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this has a distinct black costal patch beyond the outer line. Abo 

 alhed to 0. agraria Schaus, but less closely.^ 



COBUBATHA NUMA Druce.2 



3. La Chorrera, May, 1912 (Busck); Trinidad River, March, 1912 

 (Busck). 



COBUBATHA PAIDICA, new species. 



Fore wing dark brown at base, followed by a broad, shghtly 

 oblique, pale lilacine band containing a reddish Hnc; median area 

 brown shaded, lighter terminally with long black subapical streaks. 

 Hind wing dark fuscous with pale fringe. Expanse, 10 mm. 



Type.—Usile, No. 15888, U.S.N.M.; Taboga Island, February, 1912 

 (Busck). 



The specimen is in poor condition, so the markings can not be seen 

 in detail.^ 



COBUBATHA QUADRIFERA Zeller. 



11. Porto Bello, April, 1911 (Busck); Paraiso, Canal Zone, May, 

 1911 (Busck) ; Corozal, Canal Zone, July, 1912 (C. P. Crafts). 



The patch on iimer margin is brown, not black. The specimens 

 are all smaller than the usual size of North American ones. 



COBUBATHA ICRIA, new species. 



Fore mng dark brown at base, followed by a silvery lilaceous band ; 

 median space dark brown, curved within, straight without, indis- 



1 Modifications of the oplora tj-pe occur to the southward. Of these, one is— 

 OZARBA HEMITECTA, new species. 



Base of fore wing solidly diuk brown, the lines nearly obscured; coarsely waved inner and median lines 

 visible; lower half of termmal space, except on the margin, light ocherous; reniform yellowish with a black 

 spot below it inclosed by the outer line, which is shortly angled on costa, excurved over ceU, with two 

 blunt teeth at veins 5 and 6; apex dark; subterminal line pale, irregular, illy defined. Hind wing dark 

 fuscous. Expanse, 17 mm. 



Ti/pf.— Male, No. 15S99, U.S.N.M.; Area, Venezuela (Schaus collection). 



Finally the teeth of the outer line are obliterated and it becomes simply excurved as in Ozarba vidua 

 Schaus and — 

 OZARBA BASCURA, new species. 



rhotcdes bascura Schaus, MS. 



Fore wing dark purplish brown at base; basal line forming three scallops, the central one heavy; inner 

 line faint; median more distinct, slender, black, forming an outward projection below cell and a slight 

 angle on vein 1; shortly beyond it the dark color is replaced by pale ocherous, the limiting line forming a 

 projection below ceU; the outer pale area is crossed by about four finely wavy red lines, of which the sub- 

 terminal is shaded with blackish; a tmncate triangular costal dark patch; reniform reddish, in a large 

 'nearly circular area, with small dark points outwardly. Hind wing dark fuscous. Expanse, 19 mm, 



rj,pf —Female, No. 10547, U.S.N.M.; Sao Paulo, Brazil (Schaus collection). 



s This species is represented southward by a similar but specifically distinct form. 

 COBUBATHA PINAX, new species. 



Fore wing gray-brown, without ocherous tint; patch on inner margin truncate^-onical, with a small 

 wedge-shaped mark on costa; a smaU black dot near base; marks distinctly edged with dull silvery lines; 

 reniform large, pale silvery gray; outer line faint, dark, slender, sharply incurved at reniform and broadly 

 so below; a broad subterminal silvery gray slightly flexuous line; termen narrowly black, toothed opposite 

 ceU and submedian. Hind wing blackish brown, fringe whitish. Expanse, 16 mm. 



Tj/pc— Female, No. 15885, U.S.N.M.; Loja, Ecuador (Coll. P. Dognin). 

 3 COBUBATHA PERIUSIA, new species. 



Fore wing blackish on basal third, with a few lilacine scales, followed by a broad band of sordid ochery 

 brown; bordering this a narrow curved band of deep brown; terminal half of wing blackish, washed with 

 purple, a little mottled with lighter subterminaUy; a pale spot on costa at apex. Hind wing black-brown, 

 thefringe dark. Expanse, 11 mm. 



Type.— Female, No. 15889, U.S.N.M.; Tucuman, Argentina, December, 1905 (E. DineUi). 



