PORPE. 311 
5. Porpe lactibasis, sp.n. (Tab. IX. fig. 17.) 
Antennae white, with black annulations. Palpi cream-white, mixed with fuscous. Head and Thorax 
cream-white. Forewings with a cream-white basal patch extending to nearly one-fourth, scarcely wider 
on the dorsum than on the costa; followed by a yellowish brown band, shaded with darker brown and 
becoming nearly evanescent toward the dorsum—this contains the usual steely metallic costal streak, 
tipped with white above before its middle, and the metallic subcostal spot at its outer edge, and is 
succeeded by a broader creamy white band, in which lies the black patch above the tornus, obliquely 
divided by an ochreous line, on either side of which the black contains metallic scaling ; this whitish 
band, speckled with brown toward the costa above the upper metallic dot, shows at its inner edge, about 
the end of the cell, a patch of bluish black speckling, and a larger one of the same at its outer edge 
toward the apex, where a steel-blue metallic line separates it from the brownish ochreous apical band, 
which is not produced downward along the termen; cilia brownish, with a line of fuscous scales along 
their paler, almost whitish, base. Zap. al.12 mm. Hindwings bluish white, with broad apical and 
narrow dorsal brown border; cilia whitish, with a narrow dark brown shade-line near their base, 
followed by a broader and paler brown shade along their middle. Abdomen white. Legs white, with 
brownish annulations on tibiae and tarsi; the hind tarsi tipped with white. 
Type 3 (66689) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. GUATEMALA: SACATEPEQUEZ: Duefias, 4500 ft., VI-VII. 1879 (G. C. Champion). 
Unique. 
Allied to venusta Wlsm., but differing in the cream-white, not snow-white, base to 
the forewings, and in the partial evanescence of the brown band toward the dorsum ; 
from leucobasis Frnld. it can be easily separated by the same characters, and from 
pelinobasis Wism. by its white hindwings. 
6. Porpe venusta, sp.n. (Tab. IX. fig. 18.) 
Antennae white, barred with blackish above. Palpi obliquely erect, median joint with projecting bristles 
beneath, terminal joint shorter, acuminate; white. Head and Thorax white. Forewings snow-white to 
one-third from the base, with a small brown spot below the fold near the base ; at one-third is a broad 
brown transverse band, its inner margin straight and clearly defined, its outer margin bounded above the 
middle by a white patch, more or less suffused with brownish, and below the middle produced outward 
to the tornus, before which it is broken by a whitish dorsal spot; the central band has some shining, 
green-metallic streaks and spots along its middle and at its outer edge, accompanied by some black 
scaling, and the tornal projection contains two similar metallic streaks with black scales running through 
it transversely, parallel to the termen, the space between them being somewhat ferruginous; the apical 
and terminal area is brown, mixed with fuscous, and contains an anteapical, transverse, shining metallic 
streak, beyond which the apex is ferruginous ; cilia white, brownish ferruginous along their base. Hip. 
al.12 mm. Hindwings bluish white, with a broad dark brown apical band, produced, but partly inter- 
rupted and gradually diminished along the margin beneath ; cilia bluish white, with a brown line along 
their base. Abdomen bluish white. Legs white, narrowly banded with brown. 
Type 2 (66690) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. Mexico: GuERRERO: Omilteme, 8000 ft., VII. (H. H. Smith). Unique. 
7. Porpe schausiella Busck. 
Choreutis schausiella Busck Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 8 86-7 (1907) °. 
Type o (9888) US. Nat. Mus. [PT. (33951) Mus. Wism. BM.] 
Hab. Mextco!: veRA cruz!: Las Vigas (W. Schaus)*; Jalapa (W. Schaus) ’. 
[Las Vigas (or Las Vegas), near Jalapa, is almost certainly the locality from which 
the type came—not ‘‘ Las Vegas, New Mexico ” as recorded. Drnt.] 

