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Genus PERIMEDE Chambers. 

 Type. — Perimede errantella, Chambers. 



PERIMEDE ANNULATA, new species. 



Labial palpi blackish brown, terminal joint somewhat lighter. 

 AntennsB dark brown with last dozen joints silvery white. Face, 

 head, and thorax shining black. Forewings uniformly shining black 

 with four small deep-black tufts of erect scales, one en the cell, one at 

 the end of the cell, one on the middle of the fold, and one near the 

 end of the fold, all encircled with whitish scales. Ciha gray. Hind- 

 wings light fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous. Legs blackish; tarsal 

 joints very indistinctly annulated with white. 



Alar expanse. — 11 mm. 



Habitat. — Corozal and Paraiso, Isthmian Canal Zone, March, May. 



Type-specimen.— C^t. No. 15814, U.S.N.M. 



Very close to Perimede particornella Busck, but of deeper black 

 color and distinguished by the narrow wliite circlets around the tufts 

 of raised scales. 



Genus WALSHIA Clemens. 



Type. — Walshia amorphella Clemens. 



WALSHIA ALBICORNELLA, new species. 



Labial palpi dull ochreous, shaded with black; terminal joint 

 nearly black with extreme apex pale. Antennse ochreous, annulated 

 with black and with apical fourth silvery white. Face ochreous. 

 Head and thorax oclireous, dusted with brown and black. Forewings 

 shiny ochreous, with black and brown ill-defined markings; from base 

 of costa to basal fourth of dorsum runs an oblique, broad, black fascia 

 containing two large tufts of raised scales; near the end of the cell is 

 an oblique, transverse row of raised ochreous scales mottled with 

 black; at tornus is an ill-defined group of black and brown scales, 

 and along the terminal edge is a row of three black dots; apical part 

 of the wing mottled with scattered black scales; cilia Ught fuscous. 

 Hindwings dark fuscous with lighter cilia. Abdomen blackish fuscous 

 above, underside and anal tuft ochreous. Legs ochreous with broad 

 black bars and black tarsal annulations. 



Alar expanse. — 10-11 mm. 



Habitat. — Paraiso and La Chorrera, Panama, February, May. 



Type-specimen.— Cat. No. 15813, U.S.N.M. 



Very close to the type of the genus and difficult to distinguish 

 from it except by its smaller size and the white- tipped antennae. 

 WalsMa calcarata Walsingham, which also has the white-tipped 

 antennae, differs by the white head and the clothed posterior spurs. 



