1897.] WEST-lNDiAJir MTCEO-LEPiDOPTEiRA. 151 



Hind wings very narrow, elongate, attenuate ; cilia 5. Neuration : 

 7 veins ; 3 and 4 coincident, cell open, 5 and 6 stalked. 



Legs : hind tibi« pectinate above throughout, inner spurs much 

 longer than the outer. 



The pectinate hind tibise separate this genus from Oracilaria 

 and Ornix, to which it is allied. 



233. DiALECTICA SANCTiE-CRUCIS, Sp. n. 



Anfennce smoky-whitish. PaZpi white, unspotted. Head and 

 face white. Thorax white, tegulae and sides pale copper-brown. 

 Fore wings pale copper-brown, with two large shining white 

 triangular patches on the dorsum, their apices reaching the costa ; 

 the first, at the base, covering nearly one-third of the dorsum, the 

 second on the middle, both delicately margined with black scales 

 externally, the second also internally ; beyond these at the toruus 

 is an elongate subovate shining silvery-white dorsal patch, above 

 which a short oblique slender white costal streaklet, black-margined 

 on either side, crosses to the termen before the apex ; cilia at the 

 apex greyish, with two short dividing streaklets, below the apex 

 coppery brown, at the toruus shining white and behind it greyish. 

 Exp. al. 7 mm. Hind ivings and cilia grey. Abdomen shining 

 greyish. Legs : posterior pair white with a black dot between the 

 spurs. 



Type, S Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah. West Indies — St, Croix, 17 V. (Grudmann); St. Thomas, 

 2 IV. (Hedemann) ; St. Jan, 4 IV. (Gudmann). Three specimens. 



This species belongs to the group of scalariella, Z., and is most 

 nearly allied to nolcJcenii, Z. Bred by Mr. Grudmann, but the 

 plant not identified. 



234. DiALECTICA REKDALLI, Sp. U. 



Antennce brownish. Palpi white. Head and thorax white, 

 the latter shaded across the front with brown. Fore ivings brown 

 with two broad snow-white transverse fascise followed by a slender 

 oblique costal streak and a semicircular subapical costal spot, with 

 some white scales around the apex and about the tornus ; the 

 first fascia is broader on the dorsal than on its costal extremity, 

 the second is slightly oblique, tending outwards from the costa, 

 and is somewhat widened towards the dorsum ; cilia brownish 

 grey. Exp. al. 7 mm. Hind wings and cilia dark brownish grey. 

 Abdomen greyish brown. Legs : hind tibiae with a comb of bristly 

 scales above ; white, shaded along the tibiae and banded on the 

 tarsi with brown. 



Type, d Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah. West Indies — Jamaica (Monteague, 1100 ft,, XI. — Een- 

 dall). Unique. 



Nearly allied to fasciella, Chamb,, but distinguished by the 

 absence of a third fascia. 



