INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 139 



at its tip ; basal part of shaft thickened and flattened, with two 

 ridges of black scales, the posterior one the larger, not bent. 

 Vertex lightly scaled ; collar with large overlapping black 

 scales. Tongue distinct. Wings without a scale ridge. 

 Named in honor of Sr. Patricio Cardin. 



/ Eucardinia caricae; new species.^ 



Fore wing gray, shaded with whitish on inner line and ob- 

 liquely across discal mark ; costal part of basal space dark, 

 nearly black in the male and with spottings of this color across 

 the space ; inner line oblique, dark, slender, angled a little on 

 submedian fold, preceded by whitish and followed by ocher, 

 these light shades again narrowly dark-bordered ; inner half of 

 median space with a dark shade, wide on costa, running in on 

 inner margin to inner line ; discal dots conjoined, lunate ; outer 

 line indented subcostally, a little excurved below, dentate, the 

 venules dark-marked, followed by a narrow pale ocherous 

 line ; a dark terminal patch at apex ; terminal black dots joined 

 into a line. Hind wing whitish, the apex fuscous, more broadly 

 so in the female ; a terminal dark line and faint interline in the 

 fringe. Expanse, 13-14 mm. 



Type, male, paratypes, fi males and 10 females. No. 21752, 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Santiago, Cuba, June, 1902 (W. Schaus) ; 

 Est. Cent. Agr. de Cuba, Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, Feb- 

 ruary 25, IfllT), from larv?e on fruit and stem of Carica papaya 

 (P. Cardin). 



^ Laetilia cardini, new species. 



Fore wing dark gray, overspread with reddish on the inner 

 half except terminally; center of costa marked with white; 

 lines whitish, upright, the outer only a little excurved mesially ; 

 a black submedian line at base, discal dots conjoined, blackish ; 

 terminal dots slight. Hind wing fuscous, paler at base. Ex- 

 panse, 13 mm. 



' This is the same species described by me from Florida as Ulophora caricae 

 (Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., xiv. 218, 1913). The apparent scale-ridge, causing the 

 reference to Ulophora, exists only in the male, and even there is scarcely a ridge, 

 the scales being disturbed in the single male type. I repeat the specific name In 

 order to get a type number for the new genus. 



