256 PROCEEDIXOS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.47. 



vein 7 and narrowed at inner margin; a narrow uniform submarginal 

 band stained with red-brown near the costa; fringes of both wings 

 stained with red-brown. Expanse, 20 mm. 



Type.— 'No. 16108, U.S.N.M.; Alhajuelo, April, 1911 (Busck). 



HERDONIA BRIXIFACIES, new species. 



Fore \^^ng olive grayish with darker gray bands and irrorations; 

 subbasal mark on costa; inner curved band incised centrally; outer 

 band a spot on costa and band below, shaded and outbent over discal 

 venules; subterminal band broken centrally, its costal segment 

 shaded with red-brown, furcate below against a longitudinal row of 

 black dots. Hind wing creamy white with brown bands; an inner 

 spot; mesial band straight, furcate toward costa, its lower limb 

 black; submarginal band broken at its upper third, with a black dot 

 inward from the dislocation. Expanse, 17-22 mm. 



Cotypes. — Two specimens, No. 16109, U.S.N.M.; La Chorrera, 

 May, 1912 (Busck). 



FamUy PYRALIDiE. 



SvilDfainily I»YR^XJSTI]Sr^S:. 

 HOMOPHYSA INVISALIS Guenee. 



5. Corozal, Canal Zone, March and April, 1911 (Busck); Alhajuelo, 

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



HOMOPHYSA CALLA Kaye. 



3. Porto Bello, April, 1912 (Busck); Trinidad River, May, 1911, 

 and June, 1912 (Busck). 



HOMOPHYSA CYMALIS, new species. 



Fore wing white; yellow linear shadings over base and apex; 

 median space white; lines soft purplish, clouded, the inner broadly 

 double, the outer excurved, denticulate below, followed by a broad 

 shade to the subterminal; a white terminal patch at end of veins 2-3, 

 in which black terminal dots are seen, obsolete above and below. 

 Hind wing whitish, a little clouded outwardly, the pecuhar terminal 

 marking faintly reproduced. Expanse, 15 mm. 



Type.— Female, No. 16114, U.S.N.M.; Trinidad River, June, 1912 

 (Busck). Two others with additional data, Trinidad River, March, 

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



Allied to H. polycyma Hampson. 



HOMOPHYSA ORIOLA, new species. 



Brownish straw-color over white, the white showmg in patches, 

 which are especially large in the median space; lines white, edged by 

 the dark color; imier line with outward angle on discal and sub- 

 median folds; outer line roundly excurved on upper two- thirds, bent 

 on submedian; a fine termmal black line, formmg a dot subcostally 

 and on submedian, preceded narrowly by white. Hmd wing whitish 

 costally, shaded \\Tith brownish outwardly; a white line with dark 



