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PARACHMA TARACHODES, new species. 



Venation variable in the fore wing: (1) female, 2, 3 well spaced, 3 

 from end of cell, 4-5 shortly stalked; (2) female, similar but 3 shortly 

 before end of cell; (3) male, 3 shortly stalked on stem of 4-5; (4) male, 

 2 and 3 approximate before end of cell, 4, 5 separate; vein 7 present, 

 stalked with 8-10. Hind wmg with 3 absent, 4 and 5 seeming 

 stalked but really separate, borne on the long-pointed narrow lower 

 angle of the cell. 



Fore wing light purplish hi basal and termmal spaces, median area 

 darker brown, bounded by the two pale, nearly straight lines; costa 

 with interrupted black line, resemblmg the black termmal dashes; 

 frmge light purplish. Hind wing light fuscous, with distinct terminal 

 dashes and a line in the fringe. Below, washed with fuscous. 

 Expanse, 15 mm. 



Type.— Ma\e, No. 16297, U.S.N .M.; Porto Bello, April, 1912 

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

 Chorrera, May, 1912. 



TOROTAMBE, new genus. 



Palpi downcurved, about o.ne and a haK times the length of the 

 head, rather thicldy scaled. Fore wing with veins 2 and 3 before 

 end of cell, 4, 5 from a point, 6 before apex of cell, 7-10 stalked, 7 

 arising beyond 9, 11 free. Hind wing with 2, 3 before end of cell, 

 4-5 stalked, 6 shortly stalked, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Type of the genus. — Torotairibe mirabella, new species. 



TOROTAMBE MIRABELLA, new species. 



Fore wing with the costa arched beyond base, the apex a little 

 produced and turned upward; violaceous, with olive-brown mark- 

 ings; a spot on costa at basal third; a band from apex, contaming 

 a round white spot on vem 6, widening below and shading off; a 

 lunate patch at end of cell. Hind wing straw-color, a little fuscous 

 tinted outwardly. 



Ti/^e.— Male, No. 16290, U.S.N.M.; La Chorrera, May, 1912 

 (Busck). 



DEOPTERYX, ne^' genus. 



Fore wing with the venation distorted, the cell involved in the 

 distortion; 2-3 stalked, 4-5 stalked, bent do\n\ at origin and approxi- 

 mated to 2-3; 6-7 distant from 4-5, approximated at base and bent 

 downward; 7-9 stalked, distant; 8 absent; 10 and 11 free, arising 

 from the cell, somewhat crumpled. Costa with an oval swelling at 

 the base, incised and folded at middle, with long curved tufts of hair 

 on the upper side over the cell. Hind wing with vein 2 near the 

 middle of the cell, 4-5 free, arismg close together from the produced 

 lower angle of the cell, 6 from the upper angle of the cell, 7 anastomos- 



