54 ; THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
NEW CENTRAL AMERICAN SYNTOMIDA. 
By A. E. Gress, F.L.S. 
Amone the Lepidoptera which I have recently received from 
British Honduras are two Syntomid moths which appear to be 
new to science. They were both captured at a small seaport 
called Punta Gorda in the south of the colony, not far from the 
frontier of Guatemala. I append descriptions. 
, Phenicoprocta biformata, n. sp. 
Head black ; frons blue; palpi orange below ; antennz white at 
tips; tegule orange with blue spots at base; patigia and thorax 
orange ; coxe orange-red ; abdomen, first segment blue with paired 
red stripes, remainder brownish black with dorsal and lateral metallic- 
green stripes and bluish-green terminal segment ; fore wings hyaline, 
veins broadly black, oval discoidal spot from costa to lower angle of 
cell, margins broadly black, widening at apex and on outer margin; 
hind wings hyaline, with dark borders, widening at apex and tornus. 
Var. 1. Fore wings scaled, brown-black. 
Expanse, 30 mm. 
Habitat.—Punta Gorda, British Honduras, July, 19138. Types 
in British Museum ; co-types of var. 1 in Mus. Gibbs. 
Napata cortes, n. sp. 
Black; tegule and patigia with paired blue-white spots; fore 
cox white; tibie reddish ; first joints of tarsi white; metathorax 
with blue-green spot; first segment of abdomen black with a few 
blue scales and blue-green lateral spots; medial segments blue-green 
dorsally, with darker transverse bands; large white ventral patch on 
bagal segments ; remainder of abdomen ventrally and the terminal 
segments dorsally red; fore wing with bluish spot at base of costa ; 
small hyaline spot extending across cell near base, and a larger one 
below it, another in cell near upper angle; a transverse series of four 
spots beyond cell, one above vein 6 and a smaller one below it, a 
minute spot above vein 4 and a larger one below it extending almost 
to vein 3; hind wing with hyaline patch at base; spot near end of 
cell and extending almost across it; below, fore wing with bluish 
costal streak, hind wing with blue basal streak above hyaline patch, 
costa narrowly and apex and outer margin broadly blue. 
Eixpanse, 41 mm. 
Habitat.—Punta Gorda, British Honduras, June, 1913. 
Napata cortes has a general resemblance to N. broadwayi, 
Schaus., a Trinidad species, but it may be readily distinguished 
by the large hyaline patch at the base of the hind wing and the 
red terminal segments of the abdomen. 
