NO. 2043. NEW MICROLEPIDOPTWUA FROM PANAMA— BU8CK. 29 



CRYPTOLECHIA TUNICATA, new species. 



Labial palpi, face and head light lemon yellow. Thorax Kght 

 iemon yellow with posterior half and tips of the patagina rose red. 

 The greater dorsal part of the forewings dark browoi, edged below 

 but along the €Osta from base to tornus by a broad curved band of 

 rose red which is again limited along the extreme edge of the costa 

 by lemon yellow, wliich color broadens out toward the apex and 

 covers apical and terminal edge; on the middle of the cell is a large, 

 pure white, comma-shaped spot wdth the thin end toward apex; this 

 white spot is edged above and below by rose red and laterally by 

 ill-defined black spots. Hindwing dark brown. Abdomen hght 

 fuscous. Legs light yellow. 



Alar expanse. — 20 mm. 



Eahitaf. — Porto Bello, Panama, June. 



Type-specimen. — Cat. No. 16749, U.S.N.M. 



Allied to the foregoing species and to C. crossota Walsingham, but 

 smaller and at once recognized by the large, white comma-shaped 

 discal spot. 



CRYPTOLECHIA MARCELLA, new species. 



Labial palpi yellowish red with dark brown base. Face light 

 yellow; head and thorax light reddish brown. Antennae dark brown. 

 Forewings light reddish brown with hghter brick red costal and ter- 

 minal edges; on the middle of the cell is a small black dot; at the end 

 of the cell a similar somewhat larger dot and on the middle of the 

 fold a third black dot; from the outer fourth of costa runs a broad but 

 gradually narrowing blackish shade across the wmg to outer fifth of 

 the fold; this shading is poorly defined and single blackish scales are 

 found outside of it on both sides; cilia reddish brown. Hindwings 

 light golden yellow with tips and terminal edge rose colored; cilia 

 golden. Abdomen light yellow. Legs light yellow, shaded exter- 

 nally with brown. 



Alar expanse. — 17-20 mm. 



Habitat. — Trinidad River, Panama, March. 



Tijpe-specimen. —Cat. No. 16750, U.S.N.M. 



Specimens also from St. Jean, French Guiana, and from Sixola 

 River, Costa Rica, W. Schaus, collector. 



CRYPTOLECHIA CHORRERA, new species. 



Labial palpi reddish oclireous; base of second joint blackish brown; 

 terminal joint sprmkled with black scales. Antennje ochi'eous, 

 mottled with black. Face and head light ochreous. Thorax and 

 forev/ings light violaceous brown; basal fourth of costal edge black; 

 a small black dot on the middle of the cell, another at the end of the 

 cell, and a similar one on the middle of the fold; a faint, outwardly 



