128 LORD WALSINGHAM OK [Jan. 19, 



St. Lucia (Point Michell, Castle Bruce, 15 11., 30 IX.) ; St. Vin- 

 cent ^ ; GrRENADA (Balthazar. 250 ft., windward side, 5-20 IV. — 

 H. H. Smith). 



Baron von Hedemann observes that this species was bred 

 by Mr. Gudmann, but does not mention the name of the plant. 

 No specimen was included iu the collection sent to me by 

 Mr. Gudmann. 



67. Balbis, g. u. 

 (/3o\/3ts=a starting point.) 



Type, Garpocapsa assumjptana, Wkr. 



Antenna less than |, stout, simple. 



Palpi porrect ; second joint slightly curved, moderately clothed ; 

 apical joint blunt, exposed, projecting forward. 



Bcmstdlum short. 



Head roughly clothed above. 



Thorax smooth, \^dth hair-pencil arising beneath base of costa 

 (appressed to side, but probably expansible, as in Episimus). 



Fore tuings, J without a costal fold ; costa slightly arched at base, 

 somewhat straight beyond, thence rounded to the depressed apex, 

 termen not sinuate, tornus rounded. Neiiration : 12 veins, all 

 separate ; 2 from before three-fourths, 7 to termen. 



Hind wings evenly rounded, not sinuate beneath apex. Neura- 

 tion : 8 veins ; 6 and 7 remote at origin, parallel ; 8 approximated 

 to radius : 3 and 4 connate ; 5 almost sti-aight, but somewhat 

 approximated to 4. 



Legs, hind tibife smooth. 



Agreeing with Dichrorampha and Li^joptgdm in having 6 and 7 

 of the hind wings parallel, but differing in the palpi and in the 

 unsinuate termen, and probably intermediate between these 

 genera and Laspeyresia, Hb. ( = Grapholitha, HS.). 



176. Balbis assumptana, Wkr. 



Carpocapsa assumptana, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXVIIl, 

 406 (1863) \ 



Hah. Brazil (Ega) \ "West Indies — Grenada (Grand Etaug, 

 1900 ft., windward side, 30 Y.—H. H. Smith). 



177. Balbis albicapitana, Wlsm. 



Coptoloma ? albicapitana, "Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 505-6, 

 544 (1892) \ 



Hab. West Indies — St. Vincekt \ 



178. Balbis? litens, Wlsm. 



Grapholitha livens, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 504-5, 543 

 (1892)\ 



Hah. West Indies — St. Vincent \ 



This species is probably rightly referred, to this genus, but the 

 type was headless when received. 



