
CATARATA,—ATHLETA. 155 
cell; cilia whitish ochreous, shaded along their base. Exp. al. 15-16 mm. Hindwings rather shining, 
greyish fuscous; cilia rather paler. Abdomen smoky octreous. Legs greyish, the hind tarsi spotted 
with ochreous. 
Type 2 (5874); PT. (5875 Wlem. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. [P77’. (33926-7) Mus. Wlsm. BM.] 
Hab. PANAMA: CANAL ZONE: Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (A. Busck). Four specimens. 
The four females vary somewhat in the extent and diffusion of the fuscous clouding. 
2. Catarata stenota, sp. n. 
Antennae stone-grey. Palpi stone-grey, sprinkled and tipped with fuscous. Head stone-grey. Thorax 
stone-whitish. Forewings stone-whitish, profusely sprinkled and shaded with fuscous, a blackish spot of 
raised scales on the flexus, above which the dark fuscous colouring is slightly concentrated in an ill- 
defined half-fascia, reaching from the costa to the fold, and produced outward along the costa to an even 
more concentrated patch of the same colour, connecting the costa with the outer end of the cell, and 
thence again diffused upward to above the apex; a waved line parallel with the termen is faintly 
indicated, the marginal spots on the termen and the basal half of the otherwise stone-white cilia being 
somewhat darker than the wing-suffusion ; briefly, the wing-surface has an irregular and confusedly 
mottled appearance. Exp. al.16 mm. Hindwings pale brownish grey, with a brownish shade along the 
basal half of the hoary white cilia. Abdomen pale brownish fuscous. Legs stone-whitish, with faint 
fuscous hind tarsal annulations. 
Type & (66085) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT. (66086) US. Nat. Mus.] 
Hab. GUATEMALA: BAJA VERA Paz: San Gerdénimo, 1878-9 (G. C. Champion). 
Two specimens, both in very poor condition, but distinct. 
ATHLETA, gen. n. 
(dOAnrHs =a champion.) 
Type: Athleta trisecta Wilms. (Tab. V. fig. 24.) 
Antennae %, basal joint somewhat enlarged, flattened, without pecten. Jabial Palpi long, recurved, with 
appressed scaling ; terminal joint acute, rather shorter than median. Mazillary Palpi short, converging. 
Haustellum well-developed. Head densely scaled above, face smooth. Thorax smooth. Forewings 
elongate, moderately straight, costa somewhat arched at base, apex rounded: neuration 12 veins; all 
separate, 7 to costa; 3 nearer to 4 than to 2. Hindwings 1+, termen slightly oblique, tornus rounded : 
neuration 7 veins; 8-4 coincident, 5 approximate; discoidal subobsolete; 6-7 stalked. Abdomen 
moderate. Legs: hind tibiae hairy above. 
This genus agrees with Aedemoses Wlsm. and Catarata Wlsm. in having HW: 3-4 
coincident; the former differs in the coincidence of FW: 2-3, while the latter has 
FW: 2-3 stalked. 
1. Athleta trisecta, sp.n. (Tab. V. fig. 24.) 
Antennae mouse-grey. Palpi white, the median joint with a patch of mouse-grey at the base above; terminal 
joint with a ring of the same at its base, and a stain towards its apex beneath. Head white, a pale 
brownish-grey tuft above posteriorly. Thorax dark mouse-grey, the bases of the tegulae whitish. 
Forewings shining, silvery white, with a broad dark mouse-grey patch along the dorsum, somewhat 
dilated from the base below the fold, crossing the middle of the fold and abruptly ending with a convex 
margin two-thirds of the distance between the cell and the termen, where it extends fully as high as the 
upper edge of the cell; a slender line continues the curve of its outer margin to the costa; this patch is 
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