1891.] MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA OF THE WEST INDIES. 513 



Hub. West ladies — St. Vincent (windward side, 10 specimens. 

 Smith). 



Type, S $ . 



I have named this species after the late Prof. Felipe Poey, the 

 author of ' Centurie de Lepidopteres de I'ile de Cuba' (Paris, 1833 

 et seq.), a book which I have in vain endeavoured to find in the 

 market for many years. 



ACROLOPHUS NIVEIPUNCTATA, sp. U. 



Antennce pale fawn. 



Palpi reddish fawn mixed with rust-brown, which is especially 

 noticeable on the exposed side ; apical tuft long, almost entirely rust- 

 brown. 



Head and thorax reddish fawn mixed with rust-brown. 



Fore wings pale reddish fawn, suffused with rust-brown over the 

 greater portion of the wing-surface, except along the dorsal margin 

 and about the apical margin and apes, the pale ground-colour 

 appears also at the extreme base ; the rust-brown shading projects 

 into the paler colour, first in an angulated excrescence near the base, 

 which crosses the fold, and secondly in a semicircular projection a 

 little before the middle, which crosses the middle of the fold, from 

 the outer and upper edge of this the rust-brown shading is deflected 

 to the anal angle; a chain of about seven small fan-like, raised 

 snow-white scales, commencing near the base, forms a straight margin 

 to the upper edge of the first angular projection, reaching to the 

 highest point of the pale ground-colour above the fold ; a second 

 chain of similar snow-white scales commences within the outer and 

 upper portion of the semicircular projection, consisting of about 

 nine raised dots, follows the edge of the dark shading about halfway 

 along its deflection to the anal angle ; the apical portion of the wing 

 is slightly speckled with rust-brown, a few inconspicuous streaklets 

 of the same colour occur near the apical margin and on the pale 

 dorsal space; cilia mixed pale fawn and rust-brown. Underside 

 greyish fuscous, tinged with rust-brown along the costal margin. 



Hind wings stone-greyish ; cilia scarcely paler. Underside dull 

 greyish fuscous, slightly paler than in the fore wings. 



Abdomen missing. (A female abdomen is stuck on to this 

 specimen.^ 



Legs pale stone-grey, somewhat tinged with rufous beneath ; hind 

 tarsi not tufted above. 



Exp. al. 31 millim. 



Hab. West Indies — Cuba. 



Type, 6 Mus. Stgr. 



ACROLOPHUS PLTJMIFRONTELLUS, Clem. 



Anaphora plumifrontella, Clem. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. xi. p. 261 

 (1859) ; Stn. Tin. N. Am. pp. 39, 57, 59, 60 (1872). 



Acrolophus plumifrontellus, Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1887, 



