252 “HETEROCERA. 
7. Olethreutes malachitana Z. 
Grapholitha (Poecilochroma) malachitana Z. Verh. ZB. Ges. Wien 25: 1875 Abh. 292-3 PE. 25 
(1875)*. Penthina malachitana Fruld. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 10 33 sp. 200 (1882) *. Olethreutes 
malachitana Fruld. Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 452 sp. 5044 (1902) *; Krft., Smith’s Check-List 
Lp. Bor-Am. 101 sp. 5447 (1908) *. 
Type.3, 2 Mus. Wlsm. (Zell. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. AMERICA, N-C-S. United States *~*—PrnnsyLvanIA? “—NortH CaROLINA: 
1884 (H. K. Morrison)—Missovuni **—Texas?~*. © Diospyros virginiana (=Per- 
simmon”). Central America—Mexico: oaxaca: Salina Cruz, 1906 (W. Schaus, 6040 
Wl1sm. Det. 1908). South America (Prof. Hering)’ [??*]. 
8. Olethreutes olorina, sp. n. 
Antennae yellowish brown. alpi slightly upturned, thickly clothed; brownish ochreous, spotted with 
fuscous externally; the short terminal joint and the points of the lower scales, at the apex of the 
median, whitish cinereous. Head yellowish brown, the crown between the antennae fuscous. Thorax 
fuscous, mottled with brown and whitish. orewings profusely mottled and streaked with tawny brown 
and dark fuscous, with paler interspaces of mixed whitish and leaden grey scaling, forming a basal spot, 
a straight ill-defined fascia before the middle, and a broad space before the termen, somewhat pinkish 
tinged and containing a transversely streaked, oblique, dark fuscous band, arising from the dorsum before 
the tornus, narrowed above the middle and again widened to an obtuse apex below the costa, thence 
produced outward in a recurved beak-like process, tapering downward and forming the narrow anterior 
edge of a brownish red terminal streak; tornus pale yellowish ochreous, including its cilia; along the costa 
is a series of pale geminate streaklets, those beyond the middle merging in a bright brownish red streak 
which communicates at the apex with the terminal streak of the same colour, after being obliquely 
traversed by two or more leaden grey lines; cilia mixed brownish red and fuscous, sprinkled with 
whitish. Exp. al. 14mm. Hindwings brownish fuscous; cilia greyish, with a dark shade along their 
middle. Abdomen brownish fuscous. Leys greyish cinereous, the tarsi touched with fuscous. 
Type 2 (66495); 3 (67089) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT'. (66496) US. Nat. Mus. ] 
Hab. Mexico: tTaBasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Four specimens. 
9. Olethreutes gemmifera, sp. n. 
Antennae brown. Pulpit short, appressed to the face; whitish, brown on their outer sides. Head ferru- 
ginous. Zhorav reddish brown, with four small steel-blue spots, one central, two lateral, and one 
posterior. Ferewings with the costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen convex, scarcely sinuate below 
the apex, tornus rounded ; reddish brown, partially, or almost entirely, suffused with darker brownish 
fuscous on which are numerous, and somewhat evenly distributed, small shining blue spots; on the 
costa before the middle are two, and beyond the middle three, parallel, outwardly oblique, silvery white 
streaklets tipped with blue; the first of the outer series sending out a blue line to the upper end of a 
rather oblique ocelloid patch below the apex, margined with steel-blue before and behind, and containing 
about four dark longitudinally transverse lines ; Cilia pale cinereous, a strong blackish shade-Line running 
through them on their basal half, leaving a slender pale line along their extreme base. Exp. al. 11 mm. 
Hindwings brownish fuscous ; cilia similarly coloured to those of the forewings. 
fuscous. Legs greyish, the hind tarsi spotted with white. 
Type 3 (66491); 2 (66492) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT. (66493) US. Nat. Mus.] 
Hab. Mexico: tTazasco: Teapa, IIT. (H. H. Smith). Three specimens. 
Abdomen brownish 
