BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA. INSECTA. LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA. Vou. IV. TINEINA, PTEROPHORINA, ORNEODINA, AND PYRALIDINA ann HEPIALINA (part.). BY THE Ricut Hoy. Lorp WALSINGHAM, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. 1909-1915. CONTENTS OF VOL. IV. Page CorRIGENDA - --------- - iv INTRODUCTION . . «2 6 ee Vv TINEINA, Lavernidae - ------ 1, 405, 458 Gelechiadae . . 18, 406 Oecophoridae —- - —- —- - - — + 117,417 Jthmiadae .. 148, 428 Blastobasidae - - ~ - - -~---- 148 Stenomidae . 1538, 424: [Aegeriadae**] ----~-~--- 190 [Cossidae*] . 204: Arrhenophanidae ~ —- ~ - — - 204, 433 Sparganothidae. ; 206, 430 Olethreutidae-— - ------ 224, 430 Tortricidae . 267,430 Phaloniadae - - - - --- - 294, 431 Carposinidae 299 Hemerophilidae— —- - —-- - - 300, 431 Coleophoridae 2. ee e819 Heliodinidae --------- 320 * Previously enumerated in Vol. I-IT. + To be added to those enumerated in Vol. IT. R NS) Page Tinera (continued). Hyponomeutidae 321 Phyllorycteridae --——-~——-—--— 336 Tineidae eee . Bde, 433 Acrolophidae - ---—-—--—-~-—- (875 Nemophoridae . 402 PrEROPHORINA. Pterophoridae—— ---~---- 434 Agdistidae . 448 ORNEODINA. . Orneodidae --- -- ---~--- 449 PYRALIDINA. Pyraustidae } 452 HEPIALINA. [Hepialidae*] -~--~---- 457 Postscrivt (Tiwvzrw) 458 InDEX ---------7- 7 rCCU 459 PhaTES . 2 ee ee ee I-X Page 43 72 150 157 228 241 375 406 412 CORRIGENDA. Line 6 from top, 3 ,, bottom, 10 os 5 ,, ”» 3, top, 13 ,, bottom, 18, ” 10, » last line, For Gelechiadiae read Gelechiadae. Cathagesis HoLocera CRYPOLECHIA Phaleana SAROLOPHA PILANOPHORA auriciliela paronymous ” ‘ thd ” 37 ” a° ” ” Cathegesis. Ho.cocera. CRYPTOLECHIA. Phalaena. SoroLorua. PILANAPHORA. auriciliella. isonymous. INTRODUCTION. Tuis treatise on the Tineina of Central America, although it bears my name, is the combined work of three specialists, of whom the other two have assuredly borne a greater burden of critical labour than myself. Had it not been for the conscientious zeal and ability with which they have applied themselves to the task of coordinating the structural characters on which the classification here adopted has been based, the prospect of imparting full scientific value to this part of the ‘Biologia’ would have been remote. In thanking Mr. August Busck for the invaluable assistance he has rendered, J must not omit also my acknowledgments to Dr. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, who was good enough to grant the necessary permission and to spare his services for some months for this purpose. I regard this as another proof of that open-minded liberality which I have personally found to be an almost invariable attribute of American men of Science. I can only hope that the study of much accumulated material to which he could not have access in the United States, and especially the examination of the types of many important genera in my collections, may have afforded Mr. Busck some slight return for his labour and for having given me the advantage of that very special knowledge of the North American fauna which he alone could bring to bear upon my task. I had written the majority of the descriptions of species several years ago, many of them during absences from home without access to books or collections ; consequently but few had been placed with certainty in their proper genera until my assistant, Mr. J. Hartley Durrant, was able to examine and arrange them. When the more serious work was commenced, it became at once apparent that the lines of classification hitherto adopted, whether in Europe or America, were too involved and incomplete to be safely relied upon in dealing with a fauna practically unknown in relation to this special group of the Lepidoptera, and it was decided to correlate the various systems and to revise the limits of hitherto-accepted family- divisions, continuing the work already done for me by Mr. Durrant in connection with 4 vl INTRODUCTION. a study of the Microlepidoptera of Tenerife published in the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London’ [1907 911-1028 Pl. 51-3 (1908) ]. With this object the voluminous publications of Mr. Edward Meyrick on Australian as well as on European and Asiatic Zineina were again carefully consulted. My colleagues and myself have derived the utmost assistance now as in the past from his careful and systematic work. Indeed, whatever criticism may be brought to bear on its details, that work has undoubtedly supplied the guiding principles on which improve- ments in classification have been and may be arrived at in proportion to the amount of new material becoming from time to time available for further study. Mr. Busck and Mr. Durrant have been jointly engaged in a minute examination of a very large number of the types of species in my collections from all parts of the world, in making microscopic slides, and tabulating the numerous genera previously known, as well as those now first described, in a manmer which it is hoped may be found to provide a sufficiently workable key to their structure and development. Mr. Busck has also supplied further material acquired since his return to America. . In any case the value of co-operation in such work must necessarily be great. No uncertainty need exist in future as to what is the precise meaning of the terms used by leading authors on either side of the Atlantic; there cannot fail to be increased confidence between them in the knowledge that both are working on similar lines— their descriptions must be rendered in every way more intelligible to each other and, we may hope, more precise. There has long been a growing conviction that, for generic purposes at least, secondary sexual characters so mach in repute with the older writers could not be relied upon, and in this treatise these have been discarded in favour of distinctions found in both sexes. It is perhaps the first occasion on which this principle has been consistently applied to the classification of the Tineina as a whole. Its adoption has necessarily involved the suppression of a very large number of generic subdivisions, and of the names by which they have been distinguished. ‘his will at first be regarded as a very radical and perhaps presumptuous reform, especially .as here exemplified in the Stenomidae, Acrolophidae, Tortricidae, etc., but, when the modifi- cations of structure on which genera have hitherto been based in these and other families are carefully examined in relation to the vast number of forms in a great continental fauna, they are found to blend one into another by such infinitesimal gradations as to impede rather than to assist a conscientious worker. The genus Felderia, resting upon the strongly bipectinate antennae of the male, and some of Mr. Meyrick’s genera of Oecophoridae, founded upon differences in the length of the antennal ciliations, are cases in point. ‘These characters are modified by such INTRODUCTION. vil innumerable and minute variations as to be quite unreliable for the purpose of logical differentiation. In the Acrolophidae again, as already pointed out (vide pp. 378-80), the position and length of the male palpi, which had been greatly relied upon, vary by the most gradual and perplexing stages, so that it may well be said in words which I extract from a letter in English long since received from the late Professor Zeller “the passages from which to it” form a chain of evidence too strong to be broken down in any attempt to separate extreme forms. In the Tortricidae the costal fold, although a purely sexual character, was a convenient mark of recognition frequently regarded as of generic value ; but this occurs sporadically among many species which, although undoubtedly distinct, present no other structural peculiarities to justify their inclusion in different genera—notwith- standing the fact that this character is apparently consistent in whichever species may possess it. Central American representatives of the Zineina are to be found in at. least 22 families, of which the Gelechiadae with 228 species, and the Stenomidae with 144, afford more abundant examples than others. Among these the Gelechiadae may be said to extend in approximately equal numbers to north and south, although the southern or South American forms are for the most part distinguished from those of the United States and Canada by their affinities to such genera as Strodisia Clms., Anacampsis Crt., and Dichomeris Hb., the first of these unrepresented in Europe, whereas the northern forms are more obviously allied to those of the European fauna. The Stenomidae, again, accompany the Gelechiadae in both directions, but tend strongly to represent the southern rather than the northern fauna, and the same may be said of the Hyponomeutidae ; whereas the Vemophoridae, well represented in more northern latitudes, vanish entirely to the south of Panama, reappearing in certain limited forms to the far south of the continent. The Acrolophidae, strictly confined to the two American continents and to the West Indian Islands, are perhaps pre-eminently tropical, but with considerable southern and northern extension—this very distinctly recognisable family has afforded strong evidence in favour of discarding secondary sexual characters when determining the limitation of genera. The Acrolophidce, after an immense amount of careful work involving the examination of many hundreds of specimens, are found to consist practically of one large genus, represented by many species, in some of which the neuration is so variable as to forbid the establishment of genera upon the numbers, position, or furcation of veins in the radial or median series of the forewings. The species can, however, be distinguished inter se by the length and position of the labial palpi, by the structure of the antennae, and by the Vii ’ INTRODUCTION. form of the genitalia; but all these are secondary sexual characters, and no single character, or combination of characters, is found sufficiently constant throughout any assemblage of species to justify the establishment of a recognisable genus, with the exception of Apoclisis, proposed on account of the peculiarity of the cubital veins of the forewings, and Urbara Wkr., which possesses the same cubital neuration, but is in other respects even more distinct from the typical forms. Greater or less degrees of structural difference are accompanied with remarkable and confusing similarity of markings and general appearance. In the case of the genitalia, the divergences . might even convey an impression that they: have been evolved to prohibit inter-— breeding in instances where, without such precautions, confusion would be expected to occur. Some of these conclusions were not only surprising, but disappointing to a small committee decidedly predisposed to the retention and establishment of ‘separate genera, and we were constrained to admit that if any one of our number, at a distance from the others, had ventured upon such a bold course of amalgamation as has been finally adopted, he might well have been in danger of being regarded by the other two as an entomological crank, whose destructive work served only to stimulate their own preferably constructive tendencies. If any safety is to be found in numbers, we may claim at least the advantage of unanimity, until good evidence can be produced to upset our conclusions, and Mr. Meyrick’s latest papers give us good ground for claiming a general concurrence on his part. It was inevitable that in the course of this study much attention had to be given to questions of nomenclature, and, being responsible for the code known as the ‘ Merton Rules,’ Mr. Durrant and myself were anxious to ascertain on what grounds the members of a recent Zoological Congress had adopted what seemed to be a somewhat arbitrary system of selecting and maintaining Generic names by summary fixation of types without due regard for previous work done by critical authors. The rule that the Type of a genus cannot be regarded as fixed until it has been actually and definitely specified is now being largely adopted in America and perhaps elsewhere, but it is by | no means clear that those who accept this code were made fully acquainted with the reasonable objections to such a course. The main object of any Rules should surely be to secure priority and uniformity: priority not only for names, but for all published results of critical study; uniformity not by mere arbitrary decision, but by the application of unvarying principles which, consistently followed, could only lead to one definite result in each case—a_ result which, while securing priority in the fullest degree, should preserve for each worker the credit of his work until it could be proved to be incorrect. The rock on which the greatest split seems to have occurred has been the adoption INTRODUCTION. . ix of Hiibner’s genera by Stephens in 1834-5. Stephens, admittedly dealing with a local fauna—that of Great Britain,—interpreted many of Hiibner’s genera by the light of such knowledge as he possessed, and it has been contended that he did not claim to be revising the ‘ Verzeichniss’ when he adopted Hiibner’s generic names and applied them to such British species as he recognized among Hiibner’s types; but, as in the case of other critical workers, it can be shown that Stephens was thoroughly acquainted with his subject, and by no means acted in the dark when he selected certain species to which he assigned Hiibner’s generic names. He specially stated that some of Hiibner’s genera required revision, and proceeded to apply his critical. knowledge to the task—in short, he did at least attempt to revise Hiibner’s work so far as the knowledge of the day permitted it and so far as such revision was required for the work in hand. In any case, but largely for this reason, we contend that Stephens’s limitations should be respected by subsequent authors, and this would probably be conceded after a careful study of his writings. We may perhaps go so far as to admit that an arbitrary rule is desirable for the future, but we contend that it should not be, and cannot be justly or advisedly, retrospective. For example, I consider that I should have had no right to cite pomonella as the type of Cydia Hitbner (Pr. Z. Soc, Lond. 1897) if any other author had previously used Cydia with such limitations as had the effect of excluding that species; but Stephens having included pomonella among the three species of Carpocapsa, which he regarded as typical of ( ydia, it was obviously so selected by him and the genus was thus restricted to the type *. | For similar reasons Meyrick cannot, in my opinion, resuscitate Mompha Hiibner for conturbatella after Stephens had disregarded that species in his modified conception of Hibner’s genus. No arbitrary rules can rightly be made retrospective to the detriment of past study. Without such modification the arbitrary fixation of types strikes a death-blow at the whole system of priority, and the work of generations of critical authors is placed at the mercy of any future writer who may perhaps be comparatively unacquainted with the subject on which he writes. Is it too much to hope that by consistently advocating this view, and in each case giving reasons for selecting certain types of the older genera in cases where this has not already been done, we may in the end convince those representatives of inter- national opinion to whom the Rules of Nomenclature may next be referred that they ‘would do well to lay down the principle that the arbitrary fixation of types can have no retrospective effect to the detriment of previous critical study, but can only be taken as applying to the present and to the future 2 * Vide pp. 258-263—cf. Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 130; Cockerell New Mexico Agr. Coll. Bull. 25 47 (1898); Busck Jr. New York Ent. Soc. 11 106-11 (1908) ; Fernald Gen. Tortr. 6, 19, 58 (1908), t Vide pp. 15-16—ef. Wlsm. & Drnt. Ent. Mo. Mag. 45 173-4 (1909), BIOL. CENTR.-AMER. , Heter., Vol. IV., June 1915, b x INTRODUCTION. Mr. Busck has generously allowed me to describe and include in our work a number of new species, collected by himself, Mr. F. Knab, and others in the Panama Canal Zone and in Mexico, which were not represented in Dr. Godman’s collections, and these have afforded strong evidence that only the fringe of the subject has as yet been touched, and that the fauna of those regions will prove to be exceptionally rich in species and genera. I am especially indebted to my friend Mr. W. Schaus for some interesting con- tributions to the collection kindly given me many years ago, and the results of his energy are further illustrated in the examples submitted by Mr. Busck from the National Museum at Washington, to which he has so generously contributed. Dr. Godman’s collectors were instructed to obtain insects of all orders, and had not the opportunity to devote special attention to the Tineina; consequently a large proportion of our material has consisted of unique specimens, which is greatly. to be regretted. In the case of these small and often inconspicuous insects, it is specially important that a good series of each species should be secured to facilitate comparison of markings and structure—the latter almost impossible to certify without denudation under the microscope, for which it has sometimes been necessary to sacrifice the half of even a unique example. In the course of our work one point has been made remarkably clear and indisputable. It has been shown by very numerous instances that in the majority of— although, of course, not in all—previous attempts to describe and even to illustrate differences of neuration, whether for generic or special determinations, reliance has been placed on the system of moistening the wings with benzine and examining them with ordinary pocket-lenses of varying power, a system which for some of the main characters is frequently useful and sufficient. This has, however, proved to be the source of innumerable errors, easily detected when the wings are thoroughly denuded and placed under the microscope. I must plead guilty to several errors in the past from this cause, and the same has affected the work of others upon whose descriptions and drawings I have too frequently relied. In the United States this has long been recognised. Dr. Brackenridge Clemens (1860, etc.) and other more recent specialists, notably Mr. Busck, have invariably made microscopic slides where any doubt could exist. In this manner only can the internal veins of the cell, or the different degrees of anastomosis and coincidence in the supporting wing-structure, be intelligibly studied. Such a method can alone supply the necessary evidence for understanding the processes by which gradual changes of development or deterioration have been brought about, and this is becoming more than ever essential to correct study. INTRODUCTION. xi ' It was not originally my intention to transfer my collections and library to the National Museum until this work should have been completed; but the delay that has occurred in the elaboration of references to previous literature, and in the repro- duction of Mr. Frohawk’s excellent figures by lithography at Leiden, combined with other circumstances, rendered it impossible to postpone their departure, and the transference has not accelerated publication. ‘The importance of securing the majority of the types, as such, for our National Museum has not been overlooked, and I should have been better satisfied if this object could have been achieved at an earlier date. The publication of the monograph of the Hawaiian “ Micros,” which was in hand when I first began to prepare a paper for the ‘ Biologia,’ somewhat interfered with its earlier stages, but the great delay which has occurred in bringing this treatise to a successful conclusion has been for the most part due to the earnest desire of Mr. Durrant to carry it beyond its original scope and purpose, and to give it special value for the future guidance of all students of the Microlepidoptera. With this aim in view, he has undertaken far-reaching researches in the literature of the subject. He has looked up as far as possible every reference, not only to the species under consideration, but to the genera in which they have been placed by various authors, tracing the history of each genus, and, where amalgamation has become necessary, the type of each generic name is stated in chronological order, establishing priority which may be confidently accepted as such, unless an error can be subsequently proved. It is perhaps too much to hope that no such errors may henceforth be found, but there has been at least no attempt to suppress information, and the references given throughout should be clearly sufficient to indicate the lines on which further research may safely proceed. During the time that the Collections remained in my possession, when I was able to direct and examine the progress of the necessary comparisons and tabulation of genera and species, it was apparent that this work could not be done without much sacrifice of time and labour devoted to literary research, and the delay involved was even then a source of considerable annoyance and disappointment, not only to the Author and Projector of the ‘ Biologia’ but to myself. I had written a large proportion of the descriptions of new species so long ago as 1895, soon after Dr. Godman’s material was placed in my hands, and at that time I had every hope that a paper on the same lines as others in his great publication might have been completed within a few years at least. From that time onward not only has much additional material been added to the Collection, but much has been published from time to time affecting the questions of classification and nomenclature, as well as adding many species to the numbers recorded from the region included in the scope of the investigation. Since April 1910, when my Collections (including the Godman and Salvin material) and Library were presented to the National Museum, | have been unable to exercise xil INTRODUCTION. any real superintendence over the literary work undertaken by my assistant, and beyond the mere description of a few newly acquired or possibly overlooked species, the task has been left entirely in Mr. Durrant’s hands, and has been prolonged very far beyond my expectation as well as beyond his own. I greatly regret it has delayed the completion of the ‘Biologia’ so earnestly desired by Dr. Godman, but I hope that the thoroughness of the work done and the importance of the advance made in the general study of this interesting branch of entomology may afford some consolation and compensation for the patience with which it has been awaited. June 1915. | W ALSINGHAM. Census. 27 Families enumerated, 2 described as new. 225 Genera enumerated, 54 described as new, illustrated by 30 text-figures. 1025 Species enumerated, 586 described as new, illustrated by 10 plates including 350 figures. 1 Genus and 2 Species described as new from South America, and several species added to the fauna of the United States. Explanation of Signs, Abbreviations, ete. & = male. Q = female, o = sex not stated. @ = egg. @ = larva. >) = pupa. © = imago. * = invalid as not containing the Type of the conception. | + = wrongly written either in inception or adoption. 4 =a vernacular name. t+ = correction of a name previously wrongly written. § =a homonym. || = a synonym. nn. = a neonym. IN, = a logonym, MN, = a mononym, PLI.=a Paratype. PIT. = Paratypes. AT.=a Homotype. Dionym = the name (onym) of a species as originally published in valid form, consisting of two terms, a species-name (idionym) combined with a genus-name (genonym). Idionym = a species-name (without reference to the genus). Genonym = a genus-name (without reference to the species). Mononym = a genonym published without exponents (invalid as not dionymic, and as having no indication of its application). Logonym = a mere printed name (invalid as having no indication of its application). Homonym = the same name applied to a different conception (invalid as already in use in another sense). . Synonym = a different name applied to the same conception (invalid, unless required to replace a homonym). , Isonym = a different name applied to a similar conception (potentially valid: genonyms restricted to different types are isonymous so long as their Types are regarded as congeneric) Neonym =a new name to replace a homonym. ; Drnt. LP Deze. 1904 ZOOLOGIA. Class INSECTA. Order LEPIDOPTERA. Suborder HETEROCERA (continued) f. TINEINA. | Fam. 1. LAVERNIDAE. Lavernipar Wk., Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 318 (1871); Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 415 (1876). = * HracuisripakE Stn. Ins. Br. Lp-Tin. 10, 224-5 no. 10 (1854) ; Meyr.; Stgr-Rbl.; efc. PSEUDASTASIA, gen. n. (Wevdns=false ; de7acia = unsteadiness.) Type: Pseudastasia opulenta Wlsm. (Tab. I. fig. 5.) (4) J. H. Durrant, del. 1. Pseudastasia opulenta Wlsm. ¢. Antennae a little longer than the forewings, much flattened and dilated, taeniaform, tapering to a flattened point ; fringed along their lower edge with long appressed scales ; basal joint withoat pecten. Labial . + By The Right Hon. Lorp WatsIneHAM, M.A., LL.D., F.RS., ete. BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. IV., December 1909. bb Schaus collection v& 2250045 2 HETEROCERA. Palpi very short, decumbent, smooth, pointed. Mawillary Palpi obsolete. Haustellum well-developed. Ocelli absent. Head smooth. Thorax smooth, stout. produced conspicuously in advance of the wing- base. Forewings narrow, elongate-lanceolate, costa slightly rounded beyond middle, dorsum evenly convex: neuration 10 veins, 7 and 8 coincident, 2 obsolete ; (7+8) and 6 stalked, enclosing apex ; 3, 4, 5, straight and parallel. Hindwings (—1), elongate-lanceolate, not acutely pointed : neuration 6 veins, 24344 coincident ; 6 and 7 stalked, 5 separate; cell open between 5 and cubitus; 12 free. Abdomen stout, smooth. Legs rather stout; hind tibiae with long, projecting tuft of closely packed hair-scales above the distal pair of spurs ; hind tarsi rather densely clothed. Allied to Lithariapterye Chmb., Scelorthus Busck, and Lamprolophus Busck, but differing in the absence of raised scales, in the peculiar thick antennae, and in the stalking of 6 and (7+ 8) in the forewings. 1. Pseudastasia opulenta, sp. n. (ab. I. fig. 5.) Antennae black. Palpi and Haustellum ochreous. Head black. Thorax dark brownish fuscous, with some bright ochreous at the sides and behind, (but the thorax is much damaged). forewings very dark fuscous, almost black, with shining steely lines marking the venation beyond the cell to the apex and termen ; a broad, shining, golden-ochre band from the base to the tornus, its upper edge somewhat more intensely coloured than the dorsal portion, and clearly defined against the dark ground-colour of the wing above; cilia steely bluish black. Zay.al. 14 mm. Hindwings tawny brown; cilia pale brown, with some steely blue reflections. Abdomen purplish fuscous, with an ochreous band near the base, (but much damaged). Legs purplish fuscous, the femora golden ochreous beneath. Type $ (65998) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab. PANAMA: CHIRIQUI: Bugaba 800-1000 ft. (G. C. Champion). Unique. SCELORTHUS Busck. Type: Scelorthus pisoniella Busck (Busck 1900). Scrtortuvs Busck Jr. NY. Ent. Soc. 8 239-41 Pf. 9-4 (1900); Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 535 sp. 6075 (1902). 1. Scelorthus calcifer, sp. n. Antennae bronzy fuscous ; the basal joint attenuate at its origin; a few of the terminal joints slightly biserrate. Palpt short, depressed ; median joint whitish, terminal joint fuscous. Head bronzy above, mixed with orange-ochreous scales. Yhorax bronzy fuscous, with two orange-yellow streaks parallel with the tegulae. Morewings shining, orange-yellow, with a purplish fuscous patch at the base, on which is a bronzy costal spot; along the upper edge of the fold is a gradually widening purplish shade, sprinkled with aeneous scales, occupying the whole outer portion of the cell and extending around the end of the wing, where it encloses a large ovate patch of the orange ground-colour ; four aeneous metallic spots connect this with the costa and dorsum, two below the fold, the first at one-fourth from the base, the second scarcely before the middle, and two above the cell, one a little beyond the first: dorsal spot, the other on the middle of the costa ; on the outer third of the wing-length a broad aeneous band, commencing abruptly, passes around the base of the cilia on the costa and termen, beyond which the cilia are greyish fuscous. xrp.al.l3 mm. Hindwings orange~yellowish, becoming bronzy fuscous on their outer half: cilia greyish fuscous, shading to yellowish towards the base of the wing. Abdomen orange-yellow tipped with purplish fuscous, some purplish fuscous shading along the sides beneath. Legs shining bronzy the posterior pair ornamented with metallic scales; two rich orange bands around the hind tibiae, and one on the first tarsal joint; the base of the spurs, and the spurs themselves, especially the outer ones, adorned with projecting dark metallic tufts which are slightly repeated also on the tarsal joints. Type 3 (65999) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT. (66000) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. Muxtco: MoRELOS: Cuernavaca, VI. (H. H. Smith): GUERRERO: ‘Tierra Colorada, 2000 ft., X. (A. H. Smith). Two specimens. EMBOLA. 3 EMBOLA, gen. n. (éuod = an insertion.) Type: Embola xanthocephala Wlsm. J. H. Durrant, del. 2. Embola xanthocephala Wism. 6. Antennae simple, nearly as long as forewings; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi short, slender, dependent, smooth, pointed, Mamillary Palpi minute. Haustellum long, naked. yes ciliate posteriorly. Ocella very conspicuous. Head prominent, globose, smooth. Thoraw smooth. Forewings elongate- lanceolate, pointed, termen subsinuate ; smooth: neuration, 10 veins, 7 and 8 coincident, 2 obsolete ; all separate, (7+8) to costa; 1 almost simple, 1 being subobsolete. Hindwings (—1), lanceolate, pointed : neuration 6 veins, cubitus simple (2+3+4); 5, 6, 7, separate, 5 supported by approximating branches of media ; discoidal obsolete between 5 and cubitus. Abdomen somewhat slender. Legs, posterior tibiae with series of evenly projecting bristly hairs above throughout ; spurs long, naked. By neuration most nearly allied to Scelorthus Busck, but easily separable from this genus, as also from Aetole Chmb. (= * Heliodines Wlsm.—nec Stn.) by the structure of the hind legs, in which it agrees with Lamprolophus Busck, but differs in having only ten veins in the forewings, and in the hindwings 6 and 7 are not stalked. In addition to the species now described, Heliodines marginata Wlsm. [ Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891 535, 547 sp. 123 (1892): 1897 109 sp. 132 (1897)], St. Vincent, W-L., is recognised as belonging to the genus Lméola. 1. Embola xanthocephala, sp. n. Antennae bronzy fuscous, apex white. Palpi short, slender, dependent; ochreous. Head orange-yellow. Thorax dark fuscous, with a bronzy sheen, especially on the tegulae. Forewinys rich golden-orange, with shining, bronzy, lilac metallic spots, four along the costa, three along the dorsum, each followed by an inverted, similarly metallic, length-streak from before the apex ; the first three costal spots, of which the second projects rather further over the surface of the cell than the other two, are set in a dark purplish fuscous shade-band, reaching to beyond the middle, and rather widened outward from its narrow origin at the base of the costa; the fourth costal spot, which is preceded and followed by golden orange, is very narrowly margined by purplish fuscous, as is also the short, inverted, metallic streak beyond it, the same dark colour spreading around the apex and enclosing the rather longer inverted streak pointing inward from the termen above the tornus, where it separates it from the erect antetornal metallic spot on the dorsum, which points to the space between the third and fourth costal; a narrow purplish fuscous streak from the base also connects the first and second dorsal spots to each other, but not to the third, the second of these being low and flattened ; cilia smoky fuscous. Hwp. al. 95 mm. Hindwings dark 66 2 4 HETEROCERA. bronzy cupreous; cilia smoky fuscous. Abdomen dark steely fuscous above, steely white beneath. Legs dark fuscous externally, the spurs and inner sides of hind tibiae steely whitish. Type 2 (66001) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [P7. (66003) US. Nat. Mus. } Hab. Mexico: tabasco: Teapa, IIl. (H. H. Smith). Three specimens. 2. Embola dentifer, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 6.) Antennae stout, somewhat flattened; purplish fuscous, apex white. Palpi short, dependent; ochreous. Head dull orange. Thorax purplish fuscous. Fbrewings bright orange; the costa fuscous throughout, including the cilia, along it are distributed four dark, marginal, iridescent lilac metallic tooth-shaped spots, one basal, followed by two more before the middle, and one scarcely beyond the middle ; a little beyond the last the dark marginal band is increased in width and is continued around the apex to the commencement of the tornal cilia, suffused with a lilac iridescent gloss throughout; the base of the dorsum is dark fuscous, and beyond the base are three lilac iridescent tooth-shaped spots attenuated with the costal spots above them, the outer one of the series coalescing with the dark marginal band beyond it, the space between the dorsal spots being unshaded with fuscous. Hvp.al.13 mm. Hind- wings dark cupreous, beautifully iridescent in a strong light; cilia cupreous. Abdomen brownish fuscous, anal tuft ochreous. Legs cupreous, banded with pale ochreous. Type 3 (66004) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab. Mexico: MorELos: Cuernavaca, VI. (H. A. Smith). Unique. COSMOPTERYX Hb. Type: Tinea zieglerella Hb. (Z. 1839). Cosmorreryx Hb. Verz. Schm. 424 sp. 4126-32 (1826); Stn. Ins. Br. Lp-Tin. 228-9 Pl. 7-4? (1854); Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891 124 (1891) ; Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 640, 662 no. 5 (1895) ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 105-7 sp. 123-6 (1897); Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. 92 299, 338-41 sp. 79-83 (1897) ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. IL. 184-5 sp. 3550-9 (1901) ; Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 534-5 sp. 6061-74 (1902) ; Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 30 707-18 (1906) ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lend. 1907 964-7 sp. 75-7 (1908); Meyr. Pr. Z. Soe. Lond. 1908 733-4 (1908). 1. Cosmopteryx irrubricata, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 1.) Antennae dark brown, with a series of narrow white streaklets above toward the base, and two silvery rings at two-thirds; the basal joint has also narrow silvery streaks along on either side. Palpi bronzy cinereous, the terminal joint with a fuscous line on either side. Head pale greyish brown; face steel- grey. Forewings dark brown, with a slightly paler band across the base, and another beyond the middle, the latter not reaching the costa ; at the outer edge of the pale basal band are three small steel-blue strigulae, the two upper ones very short, the third below the fold, about double their length; before the second pale band a narrow, metallic, rosy lilac fascia crosses the wing, a similar fascia occurring at the outer edge of the band, but like it failing to reach the costa; beyond this is a metallic lilae dorsal streak, half- way to the apex, with a silvery white costal spot above and between the two; the cilia at the extreme apex snow-white, above and beneath the apex brown. Haxp.al. 75mm. Hindwings and cilia greyish . brown. Abdomen [missing]. Legs greyish brown, with steel-white metallic streaks across the tibiae, and snow-white spots at the joints of the tarsi. Type 3 (65991, Atoyac) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.), Hab. AMERICA, C-I. Central America—MeExico: VERA CRUZ: Atoyac, LV. (H. Z. Smith). West Indies—Jamaica: st. ann: Runaway Bay, 18. III. 1905 ( Wlsm.). Two specimens. COSMOPTERYX. 9) This species, which is closely allied to abnormalis Wlsm. (Hayti), differs in the varied colour of the metallic markings, and in the presence of a subterminal spot before the apex. 2. Cosmopteryx ochleria, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 2.) Antennae brownish fuscous, with a slender white line along the upper side; the terminal four joints white ; the next five fuscous, then one fuscous between two white. Palpi white, with a fuscous line along either side. Head and Thorax brownish fuscous, with slender white lateral lines. Forewings brownish fuscous, with a dull ochreous median band, obliquely margined with pale golden metallic on either side, the inner margin slanting outward, entire, with a black dot above its middle within the band, the outer margin slanting inward, broken above its middle, and with a white spot on the costa at its upper edge ; a slender silvery white entire streak through the dark brownish fuscous terminal area and cilia to the apex; the three white streaklets on the basal area are as usual, the upper one bent, the second very short, not extending beyond the upper, the third commencing parallel with the second, but exceeding it in length. Hap.al.35 mm. Hindwings and cilia brownish grey. Abdomen brownish. Legs brownish, banded with white; an oblique white streak before the ends of the tibiae externally. Type $ (65993) Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coil.). Hab. Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, IIL. (A. H. Smith). Unique. This species differs from ¢urbidella Rbl. in the longer white apical streak, in the broader ochreous fascia, and in the greater length of the lower three streaklets on the basal area. 3. Cosmopteryx astrapias, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 3.) Antennae dark bronzy brown, with a line of white spots along the upper side, some near the base becoming confluent and continuous with a streak along the basal joint; four or five of the terminal joints are white, and these are preceded by a band of five brown joints, following two other white ones. Palpi silvery, shaded with fuscous along their uter sides and before the extreme apex which is white. Head bronzy brown; face steel-white. Thorax dark bronzy brown, without lines. Forewings dark bronzy brown, a yellow fascia commencing at the middle of the wing, of which the inner edge is almost straight, margined by confluent pale golden metallic spots, against the upper one of which is a black dot; at the outer edge of the fascia are two similar pale golden metallic spots, perpendicularly placed, one above the other, and of about equal size, the yellow edge of the fascia projecting between them, but not reaching beyond them, a slender silvery streak running to the apex from the yellow projection; there is no conspicuous white streak in the cilia above the outer golden costal spot, but two or three white hair- scales are visible; on the dark basal half of the wing the usual silvery strigulae are arranged as follows, one from the base below the costa, slightly depressed at its outer end, and terminating below the com- mencement of a similar, but much shorter, subcostal streak, running nearly to the metallic edge of the fascia ; from about the base of the fold another slender streak reaches a little further than the one above it, and below the fold is a shorter streak extending even further than the last, but not produced toward the base; cilia bronzy brownish. Hap. al. 8 mm. Hindwings and cilia bronzy brownish, slightly paler than the forewings. Abdomen shining, bronzy brown. Legs brownish fuscous, with white spots above the bases of the partly white spurs; hind tarsi white. Type 2 (65996) Mus. Wlsm, (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab. Mexico: tasasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith), Unique. Much resembling attenuatella Wkr., but the projection from the yellow band is not nearer to the costa than to the dorsum and there are no strigulae on head or thorax. 6 HETEROCERA. 4. Cosmopteryx xanthura, sp. n. Antennae whitish beneath, barred with black above, the bars connected by a slender black line to two-thirds ; broadly banded with white at two-thirds, then again equally widely ‘banded with black, the three or four terminal joints again white. Palpi very slender, terminal joint twice median ; white, with slender length-lines on either side. Head brownish fuscous, iridescent on the crown; face shining, yellowish white. Thorax dark brownish fuscous, a slender steely metallic line dividing it posteriorly. Forewings dark brownish fuscous to their middle, a slender shining steel-grey line along the costa from the base, with three similar shorter lines below it, removed from the base; at about the wing-middle are two spots of pale golden raised scales, almost connected and forming an outwardly oblique fascia from costa to dorsum, there is a black dot on the outer edge of the costal spot; these spots encroach upon a broad bright ochreous yellow band, which sends a slender curved streak of the same colour to the apex and through the apical cilia, bounded on either side by dark brownish fuscous, but more widely and con- spicuously above than heneath ; before the brown colouring is another pair of raised golden spots, placed obliquely in reverse direction from the previous pair, a few light ochreous scales succeeding the upper one in the costal cilia ; cilia shining, brownish grey. yp. al. 8-85 mm. Hindwings blue-grey at the base, becoming brownish grey toward the apex; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen brownish fuscous, illuminated at the side with steel-grey ; underside silvery white. Legs brownish fuscous, with silvery white bands around the base of the spurs, the tibiae between them being bristly with black hairs above; spurs and ends of hind tarsi silvery white. Type & (65987) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT7. (65988) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: taspasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Four specimens. Undistinguishable from sanctivincenti Wlsm., except in the white end to the antennae and the broad white band before the subterminal dark band. 5. Cosmopteryx diaphora, sp. n. Antennae brown above, whitish beneath, with about four pale straw terminal joints, these preceded by three brown joints, after one brown, between two pale straw. Palpi pale straw, with a slender fuscous line along either side. Head and Thorax brownish fuscous, with a slender white central streak, but no lateral streaks. Forewings brownish fuscous as far as the middle, thence broadly banded with pale straw-yellow, the inuer edge of the band running obliquely outward from costa to dorsum, margined by two golden metallic spots, one below the costa accompanied by a black dot, the other beyond it resting on the dorsum; scarcely beyond the middle of the band are two similar, but opposite, pale golden metallic spots, one at the costa, with a few scales running outward from it through the cilia, the other on the dorsum; on the dark basal half of the wing the usual silvery white strigulae are present, the first slightly bent downward at its apex, the second and third parallel to each other, but not quite reaching the pale band, the lower one being rather more than half the length of the median; beyond the yellow band the only repetition of the brownish fuscous colour is found in a rather broad apical streak, bounded on its lower edge by a silvery white line running with it to the extreme apex of the cilia; the costal cilia above it are tipped with yellowish, those below the silver line also yellowish, shading to brownish grev along the dorsum. Exp. al. 75-85 mm. Hindwings pale grey; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen brownish. Legs brownish grey, with yellowish white spurs; median pair with a yellowish white tuft at their base; hind tarsi faintly banded with yellowish white. Type 3 (65994) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT (65995) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (7. H. Smith). Two specimens. Allied to the somewhat larger coryphaea Wlsm., from ‘Tenerife, but differing in the oblique anterior margin of the pale band, and in the length and direction of the basal strigulae. | ERITARBES.—STILBOSIS. 7 ERITARBES, gen, n. (€prrapGijs = very timid.) Type: Eritarbes otiosa Wlsm. (Tab. I. fig. 11.) 2 440 J. H. Durrant, del. . . 3. Eritarbes otiosa Wism. Co. Antennae (—1), slightly serrate; basal joint with single pecten. Labial Palpi recurved, divergent, reaching the length of the head beyond it; both joints somewhat thickened with smoothly appressed scales. Maxillary Palpi minute, Haustellum moderate. Ocelli present. Head and Thora smooth. Porewings elongate-lanceolate, without tufts of raised scales: neuration 12 veins ; 7 and 8 stalked, to costa; 6 out, of 7 beyond 8; 5 out of stalk of (6+7+8); 9 connate with stalk of 8-5, rest separate; 1 basally furcate. Hindwings (~4), linear-lanceolate, cilia 5-8: neuration 8 veins; 6 and 7 stalked, rest separate, 4 closely approximate to 5. Abdomen moderate. Legs, hind tibiae rough-haired above. This genus agrees in neuration with the description of the Australian Haplochrots Meyr. { Pr. Lin, Soc. NSW. 22 310 (1898)], but the different palpi and narrower hind- wings easily separate Hritarbes from Meyrick’s genus, which would appear to contain two forms differing in the origin of vein 5 in the forewings, 1, Eritarbes otiosa, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 11.) Antennae smoky fuscous, becoming silvery white on their terminal fourth. Palpi bronzy fuscous on their inner sides, blackish externally. Heud bronzy fuscous. Z'horax dark smoky fuscous, with a brownish tinge posteriorly. orewings dark olivaceous brownish, much suffused with smoky fuscous, especially along the costa and at the apex, including the apical cilia, the only indication of any marking being a minute blackish dot in the fold beyond its middle; dorsal cilia dark smoky grey. Hwp. al. 8-85 mm. Hindwings brongy fuscous; cilia dark smoky grey. Abdomen dull smoky fuscous. Legs smoky fuscous, with a pale bronzy tinge on their inner sides. Type 3 (66026) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PTT. (66029, 66031, 66033) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: Tapasco: Teapa, III. (4. H. Smith). Nine specimens, STILBOSIS Clms. Type: Stilbosis tesquella Clms. (Clms. 1860). StinBosis Clms, Pr. Ac. Nat-Sc. Phil. 12 170 (1860) : Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. 129-30 (1872) ; Dyar Bull. US, Nat. Mus. 52 539 sp. 6127 (1902). 8 HETEROCERA. 1. Stilbosis tesquella, Clms. =ttesquatella Chmb. ; =quinquecristatella Chmb.’ Stilbosis tesquella Clms. Pr. Ac. Nat-Sc. Phil. 12 170 (1860) *: Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. pp. xii, 37, 40, 129-80 (1872)*. Stilbosis tesquatella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 162 (1878) °. Laverna? quinquecristatella Chmb. Jr. Cin. Soc. NH. 3 293 (1881) *. Stélbosis tesquella Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 10 197 (1882) *; Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 539 sp. 6127 (1902) °; Busck Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 5 181, 202 (1903) *. Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States!’—AruaNTIC STATES 6__M ASSACHUSETTS ¢ : Amherst 4—PENNSYLVANIA2—Bistrict or CotumBia?: Washington, © Amphicarpoea monoica, VII, excl. VIII.7 Central America—MExico: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (A. Hl. Smith). 2. Stilbosis incincta, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 9.) | Antennae 2; whitish, barred with dark brownish fuscous above throughout. Palpi dependent, curved outward, median and terminal joints of about equal length; whitish, shaded with brownish fuscous beneath, a ring of the same at the apex of the median joint, and another before the apex of the terminal. Head steel-whitish above; face silvery-white. Thoraw dark brownish fuscous in front, posteriorly silvery. Forewings dark brownish fuscous, the dorsal space below the fold somewhat silvery ; a cunei- -form bright yellow-ochreous streak along the termen occupies half the wing-width, and is preceded by an upright, silvery, raised dorsal streak, pointing to a spot of the same colour on the costa; in the yellow space, a little beyond the first, is a round jet-black dot; the costal portion beyond the silver spot is of the dark ground-colour, containing three slender inverted silvery white streaks, the outer one passing through the cilia scarcely above the apex; cilia silvery grey. Ewp.al.6 mm. Hindwings shining, very pale grey; cilia rosy grey. Abdomen brownish fuscous, with paler anal tuft. Legs dark brownish fuscous externally, whitish on their inner sides ; the hind tibiae with whitish hairs above, the spurs white ; the hind tarsi with three white annulations. Type 3 (65542) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab. Mexico: TaBasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Unique. 3. Stilbosis juvenis, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 10.) Antennae blackish, with pale fawn-ochreous annulations. Palpt pale steely grey, suffused with blackish toward the apex, but not at the extreme tip. Head and Thorax bronzy blackish. Forewings bronzy blackish, with a large pale fawn-ochreous dorsal patch crossing the fold, and attenuated at its outer and upper extremity in a ridge of raised scales of the same colour, reaching nearly to the middle of the costa, a little beyond which, on the dorsum, is a smaller patch of which the outer half is dark fuscous; the dark space beyond these is somewhat broken by pale fawn-vchreous, of which there is a more distinct band crossing the wing before the apical area, and containing a few raised scales, mixed with fuscous in its lower half ; the terminal area is wholly bronzy blackish, with a few raised scales along the base of the almost equally darkened cilia; another strong patch of raised blackish scales precedes the first pale ochreous space, at about one-fourth from the base. Exp. al. 12 mm. Hindwings bronzy brownish grey ; cilia brownish ochreous. Abdomen bronzy brownish, tinged with ochreous. Legs alternately banded with bronzy blackish and pale ochreous. Type 2 (66024) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Amiula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Unique. STILBOSIS.—HOMALEDRA. 9 This has much the appearance of Waishia amorphella Clms., from which it differs in neuration and in the distribution of the dark and pale colour-patches, which are however so similar in general tone as to remind one very strongly of that species. 4. Stilbosis amphibola, sp. n. Antennae, basal joint with single pecten; bronzy brownish, with pale bars above. Palpi bronzy brownish, slightly speckled on their outer sides, except towards the apex. Head and Thorax bronzy brownish, the latter becoming paler, or more steely grey, posteriorly. Forewings bronzy brownish, with a slight purplish tinge, a few upstanding scales on the fold at one-sixth; a straight, transverse, bar of raised scales at the tornus ; a few of the darker scales at the base of the cilia, around the apex, are also slightly raised ; the space below the fold from base to middle is almost entirely shining steely whitish ; cilia bronzy grey, with shining steely white tips to some of the shorter scales around the apex. LHwxp. al. 115 mm. Hindwings steely grey; cilia rather brownish grey. Abdomen bronzy, slightly mottled with paler shining scales. Legs bronzy brownish, the tarsi pale spotted; the rather hairy tibiae with steely whitish scales above each pair of spurs. Lype 3 (66022) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT. (66023) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: euERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens. This species has much the appearance of Walshia amorphella Clms., it differs how- ever, not only in neuration, but also in the pattern of its colouring, the pale dorsal space not extending, as in that species, above and beyond the fold, but rather more in the direction of the base ; it differs in the same way from Stildosis juvenis Wlsm., which was at first thought to be Walshia amorphella. HOMALEDRA Busck. Type: Homaledra heptathalama Busck (Busck 1900). Homatepra Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 23 286-8 Pf. 1-10-11 (1900); Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 543 sp. 6169-6169'1 (1902). 1. Homaledra knabi, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 8.) Antennae fawn-ochreous. Palpi pale fawn-ochreous, whitish on their inner sides; the tuft at the end of the median projecting to the length of the short, suberect, terminal joint, which has two fuscous annulations. Head and Thoragz pale fawn-ochreous. Forewings pale fawn-ochreous, minutely dusted with fuscous, more thickly along the dorsum, where it forms a connected, narrow, speckled shade-band from flexus to tornus ; a small fuscous spot lies at about the middle of the fold, and another at the end of the cell below the middle; cilia pale fawn-ochreous. xp. al. 24 mm. Hindwings rather shining, pale bone-greyish ; cilia pale fawn-ochreous. Abdomen and Legs pale fawn-ochreous, the former slightly tinged with fuscous across the middle. Type 2 (5972 Wism. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. Hab. Muxico: vERA cruz: Cordova, V. 1908 (F. Knab). Unique. BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. 1V., December 1909. ce 10 HETEROCERA. HOMOEOPREPES, gen. n. (Gpotomper is = of-like-appearance-with.) Type: Homoeoprepes trochiloides Wlsm. 42 ZS : vj J. H. Durrant, del. 4. Homoeoprepes trochiloides Wism. . Antennae (broken—? nearly as long as the wing) basal joint without pecten. Labial Paipi long, recurved ; median joint somewhat thickened, slightly roughened in front; terminal joint much shorter than median, attenuate. Maxillary Palpi obsolete (or broken’). Haustellum moderate. Head smooth (denuded). Thorax smooth. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, costa slightly depressed in the middle, apex depressed, bluntly pointed ; termen very oblique, corresponding with the contour of the apical depression of the costa; with raised scales: newration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, to costa; 3 and 4 stalked, 2 connate with (3+4); rest separate ; 1° furcate, 1* separate, but almost anastomosed with 1°° for greater part of its length, diverging basally and distally. Hindwings (—1) obtusely lanceolate, cilia 1: neuration 8 veins; 5 and 6 stalked, 7 separate ; 2— (5+6) separate, remote. Abdomen moderate. Legs (broken). Closely allied to Lophoptilus Sircom (=Leucophryne Chmb.), and similar in appearance, but easily distinguished by the stalking of veins 8 and 4 of the forewings. - 1. Homoeoprepes trochiloides, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 13.) Antennae, Palpi, and Head pale ochreous. Thorax brownish. orewings iridescent purplish, or bluish, grey, smeared with dark ferruginous, which becomes rich chestnut-brown in some lights, especially towards the apex; this dark shading commences at the base of the costa, where it forms an elongate patch of diffused scaling, scarcely separated from a large median blotch commencing near the middle of the base, following the cell almost to its outer extremity and diffused upward to the costa and downward into the middle of the fold; a patch of partly raised chestnut scales lies on the cell at one-third from the base; a few similar scales are in the fold somewhat beyond it, and, at the outer extremity of the cell is a strong patch of raised dull golden scales, mixed with fuscous, whence a rich chestnut streak is produced to the apex, somewhat dilated upward to the costa above it; cilia cupreous. Ewp.al.25 mm. Hindwings and cilia pale cupreous. Abdomen brownish cupreous (somewhat denuded). Legs (broken). Type & (66037) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab. Costa Rica: Volcan de Irazu, 6000-7000 ft. (H. Rogers). Unique. The specimen is unfortunately in very poor condition, but it is of so remarkable a form that it seems desirable to indicate its presence as a feature of the Central- American fauna. | SYNALLAGMA.—PAMMECES, ll SYNALLAGMA Busck. Type: Synallagma busckiella Engel (Busck 1907). Synattaema Busck Ent. News 18 277 (1907). The Zoological Record (1907 Ind. Gn. 13) wrongly attributes this genus to Engel, despite Mr. Engel’s statement (Ent. News 18 276) that “the diagnosis of the new genus Synallagma was prepared by Mr. Busck”! 1. Synallagma busckellum Engel. (Tab. I. fig. 4.) Synallayma busckiella Engel Eut. News 18 278 (1907) '. Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States '—Prnnsyivanta!: Pittsburgh, VI-IX'; Oak Station’. Central America—Mexico: cuzrrERo: Amula 6000 ft., VIII. (LZ. LH. Smith). A single specimen (65997), in poor condition, undoubtedly belongs to the genus Synatiagma Busck, but the markings are much obliterated and it cannot be identified as busckellum with absolute certainty ; it shows no character by which it can be separated from the Pittsburgh specimen (33604) figured. PAMMECES Z. Type: Pammeces albivittella Z. (Z. 1863). Pamoecss Z. Stett. Ent. Ztg. 24 152-3 Pf. 2-11-11 (1863). Antennae longer than forewings, simple; basal joint elongate, with pecten. Labial Palpi long, slender, recurved ; terminal joint acute, longer than median; median joint, distally, with long hairs above and beneath. Maaillary Palpi minute. Haustellum moderate. Ocelli absent. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings narrow, elongate-hastate, slightly sinuate beneath apex: neuration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, to costa; rest separate; cell very long, 4 from its tornus; media from below 6; 1% basally furcate, strongly angulate dorsally at the postflexal impression; 1¢ present. Hindwings narrow, lanceolate, cilia 2-3: neuration 8 veins; 5 and 6 stalked, 7 separate; rest separate, cell very long. Abdomen moderate. Legs rather long; hind tibiae with long hairs above. This genus belongs to the group of Lophoptilus Sircom, and Batrachedra Stn., having 5 and 6 of the hindwings stalked; it is most nearly allied to Zaratha Wkr., which however has smooth palpi, and lacks the antennal pecten. [The above description is taken from Pammeces -problema Wlsm. (68986-8, Colombia) which is congeneric with the unique type of albivittella Z. (Venezuela). | 1. Pammeces phlogophora, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 7.) Antennae somewhat longer than the forewings, biserrate towards the apex, basal joint enlarged, with slight pecten beneath ; pale fawn, basal joint smeared above with reddish orange. Palpi recurved, slender, terminal joint longer than median which is clothed with a long, somewhat triangular, projecting tutt beneath ; very pale fawn, with a black spot before the apex of the terminal joint. Head reddish orange above, face pale fawn. Thorax pale fawn, anteriorly spotted with reddish orange; tegulae yellow. Forewings bright canary-yellow, the costa pale shining fawn-colour throughout, the middle of the dorsum and a small tuft near its base purplish fuscous ; around the yellow central portion of the wing a ce 2 12 HETEROCERA. margin of bright reddish orange encloses the cell, and is produced at its upper angle in a narrow streak to the apex where it is reduplicated in the costal cilia; a dash of shining rosy pink terminating in a shining purple grey streak, above which is a black spot, precedes and accompanies the termen beneath the apex; there is also a small black spot at the extreme apex; costal cilia yellowish, terminal cilia pale fawn, with a rosy lustre along their base. Ewp.al.14mm. Hindwings shining, semitransparent, pale steel-grey, thickened on their outer half by dark grey lustrous scales beneath; cilia palefawn. Abdomen fawn. Legs pale fawn, the hind tibiae with long pale fawn hairs above. Type 3 (65540) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab. PANAMA: CHIRIQUI: Bugaba, 800-1500 ft. (G. C. Champion). Two specimens. ZLARATHA Wkr. Type: Zaratha pterodactylella Wkr. (Wkr. 1864). ZaratHa Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 789-90 no. 78 (1864); F. & R. Reise Nov. Zool. Lp. 2 expl. Pf. 140-18, 26 (1875). Antennae longer than the forewings, serrate; basal joint elongate and narrow at the base, without pecten. Labial Pulpi long, recurved, rising high above the head, smooth; terminal joint acute, longer than the median. Mawillary Palpi small, but distinct, bent. Haustellum well-developed. Ocelli absent. Head and Z'horax smooth. Forewings very long and narrow, apex depressed, acuminate: neuration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, to costa; rest separate; cell long, 3 from its tornus; media from 6; 1” straight, 1° basally subobsolete ; 1° present. Hindwings 1, tapering outwardly to an acute apex; cilia 2: neura- tion 8 veins; 5 and 6 stalked, 7 separate ; rest separate, discoidal obsolete between 4 and stalk of (6+6) which is continued to base as media. Abdomen very long and slender. Legs rather long; hind tibiae hairy above. Allied to Pammeces Z., but differing in the absence of the antennal pecten, in the smooth palpi, in vein 8 of forewings originating at angle, and in the open cell in the hindwings. 1. Zaratha pterodactylella Wkr. n. syn.=niveiventris F. & R. | Zaratha pterodactylella Wkr. Cat. Lep. BM. 29 790 sp. 1 (1864) *. Zaratha ? niveiventris F. & R.. Reise Nov. Zool. Lp. 2 Pf. 140° 26 (1875) °*. Antennae dark bronzy fuscous above, except towards the apex, where about ten or twelve joints are white and serrate, the tip again becoming fuscous; ochreous beneath. Palpi pale ochreous; terminal joint longer than median, fuscous along its under side. Mazillary Palpi silvery white. Mead purplish above; face silvery white. Thorax bronzy fuscous; white beneath. forewings shining yellowish ochreous, shaded along the dorsum with dark bronzy brown, of which an elongate patch, a little beyond the middle, is rather darker than the remainder of the dorsal shade, this darker colouring extending obliquely backward and nearly reaching the costa before the middle ; from the base runs a narrow dark steel-grey streak to the end of the cell, terminated by a dark brownish fuscous transverse spot, a shining pale’ steel-grey streak running along the margin to the apex from its upper angle, ashorter one reaching the termen from its lower angle; costal cilia shining, pale ochreous ; dorsal and terminal cilia bronzy brownish fuscous. Exp. al. 14-16 mm. Hindwings shining, dark bronzy brown; cilia dark brownish fuscous. Abdomen dark brownish fuscous; white beneath. Legs, posterior pair dark brownish fuscous above, white beneath ; the tibiae hairy, with projecting ochreous scales above the second pair of spurs, these and the terminal three joints of the tarsi silvery white. Nt. 2 (66010, Bugaba) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—Mexico: VERA cRUZ: Atoyac (Schumann) ; ZARATHA.—LOPHOPTILUS. . 13 Cordova, I. 1908 (# Knab): tTapasco: Teapa, IIT. (A. 2H. Smith)—GuateMaLa: San Isidro, 1600 ft. (G. C. Champion); Volcan de Atitlan, 2500-3500 ft. (G. C. Champion) ; Las Mercedes, 3000 ft. (G. C. Champion)—PanaMa: cHIRIQUI: Bugaba, 800-1500 ft. (G. C. Champion); Volcan de Chiriqui, 2000-3000 ft. (@. C. Champion). South America— JOLOMBIA*: Bogota (Lindig)’—Braziu': aMazons': Ega (Bates)!; Santarem, X. 1884 (J. H. Leech): eserriru santo: 1872 (Schmidt): parana: Castro, 1896 (E. D. Jones). The series exhibits some variation, in some specimens the costa is darkened towards the base, a small ochreous triangular costal spot, at about one-third, sometimes being conspicuous. 2. Zaratha macrocera F. & R. Zaratha ? macrocera F. & R. Reise Nov. Zool. Lp. 2 Pf. 140°18 (1875) '. Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—Panama: cHiriqur: Bugaba, 800-1500 ft. (G. C. Champion). South America—CotomBia: Minca, 2000 ft., VI. 1889 (7. H. Smith) ——Braziu’: amazons ': (Bates) '—Purv, E.: Rio Perene (Rosenberg). LOPHOPTILUS Sircom. =CypuopHora HS.; =Psacapnora HS.; =Leucoparyne Chmb. Type 1: Tinea miscella S-D. (Sircom 1848). Lopuoptius Sircom Zool. 6 2037 (1848). 1 (Type) miscella S-D. (=staintoni Sircom). Stn. NH. Tin. 11 142-3 (1870) ; Wism. & Drnt. Ent. Mo. Mag. 45 155-6 (1909). Type 2: Elachista idaei Z. (HS. 1853). CypHopnora HS. SB. Schm. Eur. 5 12, 46 no. 77 Pf. 13° 7-9 (1853), 211 sp. 597 (1854); Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 416 no. 480 sp. 632, Tbl. 8, 53 (1876); Rtti-Splr. Lp-Fn. Baden 257 (1898) ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 186 no. 395 sp. 3569 (1901). Type 3: Tinea schrankella Hb. (HS. 1853). Psacapuora HS. SB. Schm. Eur. 5 13, 48-9 no. 86 Pf. 18° 22-4 (1853). 1 (Type) schrankella Hb. (=*linneella HS. Pf. 13°22; =Jlocupletella HS. Pf. 18° 24). 2 linneella L., HS. Pf. 13° 23. HS. SB. Schm. Eur. 5 215-6 no. 86 sp. 616-20 (1854) ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 188 no. 404 - sp. 8598-9 (1901). Type 4: Laverna grandisella Chmb. (Chmb. 1875). LreucopHryne Chmb. Can. Ent. 7 210-11 (1875). 1 (Type) grandisella Chmb. (=¢ricristatella Chmb.). Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 152 (1878): Jr. Cin. Soc, NH. 2 196, 499, tf. 203°39 (1880) ; Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 543 sp. 6171 (1902). Lophoptilus will include species hitherto referred to Laverna Crt. (=*Mompha HS.), 14 HETEROCERA. but differing in having 5 and 6 of the hindwings stalked, 2-4, and 7, separate (Laverna has 2~7 separate), and the basal joint of the antenna without pecten. Both genera have 7 and 8 stalked in the forewings, 7 to costa, rest separate. 1. Lophoptilus eloisellus Clms. (=magnatella Z. ; =lyonetiella Chmb.*; =oenotheraeella Chmb.*)”. . Laverna eloisella Clms. Pr. Ac. Nat-Se. Phil. 12 171 (1860)*; Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. pp. xiii, 131-2 (1872) *. Phyllocnistis magnatella Z. Verh. ZB. Ges. Wien 23 : 1873 Abh. 315-6 sp. 2° Pf. 4°43 (1873)*. Laverna lyonetiella Chmb. Can. Ent. 7 30,51 (1875) *. Laverna oenotherae- ella Chmb. Can. Ent. 7 30-2 (1875) °. Laverna magnatella Chmb. Can. Ent. 9 73-4 (1877) °. Laverna eloisella Chmb. Can. Ent. 9 74 (1877). Laverna eloisella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 151 (1878)*. Laverna? magnatella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 113, 152 (1878)°. Laverna ? eloisella W1sm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 10 195 (1882) °. Laverna oenotherella Hgn. & Frey Pap. 4 154 (1884)"; Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 106 sp. 5727 (1891) ™. Mompha eloisella Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 542 sp. 6157 (1902)"°. Laverna eloisella Busck Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 5 208 (1903) “. Mompha eloisella Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 30 731 (1906) *. | Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States‘“°“—Maine”: Orono, @ Oenothera “— MassacuusEtts*: Beverley, 8, VII. 1868 ®*—PrnnsyLvanta *—* *~4—MaryLanp: Plum. — mer’s Id., VII. 1903 (Busck); Hyattsville, VIII. 1906 (Busck)—Nortu Caro.ina (Morrison, 1884)—Missouri®*”: St. Louis, @ stems Oenothera missouriensis, VILI- IX ***—CoLoRADO: LARRIMER CO.: Loveland, VI-VIILI. 1891 (W. G. Smith )}—Orggaon ®: JOSEPHINE CO."°: Rogue River, 7. V. 1872 (Wism.) °“—Tuxas***: Bosque co. **?: 7.VI - 21.VI. 1876 (Belfrage): s, texas: Brownsville®. Central America—N.W. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (4. . Morrison). Hagen [Pap. 4 154 (1884)] wrote “ Laverna magnatella, Zell.-Chb. 2 locality? It is different from oenothertella.” This note really means that Laverna grandisella Chmb. (= *magnatella, Mus. Cambr.) is distinct from Laverna eloisella Clms. (=oenotherelia Chmb., Mus. Cambr.), for Busck [Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 27 767 (1904)] points out that “Chambers’ type of Laverna grandisella (erroneously labeled by himself, Laverna magnatella), is in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.” WALSHIA Clms. Type 1: Walshia amorphella Clms. (Clms. 1864). Waxsuia Clms. Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. 2 418-9 (1864): Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am, 240-1 (1872); Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 544 sp. 6179 (1902); Wlsm. & Drnt. Ent. Mo. Mag. 45 156-7 (1909). Type 2: Elachista rhamniella Z. (Hnmn. 1876), *Moupua (nec Hb.) Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 422 no. 484 sp. 643, Tbl. 8, 54 (1876) ; Rtti- Splr. Lp-Fn. Baden 256 sp. 636 (1898). ‘ WALSHIA.—LAVERNA., 15 1. Walshia calcarata, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 15.) Antennae brownish, the last eleven or twelve joints pure white. Palpi with the median joint enlarged by projecting scales above, and more especially beneath, giving it a triangular form; terminal joint stout, somewhat clothed beneath nearly to the apex; white, dusted with brown, except at the extremity of each joint. Head white. Thorax greyish fuscous above, whitish behind; tegulae whitish. Forewings brown and whitish, mixed in about equal proportions, with a lilac gloss about the paler parts, especially below the fold; a stout, square-ended, tuft of brownish ochreous raised scales below the fold at one- third of its length, a ridge of raised scales of the same colour, but delicately striated with brown, crosses the middle of the wing from costa to dorsum; another raised patch, somewhat tinged with fuscous, occurring at the end of the cell, is succeeded by a pale transverse band with lilac reflections, the central fascia being also preceded and followed by the same whitish ground-colour ; three fuscous dots occur at the base of the brownish ochreous cilia below the apex, the tornal cilia tending to greyish. xp. al. 13mm. Hindwings cinereous, dusted with pale brownish ; cilia cinereous, tinged with ochreous towards the apex. Abdomen (missing). Legs brownish, the hind tibiae obliquely banded with white at the base of the first pair of spurs; second pair of spurs densely clothed with a triangular tuft of white scales above ; tarsi slightly annulate with white. Type 3 (65539) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab. Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Unique. The clothing of the spurs of the hind tibiae distinguishes calcarella from amorphella Clms., and detracta Wlsm. 2. Walshia detracta, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 14.) Antennae cinereous, annulate with brownish fuscous; the elongate basal joint fuscous above, pale beneath. Palpt recurved to the vertex, somewhat coarsely clothed nearly to the apex, terminal joint longer than median ; pale cinereous, shaded externally with fuscous nearly to the end of the median joint and above the middle of the terminal joint. Head greyish fuscous above, face steel-whitish. Zhorawx dark greyish fuscous. Forewings dark grevish fuscous to the end of the basal third, with a large concurrent pattern of raised scales, tinged with chestnut-brown beyond the base, especially about the middle of the costa and at the apex, with numerous tufts of raised scales distributed nearly to the apex; cilia brownish cinereous, greyish fuscous at the extreme apex. Hvp.al.15 mm. MHindwings greyish brown; cilia 6, brownish cinereous. Legs greyish fuscous, with whitish bands at the base of each pair of spurs. Type Q (65538) Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab. Mexico: GuERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (1. H. Smith). Unique. LAVERNA Crt. =+ Larvwa Chmwb., laps. cal.; =*Moupna (Hb.) HS., nec Stph.; = Witsonia Clms. Type 1: Laverna ochraceella Crt. (Crt. 1839). Laverna Crt. Br. Ent. 16 expl. Pl.'735 (1839) ; Stn. List Br. An. BM. XVI. Lp. 3 137-9 (1854) : Ins. Br. Lp-Tin. 225, 235-40 Pf. '7- 8° (1854); Frey Tin-Pter. Schweiz 276-83 (1856): Lin. Ent. 14 180-205 (1860); Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 30 882-5 (1864); Stn. NH. Tin. 11 126-49 Pl. 4-6 (1870) ; Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 319 sp. 2569-88 (1871) ; Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. 130-1 (1872); [t£Zarvwa Chmb. Can. Ent. 5 229 (1873): 6 49, 73 (1874)]; Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 416-20, Tbl. 8, 53-4 (1876); Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 18 420-7 (1877) ; Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4151-2 (1878); Snln. Vlind. Ned. Micr. 422, 852-60 Pf. 12 - 419-22 (1882) ; Wism. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891 117-8 Pf. 5-6:54-5 (1891); Riley, Smith’s List Lp. 16 _ HETEROCERA. Bor-Am. 106 sp. 5719-38 (1891) ; Rtti-Splr. Lp-Fn. Baden 256-7 (1898) ; eée.; Wism. & Drnt. Ent. Mo. Mag. 45 173-4 (1909). Type 2: Tinea conturbatella Hb. (HS. 1853). Mompua (Hb.) HS. SB. Schm. Eur. 5 12, 46 no. 75 Pf. 18°4-6 (1853), 208-10 sp. 586-93 (1854) ; Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 640, 678-82 tf. 679 (1895); Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 186-7 sp. 3576-91 (1901) ; Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 541-3 sp. 6148-68 (1902). Type 3: Wilsonia brevivittella Clms. (Clms. 1864). , Witsonra Clms. Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. 2 428-9 (1864) : Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. 253-4 (1872) ; Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 166 (1878) ; Busck Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 5 218 (1908). Laverna Crt. is here used for species with Hindwings 8 veins, all separate: Fore- wings 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, rest separate: Antennae, basicerite with well-developed pecten. 1. Laverna farinacea, sp. n. Antennae mealy grey, annulate with fuscous. Palpi mealy grey, the median joint somewhat expanded at the apex; terminal joint about as long as the median, with three fuscous annulations. Head and Thorax mealy greyish; face whiter. forewings mealy grey, with transverse reddish cupreous bands in which are some slightly raised black scales ; the first band, commencing close to the base of the costa, has its” inner edge marked by black scales, and runs obliquely outward to the dorsum, its outer side dilated on the cell and ill-defined ; the second, parallel with it, terminates in a spot of raised scales on the dorsum, its outer side ill-defined and nearly coalescing with a small triangular costal patch of the same colour beyond the middle ; a third band, almost parallel with the termen, runs inward to the dorsum from: the costal cilia, and is interrupted by a minute black streak beyond the end of the cell; a dark line follows the margin around the apex and termen, giving an angular appearance to the wing, and two slender dark lines run through the mealy terminal cilia; the dorsal cilia inclining to cupreous. Exp. al. 9 mm. Hindwings and cilia pale greyish cupreous. Abdomen cinereous. Legs whitish cinereous, the tibiae and tarsi banded externally with blackish. Type 2 (66043) ; g (66042) Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT'T. (66044-5) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. Mexico: evEerRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Five specimens. 2. Laverna obsessa, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 16.) Antennae (2) simple ; fuscous. Palpi evenly recurved, slender ; pale cinereous, the terminal joint as long as the median, with a fuscous spot beneath, its apex also fuscous ; median joint fuscous externally nearly to its apex. Head bronzy fuscous. Z'horaa: bronzy fuscous anteriorly ; posteriorly pale brassy yellowish. Forewings narrow, elongate ; shining, brassy brownish, with a dark purplish grey patch on the costa, from the middle to the commencement of the cilia, containing at its lower edge a bright reddish cupreous spot in which are some slightly raised scales, a similar spot lying near the end of the fold below and before it; there is also a reddish cupreous patch, near the base of the costa, reaching to the fold and somewhat produced outward ; the apex and termen are much shaded with dark fuscous, an inverted pale brassy yellowish streak separating the apical from the costal shade and running to the dorsum at the outer end of the fold. Hap. al.9 mm. Hindwings and cilia pale bronzy fuscous. (missing). : Type 3 (66040) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Saiv. Coll.). Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VII. (H.-H. Smith). Unique. Abdomen and Legs LAVERNA. 17 3. Laverna pernota, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 17.) Antennae fuscous. Palpi recurved, the terminal joint longer than the median, densely but smoothly clothed, having thus a thickened appearance ; dark fawn-brown, with indistinct paler speckling. Head shining, purplish fuscous, covered with large flat scales. Thorax dark purplish fuscous, with a triangular whitish ochreous patch posteriorly. Horewings pale fawn-ochreous, with a small dark purplish fuscous shoulder- patch at the base of the costa; some dark fawn-brown speckling, especially on the outer half of the wing, tending to form dark shading along the margins, with an indication of marginal spots around the apex and termen, through confluence of the otherwise more scattered dark scales ; there is a black dot at the end of the cell, another in the fold beyond its middle, and the whole wing-surface in certain lights exhibits a pearly lilac lustre; cilia dark brownish; underside dark purplish fuscous, becoming brassy ochreous around the base of the cilia towards the apex. Ezxp.al.14mm. Hindwings narrow, acuminate ; shining, bronzy brown; cilia dark brown. Abdomen dark fawn-brown. Legs dark fawn- brown, paler on their inner sides. Type 2 (66041) Mus. Wl1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab. Mexico: GuERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Unique. 4, Laverna agonistes, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 12.) Antennae pale ochreous, narrowly annulate with fuscous; basal joint with short pecten. Palpi with the terminal and median joints of about equal length, the latter somewhat roughened by projecting scales ‘beneath towards its apex; terminal stout, but sharply acuminate; pale ochreous, with pale fuscous sprinkling externally. Head and Thoraa pale ochreous. Forewings narrow, elongate, with depressed acuminate apex ; pale ochreous, mottled with pale and dark olivaceous brown and a few black scales ; with three or four large tufts of raised pale ochreous scales lying along the line of the fold, and one between the fold and the dorsum near the base; the wing-pattern is so confused as to be scarcely capable of description, its prominent feature being a dark brown median shade above the fold, broken into outwardly angulate or oblique streaks beyond the middle, accompanied by two or three small dots of white scales on and beyond the outer half of the cell, while a few jet-black scales are placed along the upper edges of the two outer raised scale-tufts, as well as around the apex and termen and in the speckled whitish cinereous cilia; there is a patch of shining rosy pink at the end of the cell, another before it on the cell, and an elongate patch of the same along the middle of the costa; costal cilia shining pale ochreous, dorsal cilia iridescent greyish fuscous. Hep. al. 16 mm. Hindwings (—1) tapering, acute; iridescent bronzy brownish grey; cilia iridescent greyish fuscous. Abdomen ochreous, mixed with brownish grey, with pale shining steel-grey transverse bands; pale ochreous beneath. Legs greyish brown, indistinctly banded with whitish ochreous. Type 3 (66025) Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab. Guatemata: Totonicapam, 8500-10,500 ft. (G@. C. Champion). Unique. [Laverna gleditschiella Chmb. Laverna? (Anybia ?) gleditschiaeella Chmb. Can. Ent. 8 135-7 (1876)*. Laverna gleditschiaella Chmb. Can. Ent. 9 232-4 (1877)*; Mompha gleditschiaeella Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 542 sp. 6159 (1902) °. Hab. United States—Kunrucxy!%. Writing under the heading “ Insects feeding on Gleditschia” (Can. Ent. 9 231-5) Chambers remarked (J. c. 234) “I have been informed that thorns of various species of Acacia (in a large sense) in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, are perforated by insect borings similar to those of Laverna gleditschiaeella in the Honey Locust, but I BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. LV., December 1909. dd 18 HETEROCERA. have not been able to procure specimens of the insect architect. Prof. Sumichrast mentions similar borings in Acacias in Mexico (referred to in a volume of the American Naturalist—I write from recollection and cannot refer to the volume or page). These, however, like those of which Mr. Belt gives such an entertaining account in ‘ The Naturalist in Nicaragua,’ were tenanted by ants,” ete. | PERIMEDE Chmb. Type: Perimede errantella Chmb. (Chmb. 1874). Perimepe Chmb. Can. Ent. 6 51-2 (1874): 9 147 (1877): 11 9 (1879): Jr. Cin. Soc. NH. 2 196, 199, tf. 203+ 35 (1880). 1. Perimede catapasta, sp. n. Antennae brownish grey. Palpi slightly recurved, the median and terminal joints about equal in length and thickness, smooth; shining, brownish grey. Head shining, brownish grey. Thorax brownish grey. Forewings dull brownish grey, with a faint indication of a spot in the middle of the fold, a similar dark spot on the disc a little beyond it, and a third, scarcely visible, at the end of the cell; a small whitish costal spot before the apex is followed by a small black spot at the apex, where is also a dark shade-line running through the brownish cinereous cilia; underside with a blackish spot at the apex and one or two terminal dots. Exp.al.18 mm. Hindwings narrower than the forewings; dull pale stone-ochreous on their basal half, where they are sprinkled along the costa and across the middle with numerous elongate blackish scales, becoming brownish grey towards the apex; cilia pale brownish cinereous ; underside with a blackish spot at the apex, and one or two terminal dots. -Abdomen pale stone-ochreous at the base and about the anal segments, with a broad blackish band before the middle, and alternate brownish and pale cinereous bands behind it. Legs pale cinereous, the tibiae shaded with brownish grey externally, the tarsal joints banded with the same. Type 3 (66038) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PI. (66039) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: GuERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (HZ. H. Smith). Two specimens. Fam. 2. GELECHIADAE. SITOTROGA Hnmn. Type: Alucita cerealella Olvr. (Hnmn. 1870). Srrorroca Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 189, 287 no. 428 sp. 426 (1870), Tbl. 5, 41 (1876) ; Stn. Ent. Mo. Mag. 7 169 (1871); Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 569, 571 no. 2 (1895); Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25, 772, 781-2 Pf. 28° 3 (1903) ; Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. 29 257, 285-6 no.6 (1904). 1. Sitotroga cerealella Olvr. =hordei (Bkmn.) Kby.%®; =pyrophagella Kilr.2; =melanarthra Lwr.¥ Alucita cerealella Olvr. Enc. Méth. IV. (Ins. 1) 117, 121 no. 15 (1789)*. [Phalaena hordet Bkmn. Grund. Teutsch-Landswirths ed. 4, 589 (1790) ; (no. 9, 149 teste Prout) Sherborn Ind. An. 467] °. Tinea hordei Kby. Intr. Ent. 1 172-3 (1815) *. Butaks cerealella Crt. Jr. Roy. Agr. Soc. Engl. 7 84-9 (1846)*: Farm Ins. 310-15 (1860) °, Anacampsis (Butalis) cerealella Harris Treat. Ins. 392-402 (1852)°. Tinea pyrophagella Kilr. NG. Schad]. Ins. II. 383 Pf. 81+ 7-7¢ (1853) ". Tinea (Gelechia) pyrophagella Kllr. Verh. ZB. Ver. Wien 4 SB. 6-9 SITOTROGA.—CATALEXIS. 19 (1854) °. Gelechia cerealella Stn. List Br. An. BM. XVI. Lp. 3 83 no. 85 (1854) °. Sitotroga cerealella Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 287 no. 426 (1870) *°. Gelechia melanarthra Lwr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. 25 416-7 (1900). Sitotroga cerealella Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 157 sp. 2902 (1901); Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 496 sp. 5552 (1902) *: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 782 Pf. 28:3 (1903); Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. 29 286 sp. 50 (1904); Jr. Bomb. NH. Soc. 16 591 (1905) *°; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1907 928 sp. 22 (1908) *"; eéc. Hab. EUROPE 8&1?) ASTA (1), AUSTRALIA (1), AFRICA—CapsE CoLoNy: TRANSKEI: Umtala, 1890 (Ff. Barrett, 9401)—Masnonananp: Salisbury, 22-7. I. 1895 (&. Coryndon, 6225)—Canartizs “1°—Mapetras "72, AMERICA, N-C. North America “”-!, Central America—MExICO: VERA cRUZ: Cordova, XII. 1907 (Ff. Knab): currrero: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (4. H. Smith): puraneo: Ciudad, 8100 ft. (Forrer): oaxaca: Salina Cruz (W. Schaus)—@® stored grain, maize, wheat, rice, ete. CATALEXIS, gen. n. (xarddekts =a choosing.) Type: Catalexis tapinota Wlsm. (Tab. 1. fig. 18.) J. H. Durrant, del. 5. Catalexis tapinota Wlsm. 9. Antennae (—1), slightly serrate ; basal joint without’ pecten. Labial Palpi recurved, terminal joint shorter than median; median joint without brush-like scales beneath. Mawillury Palpi rudimentary. Haustellum present. Head and Thorax smooth. vrewings, costa straight, or slightly depressed beyond middle, apex obtusely depressed, termen oblique, dorsum nearly parallel with costa, but slightly narrowing towards base: neuration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa; 9 out of stalk of 74+ 8; 2-6 separate. Hindwings 1, costa straight, apex acuminate, scarcely depressed, termen very slightly sinuate, oblique, tornus pronounced, dorsum very slightly rounded, almost parallel with costa: neuration 8 veins; 5 cubital, 2-5 remote; 6 and 7 stalked. Abdomen normal. Legs smooth. Perhaps allied to Logisis Wlsm., but differing in the form of the palpi, and in the stalking of HW: 6-7. It differs from Brachmia Hb. in FW: 2-3 and HW: 3-4 being separate, not stalked; from Acanthophila Hnmn. in FW: 7-8 not being coincident; and from Stomopteryx Hnmn. in having FW: 9 out of stalk of 7+-8. dd 2 20 | HETEROCERA. 1. Catalexis tapinota, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 18.) Antennae silvery whitish, shaded with pale fawn-brown towards the base. Palpi whitish ochreous, whiter on their inner sides, unspotted. Head shining whitish ochreous, with some iridescent steely bluish scales above. Thorax steely grey, the tegulae ochreous. Forewings fawn-brownish, shaded with dark fuscous (almost black), a very narrow streak of this along the base of the costa to one-fifth, an elongate patch from the base of the dorsum below the fold, extending nearly to the dorsal cilia; above it a shorter cloud-like patch on the cell commencing before and extending a little beyond the middle of the wing; the whole apical fourth is overlaid with dark fuscous, the anterior margin of this dark patch lying almost parallel to the termen, but somewhat attenuated to the apex, a few fawn-brown scales in this patch opposite to the termen ; cilia pale brownish ochreous, shaded with fuscous about the tornus. Exp. al. 12mm. Hindwings dark fuscous, with some brownish ochreous scales intermixed along the costa and dorsum; cilia dark fuscous. Abdomen fawn-brownish, shaded with fuscous. Legs whitish ochreous, unspotted; anterior and median legs somewhat shaded above with fuscous. Type 2 (65877) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab, GuateMALA: VERA Paz: Panima (G. C. Champion). Unique. LOGISIS, gen. n. (Adytous = Treason.) Type: Logisis achroea Wlsm. (Tab. I. fig. 19.) J. H. Durrant, del. 6. Logists achroea Wlsm. 9. Antennae (?) %, simple, slightly dentate towards apex ; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi as long as the head and thorax, projecting; median joint straight, with long upstanding scales above, these higher towards the base, but combining with others at the apex, from the lower side, to form a projection beyond the base of the smooth, slender, upstanding terminal joint. Mawillary Palpi very short. Haustellum scaled. Head and Thorax smooth, with a metathoracic tuft on either side posteriorly. orewings slightly convex on their basal half, straightened beyond, the apex moderately depressed, termen oblique, not sinuate: neuration 12 veins; 9 out of stalk of 7 and 8, 7 to costa ; 2-6 separate, 2 remote from 3. Hindwings somewLat narrowed towards base, widening outwardly, trepezoidal ; costa straight, apex obtuse, termen subsinuate, thence rounded, dorsum receding ; with a strong tuft of hairs above at the base of vein 1*; cilia very long, almost as long as width ‘of wing towards base: newration 8 veins; 3 and 4 remote; 5 straight, approximate to 6; 6 aud 7 separate, but approximating; radius connected to subcosta by cross-vein. Abdomen long, smooth. Legs (hind legs missing, probably long). The genera Logisis and Catalewis have a peculiar form, and are perhaps charac- teristic of tropical America. Their true affinities in the absence of described con LOGISIS.—MEGACRASPEDUS. 21 necting forms is somewhat obscure, but, according to the scheme of neuration, relationship should be sought among the derivatives of Aristotelia Hb. 1. Logisis achroea, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 19.) Antennae pale ochreous. Palpi very pale ochreous, the median joint shaded with fawn-brown. Head and Thorax shining, pale ochreous. Forewings shining, very pale ochreous, somewhat shaded along the cell, on the fold, and along the dorsum with fawn-brown; a brown spot below the costa near the base, and a narrow brown costal shade at the extreme base; cilia pale ochreous. Exp. al. 40 mm. Hindwings shining, straw-grey ; cilia very pale ochreous. Abdomen fawn-brown, mixed with pale ochreous, Legs (missing). Type Q (65878) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab. Costa Rica: Volcan de Irazu, 6000-7000 ft. (H. Rogers). Unique. — The specimen is in poor condition, but representing a distinct and remarkable form has been thought worthy of description. MEGACRASPEDUS Z. =Avutonepa Busck (=§ Nzpa Chmb.). Type 1: Ypsolophus (Megacraspedus) dolosellus Z. (HS. 1853), Yersotoruus F.(C.) Mxeacrasrepus Z. Isis 382 189-90 sp. 15-16 (1839). Murcacraspepus HS. SB. Schm. Eur. 5 11, 43 no. 65 Pf. 12: 48-4 (1853), 157 sp. 392-6 (1854) ; Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 348-50 no. 451 sp. 580-4 (1874), Tbl. 1, 48 (1876) ; Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 303 no. 231 sp. 2165-73 (1871); Meyr. Tr. NZ. Inst. 18 162-3 (1886) ; Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891 109 Pf. 5°47 (1891): Ent. Rec. 9 140 (1897) ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 161 no. 3841 sp. 3001-11 (1901) ; Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. 39 266 (1903) ; Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soe. NSW, 29 257, 272-83 no. 4 sp. 26-46 (1904). Type 2: Neda plutella Chmb. (Chmb. 1874; Busck 1902). Avutonepa Busck.=§ Nepa Chmb. Can, Ent. 6 243-4 (1874) : Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 157 (1878): Jr. Cin. Soc. NH. 2 198 tf. 203° 20 (1880). Avronepa Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 496 sp. 5553 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 773, 782 Pf. 28-4 (1903). 1. Megacraspedus exilis, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 20.) Antennae dark bronzy brown. Palpt white, the posterior two-thirds of the long triangular tuft on median joint dark bronzy brown; underside of basal joint dark brown at apex. Head and median portion of Thorax white, the sides and tegulae dark brown. Forewings white, profusely irrorated with dark bronzy brown scaling, through which runs a longitudinal blackish median streak from base to apex, which, except for a slight step upward about the end of the cell, is very nearly straight throughout ; the brown dusting is much condensed along its upper edge on the basal half, and there is a small detached blackish subcostal spot at one-third from the base; the costa is very narrowly, and the dorsum narrowly, pure white ; cilia white, with a broken line of blackish scales along their base, and another before their middle, the black median streak running through them at the extreme apex. Exp. al.12 mm. Hindwings shining, very pale bluish grey, cilia pale ochreous, Abdomen and Legs brownish grey, the hairs on the upper sides of the tibiae whitish. Type 2 (65759) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.). Hab. Mexico: euerreRo: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (A. H. Smith). Unique. Exceedingly near plutella Chmb., but differing in its larger size, in the white thorax, and in the more pronounced detached costal spot. 22 HETEROCERA. ARISTOTELIA Hb. = Curysorora Clms. (=§ Nowra Clms.) ; = Nannopra Hnmn.; =§ Ezoarzs Humn. ;= Xysto pHora Hnmn-Wk. (= § Dozyrxora Hnmn.); = Monocnuroa Hnmn.; = § Laupzrores Hnomn.; = Evcatorrus Wlsm. Type 1: Tinea decurtella Hb. Pf. 45-311 (Hb. 1826). Axistorenia Hb. Verz. Schm. 424 sp. 4133 (1826) ; Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. 31 42 (1895) ; Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 569, 572-7 no. 4 sp. 1-21 tf. 572 (1895) ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 63-8 no. 10 sp. 21-32 (1897); Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 498-9 sp. 5575-91 (1902) : Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 773, 794-804 Pf. 29°11 (1903) : 27 755-7 (1904): 30 724-5 (1906): Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 11 87 (1909); Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. 29 257, 286-92 no. 7 sp. 51-60 (1904) : Jr. Bomb. NH. Soc. 17 138 (1906) : 18 437-9 (1908) : Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1908 724 (1908) : Ann. S-Afr. Mus. 5 869-70 (1909) ; Wlsm. Fn. Haw. 1 478-82, 744 no. 5 sp. 11-19 Pf. 18-17-25 (1907) : Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1907 9380-1 no. 14 sp. 25-6 (1908). Type 2: Nomia lingulacella Clms. (Clms. 1860). Curysorora Clms. = § Nomura Clms. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. 12 167-8 (1860): Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. 123-4 (1872). Curysopora Clms. (nn.) Pr. Ac. Nat. Se. Phil. 12 362 (1860): Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. 123, 158 (1872) ; Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. 31 42 (1895) ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 156 no. 319 sp. 2894-7 (1901) ; Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 497-8 sp. 5572-3 (1902) : Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 773, 792-3 Pf. 29-9 (1903) ; Wism. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1907 931-2 no. 15 sp. 27 Pf. 51: 7 (1908). In Chrysopora lingulacella Clms., as also in Nannodia stipella Hb. and hermannella F., vein HW: 6, though weak, is remote from 7 and parallel with the fold; the discoidal is traceable, and Meyrick was justified in referring the types of Mannodia Humn. to Aristotelia Hb. Type 3: Tinea stipella Hb. Nannop1a Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 190, 284-5 no. 426 sp. 423-4 (1870), Thl. 5, 41 no. 426 (1876); Stn. Ent. Mo. Mag. 7 168 (1871); Sunln. Vlind. Nederl. Micr. 432, 690-2 no. 53 sp. 1-2 Pf. 9° 286 (1882). Type 4: Oecophora brizella Tr. § Exearrs Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 190, 295-8 no. 482 sp. 486-41 (1870), Tbl. 5, 42 no. 432 (1876); Stn. Ent. Mo. Mag. 7 169-70 (1871); Snln. Vlind. Nederl. Micr. 431, 681-4 no. 50 sp. 1-3 Pf. 9° 289 (1882). Type 5: Anacampsis pulveratella HS. XystopHora Hnmn-Wk. = § Dorrrzora Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 190, 298-308 no. 4383 sp. 442-60 (1870): Stn. Ent. Mo. Mag. 7 170 (1871); Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 13 359-61 no. 19 (1877). XysropHora Hnmn-Wk. (nn.) Tbl. 6 no. 483, 42 no. 433 (1876) ; Snln. Viind. Nederl. Micr. 431-2, 684-8 no. 51 sp. 1-5 Pf. 9° 287, 12-404" (1882); Drnt. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1889 p. cexxiv (1889); Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. 31 42 (1895) 5 Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 152-3 no. 310 sp. 2786-2824 (1901). ARISTOTELIA. 93 Type 6: Tinea tenebrella Hb. (Hnmn. 1870). Monocuroa Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 190, 308-9 no. 434 sp. 461 (1870), Tbl. 6, 43 no. 434 (1876) ; Stn. Ent. Mo. Mag. 7 170 (1871). Type 7: Tinea atrella (Hb.?) Hw. § Lauprores Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 190, 309-11 no. 435 sp. 462-6 (1870), Tbl.6, 43 no 435 (1876) ; Stn. Mo. Mag. 7 170-1 (1871). Type 8: Eucatoptus penicillata Wilsm. (Wlsm. 1897). Evcatortus Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 69-71 no. 11 sp. 83-6 (1897); Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 794-5 (1903). 1. Aristotelia corallina, sp. n. Antennae blackish. Palpi with the median joint somewhat expanded outwardly ; cream-whitish, banded externally with a brownish shade ; terminal joint whitish, with two blackish bands. Head rosy cream- colour; Thorax the same, but with a stronger reddish tinge, the tegulae blackish. Forewzngs blackish, the dorsum rich rosy reddish, this colour diffused upward along the termen and over the terminal cilia through which runs a somewhat obscurely reduplicated dark shade-line ; terminal cilia blackish, preceded by three small rosy reddish costal spots. Ewp. al. 12 mm. Hindwings dark grey; cilia brownish cinereous. Abdomen brownish cinereous. Legs brownish cinereous, broadly banded with fuscous externally on each joint. Type 3 (65760) Mus, Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT (65762) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: Guerrero: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII-IX. (4. H. Smith). Three specimens. The rosy cream of the head, thorax, and dorsum, contrasted with the blackish forewings, renders this species somewhat conspicuous. 2. Aristotelia howardi, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 21.) Antennae blackish, with a series of elongate white spots along the upper side; basal joint reddish ochreous. Palpi (broken, the basal joint indicating that they were pale ochreous, or whitish, on their inner sides, and banded, or shaded, with brown, or blackish, externally). Head rosy ochreous. Thorax mottled with reddish brown and ochreous, with a grey median patch. Forewings milk-white, tinged with rosy pink along the costa, except at the base and along the dorsum beyond the middle; at the base is a tawny-red patch, wider on the dorsum than on the costa, narrowly darkened to black along its oblique outer margin; after an oblique fascia of the white ground-colour, which is produced outward along the dorsum, where it is tinged with bright ochreous, a rather oblique, mixed black and reddish grey streak descends from the costa at one-fourth, crossing the cell, and bent outward and upward at its lower extremity enclosing above it a patch of the ground-colour profusely stippled with pale rosy grey, bounded on its outer side by a darker, tawny reddish grey quadrangular costal spot, extending downward to an almost circular ochreous spot at the end of the cell ; the terminal area is thickly sprinkled with rust-brown, and contains some black spots, notably two on the costa before the apex, in strong contrast to the rosy pink by which they are separated and partially surrounded ; cilia whitish cinereous, with three pale greyish wavy shade-lines running through them; underside fuscous, with the middle of the costa narrowly touched with white, a rosy white streak running through the costal cilia. Hap. al. 13°5 mm. Hindwings shining, steel-grey, with a bright rosy iridescence ; cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen 24 HETEROCERA. grey. Legs whitish, the hind tibiae with three black bands externally, the tarsi with fuscous shade- _ bands, also chiefly on their outer sides. Type 3 (5841 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. Hab. Mexico: sonora: San José de Guaymas, 10. 1V. (Dr. LZ. O. Howard). Unique. A fine species of the group of roseosuffusella Clms., noticeable through the pure milk-white ground-colour, tinged in places with rosy pink and bright ochreous, and the sharply defined, entirely dark, basal patch, which distinguishes it from sqguamigera Wlsm., to which it is perhaps most nearly allied. 3. Aristotelia squamigera, sp. n. Antennae fuscous, with whitish annulations, more distinct on the anterior surface. recurved, terminal joint scarcely longer than the median, acuminate; rosy whitish, sprinkled with brownish fuscous, an ill-defined band of the darker colour at the base and another before the apex of the median joint; also two ill-defined bands before and beyond the middle of the terminal joint. Head and Thorax whitish grey, sprinkled with brownish fuscous; the latter with a few fawn-ochreous scales at the sides and behind. Forewings rosy white, profusely sprinkled with brownish fuscous ; an olivaceous brown patch at the base, much wider on the dorsum than on the costa, its outer edge oblique and somewhat clearly defined, its surface sprinkled, especially towards the base, with whitish scales; at about one- third a strong olivaceous brown costal patch, dilated obliquely outward and downward to the fold, is terminated at its outer extremity by a blackish spot; beyond the middle a triangular olive-brown costal patch is terminated by a line of blackish scales truncating its apex on the cell, where it is joined by a fawn-ochreous patch extending to the dorsum, but sprinkled about the end of the fold with olive-brown scaling ; a short blackish dash cuts the pale fascia beyond the end of the cell, the terminal area being sprinkled with olive-brown leading up to some blackish marginal spots at the base of the greyish ochreous cilia through which run two curved shade-lines enclosing the white apex; there is a small brownish ochreous streak below the fold adjoining the lower edge of the second dark patch; underside somewhat ochreous, profusely sprinkled along the middle with greyish fuscous scaling, not especially noticeable at the base. Exp, al. 10-12 mm. Hindwings rather shining brassy grey, the dorsal half profusely dusted with elongate greyish fuscous scales ; cilia ochreous, tinged with grey, very long on the costa in the 33 underside less ochreous than the forewings, and more profusely scaled with greyish fuscous beyond the base throughout. Abdomen greyish ochreous, much sprinkled with brownish fuscous ; with whitish lines along the margins of the segments beneath. Legs whitish, with strong fuscous sealing in transverse bands across the tibiae, and on the outer sides of the tarsi. . Type $ (65763) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PI'T. (65765, 65770) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab, Mexico: @uERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII-IX. (i. HH. Smith). Seven specimens. Palpi moderately smooth, Closely allied to roseosuffusella Clms., and agreeing fairly in the position of the white costal marks, which in both species extend with more or less suffusion across the wings, but sguamigera lacks the pale fawn colouring on the dorsum, and the strone rosy tint which usually accompanies this; moreover, the sprinkling of dark scales, on the otherwise pale underside of both wings, is not found in Clemens’ Species, and the very long costal cilia, commencing at the base of the hindwings, is very characteristic. 4, Aristotelia hieroglyphica, sp. n. Antennae minutely serrate towards the apex; brown, with white annulations, the basal joint with a white ring round its apex. Palpi dull brownish white, the median joint with two fawn-brown bars externally ; ce g q PHO MIA Ak wh SE woHKwwwwodspnwNNHNNW HNN D FH HB eH eS eH ee AE SRS SSRNSARRESYNASSHASAEHWNHES eo 7 HETEROCERA. TINEINA. PLATE I. LAVERNIDAE, GELECHIADAE. Page Cosmopterya irrubricata Wism. .. (Type ¢ 65991) ...... ... Atoyac, Mexico ............ 4 Cosmopterya ochleria Wism. — — — (Type d 65993) - -- -- - Teapa, Mexico - —--—----— 5 Cosmopterya astrapias Wism..... (Type 2 65996) .......-.--- Teapa, Mexico ............ 5 Synallagma busckellum Engel — — (Q 33604)- -----~-~--— Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania(US.) 11 Pseudastasia opulenta Wism. .... (Type 5 65998) ....-....+- Bugaba, Panama .......... 2 Embola dentifer Wism. - — — — — (Type ¢ 66004) ------ Cuernavaca, Mexico ~--- 4 Pammeces phlogophora Wlsm..... (Type g 65540) ........-... Bugaba, Panama .......... 11 Homaledra knabi Wism. — — — — (Type 2 5972: US. Nat. Mus.) Cordova, Mexico— - - —- — - 9 Stilbosis incincta Wism. ......-- (Type ¢ 65542) .........-- Teapa, Mexico ............ 8 Stilbosis juvenis Wism. — — — — - (Type 2 66024) ------ Amula, Mexico —- — — - — - 8 Eritarbes otiosa Wism........... (Type ¢ 66026) ........--.. Teapa, Mexico .........-.. 7 Laverna agonistes Wism. — — — - (Type ¢ 66025) ----—-- Totonicapam, Guatemala —- - 17 Homoeoprepes trochiloides Wism... (Type 2 66037) «2... cee eee V. de Irazu, Costa Rica .... 10 Walshia detracta Wism. - — — — (Type 9 65538) - ---- - Amula, Mexico —- - —~- —- - —- 15 Walshia calcarata Wlsm. ...... (Type ¢ 65589) .........6-- Teapa, Mexico ............ 15 Laverna obsessa Wism. - - — — — (Type ¢ 66040) ------ Amula, Mexico - - - - - - 16 Laverna pernota Wism. .......- (Type 2 66041)..... se eee ee Amula, Mexico ............ 17: Catalexis tapinota Wism. — — — — (Type @ 65877) ------ Panima, Guatemala - —-—-— 20 Logisis achroea Wlsm. ........-. (Type 2 65878) .....-..---- V. de Irazu, Costa Rica .... 21 Megacraspedus exilis Wism. — — — (Type 2 65759) ----- - Amula, Mexico ~ —- - —- - - 21 Aristotelia howardi Wism. ...... (Type ¢ 5841: US. Nat. Mus.) San José de Guaymas, Mexico. 23 Aristotelia dasypoda Wism. - — — (Type ¢ 65826) - --—-——-— Teapa, Mexico ~ ----- 25 Aristotelia sarcodes Wism. ...... (Type ¢ 5842: US. Nat. Mus.) Tabernilla, Panama ........ 26 Cathegesis tridentella Wism. — — — (Type do 65743) - - -—-—- — Amula, Mexico - - - —- - — 28 Systasiota leucura Wism......-.. (Type ¢ 65736) .... 6... 0 eee Atoyac, Mexico.........-.. 29 Holophysis quadrimaculata Wlism.— (Type ¢ 65716) ------ Teapa, Mexico - —- —- - - - 30 Holophysis wanthostoma Wlsm. .. (Type d 65785) .....---++-- Omilteme, Mexico .......... 31 Perioristica chalcopera Wism. — — (Type ¢ 65751) -----—- Amula, Mexico — - —- -— - — 32 Diastaltica separabilis Wism. .... (Type d 65725) 1.0... eee ee V.de Agua, Guatemala .... 33 Anacampsis rhabdodes Wism. — — (Type d 65708) ----—- - Teapa, Mexico - —--—--—- 36 Anacampsis glaphyra Wism. .... (Type go 65738) ....-..- +4 Atoyac, Mexico ............ 31 Anacampsis titanota Wism. - — — (Type g 65750) - ---—- - Panima, Guatemala --—--— 38 Anacampsis ambusta W1sm....... (Type ¢ 65706) .....+...--- Teapa, Mexico ............ 40 Anacampsis episema Wism. — — - (Type 6 65737) - --- -- Atoyac, Mexico — - - — - - 37 Anacampsis quinquepunctellaWlsm. (Type ¢ 65179) .....-... .. Balthazar, Grenada (W1.) .. 35 VA MIke 1. ye CCM Ci CEO CO CF votbm/ Bil Cont C € f , f precnececnent 32 a | oh PW.MTrap,Chromo.Leiden. EWFrohawk,del., AJJ. Wendel, Lith . TINEINA ! COSMOPTERYX- ANACAMBPSIS. ARISTOTELIA. 25 the terminal, which is longer than the median and very slender, sprinkled and annulate with darker brown. Head fawn-brown, mixed with greyish fuscous; the Thorax darker brown, mixed with pale cinereous. Forewings dark fawn-brown, paler along the dorsal half, with a pale patch at the lower angle of the cell; a whitish cinereous fascia leaves the costa at about one-sixth, running obliquely outward to the fold, but not traceable below it—this fascia is somewhat widened, showing a tendency to reduplication by brown scales along its middle ; parallel with this is a short oblique costal streak before the middle, and beyond the middle is another, converging at its apex with a similar inverted costal streak from before the end of the wing, from the inner edge of the first a narrow line of the same colour crosses the fold inward, but: does not reach the dorsum ; between these markings a slight suffusion of blackish scales extends from base to apex, and there are also some shining steel-grey scales about the ends of the second and third costal streaks, and in a small separate patch above the tornus; cilia pale cinereous, with a pinkish tinge, merging to pale greyish fuscous on the dorsum. Hap.al. 11mm. Hindwings and cilia pale greyish fuscous, with a slight rosy tinge. Abdomen brownish cinereous. Legs whitish, with oblique brown tibial and tarsal bands externally. Type 3 (65822, Teapa) Mus. Wlism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). (PT. (65823) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: Tapasco: Teapa, IL]. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens. This differs from pyrodercia Wlsm. in having more abundant sprinkling of blackish scales, and in the two black patches on the cell ; also in the silvery scaling being very slight and inconspicuous, this, however, may depend somewhat on the condition of the specimens. | 5. Aristotelia dasypoda, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 22.) Antennae dark fuscous, spotted with white above. Palpi whitish, with two brownish bands around the median joint, and a fuscous shade-band beyond the middle of the terminal, of which the tip is also fuscous. Head brownish ochreous. Thorax ferruginous, with a steely grey sheen above, and a steel- whitish transverse band posteriorly. Forewings ferruginous, with some black scaling, and three outwardly oblique white streaks from the costa, all more or less mixed with shining steely scales; the first, at about one-fifth, is reduplicated, margined on its inner side with black scales which become concentrated in a spot resting on the fold, and reaches with its lustrous steely apex nearly to the dorsum at one-third; the second, single, reaching to a blackish spot on the fold and produced again below it in shining steel-grey to the dorsum beyond the middle; the third, from a little beyond the middle of the costa, passes on the outer side of a black dot at the end of the cell, to which the steel-grey scaling of the second streak extends, where it meets the apex of a fourth, similar, but inverted oblique white streak, coming from the costal cilia ; beyond this again is some black scaling extending outward to the apex; a small detached steely streak above the flexus, and a few steely scales above the tornus complete the rather confused pattern ; cilia greyish ochreous, shaded with fuscous, some steely scales along their base. Hap.al.ll1 mm. Hindwings and cilia rather pale greyish fuscous. Abdomen (missing). Legs white, with three brownish fuscous bands on the hind tibiae and three on the tarsi; anterior pair some- what similarly coloured, but with a thick-set projecting brush of fuscous scales on the underside of the tibiae of the-d. Type 3 (65826, Teapa) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PTT. (76077, 76079, 76100) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. AMERICA, C-I. Central America—Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). West Indies—JaMAica: st. ANDREW: Constant Springs, 24.XII - 2.1. 1905 (Wism.). Eleven specimens. The projecting brush of scales on the front tibiae of the ¢ distinguishes dasypoda from any known species of the genus. BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. IV., April 1910. ee 26 HETEROCERA. 6. Aristotelia pyrodercia, sp. n. . 7 . Antennae delicately annulated with black and white. Palpi yellowish white, the median joint twice annulated with brassy brown; terminal joint longer than the median, with three blackish annulations, widening in succession from the base. Head pale buff-brown. Thorax pale buff-brown, with a rather shining steel-brown median streak. Forewings yellowish brown, crossed by oblique whitish streaks mixed with shining steel-like metallic scales, some minute blackish scales intermixed along their margins ; a slender steely line, commencing at the base of the costa, crosses the fold obliquely outward to the dorsum, beyond it is a broader whitish costal streak, also crossing the fold obliquely outward, but scarcely reaching the dorsum; a third steely streak, from the costa before the middle, tending obliquely outward, is enlarged at the lower end of the cell and reverts to the middle of the dorsum, it is preceded by a pale plical spot margined on its inner side by black scales ; beyond this, about the middle of the costa, an oblique whitish streak tends outward to the end of the cell where it meets a more conspicuous white streak inverted from the costal cilia, both mixed with pale steel and blackish scales; beyond the last white costal streak the costal cilia are greyish fuscous, with two inverted whitish streaklets at their base, a third shining white streak following the termen at the base of the whitish cilia through which run two dark shade-lines terminating before the tornus where a yellowish white line in the tornal cilia interrupts them ; near the base of this is a luminous steely spot, with some minute black scales along the margin. vp. al.12 mm. Hindwings and cilia tawny greyish. Abdomen brownish cinereous. Legs whitish, banded externally on the tibiae and tarsi with brownish fuscous. Type 2 (65774) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT (65775) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. Mexico: @uerrERo: Tierra Colorada, 2000 ft, X. (H. H. Smith); Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (1. H. Smith). Three specimens. This species differs from hieroglyphica Wlsm. in the more olivaceous brownish- ochreous ground-colour which lacks the blackish shades, in the basal half especially, and the silvery markings connected with the outer streaks are more conspicuous. 7. Aristotelia sarcodes,.sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 23.) Antennae black, with elongate white spots along the upper side; basal joint white, with a black line beneath and a spot above. Palpi white, median joint -with two black bands not reaching the upper surface ; terminal joint with four black bands of which the outer two only complete its circumference. Head pale brownish, mixed with whitish scales. Thorax pale rust-brown, with some silvery median scales. Forewings yellowish brown, or light rust-brown, with white and shining silvery costal and dorsal streaks, more or less confluent on the wing-middle, and with two, noticeable, rosy flesh-coloured, short length-streaks, one at the upper edge of the outer end of the cell, the other wider, beyond the end of the cell; there is a rather oblique white costal streak, at one-fifth, with a few black scales along its inner edge, its outer half touched with shining silvery ; this meets the apex of a short silvery dorsal streak, at’ about one-fourth, and is followed by a second, shorter, silvery and white costal streak to which there is no corresponding dorsal one ; a third, silvery and white costal streak, is scarcely beyond the middle, and is interrupted by the first rosy flesh-coloured streak before joining a longer silvery oblique streak from the middle of the dorsum; beyond this again are four short white costal streaks before the apex, the first two sometimes confluent, and both tipped with silvery, the second rosy flesh-coloured length-streak separating them from a long silvery dorsal streak arising obliquely outward from near the tornus; there are also a few silvery scales on the termen below the outer white costal streak which occupies the apex and apical cilia; terminal cilia whitish, touched with brown ‘on the middle of the termen and at the tornus. Exp.al.10 mm. Hindwings dark slaty grey, with a strong rosy iridescence; cilia brownish grey; ¢ with dull ochreous subcostal hair-pencil. Abdomen grey. Legs white, hind tibiae and tarsi with black bands across their outer sides. * Type & (5842, Wism. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus, Hab. PANAMA: CANAL ZONE: Tabernilla, 1907 (A. Busch). Unique. CATHEGESIS. 27 CATHEGESIS, gen. n. (xaGijynots =a leading.) Type: Cathegesis vinitincta Wlsm. \ — SN \ Ay ‘a, VX . % ~ — SNe AQ 7. Cathegesis vinitincta Wilsm. @. J. H. Durrant, del. Antennae 2, simple; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi compressed, median joint thickened with smoothly appressed scales, terminal joint rather thick at base. Mawillary Palpi rudimentary. Haustellum well-developed, scaled throughout. Ocelli present. Head and Thorax smooth. forewings with costa deflexed, evenly rounded to ternus, apex not defined: newration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, to costa; 2-6 separate. Hindwengs 1, costa straight, apex rounded; termen scarcely sinuate beneath apex, thence evenly rounded; cilia 4-3: neuration 8 veins; 3 and 4 connate; 5 cubital; 6 and 7 truncate, Abdomen moderate. Legs, hind tibiae with rough hairs above. Nearest to Acompsia Hb. (=Brachycrossata Hnm. ; *Recurvaria Meyr.), but differing in HW: 3-4 being connate, not stalked; also in the peculiar rounded apex of the forewings. The genus reminds one of the Trichotaphe Clms. group of the genus Dichomeris Hb., with which it agrees fairly well in the form of the palpi, but it is at once distinguished by having FW: 2-3 separate, not stalked. The terminal joint of the palpi is shorter than the median in vinitincta, but slightly longer in tridentella. 1. Cathegesis vinitincta, sp. n. Antennae tawny fuscous, annulate with pale ochreous. Palpi tawny fuscous, the terminal joint shorter than the median, its upper half pale ochreous. Head shining, cinereous. Thorax tawny greyish fuscous. Forewings shining, tawny greyish fuscous, with a broad semicircular chocolate-brown dorsal patch reaching from near the base to near the middle, its upper third crossing the fold; an elongate chocolate- brown streak from the outer end of the cell nearly reaching the termen below the apex ; the apex itself is rounded, but the form of the tawny brownish cilia above it gives the depressed costa a strongly angulate appearance before it; a pale cinereous line runs around the base of the tawny greyish terminal cilia. Hap. al.16 mm. Hindwings wider than the forewings ; bronzy brown; cilia greyish brown. Abdomen bronzy brownish. Legs bronzy brownish, the femora and tibiae to the first pair of spurs whitish cinereous ; some indistinct pale spots on the tarsi. Type 2 (65718, Cerro Zunil) Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT. (65719) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. Mexico: vera cruz: Atoyac, IV. (H. H. Smith)—Guatemata: Cerro Zunil, 4000-5000 ft. (G@. C. Champion). Two specimens. e@ 2 28 HETEROCERA. 2. Cathegesis tridentella, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 24.) Antennae cinereous, annulate with brownish. Palpi with the median joint slightly tufted above at its apex, the terminal joint longer than the median, slightly recurved, divergent ; cinereous, banded with grey ish brown at the end of the median joint, on the middle of the terminal joint, and again narrowly before the apex. Head brownish cinereous; face scarcely paler. Thorax brownish grey. Forewings brownish cinereous, shaded with greyish brown along the costa, except at the base and on the apical fifth ; this darker shading is diffused downward as far as the middle of the fold, and in a broken and diluted form reaches the dorsum and extends outward to above the tornus, where it is terminated by a pale anteapical band sinuate inward below the costa and outward above the tornus, the somewhat pale apical space containing three dark fuscous tooth-like streaks; cilia pale cinereous, with a greyish brown shade running along their middle. Exp. al.13 mm. Hindwings broader than the forewings, trapezoidal, scarcely sinuate below the apex; brownish grey; cilia pale cinereous, with a darker shade running through them before their middle. Abdomen brownish grey, anal tuft inclining to ochreous. Legs pale brownish cinereous, Type 3 (65743) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Unique. SYSTASIOTA, gen. n. (cvoraowrns =a partisan.) Type: Systasiota leucura Wlsm. (Tab. I. fig. 25.) uw 49 i) J. H. Durrant, del. 8. Systasiota leucura Wism. ¢. Antennae 2, simple ; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi slender, recurved, smooth; the terminal and median joints about equal in length. Mawillary Palpi rudimentary. Haustellum well-developed. Ovelli present. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings elongate, widening somewhat outwardly, costa subsinuate, apex caudate, termen sinuate, tornus rounded: newration 11 veins; 7 and 8 coincident, to costa ; 2 and 3 stalked. Hindwings 1, apex obtuse, termen subsinuate: neuration 8 veins; 3 and 4 short-stalked ; 5 radial; 6 and 7 truncate. Abdomen smooth. Legs smooth; hind tibiae slightly hairy above. Derived from Holophysis W1sm., which it much resembles in general structure and appearance ; it differs in the coincidence of FW: 7-8, and the caudate apex. Drepanoterma W\sm. differs in its longer antennae, and more developed palpi with shorter terminal joint. SYSTASIOTA.—HOLOPHYSIS. 29 1. Systasiota leucura, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 25.) Antennae mouse-grey. Palpi mouse-grey, paler on their inner sides; the median and terminal joints about equal in length, slender, recurved, naked. Head olive-grey, the face paler. Thorax olive-grey, with a dark brownish band across the front; silvery whitish beneath. Jorewings dark umber-brown, with a leaden grey costal patch at the base reaching nearly to one-third, widened and produced downward at its outer end, but scarcely touching the fold; joining it at the extreme base is a leaden grey band, running along the dorsum below the fold to beyond the middle, where it is joined by a transverse fascia starting narrowly on the costa, enclosing a dark brown spot on the cell and consisting above the middle of shining silvery blue-grey scales, a narrower subapical fascia of the same colour, much zigzagged in its course, precedes the termen ; the apex is slightly caudate, and is distinctly marked by a slender whitish ochreous line, along the base of the dark brown costal cilia, which is continued along the upper half of the sinuate termen ; terminal cilia dark brown, with a curved white patch immediately below the apex which is very apparent on the underside. Zwp. al. 13 mm. Hindwings dark bronzy brown; cilia slightly paler; underside with a broad silvery whitish costal patch beyond the middle. Abdomen shining leaden greyish ; silvery whitish beneath. Legs dark brown, with two broad white bands on the tibiae and three or four white tarsal annulations. Type 3 (65736) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab. Mexico: vera cruz: Atoyac, 1V. (H. H. Smith). Unique. HOLOPHYSIS, gen. n. (éd\os=entire 5 duos, a form.) Type: Strobisia emblemella Clms. J. H. Durrant, del. 9. Holophysis emblemellu Clms. 6. Antennae 3, slightly serrate; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi slender, recurved, divergent, smooth ; terminal joint as long, or longer than median, acute. Maaillary Palpi rudimentary. Haustellum well- developed. Ocelli present. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, widening somewhat outwardly; costa rather straight, apex depressed, obtuse, termen subsinuate: . neuration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, to costa; 2 and 3 stalked ; rest separate. Hindwings 1, apex obtuse, termen slightly sinuate: newration 8 veins; 3 and 4 short-stalked; 5 radial; 6 and 7 connate, or closely approximate. Abdomen smooth. Legs smooth ; hind tibiae slightly hairy above. Derived from Anacampsis Crt., from which it differs in the shorter palpi, and in FW: 2-3 being stalked; it resembles Strodisia Clms., and Trichotaphe Clms., in a 30 HETEROCERA. general appearance, but differs from the former in having all the veins present in the forewings, and from both in having vein HW: 5 radial, instead of cubital. Correlated with, and very similar to Perioristica Wlsm., which however differs in having FW: 2-3 separate. The Central American species resembles Perioristica chalcopera Wlsm. in the cilia of the forewings having a tendency to become falcate ; this is not so noticeable in emblemella Clms. 1. Holophysis anoma, sp. n. Antennaz leaden grey. Palpi silvery grey ; very slender, recurved, the terminal joint longer than the median, reaching high above the vertex. Head dull leaden grey; face shining silvery. Thorac dull leaden grey; silvery white beneath. Forewings dull leaden grey at the base, becoming more shining at a little distance from it, this colour is continued along the dorsum blending into a shining silvery grey fascia beyond the middle which is attenuated and recurved upward to the costa, thus enclosing a broad bronzy brown costal patch, its convex lower extremity touching the fold on which it is preceded by a small brown spot; in the silvery fascia is also a small elongate brown spot about the end of the cell; the apical portion of the wing is bronzy brown, with a shining silver-grey costal spot at the commencement of the cilia and a larger shining silver-grey patch arising from the tornus and terminating below and beyond the costal spot; cilia brownish cinereous, a dark line running through them near their base parallel with the rounded apex. Exp. al. 10 mm. Hindwings greyish brown, the cilia shading to pale cinereous toward the apex. Abdomen bronzy brownish, silvery white beneath. Legs bronzy brownish, hind tibiae banded and tipped with white, the tarsi with four white annulations. Type & (65739) Mus, Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PTI. (65740) US. Nat. Mus.] Fab. Mexico: veRA cruz: Atoyac, IV. (H. H. Smith): tapasco: Teapa,. III. (H. H. Smith). Four specimens. 2. Holophysis stagmatophoria, sp.n. Antennae slightly serrate towards the apex; bronzy brown. Palpi pale greyish, shaded with bronzy brown along their underside. Head bronzy brown above; face whitish. Thorax shining, bronzy brown. Forewings shining, bronzy brown, with brilliant silvery streaks becoming white towards the costa; the first of these is at one-fourth, running obliquely outwards from the costa to a little beyond the fold, this is almost entirely silvery white; the second is a little beyond the middle, forming an irregular outwardly- curved fascia reduplicated on the cell, white on the costa with a slight aeneous tinge beneath it; the third forms a slightly oblique spot at the commencement of the costal cilia, a fourth appearing as an elongate, slightly aeneous, silvery patch along the termen; cilia about the apex brown, with a slender line along their base and a wider one along their middle giving a somewhat caudate appearance, beneath the apex the cilia are greyish, partaking of the metallic gloss of the terminal patch. Exp. al. 10 mm. Hindwings bronzy brown, slightly paler than the forewings; cilia tipped with greyish. Abdomen shining bronzy fuscous, with a white patch beneath, forming two lateral bands at the commencement of the dark anal tuft. Legs white; hind tibiae with two broad bands of brownish fuscous, hind tarsi with one broad band and three narrower bands of the same; spurs white. Type 3 (65733) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT. (65734) US. Nat. Mus.] ’ Hab. Mexico: @uERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIIT. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens. 3. Holophysis quadrimaculata, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 26.) Antennae greyish fuscous. Palpi whitish cinereous. Head and Thorax greyish fuscous. Forewings dark brownish fuscous, with four steel-grey costal streaks, all inclining a little outwards; the first, near the base, reaching over the fold; the second at one-fourth not reaching the fold; the third, median, reaching to the lower angle of the cell and scarcely separated from a diffused patch of the same colour before and beneath it; the fourth at three-fourths of the wing-length, shorter than the others, a line of steel- HOLOPH YSIS,—PERIORISTICA, d1 grey scales preceding the termen; cilia greyish, becoming almost white at the apex, with a dark line running through them at their base. Zp. al. 8 mm. Hindwings and cilia greyish fuscous, the latter tipped with white at the apex. Abdomen greyish fuscous; white beneath. Legs greyish tuscous, with white patches on the tibiae, and white spots on the tarsal joints. Type 3 (65716) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT. (65717) US. Nat. Mus.] fab. Mexico: tasasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens. 4. Holophysis xanthostoma, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 27.) Antennae dark brown, the terminal six joints white. Palpi and Haustellum yellow. Head brown; face steel-white. Zhorax bronzy brown. Forewings dark bronzy brown, shading into shining brassy metallic along the dorsum below the fold, and in a broad oblique terminal band; two shining pale aeneous costal spots, one near the base, the other a little before the middle, are followed by two minute white costal dots, one about the middle, the other beyond; cilia brownish. Zwp. al. 9 mm. Hindwings and cilia brown, paler than the forewings. Abdomen bronzy grey. Legs, anterior pair yellow at the base; posterior mouse-grey above, whitish aeneous beneath. Type 5 (65735) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab.. MEXICO: GUERRERO: Omilteme, 8000 ft., VII. (H. H. Smith). Unique. Closely allied to guadrimaculata W1sm., but easily separable by its yellow palpi and front tibiae. PERIORISTICA, gen. n. (weptopiorexh = serving to determine.) Type: Perioristica chalcopera, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 28.) J. H. Durrant, del. Lone 10. Perioristica chalcopera Wism. 6. Antennae 3, simple, smooth ; basal joint without pecten. Labial palpi ascending, recurved, tapering, acute, smooth; terminal joint scarcely half as long as the median, which is slightly thickened. Mavillary Palpi short, dependent. Haustellum well-developed. Ocelli present. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings with straightened costa, obtuse, not depressed, apex falsely uncate by dependent produced point in cilia; termen slightly oblique, tornus rounded: neuration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, to costa; 2-6 separate, 2-3 approximate. Hindwings broader than forewings, somewhat trapezoidal, widening outward, apex slightly rounded, termen oblique, slightly sinuate, tornus well-defined, but blunted: neuration 8 veins ; 32 HETEROCERA. 6 and 7 closely approximate ; 3 and 4 connate; 5 radial, parallel, midway between 4 and 6. Abdomen smooth. Legs smooth; hind tibiae slightly hairy above. Closely allied to Anacampsis Crt., from which it appears to be derived, but differing in the caudate cilia of the forewings, and in the short terminal joint of the palpi. 1. Perioristica chalcopera, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 28.) Antennae bronzy brownish grey. Palpi white at the base and on the inner sides, thence stained witb steely grey. Head and Thorax brownish grey, with a slight cupreous tinge; face white. Forewings bronzy brown, overlaid on the basal half with a greenish grey iridescent sheen, the outer edge of which is obliquely terminated a little before the middle of the costa, and throws out a short white streak along the cell; above this is a slender, oblique, detached white streaklet, and an outwardly oblique white costal streak, more or less connected by scattered whitish scales at its apex with the apex of the median streak, and again to the apex of a similar streak a little above the dorsum ; at four-fifths is a second, short, straight white costal streak, loosely connected by scattered scales, at its apex, with a striated patch above the tornus, in which they form the upper of a series of three short longitudinal white streaks, bounded before and behind by a whitish line; on the costa at the apex are two converging wedge-shaped white streaks, divided by a dark brown line, which is continued along the termen to the tornus ; the outer of these is wider than the inner, and forms the base of the caudate apical extension of the cilia which are bronzy brown beyond it, those on the termen below being bright rosy, iridescent, brassy metallic. Hvp. al. 10 mm. Hindwings and cilia brown, with iridescent, bluish, steely grey reflections. Abdomen cupreous. Legs dark bronzy brown, with white bands, those on the hind tibiae oblique. Type 3 (65751) Mus, Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Ooll.). [PT. (65752) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: GuERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens. Very similar to Anacampsis perinaeta Wl1sm., which also occurs at Amula, in August: the caudate cilia and the much shorter terminal joint of the palpi will at once separate chalcopera. DIASTALTICA, gen. n. (Siacradruy=serving to distinguish.) Type: Diastaltica separabilis Wlsm. (Tab. I. fig. 29.) 4A $0 9 4 J. H. Durrant, del. ll. Diastaltica separabihes Wism. ¢. DIASTALTICA.—ANACAMPSIS, 33 Antennae 2, slightly serrate towards apex; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi long, smooth, recurved ; terminal and median joints about equal in length. Maaillary Palpi short. Haustellum well-developed. Ocelht present. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings narrow at the base, somewhat widened outwardly, costa slightly arched near the base, apex scarcely depressed, pointed, termen sinuate, very oblique, tornus rounded: neuration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, to costa; 2-6 separate, 2 remote from 3. Hindwings 1, costa straight, apex obtusely pointed, termen slightly sinuate, dorsum parallel with costa: neuration 8 veins; 3 and 4 connate; 5 cubital; 6 and 7 connate. Abdomen smooth. Legs smooth; hind tibiae slightly haired above. This genus is separable from Acompsia Hb. (=Brachycrossata Hnmn.) by the position of vein F'W: 2, as also by its general structure and appearance. 1. Diastaltica separabilis, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 29.) Antennae pale cinereous, annulate with dark brown. Palpi pale cinereous, Head and Thorax brownish grey ; face pale cinereous. Forewings dark bronzy brown, a pale aeneous band, commencing at the base of the costa, is dilated downward to the dorsum, and continued outward along it to the middle, where it is turned upward to the fold, joining the inner branch of a shining steel-grey furcate fascia, which, descending from the costa, scarcely beyond the middle, encloses an elongate, transverse, brown spot, near its outer side on the cell; this is preceded, halfway to the base, by an outwardly oblique, shining, steel-grey, metallic, cuneiform costal blotch; a sinuate band of the same colour commences with the costal cilia, suddenly angulated outward below them, and diffused along the lower half of the termen ; between the outer and the central fascia, as also on the dorsum between the forks of the latter, the dark ground-colour is thickly sprinkled with golden-brown scales; terminal cilia whitish cinereous, with a pure white patch below the apex, a dark brown line along their base ; costal and tornal cilia brown. Exp. al.18 mm. Hindwings dull brown ; cilia with a slight greyish tinge, especially toward the apex. Abdomen dark bronzy brownish grey, with a white ring around the base of the genital segment. Legs dark brown, with two broad white bands around the tibiae, and four smaller ones around the tarsi; spurs white. Type 5 (65725) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab. Guatemata: Volcan de Agua, 8500-10,500 ft., 13. I. 1881 (G@. C. Champion). Unique. ANACAMPSIS Crt. = Tacuyprizza Hnmn. Type: [Ph. Tinea] populella Cl. (Crt. 1827). Anacampsis Crt. Br. Ent. 4 expl. Pl. 189 (1827) ; Stph. Ill. Br. Ent. Haust. 4 204-17 no. 320 sp. 1- 47 (1834), 400 (1835) ; Dp. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 7 189-40 no. 17 (1838) : HN. Lp. Fr. 11 18, 266-80 no. 17 (1838) ; Wstwd. Syn. Gn. Br. Ins. 110 (1840); HS. SB. Schm. Eur. 5 11, 43 no. 67 Pf. 12° 86-8 (1853), 189-208 sp. 506-64 (1854). Tcuyprizza Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 189, 321-3 no. 438 sp. 485-71 (1870), Tbl. 5, 45 no. 438 (1876); Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 13 361-3 no. 20-1 Pf. 5° 121-2 (1877); Suln. Vind. Nederl. Micr. 428, 611-13 no. 42 sp. 1-2 Pf. 8+ 262, 265 (1882) ; Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 569, 604 no. 13 sp. 1-2 (1895); Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 151 no. 307 sp. 2776-83 (1901). Anacampsis Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. 31 41, 43 (1895): Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 79-82 no. 17 sp. 58-64 (1897); Drnt. Ent. Mo. Mag. 33 221 (1897); Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 509-11 no. 5701-18 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 23 230-1 Pf. 1° 6 (1900): 25 773, 844-51, 985 Pf. 31°28 (1903): 27 760-1 (1904): Can. Ent. 38 121 (1906): Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 11 88 (1909). BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. IV., Apri 1910. tf 34 | ; HETEROCERA. 1. Anacampsis acosmeta, sp. n. Antennae stone-grey. Falpi stone-grey, with a patch of tawny fuscous at the base externally, the terminal joint also tipped with tawny fuscous. Head and Thorax pale stone-grey. Forewongs pale stone-grey, with minute sprinkling of tawny fuscous, especially across the apical fourth of the wing, at the commence- ment of which is a minute ochreous costal spot and another opposite to it on the dorsum, the latter encircled above by tawny fuscous scales; along the termen are two or three minute groups of black scales preceding the pale stone-grey cilia. Hwp.al. 11mm. Hindwings pale stone-grey, somewhat transparent and subiridescent, especially about the flexus ; cilia very pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen (missing). Legs very pale brownish cinereous, suffused with greyish externally. Type & (85714) Mus. Wism. [PZ (35715) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. NW. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (H. K. Morrison). Two specimens. A small plain-coloured species, most nearly allied to 5708 crescentifasciella Chmb., _ but distinguishable by the antetornal dark-margined ochreous dot—evidently the lower extremity of an obsolete transverse fascia. 9. Anacampsis balia,sp.n. . _ Antennae bright ochreous. Palpi dull pale ochreous ; terminal joint as long as the median, both smooth. Head shining leaden bluish, face paler ; ochreous around the eyes. Z'horax leaden brownish. Forewings leaden brownish, thickly and profusely sprinkled with pale cinereous scales, leaving avery ill-defined and - scarcely perceptible darker medio-costal spot, and a tornal shade diffused outward and upward, and a small spot above the middle of the termen; cilia brownish fuscous. Evp.al.17 mm. Hindwings pale chocolate-brown ; cilia greyish cinereous. Abdomen brownish, anal tuft and underside pale. Legs dark brownish grey, hind tibiae and tarsi each with two pale bands. Type 3 (65744) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Ooll.). [PZ. (65745) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. Mexico: Guerrero: Tierra Colorada, 2000 ft., X. (H. H. Smith): MORELOS : Cuernavaca, VI. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens. The ochreous antennae and palpi render this species somewhat distinct. 3. Anacampsis epibola, sp. n. Antennae ashy grey. Palpi bone-whitish ; terminal joint longer than median, sprinkled beneath with ashy grey, the median joint also shaded with ashy grey at its base externally. Head and Thoraw ashy grey ; face paler. Forewings ashy grey, with sparsely scattered greyish fuscous speckling, the usual spots are not more noticeable than other specks; near the base of the dorsum is an outwardly oblique greyish fuscous shade, rising to a little above the fold; a slight clouding of the same colour appears at the com- mencement of the costal and dorsal cilia respectively, the anteterminal portion of the wing beyond it being slightly paler than the general hue ; cilia brownish cinereous. Exp. al. 18mm. Hindwings greyish brown ; cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen greyish brown, with a shining, pale cinereous patch at the base. Legs greyish brown, with pale cinereous tarsal annulations. Type 2 (65720, Atoyac) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT. (5837 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: vera cruz: Atoyac, LV. (H. H. Smith )—PANaMa : CANAL ZONE: Taber- nilla, VI. 1907 (A. Busck). Three specimens. Most nearly allied to 5702 rhotfructella Clms., but distinct. The Tabernilla specimen shows that when comparatively fresh the ground-colour is slightly darker than in those from which the description was taken. ANACAMPSIS. 3D 4, Anacampsis conistica, sp. n. Antennae brownish cinereous, dusted with black above. Palpi dull white, the median joint distinctly dark brown from its base on the outer side to beyond half its length, the dark brown abruptly cut off; the terminal joint brown on its outer side and around its extreme apex. Head greyish brown, face paler. Thorax slightly darker than the head. Forewings brownish cinereous, much suffused with fuscous, becoming tawny towards the apex and termen, a small black spot at the extreme base of the costa; four very indistinct fuscous spots, two on the fold, and two on the cell, of which the first discal is beyond the second plical; a dull brownish ochreous spot, at the com- mencement of the -costal cilia, connected with an even more obscure opposite dorsal spot by a scarcely distinguishable line of pale scales, outwardly bowed among the fuscous suffusion; a few blackish scale- spots around the apex and termen, at the base of the greyish fuscous cilia which are minutely sprinkled along their middle with whitish cinereous, and faintly tipped with brownish ochreous; the apex is not greatly depressed, but somewhat obtuse. xp. al. 14-15 mm. Hindwings scarcely broader than the forewings, trapezoidal, not indented; greyish brown; cilia tawny brownish grey. Abdomen brownish fuscous. Legs cinereous, suffused on their outer sides with tawny fuscous, Type & (35711, Sonora) Mus. Wism. [PPT. (35712-3) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (H. XK. Morrison): Durango: Presidio (Forrer). Three specimens. | This species is very close to 5702 rhoifructella Clms., from some varieties of which it may possibly be undistinguishable by the colour or markings of the wings, but so far as I am at present aware the palpi of rhoifructella are smoother, less densely clothed, and suffused at least to the apex of the median joint with the darker shading, which is never abruptly cut off leaving the apex cleanly whitish, as in the Mexican species here described. 5. Anacampsis quinquepunctella Wlsm. (Tab. I. fig. 35.) Anacampsis quinquepunctella Wism. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 80-1 no. 61 (1897) °. Type 3 (65179) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.). [PT. (65181) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. AMERICA, C-I. Central America—Mexico: tasasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). West Indies—Grenada: Balthazar, windward side, 5-15 IV. (H. H. Smith) *. A single specimen of this species (65710) was received from Teapa. 6. Anacampsis ursula, sp. n. Antennae brownish grey. Palpi cinereous, the short median joint somewhat widened, shaded with greyish fuscous externally nearly to its apex, terminal joint very long, slender, recurved. Head mouse-grey ; face shining cinereous. Thoraw mouse-grey, with greenish and violet iridescence. Forewings with the costa straight, the apex depressed and somewhat angular; mouse-grey, sprinkled with greyish fuscous scales, a minute fuscous spot at the extreme base of the costa; from the commencement of the costal cilia an indistinct narrow pale cinereous and somewhat sinuate band, curving outward to below the middle, reverts to the dorsum before the tornus, beyond it the apical and terminal space is cupreous, with a slight iridescent lustre; cilia dull brownish cinereous, a few fuscous scales at their base around the apex. wp. al. 18 mm. Hindwings dark brown, somewhat thinly scaled toward base; cilia brownish cinereous. Abdomen flattened ; greyish brown. Legs cinereous, much shaded with greyish brown. Type 3 (65746) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [Type 2 (65772) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: mMoRELos: Cuernavaca, VI. (1. H. Smith). Two specimens. 36 HETEROCERA. Very similar to 5702 rhoifructella Clms., but at once separable by the widened clothing of the median joint-of the palpi. | 7. Anacampsis rhabdodes, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 30.) Antennae pale whitish ochreous, minutely annulate with blackish. Palpi slender, terminal joint longer than the median which is clothed above toward its base ; whitish cinereous, the basal joint blackish externally to within one-third of the apex. Head and Thorax fawn-ochreous. Forewings pale olivaceous ochreous, transversely and narrowly striate with lines of dark fuscous scales beyond the base to the end of the cell, a minute blackish dot at the extreme base of the costa; a triangular dark fuscous costal shade-spot, before the costal cilia, is followed by a pale cinereous sinuate line, crossing the wing to the tornus; a few fuscous dots surround the apex and termen at the base of the pale brownish ochreous cilia. Earp. al. 13 mm. Hindwings a little broader than the forewings, trapezoidal; on the underside, below the costa near the base, is a slight tuft of long brownish scales ; greyish brown; cilia pale brownish cinereous. . Abdomen greyish brown. Legs brownish fuscous externally, the inner sides of the hind tibiae pale cinereous, with a faint indication of pale rings around the tarsal joints. Type & (65705) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab. Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Unique. g. Anacampsis molybdina, sp. n. Antennae pale brownish cinereous, shaded with greyish above. Palpi shining, pale brownish cinereous, with a fuscous patch at the base; terminal joint longer than the median, both smooth. Head and face shining, pale slaty grey. Thorax shining, purplish grey. Forewings shining, purplish grey, with an inwardly diffused transverse fascia on the outer third, angulated outward about its middle und bounded along its outer edge by an indistinct narrow pale line, beyond which, after a slight purplish shade, the remainder of the wing to the apex is slaty grey, rather paler than the basal part; around the termen and around the depressed obtusely angulated apex runs a blackish line at the base of the pale slaty grey cilia. | Exp.al.14 mm. Hindwings brown; cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen greyish brown; anal tuft whitish cinereous, Legs greyish cinereous. Type g (65730) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT. (65731) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: Guerrero: Amula, 6000 ft., VILL. (I. H. Smith). Three specimens. Closely allied to fragariella Busck, and of about the same size, but with slightly narrower forewings; it is of a more slaty colour and the fascia as well as the ante- terminal line are darker and more clearly defined. 9, Anacampsis campalea, sp. n. Antennae stone-grey ; slightly serrate towards the apex. Palpi dull stone-whitish. Head and Thorax stone- grey. Forewings stone-grey, with an upright, slightly oblique, dark chocolate dorsal patch near the base, preceded by two small spots of the same at the base, one costal, the other median; on the cell is a slight brownish spot at about half the wing-length, followed by a minute reduplicated spot at the end of the cell; a dark chocolate-brown patch at the apex is preceded by an oblique stone-white costal streak, traceable to the dorsum, but outwardly angulated on the middle where it sends out two slender branch- lines towards the termen, ending in small brown spots; cilia stone-grey. Hxp.al.lomm. Hindwings greyish brown; cilia stone-grey. Abdomen dark brownish grey. Legs dark stone-grey, with pale whitish ochreous tarsal and tibial annulations. Type & (65747) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). (PT. (65748) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Tierra Colorada, 2000 ft, X. (H. H. Smith). Three specimens. ANACAMPSIS. 37 Very similar to episema Wlsm., but the palpi are uniformly dull stone-whitish, the median joint not being transversely striate with black as in that species. 10. Anacampsis episema, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 34.) Antennae brownish fuscous, with faint paler annulations. Palpi silvery white at the base, with minute transverse black strigulae around the upper half of the smoothly clothed median joint; terminal joint longer than the median, whitish, peppered on its outer side with minute black scales. Head and face coarsely clothed with wide subspatulate scales ; brownish cinereous above, becoming silvery white on the face, with opalescent reflections. Thorax brownish cinereous, with a pair of dark umber-brown spots anteriorly and smaller ones on the tegulae. Forewings with the costa straight, apex depressed, obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; brownish cinereous, with darker umber-brown sprinkling and some ill-defined spots of the same, two on the cell and one in the fold, also two small ones below the costa on the basal fifth ; arising from the flexus, and narrowly connected with the base along the margin, is a dark umber- brown streak running somewhat obliquely outward, its upper extremity crossing the fold; a strong shade of the same colour along the costa, beyond the middle, is abruptly terminated by a dull ivory-white streak descending from the costa before the apical cilia, angulated inward above, and outward about the middle of the wing-length, and descending to the tornus ; the terminal and apical space beyond it also dull ivory- white, with some greyish fuscous suffusion; a blackish triangular spot above the apex and two narrow transverse black lines below it preceding the pale whitish cinereous cilia, through which runs‘a dark dividing shade-line. Hwp. al. 15-16 mm. Hindwings (1+) dark brownish fuscous ; cilia tawny grey. Abdomen brownish fuscous. Legs whitish cinereous, broadly banded externally with brownish fuscous to the ends of the tarsi. Type & (65737, Atoyac) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) [{PT'T. (68760-1) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—MeExico: veRA cruz: Atoyac, IV. (H. H. Smith). South America—CotomBia: Minca, 2000 ft., VI.1899 (H. H. Smith)—Bnrazit, 8.: PARANA: Castro, 1898 (£. D. Jones). Seven specimens. . Only single specimens from Atoyac and Castro ; all agree in the peculiarly marked zebrate palpi which at once separate this species from campalea Wlsm.: the Castro specimen (¢ 67305) differs slightly in the flexal streak being broken into spots, the discal spots are perhaps also slightly more distinct. 11. Anacampsis zebrina, sp. n. Antennae slightly biserrate; delicately annulate with fuscous and whitish ochreous. Palpi slender, recurved, smooth, the median joint fuscous, beautifully striate with delicate whitish lines transversely ; the terminal joint whitish ochreous, with a slender dark line beneath. Head stone-grey ; face whitish. Thorax fuscous, with whitish ochreous lines along the margins of the tegulae. Forewings fuscous nearly to the middle, whitish ochreous blending into fawn-brown beyond; the basal portion is largely reticulated with whitish ochreous lines forming three larger and some smaller dark patches; on the outer third of the wing is a fuscous costal patch followed by an inwardly oblique whitish line, traceable to the dorsum, in an angulated series of whitish scales; an elongate whitish patch at the end of the cell between this and the apex; above the patch is an elongate fuscous streak, and below it two fuscous lines following the nervules ; around the apex and termen a whitish ochreous line is followed throughout its course by a dark fuscous line at the base of the fawn-brown cilia. Hyvp.al.138 mm. Hindwings brownish fuscous; cilia slightly paler. Abdomen brownish fuscous. Legs whitish ochreous, the tarsi of the first two pairs, and the tibiae and tarsi of the third pair, banded externally with fuscous, the anterior bands oblique. Type 3 (65699) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT. (65700) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. Mexico: rasasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens. 38 HETEROCERA. 12, Anacampsis scutella Z. Gelechia (Ceratophora 2) scutella Z. Hor. Soc, Ent. Ross. 18 863-5 no. 22 Pf. 5:123 (1877) ’. Type 2 (Sommer Coll.) Mus. Stgr. Hab. [Central America ?] Zeller described this species from a single 9 “ohne Angabe des Vaterlandes, das aber wohl auch das warmere Amerika ist, aus der Sommerschen Sammlung im Museum Staudinger”, This species probably came from some Central American locality, and appears to be closely allied to zebrina Wlsm., with which it agrees in the form of the palpi, as also with episema Wlsm. Similar zebrate palpi occur in some of Walker’s South American species, and are not confined to the genus Anacampsis (cf. Apopira falcatella Wkr. etc.). 13. Anacampsis titanota, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 32.) Antennae cinereous, suffused and banded with blackish above. Palpi ivory-white, slightly smeared with blackish at the end of the median joint, and along the outer surface of the terminal to the apex ; both joints slender and smooth, terminal longer than median. Mawillaries and Haustellum ivory-white. Head and Thorax olivaceous grey; face and pectus ivory-white. Horewings ivory-white, the pale ground-colour fully exposed only along the costa from the base to two-thirds, and in a broad median band on which black shading and sprinkling of scales more or less encroaches from the base, and brownish fuscous shading, which covers the apical fourth, tends to encroach on its outer side; a small black dot at the extreme base of the costa is followed by two larger ones in the whitish space below the costa; resting on the upper edge of the black suffusion an indistinct ocelloid spot lies at the end of the cell, and beyond it a slender whitish line passes somewhat obliquely through the brownish terminal suffusion from costa to turnus; two or three small whitish length-streaks, combined with some black scales, running outward beyond it toward termen and apex; there is a slender blackish line along the base of the tawny brown cilia. Zap. al.13 mm. Hindwings dark tawny brown; cilia smoky fuscous, tipped with pale cinereous. Abdomen tawny brown. Legs ivory-white, broadly banded with tawny black above. Type 3 (65750) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll). Hab. Guatemata: vera paz: Panima, X. 1879 (G. C. Champion). Unique. 14, Anacampsis succincta, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 1.) Antennae pale brownish. Palpi smooth, recurved, the terminal joint as long as the median; white, shaded with brownish towards their apex. Head and Thorax pale brownish grey; face white. Forewings elongate, narrow, the costa straight, apex acuminate, slightly depressed, termen very oblique; pale brownish grey, indistinctly spotted with brownish fuscous, of which there is a slender streak along the base of the costa, an elongate spot on the middle of the cell, another in the fold preceding it, and one at the base of the dorsum ; on the outer third of the wing a transverse brownish fuscous shade, especially €onspicuous on the costa, follows the outline of a narrow whitish cinereous fascia, sharply angulated outward at its middle; beyond this the terminal area is pale cinereous, outlined with darker shading, most conspicuous on the costa before, and on the termen below the apex; cilia pale cinereous. Exp. al. 85 mm. Hindwings (1+) trapezoidal, termen subsinuate; brownish grey, cilia concolorous. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs (hind legs broken). Type 3 (65709, Leapa) Mus. Wl1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). (PIT. (76304, 76373) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. AMERICA, C-I. Central America—Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, III. (7. H. Smith). West Indies—Jamaica: st. ANDREW: Constant Springs, 24.XII - 2.1. 1905 (Wism.): st. ANN: Moneague, 7-10. I. 1905 (Wism.); Runaway Bay, 3.III —21.IV. 1905 (Wism.). Eight specimens. ANACAMPSIS. 39 15. Anacampsis elephas, sp. n. Antennae brownish cinereous. Palpi strongly recurved, smooth, terminal joint longer than median ; greyish white, the basal third of the median joint fuscous externally. Head and Thora leaden grey; face paler. Forewings leaden grey, with a black dot at the extreme base of the costa; a brownish fuscous shade-band crossing the wing at two-thirds, its inner edge somewhat produced along the costa, its outer margin marked by an angular whitish line, bent inward below the costa, outward to the middle of the wing, and thence obliquely inward to the dorsum where it terminates in a small buff-brown spot, a few brownish scales are scattered along its outer edge; around the apex and termen is a series of somewhat diffused brownish fuscous spots; cilia leaden grey, slightly mottled. Erp. al. 15 mm. Hindwings (1+) trapezoidal; pale greyish brown; cilia scarcely paler. Abdomen greyish brown, a small buff- brown spot above before the anal tuft. Legs brownish grey, the hind tarsi shaded externally with greyish fuscous. Type & (65727, Amula) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT. (65726 2) US, Nat. Mus.] Hab. Muxico: Guerrero: Amula, 6000 ft., IX. (A. H. Smith)—GuaTEMALa: Basa VERA Paz: San Gerénimo (G. C. Champion). Two specimens. 16. Anacampsis glaphyra, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 31.) Antennae pale cinereous, delicately annulate with fuscous. Palpi smooth, recurved, pale cinereous, the terminal joint longer than the median, reaching above the vertex, a slight fuscous shade along its under-side. Head and Thoraa olivaceous leaden grey ; face slightly paler. Forewings olivaceous leaden grey, with a fuscous dot close to the base of the cell, a slightly oblique dorsal streak at about one-sixth, extending across the fold, brownish fuscous, margined on either side with rich ferruginous scales; an obscure dot in the fold beyond its middle is followed by a discal dot above it, and another at the end of the cell; a rich ferruginous band crosses the wing at the commencement of the cilia, its upper and lower extremities shaded obliquely inward with dark brown; a series of small fuscous spots around the termen and apex at the base of the glaucous cilia, which are tipped with pale cinereous. Hip. al. 12 mm. Hindwings broader than the forewings, trapezoidal ; dark brown; cilia pale cinereous. Abdomen dark brown. Legs pale cinereous, the tarsi with four fuscous bands of diminishing width. Type & (65738) Mus. Wlsm, (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab. Mexico: vera cruz: Atoyac, IV. (H. H. Smith). Unique. This species is closely allied to swsceptella Wkr. (Cat. Lp. BM. 29 615 no. 275, Fga), but differs in the dark marginal row of spots before the pale termen, and in the broader and paler hindwings. 17. Anacampsis siderophaea, sp. n. Antennae cinereous, faintly annulate with brownish. Palpi cinereous. Head and Thoraw greyish cinereous. Forewings greyish cinereous, profusely sprinkled throughout with whitish cinereous scales, leaving an ill-defined triangular umber-brown costal spot beyond the middle, with a shade of the same colour on the outer portion of the fold, and a straight umber-brown terminal band including the apex, preceded on the costa by an obscure pale ochreous spot ; cilia cinereous, shaded with umber-brown towards their base. Exp. al. 11-15 mm. Hindwings dark umber-brown ; cilia paler. Abdomen dark umber-brown. Legs umber-brown, the hind tibiae whitish cinereous on their inner sides, with two whitish cinereous bands externally above the pale spurs; hind tarsi with four whitish annulations. Type (3 65722; 2 65723, Atoyac) Mus, Wlsm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.). (PL. (65701) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: vera cruz: Atoyac, IV. (H. H. Smith): tapasco: Teapa, Ill. (H. H. Smith). Four specimens. 40 HETEROCERA. 18. Anacampsis ambusta, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 33.) Antennae greyish brown. Palpi white, the terminal joint with a greyish tinge. Head greyish brown ; face whitish. Thorax brown, slightly streaked with hoary scales. Forewings dark brown, the basal portion much mottled with hoary white, forming a patch on the costa reaching to one-fourth ; a white spot Jies at the end of the cell and the dark brown ground-colour is somewhat abruptly terminated in a straight line across the wing from the commencement of the costal cilia, the apical portion being thence equally sprinkled with dark brown and hoary white, the latter forming a streak in the costal cilia 3 apical and terminal cilia at their base reddish brown, dark brown along their middle, and brownish cinereous at — their outer ends. Ezp.al.10 mm. Hindwings dark greyish brown, cilia somewhat paler. Abdomen shining bronzy brown. Legs, the median pair with strong spreading white tufts at the ends of the tibiae, a black patch at the base of the tuft externally, the tarsi whitish beneath, coppery brow above; hind legs greyish externally, whitish on their inner sides, the tarsi and hinder ends of the tibia spotted with white. . . Type 3 (65706, Teapa) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PTT. (68755-6) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, III. (H. Z. Smith). South America—CotomBia: Minca, 2000 ft, VI. 1899 (HZ. H. Smith). Eight specimens. This species was described from a single specimen from Mexico; the subsequent reception of a small series from Colombia extends the distribution. | 19. Anacampsis metadupa, sp. n. Antennae cinereous. Palpi very slender, rising high above the vertex, terminal joint longer than median ; pale cinereous. Head and Thorax dull brownish cinereous. orewings with olivaceous greenish and bronzy brownish reflections; a broad piumbeous band near the base, running obliquely outward from dorsum to costa, is narrowly reduplicated beyond ; from the middle of the dorsum arises a similar plumbeous band, which, attaining the costa obliquely before the cilia, is margined on its inner side by a somewhat triangular brownish fuscous costal spot, and on its outer side by a dorsal shade of the same colour; a triangular patch enclosing the apex and termen, with a dark line running through the middle of the cinereous terminal cilia, is also dark brownish fuscous, and is margined on its inner side by a pale cinereous line. Exp. al. 11-12 mm. Hindwings dark chocolate-brown ; cilia pale cinereous, with a dark line running through them near their base, and a dark fuscous fan-like flexal tuft of scales. Abdomen brownish fuscous, mixed with cinereous, a plumbeous band across the middle. Legs dark fuscous, with three conspicuous whitish bands around the tibiae, and two on the tarsi. Type & (65702) Mus, Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT'. (65704) US, Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: Tapasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Three specimens. 20. Anacampsis perinaeta, sp. n. Antennae dark stone-grey. Palpi with a slight brush on the median joint above; white. Head and Thorac dark stone-grey; face white. orewings stone-grey to half their length, thence dark bronzy brown ; on the basal half, in certain lights, a slight greenish iridescence is visible; on the outer half are several snow-white streaks, one forming an oblique costal spot beyond the middle, a second small straight triangular spot before the commencement of the costal cilia, and a third above the tornus, divided by a dark line into two longitudinal streaks ; in addition to these is an oblique apical streak, reduplicated in the apical cilia, a small length-streak below the outer end of the fold, and a shorter diverging streaklet above it; cilia shining, pale aeneous, with a dark line along their base. Exp.al.9mm. Hindwings umber-brown; cilia slightly paler. Abdomen bronzy brownish. Legs dark brownish, with white annulations on the tarsal joints and on the extremities of the tibiae. Type 3 (65728) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coil.). [PTZ (65729) US. Nat. Mus.) ANACAMPSIS. 4] - Hab. Mexico: guerrero: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (2. H. Smith). Two specimens. Closely allied to 5713 levipedel/a Clms., but differing in the presence of a white apical spot, reduplicated in the cilia. 21, Anacampsis suffectella Wkr. (Tab. II. figs. 2, 3.) Gelechia suffectella Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 610-11 sp. 266 (1864) *. Antennae dull ochreous, faintly annulate with fuscous, the apex white. Pulpi whitish, metallic. Head steel-blue, face paler. TZ'horaw steel-grey, with a shining bluish tinge. Forewings bright orange, with a short basal patch, a costal triangle, before the middle, reaching to the fold, and a large apical patch— all dark tawny fuscous, margined, except on the costa, by broken smaller patches of bright, shining steel-blue ; a conspicuous patch of the same shining steel-blue, edged with dark fuscous, lies in the centre of the triangular orange area, between the dark costal and apical patches; cilia pale greyish ; underside with a slender whitish line along the costa. wp. al. 9-10 mm. Hindwings brownish fuscous; cilia scarcely paler. Abdomen brownish fuscous; whitish beneath. Legs dark fuscous, the spurs and joints silvery white, the hind tarsi also with silvery annulations. , Type 3 (1858: 6, Ega) Mus. Br. [7Zt. (65714-5), (5838 Wlsm. Det.) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—Mexico: Tapasco: Teapa, III. (HM. H. Smith)—PaNAMA: CANAL ZONE: Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (A. Busck). South America— CoLOMBIA: MAGDALENA: Minca, 2000 ft., VI. 1899 (A. Hf. Smith)—Braziu': amMazons?: Ega (H. W. Bates): ceara: VIII. 1884 (J. H. Leech): msprrtro santo: (1871, Higgins) —Prru: cvuzco: Cuzco Mts. (Garlepp, Stgr. 1895). The specimen figured Tab. II. fig. 2 was originally regarded as distinct from suffectella Wkr., chiefly from the absence of any dark dusting on the orange ground- colour, such as exists to a limited extent on Walker’s type, and more conspicuously on another of my own (3 65711) which had been compared with it. A fair series of suffectella has now been put together, and I am unable to regard the black dusting (which, by the way, does not appear to have caught the eye of the artist) as more than a varietal difference, although in some specimens it is quite conspicuous. 22. Anacampsis trochilea, sp. n. Antennae greyish brown. Palpi whitish at the base, becoming greyish brown along the terminal joint. Head brilliant metallic shining green; face white. Yhoraw dark brownish fuscous, with a bright green metallic spot posteriorly, the tegulae bright shining metallic green; shining white beneath. Forewings dark brownish fuscous, with a broad outwardly curved blue-green metallic band near the base, a slightly oblique stone-grey fascia across the middle, somewhat produced inwards on the dorsum, a triangular costal spot of the same colour between this and the metallic band, the termen, apex and cilia also stone-grey. Hap. al.12 mm. Hindwings brownish fuscous, with a dark fuscous spot at the flexus; cilia stone-grey. Abdomen brilliant metallic shining green, with two brownish fuscous transverse bands, the second immediately before the stone-grey anal tuft; shining white beneath. Legs white, with two brownish fuscous spots on the hind tibiae. Type 3 (65707) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.) BM.* [P7'. (65708) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, IIT. (4. H. Smith). Two specimens. * [The Walsingham Collections were transferred to the British Museum 1st April, 1910.—Jno. Harrier Durrant. | BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. IV., October 1910. 99 42 HETEROCERA. Smaller than perlatella Wkr. [Cat. Lp. BM. 29 612 sp. 269 (1864) Ega; n. syn. = smaragdulella Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 614 sp. 273 (1864) Santarem], and in the material before me the stone-grey costal spot of trochilea is of moderate size and inconspicuous, while in perlatella it is produced to the dorsum as a fascia; moreover, the apical and terminal cilia of the forewings, as well as the cilia of the hindwings, are decidedly paler, and the apex of the forewing itself partakes in some degree of the grey tinge of the cilia which is certainly not the case in perlatella. A perhaps even more reliable difference is to be found in the form of the dark brown colouring which precedes the pale median band—in perlatella this encroaches outward towards the costa, throwing an acute point along the costa to two-thirds, whereas in trochilea this is much more abruptly terminated on the costa at about the middle. The type of secundella Wkr. [Cat. Lp. BM. 29 615 sp. 274 (1864) Ega] which has almost entirely lost (in its present condition) the metallic colouring, described in somewhat similar terms to that of perlatetia (=smaragdulella), approaches perhaps more nearly to the Mexican trochilea Wlsm. than the other two types, in that the apex and cilia are slightly grey, and the oblique dark band rather more abruptly terminated on the costa; but in secundella this band does not recede towards the base along the dorsum as in érochilea, while like perlatella it is a rather larger and stouter species, and the hind tarsi of secundella are white. Were it in good condition it would, I think, be more easy to separate it. 23. Anacampsis speciosella Wkr. Gelechia speciosella Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 618 sp. 271 (1864) *. Antennae dark brown, white at the apex. Palpi shining aeneous. Head and Thorax iridescent peacock- blue; face aeneous. Forewings rich dark brown, with a metallic bluish spot at the extreme base of the costa, and five snow-white spots—one costal, at two-thirds of the wing-length ; one dorsal, at three- fourths; one on the disc, before the middle; one at the lower angle of the cell; and one below the fold, nearer to the base; cilia dark brownish fuscous, snow-white on the middle of the termen. Exp. al. 12-13 mm. Hindwings and cilia dark brownish fuscous. Abdomen shining, iridescent, dark greyish green. Legs dark brown, banded on the tibiae and tarsi with snow-white ; spurs snow-white. Type 2 (1857: 20) Mus. Br.; Ct. ¢ (65754) Mus, Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [Hit. (65756-7) US. Nat. Mus. | Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—GUATEMALA: VERA PAZ: Cubilguitz (G. C. Champion)—Panama: cumriqui: Bugaba, 800-1500 ft. (G. @. Champion). South America—BraziL: aMAzons: Ega (Hl. W. Bates)’. Closely allied to stelliferella Wkr. [Cat. Lp. BM. 29 613 sp. 270 (1864)], with which it agrees in the number of white spots in the forewings. These amount to five in both species, although Walker only recognised four in the type of stelliferelia, where he evidently overlooked the linear one in the fold which precedes the first costal: speciosella differs however consistently in the presence of a conspicuous white spot in the apical cilia of the forewings which is not found in stelliferella. ANACAMPSIS.—RECURVARIA. 43 24, Anacampsis (??) veteranella Z. Gelechia (Tachyptilia) desectella Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 138 361-2 sp. 21 Pf. 5-121 (1877) *. Hab. {Central America ?| If the figure is in any way reliable this species cannot be an Anacampsis Crt. (=Tachyptilia Hnmn.), but would appear to belong to the narrow-winged Gele- chiadiae. We are unacquainted with the species which is represented in Staudinger’s collection by nine specimens from the “Sommer’schen Sammlung ohne Angabe des Vaterlandes, das aber doch wohl das warmere Amerika” *. | EVIPPE Chmb. Type 1: Evippe prunifoliella Chmb. (Chmb. 1873). Eviere Chmb. Can. Ent. 5 185-6 (1873); Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 500 sp. 5593-4 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 772, 805-6 Pf. 29°13 (1903) : 30 725 tf. 725-3 (1906). Type 2: Gelechia (Teleia?) leuconota Z. (=plutella Chmb. ; Chmb. 1875). §Pxartvsa Chmb. Can. Ent.'7 105-7 (1875): Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 160 (1878); Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 805-6 (1903). 1. Evippe leuconota Z. =plutella Chmb."~"’. Gelechia (Teleia ?) leuconota Z. Verh. ZB. Ges. Wien 28: 1873 Abh. 268-9 Pf. 3-21 (1873)’. Phaetusa plutella Chmb. Cat. Ent. 7 105-7 (1875)”. Gelechia leuconota Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 144 (1878)*. Phaetusa plutella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 160 (1878) *: Can. Ent. 10 53-4 (1878)°; Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 10 177 (1882)°; Mrtf. Can. Ent. 15 94 (1883)". Gelechia leuconota Hgn. Pap. 4 99 (1884)*; Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 108 sp. 5401 (1891)°. Phaetusa plutella Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 103 sp. 5512 (1891).°. Evippe leuconota Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 500 sp. 5594 (1902)"': Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 806 Pf. 29°13 (1903) ”. - Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States, E.’—Kenrucny ’—Texas*-”. Central America— Mexico: sonora: 1883 (iH. K. Morrison). A single specimen (35721) in poor condition, but lacking the white costal spot which distinguishes prunifolzella Chmb. RECURVARIA Hw. =§Evacora Clms.; =Erporuza Chmb.; =Srnoz Chmb. ; =AnarHauza Meyr. Type 1: Tinea nanella S-D., Hb. (Hnmn. 1870). Recurvaria Hw. Lp. Br. 547-58 sp. 1-47 (1828) ; Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 189, 279-81 no. 423 sp. 416-7 (1870), Tbl. 41 no. 423 (1876); Stn. Ent. Mo. Mag. 7 167-8 (1870) ; 99 2 44 HETEROCERA. Stgr Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 296 no. 199 sp. 1997-8 (1871); Snln. Vlind. Nederl. Micr. 429, 669-71 no. 45 sp. 1-2 P£. 8° 268-9 (1882) ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 155 no. 315 sp. 2873-4 (1901) ; Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 500-1 sp. 5596--605 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 772, 807-15 Pf. 29-15 (1903): 30 725-6 tf. 726°4 (1906): Can. Ent. 38 212 (1906) : Ent. News 19 316-7 (1908); Splr. Schm. Eur. 2 356-7 no. 16 sp. 1-2 (1910). Type 2: Evagora apicitripunctella Clms. (Clms. 1860). §Evaagora Clms. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. 12 165-6 (1860): Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. x, 119-21 (1872) ; Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 10 182 (1882): Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 63-6 sp. 21-6 (1897) ; Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 807-9, 934 (1903): Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 5 200 (1903). Type 3: Gelechia (Teleia?) dorsivittella. Z. (=vagatioella Chmb. ; Chmb. 1873). Ewornea Chmb. +Ezporz0a Chmb. Can. Ent. 5 186-7 (1873). t{Erporuza Chmb. Can. Ent. 5 229-30 (1873). Ezporzoa Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 807-8, 812-3 (1903). Type 4: Anacampsis robiniella Fitch (=/fuscopallidella Chmb. ; Chmb. 1873). Sinoz Chmb. Can. Ent. 5 229-231 (1873); Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 807-8, 812-13 (1903). Type 5: Phalaena Tinea leucatella Cl., L. *Recurvaria (Hw.) HS. SB. Schm. Eur. 5 11, 44 no. 71 Pf. 14°d (1858), 205-6 no. 71 sp. 573-4 (1854). Apnanauta Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 569, 579-80 no. 7 sp. 1-2 (1895) ; Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 807-8 (1903). [*Rucvrvaria (Hw.) Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 569, 606-7 no. 17 sp. 1 (1895) =Acomesra Hb. (Type cinerella Cl.; Dp. 1838) vide Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 82 no. 18 (1897). ] 1. Recurvaria rhicnota, sp.n. (Tab. II. fig. 4.) Antennae pale cinereous, annulated with dark brown. Palpi with the median joint somewhat densely clothed, not hirsute, terminal joint as long as the median, acuminate; whitish cinereous, with two broad bands of dark brown on each joint, the anteterminal band on the median joint narrower than the other three. Head whitish cinereons, sprinkled with dark brown. Thoraw dark brown, sprinkled with pale cinereous. Forewings olivaceous brownish, with a slight ochreous tinge, profusely speckled with pale cinereous, especially on their basal half; with numerous dark brown spots and blotches, of which the more conspicuous are two costal on either side of the middle, one discal a little beyond the middle, one dorsal before the tornus, and three or four smaller marginal, around the apex; cilia brownish ochreous, with a shade of fuscous speckling running through their middle. Exp. al.15 mm. Hind- wings narrower than the forewings, slightly bisinuate below the apex ; bronzy brownish grey ; cilia (12) brownish grey. Abdomen greyish brown. Legs, hind tibiae with brownish ochreous hairs above; the tarsi greyish brown, with four pale annulations. Type 2 (65784) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab, Guatemata: Las Mercedes, 3000 ft. (G. C. Champion). Unique. Allied to 5598 colubrinae Busck. 2. Recurvaria sartor, sp.n. (Tab. II. fig. 7.) Antennae black, with indistinct whitish annulations. Palpi recurved, median joint slightly roughened beneath, terminal nearly as long as median, slender; white, with two black annulations on the terminal, RECURVARIA, 45 and a few black scales on the outer side of the median. Head white. Thoraa pale fawn-brownish. Forewings fawn-brownish, with a lilac tinge (possibly due to abrasion), the costa is slightly shaded along the basal half; there is a patch of black raised scales on the dorsum at one-fourth, partially connected by blackish scaling along the dorsum, with a second smaller but otherwise similar spot at about two- thirds ; cilia fawn-brownish about the apex, with a slight speckled appearance, becoming pale brownish grey on the tornus and at the dorsum. xp.al.11mm. AHindwings pale shining silvery grey ; cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen dark brownish grey. Legs whitish, with four black tarsal spots above. Type 3 (65792) Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: GuerRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Unique. A distinct species. 8. Recurvaria thysanota, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 5.) Antennae somewhat stout; cinereous, with faint darker annulations. Palpi chalky-white, the median joint somewhat expanded on either side at its apex, shaded with brownish fuscous externally at its base; terminal joint about as long as the median, porrect, with two fuscous annulations. Head and Thorax chalky-white, the tegulae smeared with brownish fuscous. Forewings chalky-white, somewhat shaded and sprinkled with brownish fuscous; a dark brownish fuscous line on the base along the fold and another from the middle of the wing to above the apex are blended by brownish shading on the basal half of the cell; a small fuscous dot lies a little above the outer extremity of the fold, and there is another at the extreme apex; apical and subapical cilia whitish, sprinkled with brownish fuscous ; tornal cilia unsprinkled, inclining to brownish ochreous. wp. al. 10 mm. Hindwings nearly as broad as the forewings, oblique below the produced apex; g with a conspicuous yellowish ochreous limbal hair-pencil; shining, pale steely grey; cilia brownish cinereous, with a slight ochreous tinge. Abdomen shining, steel-whitish. Legs whitish cinereous. Type & (65786) Mus, Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: cuerreRo: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Unique. Most nearly allied to juntperella Krft. [Jr. N-Y. Ent. Soc. 11 153, 157-8 Pf. 9° 3, 17 (1903)], but separable by the limbal hair-pencil, and the slightly different markings, 4, Recurvaria flagellifer, sp. n. Antennae pale brownish fuscous. Palpi white, the median joint black nearly to its apex on the outer side, but not within nor above; terminal joint with two blackish annulations. Head and Yhoraw dirty whitish, the latter sprinkled with brownish fuscous. Forewings dirty whitish, profusely sprinkled with brownish fuscous, with numerous small spots of pale, slightly raised. scales; the fuscous clouding tends to assume the form of oblique shades descending outward from the costa, but these are so confused and ill-defined that they do not constitute true bands or fasciae, nor do they reach the dorsum; the first of these is near the base and can be traced to the fold and a little beyond it; the second is a little before the middle, rather less oblique, but in some specimens more strongly marked than the first; the third consists mainly of a larger dark fuscous cloud before the commencement of the costal cilia, and opposite to this is a smaller patch on the dorsum, the terminal portion of the wing being also more or less suffused ; cilia of the same colour as the wing-surface, with the same speckled appearance. Hxp. al. 11-13 mm. AHindwings shining, pale greyish; cilia shining, brownish ochreous; ¢ with strong bright ochreous flexal hair-pencil. Abdomen brownish fuscous, Legs dirty whitish, with fuscous tarsal shade- ‘bands. Type 3 (85777); 2 (65778) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PIT (65779-80) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII-IX. (H. H. Smith). Seven specimens. 46 Ante HETEROCERA. 5. Recurvaria sticta, sp. n. nae whitish ochreous, barred above with black beyond the rather thickened basal joint. Palpi whitish, the basal half of the median joint black on the outer side, with a small black spot before its apex ; terminal joint with two black annulations, Head and Thorax whitish ochreous. Forewings whitish ochreous, minutely dusted with pale brown and some blackish scales, with numerous black spots around which the brownish dusting is rather more profuse; at the extreme base of the costa is a small reduplicated black spot, with another at the middle of the base beneath it; a black costal spot before the middle is followed by a larger one, somewhat quadrangular, beyond the middle, after which three small black dots along the base of the costal cilia are followed by an oblique black apical streak ; @ conspicuous outwardly oblique black dorsal patch arises immediately beyond the flexus, extending across the fold before its middle; there is a broken black streak along the outer half of the cell, a dorsal spot before the tornus, three or four small black spots along the termen, and one or two others just beyond the cell, enclosed by a faintly indicated whitish line, strongly bent outward, passing from the costal to the dorsal cilia ; terminal cilia whitish ochreous, minutely dusted with black which forms a faint line running through them beyond their middle ; dorsal cilia greyish ochreous ; underside profusely shaded with fuscous. wp. al.10-12 mm. Hindwings pale bluish grey along the middle, the costa narrowly, the dorsum broadly tinged with brownish ochreous; underside sprinkled with fuscous along the costa, especially at the apex; cilia greyish ochreous. Abdomen pale ochreous. Legs pale ochreous, with conspicuous black tarsal annulations. Type 3 (65787) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PTT. (65789-90) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: GuERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Five specimens. 6. Recurvaria picula, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 6.). Antennae white, with slender black annulations. Palpt white, the median joint moderately clothed, black at the base, with an olivaceous spot on its outer side toward its apex ; terminal joint with two olivaceous brownish annulations. Head and Thorax white, the tegulae with a black spot at their base. Forewings white, slightly smeared with olivaceous brown between the black markings, which consist of four elongate costal spots—one at the base, forming the origin of an outwardly oblique black and brown fascia, in which some of the scales are slightly raised, reaching the dorsum at one-third from the base; one, scarcely before the middle, one beyond the middle, and a fourth, forming a somewhat broken patch, just before the apex ; there is another mixed black and brownish spot on the dorsum before the tornus, while a little below each of the two middle costal spots is a black dot; terminal cilia whitish, mottled with olivaceous brownish ; dorsal cilia grey. Hwp.al.10 mm. Hindwings grey; cilia grey, with a slight brownish tinge, especially at the termen. Abdomen grey. Legs white, smeared with grey on their outer sides. Type (5978 Wism. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. fab. MExico: VERA cruz: Cordova, II. 1908 (Ff. Knab). Unique. 7. Recurvaria dorsivittella Z. =vagatioella Chmb."~", Gelechia (Teleia ?) dorsivittella Z. Verh. ZB. Ges. Wien 28:1873 267-8 Pf. 3:20 (1873)? Eidothoa vagatioella Chmb. Can. Ent. 5 186-7 (1873)*. Hidothea vagatioella Chmb. Can. Ent. 7 105-6 (1875)°. Gelechia dorsivittella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 143 (1878) *. Gelechia vagatioella Chmb, Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 139, 147 (1878)°. Gelechia dorsivittella Hgn. Pap. 4 98 (1884)°; Riley, Smith’s List Bor-Am. 101 sp. 5857 (1891) ". Gelechia vagatiocella Riley, Smith’s List Bor-Am. 102 sp. 5505 (1891)*. Aristotelia dorsivittella Wism. Pr. Z, Soc. Lond. 1897 66 sp. 26 (1897)*; Dietz, Smith’s Ins. N-Jers. 475 (1900). Recurvaria dorsivittella Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 501 sp. 5603 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 808, 813-4 (1903) ”. | RECURVARIA.—EPITHECTIS, . 47 Hab. AMERICA, N-C-I. United States'~’ — Eastern Srares’*-? — Ken- TucKY 21} ”_Texas'®*'?, Central America—Mexico: guerrero: Amula, 6000 ft., VILL. (A. H. Smith). West Indies °— St. Crorx: 6-14 V. (Gudmann, Hedemann) *. A single specimen only (65785) received from Amula. EPITHECTIS Meyr. Type 1: Phalaena Tinea mouffetella L. (Snln. 1882). §Bracuura Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 189, 230-3 no. 419 sp. 3833-7 (1870), Tbl. 85 no. 419 (1876) ; Stn. Ent. Mo. Mag. 7 166 (1870) ; Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 292 no. 195 sp. 1871-7 (1871); Snln. Vlind. Nederl. Micr. 430, 671-3 no. 46 sp. 1 Pf. 8° 259, 271 (1882). Type 2: Gelechia lathyri Stn. Erituectis Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 569, 580-1 no. 8 sp. 1-2 (1895); Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 154 no, 313 sp. 2850-8 (1901); Meyr. Pr. Linn. Soc. NSW. 29 259, 303-4 no. 14 sp. 78 (1904): Jr. Bomb. NH. Soc. 16 592 (1905);- Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 501-2 sp. 5608-13 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 772, 816-9 Pf. 30°17 (1903) ; Splr. Schm. Eur. 2 356 no. 15 sp. 1-9 (1910). Type 3: Gelechia attributella Wkr. (=diffcilisella Chmb. ; Chmb. 1873). §Taverrz Chmb. Can. Ent. (4 192-3), 5 229-82 (1873); Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 816-7 Pf. 80°17 (1903). [ Taygete Chmb. regarded as homonymous with Taygetis Hb. Verz. Schm., 55-6 (1816) Busck J. c.] Type 4: Parasia ? subsimella Clms. (Clms. 1860). . *Parasta (? Dp.) Clms. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. 12 173 (1860) ; Clms-Stn. Tin, N. Am. x, 136-7 (1872); Busck, Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 816, 819, 934 (1903). 1. Epithectis lasciva, sp.n. (Tab. IT. fig. 8.) Antennae ochreous, stained and obscurely annulate with blackish. Palpi ochreous, a black band before the apex of the median joint, a narrower one at the base, and another wider one before the apex of the terminal. Head dull ochreous, mixed with smoky fuscous scales. Zhorax ochreous, with some black scaling posteriorly and on the tegulae. Morewings pale ochreous, with some streaky shades of darker brownish ochreous above and below the fold, along the cell, and beyond it; a short black streak, at the base, reaches nearly to the flexus, but does not actually touch the margin, and is followed by three, elongate, black costal spots, gradually increasing in size—the first near the base, the second before the middle, the third, and most conspicuous, beyond the middle; below each of the two latter are a few black dots, and beyond the last is a series of small marginal black spots running around the apex and termen ; cilia ochreous dusted with smoky fuscous. Hwp.al.85 mm. Hindwings pale grey ; cilia pale greyish ochreous, Abdomen greyish ochreous. Legs pale ochreous. Type 3 (5843 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. [PZ (83607) Mus. Wilsm. BM.1} Hab. Panama: canau zone: Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (4. Busck). Two specimens. 2.-Epithectis platysoma, sp. n. Antennae dull brown above, inclining to ochreous beneath. Palpz pale fawn-ochreous, blotched with dull brown on the outer side of the median joint to beyond the middle, as well as broadly around the base and narrowly before the apex of the terminal joint. Head brownish ochreous, face paler. Thorax dull 48 ‘HETEROCERA. brown, posteriorly margined with ochreous. orewings narrow, elongate, lanceolate towards the apex, the costa slightly arched towards the base; pale fawn-ochreous, with a short dull brown basal patch, a slightly oblique dark brown half-fascia at one-third from costa to fold, somewhat interrupted below its ‘ broad costal extremity; a shorter semi-fasciaform blotch of the same colour beyond the middle, not reaching to the fold in some specimens, but continued posteriorly to the dorsum 1n others, the apex and termen being also clouded with dull brown; cilia brownish ochreous, except on the costa where they partake of the colour of the brown apex. wp. al. 18-21 mm. Hindwings much broader than the forewings, not incised below the apex; pale cinereous, with a slight ochreous tinge ; cilia brownish ochreous. Abdomen flattened, with angular projections of scales at the sides of the segments ; brownish "ochreous, shading to brown posteriorly. Legs ochreous, shaded with brown externally. Type 3 (4714); @ (65879) Mus. Wism. BM. [PZ. (4715) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: puranco: Milpas (Forrer): VERA cruz: Las Vegas, 8000 ft., 1887 (W. Schaus). Four specimens. Closely allied to 5609 bicostimaculella Chmb., but differing in its larger size and more ochreous colouring, in the brownish ochreous cilia (especially of the forewings), which in the other species are white, in the prolongation of the first costal patch to or beyond the fold, and the inward expansion of the second costal patch on the cell. 3. Epithectis critica, sp.n. (Tab. Il. fig. 9.) Antennae blackish. Palpi white, the median joint black on its basal half externally. Head white. Thorax - ereamy white, the extreme base of the tegulae blackish. Forewings creamy ochreous, becoming more ochreous towards the apex, the costa blackish from the base to beyond the middle and profusely dusted with black towards the apex; a black dusted patch crosses the fold beyond its middle, not reaching the dorsum, and beyond this the apical portion of the wing is profusely dusted with black intermixed with whitish scales along the lines of the nervules; the cilia on the termen and apex are thickly peppered _ throughout their length with black scale-points, alternating with whitish ochreous. xp. al, 9 mm. Hindwings narrower than the forewings, elongate, trapezoidal, somewhat angular below the projecting apex; pale grey; cilia brownish grey. Leys whitish ochreous, thickly peppered with black scaling externally on the tibiae and tarsi. Type 2 (65793) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Unique. Very similar in size and appearance to 2856 lathyri Stn., the type of the genus Epithectis Meyr. It should be noted that neither of the two potential geneotypes of Enithectis agrees precisely with Meyrick’s description : lathyri Stn. (like erttica) having HW: 3-4 closely approximate, but not connate, while mouffetella S-D. has these veins stalked, not connate. AROGALEA, gen. n. (dpwyds =expedient ; ddeos= fulness.) Type: Gelechia cristifasciella Chmb. Antennae 3, basal joint without pecten; 9 simple. Labial Palpi recurved, acute; median joint somewhat thickened with rough scales beneath, terminal smooth. Mavillary Palpi short, converging. Head smooth, with large flat iridescent scales. Zhoraw smooth. Forewings elongate, with somewhat straightened costa, slightly depressed to the lanceolate apex, of even width thence to the flexus; with raised scales: neuration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, to costa; 2-6 separate, 2 remote from 3. Hindwings 1, with oblique, but not incised termen: neuration 8 veins; 3 and 4 separate; 5 cubital; 6 and 7 separate, nearly parallel. Abdomen moderate. Legs, hind tibiae hairy above. AROGALEA. 49 ; | AN WR < ww . 12. Arogalea cristifasciella Chmb. Q. J. H. Durrant, del. Nearest to Telphusa Chmb., from which it differs in having HW: 6-7 separate, and from Leptogencia Meyr. [Pr. Linn. Soc. NSW. 29 257, 412-3 no, 47 (1904)] in the lack of the rough projecting tuft on the lower side of the palpi, as also in having FW: 2 remote from 3. Although not nearly related, Arogalea is liable to be confused in tabulations with Aristotelia Hb., owing to the separation of HW: 6-7. Arogalea differs in these veins not being truly parallel, in HW: 5 being bent towards 4 at base, and in the presence of raised scales in the forewings. | 1. Arogalea archaea, sp.n. (Tab. II. fig. 10.) Antennae white, delicately annulate with brown. Palpi white, the median joint slightly thickened, with a proad olive-brown band near the base, a narrower one near its apex ; terminal joint with a narrow band near its base, a wide one at its apex. Head and face snow-white. Thorax white, dusted with olive- brown. Forewings white, profusely dusted with olive-brown, with many brownish fuscous spots and mottlings ; a small one at the base of the costa is followed by another a little beyond it, a third lying below the base of the fold; a dorsal streak at about one-fifth crosses the fold upward and terminates on the cell; above and beyond this are two more spots, one on the costa, one below and beyond it; these are followed by a broad brownish fuscous costal blotch, beyond the middle, which merges at its lower end in an olive-brown median shade, and opposite to it is a scarcely smaller dorsal blotch, the apical portion of the wing being mottled throughout with brownish fuscous, mixed with olive-brown ; cilia white, with lines of olive-brown dusting running through them, tornal cilia pale brownish cinereous. Exp. al. 13 mm. Hindwings (1) shining, pale grey ; cilia brownish cinereous. -Abdomen brownish cinereous. Legs pale brownish cinereous, the tarsal joints distinctly banded with fuscous. Type 3 (65794) Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: GuerRERo: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (7. H. Smith). Unique. 2. Arogalea senecta, sp. n. Antennae stout, greyish fuscous. Palpi white, with a broad blackish band at the base and a narrower one before the apex of the median joint ; with two blackish bands around the terminal joint, one before, the other beyond the middle. Head and Thorax greyish white, sprinkled with dark fuscous. Forewings ‘narrow, elongate, greyish white, with dark fuscous sprinkling throughout and black scale-patches, some of which are distinctly raised; a small raised black spot on the costa near the base, a larger black spot in and above the fold at about one-fourth, a distinctly raised black patch on and above the dorsum beneath it, accompanied by a few chestnut-brown scales, also raised ; beyond this series of spots, which are more or less BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. IV., May 1911. hh 50 HETEROCERA. connected, a black costal spot occurs before the middle, with a curved black streak a little below and beyond it at the upper edge of the cell; this is succeeded by an inwardly oblique blackish cloud coming from the costa beyond the middle and almost connected with an opposite black dorsal spot, the latter narrowly produced outward and diffused nearly to the tornus; the apical portion of the wing thickly sprinkled with dark fuscous, a streak of the same running through the basal half of the cilia at the apex ; cilia whitish grey, assuming an ochreous tint along the dorsum. up. al.12mm. Hindwings pale, shining, bluish grey; cilia ochreous grey. -Abdomen shining, pale brownish ochreous. Legs: anterior pair barred with black and white; posterior legs whitish, the tarsal joints with blackish annulations. Type 3 (65797) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PZ. (65798) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. Mexico: GuerRERo: Amula, 6000 ft., IX. (H. H. Smith). ‘Two specimens. 8. Arogalea albilingua, sp. n. Antennae white, with faint darker annulations. Palpi with strong sooty black patch at the base of the median joint, a small brown spot before the apex ; with a black annulus near the base of the terminal joint and a wider one near its apex. Haustellum scaled with white at its base, showing somewhat conspicu- ously between the dark eyes and bases of the palpi. Masillary Palpi short, whitish. Head shining, silvery white. horas white, faintly dusted with brownish fuscous. Forewinys shining white, sprinkled with brownish ochreous and brownish fuscous scales ; with five conspicuous black marginal spots, one of these at the base of the costa is reduplicated, the white ground showing between its extremities ; a second costal spot, before the middle, is followed by a third beyond the middle, opposite to which and alittle beyond it is a black dorsal spot of raised scales at the end of the fold; beyond this again is a speck of black scales on the termen a little above the tornus; another conspicuous black spot, with raised white scales intermixed, lies across the middle of the fold, a smaller similar spot on the cell about the middle of the wing; cilia white, with some greyish fuscous dusting along their base, becoming shining ochreous on the dorsum; underside fuscous. xp. al. 10-10°5 mm. Hindwings pale steely grey ; cilia shining, ochreous ; underside pale rosy grey. Abdomen shining, pale greyish ochreous. Legs shining, whitish ochreous, the hind tarsi faintly spotted. Type 3 (65795) Mus. Wl1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT. (65796) US. Nat. Mus. } Hab, Mexico: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens. ZELOSYNE, gen. n. (fn\oobvyn = emulation.) Type: Zelosyne poecilosoma Wlsm. (Tab. II. fig. 11.) 42 44 10_— BL 2 J. H. Durrant, del. 18. Zelosyne poecilosoma Wlam. ¢. ZELOSYNE.—PHTHORIMAEA. 51 Antennae simple; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi recurved; median joint with well-developed brush beneath ; terminal joint slightly thickened by coarse scaling, longer than median. Mazillary Palpi short. Haustellum scaled. Ocelle absent. Head and Thoraw smooth, Forewings with costa straight, dorsum parallel, apex considerably depressed, rounded: neuration 11 veins; 7-8 coincident, to costa; rest separate, 5-6 remote; 4 from angle, 3 remote from 4, nearer to 2. Hindwings trapezoidal, termen oblique, cilia 1+: neuration 8 veins; 6-7 separate, nearly parallel; 3-4 separate; 5 cubital; 11 connecting radius to 12. Abdomen smooth. Legs: hind tibiae slightly hairy. A distinct genus, differing from <Arogalea in the origin of FW: 2-3, and the coincidence of 7-8. 1. Zelosyne poecilosoma, sp.n. (Tab. Il. fig. 11.) Antennae white, much stained with brownish on the basal half; basal joint white. Palpi white, median joint yellowish brown on the outer side to two-thirds; terminal joint white, a narrow band of pale brown at its middle. Head white. Thorax and tegulae yellowish brown, a large white spot posteriorly. Forewings shining, white, with yellowish brown markings ; a short basal patch, wider on the costa than on the dorsum, where it does not reach the flexus, is narrowly edged outwardly with blackish scales ; a central fascia, also slightly wider on the costa than on the dorsum, is narrowly edged before and behind with blackish scales; a patch of the same yellowish brown colour covers the apical portion of the wing including the tornus, this is slightly produced backward on the costa, nearly reaching the outer edge of the central fascia; it is narrowly edged with black on its inner side, and along the costa, above the greatly depressed apex, is an elongate patch of black scales, more or less diffused inward across the fascia, and clearly defined by a black line on its outer side, where it is followed by a rather broad line of yellowish brown before the cilia which are brown, with a slender white line along their base, and contain a few blackish scales, especially below the apex. Hap. al.10 mm. Hindwings and cilia brownish grey. Abdomen brownish grey above, obliquely striped on the sides by three or four alternating streaks of yellowish, black, and white. Legs pale cinereous, shaded transversely with brownish grey, leaving one or two pale spots on the tarsi. Type & (5847 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. [P7’. (83609) Mus. Wlsm. BM.] Hab. PANAMA: CANAL ZONE: Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (A. Busck). Two specimens, taken at light. [33609 had been badly broken, and was mounted for the neuration ; the head was too much injured for figuring. Drnt.| PHTHORIMAEA Meyr. Type: Gelechia (? Bryotropha) operculella Z. (Meyr. 1902). PutTHoriMaEA Meyr. Ent. Mo. Mag. 88 103-4 (1902); Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 502 sp. 5616-9 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 773, 821-8 Pf. 30-19 (1903): 30726 (1906); Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 110 sp. 6160-3 (1903) ; Meyr. Pr. Linn. Soc. NSW. 29 259, 315-6 no. 20 sp. 94 (1904); Wlsm. Fn. Haw. 1 483-5, 744 no. 7 sp. 21 Pf. 13+ 27 (1907) ; Meyr. Ann. S-Afr. Mus. 5 352 (1909). 1. Phthorimaea impudica, sp. n. Antennae whitish, with slight fuscous annulations. Palpi white; the rather projecting brush on the under- side of the median joint streaked with dark fuscous; a blackish ring around the base of the terminal joint. Head and Thorax whitish, mottled with dark fuscous. Forewings dull white, much sprinkled and suffused with pale greyish fuscous, among which are some slightly raised black scales; the extreme hh 2 52 HETEROCERA. base of the costa is whitish, but beyond it the margin is stained with brown, three times narrowly inter- rupted by the pale ground-colour, thus broken into a series of three or four outwardly diminishing elongate costal spots ; a short ochreous length-streak occurs near the base, below the costa, and at one- third are two small patches of raised, black, whitish tipped scales, one below the fold the other below the costa; at the end of the cell is a small fuscous stain, accompanied by a few ochreous scales, the apical portion and cilia being much dusted with greyish fuscous. Exp. al. 105 mm. Hindwings grey ; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen grey ; anal tuft pale ochreous, the appendages strongly developed. Legs whitish. Type d (5845 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. [PT. (33608) Mus. Wism. BM. | Hab. Panama: CANAL ZONE: Tabernilla, 1907 (4. Busck). ‘Two specimens. GNORIMOSCHEMA Busck. Type: Gelechia gallaesolidaginis Riley (Busck 1900). Gnorimoscuema Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 23 227-8 Pf. 1-3 (1900): Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 502-4 sp. 5620-41 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 773, 823-35 Pf. 30° 20 (1903); Krft. Jr. NY. Ent. Soc. 11 158-62 Pf. 9° 5, 7, 18 (1908): Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor- Am. 110 sp. 6164— 88 (1903); Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 27 757-8 (1904); Meyr. Pr. Linn. Soc. NSW. 29 259, 316-22 no. 21 sp. 95-108 (1904) : Jr. Bomb. NH. Soc. 16 592 (1905) ; Busck Can. Ent. 40 193-4 (1908): Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 11 175-7 (1909). 1. Gnorimoschema dudiella Busck. Gnorimoschema dudiella Busck [Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 503 sp. 5627 (1902)’ LN.]: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 824, 828-9 (1903)*; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 110 sp. 6172 (1908) *. Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States’ ® — Arizona? [ = “Col.”*]. Central America—Mexico: GuerRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). A single specimen (65800) in good condition, determined by Busck. 2. Gnorimoschema henshawiella Busck. = § ochreostrigella Chmb. 1877 (nec Chmb. 1875—sp. alt. *). Gelechia ochreostrigella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 3 126-7 (1877)'. Gnorimoschema ochreostrigelia Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 503 sp. 5632 (1902)°: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 824 (1908) *. Gnorimoschema henshawieila Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 831, 869 (1903)*; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 110 sp. 6177 (1903) °. Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States’ ~—Cotorapo*~ >. Central America— Mexico : GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). | A single specimen (65799), determined by Busck. 3. Gnorimoschema saphirinella Chmb. Gelechia saphirinella Chmb. Cin. Qr. Jr. Sc. 2 250 (1875)*. Gelechia sapharinella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 147 (1878)?; Hgn. Pap. 4 99 (1884) °; Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 102 sp. 5473 (1891)*. Gnorimoschema saphirinella Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 503 GNORIMOSCHEMA.—TABERNILLAIA. 53 sp. 5634 (1902) *: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 824, 832 (1903) °; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 110 sp. 6179 (1903); Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 27 758 (1904) °. Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States’ °—Districr or CotumBia® “—Texas*" [= Ky.?7%; =**Col.”>*]. Central America — Mzxico: sonora: 1883 (Hl. K. Morrison). A single specimen (35478), determined by Busck. [Some uncertainty as to the origin of the type of this and other species has been occasioned by the omission of the localities in connection with the descriptions by Chambers, Cin. Qr. Jr. Sc. 2 244-59 (1875). Hagen (*) records the type of saphi- rinella as from “ Ky.?”, while Busck (*°) writes “It was described from Colorado.” Chambers (J. c. 244) said “the following fourteen species are from California” i. e.—1 Endrosis ferrestrella ; 2 Gelechia lacteus-ochrella ; 3 maculatusella ; 4 thorace- strigella; 5 aequepulvella; 6 thoracenigracella; 7 thoracefasciella; 8 occidentella ; 9 grisseochrella; 10 ochreostrigella; 11 discostrigella; 12 ocherfuscella; 13 Tinea behrensella; 14 niveocapitella; and (J. c. 258) added the information that “'The fore- going descriptions of ‘ Teneina from Texas’ are the conclusion of a series, the remainder of which have been heretofore published in the Canadian Entomologist.” The Texan species would therefore start with the second series of Gelechia, commencing with saphirinella on p. 250 and continuing to the end of the paper. Drnt. | TABERNILLATA, gen. n. (TABERNILLA, nom. pr.) Type: Tabernillaia ephialtes Wlsm. (Tab. II. fig. 12.) 83610 J. H. Durrant, del. 14. Tabernillaia ephialtes Wism. ¢. 54 HETEROCERA. Antennae simple; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi long, recurved ; both joints evenly thickened with appressed scales, nearly smooth; terminal joint nearly as long as median, pointed. Maxillary Palpi short. Haustellum well-developed. Ocelli absent. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings elongate-ovate, obtusely pointed : newration 12 veins; 7-8 stalked, to costa ; rest separate, Hinduings 9 normal, costa somewhat excised from middle to apex, termen sinuate: neuration 8 veins 5 6 and 7 almost connate ; 3-4 connate ; 5 cubital. Abdomen smooth. Legs: hind tibiae slightly hairy. In the ¢ the hindwings are remarkably specialised, not reminding one in any way of a Gelechiad; the flexus and apex are normal, but the margin between them 18 entirely altered in shape; from the apex to where 6 attains the margin on the termen the wing may be described as hastate, it then becomes widened to the flexus, and this part is somewhat complicated by folds. Of the veins only 8, 7, and 6 are conspicuous ; 8 attains the costa at the end of the sinuation beyond the middle; 7 is straight, to apex; 6 arises from 7 at basal fourth, and bending downwards follows the termen. “This genus” at Mr. Busck’s request “‘is named after the old town Tabernilla, in the centre of the Canal Zone, which, with the entire surrounding country, will a few years hence be a thing of the past, flooded by fathoms of water at the bottom of the Panama Canal.” 1. Tabernillaia ephialtes, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 12.) Antennae dark fuscous, with faint paler annulations. Pulpi, ¢ dark bronzy fuscous, the upper and inner sides of the median joint shining, steely whitish; Q with the median joint wholly whitish, as well as the inner side of the terminal. Head, ¢ shining, dark bronzy fuscous; Q shining, steel-white. Thorax dark bronzy fuscous. Forewings dark bronzy fuscous, with a slight coppery tinge about the middle of the wing in a strong light; an outwardly oblique, ovate, snow-white patch descends from the costa, at about one-sixth, slightly overreaching the fold; another, rounded, rather smaller white spot lies on the costa at about one-fourth from the apex; cilia fuscous. xp. al.10 mm. Hindwings in the ¢ much dilated at the flexus, with an indented angle beyond it, to which points a short fuscous hair-pencil resting in a fold between the veins, thence evenly narrowed, not sinuate, apex acute; shining, pale bronzy grey; cilia fuscous: in the 2 the hindwings are of the ordinary Galechiaform type, the termen slightly sinuate below the moderately acute apex; a little darker than in the ¢. Abdomen steely greyish ; fuscous across the middle in the ¢. Legs bronzy fuscous; hind tibiae with a white patch at the base of each pair of spurs, hind tarsi with white annulations; front tarsi with a transverse white band across the first joint. - Type 2 (5850 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus.; ¢ (5849 Wlsm. Det. 1908) 2, on slide, US. Nat. Mus.— 4 (33610) Mus. Wlsm. BM. Hab. Panama: CANAL ZONE: Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (A. Busck). Two specimens. Very similar in appearance to Telphusa niveisignella Z., which is however a much larger species and differs in structure from ephialtes. EUDACTYLOTA, gen. n. (ev==pretty ; Dactylota Suln., nom. gen.) Type: Neodactylota barberella Busck. (Tab. IT. fig. 13.) Antennae 3, simple; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi long, recurved, median joint somewhat thickened with smoothly appressed scales; terminal joint as long as median, smooth, acute. Maaillary Palpi short. Haustellum well-developed. Ocell present. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings elongate, pointed, costa nearly straight, apex not depressed, termen very oblique, continued in even EUDACTYLOTA. 55 2 Mh weneddrSre Bore. J. #H. Durrant, del. 15. Eudactylota barberella Busck. 9. curve from 6 to flexus: neuration 12 veins; 7-8 stalked, to costa; rest separate, 2 more remote from 3 than 3 is from 4. Hindwings 1, bilobed in both ¢ and Q, butslightly differing in shape; costa nearly straight to apex which is pointed; termen excised between 6 and 5 and forming two lobes, the apicai long and pointed, the lower much shorter, broad, its somewhat blunt apex being slightly above 5; dorsum somewhat sinuate between 14 and 2: neuration 8 veins; 6-7 stalked; 3-4 separate; 5 cubital ; discoidal subobsolete on fold above 5; 12 connected to radius by 11. Abdomen moderate. Legs: hind tibiae hairy. Allied to Neodactylota Busck, but HW:5 is separate from 4; the hindwings are bilobed in both sexes, and the ¢ lacks the pouch containing a hair-pencil. 1. Eudactylota barberella Busck. (Tab. II. fig. 13.) Neodactylota barberella Busck {| Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 504 sp. 5644 (1902)' ZN.|: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 835, 836-7 Pf. 30° 23 (1903)*; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 110 sp. 6190 (1903) *. Antennae cinereous, annulate with black, the annulations connected by slender black lines above. Palpi smooth, recurved to above the vertex, terminal joint longer than the median; cinereous, dusted with brownish fuscous scales. Heud and Thorax greyish brown. Forewings tawny chestnut-brown, dusted with pale cinereous and fuscous scales, especially on a transverse fascia from costa to tornus at two-thirds of the wing-length; the lower half of this fascia is margined on its inner side by a triangular dark fuscous shade, and the costa is narrowly shaded with fuscous from the base to the upper extremity of the fascia ; cilia tawny, dusted with fuscous atoms. Hp. al. 11-12 mm. Hindwings cinereous; cilia with an aeneous gloss. Abdomen shining, greyish cinereous; anal tuft inclining to ochreous. Hind Legs fuscous, speckled with pale cinereous scales, with two pale bands around the tibiae, and three around the tarsal joints. Type 3 (6367) US. Nat. Mus. [WVt. 9 (65801 Amula) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM.] Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States*°—Arizona: Williams, 27. V. 1901 (H. 8. Barber)? [=“Ool.”*]. Central America —Mexico: auerRero: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII-IX. (H. H. Smith). Six specimens. 56 HETEROCERA. TELPHUSA Chmb. [?=Aprasrera Chmb.] ; = Xenorzcuia Meyr. Type 1: Gelechia longifasciella Clms. (= Te/phusa curvistrigella Chmb. ; Chmb. 1872). TeLpHusa Chmb. Can. Ent. 4 132-3, 174 (1872): Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4163 (1878); Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 496-7 sp. 5554-66 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 773, 783-9, © 931-2 Pf. 28-5 (1903); Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 109 sp. 6094-6107 (1903) ; Buseck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 80 722-3 (1906): Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 8 90-1 (1907) ; Wilsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1907 935-7 no. 17 sp. 32-4 Pf. 51°12, 15 (1908) ; Meyr. Ann. Transv. Mus. 2 11-12 Pf. 4° 4-7 (1909). Type 2: Anacampsis aethiops Wstwd. Xxnotecuia Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 569, 583-4 no. 11 sp. 1-3 (1895) ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 72 no. 13 sp. 88 (1897). [Type: Adrasteia alexandriacella Chmb. Aprastera Chmb. Can. Ent. 4 149-50, 206-7 (1872): Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 128 (1878). Psoricoprera (Stn.) Chmb. Can. Ent. 5 72 (1873). ?—TrLpuusa Chmb.—vide Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 784 (1903).] 1. Telphusa ochrifoliata, sp. n. (Tab. Il. fig. 15.) Antennae dark fuscous, annulate with pale ochreous. Palpr dark fuscous, sprinkled with pale ochreous ; the median joint above, and the apex of the terminal, pale ochreous. Head shining, steel-whitish. Thorax dark fuscous, with some ochreous scaling. Forewings purplish fuscous, blackish at the extreme base; with a large cream-ochreous leaf-like patch, commencing near the base, its upper edge touching the costa, its lower edge resting on the fold, and its outer extremity running to an outwardly pointed angle on the cell about the middle; this patch is narrowly margined, except on the costa, with black, and there are two black dots beyond it, one at each angle of the cell, with a few chestnut-brown scales between them; a pale cream-ochreous spot occurs at the commencement of the costal cilia; a smaller one, con- taining two black dots, on the termen below the apex; cilia fuscous, with some admixture of ochreous scales along the termen. Ewp.al.14mm. Hindwings grey, with a slight brownish tinge; cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen fuscous. Legs pale cream-ochreous, banded with fuscous externally. Type 3 (5974 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. Hab. Mexico: VERA cruz: Cordova, I. (f. Knab). Unique. 9. Telphusa melanoleuca, sp. n. Antennae black, with three white annulations about their middle; the basal joint white, with a black spot above on its outer half. Palpi stout, strongly recurved, the terminal joint longer than the median; black, the median joint with a white ring at each extremity, the terminal joint broadly ringed at its base, and narrowly before its apex, with white. Mead white above. T'horax black. Furewings brown-black, with an oblique white band leaving the costa at one-fifth, descending obliquely outward to the dorsum at one-fourth, and extending along it to the tornus, before and about which it throws up two angular encroachments upon the dark ground-colour, which almost divides them on the dorsum hefore the tornus ; in this white band, below the middle of the fold, is a shining bottle-green spot, preceded by dark raised scales on the basal patch, with two tufts of white raised scales on either side of the fold, one above the other ; beyond it a third patch of white raised scales lies above the fold, at the first upward angle of the white dorsal band; a small white costal streak-spot precedes the cilia and is followed by a series of four, reaching to the apex, below which is another which almost meets the last of the series; costal and apical cilia, except where interrupted by the white spots, brown-black ; terminal and tornal cilia dirty whitish ; TELPHUSA. 57 a bluish green iridescence pervades the part of the dark basal patch and the dark wing-surface about the lower edge of the cell. Hwp.al.16 mm. Hindwingsa little broader than the forewings, semitransparent ; pale cinereous, much shaded with lightish brown; cilia pale brownish. Abdomen brownish cinereous ; ‘white beneath. Legs pale cinereous, banded and shaded with brownish. Type Q (65680) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [P7’. (65681) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO : Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens. Resembling 5554 longifasciella Clms. in general appearance, but differing in the more broken white markings, and in the distinctness of the white costal and apical spots. 3. Telphusa ripula, sp.n. (Tab. II. fig. 16.) Antennae black, with white annulations. Palpi with the median joint brown externally, paler on the inner side, a white annulus around its apex; terminal! joint black, with a white spot before the apex. Head and Thorax pale brownish fuscous. Forewinys bronzy brown, mottled with blackish, and partially sprinkled with pale cinereous scales along the costa, and in a line from the base below the fold reaching the dorsum beyond the middie, also in a patch at the tornns; at about one-fourth from the base is a greenish white, outwardly oblique costal streak, not quite attaining to the dorsum, on either side of it are small patches of raised scales; the median area is blackish and is continued on the outer side of the oblique streak to nearly two-thirds the wing-length, its upper edge forming a zigzag line above the cell, partially outlined by whitish cinereous scales, with a few spots of dark steel-grey along the lower edge of the cell; the -apex is much speckled with pale cinereous; cilia blackish at the apex, fading to brownish grey and speckled with pale cinereous downward. ap. al. 14 mm. Hindwings brownish grey, more thickly scaled around the margins than towards the middle and base; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen brownish grey, with paler transverse segmental lines; anal tuft greenish white. Legs brownish, dusted and faintly ringed with pale cinereous, Type 2 (65693) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Guatemata: Totonicapam, 8500-10,500 ft. (G. C. Champion). Unique. 4. Telphusa chionostigma, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 17.) Antennae bronzy black. Palpi with the median joint evenly hirsute beneath; whitish ochreous, touched with blackish above near its apex; terminal joint black, tufted at its upper side, the short naked apex ochreous. Head ochreous above; face whitish ochreous. Zhoraw and tegulae deep purplish black. Furewings deep purplish black, with two distinct, clearly defined, white spots—one ovate, placed obliquely, tuuching the costa at one-fourth from the base, its outer extremity resting on the fold, beyond which are a few ochreous scales in the fold; the other, semilunate, its base resting on the costa before the apex ; a minute white dot at the extreme apex; cilia smoky black. wp.al.19 mm. Hindwings and cilia smoky brownish fuscous. Abdomen and Legs purplish fuscous; hind tibiae banded with cream-white at each pair of spurs; hind tarsi also indistinctly banded with creamy white. Type Q (5831 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. Hab. PanaMa: CANAL ZONE: Tabernilla (A. Busck). Unique. ‘The terminal joint of the labial palpi with tuft of scales on the upper side, resembling that of Psoricoptera gibbosella Z., but hardly so strongly developed; the remote origin of veins 3 and 4 in the hindwings, and the stalking of 6 and 7, renders it necessary to include this in Telphusa Chmb. BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. IV., May 1911. 77 58 HETEROCERA. 5. Telphusa niveisignella 7. | Psoricoptera niveisignella Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 18 333-5 Pf. 4° 106 (1877) *. Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America 1_Panama?: carrtgut’ (Rébbe). South America—CoLoMBIA : CUNDINAMARCA: Bogota (Baron von Nolcken)—PeRv: cuzco. Cuzco Mts. (Garlepp, Stgr. 1895). The specimen from Bogota was determined by Zeller, and agrees with chionostigma in having HW: 6-7 stalked, and HW:3-4 remote, as also in the clothing of the palpi. The Cuzco specimen (73496) is in much finer condition, and the terminal joint of the palpi is consequently more evenly and strongly clothed. 6, Telphusa glandiferella 2. —sella Chmb?; =t glandifuella Chmb.; =+ glandifera Chmb. Gelechia (Anacampsis) glandiferella Z. Verh. ZB. Ges. Wien 23:1873 275-6 Pf. 4°25 (1873)’. Gelechia sella Chmb. Can. Ent. 6 238 (1874)*. Gelechia glandifuella Chmb. Can. Ent. 9 14 (1877)*. Gelechia glandifera Chmb. Can. Ent. 9 24 (1877)*. Gelechia glandiferella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 144 (1878) °; Hgn. Pap. 499 (1884)°. Gelechia sella Frey Pap. 4 99 (1884). Gelechia glandiferella Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 101 sp. 5882 (1891) *. Xenolechia glandiferella Wism. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 72 sp. 38 (1897)°. Telphusa glandi- ferella Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 497 sp. 5564 (1902) '°: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 784, 788-9 (1903) "'; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 109 sp. 6105 (1903) ”. Hab. AMERICA, N-C-I. United States*°—Kentucky 7__Tuxas! *°-”? ; VII- VIII': Bosque co.: 11-20. V, 22. VII, 10-25. X. (G. W. Belfrage)—Ca.ifornIa : MENDOCINO: Head of Noyo, 8-1]. V1. 1871 (Wism.): sHasta: Hatchet Creek, 14-17. VII. 1871 (Wism.); Pit River, 21-26. VII. 1871 (Wism.): Siskiyou: Mt. Shasta, 2.VILI — 1.1X. 1871 (Wism.). Central America—MExIco: TABASCO: Teapa, II. (#. Z. Smith). West Indies*’—Grenapa®: Mt. Gay Estate, 3000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith)”. . PSORICOPTERA Stn. Type: Gelechia (Chelaria) gibbosella Z. (Stn. 1854). Psoricoprera Stn. Ins. Br. Lp-Tin. (+ PHozicoprzra 76), 100-1 no. 7 sp. 1 Pf. 4° 4¢ (1854) ; - Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 188, 192 no. 417 sp. 270 (1871), Tbl. 5, 31 no, 417 (1876) ; Stgr- Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 289 no. 193 sp. 1788 (1871); Snln. Vlind. Nederl. Micr. 428, 609-11 no. 41 sp. 1 Pf. 8° 259, 272 (1882); Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 569, 604-5 no. 14 sp. 1 (1895) ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 140 no. 299 sp. 2507-8 (1901) ; Splr. Schm. Eur. 2 359 no. 23 Pf. 87°60 (1910). 1. Psoricoptera trigonota, sp. n. Antennae slightly biserrate toward the. apex; umber-brown. alps strongly recurved, the terminal joint longer than the median, closely clothed above to the apex ; cinereous, mottled with umber-brown. Head dark umber-brown; face shining, fawn-ochreous. Thorax dark brown, mottled with shining fawn- ochreous. Forewings shining, fawn-ochreous, mottled with darker and paler shades of umber-brown, with some fuscous scaling at the base; on the commencement of the cell is a conspicuous flap of scales ; PSORICOPTERA.—-GELECHIA. 59 on the middle of the costa a large triangular patch, consisting of two shades of umber-brown, with some dark fuscous, is preceded and followed by small costal spots of the same; below it towards the dorsum, near to the base, are « few raised scales of umber-brown ; the outer third of the wing, except towards the costa, is much shaded with umber-brown, mottled, especially along the termen, with dark fuscous ; cilia mottled with pale fawn-ochreous and umber-brown, these, and all the darker markings on the wing- surface, are very changeable in colour, according to the angle at which the light strikes them. Exp. al. 16-21 mm. Hindwings greyish brown; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen yellowish brown, with paler transverse bars; anal tuft whitish ochreous, streaked with brown. Legs whitish ochreous ; hind tibiae speckled, and tarsi banded with umber-brown. Type 3 (65630); 2 (65633) Teapa, Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.) BM. [PTT. (65632, 65634; 6236 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—Mexico: tTapasco: Teapa, III-IV. (H. H. Smith)—PanaMa: panaMA: La Chorrera, 1.IV—-15.V.1898 (C. H. Dolby-Tyler). South America—Frencu Guiana: St. Jean, Rio Maroni (W. Schaus). Nine specimens. This species agrees with Psoricoptera gibbosella Z. in neuration [F'W: 12 veins; 7-8 stalked, to costa; 3-4 truncate. HW: 8 veins; 3-4 separate, truncate; 6-7 closely approximate towards base], but differs somewhat in the smooth scaling of the median joint of the palpi, thus resembling Prostomeus Busck, which however may be separated by having HW: 6-7 stalked. GELECHIA Hb. Type: Tinea rhombella S-D., Hb. Pf. 40-277 (Stph. 1835). Gevecuia Hb. Verz. Schm. 415 sp. 4019-23 (1826) ; Stph. Ill. Br. Ent. Haust. 4 422 no. 1217 sp. 4021 (1835) ; Z. Is. 1889 197-202 no. 28 sp. 1-85 [A. a. 8. Getecura Z, Is. 1839 197- 200 sp. 6-53] (1839); HS. SB. Schm. Eur. 5 11, 43 no. 66 Pf. 12° 39, * 41-2 (1853), 157-88 sp. 397-505 (1854); Stn. Ins. Br. Lp-Tin. 76, 101-39 no. 8 sp. 1-95 Pf. 4° 5-5", 9-11-12, 10°12 (1854) : List Br. An. BM. 16 Lp. 65-86 no. 8 sp. 1-95 (1854) ; Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 568-659 no. 14 sp. 1-386 (1864): 80 1018-28 (1864) : 85 1828-31 (1866) ; Stn. NH. Tin. 9 1-276 Pl. 1-8 (1865) : 10 1-304 Pl. 9-16 (1867); Hninn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin, 188, 193-230 no, 418 sp. 271-832 (1870), Tbl. 5, 81-5 (1876); Stn. Ent. Mo. Mag. 7 165-6 (1870) ; Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 289 no, 194 sp. 1789-1870 (1871) ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 142-51 no. 303 sp. 2537-2768 (1901) ; Z. Hor. Soe. Ent. Ross. 13 335-73 (1877) ; Snln. Vlind. Nederl. Micr. 429, 619-68, 1087 no. 44 sp. 1-47 (A. GeLecuia 629-42, 1087 sp. 1-17) Pf. 8° 264,- 267, 11° 388-90 (1882): Tijd. Ent. 27 167-9 Pf. 9-2-3 (1884); Wism. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881 261-2 Pf. 12+ 30-1 (1881): 1891 92-4 Pf. 4° 30-1 (1891) : Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891 519-20, 545 no. 39 sp. 71-9 (1892) : 1896 278 (1896) : 1897 72-7 no. 14 sp. 39-52 (1897): 1907 937-41 no. 18 sp. 35-40 Pf. 51+ 18-14 (1908) : Ent. Mo. Mag. 36 216-8 (1900) : 40 221-8, 265-7 (1904): NH. Sokotra 346-7 Pf. 21-5 (1903): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 33 197-8 (1907): Fn. Haw. 1 731-3, 744 no. 7°1 sp. 21-1 (1907); Meyr: Tr. NZ. Inst. 18:1885 162, 166-70 no. 5 sp. 6-14 (1886) : 39:1906 118-9 (1907) : 41:1908 12 (1909): Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1901 573-4 (1901): Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1908 725-6 (1908): Pr. Linn. Soc. NSW. 29 259, 308-13 no. 18 sp. 83-90 (1904): Ann. S-Afr. Mus. 5 351, 370-1 (1909): Ann. Transv. Mus. 2 12 Pf. 4° 8-9 (1909) ; Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 141-8 (1878); Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 100-3 sp. 5298-5511 (1891); a 2 60 HETEROCERA. Buseck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 511-18 sp. 5714-5833 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 773, - 851-902, 935-7 Pf. 31°29 (1903): 27 759-60 (1904): Can. Ent. 38 122-3 (1906): 40 194 (1908): Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 8 91-2 (1907) : 9 87-8 (1908): 11 88-9, 177-82 (1909): Jr. NY. Ent Soc. 15 136 (1907): Ent. News 19 317 (1908); Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor- Am. 111-12 sp. 6216-6328 (1903): Jr. NY. Ent. Soc. 16 184-6 (1908) ; Strand Ber!. Ent. ‘Zits. 47 155-6 (1902) ; Fuchs Stett. Ent. Ztg. 68 323-4 (1902) ; Petry Deutsche Ent. Zts. Iris 17 3-4 (1904); Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. Wien 19 349-50 sp 1807-14 Pf. 5° 22-4 (1904) ; Krulikovsky Rev. Russ. Ent. 5:1905 19-20 (1905) ; Mbl. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1907 79 (1907); Chrtn. Nat. 30 (2s. 22) 59-60 (1908); Splr. Schm. Eur. 2 360-5 sp. 1-89 tf. 360° 125 Pf. 87: 65-77 (1910). Busck [Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 852 (1903) ] notes that conclusella Wkr. and bosquella Chmb. differ from other species in having FW: 3-4 stalked; in this character they agree with rhombella S-D., the type of the genus Gelechia Hb. [FW: 12 veins; 7-8 stalked, to costa; 3-4 stalked; 5 remote from 6; closely approximate to 4 at base; rest separate. HW: 8 veins; 6-7 separate, but closely approximating towards base ; 3-4 shortestalked; 5 cubital, bent towards 4; 11 connecting radius to 12]; it is therefore obvious that the geneonym must be restricted to this group should subdivision become necessary. 1. Gelechia bosquella Chmb. + basqueella Chmb. ({ bosquella Chmb.) ; =costipunctella Mschl.’. Oecophora basqueella Chmb. Can. Ent. '7 92 (1875) ". Gelechia basqueella Climb. Can. Ent. ‘7 124 : (1875)*. Gelechia? bosquella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 87, 142 (1878), Gelechia (Bryotropha ?) bosquella Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 10 178 (1882)*. Gelechia bosquella Hgn. Pap. 4 98 (1884) °. Gelechia costipunctella Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. 15 344, 354 (1890) °. Gelechia bosquella Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 100 sp. 5829 (1891) *. Gelechia costi- punctella Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891 519, 545 sp. 75 (1892)°. Gelechia bosquella Wism. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 75 sp. 46 (1897) °. Gelechia basquella Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 512 sp. 5729 (1902) *: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 853, 864-5 (1903)"; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 1]1 sp. 6282 (1908). Gelechia bosquella Wism. Ent. Mo. Mag. 39 260 (1903) ®. | Hab. AMERICA, N-C-I. United States !~>**-"—Arzantic States *°—DiIstRicT OF CoLumBia™: @ Cassia chamaecrista (A. Busck) "—Kenrucxy "—Missouri *—lowa"!—- Kansas "—Texas!~? 5°"! > posquz co.2*%: Waco (G. W. Belfrage)°—Foripa : Key West (A. Busck)™. Central America—MExico: VERA cRUzZ: Cordova, V. 1908 (#. Knad ; 5832 Drnt. Det. 1908, US. Nat. Mus.): tapasco: Teapa, ILI. (H, H. Smith). West Indies *°-"—Jamaica?: ST. ANDREW: Constant Springs, 18-23. XII. 1904 (Wism.) : sr. ANN: Moneague, XI. 1891 (P. Rendall)*®, 9-20. L. 1905 (Wism.) ; Runaway Bay, 19. Il — 27. III. 1905 (Wism.)—Porto Rico *%**"—St. Croix: 23. IV. (W. von Hedemann)°—Sr. Tuomas: 10. IV. (F. Gudmann)* "—Grenaba*: Balthazar, 250 ft., 5-10. IV. (H. H. Smith)—On board Valhalla, R.Y.S. (after leavirg West Indies), 1. V~. 1904 (Mf. J. Nicoll). GELECHIA. 61 2. Gelechia phalacra, sp. n. Antennae blackish, not annulate. Pulp: cream-white, the median joint with an even brush beneath ; terminal joint tipped with fuscous. Head cream-coloured, with long white scales meeting over the vertex. 'horax cream-coloured, tegulae dark fuscous. Forewings with straight margins and lanceolate _ apex; dark fuscous, a slender streak of pale cream-colour from the base along the margin to the flexus ; a small costal spot, at the commencement of the cilia, preceded by a larger dorsal spot, both pale cream- colour ; a minute spot of the same on the cell, about the middle of the wing, is preceded by another at the apex, and others, along the termen, are followed by black scales; a similar spot lies on the fold at about its middle; cilia dark fuscous. Hvp.al.9 mm. Hindwings pale greyish cinereous ; cilia slightly tinged with fuscous. Abdomen greyish cinereous, tinged with fuscous. Legs fuscous, with pale cream-coloured annulations. ype & (35653) Mus, Wism. BM. [PT (35654) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (A. K. Morrison). Two specimens. Most nearly allied to donatella Wkr., but the pale spots are smaller and the terminal joint of the palpi is slightly longer and more shaded. 3. Gelechia lacticaput, sp. n. Antennae dark brown, cream-colour‘at the base to one-fifth of their length, with some creamy speckling near their apex. Palpi cream-colour, the median joint somewhat thickened, the terminal joint with two slight brown annulations. Head and Thorax cream-colour, the latter with a dark brown’ patch posteriorly. Forewings dark brown, with a very narrow snow-white basal patch extending across the wing, an oblique snow-white costal patch at one-fourth reaching to the fold and projecting outward on the cell, a minute white oblique costal streak at the commencement of the costal cilia, and a large snow-white semicircular tornal patch extending through the terminal cilia and sparsely sprinkled with brownish scales; cilia at the apex dark brown. Hep. al.15 mm. Hindwings pale purplish grey; cilia with a slight ochreous tinge. Abdomen grey. Legs creamy ; tarsi banded and speckled externally with dark brown. Type 3 (65682) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT. (65683) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII-IX. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens. A conspicuous and distinct species. 4. Gelechia cerussata, sp.n. (Tab. II. fig. 18.) Antennae fuscous, annulate with pale cream-ochreous. Palpi pale cream-ochreous; the median joint moderately thickened, mottled with fuscous on the outer side and beneath; terminal joint with two fuscous annulations. Head and Thorax pale cream-ochreous. Forewings obtusely pointed; dark purplish fuscous, with a very narrow, pale cream-ochreous, straight, transverse band at the extreme base, and an elongate-ovate white patch, sparsely dusted with fuscous, occupying the tornus and termen, with the cilia, to below the apex, near which it encloses a dark fuscous dot; the cilia at the extreme apex and above it smoky fuscous; a blackish dot occurs on the disc, above the middle, at scarcely one-half from the base. EHxp.al. 14 mm. AHindwings grey; cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen (missing). Legs pale cream-ochreous; the hind tibiae twice banded obliquely with smoky grey externally ; hind tarsi sprinkled externally with fuscous. Type 3 (5977 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. Fiab. Mexico: VERA cruz: Cordova, V. 1908 (Ff. Hnab). Unique. 5. Gelechia infracta, sp. n. Antennae fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous, the median joint with two, the terminal joint with three paler 62 HETEROCERA. subochreous bands, the last including the apex. Head and Thorax dark fuscous ; a few ochreoys scales above the eyes. Forewings tawny fuscous, with a dark fuscous median shade running through them, from near the base to the apex, interrupted before the middle by a large white, outwardly oblique, costal patch which reaches to the fold expanding outward on the cell; this is clearly defined, its origin being at one-fourth from the base ; there is a faintly indicated spot of pale scales at the end of the cell and another above and beyond it on the costa; the dorsum is narrowly white from base to flexus ; cilia greyish fuscous, sprinkled with whitish ochreous. Exp. al. 17 mm. Hindwings shining, pale grey; cilia inclining to ochreous. Abdomen leaden grey. Legs whitish ochreous, the tarsi and tibiae widely banded with fuscous. Type & (65684) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. (PT. (65685) US. Nat. Mus. Hab. Mexico: cuerrero: Amula, 6000 ft. VIII-IX. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens. 6. Gelechia cacoderma, sp. n. | Antennae tawny fuscous, faintly annulate with pale ochreous. Palpi tawny fuscous, speckled with pale ochreous. Head whitish ochreous, speckled with tawny fuscous. Thorax tawny fuscous, speckled with pale ochreous. Forewings tawny fuscous, intermingled with pale brownish ochreous and blotched with brownish fuscous, the usual markings being scarcely distinguishable in the somewhat rough and mixed sealing ; the darker blotching apparently coincides with a medio-plical spot, a discal spot beyond it, and another at the end of the cell, and forms a costal spot at one-fourth, another at three-fifths, and an apical shade preceded by an ill-defined transverse pale band; cilia pale brownish ochreous, speckled with _ tawny fuscous along their basal half. Hwp. al. 16-21 mm. Hindwings broader than the forewings, scarcely sinuate below the apex; bronzy brownish, with paler greyish brown cilia. Abdomen brownish ochreous towards the base, shading to greyish brown posteriorly. Legs greyish brown, hind tibiae and tarsi banded with pale ochreous. Type & (65376); Q (65377) Mus, Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT'T. (65381-2, 65385) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII-IX. (H. H. Smith). Twelve specimens. Closely allied to 5755 bicostimaculella Chmb. in colouration, but a much larger species with the paler markings less distinct. 7. Gelechia veneranda, sp. n. Antennae fawn-brownish, delicately barred with blackish above. Palpi brownish fawn, streaked with blackish, the terminal joint nearly black throughout; the median very hirsute beneath, with long diverging scales. Head stone-whitish. Thoraw fawn-grey. forewings mottled with much mixed colours, of which the ground-colour may be taken as pale stone-colour ; on this is a profuse sprinkling and partial suffusion of fawn-brownish, with sundry spots and streaks almost black, or at least very dark fuscous ; of these two are costal, one before and one beyond the middle, and two are discal, parallel to the costal, but a little further removed from the base; the terminal and apical portion of the wing is almost entirely suffused with this dark brownish fuscous shading, and the fold is marked by a narrow line of the same throughout; all the different shades are much blended together and ill-defined, a slight rufous tinge prevailing above the fold; cilia brownish ochreous, the outer half paler. wp, ai. 16-17 mm. Hindwings brownish grey, profusely irrorated with brownish scales beyond the basal third ; cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen brownish cinereous. Legs brownish fuscous, with pale cinereous spots on the tarsal joints. Type 3 (35655); 9 (35656) Mus. Wism. BM. [PTT. (85659, 35661-2) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab, Mexico: sonora: 1883 (H. #. Morrison). Eight specimens. GELECHIA. 63 8. Gelechia nigripectus, sp. n. Antennae cinereous beneath, black above. Palpt hoary cinereous on the inner surface, sooty black externally and beneath; with a hoary ring at the apex of the median joint. Head and Thorax hoary cinereous. Forewings lanceolate ; hoary cinereous, profusely sprinkled and shaded with brownish fuscous, leaving an indistinct pale fluctuate fascia across the outer fifth; the outer third of the cell shows an elongate black streak, apparently composed of two spots connected by a line of black scales; the terminal and dorsal parts of the wing-surface are rather more suffused and less speckled than the costal portion; cilia pale brownish cinereous, somewhat sprinkled with fuscous. Exp. al. 15 mm. Hindwings semi- transparent, grey, shading to pale bronzy brownish along the margins and especially along the costa towards the apex; cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen pale brownish cinereous. Legs pale brownish cinereous, suffused externally, and broadly banded on the tarsi with brownish fuscous ; anterior and median femora sooty black, with a slight sprinkling of ochreous scales. Type 3 (35666); 2 (85667) Mus. Wlsm. BM. (PT. (85668) US, Nat. Mus. ] Hab. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (f/. K. Morrison). Five specimens. 9. Gelechia albipectus, sp. n. Antennae pale brownish fuscous. Palpi with the brush on the median joint closely packed, not divided, and rather tapering to its apex, sooty black beneath and externally, paler on the inner side, without a pale ring on its apex; terminal joint paler, with black dusting. Head pale brownish cinereous, Forewings pale brownish cinereous, sprinkled and smeared with fuscous, with a slight indication of four fuscous spots—one at one-fifth from the base, small; one in the fold; another on the disc a little beyond the latter and partially connected with it by fuscous scaling; the fourth at the end of the cell: the usual faintly indicated pale fascia on the outer fifth is scarcely bowed outward; cilia pale brownish cinereous, with a strong admixture of fuscous scales in their basal half. Ewp.al.14-15 mm. Hindwings - brownish grey, more shaded with brown on their outer half; cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen brownish cinereous. Legs pale brownish cinereous; femora ivory-white; hind tibiae dark fuscous externally, with a white spot at the base of each pair of spurs. Type 2 (35663); ¢ (35665) Mus. Wlsm. BM. [P7. (35664) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (H. &. Morrison). Three specimens. Closely allied to nigripectus Wlsm., but all the femora, and the underside of the thorax and abdomen (except the anal segments), ivory-white, in strong contrast to those of nigripectus which are sooty black. 10. Gelechia quinquedentata, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 19.) Antennae simple; pale greyish ochreous. Palpi stone-grey, the terminal joint inclining to ochreous; both dusted with greyish fuscous. Head and Thorax stone-grey, dusted with fuscous. Forewings stone-grey, dusted and spotted with greyish fuscous; four or five spots on the basal third, one at the extreme base of the costa, one on the dorsum at one-fourth, the first margined beneath by whitish scaling; a spot at the end of the cell, and one below and beyond it above the extremity of the fold; five tooth-like costal spots before the apex, with whitish scaling between them, and a >-shaped whitish mark below them pointing to the apex; cilia stone-grey, finely dusted with fuscous. Ewp.al.16 mm. Hindwings and- cilia brownish grey. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs pale cinereous, the tarsi broadly banded with greyish fuscous. . Type 3 (65675) Mus, Wlsm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: Guerrero: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Unique. 11. Gelechia petraea, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 20.) Antennae brownish cinereous, the basal joint greyish brown. Palpi recurved, somewhat slender ; greyish brown externally, paler on their inner sides; the median joint scarcely roughened beneath ; terminal 64 HETEROCERA. joint as long as the median, with a slender pale cinereous line along the underside, the extreme apex also pale cinereous. Head greyish brown. Thorax greyish brown along its anterior margin, whitish cinereous above; the latter half of the tegulae also whitish cinereous. Forewings elongate, with parallel margins and oblique termen; whitish cinereous, or pale stone-colour, with ascarcely perceptible ochreous tinge and some scattered transverse greyish brown speckling; @ greyish brown spot at the base of the costa is succeeded by three costal dots before the middle; an elongate costal streak about the middle, and a smaller spot on the middle of the fold, with a discal spot above it, form with the medio-costal streak an inwardly oblique series ; a small greyish fuscous spot occurs also at the end of the cell; the apex and termen are covered by a rather broad greyish brown patch, of which the inner margin is clearly defined and convex; cilia at the termen and apex much shaded with grey, but pale stone-ochreous on the dorsum. Exp.al.18 mm. Hindwings broader than the forewings, scarcely sinuate below the apex: brassy brownish along the veins and costa, inclining to semitransparent bluish grey between the veins ; cilia brownish cinereous, somewhat darker along their base. Abdomen pale brownish. Legs pale cinereous, shaded with brownish grey externally on the hairy tibiae and around the tarsal joints. Type @ (65686) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Guatemata: Las Mercedes, 3000 ft., 1881 (G. C. Champion). Unique. 12. Gelechia cuneifera, sp. n. . Antennae tawny grey; slightly serrate. Palpi with the median joint stiffly brush-like beneath, the terminal - joint shorter than the median, smooth ; tawny greyish. Head and Thorax tawny grey. Forewings with the costa slightly arched towards the base, apex depressed, termen very oblique; pale tawny grey, obscured at the apex and along the costa by darker shades of the same; the costal blotch extends from one-fifth to nearly three-fourths of the wing-length, its lower and inner edge shading to brownish ‘fascous, which forms first a broad wedge-shaped projection at about one-third, the apex crossing the fold, secondly, a brownish fuscous longitudinal streak reaching to the end of the cell above the middle of “the wing; between this costal blotch and the broad terminal shade the paler ground-colour reaches to ‘the costa, suggesting a pale transverse band ; a few brownish fuscous scales are distributed in patches around the apex; cilia pale cinereous, somewhat sprinkled with brownish fuscous. Zap. al. 16 mm. Hindwings broader than the forewings, slightly sinuate below the acute apex; very pale grey; cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen brownish cinereous. Legs tawny greyish, mottled with brownish fuscous. Type & (65676) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT. (65677) US. Nat. Mus. ] . Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIIT-IX. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens. 13. Gelechia translucida Wlsm. (Tab. II. fig. 21.) Bryotropha translucida Wism. Pr. Z. Soc, Lond. 1891 520, 545 sp. 80 (1892) ’. Wilsm. Pr. Z. Soe. Lond. 1897 73 sp. 41 (1897) *. . Gelechia translucida Hab. AMERICA, C-S-I. Central America—MeExico: VERA cruz: Cordova, V. 1908 (F. Knab; 5979 Drnt. Det. 1908, US. Nat. Mus.). South America—Frencu Guiana: Cayenne (W. Schaus). West Indies—Dominica 2_§n VINCENT (i. #. Smith)*?—Grenaba’: Balthazar, 250 ft.; 27. 1V. (A. H. Smith)’; Mt. Gay Estate, 300 ft., 3-10. IX. (A. H. Smith) ®. 14, Gelechia mediofuscella, Cims. = vagella Wkr.*; = fuscoochrella Chmb.° ; = liturosella Z.°. Gelechia mediofuscella Clms. Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. 2 11-12, 120 (1863)'; Clms-Stn. Tin. N- Am. GELECHIA. 65 pp. ix, 218, 224 (1872). Gelechia vagella Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 596 sp. 237 (1864) °*. Depressaria fuscoochrella Chmb. Can. Ent. 4 106, 129, 147-8 (1872)*. Gelechia (Lita) liturosella Z. Verh. ZB. Ges. Wien 23:1878 265 (1873)°. Gelechia fuscoochrella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 143 (1878)*. Gelechia liturosella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 144 (1878). Gelechia mediofuscella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 144 (1878) °. Gelechia (Lita) vagella Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 10 178 (1882)°. Gelechia fuscoochrella Hgn-Frey Pap. 4 98 (1884). Gelechia liturosella Hgn. Pap. 4 99 (1884). Gelechia mediofuscella Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 101 sp. 5407 (1891). Gelechia vagella Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 102 sp. 5506 (1891). Gelechia mediofuscella Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 514 sp. 5764 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 854, 885, 935 (1903) °: 27 759 (1904): Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 5 211 (1903)"7; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am, 112 sp. 6268 (+9268) (1903) *. Hab. AMERICA, N-C. GCanada*—Nova Scotia*. United States? ““°—ATLANTIC Srates \—Massacnuserts °—Distrrict or Cotompra®—Norra Carouina: 1883 (H. K. Morrison)—Kentucxy ** *—Missouri: st. Louis: Kirkwood, 1883-4 (i. Murtfeldt) —Trxas * "5 “_Wasuineton ®. Central America—Mexico: sonora: 1883 (H. &. Morrison): vera cruz: ‘Cordova, V. 1908 (F. Knad): aumrrero: Amula, 6000 ft., 1X. (H. H. Smith)—Panama: cutriqui: Volcan de Chiriqui, 2000-3000 ft., 1881 (G. C. Champion). 15. Gelechia repentina, sp. n. Antennae greyish fuscous. Palpi brownish ochreous, the median joint slightly roughened, with two slight bands of fuscous scales; terminal joint about as long as the median, also twice banded with fuscous. Head brownish ochreous. Thorax brownish ochreous, mottled with fuscous posteriorly. Forewings brownish ochreous, mottled with fuscous; a broad bluish fuscous band across their middle, occupying a space equal to half their length, its inner and outer margins both inclining to be concave and some- what darker than the centre; a few reddish ochreous scales beyond the end of the cell are merged in a diffused fuscous shade extending to the apex; cilia pale ochreous, sprinkled with fuscous dots. Exp. al. 12-16 mm. Hindwings a little broader than the forewings; pale greyish brown, slightly transparent near their base ; cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen cinereous. Legs cinereous; the femora with one, the tibiae with two, and the tarsi with three brownish fuscous bands externally. Type 3 (65666); 2 (65667) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PL. (65668-9) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. Mexico: GuERRERo: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII-IX. (H. H. Smith), Five specimens. Closely allied to mediofuscella Clms., but the dark markings extend across the wing, and their inner edge seems to be less oblique and to commence slightly further from the base. 16. Gelechia neptica, sp. n. Antennae yellowish brown, obscurely banded with fuscous. Palpi yellowish brown, median joint brush-like beneath, with two fuscous bands externally ; terminal joint with a fuscous band before the apex. Head pale cinereous, speckled with fuscous. Zhoraw yellowish brown. forewings yellowish brown, with some scattered dark fuscous scales; a dark fuscous spot at the base of the dorsum, and a small one in the middle of the fold, with another at the outer end of the fold; the first plical spot is followed by an BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. 1V., May 1911. kk 66 HETEROCERA. oblique, elongate, very dark fuscous discal spot, a smaller costal spot preceding the cilia; the pale yellowish brown terminal cilia are much dusted with dark fuscous, which is thicker at and around the apex. Eup. al. 15 mm. Hindwings pale brownish grey ; cilia brownish cinereous. Abdomen brownish cinereous above, tawny fuscous at the sides; pale ochreous beneath. Legs tawny fuscous, banded with very pale ochreous on the tibiae and around the tarsal joints. Type 3 (65671, Omilteme) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. (PTT. (65672, 65674) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Omilteme, 8000 ft. VII. (#. #. Smith); Amula, 6000 ft., VILL. (H. H. Smith). Four specimens. | 17. Gelechia bufo, sp. n. Antennae yellowish brown, with black annulations. Pulpit hoary, the median joint barred with black externally, and sprinkled with black and yellowish brown beneath; the terminal joint with two blackish bands. Head hoary, sprinkled with yellowish brown scales. Thorax yellowish brown. forewings elongate, narrow, lanceolate; yellowish brown, mottled with black; after a small black spot at the extreme base of the costa there is, at one-third, a triangular black costal spot, produced obliquely down- ward to the fold, and thence diffused in an overflow of blackish scales along the dorsum to a cloudy spot of the same before the tornus ; there is also a smaller black spot on the middle of the costa, with another placed obliquely below it on the cell, and a third costal spot before the cilia, the space beyond the cell, as well as the terminal and apical area, being much clouded with thickly bestrewed blackish scales, some appearing also on the brownish ochreous cilia. Hap. al. 138-14 mm. Hindwings leaden grey; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen greyish fuscous. Legs hoary, blotched with brown externally. Type 3 (65662) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PIT. (65663, 65665) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. Mexico: guerrero: Amula, 6000 ft., VIIL. (H. H. Smith). Four specimens. 18. Gelechia inaequalis, sp. n. Antennae brownish white, barred above with brownish fuscous. Palpi white, the terminal joint much dusted with brownish fuscous. Head white. Thorax brownish white, smeared with brownish fuscous anteriorly. Forewings brownish white, dusted with brownish fuscous, inereasingly towards the apex ; with two brownish fuscous incomplete fasciae—the first at one-third from the base, tending a little obliquely outward from the costa, its inner edge clearly defined, its outer side somewhat diffused toward a small discal spot opposite its middle ;‘the second, much smaller and not oblique, descending from the costa at two-thirds, absorbing a small spot at the end of the cell and merging in the paler speckling of the surface below the cell; there is a small spot below the costa, half-way between the base and the first fascia, and one or two slight spots on the termen at the base of the brownish white, some- what dusted, cilia. Hup.al.10 mm, Hindwings grey ; cilia pale greyish ochreous, Abdomen brownish grey. Legs whitish cinereous, with pale fuscous tarsal spots. Type & (35644) Mus. Wism. BM. [PT'7’. (385645-6) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (H. K. Morrison). Four specimens. Somewhat resembling 5564 Telphusa glandiferella Z., but the conspicuous dark spot is costal, not dorsal. 19. Gelechia concinna, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 22.) Antennae creamy white, delicately annulated with fuscous. Palpi creamy white, the median joint roughened beneath; the terminal joint as long as the median, sprinkled with fuscous, and banded before the apex. Head and Thorax creamy white, the latter somewhat shaded with greyish fuscous. Forewings creamy white, delicately shaded with brownish ochreous, especially below the fold and about the end of the cell; a minute fuscous spot at the base of the costa is followed by a triangular fuscous shade, of which the outer extremity scarcely reaches beyond the middle; a small fuscous spot at the GELECHIA. 67 commencement of the costal cilia precedes an outwardly angulate unsprinkled band of the pale ground- colour, beyond which the apical and terminal portion of the wing is slightly shaded ; there is a small fuscous dot in the fold, below the apex of the costal triangle, and another at the end of the cell; cilia whitish, minutely sprinkled with fuscous. Zep. al.10 mm. Hindwings shining, pale grey ; cilia pale greyish cinereous. Abdomen shining, pale greyish; anal segment inclining to ochreous. Legs: hind tibiae and tarsi banded with cream-white and greyish fuscous. Type 3 (65661) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: Guerrero: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (Z. H. Smith). Unique. 20. Gelechia creberrima, sp. n. Antennae brown, distinctly annulate with whitish cinereous. Palpi recurved, the terminal joint nearly as long as the median, roughened beneath ; both profusely speckled with brown and whitish cinereous. Head and Thorax brown, thickly speckled with whitish cinereous. Forewings reddish brown, profusely dusted with whitish cinereous, which is especially concentrated around the margins of a large, somewhat triangular, brown costal patch before the middle, reaching nearly to the fold, on which is a small spot of the same colour, a less conspicuous discal spot lying above and beyond it; a small pale cinereous spot occurs on the costa at three-fourths from the base; cilia pale cinereous, dusted at their base and along their middle with brownish fuscous. Hap. al. 13 mm. Hindwings shining, pale bone-grey, dusted at the apex on the underside ; cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen brownish grey; anal tuft inclining to ochreous above, pale cinereous externally. Legs brownish fuscous, banded with pale cinereous, tarsi spotted with pale cinereous; middle tibiae with two fan-like tufts in the ¢. Type & (65658); 2 (65659) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT. (65660) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. Mexico: Guerrero: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII-IX. (H. H. Smith). Three specimens. The costal patch in some specimens ( 2 65659) is ill-defined and diffused outwards on the margin. 21. Gelechia impurgata, sp.n. (Tab. IT. fig. 23.) Antennae white, dotted with fuscous above. Palpi white, slightly and minutely sprinkled with fuscous. Head and Thorax cream-white. Forewings cream-white, with a conspicuous fuscous blotch, obliquely placed on the cell, somewhat diffused at its outer end, but broken into scattered scaling which unites again in an elongate median streak beyond the end of the cell; the apex and termen are also dusted with fuscous; cilia white, sparsely dusted. xp. al, 14mm. Hindwings and cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen white, with an ochreous tinge. Legs white, sprinkied with fuscous. Type Q (35636) Mus. Wlsm. BM. Hab. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (H. K. Morrison). Unique. 22. Gelechia synthetica, sp. n, Antennae blackish. Palpi blackish, slightly pale-speckled. Head cinereous, speckled with black. Thorav blackish, with minute pale speckling. Forewings of even width, with rounded apex; blackish, with a slight purplish tinge and minute hoary speckling, except where black spots, each accompanied by some brownish ochreous scales, are distinguishable from the less intensely dark wing-surface ; of these spots the first is on the costa at one-fourth, placed rather obliquely, with a narrow ochreous subcostal line reaching it from the base ; another lies nearer to the base on the upper edge of the fold; a third, with some ochreous scales preceding and following it, lies in the fold a little before half the wing-length, and this is almost connected with a discal spot above it ; another triangular black spot, with ochreous scales along its inner edge, is at the end of the cell, beyond which a short, curved, ochreous costal streak precedes the pale brownish cinereous cilia which are dusted with fuscous. Exp. al. 11-12 mm. Hindwings leaden kk 2 68 | HETEROCERA. grey, blending to bronzy brownish outward, especially toward the margins ; cilia brownish cinereous. Abdomen brownish fuscous, with narrow pale segmental bands. Legs dark fuscous externally, pale cinereous on their inner sides. Type 3 (35637); 9 (85638) Mus. Wism. BM. [PTT (85645-6) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (H. K. Morrison). Seven specimens. 23. Gelechia pleroma, sp. n. Antennae fuscous. Palpi with the median joint clothed with a rather short roughened brush beneath ; fuscous, sprinkled with pale cinereous; the terminal joint scarcely shorter than the median. Head fuscous, mixed with pale cinereous ; face pale brownish cinereous. Thorax purplish fuscous, touched with pale cinereous posteriorly. Forewings with the costa slightly arched at the base, straight beyond, apex slightly depressed, somewhat obtuse, termen oblique ; purplish fuscous, with very faintly indicated pale brownish cinereous mottling, a small costal spot of the same at three-fourths from the base some- what more distinct; cilia greyish fuscous. Hyp. al. 16 mm. Hindwings bronzy brownish ; cilia greyish brown. Abdomen fuscous above, with narrow pale transverse bars ; anal tuft brownish cinereous. Legs pale brownish cinereous, banded externally with fuscous. Type & (65375, Amula) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [ PT. (5835 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. | Hab. Mexico: auerrero: Amula, 6000 ft. IX. (A. AH. Smith): oasaca: Salina Cruz (W. Schaus). ‘Two specimens. 24. Gelechia scotodes, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 25.) Antennae dark purplish fuscous. Palpi with a rough divided brush beneath, terminal joint not longer than the median; dark tawny fuscous, except along the upper surface of the median joint which is shining whitish ochreous. Head and Thorax smooth; dark tawny fuscous. Forewings with the apex depressed, obtusely rounded ; dark tawny fuscous, obscurely sprinkled with pale cinereous in some lights ; three spots darker than the ground-colour, two discal and one plical, the plical immediately below the first discal, accompanied by a few pale scales ; a small whitish spot at the commencement of the costal cilia, without indication of a transverse fascia; cilia pale cinereous, much suffused with tawny fuscous. ap. al. 14 mm. Hindwings bluish grey, overspread with brownish scales, more thinly along the cell and at the base; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen brownish fuscous. Legs whitish ochreous, suffused and banded with tawny fuscous. Type 3 (85628) Mus. Wlsm. BM. Hab. Muxico: sonora: 1883 (H. HK. Morrison). Unique. 95. Gelechia hetaeria, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 24.) Antennae cinereous, fuscous above. Palpi cinereous, banded with black near the apex of the median joint; terminal joint suffused with black. Forewings rosy greyish fuscous, a black spot at the base of the costa and three elongate black spots, somewhat ill-defined, along the discal cell, with a small one beyond the end of the cell and a few black marginal spots around the apex ; cilia rosy, slightly sprinkled with fuscous atoms. Exp.al.15 mm. Hindwings pale leaden grey; cilia brownish grey, with a slight rosy tinge. Abdomen greyish fuscous. Legs cinereous, suffused and sprinkled with blackish scales. Type 3 (65688) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: VERA cruz: Orizaba, XIT. 1887 (Ff. D. Godman and O. Salvin). Unique. | GELECHIA. 69 26. Gelechia lithodes, sp. n. Antennae brownish grey. Palpi pale stone-grey. Head pale stone-grey. Thorax brownish grey. Forewings with straightened costa and scarcely depressed apex, termen very oblique; stone-grey, sparsely dusted with blackish atoms, especially along the margins and on the base of the pale stone-grey cilia, a very few ochreous scales lying along the middle of the fold; the veins beyond the cell slightly indicated by darkened scaling. Kap.al.15 mm. Hindwings pale leaden grey, with a brownish tinge beyond the middle ; cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen brownish cinereous, with an ochreous tinge towards the base. Legs pale cinereous, the tarsi sprinkled with fuscous. Type 3 (35626) Mus. Wlsm. BM. [PT. (85627) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (H. K. Morrison). ‘Two specimens. 27. Gelechia nucifer, sp. n. Antennae brownish cinereous. Palpi whitish cinereous, sprinkled with a few brown and fuscous scales. Head whitish cinereous, slightly sprinkled above. horax whitish cinereous, profusely sprinkled with fuscous. Forewings whitish cinereous, profusely sprinkled with fuscous, forming a small reduplicated spot on the base of the costa, and a few ill-defined groups, at the base of the cilia, around the apex and termen, otherwise evenly and profusely distributed over the wing-surface ; there are three small rust- brown spots, two discal and one plical, the first discal scarcely before the middle, the second at the end of the cell; the plical spot is straight below the first discal; cilia pale cinereous, sparsely sprinkled with fuscous atoms. wp. al, 15-16 mm. Hindwings greyish at their base, becoming brownish grey out- wardly ; cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen brownish ochreous. Legs whitish cinerous, banded and dusted with fuscous. Type Q (85670); 3 (35671) Mus. Wism. BM. [PTT. (35701-10) US. Nat. Mus. | Hab. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (H. K. Morrison). Thirty-three specimens. 98. Gelechia rhypodes, sp. n. Antennae, Palpi, Head, and Thorax stone-white. Forewings and cilia stone-white, sparsely sprinkled beyond the basal fourth with groups of blackish scales, among which a discal spot before the middle, a spot at the end of the cell and another in the fold, slightly preceding the first, are scarcely more conspicuous than the smaller groups and scattered scales which occur towards the tornus and along the termen, spreading slightly into the cilia. Hap. al.14mm. Hindwings whitish grey, slightly darkening toward the apex ; cilia pale brownish cinereous. -Abdomen brownish cinereous, rather shining. Legs (missing). Type & (35629) Mus. Wlsm. BM. (PT. (35630) US. Nat. Mus. | Hab. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (H. K. Morrison). Two specimens. In the second specimen (35630) the discal spots appear even less conspicuous, but those along the termen rather more distinct, the sparsely sprinkled blackish scales occurring nearly to the base about the fold, and there is one at the extreme base of the costa; the legs are stone-white. 99. Gelechia sonorensis, sp. nu. (Tab. II. fig. 26.) Antennae sooty black above, barred with whitish ochreous beneath, the base entirely whitish ochreous. Palpi black, a whitish ochreous band around the apex of the median joint, another before the middle of the terminal, the apex whitish ochreous. Head whitish ochreous. Thorax sooty fuscous, tegulae whitish ochreous. Forewings whitish ochreous along the costal third, with a black spot at the extreme base of the costa and two elongate sooty fuscous spots on the costa, one before and one beyond the middle ; the dorsal two-thirds sooty fuscous, interrupted by an oblique branch of the paler costal surface running 70 | HETEROCERA. towards the tornus, beyond which a sooty streak runs to the apex and through the cilia; the upper edge of the dark portion is slightly undulate and there is some admixture of ochreous scales upon new role surface; cilia greyish fuscous, with a slight sprinkling of ochreous scales. Exp.al.11 mm. Hindwings grey; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs brownish fuscous, with pale ochreous annulations. Type 2 (35631) Mus. Wlsm. BM. Hab. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (H. HK. Morrison). Unique. POLYHYMNO Chmb. =Copocercia Z. Type 1: Polyhymno luteostrigella Chmb. (Chmb. 1874). | Potynymno Chmb. Can. Ent. 6 246-9 (1874): 8 30-1 (1876): Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 161 (1878): Jr. Cin. Soc. NH. 2 198, tf. 203° 26 (1880) ; Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 104 sp. 5586-7 (1891); Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891 95-7 Pf. 4: 32-8, 7° 78 (1891) : Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891 525, 546 no. 49 sp. 90 (1891): 1897 77-9 no. 16 sp. 54-7 (1897) ; Busck Jr. NY. Ent. Soc. 8 235-6 Pf. 9-1 (1900): Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 504 sp. 5647-9 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 773, 839-40 Pf. 31°26 (1903); Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 110 sp. 6193-5 (1903) ; Meyr. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1908 728 (1908) : Ann. Transv. Mus. 2 14-16, Pf. 5: 3-6 (1909). Type 2: Copocercia crambinella Z. (Z. 1877). Corocrercia Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 18 374-7 Pf. 5-129 ~> (1877). 1. Polyhymno subaequalis, sp. n. Antennae whitish, slightly tinged with bronzy brown. Palpi whitish. Head white. Thorax white, tinged with bronzy brown along the middle. Forewings shining bronzy brown, with a broad white median streak from the base, attenuated to a point beyond the end of the cell where it nearly coalesces with a small elongate white spot beneath its apex, which is succeeded by a white triangular patch before the termen ; the lower angle of this is produced in a narrow marginal line along the base of the dorsal cilia, its upper angle also produced towards the apex, but shortly meeting, at an acute angle, two white costal lines, the one starting nearly from the base and leaving the costa beyond the middle, the other coming from the costa a little beyond it, and only slightly less oblique ; at the angle where they meet are some silvery scales; above the acute angle which they form are three, white, wedge-shaped costal streaks, each wider than the other as they approach the apex, the third, pointing inward through the apical cilia, separated from the second by a blackish streak and ornamented at its outer end by two minute black dashes in the extremity of the apical cilia, which have thus a caudate appearance ; the cilia below the bronzy brown pointed apex of the wing are also much ornamented, their base white in contrast with the narrow bronzy brown termen, some black spots lying along their middle beyond which their extremities are shining silvery grey; dorsal cilia dull greyish. Zap. al. 16 mm. Hindwongs and cilia greyish brown, the latter tipped with whitish around the apex. Abdomen brownish cinereous. the tarsi with four brownish spots. Type 3 (65395) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.) BM. [PT (65397) US. Nat. Mus. | Hab. Mexico: guerrero: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (HZ. H. Smith). Legs whitish, Three specimens, The brown ground-colour of the forewings is distinctly more bronzy than in 5648 acaciella Busck, and the small white dash beneath the central white streak is absent. POLYHYMNO. . 71 2. Polyhymno convergens, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 27.) Antennae hoary white. Palpi hoary whitish, median joint slightly clothed beneath ; terminal joint longer than median, shaded beneath. Head hoary white. Thoraw hoary white, with two longitudinal greyish fuscous lines, Forewings greyish fuscous, longitudinally streaked with hoary whitish; a broad streak from. the base below the costa extending over the fold, on the middle of which it is slightly broken; an arrow-like point following the fold towards the tornus ; beyond the middle of the wing two hoary streaks, arising on the fold, converge towards the apex, nearly meeting the converging ends of four similar costal streaks of which the two outer are short and cuneiform, separated and followed by dark greyish fuscous, the tail-like apex also streaked above and beneath with fuscous and white alternately ; an elongate silvery patch lies within the termen, the space around it and towards the costa and subapical incision fawn-brown ; the cilia on the termen whitish, tipped with greyish fuscous, with three blackish spots along their base ; the long cilia above the tornus hoary greyish. wp. al. 16 mm. Hindwings brownish grey ; cilia hoary grey. Abdomen hoary greyish, anal tuft ochreous. Legs hoary greyish ; hind tibiae strongly hairy above, with two longitudinal streaks of greyish fuscous on their outer sides, tarsi banded with greyish fuscous, the first band much wider than the other four. Type 3 (65398) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: euprrero: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Unique. Allied to 5648 acaciella Busck, but differing in the whitish lines converging towards the apex. 8. Polyhymno colleta, sp. n. Antennae ivory-white, slightly clouded with fuscous beyond the basal third. Palpi, Head, and Thorax ivory- white, the latter with two slender brownish streaks along the middle. Forewings ivory-white, the dorsal third mottled with brown, which forms also a broken line along the fold, furcate near its outer end, the {running toward the apex; a rather broad brown band occurs along the costa, a slender white line running through it from before the middle of the costa to its outer and lower extremity ; this is followed by a broader oblique white streak from the commencement of the costal cilia, nearly meeting the end of the slender white line below it; a pair of shorter, triangular, geminated streaks, the outer pair in the apical cilia separated by brown on the costa, the same colour running outward below them and forming a caudate apex in the cilia; preceding the termen and parallel to it are a few silvery metallic scales, the terminal cilia being ornamented by two black spots in a white patch, margined before by brown, and behind by brownish grey; dorsal cilia brownish grey. Hap. al. 11-12 mm. Hindwings pale bluish grey ; cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen leaden grey, whitish at the sides ; anal tuft pale brownish ochreous. Legs ivory-white, with oblique brown streaks on the outer side of the tibiae, and brown bands across the tarsi. Type 3 (65807) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PZ’. (65810) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Muxico: GuERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft. VIJI-IX. (H. H. Smith). Four specimens. 4, Polyhymno leucocras, sp. n. Antennue white at the base, shaded beyond. Palpi snow-white. Head and Thorax snow-white. Forewings snow-white, with a rather broad brown costal band, the dorsal space beneath the fold being also com- pletely filled with brown, from which a brown streak is ejected outward in the direction of the apex ; the white costal streaks are in the same positions as in the previous species (colleta W1sm.), consisting of one long, slender, very oblique line commencing before the middle, followed by a shorter, less oblique line nearly meeting its apex, and two pairs of geminated white streaks in the costal and apical cilia ; there is also a similar white patch in the terminal cilia, but instead of two black spots this contains a black 72 HETEROCERA. streak with two black dots below it; a reduplicated brown line runs along the termen at the base of the cilia. Exp. al. 9-10 mm. Hindwings and cilia very pale grey. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs ° greyish white, hind tarsi spotted with fuscous. Type Q (35722) Mus. Wism. BM. [PTT. (85728, 35725) US. Nat. Mus. | Hab. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (H. K. Morrison). Seven specimens. 5. Polyhymno sciurella Wlsm. Polyhymno sciurella Wism. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 78 sp. 56 (1897) °. Hab. AMERICA, C-I. Central America—MeExico: VERA CRUZ: Cordova, V. 1908 (F. Knab): tasasco : Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). West Indies 1_Sr, Tomas’: 22-24, IIT. (F. Gudmann, W. von Hedemann) SIMONEURA, gen. n. (ciués==bent upwards; vevpd=a nerve.) Type: Simoneura ophitis Wlsm. (Tab. II. fig. 29.) J. H. Durrant, del, 16. Simoneura ophitis Wism. o. Antennae 3, simple; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi smooth, recurved, median joint somewhat fringed above toward the apex; terminal joint scarcely shorter than median, slender, acute. Mazillary Palpi short. Haustellum well-developed, scaled throughout. Ocellt present. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings elongate, the costa straight, apex somewhat abruptly depressed, rounded, dorsum impressed at end of vein 1: neuration 11 veins; 7-8 coincident; 6 to costa, distinctly above apex ; 3-4 approximate ; 2 remote from 8; 5 much nearer 4 than 6; 1 basally furcate. Hindwings 1, trapezoidal, only slightly sinuate beneath apex, dorsum straight: neuration 8 veins; 6-7 connate; 3-4 connate; 5 cubital, upwardly oblique, nearer 6 on termen than on discoidal, which runs obliquely inward to lower media, immediately above origin of 3-4; 11 connecting radius to 12. Abdomen moderate, smooth. Legs: hind tibiae hairy above. Correlated with Untomia Busck, Apopira W1sm., and Cathagesis Wlsm., but differing from these and from all American genera of Gelechiadae yet described in FW: 6 running to the costa, very noticeably above the apex. SIMONEURA. APOPIRA. 73 1. Simoneura ophitis, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 29.) Antennae pale greyish brown. Palpi pale steel-greyish, slightly shaded on the outer side of the median joint. Head and Thorax greyish brown ; face steel-grey. Forewings greyish brown, with a conspicuous, yellowish white, serpentine patch at the apex, extending downward to the tornus and through the tornal cilia ; above it is a minnte, white, outwardly oblique costal streak, beyond which the dark ground-colour is attenuate outward in a narrow marginal line curving around the apex; parallel and adjacent to this line one still narrower, whitish ochreous in colour, separates it from a broader brownish ochreous band running through the cilia, following the curve around the apex; the outer portion of the cilia white, narrowly tipped with grey, thus giving the appearance of five distinguishable lines of different shades of colour enclosing the apex. Ewp.al.10 mm. Hindwings and cilia pale greyish brown, a paler, slender dividing line running along the base of the cilia. Abdomen dark greyish brown; anal tuft slightly ochreous. Legs greyish brown, the ends of the tibiae and the joints of the tarsi pale cinereous. Type & (65862) Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT'T. (65864-5) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: Tabasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Five specimens. APOPIRA, gen. n. (dxéweipa = probation.) Type: Gelechia falcatella Wkr. (Tab. II. fig. 14.) cM Th | i Kt J. H. Durrant del 17. Apopira falcatella Wkr. 3, Q. Antennae 2, simple ; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi recurved; median joint somewhat flattened, and widened with smooth scales disposed in annular ridges projecting slightly on its upper side, smooth beneath; terminal joint not longer than median, slender, erect. Maxillary Palpi short. Haustellum scaled. Ocelli absent. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings narrow, elongate, scarcely widened outward, apex but slightly depressed, subfalcate, termen sinuate beneath apex, apical cilia falcate : neuration 11 veins; 7-8 coincident, to costa ; 6 almost connate with (7+8), running to immediately below apex ; 5 and 3 approximate to 4; 2remote. Hindwings trapezoidal, widening outward, termen not sinuate beneath apex: neuration 8 veins ; 3-4 approximate, 4 from lower angle of cell, 3 from before angle (with a lens only, 3-4 would be described as connate, but under the microscope they are as described); 5 about midway between 6 and 4, discoidal angulated inward at internal vein between 5-4 ; 6-7 separate, but approximated ; 12 connected to radius by 11. Abdomen slender. Legs: hind tibiae with a patch of hairs on their basal half above. Allied to Aproaerema Drnt. and Polyhymno Chmb., differing from the former in the loss of a vein in the forewings, by coincidence of FW:7-8; from the latter BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. IV., May 1911. ll 74. . HETEROCERA. in HW: 3-4 being connate, not stalked; and from both in HW: 6-7 being separate, not stalked. 1. Apopira falcatella Wkr. (Tab. II. fig. 14.) Gelechia falcatella Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 625 sp. 295 (1864) °. Antennae greenish fuscous, delicately annulate with white. Palpi dark greenish fuscous, distinetly and closely annulate with white throughout. Head and Thorax bluish green; face shining, cinereous. Forewings bluish green, the costa smeared with dark brown from near the base to the apex; a slender, oblique, whitish line runs outward from the commencement of the costal cilia to a point opposite the apex, whence it is angulate and diffused downward, losing itself in the paler greenish ground-colour ; the extreme apex is tinged with ferruginous, a reduplicated pale line marking the base of the dark brown cilia, in which, at the extreme apex, are three streaklets running downward through the projecting point, which gives them a strong uncate appearance ; the termen is preceded by three or four short longitudinal dark streaklets, and there is a dark spot in the cilia below the apex. Eup. al. 10-12 mm. Hindwings brown, shading to dark brown outwardly ; bluish white on the basal’ two-thirds beneath. Abdomen brown above, silvery white beneath. Legs dark brownish grey ; tibiae laterally streaked with silvery white, tarsi faintly annulate with white. Type 2 (1858 : 6 Ega) BM. Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—Mexico: tabasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith) —GuATEMALA : VERA PAZ: Panima, 1879 (G. C. Champion). South America— CoLOMBIA: MAGDALENA: Minca, 2000 ft., VI. 1899 (H. H. Smith)—BRaziL: AMAZONS: Ega (H. W. Bates). UNTOMIA Busck. Type: Untomia untomiella Busck (Busck 1906). Unromia Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 80 727 tf. 727:5 (1906): Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 9 86-7 (1908). 1. Untomia alticolens, sp. n. Antennae whitish, annulate with fawn-brown beyond the base. Palpi recurved, slender, median joint thickened above, and tufted at its apex; dark brown at the base, the tuft and terminal joint white. Head pale fawn-grey ; face whitish. Thorax pale fawn-grey. Forewings pale fawn, shaded and blotched with dark chocolate-brown, the costa to one-third white, with a dark brown spot at the extreme base; before the middle of the costa commences an elongate dark chocolate-brown patch which extends to the commencement of the costal cilia, before which it is interrupted by a short outwardly oblique white costal streak ; the fawn-brown colour, spreading at the base over two-thirds of the wing-width, contains two dark suffused spots on the fold, the second followed by some whitish scales; there is a small dark spot on the cell before the middle, and a second somewhat obliquely placed at the end of the cell, the latter followed by a whitish space, the whole dorsal half of the wing being slightly sprinkled with dark scales ; before the apex a dark chocolate-brown spot precedes a margined line of the same colour along . the base of the cilia which are whitish in the middle, tipped with chocolate-brown. vp. al, 12-14mm. Hindwings pale grey, marked at the apex somewhat as in the forewings ; cilia faintly shaded with fawn-grey. Abdomen brownish grey; anal tuft slightly paler. Legs greyish, the hind tarsi whitish at the joints. Type & (65867, S. de las Aguas Escondidas) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PTT. (65869, 65872-3) US. Nat. Mus. ] , Hab, Mexico: GUERRERO: Sierra de las Aguas Escondidas, 9500 ft., VII. (H. HH. Smith); Amula, 6000 ft., VILI-IX. (H. H. Smith). Hight specimens. UNTOMIA. 75 2. Untomia latistriga, sp.n. (Tab. IT. fig. 30.) Antennae whitish ochreous, annulate with dark brown. Palpi white, the median joint black nearly to its apex ; terminal joint tipped with black. Head and Thorax whitish ochreous, somewhat suffused with brownish fuscous above. Forewings whitish ochreous, a black spot at the base of the costa, produced in a narrow line along the costa to beyond one-third, where it is dilated into a broad patch shaded with brown along its lower edge, and continued to the commencement of the costal cilia; here is a rather widened, obliquely outward-curved, white costal streak, separated by a narrow brown space from a smaller, oblique, straight white streak preceding the semicircular black line which follows the margin of the evenly rounded apex and termen through the base of the whitish ochreous cilia, which are tipped with greyish fuscous ; there is a slight brownish fuscous suffusion along the dorsal half of the wing, and this is speckled with darker fuscous, notably in a narrow spot before the middle of the fold and in a short oblique patch arising from the flexus. wp. al. 12 mm. Hindwings trapezoidal, slightly dilated outward, apex obtuse, termen scarcely emarginate; shining leaden grey; cilia leaden grey, with a pale line along their base. Abdomen greyish fuscous. Legs greyish fuscous, with four pale tarsal annulations. Type 3 (65875) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: MoRELOS: Cuernavaca, VI. (H. H. Smith). Unique. Closely allied to rotundata Wlsm., but differing in its larger size, in the broader and more curved first white costal streak, in the absence of a conspicuous dorsal patch before the middle and of slender lines of blackish scales above the tornus. 3. Untomia acuminata, sp.n. (Tab. II. fig. 31.) Antennae ivory-white at the base, shaded with fuscous on the outer half. Palpi smooth, recurved, terminal joint scarcely more than half as long as the median ; blackish, except on the outer half of the terminal joint which is white. Head and Thorax ivory-white. Forewings elongate, narrow, the costa slightly raised near the base, thence flat to the somewhat depressed acuminate apex ; ivory-white, with three diffused fuscous dorsal patches—the first short at the flexus, the second before the middle, obliquely triangular, its apex crossing the fold, a third small and indistinct close to the tornus; along the costa is a slender blackish streak at the base, and a narrow outwardly dilated dark brown costal shade beyond the middle, through which runs a very oblique white line to a conspicuous black spot at the apex ; beneath this spot the cilia are ivory-white, with a small transverse black streak descending through them from the apex and nearly joining a streak of brown scales projecting below it from a slender terminal line of the same; underside clouded with fuscous, a slender black streak at the extreme apex. Exp. al, 13 mm. Hindwings and cilia pale brownish grey, with a whitish spot at the produced apex. Abdomen whitish ochreous. Legs white; hind tarsi with black spots. Type 5 (65852) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Unique. 4. Untomia rotundata, sp. n. Antennae olivaceous fuscous above, white beneath, the tip white. Palpt white, the median joint black nearly to its apex; terminal joint as long as the median, slightly smoky around its apex. Head and Thorax olive-grey, face white. Forewings with the costa slightly raised near the base, thence straight, apex and termen evenly rounded ; whitish ochreous, slightly suflused with brownish olivaceous ; along the base of the dorsum is a strong brownish patch reaching to beyond one-third, its outer end becoming nearly black, produced upward and outward to a point on the middle of the wing; beyond it above the tornus are two or three slender black lines, of which the upper one is curved; the outer half of the costa is black, the inner edge of the black patch obliquely defined from a little before the middle, in it are two short oblique whitish streaks before the rounded apex, which is marked by a semicircular black line bl 2 76 HETEROCERA. extending around the termen at the base of the whitish ochreous cilia, which are nearly black on their outer half above the middle; on the extreme base of the costa is a short black streak. Exp. al. 8°5 mm. Hindwings rather narrow at the base, trapezoidal, apex produced, termen scarcely emarginate; dull grey, suffused with brownish fuscous ; cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen olivaceous grey. Legs grey, with narrow whitish tarsal bands. Type 3 (65843) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PTT. (65848-50) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. Mexico: tasasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Nine specimens. 5. Untomia symphora, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 32.) Antennae whitish, delicately annulated with fuscous, Palpi white, the median joint somewhat spreading at its apex, black on its outer side, a narrow rim of white at its extremity, terminal joint shorter than the median. Head whitish, tinged with grey above. Thorax tinged with grey, tegulae whitish. Forewings whitish on the costal half towards the base, becoming greyish towards the dorsum and brownish ochreous about and beyond the end of the cell; at the extreme base of the costa is a slender black streak, followed by a very short oblique black streak at one-fourth and a broader oblique black streak at the middle; this is separated by a narrow oblique white streak from an elongate blackish costal blotch, which is somewhat triangular and terminates in a curved reduplicated blackish line in the apical cilia; this blotch contains an outwardly oblique slender line, pointing to a small black spot in a white patch before the apex, another slender white line meeting it at an angle from the dorsum ; a small pale space on the fold at about half the wing-length contains a few blackish scales; terminal cilia hoary, speckled with greyish fuscous. Exp.al.7 mm. Hindwings greyish brown; cilia with a curved shade-line near their outer ends at the apex. Abdomen shining, greyish brown. Legs greyish; hind tarsi annulate with white and fuscous. Type 3 (65821) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, III. (A. H. Smith). Unique. This species differs from rotundata Wlsm. in FW: 7-8 being furcate close to the costa, not coincident throughout. 6. Untomia horista, sp. n. Antennae cream-colour, distinctly annulate with brown. Palpi with the broadly scimitar-shaped median joint dark brown externally, its inner side and apical margin white; terminal joint slender, white. Head and Thorax cream-colour, the outer half of the tegulae dark brown. orewings dark umber- brown, with the exception of the dorsal third which is cream-colour, with a slight brownish ochreous tinge beyond the middle ; at, and a little before the termen, the pale portion becomes wider than the dark portion, which is angulated upward from above the tornus; from the commencement of the costal cilia runs a slender outwardly oblique whitish line through the dark brown, to the upper extremity of aslender tridentate dark brown line which reverts to the tornus a little before the termen; a dark brown line runs through the base of the pale cream-coloured cilia around the apex and termen, narrowly margined with cream-colour on its inner side, giving the apex an extremely rounded appearance. Hep. al. 8 mm. Hindwings as broad as the forewings, the termen obliquely sinuate, apex obtuse; together with the cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs creamy; hind tarsi with five dark shade-bands. Type 3 (65839) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT. (65840) US. Nat. Mus.} Hab. Muxico: tabasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Four specimens. 7. Untomia cryptina, sp. n. Antennae tawny fuscous, with faint paler annulations. Palpi pale, shining steel-grey, the median joint slightly thickened, and scarcely roughened above toward its apex. Forewings dark tawny brownish UNTOMIA. 77 fuscous, slightly bestrewn with steely grey scales ; with a slender pale steel-grey streak running obliquely outward from the commencement of the costal cilia to a little below the apex, where it is angulated and continued indistinctly to the tornus ; cilia dark tawny fuscous, with a darker line running through them near their base. Exp. al. 8-9 mm. Hindwings and cilia dark bronzy brownish. Abdomen dark bronzy brown. Legs brownish cinereous, Type 3 (65853) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT'T. (65859-61) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Sth). Nine specimens. This species may be recognised by the separation of veins FW: 3-4. 8. Untomia cenelpis, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 34.) Antennae pale cinereous, with dark greenish grey annulations. Pal/pi whitish cinereous, the median joint blackish nearly to its apex externally ; the slightly longer terminal joint with two blackish annulations, one at the base, the other before the apex. Head and Thorax dull greenish olivaceous; face pale cinereous. Forewings dark greenish olivaceous, with minute paler speckling and some blackish patches and suffusion; a small black spot at the extreme base of the costa is followed by a second costal spot before one-third; an elongate costal spot precedes the middle, and there is a larger one beyond the middle, pointing downward to an obscure spot at the end of the cell, and forming, at its outer edge, the margin of a slender pale olivaceous line crossing the wing from the costal to the dorsal cilia ; this line is angulated inward on its upper half and outward at its middle, thence descending straight to the dorsum ; beyond it are two or three blackish spots before the evenly rounded apex, and there is some indication of a similar spot on the fold before its middle—none of the markings are clearly defined; cilia dark greenish olivaceous, a slight shade-line along their base above the apex. Exp. al.10 mm. Hindwings trapezoidal, with obtuse apex ; brownish fuscous ; cilia slightly paler along their base. Abdomen dark greyish fuscous, Legs greyish fuscous; hind tarsi with three faint pale annulations. Type & (65819) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, IIl. (H. H. Smith). Unique. In this species FW: 7-8 are stalked. 9. Untomia concinnella Chmb. =+concinnusella Chmb. ; teoncinnisella Chmb. ; +concinusella Chmb., Busck. . Gelechia concinnusella Chmb. Cin. Qr. Jr. Se. 2 253-4 (1875) *. Gelechia concinnisella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 3 127 (1877)*. Gelechia concinusella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv, 4 142 (1878)*; Hgn-Frey Pap. 4 98 (1884) *; Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 100 sp. 5340 (1891)°. Aproaerema concinusella Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 509 sp. 5700 (1902) °: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 841, 843-4 (1903) 7, Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 110 sp. 6201 (1908) *. . Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States*™®. ATLANTIC Srates °—Texas > *7: BOSQUE: 9. X.1876 (G. W. Belfrage)—-Covorano 261: i paso: Edgerton, VI”. CaLIFORNIA : coLusa: Bear Valley, 27. VI. 1871 (Wism.): suasta: Pit River, 21-6. VII. 1871 (Wism.). Central America—Mexico: euerrero: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII-IX. (a. #. Smith). This species is congeneric with 5699 nigratomella Clms., and mercedella Wlsm. [Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1907 934-5 Pf. 51°11 (1908) Tenerife): all three species have FW: 7-8 stalked, and 3—4 separate. 78 HETEROCERA. 10. Untomia? pantalaena, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 33.) Antennae of the ¢ slightly biserrate towards the apex; brownish ochreous. dark umber-brown, except at its apex; this and the shorter terminal joint pale ochreous. Head and Thorax brownish ochreous, the latter with a tawny suffusion on the middle. Forewings elongate, obtusely lanceolate ; brownish ochreous, paler along the costa, with a tawny suffusion spreading from the base below the middle to the apex and dorsum, and minutely speckled with blackish scales; at the commencement of the costal cilia is a blackish spot; there is a smaller one in the middle of the fold; a very small one at the base of the costa, and a faint indication of another a little beyond the end of the cell; a few blackish scales are distributed around the obtuse apex and obliquely rounded termen, before the brownish ochreous cilia. Eap.al.10 mm. Hindwings trapezoidal, somewhat dilated outward, apex obtusely pointed, termen slightly emarginate ; together with the cilia dull brownish fuscous. Abdomen brownish fuscous. Legs brownish fuscous externally, brownish ochreous on their inner sides ; hind tarsi with pale annulations. Type 3 (65820) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: tapasco; Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Unique. This species is only included provisionally in Untomia Busck, the limits of which are at present under revision. The neuration of pantalaena Wl|sm. is as follows :— FW: 12 veins; 7-8 stalked, to costa; 2-4 separate: HW: 8 veins; all separate. Palpi with the median joint PARANOEA, gen. n. (rapavora = derangement.) Type: Paranoea latescens Wism. (Tab. II. fig. 28.) J. H. Durrant, del. 18. Paranoea latescens Wism. cC. Antennae & rather stout, slightly serrate, biciliate (4), nearly as long as the forewings; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi smooth, recurved, median joint somewhat thickened above and beneath with closely appressed scales, sharply cut off at apex ; terminal joint not longer than median, acute. Masillary Palpi short, converging. Haustellum well-developed. Ocella present. Head and Thorax smooth. Fore- wings elongate, costa straight, apex depressed, moderately pointed, dorsum parallel with costa: newration 11 veins ; 7-8 coincident, to costa; 9 stalked with (7+8); 2-3 short-stalked ; rest separate, Hindwings 1, somewhat trapezoidal, widening outward, termen slightly augulate beneath apex; cilia 1+: neuration PARANOEA.—STROBISIA. 79 8 veins ; 3-4 connate, or short-stalked ; 5 cubital; discoidal angulated inward at internal vein between 5 and 6; 6-7 truncate; 11 connecting radius to 12. Abdomen smooth. Legs: hind tibiae slightly hairy above. A development of the Dichomeris-Trichotaphe group, distinguished from its allies by the stalking of FW: 9 and (7+8). 1. Paranoea latescens, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 28.) Antennae cream-colour. Palpi cream-colour, the median joint shaded nearly to its apex externally with very pale chestnut-brown. Head and Thorax cream-whitish. Forewings cream-colour, with a slight yellowish tinge; a pale chestnut-brown costal blotch beyond the middle is followed by a series of small chestnut-brown dots around the apex and termen, at the base of the creamy yellowish cilia; a faint chestnut dot lies at the end of the cell. Exp.al.8 mm. Hindwings and cilia pale greyish cinereous. Abdomen brownish grey ; anal tuft cream-whitish. Legs cream-whitish. Type 3 (65697, Teapa) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PI’. (65698) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. Mexico: VERA cruz: Cordova, XII. 1907 (F. Knab): tasasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Three specimens. STROBISIA Clms. Type: Strobisia iridipennella Clms. (Busck 1903). (Tab. IT. fig. 35.) Srrosrsra Clms. Pr. Ac. Nat-Sc. Phil. 12 164-5 (1860): Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. pp. x, 40, 117-9, 207 (1872); Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 777-8 (1864) ; Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 162 (1878): Jr. Cin. Soc. NH. 2 198 tf. 202°12 (1880); Frey Stett. Ent. Ztg. 39 250-2 (1878) ; Wlsm. Moore’s Lp. Ceyl. 3 518-9 Pf. 209°6 (1887): Tr. Ent. Soc, Lond. 1891 97-8 Pf, 4:34, 7°79 (1891); Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 104 sp. 5580-5 (1891) ; Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 505 sp. 5653-4 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 772, 904-5 Pf. 31:31-2 (1903); Krft. Smith’s Check List Bor-Am. 112 sp. 6333-4 (1903) ; Meyr. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1909 23 (1909). 1. Strobisia iridipennella Cims. (Tab. II. fig. 35.) = tiripennella Chmb.; = + irridipennella Busck ; = } aphroditeella Chm 2°; = t aphroditella Frey. Strobisia iridipennella Clms. Pr. Ac. Nat-Se. Phil. 12 164 (1860)*: Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. pp. x, 37 no. 30, 40, 118 (1872)*; Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 778 (1864)*. Strobisia aphro- diteella Chmb. Can. Ent. 4 88-9 (1872)*. Strobisia iridipennella Chmb. Can. Ent. 7 7 (1875) *. Strobisia iripennella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 162 (1878)°. Strodisia aphroditella Frey Stett. Ent. Ztg. 39 251 (1878)". Strobdisia iridipennella Frey Stett. Ent. Ztg. 89 251 (1878)*; Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 104 sp. 5583 (1891)°; Dietz, Smith’s List Ins. New Jersey 474 (1900) °. Strobisia irridipennella Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 505 sp. 5653 (1902) u. Pr, US. Nat. Mus. 25 904-5, 937 Pf. 31°31 (1903) ”: Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 5 200 (1903). Strobisia iridipennedia Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 112 sp. 6333 (1903) . | Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States 1-4__ A pLantic States '\—PENNSYLVANIA 1 7]_ New Jersey °—Duisrricr or Corumsra (A. Busck)”—Kuntucny ‘—Nortit CAROLINA : 1884 (H. K. Morrison)—Fuoripa : 1883 (H. K. Morrison)—Texas: datas: Dallas, 80 HETEROCERA. 13. VI. (J. Boll; Stn. Coll., & Mus. Wism.). Central America—MEXxIco: TABASCO = Teapa, III. (1. H. Smith). A single specimen, in poor condition, from Teapa (65694), is easily recognised as iridipennella. Chambers ©™ rightly sunk aphroditeella Chmb. as a synonym of iridipennella Clms. (his type of aphroditeella, in the Museum of the Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, Mass., was examined in 1881 and this identification confirmed), but proserpinella Frey and Boll was wrongly regarded as synonymous by Busck ai—?) We have compared the type of proserpinella with specimens of iridipennella determined by Clemens, and now recognise proserpinella as a good species, separable from iridipennella without difficulty by the distinct large iridescent dorsal streak, intermediate between the second and third costal streaks; in ¢ridipennella this streak is replaced by four small iridescent spots arranged rectangularly, that on the dorsum, sometimes less conspicuous than those above it, being preceded and followed by others in a more or less continuous series parallel with the termen. [Strobisia proserpinella Frey & Boll. =*iridipennella Chmb. ; =tirridipennella (p.) Busck. Strobisia iridipennella Chmb. Can. Ent. 7 7 (1875)*. Strobisia proserpinella Frey & Boll Stett. Ent. Ztg. 39 251-2 (1878)?; Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 104 sp. 5585 (1891)*. Strobista arridipennella (p.) Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 505 sp. 5653 (1902)*: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 904-5 (1903)°. Strobisia iridipennella (p.) Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 112 sp. 6333 (1903) °. Hab. AMERICA, N. United States'-°-—Mussouni: st. Lovis: Kirkwood, 7. VII. 1884 (M. Murtfeldt)—Trxas*~*: pattas®: Dallas?: 24-27. IV. (J. Boll; Sin. Coil.), 6. VI. (J. Boll ; Zell. Coll.) : mc. LENNAN: Waco, 30. IV. 1868 (G. W. Belfrage; Stn. Coll.) : Bosque’: (G. W. Belfrage)’. Chambers “) remarked that the single specimen of iridipennella received from Belfrage, from Bosque County, Texas, differed in having “a less number of the blue spots” than any he had seen : this specimen was doubtless proserpinella, of which there is a specimen in the Stainton Collection, also received from G. W. Belfrage. Strobisia proserpinella has not yet been met with in Central America, but Boll took both species at Dallas (Texas) and it may be expected to occur further South. ] 2. Strobisia walkeri, sp. n. Antennae leaden grey. Palpi pale leaden grey. Head and Thorax leaden grey. Forewings with a leaden grey basal patch, merging outwardly into tawny purplish fuscous, which reaches to one-third and is bounded on the costa by a cuneiform white costal streak, while from its lower half it sends obliquely upward a sharp steel-grey tooth-like projection into the deep brownish orange band which succeeds it ; from each extremity of the white costal streak a dark steel-grey point also projects outward; the broad orange band into which these project is bounded a little beyond the middle of the wing by a rather oblique bright steel-grey fascia, narrowly margined on either ‘side by black, and rather wider on the dorsum than on the costa; this again is succeeded by a deep reddish orange fascia, narrower than the preceding orange band, but somewhat produced outward on the dorsum ; above this dorsal extension HETEROCERA. TINEINA. PLATE II. GELECHIADAE. Fig. : Page 1, Anacampsis succincta Wism. .... (Type od 65709) .......0.05- Teapa, Mexico..........+- 38 2. Anacampsis suffectella Wkr. — — - (2 5838, US. Nat. Mus.) —- — Tabernilla, Panama---- 41 3. Anacampsis suffectella Wkr....... (Type ¢ 1858 :6, BM.) ...... Ega, Brazil ........---+: 41 4. Recurvaria rhicnota Wism. - — — (Type ? 65784) - ---- - Las Mercedes, Guatemala— —- 44 5. Recurvaria thysanota Wism....... (Type 5 65786) .......6.06- Amula, Mexico ...-...... 45 6. Recurvaria picula Wism. - — — — (Type ¢ 5978, US. Nat. Mus.)- Cordova, Mexico - - - - — 46 7. Recurvaria sartor Wism. .......+ (Type 5 65792) ........ 20 oe Amula, Mexico .......... 44 8. Epithectis lasciva Wism.— - - - - (Type ¢ 5843, US. Nat. Mus.) — Tabernilla, Panama - -—--— 47 9. Epithectis critica Wism. .......- (Type 2 65793) ...........06 Amula, Mexico .......... 48 10. Arogalea archaea Wism.- - — — - (Type g¢ 65794) ------ Amula, Mexico- ~ - - - - 49 11. Zelosyne poecilosoma Wism. ...... (Type ¢ 5847, US. Nat. Mus.).. Tabernilla, Panama ...... 51 12. Tabernillaia ephialtes Wlsm. - — — (Type 2 5850, US. Nat. Mus.) - Tabernilla, Panama-—-—-— 54 13. Hudactylota barbarella Busck .... (Q 65801) ........ eee eeee Amula, Mexico .......... 55 14, Apopira falcatella Wkr. —- — - - - (Type 2 1858:6, BM.) — - — Ega, Brazil -~-~-- - 74 15. Telphusa ochrifoliata Wism....... (Type g 5974, US. Nat. Mus.).. Cordova, Mexico.......... 56 16. Telphusa ripula Wism. - - - - — (Type 9 65693)- - - - - - - Totonicapam, Guatemala - — 57 17. Telphusa chionostigma Wlsm. .... (Type 2 5831, US, Nat. Mus.) — Tabernilla, Panama........ 57 18. Gelechia cerussata Wism. - — — — (Type o 5977, US. Nat.Mus.).. Cordova, Mexico - - - - - 61 19. Gelechia quinquedentata Wlsm..... (Type ¢ 65675) ............ Amula, Mexico .......... 63 20. Gelechia petraea Wism. —- — - - - (Type 9 65686)- — — — — — — Las Mercedes, Guatemala- — 63 21. Gelechia translucida W1sm. ...... (3 5979, US. Nat. Mus.) .... Cordova, Mexico.......... 64 22. Gelechia concinna Wlsm. — — — — (Type 3§ 65661)- - - - - - - Amula, Mexico-— — — - — — 66 23. Gelechia impurgata Wism. ...... (Type 2 35636) ........... . Sonora, Mexico .......... 67 24. Gelechia hetaeria Wism. - - - - - (Type ¢ 65688)~ - — - - - - Orizaba, Mexico — - - — - 68 25. Gelechia scotodes Wism........... (Type ¢ 35628) ........ .... Sonora, Mexico .......... 68 26. Gelechia sonorensis Wism. — — — - (Type 2 35631)—- - - - - - - Sonora, Mexico - — -— —- — —- 69 27. Polyhymno convergens Wism. .... (Type d 65398) ............ Amula, Mexico .......... 71 28, Paranoca latescens Wism. — - — — (Type ¢ 65697)- —- —- - - — - Teapa, Mexico —- — ~ —- - - 79 29. Simoneura ophitis Wism. ........ (Type ¢ 65862) ............ Teapa, Mexico............ 73 30. Untomia latistriga Wism. —- — — — (Type ¢ 65875)—- —- —- - —- ~ - Cuernavaca, Mexico -— — — — 75 31. Untomia acuminata W1sm. ...... (Type gf 65852) ............ Teapa, Mexico........ eee 15 32. Untomia symphora Wlsm. — — — — (Type ¢ 65821)~- —- - ~ - - - Teapa, Mexico — — — — — — 76 33. Untomia? pantalaena Wism. .... (Type 5 65820) ............ Teapa, Mexico............ 78 34, Untomia cenelpis Wism. — — — - — (Type ¢ 65819)- - - --~-- Teapa, Mexico — - —- — — — 77 35. Strobisia iridipennella Olms....... (od 85852) oo... eee North Carolina, U.S. ...... 79 J, Mecleroverw Ce PWM tr ap,Chr omo.Leiden. my + H ‘ H pd TINEINA ANACAMPSIS — STROBISIA. TY one H H i eveeercestnen EWFrohawk,del, AJJ.Wendel, ith . STROBISIA. 81 is a deep blackish patch extending to the costa and produced outward nearly to the apex, this contains a pair of rather converging silvery white costal streaks and a small spot of steel-grey towards its lower extremity, the space beyond it to the apex and termen, including the cilia, being rich shining purple. Exp.al.12mm. Hindwings dark coppery brown; cilia purplish grey. Abdomen brownish fuscous. Legs: hind tibiae shining, brownish grey, with a white annulus at their end; the tarsi darker, with the terminal joint white. Type Q (2318) Mus. Wlsm. BM. [PT. (4914, Drnt. Det. 1906) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—PaNnaMA: PANAMA: Panama, 7. X - 26. XI. 1881 (J. J. Walker) and (Coll. Beutenmiiller, US. Nat. Mus.). South America— CoLoMBIA: MAGDALENA: Santa Marta, 1865 (P. Bouchard; Stn. Coll.). Three specimens. I am indebted to Commander J. J. Walker for this, as well as for many other very interesting forms: it is of much the same appearance as several species collected on the Amazons by Bates, and described from specimens in the British Museum by Francis Walker, but does not agree with any in the distribution of its beautifully distinct markings. 3. Strobisia scintillula, sp.n. (Tab. IIT. fig. 1.) Antennae brownish above, ochreous beneath; slightly serrate towards the apex. Palpi white on their inner sides, tinged with grey externally, especially at the end of the median joint; apical joint inclining to ochreous. Head and Thorav brownish fuscous. Forewings dark brown, with a bright steel-blue spot at the base of the costa, a slender, outwardly curved steel-blue line at one-fifth from the base, two white costal streaklets, one before and one beyond the middle, beneath which are three steel-blue spots, two on the cell and one beneath the fold, and a wide steel-blue band before the termen projecting inwards above the middle; along the margin beyond this an ochreous band runs to the apex, separated from the whitish apical cilia by a dark line; cilia on the lower half of the termen dark greyish fuscous; the basal patch within the first blue line, and the central fascia indicated by the white costal streaks, are very slightly paler than the ground-colour. EZwp. al. 10 mm. MHindwings brown; cilia slightly paler. Al,domen fuscous, banded transversely with steel-grey; white beneath. Legs fuscous, with white patches at the extremities of the tibiae, and smail white spots on the tarsal joints; spurs white. Type 3 (65695) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: TaBasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Unique. 4, Strobisia argentifrons, sp.n. (Tab. III. fig. 2.) Antennae dark brown, with slender pale annulations. Palpi very slender, moderately recurved, terminal joint as long as median; whitish. Head and Thorax dark bronzy brown; face silvery. Forewings dark bronzy brown, with a slight leaden grey sheen at the base, extending to the dorsum below the fold, followed at one-third by an oblique leaden grey costal spot, beyond which are two silvery costal streaks, one at three-fifths, and one before the apex, both tending obliquely outward; the dark brown cilia have a pale line at their base, a rather wider line beyond their middle reaching around their apex. Exp. al. 8mm, Hindwings 1, sinuate below the rounded apex; pale bronzy brown, with a reduplicated pale line in the cilia, at the apex only. Abdomen dark brown, with a cupreous spot at the base above; silvery white on the underside. Legs dark brown ; hind tibiae with broad white bands, corresponding to each pair of spurs which are also white ; tarsi with three white spots at the joints, and one at the end of the last joint. Type g (65696) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: rapasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Unique. BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. IV., October 1911. — mm 82 Antennae 3, slightly serrate in ¢; basal joint smooth, without pecten. HETEROCERA. AEROTYPIA, gen. n. (dip=the air; rirns=a striker.) Type: Aerotypia pleurotella Wlsm. (Tab. III. fig. 3.) 33614 W—— ‘ iN ‘ LS Vrinaa ATAU il N ‘AS \ J. H. Durrant, del. 19. Aerotypia pleurotella Wlsm. <6. Labial Palyr porrect, nearly four times as long as the head; median joint slightly bent over, clothed above and below with long appressed scales; terminal joint half as long as the median, slightly clothed, smooth. Mazillary Palpi minute. Haustellum strongly developed, smooth. Ocelli absent. Head and Thorax smooth. forewings narrow, elongate, costa and dorsum paraliel, apex obtusely pointed, termen oblique, evenly rounded: neuration 12 veins; 7-8 stalked, to costa; 6 approximate to 7; 5 remote from 6, approximate to 4; 3-4 closely approximate; 2 from outer fourth of cell; 1 basally furcate. Mindwings broader than forewings, termen oblique, subsinuate, tornus evenly rounded: neuration 8 veins; 6-7 approximate at base, thence diverging ; 3-4 connate, or short-stalked; 5 cubital, nearer 6 on termen than on discoidal which | is bent inward between them ; 12 anastomosing with radius at middle of cell, thence diverging, straight. Abdomen and Legs smooth. A peculiar genus, of which the ? is unfortunately unknown and consequently its relationship is obscure. The porrect palpi of the ¢, and the anastomosis of HW: 12 with the radius, should render it easy of recognition. 1. Aerotypia pleurotella, sp.n. (Tab. III. fig. 3:) Antennae and Palpi pale ochreous, Head and Thorax whitish ochreous; the tegulae streaked with darker olivaceous ochreous. Forewings ochreous, fading to ochreous white from below the middle to the dorsum: - from the base below the costa to the apex runs a straight white streak of even width throughout ; above it the ochreous ground-colour is tinged with pale olivaceous fuscous to the costa, as also narrowly along its lower margin, making it very clearly defined; cilia whitish, tinged with ochreous, especially at the apex and on the costa; underside fuscous, with cream-white cilia. Fp. al. 40-42 mm. Hindwings sericeous, pale brownish fuscous, tending to fade to paler from costa to dorsum; cilia whitish with a faint ochreous tinge; underside fuscous, with cream-white cilia, Abdomen very pale brownish fuscous Legs creamy whitish, shaded above with pale brownish fuscous. ) Type 3 (5828 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus, [P77’. (33614) Mus. Wlsm. BM. ; (5830 Wlsm. Det. 1908) Mus. Meyr.] Hab. Mexico: MoRELos: Cuernavaca, VI. 1906 (W. Schaus). Three specimens. PROCLESIS. . 83 PROCLESIS, gen. n. (xpoxX\nots=a, calling forth.) Type: Proclesis xanthoselene Wlsm. (Tab, III. fig. 4.) in KS SS Cy 2 20. Proclesis xanthoselene Wism. 9. ay J. H. Currant, del. Antennae 3, without pecten. Labial Palpi long, recurved, smooth; the median joint only slightly thicker than the shorter terminal. Mawillary Palpi distinct. Haustellum very long, scaled at base. Ocelli absent. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings elongate, with parallel margins, apex produced, pointed ; termen oblique, scarcely sinuate, tornus obtuse: neuration 12 veins; 9 out of stalk of 7-8, 7 to costa; rest separate, 5-6 remote; 2 as near to 3.as 5 isto 4; 1 basally furcate. MHindwings trapezoidal, apex pointed, termen oblique and slightly sinuate; cilia#: newration 7 veins, 5 obsolete; 3-4 stalked; 6-7 stalked; discoidal obsolete above media; 11 connecting radius to 12. Abdomen smooth. Legs: hind tibiae hairy. Closely related to Deoclona Busck, with which it agrees in the peculiar neuration of the hindwings, but differing in the shape of the forewings, and in FW: 9 arising from the stalk of 7-8, instead of being separate ; the terminal joint of the palpi also is longer than in Deoclona. 1. Proclesis xanthoselene, sp.n. (Tab. 111. fig. 4.) Antennae pale ochreous. Palpi pale ochreous, tinged with brown on their inner sides ; entirely suffused with brown externally. Head and Thorax ochreous. Forewings brownish ochreous, thickly overlaid with minute steel-blue scales, giving an oily sheen to the wing-surface, especially along the margins ; this steel-blue sheen becomes intensified gradually outwards, until it forms, in some lights, a clear steel-blue patch adjacent to the apex and termen, produced outward at the apex and tornus through the cilia and enclosing a semilunate terminal patch of bright yellow-ochreous, covering a small portion of the termen and including all the terminal cilia, except at the angles; a patch of bluish sealing at the end of the cell shows a tendency to divide into two spots, and is preceded by a similar patch at about one-third the length of the cell. wp. al. 18-20 mm. Hindwings shining, coppery yellowish; cilia almost golden yellow. Abdomen brownish ochreous, with a few steely scales on some segments. Legs ochreous. Type Q (67982, Bartica) Mus. Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America — PANAMA: CANAL ZONE: ‘Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (A. Busck). South America — BrivisH GUIANA: Bartica, 5-8. VI. 1901 (H. 8. Parish). Three specimens. Wlsm. BM. [P7. (5788 Wlsm. Det. 1908) Tabernilla, US. Nat. Mus.] mm 2 84 . HETEROCERA. BRACHMIA Hb. =+ Bractunra Stph.; =§ Czrsropnora Hnmn.; =Evpopacies Snln. (=§ Crapopzs Hninn.) ; =Toropora Meyr.; =AvetHistis Meyr. Typel: Tinea dimidiella S-D., Hb. . . Bracumra Hb. Verz. Schm. 419 sp. 4068-9 (1826) ; [t Bzaczvwra Stph. Il. Br. Ent. Haust. 4 205 (1834), 422 (1835)]; [Genucaia. A.b. BracuMia Z. Is. 1839 197, 201-2 sp. 54-80 (1839) ]; Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 569, 605-6 no. 16 sp. 1-3 tf. 606° (1895); Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 62-3 no. 9 sp. 20 (1897); Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 157 no. 326 sp. 2609-19 (1901); Meyr. Jr. Bomb. NH. Soc. 17 151-2 (1906), 738 (1907) : 20 708-25 (1911): Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1908 727-8 (1908) : Ann. Transv. Mus. 2 138-14 Pf. 5° 2 (1910) ; Splr. Schm. Eur. 2 350-1 no. 2 sp. 1-8 tf, 351°120-1 Tf. 88: 40-1 (1910). [nec *Braczura Humn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 189, 230-3 no. 419 sp. 333-7 (1870), Tbl. 5, 35 no. 419 (1876) = Errrnectis Meyr. (Type: mouffetella L.)]. Evvovactzs Snln. =§ Cravoprs Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 191, 330-1 no. 442 sp. 501-2 (1870), Tbl. 4, 46 no, 442 (1876); Stn. Ent. Mo. Mag. 7 172-8 (1871) ; Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 301 no. 219 sp. 2114-7 (1871); Meyr. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894 15 (1894). Bracumta (§ Czapopzs) Rbl. Verh. ZB. Ges. Wien 53 : 1903 97-8 (1903) ; Splr. Schm. Eur. 2 351 sp. 6-8 tf. 351-121 Tf. 88°41 (1910). Evpopaczxs Suln. Tijd. Ent. 32 204 (1889) ; Drnt. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1889 p. cexxiii (1889) ; Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. 31 41 (1895). § Cladodes Hnmn. (1870) is homonymous with Cladodes Solier (1849) Coleopt. Type 2: Recurvaria rufescens Hw. § Ceraropuora Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 189, 325-7 no. 440 sp. 491-5 (1870), Tbl. 5, 45 no. 440 (1876) ; Stn. Ent. Mo. Mag. 7 172 (1871); Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 300 no. 217 sp. 2101-5 (1871); Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 18 363-8 sp. 22-4 Pf. 5° 123-4 (1877) ; Snin. Vlind. Nederl. Micr. 428-9, 613-8 no. 43 sp. 8-6 Pf. 8° 263, 266 (1882); Tijd. Ent. 44 84-6 sp. 12-13 Pl. 6:2, 4 (1901): 46 41-8 sp. 14 Pf. 4-11-12 (1903); Pgstchr. Zool. 29 2386 (1900). Bracumra (a.*Bzracuura) Splr. Schm. Eur. 2 351 sp. 1-5 tf. 351-120 Pf. 88 - 40 (1910). § Ceratophora Hnmn. (1870) is homonymous with Ceratophora Gray (1840) Rep. Spiiler employs Brachmia Hb. in a subgeneric sense for rufescens Hw., referring dimidiella S—D. to his subgenus )Cladodes Hnmn., and luculella Hb. to Teleta Hnmn.; since Brachmia Hb. was founded on these two species such subgeneric usage is inadmissible. Type 3: Torodora characteris Meyr. (Meyr. 1894). Toropora Meyr. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894 16-17 sp. 5-7 (1894): Jr. Bomb. NH. Soc. 16 599-600 (1905) : 17 151 (1906). Type 4: Apethistis metoeca Meyr. (Meyr. 1908). Avetuistis Meyr. Jr. Bomb. NH. Soc. 18 459-60 (1908) : 20 708 (1911). 1. Brachmia virescens, sp.n. (Tab. IIT. fig. 5.) Antennae biciliate 3; greenish grey, faintly annulate. Palpz pale greenish grey, slightly sprinkled externally with fuscous; terminal joint as long as median, with a fuscous shade before its apox. Head and Thorax pale olivaceous greenish, the latter somewhat shaded with fuscous. /orewings narrow, somewhat widened BRACHMIA.—NOEZA. 85 outwardly, termen oblique, apex scarcely depressed; pale olivaceous greenish, with fuscous cloud-like spots—one at the base of the costa, reduplicated on the base of the cell, the lower portion stretching a little beyond the upper; one a little beyond the middle of the cell, reduplicated on the upper edge of the fold, below and a little beyond it; one on the costa before the cilia, and another, smaller and more clearly defined, a little before it on the end of the cell; the wing-surface is somewhat sprinkled with fuscous scales, and a series of fuscous spots along the middle of the terminal cilia is continued around the apex, with which exception the cilia are pale greenish ochreous. Ewp.al.13 mm. Hindwings 1*, trapezoidal, not sinuate below the apex; pale rosy grey; cilia pale cinereous. Abdomen greyish fuscous ; anal tuft greenish ochreous. Legs pale cinereous, the tarsi and ends of the tibiae faintly spottcd. Type 3 (65640) Mus. Wlism. (Godm-Salv, Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: cuerrero: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Unique. NOEZA WkEr. Type: Noeza telegraphella Wkr. (Wkr. 1866). Norza Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 35 1839-40 (1866). Antennae 1, basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi long, recurved; median joint scimitar-shaped, laterally compressed, smooth at the sides, with long hairs above and below, except towards the base; terminal joint slender, pointed. Mazillary Pulpi well-developed. Haustellum scaled. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings with costa bulged towards the base, depressed at or beyond middle, apex obtuse, termen somewhat oblique, tornus rounded: neuration 11 veins; 7-8 coincident, to costa; 2-3 stalked ; rest separate. Hindwings 1+, termen obliquely rounded, not incised below apex: neuration 8 veins; 6-7 closely approximate ; 3-4 connate, or short-stalked ; 5 cubital, about midway between 4 and 6; discoidal obsolescent between 5 and 6. Abdomen moderate. Legs: hind tibiae slightly haired above. Allied to Dichomeris Hb. and Anorthosia Clms., but differing in general structure, as well as in the coincidence of FW: 7-8. 1. Noeza auritogata, sp.n. (Tab. III. fig. 6.) Antennae, & diciliate 1; pale chestnut. Pulpit with the base and upper two-thirds of the median joint pale chestnut, its apex and lower third bright yellow; terminal joint scarcely half the length of the median, white. Head chestnut above; face whitish. Thorax chestnut. Forewings with the costa bulged towards the base, depressed on the middle, apex obtusely subfaleate; termen slightly concave, slightly oblique, tornus obtuse; reddish chestnut, with a patch of reddish ochreous, slightly raised scales on either side of the fold at about one-fourth; a small dark chestnut spot at the end of the cell; an elongate transverse dark chestnut shade, separated from the termen by a shining lilac marginal line, which is widened upward to the apex, whence it is diffused and diluted inward over the wing-surface, at least as far as the upper angle of the cell; cilia rich reddish chestuut. Eup. al. 21 mm. Hindwings golden-yellow ; cilia slightly tinged with chestnut at the extreme apex. Abdomen golden yellowish. Legs reddish chestnut, pale ochreous on their inner sides. Pype g (65577) Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.) BM. Hab. PANAMA: cHIRIQUI: Bugaba, 800-1500 ft. (G. C. Champion). Unique. 9. Noeza oncotera, sp.n. (Tab. III. fig. 7.) Antennae delicately annulate with black and very pale yellow. Palpi with the median joint thickened above and beneath; terminal joint scarcely shorter than the median, slender; the former ferruginous externally, the latter whitish ochreous. Head ochreous, shaded with ferruginous posteriorly. Zhorax pale ochreous, margined in front with ferruginous. Forewings narrow at the base, widened outwardly, apex rounded, termen oblique; pale yellowish ochreous, suffused with ferruginous towards the termen, and in a large blotch extending from the base on either side of the fold and along the dorsum to the commencement of the tornal cilia, its outer extremity somewhat attenuate, leaving a space of the same ground-colour 86 HETEROCERA. between it and a dark ferruginous costal blotch a little beyond the middle ; the termen is narrowly pale yellowish ochreous, with three ferruginous dots at the base of the cilia ; cilia yellowish ochreous on their basal half, whitish ochreous on their outer half. Exp. al. 11mm. Hindwings 1+, slightly sinuate below the apex; shining, pale grey ; cilia shining, pale greyish cinereous, with a slender yellowish line along their base. Abdomen greyish; anal tuft ochreous. Legs pale yellowish cinereous. Type & (65569) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: guerrero: Amula, 6000 ft., IX. (H. H. Smith). Unique. ANORTHOSIA Clms. =Carna Wkr. (=§ Raozowpa Wkr.); =§ Saeaniris Chmb. Type 1: Anorthosia punctipennella Clms. (Clms. 1860). Anorrtuosia Clms. Pr. Ac. Nat. Se. Phil. 12 161 (1860) : Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. pp. x, 110-12 tf. 111- (1872) ; Chmb. Can. Ent. 6 245 (1874). § Saeanrrrs Chmb. Can. Ent. 4 225-6 (1872): 6 245 (1874): Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 162 (1878): Jr. Cin. Soc. NH. 2 198 tf. 202-14 (1880). Anorrosra Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891 110-11 Pf. 7°84, 5:45 (1891); Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 507 sp. 5675-6 (1902) : Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 772, 917-9, 988 Pf. 32°35 (1903); Meyr. Jr. Bomb. NH. Soc. 18 150 (1907). Type 2: Rhobonda punctatella Wkr. (Wkr. 1864). Canna Wkr. =§ Raozonpa Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 802-3 sp. 1 (1864). Carna Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 30 1038 (1864) un. § Rhobonda Wkr. (1868) is homonymous with Rhobonda Wkr. (1863) Lp., gn.alt. 1. Anorthosia punctipennella Clms. n. syn. =gracilella Chmb. Anorthosia punctipennella Clms. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. 12 161 (1860)’: Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. p. x, 88 sp. 85, 110-12 tf. 111° (1872)*. Sagaritis gracilella Chmb. Can. Ent. 4 226 (1872) *. Anorthosia punctipennella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 129 (1878) *. Sagaritis gracilella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 162 (1878)°: Jr. Cin. Soc. NH. 2 tf. 202: 14 (1880) *; Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 103 sp. 5544 (1891) 7. Anorthosia punctipennella Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 103 sp. 5522 (1891) °; Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 507 sp. 5675 (1902)°: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 918, 938 Pf. 32°35 (1902) °: Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 5 198 (1903) **; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am, 113 sp. 6355 (1903) ". Anorthosia gracilella Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 507 sp. 5676 (1902) *: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 919 (1903) *; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 113 sp. 6356 (1903) ". Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States, E.“~"”’—New Jersey: Essex County Park, 24. VI. (W. D. Kearfott)—Punnsyivanta‘="-—Districr or CotumBia”: Washington ™, VI. 1901 (A. Busck)— Kentucky®*~. Central America— Mexico: VERA ‘CRUZ: Cordova, I. 1908 (f. Anab): Tapasco: 'Teapa, ILI. (H. H. Smith)—Panama: canal zONE: Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (A. Busck). | Busck “ suggested that gracilella Chmb. might eventually be proved to be the ANORTHOSIA.—DICHOMERIS. 87 same as punctipennella Clms., and now agrees that there is no reason to think that these names represent two distinct species. 2. Anorthosia terracocta, sp. n. (Tab. III. fig. 8.) Antennae pale clay-red. Palpi divergent, the median joint very long, thickly fringed above from near base to apex; terminal joint short, slender, naked ; pale red. Head and Thoraw pale clay-red. Forewings and cilia unicolorous clay-red. Evp. al. 15 mm. MHindwings and cilia reddish grey. Abdomen reddish grey. Legs pale greyish. Type 2 (65579) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Panama: currigur: Voican de Chiriqui, 2000-3000 ft., 1881 (G@. C. Cham- pion). Unique. 3. Anorthosia capillata, sp.n. (Tab. III. fig. 9.) Antennae, 3 minutely serrate and ciliate, with a notch at the end of the basal joint ; ochreous, banded above with fuscous. Palpi long, divergent, brownish ochreous; median joint clothed above and below with long hair-like scales, giving it a flattened quadrate appearance, very hirsute towards its end; terminal joint paler, with a fuscous line along its underside, about equal in length to the median joint, very slender, and seeming to arise from the outer side of its brush-like clothing. Head and Thoraw ochreous, the latter dusted with brownish. Forewings ochreous, streaked and clouded with brown; about the middle of the wing a broad brown streak crosses the cell obliquely outward from its upper to its lower edge, and above and beyond this the wing is more or less clouded with the same colour, slender lines of ochreous scales running through it in the direction of the veins ; some fuscous scales are strewn along the fold throughout, a few also on the cell beyond the oblique brown streak, some below the costa, and others, forming a slight fuscous shade, before the apex and termen ; a pale ochreous Jine marks the base of the light brownish cilia. Zap. al. 12 mm. Hindwings brownish grey ; cilia slightly paler. Abdomen brownish grey, whitish ochreous beneath; anal tuft ochreous. Leys brownish grey. Type 3 (65625) Mus. Wlism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Guavemaua: vera Paz: Panimd, 1800 ft., 8-15. X. 1879 (G. C. Champion). Unique. DICHOMERIS Hb. = Ruinosia Tr.; =*Yersozopuvs (F.) Z. ({Hypsizorpnus Oxf-Camb.; +Hypsozoruvs HS. ; +Hyprsotopua HS.); = TricnorapHe Clms. (= *Noruers Chmb.); = Vazucapa Wkr. ; Garsa Wkr.; =Becor Chmb.; =Ericorrayzis Z.; = Matacorricna Z.; = Hetcysro- cramma Z. (=*Noruzis Wism.; Bracuycrossara. B. Wlsm.). Type 1: Dichomeris ligulella Hb. (Hb. 1818). Dicnomeris Hb. Ztr. Smlg. Exot. Schm. 1 25, [37] sp. 72 Pf. [25] - 143-4 (1818): Verz. Schm. 405 sp. 8900 (1826); Busck Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 11 89-91 (1909). Type 2: Tinea ustulella F. (=* ustalella F.) (Dp. 1838). Rasnosia Tr. Schm. Eur. 9 (2) 9-22 no. 141 sp. 1-11 (1833); Dp. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 7 135-6 no. 10 (1838): HN. Lp. Fr. 11 14-15, 179-201 no. 10 sp. 1532-9 Pf, 292° 6-11, 293: 1-8 (1838). (* Ruzyosra (Tr.) Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 190, 327-9 no. 441 sp. 496-500 (1870), Tbl. 5, 46 no. 441 (1876) ; Stn. Ent. Mo. Mag. 7172 (1871); Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 300 no. 218 sp. 2106-13 (1871) ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 158 no. 327 sp. 2920-7 (1901) =Orornia Hb. (Type: denisella S-D., Hb.).] 88 | HETEROCERA. _ ‘Type 8: Alucita marginella F. *Ypsororucs (F.) Z. Isis 1839 189-90 no. 15 sp. 1-16 [B. Yrsozorxus (F.) Z. Isis 1889 189-90 sp. 5-14] (1839); HS. SB. Schm. Eur. 5 11 no. 63 (1853). Hypsozoravs HS. SB. Schm, Eur. 5 42 no. 63 Pf. 12° 23-7 (1853). Hypsoropua HS. SB. Schm. Eur. 5 158-5 no. 63. sp. 877-84 (1854), Syst. Lp. 54 no. 877 sp. 891-7 (1855). Ypsozorzus Stn. List Br. An. BM. 16 Lp. 88-9 no. 13 sp. 1-2 (1854): Ins. Br. Lp-Tin. 76, 145-6 no. 13 sp. 1-2 Pf. 4° 108-¢ (1854). Hypsrroravs (inpiropos=with a high crest) Oxf-Camb. Ent. Soce. Acc. List Br. Lp. 89 (1858). Yesozoravs Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 337-40 no. 447 sp. 510-17 (1870), Tb]. 6, 46-7 no. 447 (1876); Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 301-2 no. 225 sp. 2184-42 (1871); Snln. Vlind. Nederl. Micr. 431, 699-701, 1087 no. 57 sp. 1-2 Pf. 8°274, 9°278 (1882); Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 569, 607-9 ‘no. 18 sp. 1-8 (1895); Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 159 no. 333 sp. 2950-9 (1901). Hyrsozorxvs Splr. Schm. Eur. 2 354-5 no. 12 sp. 1-8 Pf. 88°48-9 (1910). Yrsozopzvs Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 166-7 (1878): Jr. Cin. Soc. NH. 2 198 tf. 202:16 (1880); Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 10 185-8 (1882); Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 103 sp. 5523-34 (1891) ; Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 507-8 sp. 5678-92 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 772, 920-7, 938 Pf. 32°36 (1903); Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 113 sp. 6358-72 (1903) ; Berg An. Soc. Ci. Argent. 19 282-3 (1885); Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891 525-7, 546 no. 50 sp. 91-4 (1892): 1897 86-7 no. 24 sp. 73-8 (1897): Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881 265-7 Pf. 12° 35-6, 18-37 (1881): 1891 107-8 Pf. 5°43-4 (1891): 1897 41 Pf. 3°13 (1897). Hyrsororpuvs Wism. Bull. Liverp. Muss, 3 2-8 (1900): NH. Sokotra 845-6 Pf. 21-3-4 (1903): Ent. Mo. Mag. 89 264-5 (1903). Yrsororpuus Meyy. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. 29 258, 429-35 no. 54 sp. 263-73 (1904): Jr. Bomb. NH. Soc. 16 601 (1905) : 17 981-2 (1907): Rec. Ind. Mus. 5 223 (1910) : Ann. S-Afr. Mus. 5 871 (1909): Ann. Transv. Mus. 218 Pf. 6: 2 (1910). It has long been obvious that the present usage of the geneonyms “ Ypsolophus F. ” and ‘“ Cerostoma Ltr.” must be corrected (vide Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 86; etc.), but as it was recognised that a study of most of the generic terms involved would have to be undertaken for the purposes of this work the correction has been deferred until now. The chief difficulty has been occasioned by the different application of :—: YrsotopHa Ltr. Préc. Gen. Ins. 145 (1796) no types. Yrsotoruus F, Sppl. Ent. Syst. 421, 505-10 sp. 1-23 (1798). Crrostoma Ltr. Hist. Nat. Crust-Ins. 3 416 (1802). Type vittella L. (=dorsatus F., Ltr. Gn. Crust-Ins. 1 Pf. 16°6). Ypsolopha and Cerostoma appear both to have originated in Paris, and to have been applied to the same species PhaJaena Tinea vittella L. (=dorsella F., dorsatus F., Ltr.). Latreille [Gn. Crust-Ins. 4 233 (1809)] sunk both Ypsolophus F. and Cerostoma Ltr. as synonyms of § Alucita F. (1781), but *Alucita F. is invalid, being homonymous with Alucita L. (1758); and moreover when Fabricius published Ypsolophus, founded on species removed from *Alucita F., he left only five of its original exponents as possible DICHOMERIS. 89 types of the latter: these are now referred to Adela Ltr., and Nemophora Hb.—it will be convenient to cite degeerella L. as the type of * Alucita F. (nec L.). Latreille having established the synonymy Ypsolophus F. = Cerostoma Ltr. (Type: vittella L.), it is satisfactory to learn from Mr. Busck, who examined the Fabrician types in the Royal Museum at Copenhagen in 1908, that “there are found in their original order only six species under the genus Ypsolophus and all of these belong to Cerostoma” [Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 11 89-90 (1909)]. Latreille has been followed by Hiibner, Guenée, Doubleday, etc., in his use of Ypsolophus (Ypsolopha), while Zeller (1839) seems responsible for the erroneous use of Ypsolophus in the Gelechiadae. Stainton adopted Zeller’s nomenclature, but revived Cerostoma Ltr., removing this synonym of Ypsolophus F. back to the Plutellidae (Hyponomeutidae), and in this diverse use of these absolute synonyms he has been followed by subsequent writers (vide Stgr-Rbl. Cat., Dyar’s List, etc.). A return must now be made to the synonymy established by Latreille and it will help to avoid confusion if the orthographic correction be now accepted :— Hyrsttorpaus F.,({Oxf-Camb. emend.) +Yvpsozoravs F. (1798) ; = +Ypsororza Ltr. (1796) ; = Cerosroua Ltr. (1802); =+Hyrpsozoruus HS. Type: vittella L. Type 4: Trichotaphe setosella Clms. Tricnotapue Clms. Pr. Ac. Nat-Sc. Phil. 12 166 (1860): Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. 1 131-2 (1862) : Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. pp. x, 121-2, 180-1 (1872); Z. Verh. ZB. Ges. Wien 23: 1873 Abh. 279-80 Pf. 4: 26-7 (1873); Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 10 183-5 (1882) : Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891 523, 546, no. 46 sp. 87 (1892): 1897 83-4 no. 20 sp. 68-9 (1897) : 1907 943-4 no. 21 sp. 43-4 Pf. 51°16 (1908); Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 23 232-3 PE. 1°7 (1900) : Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 505-7 sp. 5655-72 (1902) : Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 772, 906-16, 937-8 Pf. 32°83 (1903) : 27 761-2 (1904): Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 5 199, 200-1, 208 (1903) : 8 92-3 (1907): Can. Ent. 88 121-2 (1906); Krit. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 112-3 sp. 6335-52 (1908) ; Fyles, Can. Ent. 86 211 (1904) ; Meyr. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1909 23 (1909) : Rec. Ind. Mus. 5 222-3 (1910): Ann. Transv. Mus. 2 17-18 Pf. 5:10, 6°1 (1910). *Norxezs (nec Hb.) Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 158 (1878): Jr, Cin. Soc. NH. 2 198 tf. 202-17 (1880); Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 10 188 (1882) ; Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 103 sp. 5535-8 (1891). . Type 5: Psecadia abscessella Wkr. (=strigiplenella Wkr.; Wkr. 1864). Vazucapa Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 803 no. 94 sp. 1 (1864). [Dichomeris abscessella Wkr. Psecadia ? abscessella Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 28 536-7 sp. 19 (1863) n. syn.= Vazugada strigiplenella Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 803 (1864) Ega.] Type 6: Gaesa decusella Wkr. (Wkr. 1864). Garsa Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 803-4 no. 95 sp. 1 (1864); Moore Lp. Ceyl. 8 518 (1887) ; Swinh. & Cotes Cat. Moths Ind. 715 sp. 4890 (1889). BIOL, CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. IV., October 1911. nn 90 HETEROCERA. Type 7: Gelechia ? flavicostella Clms. (=costolutella Chmb. ; Chmb. 1872). Braor Chmb. Can. Ent. 4 209 (1872) : 9 24 (1877). oo, [5655 Dichomeris flavicostella Clms. Gelechia ? flavocostella Chums. Pr. Ac. Nat-Sc. Phil. 12 162 (1860) n. syn. = Begoe costolutella Camb. Can. Ent. 4 209 (1872) ]. Although it is obvious that Chambers’ precise description of Begoe costolutella applies absolutely in every detail to the species which we know as Trichotaphe flavi- costella Clms., it is undeniable that Chambers himself, not only when describing costolutella (Can. Ent, 4 209), but subsequently, with even greater confidence (Can. Ent. 9 23-4), regarded it as a synonym of Nothris dolabella Z. Type 8: Epicorthylis inversella Z. (Z. 1873). Ericortuyis Z. Verh. ZB. Ges. Wien 23: 1873 Abh. 248-9 Pf. 3°134-» (1873): Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 18 332-3 Pf. 4° 105-> (1877). Type 9: Gelechia (Malacotricha) bilobella Z. (Z. 1873). GeLrecu1a (Mauacorricua Z.) Z. Verh. ZB. Ges. Wien 23:1873 Abh. 279, 280-2 Pf. 4°28a-> (1873) ; Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 10 185 (1882). Matracorraicua Wlsm- Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 84 no. 21 sp. 70 (1897). Type 10: Gelechia (Helcystogramma) ribbeella Z. Getecnia (Hetcystocramma Z.) Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 18 369-73 Pf. 5:°126-7 (1877). Huxcystocramma Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891 523, 546 no. 45 sp. 86 (1892) : 1897 83 no. 19 sp. 67 (1897) ; [Meyr. Ent. Mo. Mag. 46 282 (1910). Type: obseratella Z.]. =* Noruzis (nec Hb.) Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881 267-8 Pf. 18°38 (1881) ; Bracuycrossara (Hnmn.) sect. B. Wism. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891 98-9 Pf. 4-35 (1891). Extreme forms such as ligulella Hb. (Dichomeris Hb.) and flavicostella Clms. (Trichotaphe Clms.) are apparently so distinct that two genera have been long maintained for them (with the employment of “ Nothris” in cases of doubt) ; a gradual series of intermediate forms, however, occurs which renders it impossible to draw the dividing line between supposed genera which were only separated by the vestiture of the palpi. The familiar name Zrichotaphe, having served a useful purpose, must now be relegated to synonymy, and it may be emphasised that Nothris Hb., auct. (Type: verbascella Hb., FW: 2-3 separate) is at once separable from Dichomeris Hb. (Ypsolophus, auct., FW: 2-3 stalked) by the neuration, while in this it agrees with Gelechia Hb. (FW: 2-3 separate)—forms with the clothing of the palpi intermediate between Gelechia and Nothris (e.g. Oeseis Chmb.) occur in America and it is doubtful if on this character alone these genera can be separated. 1. Dichomeris sciastes, sp.n. (Tab. III. fig. 10.) Antennae annulate with fuscous and pale cinereous. Palpi with triangular projecting tuft on the median joint; fawn-brown, shaded with fuscous externally. Head fawn-brown, a greyish shade along the middle. Thorax greyish fuscous, the tegulae paler. Forewings fawn-brown ; a small elongate fuscous shade along the base of the costa is followed by a diffused triangular shade of the same colour on the DICHOMERIS. 91 middle of the costa; a less intense shade, consisting of a profuse sprinkling of fuscous scales, extends from the base of the dorsum to the end of the fold, crossing the middle of the fold almost to the upper edge of the cell, beyond this again the wing is somewhat sprinkled with fuscous to the apex and termen ; the usual plical and discal spots are scarcely distinguishable, but the first discal appears to be a little beyond and above the second plical; cilia pale fawn-brown, with a line of fuscous dusting before their middle. Exp. al.10 mm. Hindwings bluish grey ; cilia grey. Abdomen and Legs dull grey, the tarsi faintly pale-spotted. Typé 5 (65584) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab, Mexico: vera cruz: Atoyac, IV. (H. H. Smith). Unique. 2. Dichomeris dignella, sp. n. Antennae pale ochreous, distinctly annulate with blackish. Palpi pale ochreous, the outer side of the median _ joint dark brown on two-thirds of its area, leaving the edge of the spreading tuft above and beneath ochreous, Head and Thorax pale ochreous, both stained along the middle above with greyish fuscous, Forewings pale ochreous, sprinkled and spotted with greyish fuscous, of which there is also a distinct streak along the base of the costa; the spots are placed thus—one on the upper edge of the fold at one-fifth, another on the cell at two-fifths, slightly preceded by a third beneath it, one at the end of the cell, and another on the costa at the commencement of the cilia; the sprinkling is scantily distributed, but somewhat thickened along the middle of the costa, in a transverse band along the middle, along the dorsum as far as the band, and again along the termen ; cilia pale ochreous slightly dulled with fuscous. Exp.al.11 mm. Hindwings pale bluish grey; cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs pale brownish grey ; the hind tarsi banded with fuscous. Type & (65585) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. (PTT. (65586, 65588) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: guerrero: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Four specimens. Very similar in appearance to piperata Wl|sm. (Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891 526: 1897 86), but slightly larger, and differing in the more bluntly rounded apex of the forewings, and more profuse fuscous sprinkling which leaves no markedly paler space before the termen as in that West Indian species. | 3. Dichomeris lypetica, sp. n. Antennae brownish fuscous. Palpt brownish fuscous, the triangular projecting tuft on the median joint slightly sprinkled with pale cinereous ; terminal joint pale cinereous above. Head and 7'horax brownish fuscous. Forewings narrow at the base, somewhat widened outward, apex slightly depressed, termen very oblique; brownish fuscous, very minutely speckled with pale cinereous; the usual group of spots scarcely distinguishable in a slightly darker shade of brownish fuscous, the first discal spot a little preceding the plical; some obscure shading faintly indicates an anteterminal band, bowed outward at its middle, and a terminal line preceding the pale cinereous cilia which are much mixed with fusceous. Exp. al. 12 mm. Hindwings and cilia pale cinereous. Abdomen and Legs brownish fuscous ; the latter pale cinereous on their inner sides, with faint pale tarsal spots. Type 3 (65592) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PTT (65593-4) US. Nat. Mus.] Ha}. Mexico: guerrero: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII-IX. (H. H. Smith). Four specimens. nn 2 99 HETEROCERA. 4. Dichomeris ligulella, Hb. =fligula Hb.; =pometella Harris*; =contubernalellus Fitch (teontubernatellus Wkr. *) ; =malifoliellus Fitch™; =pauciguttellus Clms.%; =/flaviguttellus Clms.*; =reedella Chmb. (truderella Chmb.) *; = quercipomonella Chmb.”™ (tquercipominelia Chmb.). Dichomeris ligulella Hb. Ztr. Exot. Schm. 1 25, [87] sp. 72 Pf. [25]- 148-4 (1818)*. Dichomeris ligula Hb. Verz. Schm. 405 sp. 3900 (1826) °. Rhinosia pometella Harris Camb. Chron. 19. VII. 1853°: Tr. N-Y. State Agr. Soc. 13 190-2 (1854) *. Chaetochilus pometellus Fitch Jr. N-Y. State Agr. Soc. 4 36 (1853) °: Tr. N-Y. State Agr. Soc. 18 178-87 (1854) °: Rp. Ins. N-Y. 2 221-80 tff. Pf. 4.4 (1856) ". Chaetochilus contubernalellus Fitch Jr. N-Y. State Agr. Soc. 4 86 (1854)°: Tr. N-Y. Ent. Soc. 18 178 (1854)°: Rp. Ins. N-Y. 2 281-3 (1856) *°. Chaetochilus malifoliellus Fitch Tr. N-Y. State Agr. Soc. 18 231 (1854)": Rp. Ins. N-Y. 2 231-2 (1856). Ypsolophus pauciguttellus Clms. Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. 2 123 (1863) *: Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. pp. x, 228-9 (1872) “; Z. Verh. Z-B. Ges. Wien 23:1873 283-5 (1873) °. Ypsolophus flavivittellus Clms. Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. 2 429 (1864) *: Clms- Stn. Tin. N-Am. pp. x, 254 (1872) 1". Chaetochilus ? contubernatellus Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 30 1018 (1864) **. Ypsolophus ? ligulellus Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 30 1028 (1864) °. Ypsolophus reedella Chmb. Can. Ent. 4 222 (1872) *. Ypsolophus ruderelia Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4167 (1878). Ypsolophus quercipominella Chmb. Can. Ent. 4 222-3 (1872). Ypsolophus quercipomonella Chmb, Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 167 (1878) *. Ypsolophus pometellus Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 166 (1878) *; Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 10 186-8 (1882) *; Slngrid. Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp-Stn. Ent. Div. Bull. 187 81-101 tf. 23-80 (1901)*. Ypsolophus ligulellus Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 507 sp. 5678 (1902) *: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 920 921-2, 9388 Pf. 32°36 (1903): Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 5 213, 218 (1903). Dichomeris ligulella Busck Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 11 89, 91 (1909) °°. Ypsolophus malifoliellus Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 508 sp. 5687 (1902) **: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 925-6 (1903) *: 11 91 (1909) *. Hab. AMERICA, N-C-S-I. United States *~“*—Atiantic Srates 7.—New York * %— PENNSYLVANIA ~—New Jersey * ®Onio *%—Wisconsin: 1883 (Hf. K. Morrison)—District oF CoLoMBIA *~—MaryYLaNnp *—Virainia 11? %__Wrst Virainia ® Kentocry ”°**—Nortu Carouina: 1883 (4. &. Morrison)—Groreta * ®—MississipP12— Missouri * *—Kansas *—Texas”: S.W. 1883 (H. H. Morrison): sosqun: 16. V. (G. W. Belfrage)—Lovisiana: 1884 (H. K. Morrison)—New Mexico”. © Pyrus malus (leaves and apples)”; Quercus spp. (leaves and oak-apples)* VI-VII™, © VI-VII, hib.”. Central America—Mexico: euerReRo: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII-IX (H. H. Smith): raBasco: Teapa, III (H. H. Smith)—Panama: curriqui: Volcan de Chiriqui, 8000 ft., 6-8. VI. 1882 (G. C. Champion). South America—CoLoMBIA : CUNDINAMARCA : Cuequeta, IV. 1871 (Baron von Nolcken)—Braziu : RIO DE JANEIRO : Petropolis, 1851 (H. Doer). West Indies—JaMmaica: sT. ANDREW: Constant Springs, 18. XII. 1904 (Wism.). [We have been unable to check the references °° °°" 3 “Rhinocera pometella””™ is probably only a clerical error.] Both varieties (ligulella Hb., and pometella Harris) occur in Mexico, pometella extending to South America and the West Indies. DICHOMERIS. 93 5. Dichomeris substratella, sp. n. Antennae pale ochreous, barred above with blackish; basal joint ochreous. Palpi with pale ochreous triangular tuft; the slender terminal joint fuscous. Head brownish ochreous; face pale ochreous. TJhoraw greyish fuscous along the middle, the front and tegulae ochreous, with some steely iridescence. Forewings ochreous, with a reddish brown suffusion along the dorsum extending to the end of the fold, with some sprinkling of the same beyond as well as along the costa, the basal half of which shows a shining steel bluish streak, fading outward; in the fold are two elongate blackish spots, and between them, but nearer to the outer one, a patch of blackish scales rests on its upper edge and is followed by a small black spot at the end of the cell; there is also a geminate black spot on the termen; cilia brownish ochreous ; thus the general appearance of the wing is reddish, or brownish ochreous, the paler ground-colour exhibited only in a subcostal streak from the base which becomes diffused and almost lost outwardly toward the apex. Exp. al. 15-16 mm. WHindwings and cilia brownish grey, somewhat transparent, but not noticeably iridescent towards the base. Abdomen griseous above, ochreous beneath ; anal tuft ochreous. Legs pale ochreous. Type 3 (65582 Teapa) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. (PTT. (5798-802 Wlsm. Det. 1908; 6268 Drnt. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—Mexico: vERA cruz: Cordova, V. 1908 (F. Knab): tapasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). South America—Frencu GUIANA: Cayenne, XII. 1903 (W. Schaus). Eleven specimens. This species differs from stratella Wl|sm. in its paler colouring, in the absence of the clear definition of the darker dorsal half of the wing, in its pale cilia, and, noticeably, in the steel-blue streak along the base of the costa; the hindwings and legs are also paler. 6. Dichomeris percnopholis, sp. n. (Tab. III. fig. 11.) Antennae olivaceous ochreous. Palpi with the broadly triangular tuft on median joint dark chocolate-brown, except at the stone-grey fringe along its upper edge; terminal joint slender, whitish ochreous, its apex slightly shaded with umber-brown. Head and Yhorax stone-grey, the latter with a slight ochreous tinge. Forewings stone-grey, with a slight olivaceous tinge, especially towards the termen; the base is tinged with ochreous and the costa narrowly ochreous throughout, including the costal cilia with which the terminal and apical cilia correspond, a faint paler line running through their middle; on the dorsum before the tornus is a quadrate dark chocolate-brown patch crossing the outer extremity of the fold, and a marginal series of 7 or 8 small spots of the same colour extends along the termen and around the apex ; there is some indication of two plical and three discal dots, the first discal slightly preceding the second plical, the third discal scarcely preceding the second discal which is at the upper angle of the cell above it. Exp. al. 22 mm. Hindwings broader than the forewings ; tawny brownish grey; cilia somewhat paler, with a slender subochreous line along their base. -Abdomen and Legs dark brownish grey ; tibiae pale cinereous above and on their inner sides. Type § (65628) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Guatemata: Zapote, 2000 ft., V. 1879 (G. C. Champion). Unique. A. distinct species, perhaps most nearly allied to 5683 citrifoliella Chmb. 7. Dichomeris caryaefoliella Chmb. Ypsolophus caryaefoliella Chmb. Can. Ent. 4 224 (1872)’: Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 166 (1878) *. Ypsolophus caryaefoliellus Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 103 sp. 5524 (1891) °*; Busck 94 HETEROCERA. Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 508 sp. 5684 (1902)*: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 920, 923 (1903) °; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 113 sp. 6364 (1903) °. Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States '*—Kentucxy ***: @ Carya alba, VI, ex. VI'—Missourt **—Texas‘, Central America—Mexico: GuERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith), | 8. Dichomeris hexasticta, sp. n. Antennae biciliate 13, toward the base serrate, but not ciliate beyond the middle; cinereous. . Palpt broadly triangular on the median joint, dark brown externally, hoary greyish on its innerside and along its outer margin; the slender terminal joint pale cinereous. Head and upper portion of Thorax hoary greyish; the tegulae and sides of the thorax pale ochreous. Yorewings pale straw-ocureous, a black spot at the extreme base is produced outward in a thin line along the costa, nearly to the middle, and is narrowly margined beneath with whitish ochreous; before the middle of the wing is a group of four conspicuous black spots, three on the cell arranged as an equilateral triangle with the apex outward, the fourth on the fold below and a little beyond the lower of the three ; beyond these at the end of the cell gare two similar spots, the upper a little beyond the lower ; a series of from six to eight much smaller black spots occurs along the termen and around the apex; cilia very pale ochreous. Lap. al. 18mm. Hindwings greyish cinereous; cilia very pale cinereous, with a slight shade-line running along their base. -Abdomen brownish cinereous, Legs brownish cinereous; the hairy upper half of the tibiae paler. . Type & (65611) Mus. W1sm, (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. - [PT. (65612) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab, Mexico: q@uErRero: Amula, 6000 ft, VIII. (2. H. Smith). Two specimens, | 9. Dichomeris leucostena, sp.n. (Tab. III. fig. 12.) Antennae slightly serrate and very shortly ciliate; fuscous above, whitish beneath, with faint whitish annulations towards the apex. Palpi whitish, the median joint with a broad brush beneath, shaded with brownish fuscous externally, except along its terminal margin. Mead white, sprinkled with fuscous scales; face shining bronzy. Thorax brownish fuscous, anteriorly whitish; tegulae white. Forewings brownish fuscous, darker on the basal third than beyond it, with a broad darkened oblique shade parallel with the termen at three-fourths, and a small dark spot about the upper angle of the cell ; along the costa is a broad white band including at its origin the whole base of the wing, except a short dark streak along the extreme costa, and gradually attenuate to its apex at the commencement of the costal cilia ; cilia pale greyish, Evp.al, 18 mm. Hindwings and cilia pale greyish. Abdomen greyish fuscous; anal tuft whitish ochreous. Legs whitish, with a dark spot externally at the first joint of the tibiae. Type 3 (65613) Mus. Wlsm, (Godm-Salv, Coll) BM. Hab, MEXICO: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Unique. 10. Dichomeris melanota, sp.n. (Tab. IIT. fig. 13.) Antennae black, fading slightly to brownish black outwardly. Palpi black, each of the projecting scales on the strong triangular tuft tipped with, hoary cinereous; terminal joint ochreous, with a strong black shade along the underside, tapering toward the apex, but again widened to embrace the sides somewhat before and up to the apex. Head and Thorax black. Forewings slightly lustrous, bluish black, with inconspicuous darker dull black markings; an outwardly oblique streak, arising on the fold at one-third of the wing-length, but not quite reaching the costa before the middle; some minute transverse striac along the dorsum, and a triangulate transverse streak, arising from the costa at three-fourths pointing outward toward the rather suddenly depressed and angulate apex, then sharply bent inward making two adjacent points directed toward the upper angle of the cell, and again descending with a slight DICHOMERIS. 95 outward curve to the tornus, before which there is a minute ochreous marginal spot; cilia blackish, slightly touched with ochreous at their base and on their outer ends. Exp. al. 13 mm. Hindwings dark brownish fuscous, a pale ochreous line along the base of the more greyish fuscous cilia. Abdomen dark brownish fuscous; anal tuft inclining to ochreous. Legs whitish ochreous, stained with dark brownish fuscous along the outer sides of the hind tibiae and first joints of hind tarsi. Type 2 (598U Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. Hab. Mexico: veRA cruz: Cordova, LV. 1908 (F. Hnab). Unique. A very distinct dark species, somewhat resembling Strodisia in wing-form. 11. Dichomeris arotrosema, sp. n. Antennae slightly serrate; black above, pale cinereous beneath, annulate with pale cinereous on and near the basal joint. Palpi with the median joint clothed with a large fan-like expanding tuft which recedes equally above and below from its apex, greyish fuscous, profusely sprinkled with whitish cinereous ; terminal joint slender, subochreous, tipped and shaded beneath with fuscous. Head greyish fuscous, profusely sprinkled with greyish cinereous. Yhorax dark chocolate-brown, the tegulae tawny. Forewings dark chocolate-brown along the dorsum to two-fifths, this colour being diffused upward and outward obliquely, nearly reaching the costa beyond the middle, blending on its outer side into dark tawny fuscous, which embraces the whole outer haif of the wing and cilia, but is slightly sprinkled with pale cinereous scales leaving a large pale tawny patch at the base of the costa, attenuate outward to a little beyond the middle, a small pale tawny dorsal spot lying before the tornus. wp. al. 17-22 mm. Hindwings'1, trapezoidal; dark brown; cilia brownish grey, somewhat darkened around the apex. Abdomen dark tawny. Legs tawny fuscous, sprinkled and smeared with pale cinereous. . Type 3 (65614 Atoyac) Mus, Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PZ. (5803 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. | Hab. Mexico: veRA cruz: Atoyac, V. (H. H. Smith), (Schumann); Cordova, V. 1908 (F. Knab). Three specimens. 12. Dichomeris nessica, sp. n. | Antennae pale cinereous, dotted with blackish above. Pulpit: median joint with a wide, somewhat quadrangular brush of scales above and beneath, profusely dusted with pale cinereous ; terminal joint pale cinereous. Head fuscous, paler at the sides. 1’horaw tuscous in the middle; tegulae brown, mixed with cinereous. Forewings somewhat narrow, costa flattened in the middle, apex depressed, falcate, termen sinuate ; commencing at the base is a large greyish cinereous patch, which, after following the fold nearly to its middle, is attenuate upward and outward to the commencement of the costal cilia; the remainder of tie wing is of varying shades of dark chestnut-brown, containing a small black spot on the fold, and a larger cireular spot of the same colour at the end of the cell; a faint shade, rising from before the tornus, runs nearly parallel with the termen and vanishes half-way between the discal spot and the apex; cilia brownish ochreous, with a brown line along their base, the costal cilia inclining to ochreous ; underside greyish fuscous, the costa pale brownish ochreous. Exzp.al.21 mm. Hindwings greyish fuscous; cilia slightly paler ; underside pale brownish ochreous along the costa, the remainder greyish fuscous. Abdomen greyish brown, with pale cinereous cross-bands above; anal tuft inclining to ochreous. Legs brownish ochraceous, the tarsi much shaded with greyish brown. Type & (67727) Mus. Wlsm. BM. Hab. Panama: panaMa: La Chorrera, V. 1898 (C. H. Dolby-Tyler). Two specimens. Very similar to arotrosema, but with falcate apex and more faded in general appearance. 96 HETEROCERA. 13. Dichomeris mexicana, sp. n. Antennae annulate with fuscous and pale ochreous ; more than three-fourths as long as the forewings. Palpi with long triangular brush, projecting a little above, and far forward beneath the median joint, this is fuscous nearly to its outer edge, where it becomes pale cinereous, the fuscous portion being also speckled with pale cinereous; terminal joint longer than the median, very slender, recurved, pale ochreous tipped with fuscous. Head rather roughly scaled ; fawn-grey. Thorax fawn-grey, the tegulae inclining to ochreous. Forewings elongate, the costa straight, apex slightly depressed, obtuse, termen oblique, rounded; fawn-grey, speckled with fawn-ochreous, the basal fourth dull ochreous, with fuscous sprinkling ; a small black dot in the fold at one-fifth, followed by a broad . triangular blackish patch arising from the dorsum at the flexus and tending outward across the fold nearly to the costa, but ill- defined below the fold, while more clearly defined in and above it; the costa is narrowly spotted with fuscous, alternating with pale fawn-ochreous, of which there is a slight spot on the outer fourth, followed by a series of ill-defined smaller spots of the same around the apex, termen, and tornus, the terminal area preceding them being somewhat clouded with fuscous; the outer half of the cell is also clouded, a small angular whitish spot lying at its outer end ; cilia pale fawn-ochreous, thickly sprinkled with lines of fuscous scales. Exp. al. 14-16 mm. Hindwings trapezoidal, not emarginate ; brownish grey, with a slender subochreous line running along the base of the cloudy brownish grey cilia. Abdomen fawn-grey. Legs whitish ochreous, shaded externally with fuscous. Type & (35613) Mus. Wism. BM. [PT'T. (35616, 35618, 35620) US. Nat. Mus. | Hab. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (H. K. Morrison). Nine specimens. 14, Dichomeris renascens, sp. n. (Tab. III. fig. 14.) Anténnae pubescent; cinereous, faintly annulate with brownish. Palpi with the median joint scimitar- shaped, brush-like above on its outer half; dark fawn-brown, pale cinereous on its inner side along the upper half, and on its outer side along its apical margin; terminal joint slender, erect, slightly recurved, its upper half pale cinereous, its lower half dark fawn-brown. Head and Thorax brownish cinereous. Forewings brownish cinereous, with a somewhat broken pale ochreous line along the costa, traceable, although somewhat diluted, around the apex and termen at the base of the pale cinereous cilia; a small fuscous spot lies below the costa at about one-sixth from the base, below and beyond it a large chocolate- brown patch covers the whole middle portion of the fold and extends upward and outward less widely to the upper edge of the cell; an elongate brown spot marks the cross vein at the end of the cell, and a pale cinereous line, slightly curved inward, cuts off the apical sixth of the wing from costa to dorsum, a broken line of the darker shade of the ground-colour running along the termen, and a pale spot lying at the lower edge of the brown patch below the fold. xp. al. 15 mm, Hindwings umber-brown ; cilia somewhat paler. Abdomen umber-brown; anal tuft and underside whitish ochreous. Legs whitish ochreous, shaded externally with dark brownish cinereous. Type & (65553) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Unique. 15. Dichomeris ardesiella, sp. n. Antennae greyish fuscous. Palpi dark greyish fuscous; the median joint thickened above and beneath, expanding toward the apex, where the scales are margined by a narrow white line; the base of the terminal joint also whitish, but gradually overspread by the darker colour. Head greyish fuscous, paler at the sides. Thorax greyish fuscous. Forewings dark greyish fuscous, with a slight purplish gloss; the extreme costa is very narrowly edged with ochreous as far as the commencement of the costal cilia, where a slight, very pale ochreous shade is projected downward on the wing-surface, apparently indicating the line of a vanished fascia; a minute blackish spot, at the extreme base of the costa, is followed by another, sometimes obsolete, on the cell at one-fifth, and beyond this, in the same line, is another discal spot at two-fifths, followed by another at the end of the cell, from which descends a short inwardly bowed line of similarly dark scales; there is another dark spot in the fold, below the median DICHOMERIS. 97 discal spot, preceded and followed by a few ochreous scales, of which a very few are also found connected with the two outer discal spots; a few blackish scales occur along the termen before the faintly sub-ochreous base of the smoky grey cilia. Hwp.al.15 mm. Hindwings smoky dark leaden grey ; cilia scarcely paler, smoky greyish. Abdomen dark greyish fuscous. Legs greyish ochreous, outer sides of hind tibiae, spurs, and tarsi, shaded with greyish fuscous. Type § (5765); PTT. (5767, 5769, 5771, 5778, 5775, 5777, 5779, 5781, 5783 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. [PIT. (83620-9) Mus. Wlsm. BM. ] Hab. Mexico: vera cruz: Cordova, I-II, V. 1908 (F. Knab). ‘Twenty specimens. 16. Dichomeris jugata, sp. n. Antennae fuscous, faintly spotted with pale cinereous. Palpi with the median joint smoothly and densely clothed, somewhat widened, evenly recurved, terminal joint a little shorter than median, tapering, acute ; fuscous, the terminal joint with a few pale ochreous scales. Head and Thorax dull purplish fuscous ; the tegulae with an oblique whitish streak across them. orewings dark purplish fuscous, with an irregular upright dull ochreous patch on the middle of the dorsum, reaching to a little above the radius, narrowly outlined with dark fuscous accompanied by a few whitish scales; beyond this is a small dark fuscous spot at the end of the cell, narrowly bounded above by a few whitish scales, obscurely extended toward the dorsum ; a small triangular whitish spot lies on the costa before the apical depression, an outward line of thinly scattered scales extending from it to the dorsum, a series of minute whitish spots preceding the fuscous cilia. Hap. al. 18-15 mm. Hindwings brownish fuscous; cilia with a slight greyish shade. Abdomen greyish fuscous, tinged with ochreous at the sides and posteriorly. Legs greyish fuscous externally, pale on their inner sides, with three whitish ochreous tarsal annulations. Type 3 (65554, Teapa) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PTT. (65548, 65555) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, III. (A. A. Smith)—Gvaremata: Cerro Zunil, 4000-5000 ft., 1881 (G. C. Champion)—Payama: cimiqui: Volcan de Chiriqui, 2000-3000 ft., 1881 (G. C. Champion). Five specimens. The whitish markings on the tegulae render this otherwise obscure species somewhat conspicuous. 17. Dichomeris melissia, sp. n. Antennae fuscous, becoming serrate, and tinged with pale ochreous beyond the middle. Palpi ochreous, of which there is a slightly darker shade toward the apex of the somewhat thickened median joint. Head greyish fuscous, tinged with ochreous at the sides; face dull ochreous. Thorax fuscous, the tegulae streaked with brownish ochreous. orewings bronzy fuscous, a rust-brown hive-shaped upright patch, a little before the middle of the dorsum, reaches to the upper edge of the cell and is rounded and slightly inverted at its apex; the brown colour fades upwardly about its apex and around its margins to pale ochreous, and there is a small brownish ochreous spot beyond it at the end of the celi; a dull whitish ochreous spot lies at the commencement of the costal cilia, and a few pale dots along the termen ; cilia greyish fuscous, with a blackish line along their base. Exp.al.11-12°5 mm. Hindwings and cilia pale greyish fuscous. Abdomen fuscous; anal tuft brownish ochreous. Leys greyish fuscous, wit whitish ochreous bands around the tibiae and on the tarsi which are ochreous on their inner sides, Type 3 (5763 Wism. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. [P7. (83630) Mus. Wism. BM. ] Hab. PANAMA: CANAL zoNE: Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (A. Busck). Two specimens. Resembling jugata Wlsm., but the dorsal patch is of a much brighter colour, and the streaks on the tegulae are of a darker, more ochreous colour; the pale palpi also at once distinguish it. . BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. IV., October 1911. 00 98 HETEROCERA. 18. Dichomeris dolbyi, sp. n. (Tab. III. fig. 22.) Antennae dark brownish. Palpi long, recurved, the median joint scarcely roughened beneath with scales ; brownish fuscous, with slender pale lines along the terminal joint above and beneath. Head yellowish white, the scales behind it stretching over the anterior part of the Thoras which is dark brown. Jore- wings dark brown, with an oblique yellowish white band commencing on the costa at one-fifth from the base and attenuate outward and downward to a little beyond the fold; a costal spot of the same colour, with a few whitish scales about the tornus; cilia dark brown at the apex, yellowish white along the termen, and brownish grey at the tornus. xp. al. 14 mm. Hindwings greyish fuscous; cilia grey. Abdomen greyish fuscous. Legs: anterior pair greyish fuscous, the tibiae broadly banded with yellowish white; posterior legs (missing). Type 2 (67726) Mus. Wism. BM. Hab. Panama: panama: La Chorrera, V. 1898 (C. HW. Dolby-Tyler). Unique. Resembling Telphusa niveisignella Z. (ante p. 58), but, apart from differences in neuration, at once distinguished by the white head and thorax. 19. Dichomeris ochropyga, sp. n. Antennae tawny greyish brown above, pale cinereous beneath. Palpi tawny reddish brewn, the apical margin of the scimitar-shaped median joint narrowly pale cinereous. Head and Thorax tawny reddish brown. Forewings tawny reddish brown, the costa narrowly ochreous from the base to the apex ; a slight oblique chestnut shade rests on the fold at one-third of its length pointing inward, and is succeeded by a dark brown spot in the fold, above and scarcely before which is a similar dark brown discal spot sueceeded by another at the end of the cell ; about seven minute brownish shade-spots lie around the apex and termen ; cilia with aslight ochreous tinge, pale cinereous at their outer extremities Hwp.al.l5 mm. Hindwings dark umber-brown; cilia brownish cinereous. -Abdomen umber-brown above, whitish ochreous beneath ; anal tuft light ochreous. Legs brownish cinereous. Type 3 (65551 Teapa) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [ PT’. (65552) US. Nat. Mus-] Hab. Mexico: vera crtz: Atoyae, IV. (/. H. Smith): tTaBasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens. | 20. Dichomeris. abortiva, sp. n. (Tab. III. fig. 21.) Antennae brownish fuscous, with very faint annulations. Palpi brownish fuscous, the median. joimt smooth, sprinkled with ochreous. Head and Thorax brownish fuscous. Forewinye brownish fuscous, faintly speckled with pale ochreous and with an outwardly angulate, narrow, pale ochreous: line from the commencement of the costal to the beginning of the dorsal cilia; this is followed by a series: of pale ochreous marginal spots around the apex and termen, each preceded by a short dark shade ; on the cell is an obscure whitish scale-spot, a little before the middle of the wing, followed by a pair of blackish spots surrounded by some whitish scales at the end of the cell, these are in the same line, and not one above the other; in the middle of the fold is another whitish spot, followed by a short streak of blackish scales ; cilia brownish fuscous, a very slender paler line running through them, zp. al. 14:5 mm. Hindwings greyish fuscous ; cilia rather paler, especially at their base. Abdomen dark greyish fuscous. Legs greyish fuscous, with pale tarsal annulations. Type 3 (65870) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.) BM. Hab. Guatemata: Las Mercedes, 3000 ft., 1881 (G. C. Champion). Unique. _ The specimen described is not fully developed on the left side, where the markings are less easily traceable. ° DICHOMERIS. 99 21. Dichomeris carinella, sp. n. (Tab. III. fig. 20.) Antennae slightly serrate ; pale fawn greyish. Palpi recurved, the median joint laterally compressed, brush- like above towards its apex, fawn-grey on its lower portion, very pale ochreous on its upper third and along its apical margin; terminal joint slender, very pale ochreous, slightly tipped with fawn-grey. Head and Thorax pale fawn-ochreous, dusted with fawn-brown. orewings very pale fawn-ochreous, profusely dusted with fawn-brown throughout, slightly paler towards the apex; with an ill-defined outwardly angulate band from the commencement of the costal cilia to the commencement of the dorsal cilia, the costa before it being somewhat more darkly shaded than the remainder of the wing, thus corresponding in colour to four slightly indicated shade-spots—one on the upper edge of the fold at about one-seventh of the wing-length, one on the middle of the cell, and one at its outer extremity, with another on the fold slightly beyond the middle one; about six dark marginal dots lie around the apex and termen before the pale fawn-ochreous cilia, of which the outer half is darker than the basal. Hap. al. 18mm. Hindwings broader than the forewings; tawny brownish grey ; cilia shining, pale cinereous, with a subochreous line along their base. Abdomen and Legs brownish cinereous, the tarsi banded with a darker shade. Type 3 (65568) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., 1X. (ZZ. H. Smith). Unique. 22. Dichomeris evitata, sp.n. (Tab. III. fig. 15.) Antennae brown, Palpi with the median joint somewhat scimitar-shaped, with a brush of scales above and toward the tip beneath; greyish brown, the outer extremity of the scale-tuft narrowly paler grey; terminal joint slender, recurved, as long as the median, pale brownish ochreous, with a broken dark line along its underside, Head and Thorax greyish brown. Forewings dark greyish brown, with broad irregular broken lines of dark brown following the veins along the upper and lower edge of the cell, as well as above and beyond it; these form a spot-like shade a little before the termen below the apex, and another on the costa before the apex, the latter having a small pale costal spot at either extremity ; cilia dark greyish brown, with a few paler sub-ochreous scales along their middle below the apex. mp. al. 15 mm. Hindwings somewhat trapezoidal, not sinuate below the apex; umber-brown ; cilia greyish brown, a slender pale line running along their base. Abdomen dark brown above, pale cinereous beneath ; anal taft inclining to ochreous. Legs (missing). Type 3 (65550) Mus, W1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Panama: cHIRI@v1: Volean de Chiriqui, 2000-5000 ft., 1881 (G@. C. Champion). Unique. 23. Dichomeris argigastra, sp.n. (Tab. III. fig. 16.) Antennae dark brownish grey. Palpi recurved, slender, the median joint silvery at the base, with a brownish ochreous tuft above at its apex; terminal joint as long as the median, whitish above, with a fuscous band near the base and a fuscous line beneath toits apex. Head pale chestnut-brown. Thoraa chestnut- brown, with a dark greyish fuscous streak down the middle; silvery white beneath; tegulae greyish fuscous. Forewings elongate, with parallel margins, rounded apex, and convex oblique termen: chestnut-brown, a greyish fuscous shade, commencing at the base, occupies the space between the costa and the fold and is attenuated outward and upward from the middle of the fold, breaking at its outer extremity into lines which follow the costal veins nearly to the apex; on this shade are three yellowish ochreous lines, one commencing at the base and running to the middle of the costa, the other two beyond it running from the cell nearly to the costa; the terminal and dorsal veins are indicated by narrow greyish fuscous lines, of which there is aslight shade also around the apex before the chestnut-brown cilia. Exp. al.13 mm. Hindwings broader than the forewings, not sinuate below the apex ; greyish brown; cilia slightly paler. Abdomen greyish brown above, the anal extremity touched with chestnut- brown ; underside silvery white. Legs smeared with brownish grey above ; silvery white beneath. Type 3 (65565) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: vera crtz: Atoyac, IV. (H. H. Smith). Unique. 00 2 100 HETEROCERA. 24, Dichomeris daedalea, sp. n. (Tab. III. fig. 17.) Antennae ciliate 14; greyish. Palpi bright ochreous, tinged with fuscous towards the apex of the terminal joint. Head grey. Thorax greyish fuscous, the tegulae shining grey. Forewings with a short shining grey basal patch, ill-defined externally where it is margined by a dark brown shade, extending to nearly half the wing-length and containing on the dorsum a shining lilac-grey patch; on the costa a slender shining steel-blue line, and beneath it two bright yellowish ochreous streaks, between which is a second submetallic line and two blackish length-streaks, one along the upper edge of the fold, the other, shorter, beneath the costa at one-third, followed by some pale whitish ochreous sealing ; a broad central band, ill-defined on its inner side, consists of a shining steel-grey patch throwing up a projection to the upper angle of the cell, widely margined towards the costa and narrowly along its outer edge by tawny black ; beyond this band the remaining portion of the wing is rich tawny chestnut, with a small whitish ochreous triangular patch on the costa, adjacent to the dark band; cilia shining bronzy brownish. Exp. al. 14 mm. Hindwings brownish fuscous ; cilia scarcely paler. Abdomen brownish fuscous, laterally barred with shining white; underside white. Legs: anterior and median pairs yellowish, the tarsi shaded with purple; hind legs shining whitish, the tibiae bright yellow externally, with purplish hairs above and a dark purplish fuscous spot at their hinder extremities, the tarsi shaded with fuscous, their extremities and spurs whitish. Type 3 (65556) Mus, Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Unique. 25. Dichomeris xerodes, sp. n. Antennae slightly serrate; greyish fuscous above, whitish ochreous beneath. Palpi very long, curved, divergent, the terminal joint of equal length with the median; whitish ochreous, median joint with a strong brush projecting, especially on the upper side, shaded with greyish fuscous to more than half its length; terminal joint with a fuscous band around the middle and a shade of the same on the underside towards the apex. Head whitish ochreous. Zhorax greyish fuscous; the tegulae whitish ochreous, with greyish fuscous spots at their base. Jorewings whitish ochreous, mottled and streaked with greyish fuscous and rich ferruginous ; at the base of the costa a small greyish fuscous spot is followed by one a little darker, separated from the margin by a paler shade of the same which follows the costa to nearly half the wing-length, where it is diffused downwards on the upper half of an outwardly curved pale central fascia; before this central space a large greyish fuscous patch lies near the base of the dorsum, reaching above the fold and terminated at its upper edge by a rich ferruginous streak with bright ochreous streaks above it ; the pale central space is margined on its inner side by a diffused rich ferruginous patch, mixed with ochreous scales and crossing the fold, some similar colouring in a small spot below the costa and on the dorsum nearer to the base ; beyond the pale central space an irregular band of rich ferruginous throws out broken diverging lines of the same colour towards the apex and termen, alternating with greyish fuscous shading, which also marks the apex and termen, accumulating at the tornus ; cilia whitish ochreous. Eup. al. 14:55 mm. Hindwings tawny brownish; cilia scarcely paler. Abdomen tawny brownish; anal tuft whitish ochreous. Legs whitish ochreous, the tibiae of the median pair thickly clothed; posterior tibiae with two greyish fuscous bands externally, the hind tarsi with one narrow broad band of fuscous above. Type 3 (65557) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PTT. (65558) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: razasco: Teapa, IIl. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens. On the underside of the forewings appears a well-marked cavity at the base of the cell, the lower edge of which is slightly ciliate, a somewhat similar cavity giving a puckered appearance to the limbus of the hindwings. | DICHOMERIS. 101 26. Dichomeris xuthostola, sp. n. (Tab. III. fig. 18.) Antennae ochreous, banded above with fuscous. Palpi reddish ochreous, the median joint long, fringed above on its outer half; terminal joint shorter than median, slender, with a fuscous ring before its apex. Head and Thorax reddish ochreous. Forewings reddish ochreous, with a broad diffused ferruginous shade along the dorsum from the base, embracing the outer half of the fold, a slight shade of the same colour on the outer half of the costa reaching to the apex ; a single brownish fuscous dot at the end of the cell and a narrow broken shade of the sama around the apex and termen at the base of the ochreous cilia. Exp. al. 14 mm. Hindwings trapezoidal, broader than the forewings; brownish grey; cilia greyish, becoming ochreous around the apex. Abdomen brownish grey above, pale ochreous beneath ; anal tuft pale ochreous, Legs pale ochreous, the tibiae slightly hairy above. Type & (65559) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Maxico: rasasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Unique. 27. Dichomeris lyrella, sp. n. (Tab. III. fig. 19.) Antennae pale fawn. Palpi with the median joint smooth, but slightly widened, the terminal joint recurved, acuminate, as long as the median; pale fawn. Head and Thorax pale fawn. forewings elongate, slightly widened outwardly, apex depressed, angular, termen oblique, tornus rounded; fawn-brown, with each vein distinctly marked in pale fawn-ochreous ; a small darker brown spot on the disc, before the middle of the wing, has an elongate spot of the same colour straight below it in the fold, and is followed by another at the end of the cell; a slender dark terminal line, more or less broken into spots, is visible also on the under side; cilia pale fawn-ochreous. xp. al. 15 mm. Hindwings pale straw-grey ; cilia whitish. Abdomen (missing). Legs whitish ochreous. Type & (65575) Mus, Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. GUATEMALA: ALTA VERA PAZ: Panima, 1800 ft., 8-15. X.1879(G.C. Champion). Unique. 28. Dichomeris subalbella Chmb. = +subalbusella Chmb.; n. syn. = inaequepulvella Chmb. ;=chambersella Mrtf. Gelechia subalbusella Chmb. Can. Ent. 6 242 (XII. 1874)’. Gelechia inaequepulvella Chmb. Cin. Qr. Jr. Se. 2 239 (1875) 7: Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 144 (1878) °; Hgn. Pap. 4 99 (1884) *; Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 101 sp. 5888 (1891) °. Gelechia chambersella Mrtf. [Can. Ent. 6 222 (XII. 1874)°; Chmb. Cin. Qr. Jr. Sc. 2 240 (1875)": Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 116, 142 (1878)* LN.j Can. Ent. 13 242-3 (1881)°; Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 100 sp. 5336 (1891)'°. Trichotaphe chambersella Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 506 sp. 5667 (1902) **: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 907, 913-4: (1903) * ; Krit. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 118 sp. 6347 (1903) 1 Gelechia subalbusella Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 102 sp. 5485 (1891) **; Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 518 sp. 5826 (1902)**: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 901 (1908) *; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am., 112 sp. 6322 (1903) ”. Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States", @ Ambrosia artemisiaefolia ° Districr or Coumpra”: Washington “—Norta Caroina : 1883 (H. K. Morrison)— Keyrucxy 2—Missouri *&* 2 VIL®, IX °*~Texas* = *: pBosque*: Waco, VII ’— CanIFORNIA#2: Los ANGELES”. Central America—Muexico: sonora: 1883 (. K. —9, 12 Morrison). 102 HETEROCERA. The Mexican specimens are all more or less worn, but the characteristic markings are traceable in two or three of them. . The two idionyms Gelechia chambersella Mrtf. (p. 222) and Gelechia subalbusella Chmb. (p. 242) appeared in the same part of the Canadian Entomologist, in December 1874; subalbusella Chmb. was described (!), but for various reasons, given by Miss Murtfeldt, the description of chambersella did not appear until 1881. 29. Dichomeris hypochloa, sp. n. (Tab. IID fig. 23.) Antennae pale cream-ochreous; biciliate 13 in the ¢. Palp? long, slender, median joint closely and smoothly elothed, terminal joint acuminate, shorter than the median, also slightly sealed ; pale eream-ochreous. Forewings elongate, the costa slightly raised towards the base, apex depressed, obtuse, termen oblique ; pale cream-ochreous, a brownish spot at the end of the cell, preceded by another beyond the middle of the fold, both very faintly indicated, a strong dark chestnut-brown streak along the upper part of the termen; cilia pale cream ochreous. Exp.al.i14mm. Hindwings broader than the forewings, trapezoidal, not indented below the apex; rosy grey, with very pale ochreous cilia, Abdomen pale greyish ochreous. Hind Legs pale cream-ochreous, unspotted, Type 3 (35612) Mus. Wlsm. BM. Hab. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (H. K. Morrison), Unique. Nearly allied to 5668 lactifloredla Chmb., but of deeper yellow colour and lacking the dark discal markings, 30. Dichomeris mistipalpis, sp.n. (Tab. III. fig. 24.) Antennae dark grey above, fading to pearly grey beneath; basal joint tinged with ochreous. Palpi, with the median joint pearly grey at the base and beneath; the spreading hair-tuft above yellowish ochreous, the apex of the joint white; terminal joint black at the base, pearly grey beyond to the apex. Head grey in the middle above, the sides and face yellowish ochreous. Thoraw grey, in the middle streaked with reddish brown, the sides ochreous ; tegulae ochreous, reddish brown at their base Forewings pale ochreous, shaded with reddish brown, and streaked on the brown shades with dark steely greyish fuscous ; the markings consist of an elongate costal shade, from the base nearly to the middle, in which the grey streaks predominate; a small patch between this and the fold, at one-fourth, with a short streak a little beyond it on the cell; a strong shade along the dorsal third, from base to tornus, conneeted with a broad fascia beyond the middle, through which the dark fuscous streaks follow the venation and are faintly indicated in the pale ochreous space beyond, especially toward the tornus; cilia pale ochreous along their base, a brownish line beyond, outer half pearly greyish. wp. al. 14 mm. Hindwings and cilia greyish fuscous. Abdomen (missing), Legs pale pearly grey, a slightly darker shade along the outer side of the hind tibiae. Type 3 (5785 Wlsm. Det, 1908) US. Nat. Mus, Hab. PaNaMa: CANAL ZONE: Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (A. Busch). Unique. 81. Dichomeris habrochitona, sp. n. (Tab. IIT. fig. 26.) Antennae greyish fuscous above, whitish ochreous beneath. Palpi pearly whitish, the median joint somewhat shaded with grey toward the base, its tuft slightly tinged with ochreous; the terminal joint greyish fuscous on its inner side, with an oblique whitish streak about the middle, whitish on its outer side with an oblique black band near its base. Head pale ochreous; face whitish. horaa ochreous. Forewings ochreous, a dark, steely greyish fuscous shade runs along the costa from the base nearly to the apex,,. except on the extreme costa which is very narrowly pale ochreous toward the base; along the lower edge of this shade the wing is streaked and sprinkled with reddish brown, and this, with a few reddish DICHOMERIS. 103 scales above it, forms am indistinct subocelloid spot at a little more than one-third from the base; below this, and again a little beyond it, a few reddish brown scales are sprinkled across the wing, Joining some slender length-streaks of the same colour on the dorsal area; there are a few indistinct groups of brownish scales along the termen before the pale ochreous cilia. Hyp. al. 16 mm. WHindwings greyish fuseous, iridescent along the cell; cilia pale cinereous. Addomen dull greyish ochreous. Legs pearly grey. Type 3 (5787 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. Hab. PANAMA: CANAL zoNE: Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (A. Busch). Unique. 32. Dichomeris cinnamicostella Z. Epicorthylis cinnamicostella Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 18 332-3 Pf. 4° 1054~> (1877) *. Type 3 Mus. Stgr. Hab. Panama: cureiqut (Ribbe) ?. This species, which has not been recognised among the material examined, appears to be closely allied to habrochitona Wlsm. in form of palpi and general colour, but lacks the ocelloid spot on the forewings. 33. Dichomeris servilis, sp.n. (Tab. IIE. fig. 25.) Antennae pale ochreous. Palpi pale ochreous, the terminal joint sprinkled with fuscous seales below the middle, and again narrowly before its apex. Head, face, and Haustellum dull pale ochreous. Thorax purplish fuscous, streaked with ochreous at the sides behind the middle; tegulae with their inner halves ochreous. Forewings dark purplish fuscous, the dorsum narrowly streaked with ochreous sparsely sprinkled with fuscous, the upper edge of the ochreous dorsal streak throwing up two very slight angular projections, one before, and one just behind the middle; on the costa, at the point where it commences to be depressed to the apex, is a small whitish ochreous spot, giving rise to a slender faint line of pale ochreous scaling, which is continued straight across to the tornus, and to a series of about seven pale ochreous marginal dots continued also to the tornus; beyond these spots the base of the pale dusky greyish cilia is indicated by a dark fuscous line. Zep. al.13mm. Hindwings greyish fuscous ; cilia slightly paler, with a slender whitish ochreous line along their base. Abdomen and Leys greyish fusceus. Type 2 (5786 Wism. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. Hab. PANAMA: CANAL zonNE: Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (A. Busck). Unique. 34. Dichomeris (?) viretella Z. Gelechia ( Teleia) viretella Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 13 340-1 Pf. 4: 110 (1877)'. Type 2 (Sommer Coll.) Mus. Stgr. Hab. [Central America? | Zeller described this species from a single @ ‘ dessen Vaterland wahrscheinlich das warmere Amerika ist, aus der Sommerschen Sammlung im Museum Staudinger ”'. The exact locality is unknown, but the type was probably collected in Central America. This species is perhaps a Dichomeris of the Trichotaphe group, but no example has been available for examination. 104 HETEROCERA. 35. Dichomeris ribbeella Z. Gelechia (Helcystogramma) ribbeella Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 18 369-71 Pf. 5+ 126a7> (1877) Type 2 Mus. Stgr. Hab. Panama: curriqui (Ribbe) *. MENESTA Clms. =+Mevesrra Chmb. = Hratze Chmb. Type: Menesta tortriciformella Clms. (Clms. 1860). Menesta Clms. Pr. Ac. Nat-Se. Phil. 12 213 (1860): Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. pp. x, 151-2 (1872) ; Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 779 (1864). Hyazz Chmb. Cin. Qr. Jr. Se. 2 241-3 (1875): Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 150 (1878): Jr. Cin. Soc. NH. 2 198 tf. 201°8 (1880). Mzwzsrra Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 157 (1878). Mxnzsta Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1881 319 (1881) : US. Dp. Agr. Div. Ent. Ins. Life 2 154-5 (1889) ; Mrtf. US. Dp. Agr. Div. Ent. Ins. Life 2 303-5, tf. 303-63 (1890); Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 99 sp. 5227-8 (1891); Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 505 sp. 5650-2 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 772, 902-4, 937 Pf. 31°30 (1903) ; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 112 sp. 6329-32 (1908). 1. Menesta albiciliella Chmb. = talbaciliaeella Chmb.; =argenticiliaeella Chmb.* Strobisia albaciliaeella Chmb. Can. Ent. 10 77-8 (1878)": Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 162 (1878)’. Strobisia argenticiliaeella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 162 (1878) *. Strobisia albaciliaella Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 104 sp. 5540 (1891)*. Strobisia argenticiliaeelia Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 104 sp. 5581 (1891)°. Menesta albaciliaeella Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 505 sp. 5652 (1902)°: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 903-4 (1903)"; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 112 sp. 6332 (1903) *. Antennae brownish cinereous. Palpi slender, whitish cinereous. Head cinereous. Thorax leaden grey. Forewings leaden grey, with a slight purplish tinge, and a greenish gloss beyond and below the end of the cell, a white reversed comma-shaped spot at the end of the cell pointing inwards and upwards; the base and points of the brownish cinereous cilia are distinctly white at the apex and a little below it. Exp. al.8 mm. Hindwings and cilia dark brownish, with a faint purplish tinge. Abdomen dark leaden grey. Legs cinereous, shaded with leaden grey. NT. 2 (65637 Teapa) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States*°—New Jersey®": 17. VI. (W. D. Kearfott)'—Onto”*: cincinnati (C. Dury)". Central America—Muxico: TaBAsco: Teapa, III. (7. H. Smith). ATHRINACIA, gen. n. (a = privation; Opivat=a trident.) Type: Athrinacia xanthographa Wlsm. (Tab. III. fig. 27.) Antennae $, smooth, rather stout in d; without pecten. Labial Palpi long, recurved, smooth; terminal joint as long as median. Mawillary Palpi short, dependent. Haustellum well-developed, scaled at base. , Ocelli absent. Head with upward-spreading side-tufts. Thoraw smooth. Forewings widening outward ATHRINACIA. 105 from a narrow base, costa straight, apex depressed, obtuse, termen oblique, tornus rounded: neuration 11 veins; 7-8 coincident, to costa; 2-6 separate, 2 remote from 3; 1 not basally furcate (1° obsolete). Hindwings 13, apex obtuse, termen sinuate; cilia -3: neuwration 7 veins; 3-4 coincident in ¢ and 9; 5 subobsolete, cubital; 6-7 separate, but approximate. Abdomen smooth. Legs: hind tibiae slightly hairy above. . This genus differs from Dichomeris Hb. in the separation of FW: 2-8, in which it agrees with Nothris Hb., but is separable by the coincidence of HW: 3-4; this character is apparently new among American Gelechiadae, | Ww i \ SAAN Wim i TS ) nN \ AN \\ . i 21. Athrinacia «anthographa Wism. <C. J. H. Durrant, del. 1. Athrinacia trifasciata, sp. n. Antennae rather stout, shorter than the forewings; lilac-grey. Palpi slender, smooth, slightly recurved, the terminal joint about as long as the median, acute ; whitish ochreous. feud rather rough above; whitish ochreous. horas mottled, or streaked alternately, with lilac-grey and straw-yellow. orewings bright straw-yellow, with three lilac-grey transverse fasciae, each narrowly margined by a darker line ; the first, ‘leaving the costa at one-third from the base, is obliquely attenuated downward reverting to the dorsum from the fold; the second, rather wider at about the middle, is outwardly sinuate on the cell ; the third, at the commencement of the costal cilia, moderately straight, but broken and diffused on its outer edge toward the termen, which is marked by a narrow toothed line of pale tawny brown running around the apex ; along the base of the dorsum is a narrow, elongate, lilac-grey streak ; between the first and second fasciae is a tawny brown dorsal spot, another lying beyond the end of the cell between the second and third fasciae; cilia bright pale ochreous. Exp. al.13 mm. Hindwings pale grey ; cilia shining, inclining to ochreous. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs shining, yellowish white ; the hind tarsal joints very faintly spotted, the anterior pairs of legs streaked and spotted with dark brown. Type 3 (65649) Mus. Wilsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT. (65650) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: ‘Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (2. H. Smith). Two specimens. 9. Athrinacia xanthographa, sp. n. (Tab. III. fig. 27.) Antennae simple; yellowish brown, yellowish at the base beneath. Palpi yellow, slender throughout, the median joint shaded with brownish externally. Head brownish grey above, yellow at the sides, Thorax brownish grey. Forewings lilac-grey, with pale yellow bands and spots enclosing patches of yellowish brown, these are distributed as follows: a yellow patch at the base is produced along the upper edge of the cell, emitting an ocelloid patch with brown centre which reaches to the dorsum at one-fourth; a BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. 1V., October 1911. pp 106 HETEROCERA. central band of yellow encloses a small triangular brown spot on the costa and a larger dorsal spot slightly beyond it, a yellow spot lying between this and a third yellow band, crossing the wing before the costal cilia and enclosing an elongate brown patch and a small costal spot 3 beyond this a brown costal spot occurs at the commencement of the costal cilia and is followed by a chain-like, wavy line, of brown around the apex and termen which is inwardly margined with yellow; a small yellow patch lies across the apical veins beyond the end of the cell, sometimes enclosing brown specks ; cilia yellowish grey. Exp. al. 138-14 mm. Hindwings pale greyish ; cilia yellowish grey. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs whitish ochreous, with some yellowish brown spots on the tarsal joints. ; Type Q (65641); g (65642) Amula, Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PIT. (65644-5, 65647) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Omilteme, 8000 ft., VII. (H. H. Smith); Amula, 6000 ft., VIII-IX. (H. H. Smith). Seven specimens. 8. Athrinacia leucographa, sp. n. Abdomen stone-grey. Palpi cinereous, the median joint not thickened, broadly banded with greyish fuscous ; the terminal joint about as long as the median, recurved, with two greyish fuscous bands, one broad, reaching beyond the middle, the other narrower, before the apex. Head stone-grey, with a brownish tinge; much roughened above, the face also roughly clothed. TZ'horaw fawn-brownish, sprinkled with pale cinereous. Forewings whitish cinereous, thickly shaded and dusted with fawn-brown, of which there is also a small patch at the base of the costa reaching to the fold, a larger patch at one-third, from the upper edge of the cell, reaching to the dorsum and somewhat dilated on the fold, and a narrow transverse patch at the end of the cell, with a series of small marginal blotches commencing beyond the middle of the costa and continued around the apex and termen to the middle of the dorsum; these are all narrowly margined or separated from each other by the pale ground-colour, as distinguished from the more sprinkled and shaded portions of the wing; cilia pale cinereous. Hzp.al.11 mm. AHindwings and cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen fawn-brown; anal tuft pale cinereous. Legs pale cinereous, with two tibial and three tarsal pale brownish grey bands externally. Type & (65651) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT. (65652) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: aurrreRo: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens. EUPRAGIA, gen. n. (evxpayia = favourable progress.) Type: Eupragia solida Wlsm. (Tab. III. fig. 28.) Antennae ¢ 3, stout, simple, somewhat flattened on the basal half, smooth, the basal joint not notched ; Q simple, more slender, Maxillary Palpi short. Labial Palpi recurved, smooth, median joint thickened with smooth appressed scales; terminal joint longer than median, acute, rising high above the vertex. Haustellum strongly developed, smooth. Head with strong side-tufts projecting over the face; face roughly scaled. ‘’horax densely scaled, smooth. Forewings with the costa slightly arched towards the base, flattened in the middle, and thence slightly depressed ; apex pointed, termen very oblique, dorsum straight, with a few long projecting scales on the margin near the base: neuration 11 veins ; 7-8 coincident, connate with 9; 3-4 almost connate, 2 remote, 5 straight; 6 approximate at base to (7+8); 12 bent over and almost anastomosed with 11 near the origin of the latter, and thence approximate and parallel with it to the costa beyond the middle. Hindwings broadly triangular, towards the base twice as wide as the forewings; costa straight, termen and dorsum continuously, but very slightly, rounded : neuration 2 8 veins, 3-4 stalked; ¢ 7 veins, 3-4 coincident; 5 approximate to (3+4), 6-7 almost connate. Abdomen long, tapering from a broad base, smooth above, rather roughly scaled at the sides beyond the middle Legs: hind tibiae roughly scaled with short brush-like hairs ; tarsi also slightly hairy. EUPRAGIA.—OESTOMORPH A. 107 Allied to Athrinacta W\sm., from which it differs in the longer labial palpi, in the peculiar curvature of FW: 12, and the connation of FW: 3-4. The @ differs also in having HW: 3-4 stalked, instead of coincident as in the ¢. 40 $ 9 ih s +8) — 6 5 1 7 2 J. H. Durrant, del. 22. Eupragia solida Wism. C. 1. Eupragia solida, sp. n. (Tab. III. fig. 28.) Antennae very pale ochreous, shaded with umber-brown above at the base. Pulpz whitish ochreous, the median joint shaded with umber-brown on its outer side to within one-third of its apex. Head and Thorax pale ochreous, the latter with an umber-brown median shade. orewings dark fawn-brown, sprinkled and shaded with black scaling, the lines of neuration for the most part indicated by narrow whitish ochreous streaks, of which those on veins 2, 10, and 11 are perhaps the most conspicuous; the costa is narrowly streaked with whitish ochreous, and below the fold, from base to middle of dorsum, is another conspicuous whitish ochreous streak with roughly raised scales towards its base, beneath it an elongate black patch above the dorsum and a patch of projecting mixed brown and ochreous scales lying below this on the flexus; above the fold, but not reaching to the base, is also an elongate black patch, widening outward and diffused in scattered scales along the cell and along the upper edge of the fold; small transverse strigulae of similar black scales are found between the veins beyond the cell in the direction of both margins ; at the end of the cell is a transverse crescent-shaped black spot, ontlined with whitish ochreous, and placed somewhat obliquely, a smaller oval and similarly ocelloid spot on the cell half-way between this and the base; a narrow blackish terminal line preceding the cilia which are fawn-brown mixed with pale ochreous, (but of these there is very little left in the specimen described), xp. al. 18 mm. Hindwings pale brownish fuscous, with a bluish grey sheen; cilia pale cinereous, with a brownish grey shade-line along their base. Abdomen fuscous, anal tuft whitish ochreous, Legs whitish ochreous. Type 3 (65638) Mus. Wl1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [ PT. (65639) US. Nat. Mus. } - Hab. Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, II-III. (HZ. H. Smith). Two specimens. OESTOMORPHA, gen. n. (oiords==endurable ; yop¢4=form.) Type: Oestomorpha alloca Wlsm. (Tab. III. fig. 29.) Antennae 2, without pecten. Mazillary Palpi short. Labial Palpi recurved to a little above the vertex. Haustellum well-developed, scaled at base. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings elongate, apex depressed, rounded: newration 11 veins, 7-8 coincident, to costa; 6 and (7+8) stalked; 3-4 stalked, 2 separate. Hindwings 1+, apex rounded, termen oblique, not sinuate, tornus rounded: neuration pp 2 108 HETEROCERA. 8 veins; 3-4 connate; 6-7 stalked; 5 cubital, approximate to 4. Abdomen smooth. Legs: hind tibiae hairy. Allied to Eupragia Wl1sm. and Athrinacia Wism., but differing from both in having HW: 3-4 connate. 1. Oestomorpha alloea, sp. n. (Tab. III. fig. 29.) Antennae whitish cinereous. Palpi white, dusted with greyish fuscous on their outer sides. Head and Thorax dirty white; the latter densely and minutely sprinkled with greyish. Forewtngs elongate, costa and dorsum straight, apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded ; dirty white, suffused and sprinkled with greyish fuscous accompanied by broken lines of blackish scales ; on the rather less sprinkled costal portion . of the wing is a narrow, greyish fuscous, costal length-streak, commencing at about one-third, interrupted by the white ground-colour near its base, and then continued along the costa to a little beyond the middle, a few blackish scales along its lower edge, while on the cell, below it, are two rather paler fuscous length-spots placed obliquely beyond and corresponding to its separate parts in length and position; below these is a broken line of blackish scales which is continued beyond them to the apex; a similar line runs along the fold, and there is a short streak of the same colour on the upper edge of the cell, near the base, and a spot on the fold at one-third, all the intermediate spaces being more or less sprinkled or suffused with pale greyish fuscous; around the apex and termen are about six greyish fuscous shade-spots with a few blackish scales; cilia dirty whitish, profusely sprinkled with greyish fuscous. Exp. al.28 mm. Hindwings broader than the forewings, with straightened costa, a little depressed before the apex, apex rounded, termen obliquely convex; greyish brown, the spaces between the veins slightly inclined to be transparent; cilia greyish brown, a paler line along their base. Abdomen long and rather flattened posteriorly ; greyish brown; anal tuft pale cinereous. Legs pale cinereous, dusted with fuscous externally ; hind tarsi fuscous, with three pale cinereous annulations. Type & (5973 Wism. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. Hab. Mexico: vera cruz: Cordova, V. 1908 (/. Knab). Unique. SCEPTEA, gen. n. (cxerréu==to be considered.) Type: Sceptea decedens Wism. (Tab. ITI. fig. 30.) J. H. Durrant, del. 23. Sceptea decedens Wism. <. Antennae ca stout, smooth ; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpt recurved to a little above the vertex the terminal joint not longer than the median, rather stout, obtusely pointed ; both somewhat thickened SCEPTEA.—PTILOSTON YCHIA. 109 with smoothly appressed scales, laterally compressed. Maxillary Palpi short, straight. Haustellum clothed. Head and face thickly scaled. Thorax smooth. Forewings narrow, elongate, the costa slightly convex, apex depressed, rounded, termen oblique: neuration 11 veins; 7-8 coincident, to costa; 6 and (7+8) stalked; 9 connate with (748); 2-3 stalked; 4 and 5 somewhat approximate; 1 basally furcate. Hindwings rather broader than the forewings, apex produced, termen scarcely sinuate, dorsum rounded : neuration 8 veins; 3-4 connate, or short-stalked ; 6-7 stalked; 5 straight, cubital. -Aédomen smooth. Legs: hind tibiae rather densely clothed. Near Glyphidocera Wlsm., from which it differs essentially in the stalking of FW: 6 and (7-+8)—aberratella Busck will fall into this genus; it is a larger species than decedens, with darker head. 1. Sceptea decedens, sp. n. (Tab. III. fig. 30.) Antennae S$ without notch; dull greyish ochreous. Palpi pale ochreous, sprinkled with fuscous on the outer sides and around the apex of the terminal joint. Head and Thorax pale ochreous, much suffused with greyish fuscous. orewings pale ochreous, suffused and sprinkled with olivaceous fuscous, tending to become concentrated in an ill-defined streak along the fold, a spot on the middle of the cell, another at the end of the cell becoming absorbed in an indistinct oblique transverse fasvia from costal to dorsal cilia, a subterminal shade, and a few dark spots around the apex and termen; cilia dirty ochreous, a slight shade-line along their base. Hwp. al. 9 mm. Hindwings brownish grey; cilia tending to brownish ochreous. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs very pale brownish, with three dark tarsal bands above. Type 3 (65560) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.) BM. [PTT. (65561, 65563) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, III. (4. H. Smith). Five specimens. PTILOSTONYCHIA, gen. n. (wrikov=a feather ; ordvv§ =a tusk.) Type: Ptilostonychia plicata Wlsm. (Tab. IIT. fig. 31.) Antennae $ notched beyond the basal joint. Labeal Palpr recurved, reaching the length of the terminal joint above the head ; median joint strongly tufted with rough scales of equal length, and blending with those on the rather shorter terminal joint, which is also strongly tufted with rough scales throughout in the ¢, but slightly less so in the 9. Maxillary Palpi short. Haustellum scaled. Head with appressed scales. Thorax smooth. Forewings elongate, inclining to ovate, the termen slightly oblique; tornus rounded, but somewhat pronounced : neuration: 11 veins, 7-8 coincident, 6 and 9 separate; 2-3 stalked, 4 separate. Hindwings triangular, the termen and dorsum evenly, but only slightly convex; with a strongly raised blister-like elevation above vein 1° at the base in the ¢: neuration 8 veins, 6—7 stalked; 3-4 stalked, 5 approximate to 4. Abdomen smooth. Legs: hind tibiae only slightly roughened above. This genus is derived from and very close to Glyphidocera W|sm., with which it agrees absolutely in wing form and neuration, it differs however in the remarkably clothed labial palpi. ‘he strong tufting of the terminal joint of the palpi occurs to some extent in both sexes and bears some resemblance in the ¢ to the genus Stoeberhinus Btlr. 1. Ptilostonychia plicata, sp.n. (Tab. IIT. fig. 31.) Antennae fawn-brown. Palpi dark fawn-brown, the brush-like scales with a hoary sprinkling, through the tips of the scales fading to pale cinereous.. Head and Thorax purplish fuscous. Forewings purplish fuscous, more especially at the base and along the upper side of the fold, fading to dark fawn-brown 110 _ HETEROCERA. outwardly, with a slight tinge of brownish ochreous towards the tornus, (partly caused by abrasion) ; the only mark is a faint indication of a dark spot at the end of the cell; cilia purplish fuscous. Exp. al, 13mm. Hindwings dark brown, tending to brownish ochreous on the flexal area. Abdomen dark brown, with a brownish ochreous band across the middle; anal tuft brownish ochreous. Legs brownish ochreous, much shaded with dark brown, especially on their outer sides. Type (5805); 2 (5804 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. [PT. (33641) Mus. Wlsm. BM. ] Hab. PANAMA: CANAL ZoNE: Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (A. Busch). Three specimens. The 2 is decidedly paler in colouring than the ¢, the forewings inclining to ochreous, the hindwings to silky greyish. GLYPHIDOCERA Wlsm. Type: Glyphidocera audax Wlsm. (Wlsm. 1892). Guiypurpocera Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891 531-2, 547 no. 56 sp. 110 Pf. 41° 8°~* (1892) : 1897 97-8 no. 31 sp. 103-5 (1897); Busck Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 4 474-6 (1901): Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 507 sp. 5678-4 (1902) ; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 113 sp. 6353-4 (1903) ; Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 772, 916-7 Pf. 32°34 (1903): 27 762-3 (1904) : Jr. N-Y. Ent. Soc. 15 186-8 (1907): Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 9 88 (1908). 1. Glyphidocera salinae, sp. n. (Tab. III. fig. 33.) Antennae fawn-ochreous, faintly touched with fuscous above. Palpz pale fawn-brownish, very long, the median joint reaching to the level of the vertex ; terminal nearly as long as the median. Head and Thorax fawn- brownish. Forewings uniformly fawn-brownish, without spots, but with a very slight shade at the end of the cell; cilia scarcely paler, a slender pale ochreous line along their base. Exp.al. 20mm. Hindwings pale fawn-brownish ; cilia slightly paler, with a slender ochreous line along their base. Abdomen fawn- brown. Legs fawn-brown, hind tarsi faintly tinged with ochreous. Type Q (5807 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. Hab. Muxico: Oaxaca: Salina Cruz (W. Schaus). Unique. A large, rather broad-winged species, of uniform colour, with the neuration as in the group of speratella Busck. 2. Glyphidocera elpista, sp. n. Antennae fawn-ochreous, transversely banded above with fuscous. Palpi fawn-ochreous, much smeared with fuscous on both joints, especially on the outer side. Head and Thorax fawn-ochreous, sprinkled with fuscous. Forewings fawn-ochreous, thickly sprinkled with fuscous, especially on the outer third; the usual discal spots are but faintly indicated, the median spot reaching to the fold, the outer one, slightly more distinct, at the end of the cell; cilia slightly paler than the wing. Ewp.al.10 mm. Hindwings brownish grey; cilia slightly paler, becoming somewhat darker towards the apex. Abdomen tawn- ochreous, smeared with fuscous. Legs pale fawn-ochreous, much smeared with fuscous on their outer sides, especially on the hind tibiae, leaving the joints indicated by paler spots. . Type 2 (5808 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. [PT. (83631) Mus. Wlsm. BM. ] Hab. PANAMA, CANAL ZONE: Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (A. Busck). Two specimens, both 22. : A small species, with the neuration as in speratella Busck—this is its chief distinguishing character. GLYPHIDOCERA. lil 8. Glyphidocera stygnota, sp.n. (Tab. III. fig. 32.) Antennae pale fawn, faintly barred with brownish fuscous. Palpi with the median and terminal joints of approximately equal length ; median slightly recurved, scarcely thickened, smooth, whitish ochreous, with a short brownish fuscous band externally at its base, and another around its underside, scarcely before its apex; terminal joint straight, erect, somewhat stout, acuminate, brownish fuscous. Head and face whitish ochreous, very rough, with long brushed-back hair-scales above; the latter with appressed scales, scarcely rough. Yhoraa brownish fuscous, mixed with pale fawn. forewings narrow, elongate, with straightened margins and scarcely depressed rounded apex, termen slightly oblique; pale fawn, much streaked and shaded with brownish fuscous, the middle of the costa very narrowly whitish ochreous ; the brownish fuscous streaks follow the lines of the veins, but the space between them on the fold, along the cell, and from the cell to the tornus is much shaded with the same colour, almost obliterating a discal spot at one-third, another at the end of the cell, and a plical spot about half-way between them ; cilia pale fawn, with a broad broken brownish fuscous shade along their base on the termen, on the lower half of which they are also shaded to their outer ends. Exp. al. 20 mm. Hindwings much broader than the forewings, slightly sinuate below the apex; brownish grey ; cilia brownish grey, becoming pale fawn on their outer half around the apex. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs whitish ochreous, the tibiae slightly roughened, with a brownish grey streak along their outer sides ; the basal half of the tibiae on the second pair of legs is dark brownish grey. Type @ (65580) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Paxama: currieui: Volcan de Chiriqui, 2000-3000 ft., 1881 (G. C. Champion). Unique. A somewhat distinct species, with the neuration indicated by dark lines (FW: 7-8 coincident, 6 and 9 separate ; 2-3 stalked). 4, Glyphidocera rhypara, sp. n. Antennae subochreous. Palpi fawn-ochreous, dusted with fuscous. Head and Thora pale fawn-ochreous. Forewings pale fawn-ochreous, minutely dusted with fuscous; a fuscous spot near the base on the upper edge of the fold is succeeded by a second spot in the middle of the fold, a third lying in the dise above and a little beyond it; a fourth spot at the end of the cell is produced downwards to its lower angle somewhat obliquely inward; a slight fuscous shade occurs along the termen and at the apex, and is reduplicated in the middle of the pale fawn-ochreous cilia. Erp.al. 14-15 mm. Hindwings 2, slightly sinuate below the apex; pale cinereous ; cilia shining, with a slight ochreous tinge. Abdomen shining, pale fawn-ochreous. Legs pale cinereous, dusted externally with fuscous. Type & (65618); 2 (65619) Amula Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PTTL. (G5621-2, 35623) US. Nat. Mus. | Hab. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (H. K. Morrison): GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII-IX. (H. Hf. Smith). Nine specimens. A pale species belonging to the group of 5674 aequepulvella Chmb., with which it agrees in neuration. 5. Glyphidocera umbrata, sp.n. (Tab. III. fig. 34.) Antennae fawn-ochreous. Palpi greyish brown. Head and Thorax greyish brown. Forewings dark greyish brown, with paler brownish cinereous sprinkling about the basal third, across the wing-middle, and narrowly across the apical fifth in a line parallel to the termen ; cilia pale brownish cinereous, with a dark greyish brown shade running along their middle. Aap. al. 16 mm. Hindwings and cilia 112 HETEROCERA. pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen greyish brown; anal tuft fawn-ochreous. Legs pale brownish cinereous. Type 3 (65624) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.) BM. Se Hab. GUATEMALA: ALTA VERA PAZ: Coban (G. C. Champion). Unique. A darker species than rhypara Wlsm., with which it agrees in neuration. 6. Glyphidocera perobscura, sp.n. (Tab. III. fig. 35.) | Antennae fawn-ochreous, shaded above. .Palpi brownish fuscous, sprinkled with fawn-ochreous. Head and Thorax brownish fuscous. Forewings brownish fuscous, with a scarcely perceptible indication of three darker discal spots; cilia brownish cinereous. Exp. al. 12 mm. Hindwings rather paler than the forewings, brownish fuscous; cilia brownish cinereous. Abdomen brownish fuscous, sprinkled with | elongate, pale brownish cinereous, hair-like scales above. Legs brownish fuscous, mixed with pale cinereous. Type $ (65588) Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: tasasco: Teapa, II. (H. H. Smith). Unique. This species is still smaller than wmbrata Wlsm., and of much darker colouring, especially in the hindwings. It is nearest to floridanelia Busck, but differs in the absence of any indication of diluted paler bands on the dark ground-colour beyond the middle, and in the somewhat darker hindwings (the three species agree in neuration). 7. Glyphidocera vestita, sp. n. Antennae pale fawn, faintly barred above with a darker shade of the same; ¢ with deeply incised notch beyond the basal joint. Palpi pale fawn, profusely dusted with a darker shade of the same. Head and Thorax fawn-colour. Forewings of approximately even width, the costa slightly but evenly convex; pale fawn, profusely sprinkled throughout with a darker or more fuscous shade of the same; three darker spots are faintly indicated, one on the cell at one-fifth from the base, another before the middle, reaching from the cell to the fold, and a third at the end of the cell; cilia concolorous with the wing, a slightly darker marginal shade-line sometimes preceding them. Exp. al.10-12 mm. Hindwings and cilia brownish grey ; rather coarsely scaled in the g, and with a prelimbal rising fringe of subochreous hairs reaching to the flexus. Abdomen brownish grey; with a broad mat of yellowish ochreous scales on the anterior half above in the ¢. Zegs shining, pale brownish cinereous. Type 3 (5810); 2 (5811); PITY. (5812-3, 5815 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. [P7'T. (33632-6) Mus. Wlsm. BM. ] Hab, PaNaMA: CANAL zonE: Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (A. Busck). Ten specimens. 8. Glyphidocera reparabilis, sp. n. Antennae fawn-ochreous, transversely barred above with fuscous; a slight notch beyond the basal joint in the 3, frequently so much filled with scales as to be almost imperceptible. Palpi pale fawn, profusely dusted with fuscous, especially on their outer sides. Head and Thorax fawn-brownish. Forewings pale fawn, but so profusely sprinkled with brownish fuscous that the paler ground-colour is almost entirely obliterated ; the usual discal spots are perceptible, one near the base, one, larger, before the middle, and one at the end of the cell, all dark fuscous; cilia fawn-greyish. Exp. al.9-10 mm. Hindwings pale brownish grey, with no considerable thickening near the flexus. Abdomen fawn-brownish. Legs pale brownish cinereous. Type 3 (5820); 2 (6821); PTT. (5825, 5827 Wlsm. Det. 1908). [PTT. (33637-40) Mus. Wlsm. BM.] Hab. PANAMA: CANAL ZONE: Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (A. Busck). Hight specimens (one d, seven 22). ee ee bo DD MWMNHNN ERE HEHE HEP ee BRENERESBESSa5SaR SNES 30. 31. 32, 33. 34. 35. HETEROCERA. TINEINA. PLATE III. GELECHIADAE. | Page Strobisia scintillula Wism. ....-- (Type ¢ 65695) ....--seeeee Teapa, Mexico.......---+- 81 Strobisia argentifrons Wism. — — ~ (Type 3 65696)- ------ Teapa, Mexico - — - - — ~ 81 Aerotypia pleurotella Wism....... (PT. ¢ 83614)... eee eee eee Cuernavaca, Mexico ...... 82 Proclesis zanthoselene Wism. — — (PT. 2 5788, US. Nat. Mus.)- — Tabernilla, Panama — — — — 83 Brachmia virescens W\sm......+- , (Type db 65640) ....-eee eres Amula, Mexico ...-...--- 84 Noeza auritogata Wism. — —- - — - (Type 3 65577)- ----- 7 Bugaba, Panama — — - - — 85 Noeza oncotera Wism. .6..--+-+> (Type go 65569) ...... 5.0 ee Amula, Mexico .......+-- 85 Anorthosia terracocta Wism. - — — (Type 2 65579)- - - -- - — V. de Chiriqui, Panama - —- 87 Anorthosia capillata Wism. ....-- (Type ¢ 65625) .........00 Panima, Guatemala.......- 87 Dichomeris sciastes Wism. -— — — — (Type 9 65584)—- ------ Atoyac, Mexico— ~ - —- - — 90 Dichomeris perenopholis Wism. ...- (Type g 65623) .......0-65- Zapote, Guatemala ........ 93 Dichomeris leucostena Wlsm. - — — (Type ¢ 65613)- - - - - - - Amula, Mexico- —- -— - — — 94 Dichomeris melanota Wlsm. ...... (Type 2 5980, US, Nat. Mus.).. Cordova, Mexico .......... 94 Dichomeris renascens Wism.— - — - (Type ¢ 65553)- - - -- - - Teapa, Mexico - - - - - - 96 Dichomeris evitata Wism. ........ (Type ¢ 65550) ......--0ee V. de Chiriqui, Panama.... 99 Dichomeris argigastra Wism. — — — (Type 3 65565)- - - - -- - Atoyac, Mexico - — - - - 99 Dichomeris daedalea Wism. .....- (Type § 65556) ........ eee Teapa, Mexico..........-.- 100 Dichomeris wuthostola Wism. -— — — (Type d 65559)- - - -- - - Teapa, Mexico —- - — — - — 101 Dichomeris lyrella Wlsm. ......-- (Type 2 65575) ....--...05- Panima, Guatemala ...... 101 Dichomeris carinella Wism. —- — — (Type 6 65568)- - - --- - Amula, Mexico- = - - - - 99 Dichomeris abortiva Wism. ...... (Type ¢ 65570) .......--+-- Las Mercedes, Guatemala .. 98 Dichomeris dolbyi Wism. — — — — (Type 2 67726)- ----- - La Chorrera, Panama —- —-—- 98 Dichomeris hypochloa Wlsm....... (Type ¢ 385612) .........06% Sonora, Mexico .......... 102 Dichomeris mistipalpis Wism. — — (Type ¢ 5785, US. Nat. Mus.) — Tabernilla, Panama - — — — 102 Dichomeris servilis Wism. ........ (Type 9 5786, US. Nat. Mus.).. Tabernilla, Panama ...... 103 Dichomeris habrochitona Wism. — — (Type ¢ 5787, US. Nat. Mus.) — Tabernilla, Panama — - — — 102 Athrinacia xanthographa Wism. .. (Type 2 65641) .........--- Amula, Mexico .......... 105 Eupragia solida Wism. - - - — - (Type ¢ 65638)- - - - - - - Teapa, Mexico - - - - - - 107 Oestomorpha alloea Wism......... (Type ¢ 5973, US. Nat. Mus.).. Cordova, Mexico .......... 108 Sceptea decedens Wism. - - -- - (Type ¢ 65560)—- - - - - - - Teapa, Mexico —- —- - - - - 109 Ptilostonychia plicata Wism. .... (Type ¢ 5805, US. Nat. Mus.).. Tabernilla, Panama ...... 109 Glyphidocera stygnota Wism. — — (Type 2 65580)- - - - - - - Y. de Chiriqui, Panama- - — 111 Glyphidocera salinae Wism. ...... (Type 2 5807, US. Nat. Mus.).. Salina Cruz, Mexico ...... 110 Glyphidocera umbrata Wism. — — — (Type g 65624)—- - - - - - - Coban, Guatemala -— — — - 111 Glyphidocera perobscura Wism. .. (Type ¢ 65583) ............ Teapa, Mexico............ 112 WIM! 8. CCOCE CHM Shit: Z Lent. 27.