NO. 2043. NEW MICROLEPIDOPTERA FROM PANAMA— BUSCK. 7 



Legs blackish with yellow tarsi; posterior tibiae with very striking 

 spreading tufts of yellow and black haks, displayed conspicuously 

 when the insect is at rest ; posterior first tarsal joints thickened with 

 smooth, dark metallic blue scales. 



Alar expanse. — 18 mm. 



Habitat. — Porto Bello, Panama, April. 



Type-specimen.— Ciii. No. 15817, U.S.N .M. 



Genus ANACAMPSIS Curtis. 

 Ty2:>e. — Anacampsis populella Clerck. 



ANACAMPSIS PECULELLA, new species. 



Labial palpi silvery gray, shaded with darker gray, especially an- 

 teriorly on the terminal joint. Antennae dark brown with narrow 

 silvery annulations. Tongue sUvery white. Head and thorax dark 

 brownish fuscous; face somewhat lighter. Ground color of the fore- 

 wings is white but so strongly and evenly overlaid with dark brown 

 scales as to be obscured, except under magnification; near the base 

 is a broad, outwardly oblique, dark brown costal streak, reaching 

 beyond the fold ; on the middle of costa is a large, triangular spot, 

 reaching to the lower edge of the cell; at the end of the cell is a 

 small, moon-shaped, dark brown spot; just before termen and parallel 

 with it is a broad, dark brown fascia, and between it and the discal 

 spot is a narrower, less pronounced and slightly convex, dark brown 

 fascia; cilia dark brown with lighter tips. Hindwings dark brown- 

 ish fuscous. Abdomen dark brown above with each jomt tipped 

 with silvery white. Underside of body silvery white. Legs silvery 

 white, barred and annulated with dark brown. 



Alar expanse. — 11-12 mm. 



Ilahitat. — Paraiso, Porto Bello, Trinidad River, and La Chorrera, 

 Panama, February-May. 



Type-specimen.— Csit. No. 15818, U.S.N.M. 



This species is very close to Anacampsis siderophaea Walsingham, 

 but differs in the darker and more pronounced wing ornamentation 

 and the lighter legs and body. A. sideropliaea Walsmgham has the 

 abdomen uniformly dark brown above, without the silvery white 

 crosslines possessed by the present species. 



ANACAMPSIS LAGUNCULARIELLA Busck. 



Anacampsis lagunculariella Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, 1900, p. 230; 



vol. 25, 1902, p. 848; Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1903, No. 5706. 

 Anacampsis lagunculariella Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 10, 1901, p. 474. 



This species, hitherto known only from the bred type series from 

 Palm Beach, Florida, was taken in several specimens at Corozal and 

 La Chorrera, Panama, April-May. 



Foodplant. — Laguncularia racemosa. 



