NO. 2132. REVISION OF THE SUBFAMILY HTPENINAE—SCHAUS. 379 

 METALECTRA SAFINA, new species. 



Male. — Body and wings purplish brown. Abdomen dorsally with 

 basal segments ocher brown, otherwise light brown with dark irrora- 

 tions and segmental lines. Fore wings: A basal ocher white line; 

 other lines reddish brown on costa with ocherous shadings between 

 them; antemedial fine, wavy, inwardly edged with ocherous-white 

 scaling; a faint, dark medial line; orbicular small, black; reniform 

 large, brighter reddish brown, partly edged with ocherous; postmedial 

 wavy, outcurved, outwardly finely mottled with ocherous; an irregu- 

 lar sub terminal, ocherous shade; marginal dark-brown spots. Hind 

 wings grayish brown at base, and a similar streak below cell and vein 

 2 to termen in the male only; a dark streak on discocellular, otherwise 

 lines are ocherous shadings, as on fore wings; a heavy terminal, lunu- 

 lar, black line. Wings below dark gray; faint medial and postmedial 

 lines; a darker sub terminal shade; fuscous discal spots; a whitish 

 spot on costa of fore wings postmedially. Fore and hind tibiae with 

 long tufts. 



Expanse. — 20 mm. 



IlaMtat. — Aroa, Venezuela; La Chorrera, Panama; Jalapa, Mexico. 



Type.— Cat. No. 19864, U.S.N.M. 



METALECTRA ROSEITINCTA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi fuscous, second joint with a pale ring. Head, collar, 

 and thorax roseate brown. Abdomen fuscous above, gray under- 

 neath. Fore wings chiefly roseate brown; a broad, dull-brown sub- 

 basal fascia; a fine, black, antemedial vertical line; orbicular a black 

 point; a medial, dull-brown shade; reniform almost oval, brown 

 black; postmedial brown black, wavy, outcurved beyond cell; a 

 broad, dull, dark-brown outer shade, followed by a roseate subter- 

 minal line, outwardly edged with brown spots; termen roseate with 

 large semilunar, dark-brown spots; base of cilia with alternate brown 

 and roseate spots, otherwise gray. Hind wings dull brown with 

 traces of lines and roseate shadings toward inner margin; termen 

 and cilia as on fore wings. 



Expanse. — 17 mm. 



Hahitat. — Maroni River, French Guiana. 



Type.— Cut. No. 19865, U.S.N.M. 



LITHOPOMA, new genus. 



Male. — Palpi long, obliquely ascending; second joint densely but 

 smoothly scaled; third joint smooth, acute, almost as long as second. 

 Antennae smooth, with minute bristles. Fore femora with large tuft 

 at base and shortly fringed. Hind tibiae dilated, with long tuft of 

 hairs on inner side at base. Fore wings: Outer margin rounded; 



