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CATACLYSTA ACLISTALIS, new species. 



Wliite, very little yellow, the marks slender and open ; costa brown 

 with expansions at base, opposite inner Ime and about discal mark; 

 inner line curved, slender, obsolete; a curved median line arising 

 from iimer margm and dh-ected below discal dash; the latter open, 

 white, with two parallel dark lines; outer dash not jommg submar- 

 ginal dash, both directed toward tornus, where is a small yellow dash 

 above a gray streak; termen yellow, preceded and followed by fine 

 gray lines. Hind wing white; a broken bent brown line across mid- 

 dle; a pale yellow patch beyond cell; apex broadly pale yellow; ter- 

 mmal dots nearly fused, mixed with metallic violet scales. Expanse, 

 14-16 mm. 



Cotypes.~Two females. No. 16179, U.S.N.M., Taboga Island, 

 February, 1912 (Busck). Also one female, Alhajuelo, March, 1912 

 (Busck). 



CATACLYSTA TRroMPHALIS Schaus. 



60. Taboga Island, February, 1912 (Busck); Trmidad River, 

 March and June, 1912 (Busck); Alhajuelo, April, 1911 (Busck); 

 Corozal, Canal Zone, April, 1912 (Busck); Porto Bello, April, 1912 

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



The discal dot of fore wing is solid, brown, oblique. 



CATACLYSTA AUSPICATALIS Schaus. 



12. Porto BeUo, February, 1912 (Busck); Cabima, May, 1911 

 (Busck); La Chorrera, May, 1912 (Busck); Trinidad River, June, 

 1912 (Busck). 



Sunilar to t7'iu7nphalis, but the discal dot of fore wmg is pale, 

 open, with a dark line on either side. 



CATACLYSTA GLYCYSALIS, new species. 



White; a brown-gray patch at base of costa; an inwardly oblique 

 dark inner band, rather distmctly duplicated by a slender line, not 

 quite parallel; a blotch on costa, oblique, inclosing the narrow yellow 

 discal bar, to a yellow patch on tornus; submarginal band yellow- 

 filled below; termen yellow, preceded by a dark line. Hind wing 

 with upright yellow bar across cell, followed by a gray line; a broad 

 yellow discal area; termmal black dots in three groups of three each, 

 mixed with metallic violet scales and broken apical arc. Expanse, 

 13 mm. 



Cotyx)es. —Male and female, No. 16180, U.S.N.M.; Trinidad 

 River, March, 1912 (Busck). Also 11 others from the same place 

 and date except one, Corozal, Canal Zone, April, 1911 (Busck). 



Specimens of this species were determined as C. opulentalis Lederer 

 by Mr. Schaus from Costa Rican material, and they do not disagree 

 markedly with specimens from French Guiana labeled by Mr. Schaus 

 ''opulentalis Lederer; divisalis Walk., in B. M. " but from a specimen 

 marked '' opulentalis hed.; divisalis Walk.=:type" they do differ, as 



