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the ciicullar process a double-pointed, flattened, sclerotized plate, 

 serrate on outer edge. Anellus composed of two irregularlj^ shaped, 

 curved plates fused at base and each with a small laterodistal lobe. 

 Aedeagus short, stout, terminating in a beaklike process. Transtilla 

 membranous, indicated by a few minute granules. Vinculum a 

 broad sclerotized band. Gnathos an oval spined knob. Socii mainly 

 indicated by setae. Uncus moderately hood-shaped, deeply incised 

 on posterior margin. 



Slide examined: cT, JFGC 10948. 



Female genitalia : Ostium irregular, broadest posteriorly, surround- 

 ed by a raised spiculate lip. Ductus bursae very short; inception of 

 ductus seminalis dorsal and opposite center of ostial opening. Bursa 

 copulatrix oval, without signum. Ovipositor lobes leathery, com- 

 pressed. Anterior apophyses absent, or at most indicated only by a 

 lateral thickening of genital plate. 



Slide examined: 9, JFGC 11198. 



This is the first time that the genitalia of P. literatella have been 

 figured, and the female is the first of any species of this genus that I 

 have seen. 



Palinorsa raptans (Meyrick), new combination 



Orsotricha raptans Meyrick, 1920, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 2, p. 366. — Clarke, 

 1963, Catalogue of the type specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British 

 Museum (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick, vol. 4, p. 341, pi. 

 167, figs. 2-2b. 



Type: British Museum (Natural History). 

 Distribution: Peru, Rio Napo. 



Palinorsa zonaria, new species 



Figure 3 



Alar expanse 42 mm. 



Labial palpus white; second segment with narrow fuscous line dorso- 

 basally; third segment with slight apical infuscation. Antenna sordid 

 white. Head ocherous white with ring of reddish-brown scales 

 posteriorly. Thorax pale orange yellow shaded with reddish brown 

 anteriorly; metathorax clothed with long, coral -red hau'like scales. 

 Forewing pale orange yellow with brown median longitudinal streak: 

 costa very narrowly edged with white; a pale spot on each side of 

 vein Ic opposite base of vein 2; cilia pale orange yellow except at apex, 

 the latter same color as median streak. Hindwing semihyaline; costal 

 third and cUia ocherous white; at base a few coral-red hairlike scales 

 and cilia. Legs ocherous white. 



Male genitalia: Harpe broad; saccular and costal margins parallel, 

 distally tapering to a blunt cucullus ; middle heavily sclerotized giving 

 rise to a strong thornlike clasper directed toward sacculus. Anellus 



