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there are four small (two joints in each) l)lack annulations on apical 

 half. Labial palpi very long', light drab colored, with extreme tips 

 black. Face whitish drab. Head drab, with a central, longitudinal, 

 silvery line; thorax same color with three longitudinal, silvery lines. 

 Forewing verj^ long and slender, twice as long as al)domen; basal half 

 concolorous with head and thorax, with three longitudinal, white lines, 

 of which only the upper two begin right from base. The rest of the 

 wing- creamy white with a deep black, silver-edged dot at the end of 

 cell; a narrow costal and dorsal streak of drab form a thin fascia at 

 apical fourth, and the costal edge of the tip is dral). Cilia light drab. 

 Abdomen golden, legs silveiy drab. 



Alar expanse, 11 mm. 



A large and slender, very distinct species, described from a single 

 captured male specimen, collected by Dr. D3'ar at Palm Beach, Florida, 

 in Januarv, 1900. 



Type.—^o. 4944, U.S.N.M. 



ANTISPILA Hubner. 

 ANTISPILA EUGENIELLA, new species. 



Antennffi purplish black. Palpi, face, head, thorax and forewing 

 shining dark purple; on middle of forewing a golden metallic fascia, 

 narrow at the dorsal edge, three times as wide at costa. Cilia purplish 

 black. Hindwing dark gray with metallic reflections; abdomen dark 

 purple below, with silvery edging at each joint; legs dark purple 

 outside, inside silvcr3^ Tarsi silver}' with purple annulations. 



Alar expanse, 3.8 mm. 



Described from a single specimen, bred February 25, 1900, from 

 Eugenia sp., collected l)}^ Dr. D^-ar at Palm Beach, Florida. 



Tij2)e.—^o. 4945, U.S.N.M. 



Larva makes an upper blotch mine on leaves of Eugenia, and cuts 

 out an oval case (3.5 by 2.8 mm.), which fulls to the ground. 



HOMALEDRA, ne^A^ genus. 

 (Type, Homaledra heplathalnma Busck.) 



Antennne longer than forewing, stout, smooth, simple, scaled at base; 

 basal joint enlarged, somewhat flattened, and with thick covering of 

 scales, projecting Ijackward. At rest they are kept alongside the body 

 under the wings. Laliial palpi with second joint very long, nearly 

 straight, porrected, smooth, thin at base, greatly thickened at apex, 

 ending al)ruptly with projecting scales: terminal joint short, erect, 

 smooth. Tongue scaled at base. Head elongated, face retreating. 

 Anterior wings elongate ovate. Hindwing elongate ovate; cilia 2. 

 Legs short; posterior tibiie clothed with long hairs a})ove. 



Veriation. — Forewiugs: Twelve veins; 7 and 8 connate or stalked, 7 



