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 
