264 PROCEEDiyOS of the national museum. vcl. 47. 



SYNGAMIA MELANOBATHRUM, new species. 



A smaller species with straight costa in the male, resembling S. 

 cognatalis (identified by Schaus) ; more uniformly straw-yellow, with- 

 out the general dark shading of cognatalis, the lines of hind wing not 

 so flexuous and irregular, though much less rigid than in ahnormalis 

 or sciagraphalis, but easily distinguished from all by a patch of long 

 black scales at base of costa of liind wing of male on both surfaces 

 of the wing. Expanse, 13 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 16120, U.S.N.M.; LaChorrera, May, 1912 (Busck). 

 Also 14 males and 9 females, Cabima, May, 1911 (Busck); Paraiso, 

 Canal Zone, February, 1911 (Busck); Trinidad River, March, 1912 

 (Busck); Corozal, Canal Zone, April, 1911 (Busck), July, 1912 (J. 

 Zetek, C. P. Crafts), November, 1912 (C. P. Crafts). 



SYNGAMIA RUBRICINCTALIS Guenee. 



3. Taboga Island, February, 1912 (Busck); La Chorrera, May, 

 1912 (Busck). 



SYNGAMIA PEPITALIS Guenee. 



1. Tabernilla, Canal Zone, May, 1907 (Busck). 



SYNGAMIA FLORELLA Cramer. 



22. Porto Bello, February, 1911 (Busck); Corozal, Canal Zone, 

 July, 1912 (J. Zetek, C. P. Crafts); Gatun, Canal Zone, August, 1909 

 (A. H. Jennings). 



SYNGAMIA AQUATICALIS Guenee. 



4. Cabima, May, 1911 (Busck); Corozal, Canal Zone, July and No- 

 vember, 1912 (C. P. Crafts). 



SYNGAMIA H^MORRHOIDALIS Guenee. 



2. Corozal, Canal Zone, July, 1912 (C. P. Crafts). 



SYNGAMIA INFLAMMATALIS Hampson. 



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



SYNGAMIA FLABELLALIS Guenfee. 



5. Corozal Canal Zone, August and November, 1912 (C. P. Crafts). 



SYNGAMIA TYTroSALIS Walker. 



1. Trinidad River, March 1912 (Busck). 



SAMEA ECCLESIALIS Guenee. 



71. Trinidad River, March, 1912 (Busck); Cabima, May, 1911 

 (Busck); La Chorrera, May, 1912 (Busck); Corozal, Canal Zone, July, 

 1912 (J. Zetek, C. P. Crafts). 



SAMEA MICTALIS Hampson. 



2. Paraiso, Canal Zone, February, 1911 (Busck). 



SAMEA CHLORISTALIS Hampson. 



28. Porto Bello, February, 1911 (Busck); Trinidad River, March, 

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

 (J. Zetek, C. P. Crafts). 



