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flavicans (Colombia), than that flavicans is the Guiana species 

 with which I formerly identified it. The latter is described 

 below as new. The male xanthopolys has the palpi very long 

 and slender, obliquely npcurved and much exceeding the 

 vertex. 



^ Piesmopoda fratella, new species. 



Male palpi small, rather thickly scaled, not reaching the 

 vertex of head. Coloration and size as in flavicans Zell. 



Type, male, No. 21941, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; St. Jean, Maroni 

 River. French Guiana, March, 1904 (W. Schaus). 



^ Aphycitopsis, new genus. 



Hind wings with eight veins, the median nervure "bifid" ; 

 palpi upturned, not reaching the vertex, vein 2 arising before 

 the angle of the cell, which is very short ; maxillary palpi of 

 male filiform, the antennae simple, minutely ciliate. 



I' Aphycitopsis Isabella, new species. 



Larger and longer-winged than P. flavicans Zell., but with 

 the same pattern of coloration. The purple color is less ex- 

 tended at the anal angle, the yellow color running out there. 

 Expanse, 18 mm. 



Type, male, No. 21942, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Juan Vinas. Costa 

 Rica. January (Schaus & Barnes). 



Piesmopoda xanthozona, new species. 



Male antenuc^ with a notch at the base, formed by the angle 

 of the basal joint from which the shaft arises opposed to the 

 three basal joints of the shaft, which are hollowed, the third 

 joint bearing an angle. Coloration as in P. xanthomera Dyar, / ^p 

 in which, however, the male antennae are simple and unmodi- 

 fied. Expanse, 15 mm. 



Type, male, No. 21943, U. S. Nat. Mus.; St. Jean, Maroni 

 River, French Guiana, April, 1904 (Schaus & Barnes). 



' Piesmopoda apocerastes, new species. 



Male antennje with a notch at the base, the basal joint 

 straight and long, the notch involving the basal eight joints of 



