NO. 2050. LEPIDOPTERA OF THE PANAMA CANAL ZONE—DYAR. 259 



LIPOCOSMA CONSORTALIS, new species. 



Fore wing creamy whitish at base with purple atoms, followed by 

 a black half band on inner margin, then a broad brown band; median 

 area purple filled, with an arc-shaped white discal Ime, running out 

 along veins 4-5, slightly furcate at the end; a brown patch at costa; 

 outer line excurved over cell, whitish, shaded with black in the curve 

 and followed by a black patch; tornus brownish. Hind' wing gray, 

 whitish at base; some erect long black hairs on iimer margm; outer 

 Ime black, excurved, doubled on its inner half, followed by white 

 below; margm faintly fulvous with an inner line; four minute black 

 points with metallic coppery scales on inner half of the margin, which 

 is excised at discal and submedian folds. Expanse, 13 mm. 



Type.—Femnle, No. 16169, U.S.N.M.; Alhajuelo, April, 1911 

 (Busck). Also another female from the same place. 



Very close to Ambia metalophota Hampson from Jamaica (which is 

 not an Ambia), perhaps the same species, but the present form is 

 darker in tone and rather widely separated geographically. 



SUFETULA DIMINUTALIS Walker. 



14. Tabogilla Island, February, 1911 (Busck); Taboga Island, 

 February, 1912 (Busck); Cabuna, May, 1911 (Busck); Trinidad 

 River, June, 1912 (Busck); Alhajuelo, April, 1911 (Busck); Corozal, 

 Canal Zone, November, 1912 (C. P. Crafts). 



SUFETULA HYPOCmRALIS, new species. 



Much like S. diminutalis, but whereas that has a broad outer dark 

 border to the hind wing with erect outer line, this has a narrow border, 

 the outer line oblique and joining the costa further out toward apex. 

 Tlie black shade across the disk on hind wing is Imear. Expanse, 

 10 mm. 



Type. —Female, No. 16117, U.S.N.M.; Trinidad River, May, 1911 

 (Busck). 



SUFETULA HYPOCHAROPA, new species. 



Similar to the preceding, but smaller; fore wing with a narrow but 

 distinct pale orange-brown margin, lined on both sides with black, 

 the terminal line being double and fdled with this color, whereas it is 

 single in diminutalis and hypocliiralis. A patch of orange-brown at 

 apex. Hmd wmg with narrow outer border, the discal shade broad 

 and diffused, undifferentiated from the discal spot. Expanse, 9.5 mm. 



Type.—'M.ale, No. 16118, U.S.N.M.; Porto Bello, May 1912 (Busck). 

 Also 15 others with additional localities, Paraiso, Canal Zone, January, 

 1911 (Busck); AUiajuelo, April, 1911 (Busck); Corozal, Canal Zone, 

 April, 1912 (Busck), November, 1912 (C. P. Crafts); Cabima, May, 

 1911 (Busck); Taboga Island, June, 1911 (Busck). 



SCYBALISTA SEMIFERREALIS Hampson. 



29. Taboga Island, February, 1912 (Busck); Corozal, Canal Zone, 

 March, 1911 (Busck), July, 1912 (J. Zetek), August and November, 



