320 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 50. 



Type of genus. — Plusiodonta anartoides Walker.^ 

 The genus includes also: 



Chirconia convergens (Mecynoptera) Schaus, Ann. Mag. Nat, Hist., 

 ser. 8, vol. 11, 1913, p. 34. 



CHIRCONIA AQUILALIS, new species. 



Male. — Body and fore wings ochreous brown; abdomen with seg- 

 mental dark lines. Fore wings acute, outer margin curved and inbent 

 from vein 4; lines fine, dark brown; antemedial forming three irregu- 

 lar outcurves, with an inward white spot on costa; postmedial with a 

 white costal spot outwardly, from the middle of costal margin, deeply 

 outcurved around cell, wavy below cell; subterminal slightly sinuous, 

 indistinct, finely edged with white inwardly; a terminal dark Une; base 

 of cilia like wing limited by a dark line and tipped with white. Hind 

 wings grayish brown; cilia whitish crossed by a dark line. Fore wings 

 below brown, the costa, apex, and termen ochreous with dark irrora- 

 tions ; some faint lines on costa. Hind wings below bone white irro- 

 rated with brown, the costa and termen suffused with ochreous; a 

 brown discocellular and postmedial line; terminal line on both wings. 



A specimen from Panama is darker; the subterminal suffused with 

 purple and lilacine shadings; the thorax and base of abdomen also 

 dark shaded. 



Expanse. — 21 mm. 



Habitat. — Jalapa, Mexico; Banana River, Costa Rica. 



Type.— Ctit. No. 19761, U.S.N.M. 



LUBERTA, ne\^r genus. 



Female. — Palpi upturned ; second joint very long, straight, with long 

 fringe behind; third joint one-fifth the length of second, also fringed 

 behind and slightly turned back. Antennae ciliated. Fore wings: 

 Apex acute; termen outangled at vein 4; vein 3 near lower angle; 4 

 from lower angle; 5 above angle; 6 below upper angle; areole long; 

 7 on short stalk with 8 and 9 from end of areole; 10 from above; 11 

 free. Hind wings: Veins 3 and 4 very shortly stalked; 5 well above 

 angle; 6 and 7 from upper angle. 



Type of genus. — Luhcrta nymhisolis Schaus. 



LUBERTA NYMBISALIS, new species. 



Female. — Head, collar, thorax, and forcwings brownish ocher. 

 Abflomcn and hind wings fuscous brown. Fore wings: Some scat- 

 tered brown black irrorations; a fine bro%vn streak along subcostal 

 vein to end of cell ; a few brown scales as orbicular ; renif orm consisting 

 of a paler line with a brown point at either end; from below disco- 

 cellular to inner margin at one-third from base a pale line defined by 



» Cat. Brit. Mus., vol. 32, 1865, p. 843. 



