Genus Cycloleppteron. 57 
“numerary cross-veln; posterior cross-vein not quite its own 
jJength nearer the base than the mid-cross vein. 
Length.—5 mm. 
6. Head black, with a median anterior patch of white 
upright forked scales; antennae with deep shiny brown plume 
hairs; palpi bronzy brown, with some golden yellow apical 
scales, two apical joints rather swollen, especially the penultimate ; 
hair-tufts brown, with flaxen reflections ; proboscis bronzy brown, 
long and thin. Thorax as in the @. Abdomen brown, with 
golden hairs. Wings with a pale spot at the junction of the 
sub-costal and costal and another at the apex of the wing, the 
space between the two pale spots thickly scaled with brown 
scales, the apical pale spot extends on to the first long vein and 
the upper branch of the first sub-marginal cell, the base of the 
cell has a small spot of large dark scales, the lower branch is 
dark at the apex, but the rest pale scaled ; the third long vein 
has also small pale scales ; the second posterior cell has a spot of 
large dark scales at its base and a few at the apex of each 
branch ; the large inflated scales are dotted over the remaining 
veins and form a spot at the cross-veins, and a large one towards 
the costa, one at the base of the sixth and another at the 
junction of the upper and lower branches of the fifth. Halteres 
fuscous. Fore ungues very unequal, the large one uniserrated ; 
mid ungues large, nearly equal, and simple. 
Dates of capture.—March, April and May (Jamaica). 
Notes.—Numerous fresh specimens taken by Dr. Grabhain 
at St. Andrews and Red Hills, Kingston. 
Life-history and habits.—Dr. Grabham gives me the following 
account of the life-history of this species :— 
“T succeeded in bringing home alive in a collecting tube a 
sete 
ge an ug ce 

Fig. 33. 
Egg case of Cycloleppteron Grabhamii. (Drawn by Dr. Grabham.) 
specimen which had had a full meal of blood. This was intro- 
duced into a breeding bottle, and on the 2nd of April iaid about 
