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Alar expanse. — Male: 21 mm.; female: 24 mm. 



Habitat. — Porto Bello, Panama, Marcli. 



Type-specimen.— CrI. No. 16765, U.S.N.M. 



A perfect male and female of this gorgeous species taken while 

 they were flying in copulation in the bright sunshine at Santa Rosa 

 River, near Porto Bello; the species resembles a large Ileliodines. 



Family ARRHENOPHANID^. 



Only two genera are at present recognized as belonging to this 

 family. These may, according to Durrant, be separated as follows: 



Forewings with veins 8 and 9 stalked, 10 ahsent = Arrhenoplianes 

 Walsingham. 



Forewings with veins 9 and 10 stalked, 8 sepavatG == Cnissostages 



Zeller. 



Genus ARRHENOPHANES Walsingham. 



Type. — ArrhenopJianes perspicilla Stoll. 



ARRHENOPHANES PERSPICILLA Stoll. 



Fhalaena Bomhyx perspicilla Stoll, Sup. Cramer's Pap. Exot., 1790, p. 74, 



pi. 16, fig. 8. 

 Parathyris perspicilla Hubner, Verz. Schm., 1820, p. 158, sp. 1641. 

 Dasychira ? perspicilla Walker, Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus., vol. 7, 1856, p. 1740. 

 Parathyris ? perspicilla Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lep. Het., vol. 1, 1892, p. 853, sp. 13. 

 Parathyris perspicilla Busck, Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 59, 1912, pp. 4, 8-10, pi. 1. 

 Arrhenophanes perspicilla Walsingham, Biol. Cent.-Amer., vol. 4, 1912, p. 205, 



pi. 7, fig. 7. 



No additional material of this interesting species was obtained 

 since my note on it last year. It is recorded from French Guiana, 

 Para, Brazil, and from the Canal Zone, Panama. The larva is a 

 case maker and feeds in silk-lined galleries in Polyporus. 



ARRHENOPHANES CHIQUITA, new species. 



Male. — Labial palpi light ochreous, tinged with brown. Tongue 

 absent. Antennse finely ciliated throughout. Face and head 

 ochreous. Thorax ochreous, mixed with dark brown; posterior tuft 

 long and thm. Basal two-thirds of the forewings golden brown 

 suffused with dark burnt brown; an indistinct, oval, light ochreous 

 spot on the middle of the fold edged with black; a larger, quadrangular, 

 whitish ochreous spot at basal third of cost a; at the end of the cell an 

 indistinct group of black scales and base of costa darker than the rest of 

 the wing; apical thu-d of the wing, rather sharply separated from the 

 basal dark part, is covered with large, circular or oval, whitish, 

 semitransparent spots, with the narrow intervals light golden brown; 

 cilia white with a dark brown pencil at apex and with tornal part 

 blackish brown. Hindwings blackish brown with large, ochreous 



