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zigzag band of more or less raised scales on the smooth dark back- 

 ground; at the end of the cell are two deep black dots and on the 

 middle of the fold is a similar, smaller, black dot; cilia dark fuscous. 

 Hindwings light fuscous; cilia with ochreous base. Abdomen fus- 

 cous mottled with ochreous and with ochi'eous anal tuft. Legs 

 blackish brown with the ends of the joints annulated with yellow. 



Alar expanse. — 9 mm. 



Habitat. — Porto Bello and Trinidad Eiver, Panama, March, Arpril, 

 and May. 



Type-specimen.— Cat. No. 15830, U.S.N.M. 



Genus PARASTEGA Meyrick. 

 Type. — Parastega niveisigneUa Zeller. 



PARASTEGA CURVATELLA, now spedoe. 



Labial palpi blackish brown, slightly sprinkled with white and with 

 extreme apex white. Face, head, and thorax blackish brown. Fore- 

 wings blackish brown with a purple sheen; from basal fifth of costa 

 nms a narrow white streak obliquely outwards and downwards to 

 the fold and is continued much atteuuated and obscurely beyond the 

 fold outwardly in a shallow curve; on the fold is an interrupted, light 

 brown, longitudinal streak; at apical fifth is a small white costal spot; 

 cilia blackish brown. Hindwings dark fuscous. Abdomen blackish 

 brown with small ochreous anal tuft. Legs blackish brown with nar- 

 row white annulations at the end of the joints. 



Alar expanse. — 12-14 mm. 



Habitat. — Porto Bello, Trinidad River, and La Chorrera, Panama, 

 March-May. 



Type-specimen.— C&t. No. 15731, U.S.N.M. 



Close to and easily mistakable for the type of the genus, P. nioeir 

 signeUa Zeller, but differing in the much narrower and longer basal 

 costal spot and the smaller apical, costal, white spot. P. chionostigma 

 Walsingham, described as Telpliusa, must also be referred to this 

 genus; it is easily separated by its white head and bold, clear-cut 

 wing markings. 



PARASTEGA TRICHELLA, new species. 



Labial palpi black; second joint with brush rust brown; terminal 

 joint with an anterior line of white dots and with extreme apex 

 white. Antennae purphsh black. . Face, head, and thorax purplish 

 black. Forewings blackish brown with strong purple sheen; at 

 basal fourth is a narrow, outwardly oblique, straight, silvery white 

 streak; at apical fourth is a small triangular outwardly pointed white 

 costal streak; cilia bluish dotted with dark brown. Hindwings 

 dark fuscous. Abdomen blackish brown. Legs black with narrow 

 white annulations at the end of the joints. 



Alar expa/nse. — 11mm. 



