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 
