SEVEN NEW SPECIES OF ETHMIA FROM TROPICAL AMERICA 57 



a black, anterior, transverse band under the white patagia and with two 

 posterior black spots. Forewing white with 1 7 bluish black spots and 

 dashes besides a series of black spots around apex ; extreme base of the 

 wing black ; the black spots are all within the margin and are all sepa- 

 rate ; most of them are rounded, but one within apical third of costa and 

 another just above the middle of the cell are angulated ; two within the 

 dorsal margin and one at the end of the cell are rather larger than the 

 rest. Around apical and terminal edge is a line of equidistant, smaller, 

 black dots ; cilia" white v\ath a single conspicuous black tuft at apex. 

 Hindwing white, shiny, nearly transparent on dorsal basal part with 

 ochreous fuscous apical third and with white cilia. Abdomen ochreous 

 fuscous above, underside whitish ; anal tuft ochreous. Legs white wdth 

 black tarsal, annulations. , 



Alar expanse, 24-26 mm. 



Habitat, Santiago, Cuba ; Wm. Schaus, collector. 



Type, Cat. No. 18272, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Nearest and similar to the somewhat larger Ethmia xanthorrhoa Zel- 

 ler, from Porto Rico, but without the zigzag lines on the forewing and 

 with lighter apical part of the hindwing. 



Ethmia submissa, new species. 



Labial palpi white, second joint suffused with light fuscous exteriorly. 

 Face strongly suffused with fuscous exteriorly. Head pure white. An- 

 tennae dark brown. Thorax with a large, central, brov^nish fuscous 

 patch ; edges of collar and patagia white. Fore wings shiny satiny white, 

 clouded on basal and costal half with light gray. On the iniddle of dor- 

 sum is a large, semicircular, dark brown spot irrorated with bluish white 

 scales ; tip of the wing coppery bro\vn with an ill-defined, white» zigzag 

 line ; apical and terminal cilia dark fuscous with dark brown base ; dorsal 

 cilia white. Hindwing white with light fuscous edges and white cilia. 

 Abdomen dark fuscous above, whitish on the underside. Legs white 

 with dusky fuscous tarsi. 



Alar expanse, 17-18 mm. 



Habitat, Cub<' ; E. A. Schwarz and W. Schaus, collectors. 



Type, Cat. No. 18271, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Intermediate in size and coloration between Ethmia ungulatella Busck 

 and Ethmia elutella Busck, from Panama, and differing from both by 

 its light hindwings. 



