NO. 2050. LEPIDOPTERA OF THE PANAMA CANAL ZONE—DYAR. 261 



wing washed with white on costa to below vem 6; fringe blackish 

 outwardly, not white. Expanse, 27 mm. 



Type.—MoXe, No. 16124, U.S.N.M.; Tabernilla, Canal Zone, May, 

 1907 (Busck). 



DESMLA. PARASTIGMA, new species. 



Male antennae unmodified, with bristles and cilia. Black; abdo- 

 men with posterior segmental white lines, anal segment white-lined. 

 Fore wing with two white-hyaline spots, the inner oblique, notched 

 on median vein, followed by a band below, defined only by a little 

 whitish shade beyond; outer spot from vein 4 to the subcostal, 

 narrower above. Hind wmg with costa washed with sordid whitish 

 to below vem 6; a little white dash across cell; a long white streak 

 form subcostal to near tornus, widened a little at vems 3-5, tapermg 

 below; frmges pale with fuscous interlme. Expanse, 29 mm. 



Type.— Unh, No. 16121, U.S.N.M.; Cabhna, May, 1911 (Busck). 

 Also a male from Guapiles, Costa Rica (W. Schaus). 



DESMIA PHAIORRHCEA, new species. 



Black; fore wmg with two oval white spots as in funehralis Guenee. 

 Hind wing with an inner spot below cell running nearly to inner 

 margm and duplicated without by a narrow white Ime; outer spot 

 beyond cell, from subcostal to vein 3, rounded; a long double brown 

 anal tuft m the male; antennae unmodified. Expanse, 25 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 16122, U.S.N.M.; Porto Bello, May, 1912 

 (Busck). 



DESMIA ACLISTALIS, new species. 



Black, replaced by bronzy brown, the black remaining only around 

 the spots and at base of fringe; spots with wavy outline, the inner 

 from the subcostal to vein 1, followed by a white speck below; the 

 outer from the subcostal to vem 3, narrow above. Hind wmg with 

 a very wide spot, covermg half of the wing in the center, crenulate 

 without; fringe whitish outwardly. Expanse, 16 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 16123, U.S.N.M.; La Chorrera, April, 1912 

 (Busck). 



EURRHYPARODES SPLENDENS Druce, 



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

 July and August, 1912 (C. P. Crafts). 



EURRHYPARODES LYDANUS Druce. 



15. Taboga Island, February, 1912 (Busck); Tabogilla Island, 

 February, 1912 (Busck); Corozal, Canal Zone, March, 1911 (Busck), 

 July and August, 1912 (C. P. Crafts); Alhajuelo, April, 1911 (Busck); 

 Cabhna, May, 1911 (Busck). 



EURRHYPARODES SCULDUS, new species. 



Thorax and fore wing dark brown, lustrous, a little purplish; inner 

 line straight, dark, unrelieved and obscure; outer Ime outbent at 

 veins 3-5 with two teeth, relieved by narrow straw-colored patches 



