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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) ; 



