148 HETEROCERA. 
along their base with dark steel-blue ; tornal cilia white. Hap. al. 26-29 mm. Hindwings pale, shining, 
brownish grey; cilia white. Abdomen brownish fuscous ; anal tuft ochreous. Legs brownish fuscous; 
hind tarsi slightly spotted with white. 
Type g (65959) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.) BM. [Type 2 (5859 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. ] 
Hab. Cosra Rica: Volcan de Irazu, 6000-7000 ft. (H. Rogers); San José, 4000 tt, 
X-XI. 1906 (W. Schaus) ; Tuis, 2400 ft., 1908 (W. Schaus). Six specimens. 
11. Ethmia scythropa, sp. n. (Tab. V. fig. 18.) 
Antennae fuscous, the basal joint elongate, enlarged. Palpt bone-grey fading to bone-white toward the apex. 
Head white. Thorax brownish fuscous, a grey spot, with some white scales, posteriorly ; the tegulae 
stout, densely clothed, capable of being held erect. Forewings rather shining, pale brownish fuscous, 
with a short blackish basal patch sprinkled with groups of white scaling; this is followed on the dorsum 
by a white patch, not reaching the middle; on the outer half of the dorsum is another smoky blackish 
patch, rising nearly to the costa, but interrupted by the paler ground-colour on the cell, and streaked 
with some angulate white ziczac lines below the cell; another whitish patch occupies the tornus and 
termen, extending more narrowly to the apex; cilia brownish fuscous toward the apex, fading to whitish 
below. Hap. al. 26mm. Hindwings and cilia shining, brownish fuscous; anal tuft bright ochreous. 
Legs pale brownish fuscous. 
Type 3 (5858 Wism. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. 
Hab. Costa Rica: Banana River, III. 1907 (W. Schaus). Unique. 
A large species, having the pattern indistinct through the brownish suffusion of 
what would otherwise have been a white ground-colour ; this suffusion gives a generally 
blurred appearance to the wing-surface. 
12. Ethmia hammella, Busck. (Tab. V. fig. 15.) 
Ethmia hammella Busck Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 12 53-4 (1910) ’. 
Type o (12844) US. Nat. Mus. [C7’. (83830) Mus. Wlsm. BM. |] 
Hab. Costa Rica’: Tuis, 5800 ft.’, 30. VIII. 1908 (W. Schaus). 
Fam. 5. BLASTOBASIDAE. 
VALENTINIA Wlsm. 
Type: Gelechia glandulella Riley (Wlsm. 1907). 
VatentiniA Wlsm. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 33 200-2 (1907): Wism. & Drnt. Ent. Mo. Mag. 45 47, 
48 no. 7 (1909) ; Dietz, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 36 5, 13~20, 69 no. 3 sp. 1-8 Pf. 1: 8-11 (1910). 
1. Vaientinia tarachodes, sp.n. (ab. V. fig. 16.) 
Antennae minutely biciliate and slightly serrate in ¢, with a strong basal notch and pecten; pale bone- 
colour. Palpi, terminal joint more than half the length of median; pale cinereous, scarcely shaded 
externally. Head and Thoraw hoary, tegulae touched with pale brownish. Forewings 9, hoary, slightly 
