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7. Lamella antevaginalis reniform F. lepidota Meyrick 



Lamella antevaginalis not reniform 8 



8. Posterior margin of lamella antevaginalis bi'oacUy notched. 



F. kasyi, new species 

 Posterior margin of lamella antevaginalis narrowly cleft. 



F. antitypa Meyrick 



Falculina ochiicostata Zeller 



Figures la-d, 4; Plate 1 (fig. 1) 



Falculina ochricostata Zeller, 1877, Hor. Soc. Eiit. Rossica, vol. 13, p. 385, figs. 

 135a, b. 



Alar expanse 22-28 mm. 



Antenna whitish basally, brown beyond. Head whitish shaded 

 hiterally with orange; second segment of labial palpus orange on 

 outer side, white on inner side, apical segment white. Legs whitish 

 shaded with orange. Thorax brownish ochreous irregularly spotted 

 with fuscous. Forewing with veins 7 and 8 stalked; brownish ochreous 

 becoming whitish towards costa basally; costa orange; basal half of 

 wing more or less irregularly spotted with fuscous including two round 

 fuscous spots enclosed by a ring of ground color at basal third; a 

 line of indistinct fuscous dots from middle of costa to near termen 

 beneath apex then sharply angulated and sinuate to dorsum before 

 tornus; a terminal series of fuscous dots from apex to tornus. Cilia 

 brownish. Hindwing stramineous basally deepening to bright yellow 

 apically; cilia whitish. 



Male genitalia: See figures (slide W.D.D. 2632). Uncus erect, 

 truncate apically; gnathos two separate spiny arms; subscaphium 

 present, bearing small spines apically; harpe of approximately uni- 

 form width throughout, apical third recurved approximately 45°; 

 anellus with four lateral lobes, ventral pan* small, setiferous humps, 

 dorsal pair curved slightly laterad, bladelike in shape, apically acute; 

 aedeagus simple, vesica without cornuti. 



Female genitalia : Unknown. 



Type: In the Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt-Universitat zu 

 Berlin. 



Type locality: Unknown. 



Distribution: Panama: Trinidad River (June, Sept.); La Chorrera 

 (May). Costa Rica: Tuis [no date]. 



I have examined Zeller's type, a single female without abdomen, 

 and associated it with material from Central America collected by 

 Busck and identified by him as ochricostata. Zeller described ochri- 

 costata from material in the Staudinger Museum and, although 

 Zeller's type is without locality data, the fact that most of the species 

 described in the same paper were collected in Central America by 



