1897.] WBST-INDIA.T<r MIORO-IiBPIDOPTBBA.. Ill 



metallic. Legs whitish ; hind tarsal joints banded above with dark 



grey. 



Tiipe, c? Mas. Hedemann. 



Hah. West Indies — Hixn (Port-au-Prinee, 24 V. — Gadmann) ; 

 St. TnoiiAS, 12 IV. {Hedemann). Two specimens. 



VII. SCYTHRINM 



44. CEciA, g. n. 

 (o(iceTos= belonging to the house.) 



Type, (Ecia maculata, Wlsm. 



Antennce longer than the fore wings, simple, stout ; basal joint 

 without pecten. 



Labial imlpi diverging, smooth ; second joint porrect, rather 

 stout ; apical jbint erect, nearly as long as the second. 



Maxillary palpi rudimentary. 



Ocelli present. 



Hausiellum absent. 



Head and thorax clothed with appressed scales. 



Fore wings elongate, costa rather straight, apex slightly 

 depressed, bluntly pointed ; termen oblique ; tornus not developed. 

 Neuration : 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex. 



Hind ivings hardly as broad as the fore wings, costa straight, 

 abdominal angle distinct, dorsum tapering to the pointed apex ; 

 ciha 2. Neuration : 8 veins, 6 and 7 long-stalked, 3 and 4 remote, 

 5 almost parallel with 4. 



Abdomen slightly flattened. 



Legs : hind tibiae and first joint of the tarsi with long loose 

 hairs above. 



Allied to Endrosis, Hb., and having apparently the same habits, 

 but differing in having vein 6 of the hind wings present, 3 and 4 

 separate, and the haustellum absent. 



138. CEciA MACrLATA, sp. n. 



AntenncB smoky greyish. Palpi pale ochreous. Hecul pale straw- 

 ochreous. Thorax pale straw-ochreous, shaded with smoky grey. 

 Fore ivings pale straw-ochreous, blotched and margined with smoky 

 grey ; this colour commencing near the base extends along the fold 

 and along the costa without including the costal cilia and embraces 

 the apex ; on the middle of the fold is a stronger blotch of the 

 same colour, slightly diffused downwards to the dorsum ; a similar 

 blotch a little above and beyond it scarcely before the middle ; a 

 third at the end of the cell extending almost across the wing ; 

 cilia pale straw-ochreous. Exp. al. 10-12 mm. Hind wi)igs 

 shining pale yellowish grey ; the cilia with a slight ochreous tinge. 

 Abdomen pale ochreous. Legs with the tibiae and tarsi somewhat 

 hairy ; whitish ochreous. 

 ^ype, 6 ? Mus. Wlsm. 



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