﻿NO. 4 MICROLEPIDOPTERA FROM PANAMA BUSCK 3 



tufts of raised metallic scales across the middle of the wing and a 

 broad violet metallic line around entire apical edge. Hindwings 

 dark fuscous. Abdomen and legs metallic black; tips of tarsi light 

 ochreous. 



Alar expanse : 8 millimeters. 



Habitat: Porto Bello, Panama, March. 



Type No. 14529, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



MORILOMA, new genus 



Labial palpi long, recurved, reaching vertex; both joints slightly 

 roughened in front ; terminal joint shorter than second, acute. Head 

 flattened, face strongly retreating. Antennae J4, basal joint without 

 pecten. Forewings with scale tufts ; costa nearly straight, slightly 

 concave; dorsal edge nearly parallel with costal; termen oblique; 

 apex pointed; apical cilia heavy, making the apex appear blunt. 12 

 veins; 11 from beyond middle of cell; 7 and 8 stalked; 7 to costa; 3, 

 4, 5 and 6 nearly equidistant; 2 from well before the end of the 

 cell, ib furcate at base and at tip. 1 



Hindwings half as broad as forewings, sickle-shaped with 8 veins ; 

 8 long ; 6 and 5 stalked ; 7 connate with their stalk ; cell open between 

 4 and 5. Posterior tibiae clothed with rough hairs above. 



The genus is nearest Synalagma Busck, which differs in having 

 only 11 veins in the forewings and the apex caudate, and Psaca- 

 phora Herrich-Schaefler, from which it differs in the flattened head 

 and the rough posterior tibiae. 



Blastodacna Wocke differs in the absence of one cubital vein. 



Genotype : Moriloma pardella, new species. 



MORILOMA PARDELLA, new species 



Labial palpi light ochreous. Face silvery ochreous. Head and 

 thorax dark greenish brown. Forewings dark greenish brown with 

 a large light ochreous curved streak from the middle of dorsum to 

 the end of the cell, where it forms an arrow-point with a similarly 

 colored short dash on the cell; a light ochreous costal dash just 

 before apex ; a tuft of darker raised scales at tornus ; terminal edge 

 silvery; apical cilia light brown, dusted with black, extreme tip 

 black with a white line preceding it. Hindwings dark brown; 



a This latter character, effected by the anastomosis of vein ib, is found 

 also in a few other related genera, Psacaphora Herrich-Schaeffer, Synalagma 

 Busck, and Blastodacna Wocke. 



