. Sjn.=IJSrGBICELLA, Mschl. 



Hyponomeuta confusellus, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXVIIl. 

 531 (1863)'. Gnjptolechia strigosella, Wkr. Cat. Lp. las. B. M. 

 XXIX. 710 (1864) -. Psecadia ingricella, Mschl. Ab. Senck. JSTat. 

 Ges. XV. 343, 354, (PI.) fig. 19 (1890) \ Psecadia {Gnjptolechia) 

 strigosa, Ckrl. Jr. Inst. Jamaica, 1. 33 (1891) '. Psecadia confusella, 

 Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 527, 546 (1892) '. Psecadia ingri- 

 cella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 527, 546 (1892) ^ 



Hab. West Indies — Cuba (Tnng Mus.): Jamaica *■'•'', 19-21 

 Vll. ; Hatti (Port-au-Prince, en'cl. 6 VI. — Gudmann); Sa.-^ 

 DoMlJiTGo''^'' ; PoBTORiCO ^ • '^ ; St. Croix, 6 V. (Giiclmann) ; 

 Dominica'; G-eenada (windwai-d side, Balthazar, 250 ft. 5-30 

 IV. ; leeward side. Mount Gay Estate, 300 ft., 1-5 X.—H. H. 

 Smith). Colombia — Bogota '. 



81. EtHMIA StTBSlMILIS, sp. n. 



Antennce stout ; dull greyish cinereous. Palpi smooth, re- 

 curved to the vertex, the apical joint shorter than the second ; 

 dirty whitish, with a greyish spot externally near the end of each 

 joint. Head and thorax smoky whitish. Fore wings smoky 

 whitish, with greyish-fuscous spots ; a broken greyish-fuscous 

 shade extends from near the base to beyond the middle 

 of the costa, a series of spots and shades of a similar colour 

 extending from before the middle of the costa to the dorsum 

 beyond its middle in an outwardly curved and broken line ; 

 between this and the base are about ten greyish-fuscous spots 

 irregularly scattered along and below the fold, two near the 

 base on either side of the fold being somewhat darker than the 

 others ; beyond the fasciaform central shade are several ill-defined 

 greyish-fuscous markings above and below the outer end of the 

 cell, followed by a marginal series of about six rather darker spots 

 not extending along the base of the costal cilia ; a greyish-fuscous 

 shade runs along the middle of the smoky-whitish cilia. Exp. al. 

 15 mm. Hind wings pale stone-grey, somewhat darlvened towards 

 their outer extremities ; cilia smoky whitish. Abdomen stoue- 

 grey. Hhid tibice smoky whitish, somewhat speckled and shaded. 



Type, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. West Indies — Jamaica, 17 VII. {Cocherell). Unique. 



This species differs from Ethmia confusella, Wkr., in the shape 

 of the fore wings, which are somewhat squarer at the apex ; the 

 series of marginal dots do not revert along the costa as in that 

 species, and, moreover, the spots and shades, although of the same 

 colour, are not conspicuously arranged longitudinally, which is one 

 of the marked features of the numerous forms of that insect. In 

 size it is, perhaps, even smaller than ingricella, Mschl., which I am 

 compelled to regard as a small form of Walker's species. 



