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95. CORISCIUM, Z. 

 242. CofilSCIUM ALBOMAEGINATUM, Sp. D. 



Antenncp. mouse-grey. Pal2n white, with a smokj-white brush 

 beneath the second joint and two minute black annulations on 

 the apical joint. Head and thorax smoky-white, the latter 

 margined with mouse-grey. Fore whic/s dark mouse-grey, with a 

 series of oblique white costal streaklets beginning at one-third 

 from the base, the fifth continued across the wing and meeting a 

 white inverted tornal streaklet, beyond it a sixth costal is inverted 

 before the apex ; the dorsum is white throughout ; mth two dark 

 spots connected with the dark ground-colour in the fold, one 

 before the other behind the middle ; a short elongate very oblique 

 white dorsal streaklet ascends before the tornus pointing in the 

 direction of the apex ; cilia white, tipped with mouse-grey, with a 

 line of blackish scales along their base sending a short black 

 point through them at the apex ; tornal cilia greyish. Exp. al. 

 6 mm. Hind wings and cilia grey. Abdomen gre3dsh. Legs 

 white, speckled with mouse-grey on the hind tibiae and tarsi. 



Type, S Mus. Wlsm. 



Hub. West Indies — St. Thomas, 12 III.-14 V. {Gudmann, 

 Hedemann). Five specimens. 



Bred by Mr. Gudmann and Baron von Hedemann, but the 

 plant not identified. 



243. CoRISCIUM ATTENUATUM, sp, n. 



Antemw yellowish white, delicately annulated. Palpi recurved, 

 the second joint slightly tufted beneath ; white, tinged externally 

 with pale fawn. Head white. Thorax whitish. Fore ivings deli- 

 cate pale fawn-ochi-eous, with some whitish mottling on the basal 

 half; a slender whitish line along the dorsal margin bending 

 upwards and meeting at a right angle the second of three white 

 costal streaks (which is somewhat more oblique than the other 

 two), the margins of these streaks are peppered with minute black 

 scales ; a white dorsal spot lies before the apex of the outer costal 

 streak, and a white apical spot contains a rounded black dot ; a 

 slender fawn line runniug around the apex at the base of the paler 

 cilia, which are also tipped with fauTi at the extreme apex. Exp. 

 al. 7 mm. Hind wings pale greyish, with pale fawn-grey cilia. 

 Abdomen fawn-grey. Legs whitish. 



Type, (S Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. West Indies — St. Thosias, 7-28 III. {Gudmann, Hede- 

 mann). Three specimens. 



Bred by Mr. Gudmann from larvae feeding on Croton flavens. 



VI. ARGYRESTHIANM 



96. Leucophasma, g. n. 



(\ewKds = bright ; 0a(r/ia = phantom.) 



Type, (S Leucophasma phantasmella, Wlsm. 



Antenna> nearly as long as the fore wings, somewhat flattened 



towards the base, simple. 



