NO. 2050. LEPIDOPTERA OF THE PA-RAMA CA^IAL ZONE—DYAR. 169 



SERINCIA METALLICA, new species. 



Fore wing bright metallic green. Hind wing dull black. Body 

 parts black, the head and thorax green. Expanse, 16 mm. 



r^pe.— Female, No. 15787, U.S.N.M.; Tabernilla, Canal Zone, 

 May, 1907(Biisck). 



LYCOMORPHODES GENIFICANS, new species. 



Dark slate gray; abdomen dorsally crimson. The fore wing under 

 a lens has numerous rough, white scales, tipped with black. The 

 hind wing is nearly black without the slaty tint. Expanse, 13-14 mm. 



Coty pes. —Seven females. No. 15789, U.S.N.M.; Trinidad River, 

 March, May, and June, 1912 (Busck). 



Like Talara rugipennis Schaus, but differing in the pronounced 

 stalking of veins 4 and 5 of fore wmg. 



TALARA MELANOSTICTA, new species. 



Slate gray; fore wing pale slate gray, showing under lens many 

 whitish scales with black tips. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 

 stalked, a Uttle browner in tone than fore wing, with a large velvety 

 black patch of androconia filling the cell and extending above and 

 beyond it. Expense, 15-16 mm. 



Cotypes.— Two males, No. 15790, U.S.N.M.; Cabmia, May, 1911 

 (Busck). 



TALARA MINYNTHADLA., new species. 



Brown, tinged with submetallic black; neck and basal joint of 

 antennae yellow; abdomen crimson above, anal tuft mixed crimson, 

 orange, and black. Fore wing slaty brown with bluish black shade 

 along costa and across middle, broadly so beneath, leaving only 

 base and apex of slate. Hind wing crimson, apical half brown- 

 black, narrowing to a point before tornus. Expanse, 15 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 15791, U.S.N.M.; La Chorrera, May, 1912 

 (Busck). 



Two females, tentatively associated with the male type, lack the 

 dark shading of fore wing above and below, the wing being dark 

 slaty blackish without marks on either surface. Crimson area of 

 hind wing more restricted than in the male, occupying about the 

 basal thu'd. 



La Chorrera, May, 1912 (Busck); Tabernilla, Canal Zone, May, 

 1907 (Busck). 



TALARA VIOLESCENS, new species. 



Dark slaty brown; fore wing with shining violet tint, uniform. 

 Hind wing black, basal third crimson. Abdomen crimson, the large 

 anal tuft blue-black. Expanse, 16 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 15792, U.S.N.M.; Cabmia, May, 1911 (Busck). 



TALARA PILEELLA Hampson. 



7. Trinidad River, March, 1912, and May, 1911 (Busck); Corozal, 

 Canal Zone, May, 1911 (Busck); La Chorrera, May, 1912 (Busck). 



