NO. 2043. NEW MICROLEPIDOPTERA FROM PANAMA— BU8CK. 31 



Genus TERATOMORPHA Walsingham. 

 Type. — TeratomorpTia albifrons Walsingham. 



TERATOMORPHA CHILIBRELLA, new species. 



Labial palpi, face, head, and thorax whitish ochreous. Antennge 

 faintly annulated with darker ochreous. Forewings whitish ochreous, 

 slightly and irregularly overlaid with single, dark-bro^vn scales and 

 with the costal edge and the veins somewhat deeper oclireous; the 

 brown scales form two faint and ill-defined, outwardly curved lines 

 across the wing, one submarginal and one parallel therewith on the 

 middle of the veins; there is also an irregular aggregation of dark 

 scales on the middle of the cell, tending downward to the dorsal 

 edge; on the middle of the costa is a small group of dark-brown 

 scales and at the end of the cell is a similar dark-brown spot; cilia 

 ochreous white. Hindwings with costal edge deeply and sharply 

 excavated at apical third; ochi'eous white, brownish below the 

 costal excavation, with a faint brown submarginal shade and a thin 

 brown line at the base of cilia. 



Alar expanse. — 20 mm. 



Habitat. — ^Alhajuela, Panama, April. 



Type-specimen.— Csit. No. 16754, U.S.N.M. 



Bred from a large (30 by 10 mm.), thin, flat, semitransparent 

 cocoon, spun on the middle of a leaf of a flower-bearing shrub growing 

 in the upper Chilibrillo Eiver near Alhajuela. 



Genus DECANTHA Busck. 

 Type. — Decaniha horkliausemi Zeller. 



DECANTHA MINUTA, new species. 



Labial palpi ochreous white. Face silvery. Head and thorax 

 light ochreous fuscous. Antennae ochreous with narrow black 

 annulations. Forewings broad in proportion to their length; light 

 ochreous fuscous, with the costal edge narrowly bright orange and 

 with light ochreous cilia; at the end of the cell is a large, round, dark- 

 brown spot; underneath this at the end of the fold is a similar blackish 

 brown spot, not so clearly defined and around apical edge are a few 

 scattered dark-brown scales. Abdomen dark fuscous above; under- 

 side light ochreous. Legs light ochreous. 



Alar expanse. — 6.5 mm. 



Halitat. — Trinidad River, Panama, March. 



Type-specimen.— Q&t. No. 16755, U.S.N.M. 



