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line on each side; termen orange. Hind wing narrowly dark at base, 

 then white; a naked orange discal mark, followed shortly by another; 

 apical area with coarse black dots; a broad white area before the 

 irregular, fused, terminal spots. Expanse, 9 mm. 



Type. — ^Male, No. 16192, U.S.N.M.; Paraiso, Canal Zone, January, 



1911 (Busck). 



CATACLYSTA ZELOTA, new species. 



Wliito; fore wing with subbasal, inner and mesial Unes pale fulvous, 

 becoming blackish on costa, angled subcostally; outer Une ci-umpled, 

 visible only below; subapical triangle fulvous, short, edged within 

 by blackish geminate submarginal hne, which is excurved below and 

 in-angled on submedian fold, preceded there by orange; termen 

 orange; fringe dark. Hind wing with a fulvous line across the disk, 

 sUght fulvous shading outwardly; terminal spots doubled and pre- 

 ceded by short arcs, separated by metallic scales. Expanse, 11 mm. 



Type.— Female, No. 16193, U.S.N.M.; Trinidad River, June, 



1912 (Busck). 



PARAMBIA, new genus. 



Palpi upturned, the third joint long and acuminate; maxillary 

 palpi filiform, rather long; front rounded, not prominent. Fore 

 wing \nth veins 8-11 stalked; hind wing with the margin excavated 

 below apex and again very slightly before anal angle. 



Type of the genus. — Paramhia gnomosynalis, new species. 



PARAMBIA GNOMOSYNALIS, new species. 



Fore wing wliite at base; inner hne blackish, faint, bounding the 

 white aroa; median space irrorated with black, becoming fulvous on 

 costa, but leaving a white area in the curve of outer Hne; discal 

 mark black, clouded; outer line slender, black, denticulate, broadly 

 excurved over cell; terminal space black-irrorate, mth a patch near 

 center of margin, dull fulvous at apex. Hind wing whitish at base; 

 a black patch below cell, with a large hair-tuft; outer hne black, 

 slender, curved; terminal space black-filled, leaving a httle pale hne 

 on each side; termen narrowly fulvous and blackish, between two 

 slender black fines; fringe pale. Expanse, 13 mm. 



r^pe.— Female, No. 16196, U.S.N.M.; Porto Bello, March, 1911 

 (Busck). Also seven females from the same place, April, 1912 

 (Busck); Taboga Island, February, 1912 (Busck); La Chorrera, 

 May, 1912 (Busck); Corozal, Canal Zone, July, 1912 (C. P. Crafts). 

 Males of the same, or a closely alfied species from French Guiana, 

 have the antennae thickened to two-thirds their length, then 

 suddenly narrowed and twisted. 



PARAMBIA GLENEALIS, new species. 



Close to gnomosynalis, but all the fore wing beyond the inner fine 

 shaded wdth fulvous brown; outer fine and discal lunule black on 

 the brown ground; a trace of white in the curve of outer fine; ter- 



