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with seven equidistant blackish brown hair pencils from apex 

 to tornus. Hindwings light golden brown ; cilia whitish 

 brown, at apex golden yellow. Abdomen light golden brown 

 with yellowish underside. Legs yellow with dusky tarsal 

 joints. 



Alar expanse: 16-35 mm. 



Habitat: Juan Vinas, Costa Rica (W. Schaus). 



a. S. N. M., Type No. 22305. 



A very striking golden yellow species. 



Sociphora, new genus (Family Tortricidae) . 



Type : Penthina magicana Zeller. 



Labial palpi long for the family, upward curved, reaching 

 vertex. Second joint smooth with scale projections at apex; 

 terminal joint short, blunt, erect. Thorax with posterior tuft 

 of scales. Forewing with 12 veins, all separate, 7 to termen, 

 3 and 4 closely approximate from the end of the cell. Hind- 

 wings with 8 veins ; 3 and 4 connate ; 5 somewhat approximate ; 

 without basal pecten on lower margin of cell. Male genitalia 

 with soci present and well developed ; uncus single, hook- 

 shaped ; gnathus hook-shaped ; harps simple ; transtilla un- 

 armed ; aedeogus stout. 



Zeller's two species Penthina magicana and P. muscocana 

 (Stett. Ent. Zeitung, vol. 27, pp. 148-150, pi. 1, figs. 8 and 9, 

 1866), which were omitted in Meyrick's Revision of the Family 

 TortricidcB (Genera Insectorum Fasc, 149, 1913) are referable 

 to this genus, as is the following new species, which is very 

 similar to the two others. 



Sociphora herbaria, new species. 



Labial palpi light ochreous, second joint dark brown exte- 

 riorly. Face light ochreous. Head light ochreous mottled 

 with dark brown. Thorax light yellow with a few scattered 

 black scales and with black posterior tip. Patagia yellow mot- 

 tled with black and bright green scales. Ground color of fore- 

 wing creamy yellow, heavily overlaid and mottled with large 

 black and dark brown patches, most of which are chagreened 

 with bright green scales, giving the wings an olive green tone ; 



