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reddisb. below, traversing the wing. No trace of longitudinal line. 

 Outer discal dot enlarged or doubled, black. Expanse, 19-23 mm. 

 Cotypes. — Male and female, No. 15847, selected from a series of 

 38; Paraiso, Canal Zone, February, 1911 (Busck); Porto Bello, 

 March, 1911 (Busck); Trinidad River, March and June, 1912 (Busck); 

 Cabima, May, 1911 (Busck); Tabernilla, Canal Zone, May, 1907 

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



ABLITA, new genus. 



Proboscis aborted, small; palpi obliquely upturned, second joint 

 fringed with hair below, third moderate, smooth; frons smooth, 

 without hair-tuft; eyes large, round; thorax clothed chiefly with 

 scales, without crests; tibias smoothly scaled; abdomen without 

 crests; fore wing narrow, apex square, veins 7-10 stallved, or, abnor- 

 mally, 10 anastomosing shortly with stalk of 7-9 to form a very small 

 accessory cell. Hind wing with veins 3-4 shortly stalked, 5 obso- 

 lescent from angle of discocellulars, 6-7 stalked; 8 anastomosing 

 with cell near base. 



Type of the genus. — Neolita adin Schaus.^ 



ABLITA ADIN Schaus. 



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



The specimen does not agree very closely with the type of adin, 

 but is in poor condition and I can not positively separate it. 



ABLITA NYMPHICA, new species. 



Vertex of head nearly white; palpi upturned, the second joint reach- 

 ing vertex, brown scaled, white tipped, tliird joint slender, brown 

 banded. Fore wing purpHsh ochraceous, irrorated with dark brown; 

 costa dark at base; inceptions of inner and mesial lines on costa 

 shown as short streaks; shorter streaks toward apex; a small black 

 discal dot. Hind wdng whitish, with dark terminal marks. 



Cotypes.— Two females, No. 15853, U.S.N.M.; Trinidad River, 

 March, 1912 (Busck). 



Also three males and a female with the discal dots fused into a 

 round spot, tentatively placed here; La Chorrera, May, 1912 (Busck); 

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



ABLITA GRAMMALOGICA, new species. 



Palpi obHquely porrect, second joint fringed with scales at summit, 

 third smoothly scaled, without dark scales. Fore wing straw color, 

 shaded obscurely with olive brown, forming streaks toward apex 

 and outwardly; subbasal line slender, brown, dentate, reaching sub- 

 median fold; inner line oblique, to submedian, incurved thence to 

 vein 1; median line shaded, obscure, excurved to reniform; outer 

 line starting in an obhque dash on costa, excurved over cell; short 

 black streaks on costa before apex; marginal spots brown, lunate, 



1 Neolita adin Schaus, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), vol. 8, 1911, p. 107. 



