NO. 2043. NEW MICROLEPIDOPTERA FROM PANAMA— BU8CK. 19 



with a tuft of long, bluish black cilia. Abdomen bluish black. Legs 

 bluish black with narrow ochi-eous tarsal annulations. 



Alar expanse. — 14 mm. 



Hahitat. — Porto Bello, Panama, March. 



Type-specimen.— C&t. No. 16674, U.S.N.M. 



Easily recognized by the bizarre wmg form and the metallic 

 coloration 



DICHOMERIS PERCEPTELLA, new species. 



Labial palpi smooth, Trichotaplie-toTmed; second joint but slightly 

 thickened with smoothly appressed scales; third joint slender, black 

 exteriorly, dark fuscous, iridescent on the inner side and with a thin 

 longitudinal wliite line in fi-ont fi'om base to apex. Face and head 

 dark bluish fuscous. Thorax dark bluish brown. Forewings blackisli 

 brown with a violet sheen and with three, large, conspicuous, reddish 

 orange blotches occupying about half of the wing space; the first of 

 these orange spots lies on the basal third of costa and extends ob- 

 liquely outward and downward over the cell beyond the fold, nearly, 

 but not quite, to the dorsal edge, encUng in a sharp point above the 

 middle of the dorsum; the second ochreous spot lies on apical third 

 of costa, is hke the first, irregularl}^ pentagonal, with a point toward 

 but not reaching dorsum and a sharp attenuated point toward apex; 

 the tliird smaller orange spot, on costa, just before apex is drop- 

 shaped and is continued as a submarginal yellow line along termen 

 and dorsum, ending between the two large orange spots ; cilia black- 

 ish fuscous. Hindmng nearly black. Abdomen black with whitish 

 underside and small ochreous anal tuft. Legs black with narrow 

 white annulations at the joints. 



Alar expanse. — 14-15 mm. 



Hahitat. — ^La Chorrera, and Cabima, Panama, May, June. 



Type-specimen. — Cat. No. 16675, U.S.N.M. 



DICHOMERIS LUMINOSA, new species. 



This is the Atlantic representative of the foregoing species, very 

 similar in coloration and easily mistaken for it but quite distinct, 

 both in structure and ornamentation. Labial palpi dark steel gray, 

 with a tliin, anterior, longitucUnal, reddish orange line from base to 

 apex; second joint smoothly thickened with compressed scales; ter- 

 minal joint with compressed tuft of scales on its posterior edge. Face 

 silvery fuscous. Head and thorax dark brown; base of patagina 

 silvery. Foremngs nearly identical in color and ornamentation with 

 those of perceptella, but with the blackish brown part even more violet 

 iridescent, with a light yellow inner edge of the &st orange spot, 

 with a light yellow central dash in the second orange spot and with 

 tiiis spot more rounded and v/ithout the dorsal and apical attenua- 

 tions found in D. perceptella. Hind wings, abdomen and legs colored 

 like the foregoing species. 



