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PLAT(ECETICUS SYMMICTA, new species. 



Fore wing broad vnih. rounded apex; hind wing rounded trigonate; 

 brown, unicolorous ; hind wing a little Ughter. Expanse, 12 mm. 



Type.— 1^0. 16111, U.S.N.M.; Ancon, Canal Zone (A. H. Jennings). 



Veins 8-9 of fore wing stalked, 10 from cell; 4, 5 from a point in 

 both wings. 



OIKETICUS KIRBYI Guildlng. 



2. LaChorrera, April, 1912 (Busck). 



Family THYRIDIDiE. 



DRACONIA RUSINA Druce. 



1. LaChorrera, May, 1912 (Busck). 



DYSODEA ANGULISOLA, new species. 



Fore "wing dark purple-brown, nearly solidly from base to outer 

 two-thirds, where it ends in a straight, oblique line; terminal area 

 light yellow, finely irrorate with dark, apex shaded across to vein 7 ; 

 a narrow band of dark brown from costa before apex, stopping at 

 outer margin at middle; a small erect mark from tornus; basal dark 

 area washed with light purplish in bands. Hind wing dark on 

 costa fom-th, the rest yellow, thickly reticulate with dark brown; a 

 narrow transverse band near base; two small white-hyaline discal 

 spots, the lower triangular; traces of two outer patches of dark, 

 confused in the reticulations. Expanse, 26 mm, 



Type.—'^o. 15535, U.S.N.M.; Cabima, May, 1911 (Busck). 



Near D. thyridina Felder and Rogenhofer, possibly the same, in 

 case their figure is in error in the details of the apical marking of 

 fore wing. 



DYSODIA REMIE, new species. 



Brick red with broken, subreticulate dark lines; a round dark spot 

 at outer third of costa, from which a straight narrow line runs to inner 

 margin; a subterminal broken line, lost in reticulations; a famt 

 clouding at apex and tornus. Hind wing with straight mesial hne 

 following two minute, white-hyaline discal dots; all of outer space 

 faintly lilacine shaded over the reticular lines except a ray outward 

 from cell. Expanse, 22 mm. 



Type.— No. 15539, U.S.N.M.; LaChorrera, May, 1912 (Busck). 



RHODONEURA THIASTORALIS Walker. 



1. Porto Bello, April, 1912 (Busck). 



Agrees with a specimen from Ecuador so labeled in Mr. Schaus's 

 writing. Specimens from Jamaica and Cuba labeled " PJiaramhara 

 thiastordlis Walk. ( = violalis Poey)" by Mr. Warren are larger, 

 browner, and with the outer margin more prominent centrally, 

 but perhaps not more than a race of the same species. Walker 

 described Pyralis thiastordlis from Brazil.* Hampson gives it a 



1 Cat. Brit. Miis., Lep. Het., vol. 19, 1859, p. 893. 



