NO. 2050. LEPIDOPTERA OF THE PANAMA CANAL ZONE—DYAR. 291 



men orange, separated by a slender line; fringe dark. Hind wing 

 broadly blackish at base; then a white area traversed by a zigzag 

 blackish Une ; apex black dotted with a concentric pale ring or loop ; 

 terminal black spots large, single, separated by metallic violet, 

 without preceding white space. Expanse, 13 mm. 



Cotypes.— Male and female, No. 16188, U.S.N.M.; Trinidad River, 

 March, 1912 (Busck). Also ten others from the same place and 

 Paraiso, Canal Zone, June, 1911 (Busck); La Chorrera, May, 1912 

 (Busck); Corozal, Canal Zone, March, 1911 (Busck). 



Somewhat alhed to C. annulalis Guenee. 



CATACLYSTA MULTIPICTA, new species. 



Similar to symphonalis, but with oval orange patches before tornus 

 and m middle of submarginal costal wedge of fore wing and at anal 

 angle of hind wing. Lines more obUque, the bgsal dark area cut by 

 a pale line and blotched with orange. Hind wing with the looped 

 line not inclosed among the subapical dots but preceding them. 

 Expanse, 9-13 mm. 



Cotypes.—Msih and female, No. 16189, U.S.N.M.; Porto Bello, 

 March, 1911 (Busck). Also six others from the same place. 



CATACLYSTA AUTOBELLA, new species. 



Fore wing with a dark patch at base, the median area finely lined 

 and irrorated with black; apical area dull orange with two obUque 

 convergent silvery half lines on costa; fringe dark; a leaden patch at 

 tornus. Hind wing with numerous crooked black Hues over the 

 disk on a white ground ; terminal black spots confluent, separated by 

 violet and followed by little orange dots. Expanse, 12 mm. 



r^i^e.— Female, No. 16190, U.S.N.M.; Truiidad River, June, 1912 

 (Busck). Also 22 others from the same place and La Chorrera, May, 

 1912 (Busck); Cabima, May, 1911 (Busck). 



AUied to C. divulsalis Walker. 



CATACLYSTA VACUOLATA, new species. 



Costa dark at base; inner line oblique, median zigzag, all confluent 

 and dividing the base into five white areas and one orange one; 

 apical half of wing orange, with two white convergent costal half lines; 

 fringe dark; a leaden spot before tornus; hind wing with three 

 straight black lines, one before, two beyond the orange, dark-edged 

 discal spot; terminal dots smaU, uniform, followed by orange dots; 

 an orange streak at tornus. Expanse, 10 mm. 



Type.—Mah, No. 16191, U.S.N.M.; Corozal, Canal Zone, June, 

 1912 (J. Zetek, No. 76). Also 26 others from the same catch and 

 August and November, 1912 (C. P. Crafts) ; Cabima, May, 1911 

 (Busck). 



CATACLISTA DLA.LITHA, new species. 



Base of fore wing gray; inner band broad, white; median area 

 gray powdered, with fine curved subcostal lines to discal dash, pale, 

 between two parallel lines; subapical triangle dark, with a white 



