NO. 2043. ^^EW MWROLEPIDOPTERA FROM PANAMA— BU8CK. 37 



wings near base a large tuft of hairs, at rest lying longitudinally and 

 covering basal two tliirds of the cell. Hindwings with unusually well- 

 developed costal area^ dark fuscous. Abdomen blackish fuscous 

 above with silvery underside. Legs ochreous fuscous with dusky 

 tarsi. 



Alar expanse. — 12-13 mm. 



Habitat. — Trinidad River and Porto Bello, Panama, March. 



Type-specimen. — Cat. No. 16705, U.S.N.M. 



CATARATA OCELLATA, new species. 



Labial palpi milky wliite with a small dark fuscous spot on the outer 

 side of second joint. Face milky wliite. Head and thorax dark 

 purphsh brown, nearly black. Forewing blackish brown with pur- 

 phsh reflections; at the end of the cell is a black dot surrounded by an 

 incomplete circlet of pure white scales; above and before this eyespot 

 are a few scattered wliite scales and a few wliite scales are found on 

 the fold; ciHa blackish fuscous. Ilindwing blackish brown. Ab- 

 domen above dark brown; entire body below silvery white; anal 

 tuft large, oclireous. Legs silvery white; first tarsal joints black 

 exteriorly. 



Alar expanse.— 14: mm. 



Habitat. — La Chorrera, Panama, May. 



Type-specimen.— Ca.t. No. 16707, U.S.N.M. 



Closely allied to C. obnubila Busck, but darker and larger and at 

 once recognized by its white palpi and face. 



CATARATA CURVILINIELLA, new species. 



Labial palpi white; second jomt with base black externally; ter- 

 minal joint with extreme base and an annulus just before the tip black. 

 Lower face lead colored, upper face and head wlnte. Antennae 

 ochi'eous fuscous with white basal joints. Thorax white. Fore- 

 wings white faintly mixed with ochreous scales and with black mark- 

 ings; from near base of costa runs a thin black line obliquely down- 

 ward and outward to the middle of the cell and thence to the end 

 of the cell, where it curves upward and inward forming an elon- 

 gated question mark; at the end of the cell this black line is edged 

 by yellow scales; on the middle of the costa is a small, black, out- 

 wardly dhected spur and at apical tliird is a similar, inwardly direc- 

 ted, black spur; parallel with the terminal edge at apical fourth is a 

 faint row of yellowish scales, and in fresh specimens the wing is 

 sparsely sprinkled with black scales; these and the yellow lines, 

 however, are easily rubbed off and are lost in most flown specimens; 

 cilia white Hindwmg light fuscous with wliitish cUia. Abdomen 

 fuscous with whitish underside and yellow anal tuft. Legs white, 

 tarsi annulated with black. 



