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2. Polyortha chiriquitana Z. | | 
Teras chiriquitana Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 13 80-3 sp. 4 (1877) °. 
Type o Mus. Stgr. 
Hab. PANAMA’: cutriqui!: Volcan de Chiriqui (Z. Ribbe)?. 
[? =Polyortha gradatulana 7,.—Teras gradulatana 7, Stett. Ent. Ztg. 27 138-9 sp. 2 
Pf. 1:1 (1866) Colombia (Kaden). | DS a 
3. Polyortha magnifica, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 11.) 
Antennae whitish, speckled with fuscous. Palpi projecting more than twice the length of the head beyond 
it; hoary white, with some ochreous shading. Thorax hoary whitish, with some iridescent green and 
grey scales. forewings hoary white, with strong tufts of cilia along the costa, and two or three tufts of 
raised scales on the. wing-surface; an oblique narrow band, leaving the costa at one-fourth from the 
base, terminates before the dorsum nearer to the base—at first sight this appears to be black, but with 
the lens is shown to be mixed with brilliant bottle-green and blue scales ; some brilliant, metallic, pale 
green scales are scattered above and along the cell, and some slender streaklets of purplish fuscous 
occur along the costa and about the apical portion of the wing ; cilia hoary, with some fuscous spots 
along their base, and one at the tornus; underside brownish lilac, the marginal cilia whitish throughout. 
Exp. al. 28 mm. Hindwings pale yellowish brown ; cilia pale grey. Abdomen yellowish brown. 
Legs greyish. , 
Type 3 (66272) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. Panama: currqui: Volcan de Chiriqui, 4000-6000 ft., 1881-2 (@. C., 
Champion). Unique. | . 7 
4. Polyortha eupeplana, sp. n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 12.) 
Antennae greenish, banded above with brown. Palpi olive-green, speckled with lighter scales. Head 
olive-green. Thorax chocolate-brown, the tegulae touched with green at their base, Forewings with 
the costa strongly hirsute; olive-green, speckled with fuscous, with a broad band of chocolate-brown, 
commencing on the costa near the base, extending downward across the fold nearly to the dorsum, 
abruptly attenuated outwards on the middle of the wing, and thence again dilated reverting to the costa 
before the apex; on this band are several raised tufts of brown scales, of which the most conspicuous 
are a long one below the fold and a smaller one beyond the end of the cell, there are also some small 
tufts on the green ground-colour; cilia reddish grey, brown at the apex. Exp. al. 33 mm. Hind- 
wings pale cinereous ; cilia lighter, tinged with reddish at the apex. dbddomen and Legs pale cinereous, 
the tarsal joints spotted with greyish fuscous. 
Type Q (67070) Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. GUATEMALA: TOTONICAPAM: Totonicapam, 8500-10,500 ft., VIII. 1880 (G. C. 
Champion). Unique. 
5. Polyortha glaucotes, sp. n. | 
Antennae greenish. Palpi pale olive-green. Head and Thorax pale olive-green, the tegulae with a brownish 
fuscous spot at their outer side. Forewings shining, pale olive-green, with two or three small tufts of 
raised scales, and some pale brown speckling throughout; a small brownish fuscous spot lies at the 
upper edge of the cell, at one-fourth from the base, and a few brownish fuscous spots lie around the 
tornus at the base of the pale olive-brown cilia. | 
Abdomen yellowish brown. Leys brownish grey. 
Type @ (66273) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Ep. al. 27 mm, Hindwings yellowish brown. 
