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discal spot, preceded and followed by a few ochreous scales, of which a very few are also found connected 
with the two outer discal spots; a few blackish scales occur along the termen before the faintly 
sub-ochreous base of the smoky grey cilia. Hwp.al.15 mm. Hindwings smoky dark leaden grey ; cilia 
scarcely paler, smoky greyish. Abdomen dark greyish fuscous. Legs greyish ochreous, outer sides of 
hind tibiae, spurs, and tarsi, shaded with greyish fuscous. 
Type § (5765); PTT. (5767, 5769, 5771, 5778, 5775, 5777, 5779, 5781, 5783 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. 
Mus. [PIT. (83620-9) Mus. Wlsm. BM. ] 
Hab. Mexico: vera cruz: Cordova, I-II, V. 1908 (F. Knab). ‘Twenty specimens. 
16. Dichomeris jugata, sp. n. 
Antennae fuscous, faintly spotted with pale cinereous. Palpi with the median joint smoothly and densely 
clothed, somewhat widened, evenly recurved, terminal joint a little shorter than median, tapering, acute ; 
fuscous, the terminal joint with a few pale ochreous scales. Head and Thorax dull purplish fuscous ; the 
tegulae with an oblique whitish streak across them. orewings dark purplish fuscous, with an irregular 
upright dull ochreous patch on the middle of the dorsum, reaching to a little above the radius, narrowly 
outlined with dark fuscous accompanied by a few whitish scales; beyond this is a small dark fuscous 
spot at the end of the cell, narrowly bounded above by a few whitish scales, obscurely extended toward 
the dorsum ; a small triangular whitish spot lies on the costa before the apical depression, an outward 
line of thinly scattered scales extending from it to the dorsum, a series of minute whitish spots preceding 
the fuscous cilia. Hap. al. 18-15 mm. Hindwings brownish fuscous; cilia with a slight greyish shade. 
Abdomen greyish fuscous, tinged with ochreous at the sides and posteriorly. Legs greyish fuscous 
externally, pale on their inner sides, with three whitish ochreous tarsal annulations. 
Type 3 (65554, Teapa) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PTT. (65548, 65555) US. Nat. Mus. ] 
Hab. Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, III. (A. A. Smith)—Gvaremata: Cerro Zunil, 
4000-5000 ft., 1881 (G. C. Champion)—Payama: cimiqui: Volcan de Chiriqui, 
2000-3000 ft., 1881 (G. C. Champion). Five specimens. 
The whitish markings on the tegulae render this otherwise obscure species somewhat 
conspicuous. 
17. Dichomeris melissia, sp. n. 
Antennae fuscous, becoming serrate, and tinged with pale ochreous beyond the middle. Palpi ochreous, of 
which there is a slightly darker shade toward the apex of the somewhat thickened median joint. Head 
greyish fuscous, tinged with ochreous at the sides; face dull ochreous. Thorax fuscous, the tegulae 
streaked with brownish ochreous. orewings bronzy fuscous, a rust-brown hive-shaped upright patch, 
a little before the middle of the dorsum, reaches to the upper edge of the cell and is rounded and slightly 
inverted at its apex; the brown colour fades upwardly about its apex and around its margins to pale 
ochreous, and there is a small brownish ochreous spot beyond it at the end of the celi; a dull whitish 
ochreous spot lies at the commencement of the costal cilia, and a few pale dots along the termen ; 
cilia greyish fuscous, with a blackish line along their base. Exp.al.11-12°5 mm. Hindwings and cilia 
pale greyish fuscous. Abdomen fuscous; anal tuft brownish ochreous. Leys greyish fuscous, wit 
whitish ochreous bands around the tibiae and on the tarsi which are ochreous on their inner sides, 
Type 3 (5763 Wism. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. [P7. (83630) Mus. Wism. BM. ] 
Hab. PANAMA: CANAL zoNE: Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (A. Busck). Two specimens. 
Resembling jugata Wlsm., but the dorsal patch is of a much brighter colour, and 
the streaks on the tegulae are of a darker, more ochreous colour; the pale palpi also 
at once distinguish it. . 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. IV., October 1911. 00 
