NO. 2050. LEPIDOPTERA OF THE PANAMA CANAL ZONE— DY AH. 197 



tinctly cut below cell by an obliquely longitudinal pale ray, the cos- 

 tal segment triangular, followed by a slightly obUque band of silvery 

 lilaceous; termmal area coppery brown with lilacine scales and a 

 black patch near middle of margin; terminal edge coppery brown, 

 fringe black and purple. Hind wing black, a little Hghter on the 

 disk, fringe whitish. Below, hind wing gray, rufous tinged out- 

 wardly, with discal dot, outer curved dark band and slender sub- 

 marginal one. Expanse, 11 mm. 



Type.— Female, No. 15887, U.S.N.M.; Trinidad River, March, 

 1912 (Busck). 



COBUBATHA ORTHODOXICA, new species. 



Fore wing Hght gray in ground, shining, overlaid udth dark atoms 

 and with dark markings ; inner and outer lines wavy, curved, filled in 

 with blackish in lower half; reniform pale, with dark spot preceding; 

 base darkly marked; a black spot before center of outer margin; 

 a row of silver streaks on costa outwardly. Hind wing brown-black. 

 Expanse, 10-11 mm. 



Cotypes. — Male and female. No. 15886, U.S.N.M.; Corozal, Canal 

 Zone, July, 1912 (C. P. Crafts, J. Zetek). 



COBUBATHA PAISTION, new species. 



Basal half of fore wing pale creamy wath reddish tint; outer half 

 purple-brown; base shaded with purple scales, costa outwardly with 

 pale dots; a median darker band edging the purple area within; a 

 narrow pale Hne on terminal edge. Hind ^\ing fuscous. Expanse, 

 10 mm. 



Cotypes. — Five specimens. No. 15890, U.S.N.M. ; Taboga Island, 

 February, 1912 (Busck). 



COBUBATHA SUBTERMINATA Hampson. 



7. Taboga Island, February, 1912 (Busck). 



COBUBATHA TORTRICOPSIS, new species. 



Basal half of wing blackish, ending in a median angle ; outer area 

 pale grayish, with faint carneous tint ; apex darkly shaded, with four 

 small silvery white oblique costal streaks, the inner one the longest ; 

 terminal edge black. Hind wing fuscous. Expanse, 8-9 mm. 



Cotypes.—Two males, No. 15891, U.S.N.M.; Taboga Island, Feb- 

 ruary, 1912 (Busck). 



TARACHIDIA CARMELITA, new species. 



Male. — Fore wing sordid yellowish white; base olive gray; a median 

 band of olive gray, obUque, touching a faint discal mark; a similar 

 outer band crossed by the curved outer line, black and shaded above 

 in its outcurve, fainter below; a black speck on fringe at upper third 

 and one at tornus. Hind wing fuscous shaded on margin and veins ; 

 fringe pale. Expanse, 13 mm. 



Female. — Fore wing less yellowish, sordid white; bands as in the 

 male but broader, the outer one shading almost to margin; discal 



