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from vein 5 to inner margin ; inner line broader and not sharp- 

 ly defined. Expanse, 33 mm. 



Type, female, No. 21938, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Jalapa. Mexico 

 (Schaus collection). 



Dioryctria drucei, new species. 



Fore wing dark gray ; a dififused blackish area near base ; a 

 dull orange patch on basal third of inner margin, preceded by 

 a black half-line and followed by the strongly oblique inner 

 line, which widens into a triangular shade on costa ; discal mark 

 narrow, blackish, continued by a macular black shade to inner 

 margin ; outer line incurved above, oblique, scarcely denticu- 

 late, followed by a light line and a faint dark duplication ; a 

 terminal black line ; fringe interlined. Hind wing sordid yel- 

 lowish gray, darker on costa and termen. Expanse, 28 mm. 



Type, female, No. 21939, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Rinconada, State 

 of Vera Cruz, Mexico (Schaus collection). 



The specimen bears a label in Druce's writing, "Dioryctria 

 nmmermanni Grote,'' and is obviously the specimen so re- 

 corded in Biologia Central! Americana, Lep. Het., ii, 564, 1899. 



Discopalpia ragonoti, new species. 



Ragonot founded his genus Discopalpia on specimens from 

 Guatemala" which he had wrongly identified as Myelois flam- 

 cans Zeller from Colombia. The species is now before me, 

 possessing the peculiar male palpi described by Ragonot The 

 markings of the wings are in no wise different from those of 

 flavicans, so that the misidentification is very pardonable. The 

 size also is the same. 



Type, male. No. 21940, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Cayuga, Guate- 

 mala, May (Schaus & Barnes). 



Piesmopoda flavicans Zeller. 



Myelois flavicans Zeller, Hor. Ent. Soc. Ross., xvi, 193, 1881. 

 Piesmopoda xanthopolys Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xlvii, 332, 

 1914. 



Zeller described from females only. Judging by localities 

 solely, it is more probable that my xanthopolys (Panama) is 



