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CATARATA LAPILELLA, new species. 



Labial palpi dirty oclireous white, shaded externally with dark 

 fuscous. Face whitish iridescent. Head and thorax light fuscous. 

 Forewings dirty ochreous white, iridescent, toward the base and 

 below the fold somewhat darker than on outer half; entire costal edge 

 and the tip of the wing dusky dark fuscous; from the umer angle of 

 the wing runs a sUghtly curved, ill-defined, broad, blackish brown 

 streak upward across the foM and the cell to the middle of costa; 

 at the end of the cell are a few ochreous scales and the costal apical 

 part of the wing contains several small brown and black spots not 

 very definitely arranged in two curved lines; cilia wliitish. Hind 

 wings light fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous above, underside and 

 legs wliitish oclireous; tarsal joints dusky. 



Alar expanse. — 12 mm. 



Habitat. — Porto Bello, Panama, March. 



Type-specimen.— C^t. No. 16703, U.S.N.M. 



CATARATA PUMILIS, new species. 



Labial palpi white; second joint with base and an indistinct 

 annulus before apex dark brown. Face and basal joint of the anteimse 

 pure white. Head brownish gray. Thorax dark brown with anterior 

 edge and the tip of the patagina pure wliite. Forewing dark brown 

 with costal edge from basal tliird pure white; a white, thin, zigzag 

 fine runs from the middle of costal edge obUquely across the wing to 

 apical third of dorsum; a broad white streak parallel with and just 

 before the apical and terminal edge, an indistinct darker brown spot 

 on the middle of the cell and another similar one on the middle of the 

 fold; ciha w^hitish. Hindwing dark fuscous with ciHa a shade lighter. 

 Abdomen dark fuscous above, light ochreous on the underside. 

 Anterior legs pure white; posterior legs fight fuscous with whitish 

 tarsi. 



Alar expanse. — 12 mm, 



Hahitat. — Trinidad River, Panama, March. 



Type-specimen.— Csit. No. 16704, U.S.N.M. 



A pretty fittle species reminding in coloration and pattern of the 

 somewhat larger Stenoma filiferella Walker. 



CATARATA OBNUBILA, new species. 



Labial palpi dark brown. Head and thorax blackish brown. 

 Foremngs blackish brown toward the base and along the costal edge ; 

 this color gradually shades into a fight ofive gray wluch covers the 

 greater outer part of the wing; from apical fourth of costal edge runs 

 a broad, reddish brown streak obfiquely across the tip of the wing to 

 tornus and outside this streak the wing is iridescent, metalfic vio- 

 laceous; cifia violet. The males have on the underside of the fore- 



