No.iiOSO. LEPIDOPTERA OF THE PAXAMA VAXAL ZOXE—DYAR. 293 



minal line black, strong. Hind wing with the shading brown, filHng 



in beyond the cell as well as in terminal space. Expanse, 12 mm. 



r^ype.— Female, No. 16197, U.S.N.M.; Corozal, Canal Zone, March, 



1911 (Biisck). Also two females from Cayenne, French Guiana 



(W. Schaiis). 



AMBIA FOVECOSTA, new species. 



Fulvous, blackish irrorate, marked with broad silvery white bands; 

 subbasal and inner curved; a spot in cell with raised black dot on 

 costal edge; discal dot black with a white streak beyond it; outer 

 line curved around cell, dislocated, forming a cone in submedian 

 space; subterminal Une curved, forming an angle in submedian. 

 Hind wing with the same markings as on fore wing, the inner lines 

 wavy, the outer not broken but twice curved, the submarginal 

 broken. Expanse, 10 mm. 



Type.—Male, No. 16198, U.S.N.M.; Porto BeUo, March, 1911 

 (Busck). Also one male, Trinidad River, March, 1912 (Busck). 



AMBIA FULVALIS, new species. 



Close to fovecosta, but clearer fulvous, the dark irrorations confined 

 to the edges of the white bands; markings essentially the same, the 

 subterminal area of hind wing broader, the white mark after the 

 discal mark large. Expanse, 12 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 16199, U.S.N.M.; Trinidad River, March, 1912 

 (Busck). 



AMBIA FUSCALIS, new species. 



'Near fovecosta, but without fulvous, all fuscous brown between the 

 hues; lines narrow, about half as wide as in the alhed species, with 

 essentially the same arrangement; discal dots of both wings blackish, 

 without following white dash. Expanse, 11 mm. 



Ty^e.— Female, No. 16200, U.S.N.M.; Porto Bello, February, 1911 

 (Busck). 



AMBIA FULVITINCTALIS Hampson. 



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



Agrees with a specimen from Costa Rica labeled " Amhia fulvitinc- 

 talis Hps., fide Hps." by Mr. Schaus, but the specimen does not agree 

 very closely with the description. 



AMBIA FLAVALIS Warren. 



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



A female, agreeing fairly well with two males from French Guiana, 

 which are apparently conspecific with a labeled specunen from 

 southern Brazil. 



AMBIA PAIGNIODESALIS, new species. 



White, much uTorated with blackish; a black patch at base of 

 inner margin; inner line white, far out, sharply and lengthily angled 

 on subcosta and submedian; discal mark white, lunular, between 

 two black bars; outer line black and oblique above, running to outer 

 margin, where there is a black spot on the fringe, then indistinctly 



