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the margin close below the end of vein 2, at a dark-brown mark. A 

 stiff pencil of dark ocher-brown hairs lies along subcosta. Expanse, 

 11 mm. 



Type. — Male, No. 16272, U.S.N.M.; Corozal, Canal Zone, Novem- 

 ber, 1912 (C. P. Crafts). Also two females, presumably the same, 

 but of such fresh color as to appear quite different from the faded 

 male, Corozal, Canal Zone, April, 1911 (Busck); La Chorrera, May, 

 1912 (Busck). 



Apparently closely allied to Chenevadia huralis, but the venation 

 of fore and hind wings curiously transposed. 



CHENEVADIA, new genus. 



Palpi upturned about to vertex, third joint smooth, long, second 

 with scales beneath. Fore wing with vein 2 from the end of the cell, 

 3-5 stalked, 4 absent, 6 from the upper angle of cell, 7-10 stalked, 

 7 arising beyond 9, 11 anastomosing with 12. Hind wing with 3 and 

 4 absent, cell open, 6 from the upper angle of cell, 7 anastomosing 

 with 8. 



Type of the genus. — Chenevadia huralis, new species. 



CHENEVADIA HURALIS, new species. 



Red-brown; fore wing shading to fuscous at apex; two pale, 

 slender lines, the inner irregular and toothed on median vein, the 

 outer incurved subcostally. Hind wing washed with pale toward 

 base; an inner area of modified yellow androconia in a patch in the 

 cell and m a long groove along submedian; a long yellow pencil sub- 

 costally, lying parallel to costa and havmg its origin near base of 

 both hind and fore wing. Expanse, 13 mm. 



Tjpe.—UeXe, No. 16271, U.S.N .M.; Trmidad River, June, 1912 

 (Busck) . Also six males from the same place and Cabima, May, 1911 

 (Busck); Tabernilla, Canal Zone, May, 1907 (Busck). 



PARACHMA METERYTHRA Hampson. 



2. Trinidad River, March, 1912 (Busck); Cabima, May, 1911 



(Busck). 



PARACHMA FERVIDALIS, new species. 



Fore wing red, browmish crimson, with two nearly straight, pale, 



. diffused lines a row of terminal black dots; fringe like the general 



color. Hind wmg blackish. Expanse, male, 9 mm.; female, 10 mm. 



Fore wing with veins 3-5 stalked, 4 present, 7-10 stalked, 9 absent. 



Cotypes.—Male and female. No. 16295, U.S.N .M.; Porto BeUo, 

 April, 1912 (Busck). Also one male and nine females from the same 

 place, May, 1912 (Busck) and La Chorrera, May, 1912 (Busck); 

 Taboga Island, February, 1912 (Busck); Trinidad River, June, 1912 

 (Busck); Corozal, Canal Zone, April, 1912 (Busck). 

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