17S PliOCEEnn^GS of the national museum. vol. 47. 



ANMNB IMPROSPERA, new species. 



Fore wing wood-brown, with numerous fine straight oblique dark 

 brown lines subparaUel to outer margin; a large elongate dark discal 

 mark; costa coppery brown with fine wliite oblique streaks in reversed 

 dii-ection to the lines, and small patch before apex; margin narrowly 

 dark brown, fringe lighter brown. Hind wing fuscous bro^\^l, fringe 

 light brown. Expanse, 10 mm. 



Cotyjyes.— Two males. No. 15S00, U.S.N.M.; Tobago Island, Feb- 

 ruar^r, 1912 (Busck); Alhajuelo, April, 1911 (Busck). 



AN^iENE DIAGRAMMA, new species. 



Palpi with the third joint long; fore wing with outer margin square, 

 a Httle incised below apex. Fore wing gray, the central veins Ughter, 

 yellowish scaled, the whole wing minutely transversly Hned with 

 alternating light and dark scales; two brown-black Hues across the 

 wing, the inner curved, the outer a little waved broadly below; three 

 dots on costa before apex and a row of irregular subconfluent mar- 

 ginal ones. Hind wmg dark fuscous. Expanse, 10 mm. 



Cotijpes. — Foiu- males, one female. No. 15801, U.S.N.M.; Tobago 

 Island, February, 1912 (Busck); Trinidad River, March, 1912 

 (Busck); La Chorrera, May, 1912 (Busck). 



DIXAN^ENE, new genus. 



With the characters of Ansene, but veins 3 and 4 of fore wing 

 stalked; the palpi have the third joint long; fore wing not subfalcate, 

 apex roundedly pointed, outer margin obHque. 



Type of the genus. — Dixansene lepidocsena, new species. 



DIXAN.ff;NE LEPIDOCENA, new species. 



Fore wing light gray, the scales arranged in minute transverse 

 whitish and dark brown lines, some 50 of each color, the ground 

 nearly pure white in patches at base above, on inner margin at basal 

 third and in a wavy sub terminal line; patches of long spatulate 

 scales, black on white, in three areas, one subbasal, one medial, one 

 subterminal, none attaining costa; inner fine copper}^ bro^^^l, from 

 costa to median vein; outer similar, crossing wing, gently excurved 

 above and below; a row of terminal black dashes. Hind wing 

 whitish, fuscous tinted outwardly, with dark terminal line. Expanse, 

 11 nma. 



Coty pes. —Four males, two females. No. 15802, U.S.N.M., Tobaga 

 Island, February, 1912 (Busck); Porto Bello, April, 1912 (Busck); 

 La Chorrera, May 1912 (Busck). 



SAOZANA, new genus. 

 Differs from Odozana Walker in having vein 11 of fore wing free, 

 not anastomosing with 12 and veins 6 and 7 of hind whig coincident. 

 The hind wings of the male are greatly expanded in the anal area, 

 with a notch above vein 2. 



Type of tlie genus. — Odozana leucota Hampson. 



