NO. 2050. LEPIDOPTERA OF TEE PANAMA CANAL ZONE—DYAR. 325 



POCOPASCHIA NOCTUINA Schaus. 



8. Cabinia, May, 1911 (Busck); Trinidad River, March and June, 

 1912 (Busck). 



&^. Hind wing with vein 3 stalked with 4 and 5. 



POCOPASCHIA BELLANGULA, new species. 



Fore wing purple-brown, shading to gray on outer fourth; base 

 deep purple-brown, bounded by a white line that runs obHquely from 

 costa to vein 1 and is there bent at right angles ; median space reddish 

 purple, shading outward to gi'ay; outer line very near the margin, 

 white, denticulate, retreating at apex, which is blackish purple. 

 Hind wing blacldsh fuscous. Expanse, 17 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 16344, U.S.N.M.; Trinidad River, March, 1912 

 (Busck). 



a^. Fore wing with vein 7 arising before vein 9. 



POCOPASCHIA ACCELERANS, new species. 



Fore wing densely black-irrorate over pale ocher tinted ground; 

 basal area velvety black, bounded by a narrow curved whitish inner 

 line; a small rounded discal dot; outer line pale, incurved at sub- 

 costa and submedian, outcurved close to margin between; a round 

 black patch in the incurve below apex; a terminal broken black line. 

 Hmd wing ocher tinted, mth narrow terminal fuscous shade-line. 

 Expanse, 24-26 mm. 



Cotijpes.— Two males, No. 16345, U.S.N.M.; Trinidad River, 

 March, 1912. 



STKNOPASCHIA, new genus. 



Palpi porrect, short, curved in the male, exceeding the front, twice 

 as long as the head in the female and hairy below. Maxillary palpi 

 with a triangular tuft of scales. Fore wing with veins 2 and 3 from 

 the cell, 4 and 5 separate, 6 below apex of cell, 7-9 stalked, 8 absent, 

 10 and 11 on the cell, free. Hind wing with vein 2 from the cell, 3 

 and 5 separate, 4 absent, 6 from apex of cell, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Type of the genus. — StenopascMa tricliopteris, new species. 



STENOPASCHIA TRICHOPTERIS. new species. 



Fore whig oHve gi'een (faded to ocher) ; a black band along the basal 

 half of the costa, joining a tufted black spot in the cell; a patch below 

 in submedian space, further out in the male than in the female; a 

 small dot at the end of the cell; outer line of black scales, excurved 

 above, more or less broken and containing a few silvery scales. 

 Hind wing fuscous, dark in the female, lighter between the veins in 

 the male. Expanse, male, 15 mm.; female, 19 mm. 



Cotijpes.— Mole and two females, No. 16346, U.S.N.M.; Taboga 

 Island, June, 1911, male (Busck) ; Trinidad River, June, 1912, females 

 (Busck). 



