NO. 2043. NEW MICROLEPIDOPTERA FROM PANAMA— BVSCK. 11 



light brown. Forewings light ochreous brown, with a deeper tinge out- 

 wardly and with costal edge becoming broadly dark brown toward the 

 apex; on the middle of the wing, on the middle of the fold, and at 

 tornus are small aggregations of blackish scales, ill-defined and easily 

 rubbed off. Ilindwmgs blackish fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous with 

 the basal joints velvety ochi'eous above. Legs ochreous, sprinkled 

 with black exteriorly; tarsi blackish with narrow oclu-eous annulations. 



Alar expanse. — 13 — 14 mm. 



HaUtat.— British. West Indies, F. W. Urich, coU. 



Food-plant.— Crotolaria. 



Type-specimen.— Cnt. No. 13382, U.S.N.M. Cotjrpe in British 

 Museum. 



Bred b\' Ish. Uricli from the pods of Crotolaria. There has been 

 for many years a specimen of this species in the United States National 

 Museum, bred by Dr. H. G. Dyar from pods of ' 'woman's tongue," 

 Acaciaf sp. at Nassau, Providence Island, British West Indies, in 

 1891, which indicates a quite extensive range of the species. 



While collating Mr. Meyrick's descriptions of East Indian genera 

 with my sjmoptic tables I recognized in his Paraspistis ioloncJia^ 

 described from four Ceylon specimens my Lipatia crotolariella, 

 described from Trinidad, and sent Mr. Meyrick a specimen of the 

 latter for verification. Mr. Meyrick concurred in this synonymy 

 and was good enough to give me the further synonomy of Gelechia 

 palpigera Walsmgham, described from East Africa. 



This interesting species, previously also recorded by the author 

 from the Bahamas, was taken at Alhajuela and Corozal, Panama, 

 April, 1911. 



It breeds in the pods of Crotolaria and has attained its remarkable 

 geographic distribution with its food-plant. 



Genus RECURVARIA Haworth. 



Type. — Recurvaria nanella Hiibner. 



RECURVARIA PUTELLA, new species. 



Labial palpi whitish; second joint with two, large, poorly defhied, 

 ochreous brown blotches anteriorly, one reaching from base to 

 beyond middle, the other just before the end of the jomt; terminal 

 joint white, with two black annulations; apex white. Face white; 

 head mottled with ochreous. Antennae white sharply annulated with 

 blackish brown. Thorax white, mottled with ochreous and brown. 

 Forewings with the white ground color, strongly suffused with gray, 

 brown, ochreous, and black scales; a large blackish brown, dorsal 

 blotch at the base of the wing terminates in tufts of raised scales, 

 the tips of which are white ; three equidistant, blackish, costal spots, 

 one near the base, one before the middle, and one at apical third; a 

 central, longitudinal, black streak is edged on both sides with ochreous 



