272 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 50. 



deep cleft between veins 2 and 4; vein 6 from near upper angle; 7 

 shortly stalked on 8 and 9 from upper angle; 10 and 11 free. Hind 

 wings: Outer margin truncated below vein 2; veins 3 and 4 and 

 6 and 7 stalked; 5 from near lower angle. 



Type of genus. — BleptipJtora laurentia Schaus. 



BLEPTIPHORA LAURENTIA, new species. 



Female. — Palpi and head grayish buff, more darkly irrorated. 

 Body and fore wings yellowish buff thinly irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wmgs: Lmcs dark bro\vn inwardly edged with whitish buff; 

 antcmcdial Imc fuie, almost vertical; a dark point as orbicular; reni- 

 form defined by a faint dark line on its inner edge; postmedial more 

 heavily marked, straight, shghtly inbent; an interrupted terminal 

 line. Hind wings: The costal margin broadly shaded with smoky 

 gray, the mner margin tinged with gray, the space between from 

 beyond cell yellowish buff UTorated with bro\yn; the outer line from 

 costa near apex similar to line on fore wmgs. Wmgs below thickly 

 irrorated with brown; small discal spots; the outer line finely wavy, 

 geminate. 



Expanse.— 36 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Laurent, Maroni River. 



Type.—Cat. No. 19701, U.S.N.M. 



Genus HYPHYPENA Warren. 

 Hyphypena Warren, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1889, p. 231. 



Male. — Palpi upcurvcd, hauy, half the length of wing; second 

 joint curved, cut off sharply at end; third jomt half the length of 

 second with a fine small pomt. Antennae with angulate joints, 

 ciliated beneath. Fore wings short and broad; costa arched from 

 base to apex, which is slightly produced; outer margm shghtly in- 

 curved below apex; veins 3 and 4 from lower angle; 5 and 6 from 

 discoccllular; 7, 8, 9 stalked from coll; 10 and 11 free. Hind wmgs 

 rounded; veins 3 and 4 stalked; 5 from lower angle; 6 and 7 from 

 upper angle. 



Type of genus. — Tlypliypena hipunctalis Warren; unknown to 

 me; possibly not a Deltoid, but a Chrysauginid. 



Genus APUSTIS Schaus. 



Apustis Schaus, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 11, 1913, p. 18. 



Male. — Palpi upcurved, third joint nearly as long as second, smooth, 

 acummato with tufts of haii-s at middle not reacliing tip. Anten- 

 nae finely pubescent, ciUate. Fore wings broad; apex acute; outer 

 margin incurved below apex, then obliquely romided; vein 2 beyond 

 middle of coll; 3, 4, 5 apart from lower angle; 6 near upper angle; 



