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239. Gbacilaria pultebella, sp. n. 



Antennce cinereous, faintly annulated. Palpi cinereous. Head 

 pale cinereous. Thorax dull pale greyish fuscous. Fore luings 

 dull pale greyish fuscous, somewhat mottled on their outer half 

 with shining steel-grey (visible only in a strong light) ; a pale line 

 along the base of the costal cilia continuing round the apex is 

 dilated to the tornus, covering one half the cilia on the terminal 

 margin, thus leaving a small dark hook beyond it at the apex, two 

 slender dark fuscous lines run along the base and along the middle 

 of the cilia respectively. Exp. al. 6-5 mm. llind ivlags and 

 cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen with a slight reddish tinge. 

 Legs cinereous. 



Type, 2 Mus. Hedemann. 



liab. West Indies — San Domingo (Puerto Plata, 16 Y. — Gml- 

 mann) ; St. Thomas, 2 TV. {Hedemann). Two specimens. 



240. Geacilaeia ihs'dosa, sp. n. 



Antenna very pale fawn, faintly annulated. Palpi white. 

 Head very pale fawn. Thorax white. Fore wings very pale fawn, 

 with a slender sinuate white line from the base of the dorsum to 

 the termen below the apex, touching the dorsum at its two down- 

 ward bends ; three oblique white costal streaks, the first scarcely 

 before the middle, the third coalescing with an inverted white 

 spot before the apex, a few dark brown scales around the margins 

 of the streaks ; cilia pale fawn with a white streak through them 

 below the apex. Exp. al. 5-5 mm. Hind luings very pale greyish ; 

 cilia pale fawn. Abdomen pale fawn-ochreous. Legs white, spotted 

 with pale fawn. 



Ti/2w, S Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. West Indies — Ha yti (Port-au-Prince, 23 Y.—Gudmann) ; 

 St. Thomas, 20 III. (Hedemann). Two speciDaens. 



The smooth crown separates this species from Lithocolletis, to 

 which genus it might be referred at first sight. 



241. Gkacilaeia nesitis, sp. n. 



Antennce as long as the fore wings ; yellowish white, faintly 

 barred above with brown. Pal^n slightly recurved ; white, the 

 end of the second joint and a band above the middle of the third 

 joint brown. Head yellowish white. Thorax white, mixed with 

 brown. Foi-e luings umber-brown, with a nearly straight yellowish- 

 white central fascia, before which are two slightly oblique ill- 

 defined transverse streaks, and beyond it a well-defined costal 

 spot and a few scales of the same colour along the dorsum ; cilia 

 pale brownish, at the apex .white. Exp. al. 6 mm. Hind wings 

 brownish grey, with tawny-grey cilia. Abdomen pale cinereous. 

 Legs white, with brown tarsal annulations. 



Type, ? Mus. Gudmann. 



Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 18-21 III. (Gudmann, Hede- 

 mann). Two specimens. 



