NO. 2043. NEW MICROLEPIDOPTERA FROM PANAMA— BUSCK. 55 



Closely allied to H. patulana Walker, but somewhat larger and 

 darker and at once separated by the dark hindwings, which, however, 

 are not as dark as those of //. aquila Busck. 



Family HEMEROPHILID^. 

 Genus HEMEROPHILA Hubner. 

 Type. — HemeropMla alhertiana Stoll. 



HEMEROPHILA LACINIOSELLA, new species. 



Labial palpi golden fuscous. Face and head dark purplish brown, 

 Antennge dark brown dotted on the upper side with silvery wliite. 

 Thorax dark brown, finely sprinkled with ochreous white atoms. 

 Forewings dark brown, finely but irregularly mottled with ochreous 

 white dots; on the outer half sparsely sprinkled with single black 

 scales; just before the middle is a transverse, slightly convex fascia, 

 reddish brown on its costal half, dark brown on its dorsal haK; apical 

 corner of the wing bright golden yellow, with extreme apical and ter- 

 nunal edge deep black and with metalUc blue angulated line, parallel 

 with the edge; tliis angulated hue is bordered on the mner side by a 

 similarly angulated black line; all these markings cover only the 

 upper two-thirds of termen; cHia coppery fuscous with strong me- 

 tallic reflections, Hindwings and cilia dull dark brown with a whit- 

 ish marginal hne. Abdomen dark brown with broad, transverse, sil- 

 very white bands on the underside. Legs dark brown with broad 

 silvery white annulations. 



Alar expanse. — 14 mm. 



Eahitat. — Trinidad River, Panama, March. 



Type-specimen.— Csit. No. 16756, U.S.N.M. 



Near to H. contrariana Walker, but without the golden yellow, zig- 

 zag line on outer half of the forewing and differing also in the more 

 elaborately ornamented apical corner. 



HEMEROPHILA MERATELLA, new species. 



Labial palpi whitish with dusky tip. Face and head dark brown. 

 Antennae blackish brown with silvery annulations. Thorax dark 

 brown with two broad, lateral, whitish brown streaks. Forewings 

 with pointed, shghtly produced apex; dark brown, finely sprinkled 

 with ocln-eous wliite atoms; a broad, unsprinkled, reddish brown 

 fascia just before the middle; the outer edge of this fascia is shghtly 

 convex and is well defined by the more condensed wliite dusting out- 

 side; the inner edge is not so clearly defined, the white dusting en- 

 croaching somewhat upon the fascia; beyond the fascia the ground 

 color of the wing becomes more purpUsh; before apex is a large, 

 round, reddish-ochreous spot, traversed longitudinally on its lower 

 haK by a pointed and uneven purplish prominence from the gi'ound- 



