124 LORD WALSiNGHAM ON' [Jan. 19, 



Hah. West Indies — St. Cboix, 4 V.-15 VI. {Gudmann, Hede- 

 mann, Pontoppidan). 



" Die 16-fussige Eaupe lebt au£ Euphorbia hiiperifolia zwischen 

 zusammengesponnenen Bliittern ; sie ist cyliucli-isch, zwischen den 

 Leibsegmeuteu stark eingeschuiirt, die Grundfarbe gelbgriin, aui: 

 dem ersten Segment mit vier kleinen i-othen Punkten, auf alien 

 iibrigen Segmenteu je ein rother Giirtel ringsum das Segment in 

 welcbem die rothen Punkte etwas dunkler erscheinen und mit 

 feinen Haaren besetzt ; Kopf berzformig, gelbbraun, die Mund- 

 theile etwas dunkler ; Fiisse und Aftersegment unbezeichnet." 

 (^Gudmann.^ 



Closely allied to argutanus, Clem., but differing in the distinctly 

 apparent dorsal patch and in its paler hind wings. 



167. Episimus aegutanus, Clem. 



= AZLUTANA, Z.* 



Bactra ? argutana, Clem. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. XII. 358 (1860) '. 

 Grapholitha (Hedga) allutana, 7i. Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, XXV. 

 295-6, PL IX. 27 (1875)'. Bactra? argutana. Puck. U.S. Dept. 

 Intr. (Ent. Com.), Bull. VII. 69 (1881) ^ Semasia argutana, 'Eeva. 

 Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. X. 45. Xo. 319 (1882) ^ Bactra? argutana, 

 Pack. U.S. Dept. Agr., Ep. V. 282 (1890) \ Semasia argutana, 

 Pack. U.S. Dept. Agr., Ep. V. 668 (1890) «; Mft. Caii. Ent. 

 XXIII. 168 (1891) ^ 



Hab. Cajhada '' ; United States ^'% 9-26 VII.^ Larva, Hama- 

 melis virginica^'^''^ ; Rhus glabra^ '^'' ; Cratcegus tcnnentosa^'^'' ; 

 Uhnus^-^''. West Indies— St. Croix, 4 V.-15 VI. {Hedemann, 

 Pontoppidan); St. TnoiLiS, 18 III. (larva Euphorbia sp. ?, Gud- 

 mann) ; St. Lucia (Point Michell, 25 V.) ; Grenada (Balthazar, 

 250 ft., windward side, 15-27 IV.— iT. H. Smith). 



Mr. Gudmann's specimen is labelled as bred, but the name of 

 the food-plant is not indicated. Baron von Hedemann informs 

 me that it was bred from a species of Euphorbia, but his note may 

 possibly have referred to nesiotes. 



168. EpisiMtrs SUBMICANS, sp. n. 



Antennce fawn-brown. Palpi rough, apical joint depressed, 

 short, partly concealed ; greyish-fawn. Head fa^n-ochreous. 

 Thorax fawn-brown ; underside shining silvery white. Fore ivings 

 whitish cinereous, mottled aud blotched with umber-brown mixed 

 with fuscous : basal patch scarcely indicated, but traceable by two 

 dark costal spots with smaller ones between them, by a small dark 

 umber-brown patch resting on the fold, and by another nearer to 

 the base beneath the fold ; a broad triangular costal patch com- 

 mencing before and extending beyond the middle is composed of 

 dark umber-brown with fuscous lines running through it, a band 

 of rather shining steel-grey dividing it into two parts obliquely, 

 this patch is diffused and produced uTegularly to the fold, above 



