1897.] WESX-INDIA-W MICEO-LEPIDOPTBRi. 171 



112. Eeldeeia, Wlsm. 

 287. Felderia dimidiella, Wlsm. 



Felderia dimidiella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Loud. 1891, 516, 545, 

 PI. XLI. 15 (1892)'. 



Eab. West Indies — Cuba'. 



113. PlLAIfAPHOEA, g. n. 

 (ttiXos = felt ; Anaphora, nom. gen.) 



Type, S $ Pilaaaphora hedemannl, Wlsm. 



Aniennce : S somewhat flattened, serrate towards the apex. 



Labial ixilpi : S very sti'ongly recurved, reaching to the back of 

 the thorax, brush-like throughout ; 2 porrect, fully twice the 

 length of the head beyond it. 



Fore wings : S scarcely more than twice as long as broad, with 

 a long fringe along the basal third of the costa (bent back and 

 lying Hat on the wing) ; $ without the costal fringe. Neuration : 

 12 veins all separate, 8 to apex. 



Hind nnngs : S with a strong upstanding fringe extending from 

 the base along the lower edge of the cell to vein 2, the abdominal 

 margin densely hairy : 5 without the upstanding fringe. Neuration : 

 b veins all separate. , 



Abdomen densely hairy. 



Legs : all the tibise densely clothed in the male, less strongly in 

 the female. 



Allied to Acroloplius, Poey, and Awipliora,C\evLi. ; but readily 

 separated by the erect fringe on the hind wings. 



288. PiLAKAPHOEA HEDEMAXNI, sp. D. 



Antennck brownish ochreous. Palpi, head., and thorax : c? reddish 

 fawn-grey ; $ mouse-colour. Fore ivings : c? tawny reddish, 

 speckled along the costa with purplish fuscous, the mai'gins of the 

 cell also marked out with purplish fuscous, which is intensified at 

 the end of the cell and in a triangular blotch on its lower edge 

 before the angle ; a whitish-ochreous streak follows the line of the 

 fold, scarcely interrupted by a dark spot near its base, but incised 

 at its upper edge by the triangular spot before meiitioned; at 

 the end of the cell a small reduplicated dot of white raised scales 

 (probably very fugitive), which is connected by a pale whitish 

 streak with a pair of purplish -fuscous spots nearer to the termen ; 

 cilia conforming to the wing-colour, somewhat speckled : 2 

 mouse-colour, with the markings less distinct, and the whole 

 wing-surface more evenly and distinctly speckled with darker 

 spots ; cilia slightly darker than the wings. Krp. al. c? 20- 

 22 mm. ; 2 24-26 mm. Bind wings, d greyish fuscous, the 

 raised tuft fawn-ochreous, and the hairs along the abdominal 

 margin also inclining to ochreous ; cilia shining, paler than the 

 ■wings ; 2 shining, fuscous with a purplish gloss ; cilia shghtly 

 paler than the wings. Abdomen : J thickly clothed with hoary 



