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STENOMA PLUMOSA, new species. 



Labial palpi yellowish white; second joint externally barred with 

 light yellow and blacldsh brown; terminal joint with extreme base 

 and a broad annulation before the tip blackish brown. Face light 

 yellowish fuscous. Head and thorax light yellowish brown. Fore- 

 wing yellomsh brown with violaecous sheen; a dark brown hne from 

 base along base of dorsum, another similarly colored, zigzag lino 

 obUquely across the cell to the middle of dorsum; a dark brown, 

 nearly straight, Une from middle of costa at tornus and an outwardly 

 curved, dark brown Hne from apical fourth to tornus; a marginal 

 series of black dots around apex; cilia light ochreous; the male 

 has a costal fold, from which expands a large heavy tuft of stiff, light 

 ochreous hairs, half as long as the forewings. Hindwing light yellow 

 fuscous, in the male with a light yellow costal hair pencil. Abdomen 

 dark fuscous. Legs yellowish white. 



Alar expanse. — 15 mm. 



Habitat. — Trinidad Kiver, Panama, March. 



Ty2ye-specimen.— Cat. No. 16724, U.S.N.M. 



Superficially mistakable for the somewhat smaller Zetesima lasia 

 Walsingham, which also has a costal fold and tuft on the forewing, 

 but the present species has normal Stenoma venation. 



STENOMA STRIATELLA, new species. 



Labial palpi wliite; second joint shaded with dark fuscous exter- 

 nally toward base; terminal jomt dusky toward the tip. Face 

 pure white, silvery. Head white with center of tuft gray. Antennae 

 dark fuscous with white base. Thorax dark brownish gray with 

 whitish patagina and posterior tip. Forewings wliite; the dorsal 

 two-thirds heavily overlaid with dark gray and sprinkled with darker, 

 blackish brown, short, longitudinal dashes, of wliich a few also occur 

 in the pure white costal third; three short, outwardly obhque, dark 

 brown costal streaks, one at basal fourth, one on the middle of costa, 

 and one at apical fifth; a submarginal series of black streaks around 

 apical and terminal edge; cUia white. Hindwings dark fuscous 

 mth lighter cilia. Abdomen dark fuscous with lighter whitish under- 

 side and anal tuft. Legs white with dusky tarsi.- 



Altar expanse. — 14-16 mm. 



Hahitat. — ^Trinidad River and AUiajuela, Panama, March, April. 



Type-specimen.— Cat. No. 16726, U.S.N.M. 



STENOMA PALLULELLA, new species. 



Labial palpi dark gray with inner side and tip of second joint 

 whitish. Lower face white, upper face dark gray. Head and thorax 

 dark brownish fuscous. Forewing with a large, blackish brown, basal 

 area, reaching to basal third of costa and to the middle of dorsum; 



