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blue, metallic spots and with the posterior tip blacldsh fuscous. 

 Forewings brick red, with golden yellow costal and dorsal edges and 

 with thi'ee, broad, longitudinal, black streaks from near base to just 

 before the apical edge of the mng; these black bands are inten-upted 

 beyond the middle of the wing by a narrow, brick-red crosshne, con- 

 necting the two edges of the wing; ciha black with a deep-blue metalUc 

 basal line. Hind wing brick red mth apical third black; cilia black. 

 Abdomen brick red with golden yellow underside. Legs red with 

 black tarsal annulations. 



Alar expanse. — 17 mm. 



Habitat. — Cabima, Panama, June. 



Type-specimen.— Ciii. No. 16688, IT.S.N.M. 



Genus DOXA Walsingham. 

 Type. — Doxa sodalis Walsingham. 



DOXA VIRGINIA, new species. 



Labial j)alpi, face, and head deep violet red, mottled with black. 

 Antennpe black with basal joint violet. Thorax saffron yellow with 

 anterior edge and base of patagina black. Forewing saffron yellow 

 with costal edge darker yellomsh brown, extreme base black, and 

 with ai3ical and terminal edge naiTowly dark violet; an indistinct 

 blackish brown spot on the middle of the cell; an even less distinct 

 brown spot at the end of the cell; ciha bright violet dusted with 

 black. Hind wings light yellow with rose-red edges and cilia. Abdo- 

 men and legs yellow. 



Alar expanse. — 12-13 mm. 



Hahitat. — Trinidad River, Panama, March, A])ril. June. 



Type-specimen.— Cat. No. 16745, U.S.N.M. 



Smaller than the type of the genus, Doxa sodalis Walsingham, and 

 at once distinguished l)y the dark violet head and dark edges of the 

 wings. 



Named in honor of my efficient assistant, Miss Pearl Virginia 

 Boone. 



Genus CRYPTOLECHIA Zeller. 



Type. — C. straminella Zelloi-. 



CRYPTOLECmA IGNICOLOR, new species. 



Labial palpi carmine red mottled with black. Face red with a 

 small, central, yellow spot. Head and thorax carmine red mixed 

 with yellow. Antennas yellowish -with basal joint carmine. Basal 

 two-thirds of foremngs light yellow, heavily overlaid with carmine 

 scales; outer third dark violet red mixed ^vith brown and carmine; 

 entire costal edge from base to apex blackish brown; at the end of 



