l!>'ll .ilixandcr — Xeir or Litllc-knoun S'colropmd llexalomiiii 45 



Rostniin and palpi hrown; scape of antenna light jcllowish-brown, llie liasal 

 segment sliglitly darker than the second segment; flagelhini broken. I'ront, 

 vertex and occiput dark-eoh)rcd, thickly hhiish-grey pruinose. h'ronlal liilxTcle 

 prominent, not notched. 



Mesonotum yellowish-brown, .shiny, a narrow deep brown line on either side of 

 the broad dorsal median portion, beginning above the pseudosutural region, nar- 

 rowing behind and ending before the transverse suture: a large rounded brown 

 spot on the sides of the sclerite before the transverse suture; scutum, scutellura 

 and postnotum yellowish-brown witli a faint greyish bloom; a rounded darker 

 brown spot on the lateral lobes of the latter. Pleiu-ie very light yellow, a large 

 rounded brown spot on the inesopleura> underneath the wing-root and less distinct 

 spots on the proi)leurae and cerWcal scleritcs forming an interrupted dorso-pleural 

 band. Ilalteres deep brown. Legs: coxte an<l trochanters light yellow; femora 

 yellowish-brown, extreme tip darker brown; tibia; brown; fore metatarsus brown 

 on basal two-fifths, remaining portions of fore tarsi pure white except the last 

 segment which is brownish; middle leg, with the basal tliird of the metatarsus 

 brown; metatarsus of the hind legs entirely white. Wings: siibh\aline or slightly 

 tinged with darker, especially toward the tip; veins dark l-.rown. Venation, see 

 figure 2. 



Abdominal tergum with the .segments dark brown; segment 1 pallid at base, 

 darker apically; extreme margin of segments 2-(i pallid; 7-S. n..t pale at tip; 

 cf hypopygium reddish-brown; sternites dull yellow. 



Holotype, cf . Patalue, Guatemala, Central America. 700 ft. (Dr. (i. Eisen.) 

 Allotype, 9, with the type. Received at the National Museum, .January (i, 1903. 

 Tj-pe in U. S. Xat. Mus. Coll.; allotype in author's collection. 



KXri-ANATlON ()!■■ IM-ATK IV. 



The figures are all drawn to scale by means of a projection mi 



Fig. 1. Eriocera kaicturcnsis sp. nov.; wing. 



Fig. 2. Penthoptera conjiincia sp. nuv.; wing. 



Fig. 3. Eriocera cornigera sp. nov.; wing. 



F'ig. 4. Eriocera macrocera sp. nov.; wing. 



Fig. 5. Eriocera penn-iana sp. nov.; wing. 



Fig. 6. Eriocera longis(i,la Alex; wing. 



Fig. 7. Eriocera maxjnifica sp. nov.; wing. 



Fig. 8. Eriocera perpvlchra sp. nov.; wing. 



