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third lines with paler area between, the first three lines nearly straight 

 and parallel; subterminal and terminal lines approximate, slender. 

 Expanse, 10 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 16209, U.S.N.M.; Porto Bello, June, 1912 

 (Busck). Also three others from the same place and Trinidad River, 

 June, 1912 (Busck). 



Allied to A. delicata Schaus. 



AULACODES TRAVERSALIS, new species. 



First line broken, forming two long, parallel, longitudinal dashes; 

 second Ime following, sharply angled; third line oblique, with a costal 

 wedge before it; costal triangle with central wedge; subterminal and 

 terminal lines sknilar; all Imes distinct. Hind wing with four 

 straight and two curved lines. Expanse, 10 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 16210, U.S.N.M.; Trinidad River, May, 1911 

 (Busck). Also two others with the same data. 



Allied to A. citronalis Druce. 



AIJLACODES OBTUSALIS, new species. 



First line obsolete; second and third oblique, parallel, bent a little 

 near inner margin; costal loop round, U-shaped; subterminal line 

 single, broad, spotted, the other lines all very slender. Hind wing 

 with three slender equidistant lines and traces of the marginal spotted 

 one. Expanse, 11 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 16211, if.S.N.M.; Porto Bello, April, 1912 

 (Busck). Allied to A. psyllalis Guenee. 



HOMOPHYSODES, ne\Ar genus. 



Palpi upturned, fringed with scales in front, forming triangular 

 tufts at the ends of first and second joints, third slender; maxillary 

 palpi filiform, moderate; fronts rounded, not prominent. Hind wing 

 evenly rounded. Antennae with the shaft annulate. 



Type of the genus. — Hom.ophysodes morhidalis, new species. 



This is only a HomopJiysa in which vein 10 of fore wing has become 

 stalked with veins 8-9 instead of with 11; but the exigencies of our 

 present classification require its removal to another subfamily and 

 the erection of a new genus. 



HOMOPHYSODES MORBIDALIS, new species. 



Cream-colored; fore wing orange at base and apex and a blotch 

 at end of cell; irrorated with purple over the rest of wing, mtensified 

 below apical spot and at tornus. Lines curved, crenulate, edged 

 with blackish powderings, the outer excurved gently over cell. Hind 

 wing pale along costa, powdered with blackish over the disk, with a 

 faint paler outer line. Expanse, 10 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 16212, U.S.N.M.; Trinidad River, March, 1912 

 (Busck). Also one male, two females from the same place and Coro- 

 zal. Canal Zone, April, 1911 (Busck). 



Much like Eomophysa cijndlis Dyar and E. morihundalis Dyar, 

 previously described in this paper. 



