1891] MfCRO-LEPIDOPTERA OF THE WEST INDIES. 531 



Exp. al. 1 1 millim. 



Had. West Indies — St. Vincent (windward side, 2 specimens, 

 Smith), 



Type, d ? . 



Xyloryctinje. 

 Glyphidocera, gen. n. 

 (y)iV(pis = & notch, fceocu = a horn.) 

 Type, J J Glyphidocera audax, Wlsm. 



Antenna* : male, slightly serrate, deeply notched on the upperside 

 a little beyond the basal joint; female, simple, having no notch, but 

 the outer end of the basal joint is somewhat enlarged. 



Maxillary palpi obsolete. 



Labial palpi long, recurved, clothed with closely appressed scales ; 

 apical joint acuminate, rather more than half the length of the 

 second joint. 



Head denselv clothed above; face smooth. 



Thorax smooth. 



Fore wings narrow, elongate, depressed, and rounded at the apex, 

 slightly arched at the extreme base of the costa, costai and dorsal 

 margins parallel, anal angle rounded. Neuration : 11 veins; 2 and 3 

 from a recurved common stem ; 7 closely approximate to 8 at base, 

 running to apical margin below apex, 8 to costal margin. 



Hind wings more than twice the breadth of the fore wings, 

 slightly rounded at the apex, outer margin evenly rounded to the 

 abdominal angle ; cilia short and even. Neuration : 8 veins ; 3 and 

 4 from a short common stem ; 5 straight, moderately remote from 

 origin of 3 + 4 ; 6 and 7 from a common stem ; 8 joined to upper 

 margin of cell by a cross vein. 



Leys : posterior pair with unequal spurs ; tib'se moderately 

 clothed. 



It seems at present impossible to arrive at the affinities of this 

 genus ; the notched antennae would suggest Blastobasis, Z., and 

 Holcocera, Clem., from which it differs widelv in neuration and the 

 sliRpe of the hind wings. Its neuration conforms to the Xyloryctidce, 

 Meyr., from which it is separated by the absence of a tuft of hair- 

 like scales near the base of the hind wings ; nevertheless it will be 

 excusable perhaps to place it in this family, at least provisionally. 



Glyphidocera audax, sp. n. (Plate XLI. fig. 8, a-c.) 



Antennae subochreous. 



Palpi fawn-brown, dusted with fuscous. 



Head and thorax fawn-brown. 



Fore wings dull fawn-brown, densely irrorated with fuscous scales 

 throughout ; with an elongate transverse fuscous spot before the 

 middle, of which the lower extremity touches the fold ; a smaller 

 fuscous spot at the end of the cell ; a few fuscous scales about the 

 apical margin indicate the extremities of the veins ; cilia pale f awn- 

 brown, with a darker line along their middle. 



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