364 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MVFiEUM. vol.50. 



Type of genus. — Poena porrectalis Druce, not Hypena porredalis 

 Gucnee. 



Tliis genus also includes: 



Poena alhomarginata Druce, Biol. Centr.-Amer,, Het., vol. 1, 1891, 

 p. 484, pi. 40, fig. 14. Without the male, the position of this species 

 is doubtful. 



POENA HIRSUTA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi dark grey-brown with paler shadings. Head fuscous 

 brown; a pale shade between antennae. Collar and thorax brown 

 with darker shadings. Abdomen fuscous brown, with pale segmental 

 lines. Hairs on tibiae fuscous brown. Fore wings fuscous brown; 

 a light-brown shade near base; lines crossing light-brown shades on 

 costa; antcmedial black, indicated by some light-brown shading 

 across cell, and a white point below cell, followed by a short black 

 streak in cell; reniform small, black, preceded by a white point; 

 postmedial very slightly outcurved, streaky on costa, outwardly 

 edged by white scales opposite cell and broadly edged with white 

 from vein 2 to inner margin; a broad light-brown shade beyond post- 

 medial; sub terminal bulf brown, outangled on veins, shaded with 

 fuscous, forming streaky shades on interspaces preceding it; a ter- 

 minal black line, expanding on interspaces, edged with light brown. 

 Hind wings fuscous brown. Wings below buff irrorated with brown; 

 dark-brown discal spots, postmedial line and subterminal shade. 



Expanse. — 41 mm. 



Habitat. — Geldersland, Surinam. 



Type.—Cfii. No. 19844, U.S.N.M. 



Looks very much like a large Leptoctenista duhia Warren. 



BURDETTIA, new genus. 



Male.^Palpi obliquely ascending, three times the length of head, 

 moderately fringed above and below; third joint porrect. Antennae 

 pubescent ciliate. Legs smooth. Wings broad. Fore wings: Outer 

 margin rounded; vein 3 from near lower angle; 4 and 5 apart; 6 

 from upper angle; 7, 8 and 9, 10 from areole; 11 free. Hind wings: 

 Veins 3 and 4 shortly stalked or from angle; 5 above angle; 6 and 7 

 from upper angle. 



Ty2>e of genus, — Hypena hraziliensis Schaus.^ 

 The following species are also referred to this genus: 

 Burdettia rivalis (Hypena) Scliaus, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 30, 

 1904, p. 171. 



Burdettia lignealis (Hypena'^) Schaus, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 

 30, 1904, p. 175. 



» Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 30, 1904, p. 174. 



