NO. 2050. LEPIDOPTERA OF THE PANAMA CANAL ZONE—DYAR. 313 



PASSELGIS XANTHOTHRICALIS, new species. 



Rufous, a deeper, more crimson tint at apex and purplish along 

 tlie inner margin; discal dot round, slaty black; lines faint, purple, 

 remote and far from margin, evenly curved, subparallel to the outer 

 margin and rather more strongly curved than it. Hind wing straw- 

 whitish, purple-shaded along the margin and costa. Expanse, 29 

 mm. 



Type.— FemaXe, No. 16308, U.S.N.M.; La Chorrera, May, 1912 

 (Busck). 



CONOTAMBE, ne^w genus. 



Palpi porrect, reaching to the end of the large, angular, pointed 

 frontal cone. Fore wing with veins 4-5 stalked, 6 from the end of 

 the cell, 7-10 stalked, 11 from the cell, free. Hind wing with 2 and 3 

 present, 4-5 stalked, 8 from end of the cell, 7 anastomosing with 8. 

 Legs with the tibiae and tarsi, especially the hind pair, greatly 

 thickened and flattened. 



Type of the genus. — Conotambe paralysisalis , new species. 



CONOTAMBE PARALYSISALIS, new species. 



Fore wing dark purple-red, the lines darker, very faint and clouded, 

 hardly legible: outer hne remote from the margin, curved. Hind 

 wing shaded with black, except a patch between veins 2-5, which is 

 purple-red, crossed by a mesial faint dark dentate line. Expanse, 

 34 mm. 



T^ype.— Female, No. 16309, U.S.N.M.; Cabima, May, 1911 (Busck). 



SulDfamily SCHOKISrOBIIN-.^:. 

 SIGA PYRONLA Drace. 



1. Paraiso, Canal Zone, May, 1911 (Busck). 



CACOGRAPmS OSTEOLALIS Lederer. 



15. Cabima, May, 1911 (Busck); La Chorrera, May, 1912 (Busck); 

 Trinidad River, June, 1912 (Busck); Corozal, Canal Zone, July (J. 

 Zetek), August and November, 1912 (C. P. Crafts). 



MIDILA CARNELA Druce. 



3. Porto Bello, March, 1911 (Busck); La Chorrera, May, 1912 

 (Busck). 



DISMIDILA, new genus. 



Proboscis absent: labial palpi ascending, the second joint hairy 

 below, the third thickened with short hairs, blunt. Fore wing with 

 veins 8-9 stalked, the rest from the cell. Both wings with a projec- 

 tion on outer margin at vein 3. 



Type of the genus. — Dismidila atoca, new species. 



DISMIDILA ATOCA, new species. 



Lilacine gray; fore wing with two slender darker irregular lines, 

 subparallel to the outer margin; costa white centrally, cut by both 

 lines; a white semihyaline constricted patch in the end of the cell 



