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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. 
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