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. 
