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nearly touching; discal mark small, white, incompletely edged by 

 black scales. Hind wing sordid whitish, tinged with brown; marginal 

 brown marks nearly confluent. Expanse, 17 mm. 



Type.— Female, No. 15854, U.S.N.M.; Porto Bello, April, 1912 

 (Busck). 



DANTONA CORVES, new species. 



Fore wing gray-brown, more or less heavily shaded with gray- 

 black; outer Une a row of black spots from before apex to outer third 

 of inner margin, forming a line below; discal dot double, white, 

 black-edged and joined to a black bar in cell; shght black bar also on 

 submedian at base; terminal area somewhat streaked, the pale ground 

 persisting in elongate patches between the veins; a row of terminal 

 black dots. Hind wing soiled white in the male, densely fuscous 

 powdered in the female. Expanse, 22 mm. 



Cotypes.— Two males, one female. No. 15855, U.S.N.M.; Cabima, 

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



EUDRYAS SANCTiE-JOHANNIS Walker. 



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



AUCULA BUPRASIA Druce. 



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



AUCULA PARTICOLOR, new species. 



Fore wing black, shading to deep red at apex, densely irrorated 

 with blue; the irrorations define a median black line, angled out- 

 wardly in the middle, and an outer oblique hne close to it, excurved 

 over cell, the two inclosing above a large annular reniform; a sub- 

 terminal macular band; all the markings entirely of the ground color 

 and defined by the pale irrorations. Hind mng with a large ellip- 

 tical orange patch at base. Beneath, fore wing with a large transverse 

 orange spot outwardly. Expanse, 27-29 mm. 



Cotypes.— Two males, one female. No. 15851, U.S.N.M.; La 

 Chorrera, May, 1912 (Busck); Trinidad River, June, 1912 (Busck). 



AlHed to A. suhlata Walker. The antennae of the male are simple. 



VESPOLA PLUMIPES Schaus. 



1. Chiriquicito (W. Schaus). 



Subfamily KR-A^STRIIN^E. 

 ARJEOPTERA BETIE. new species. 



P/ilpi small, with the front black; tongue yellow. Fore wing with 

 outer margin rounded, pointed at apex and middle; white, with 

 scattered brown scales; discal dot and a half band before tornus 

 dark brown. Hind wing with apical projection, white, with a mesial 

 band and two more close to the margin of diffused chocolate-brown 

 scales. Expanse, 10 mm. 



Cotypes.— Two females. No. 15866, U.S.N.M.; Corozal, Canal Zone, 

 April, 1911 (Busck); Trinidad River, March, 1912 (Busck). 



