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FamUy BOMBYCID.E. 



COLL A C<ELESTIS Schaus. 



1. Triiiidad River, March, 1912. 



FamUy GEOMETRID^. 



Subfamily HYlDRIOMlEnSTIN.^. 

 HAMMAPTERA COLUMBARIA Dognin. 



2. I.a Chorrcra, May, 1912 (Busck); Trinidad River, March, 1912 

 (Busck). 



HAMMAPTERA MINNIPENNA, new species. 



Fore wing green (faded to ocher); costa narrowly black; subbasal 

 line slender, arcuate, followed by a broad green (ocher) space; inner 

 line a broad band of blackish; outer line slender, crenulate, with 

 inward points on the veins, the median space partly divided with 

 blackish; subtenninal line famt, shaded over the subterminal space, 

 sharp and denticulate without; terminal space naiTow, clear. Hind 

 wing dark fuscous gray, fringes whitish. Expanse, 17-19 mm. 



GotyiJes.— Two females. No. 16954, U.S.N.M.; Trinidad River, 

 March, 1912 (Busck); Alhajuelo, April, 1911 (Busck). 



DYSPTERIS TRIFILARLA Walker. 



1. Trmidad River, March, 1912 (Busck). 



DYSPTERIS AMATA Cramer. 



4. Truiidad River, March, 1912 (Busck); Taboga Island, February, 

 1912 (Busck). 



LEPTIDULE ANTITHESIS, new species. 



Entnely reddish ocher; the male with a large patch of raised ocher 

 scales on underside of fore wdng from lower part of ceU and origin of 

 vein 3 over vem 1 ; a similar patch on upper side of hind wing (cover- 

 ing the fii'st when the mngs are closed) from subcostal vein to lower 

 edge of cell. Antennae blackish. Expanse, male, 28 mm.; female, 

 22-30 mm. 



Cotypes.—Usih and female. No. 15955, U.S.N.M.; the female 

 selected from a series of 19, La Chorrera, May, 1912 (Busck); others 

 from Cabima, May, 1911 (Busck). 



DOCHEPHORA FUMOSA Warren. 



2. Cabima, May, 1911 (Busck). 



TACHYPHYLE OLEASTER Schaus. 



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



TACHYPHYLE MAIESTER, new species. 



Fore wing rather strongly falcate; dark gi-een, the apex red-brown, 

 the extreme costa and tip black; some blackish freckles along costal 

 half; discal dot rounded, purplish; outer line only present, broad, 

 purplish over white, joining the costa near apex. Hind wing long 



