1897.] WBST-IIfDIAIT MlCRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 155 



Labial palpi slender, short, projecting ; second joint sparsely 

 hairy beneath, apical joint as long as the second. 



Maxillary palpi and haustellum obsolete. 



Read rough above, face smooth. 

 Thorax smooth. 



Fore ivings lanceolate, somewhat widened in the middle, apex 

 depressed, slightly uncate, subacute. Neuration : 9 veins ; 7 and 

 8 stalked, enclosing the apex, 3, 5, and 10 absent. 



Hind tuings (under 1) lanceolate, acute, costal margin suddenly 

 depressed from the middle, cilia 1|. Neuration : 7 veins ; 4 absent 

 (coincident with 5) ; 6 and 7 parallel. 



Legs : posterior tibiae clothed \^'ith long fine hairs. 



Allied to Cedestis, Z., but differing in the absence of the 

 haustellum. 



244. Lbucophasma phaijtasmella, sp. n, 



Antennce shining white. Palpi, head, and face white. Thorax 

 white with a golden-yellow tinge. Fore luings white with a golden- 

 yellow suffusion, more apparent on the middle and towards the 

 apical portion of the wing ; a small fuscous dot lies at the extreme 

 apex surrounded by golden yellow ; ciha white with a golden- 

 yellow sheen. Exp. al. 11 mm. Hind luings greyish white, cilia 

 with a yellowish tinge. Abdomen shining wliitish ochreous. Leys 

 white ; hind tibiae clothed with long white hairs above. 



Type, S Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. West Indies— GREJf.vDA (Chantilly Estate, 350 ft., wind- 

 ward side, 13 IV. — H. H. Smith). Unique. 



97. Akgteesthia, Hb. 

 245. Abgyeesthia percussella, Z. ('?). 

 Arqyresthia percvissella, Z. Hor. See. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 246-7 

 (1877)^ 



Hah. Colombia— Bogota, Ml. III.' [? West Indies— St. Thomas, 

 6-10 III. (Gudmann, Hedemann).~] 



Two specimens from St. Thomas are probably small varieties of 

 this species, but they are not in sufficiently good condition to 

 determine with certainty. 



VII. EEECHTHLINM. 



98. EBEUifETis, Meyr. 



246. Eeeuitetis minusctjla, sp. n. 



{=NolcJcenia minuscula, Z. MS.) 



Antennce rather stout, enlarged at the base, simple in the S ; 

 creamy-white. Palpi projecting more than the length of the head 

 beyond it, brush-Uke beneath ; creamy-white. Head rough ; cream- 

 coloured. Thorax cream-coloured. Fore luings cream-coloured, 

 more or less shaded aud speckled with uraber-brown, this shading 

 being concentrated (and therefore more conspicuous) from the 



