8 BULLETIN 132, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



1. GODITHA, new genus 



(Fig. 24.) 



Genotype. — Goditha hmneliana, new species (North America). 



Thorax smooth. 



Fore wing smooth; termen notched below apex, decidedly slant- 

 ing; 12 veins, all separate; 7 to termen; 11 from cell slightly before 

 middle; 10 well separated from 9; upper internal vein of cell from 

 between 10 and 11 ; 3, 4, and 5 remote at termen ; 2 from cell 

 near Yo, straight; no costal fold in male. 



Hind wing without pecten on lower median vein ; 8 veins ; 6 and 7 

 separate and parallel ; 3 and 4 connate ; inner angle in male simple. 



Hind tibia smooth scaled. 



Male genitalia with outer surface of harpe unspined; cucullus 

 well defined, crescentif orm ; neck incurvation pronounced; neck 

 smooth; sacculus weakly haired. Uncus absent. Socii absent. 

 Gnathos a simple weakly chitinized band. Aedoeagus moderately 

 long, slender, tapering, slightly bent; cornuti a cluster of short 

 deciduous spines. 



Abdomen of male with lateral hair tufts from sternite of eighth 

 segment. 



A development from Dichroram'pha. Monotypic and probably 

 .tropical in origin. 



Female unknown. 



GODITHA RUMELIANA, new species 



(Figs. 24, 293.) 



Antenna fuscous. Palpus and face fuscous, faintly dusted with 

 sordid white. Head and thorax fuscous brown. Fore wing fuscous 

 with white markings, with distinct shading of ocherous on outer 

 half and with some obscure blackish streaking (visible only under 

 magnification) ; from mid dorsum three narrow irregular white 

 bands partially divided by blackish dusted streaks of the ground 

 color and forming a somewhat broken, outwardly curved white 

 dorsal patch extending to cell ; costa faintly strigulated with white, 

 with somewhat broader spots of blackish fuscous between, the dark 

 spots extended (especially on outer half) into narrow black lines 

 upon a pale ocherous brown ground; outer third of wing brownish 

 ocherous dusted with black and with a few definable longitudinal 

 black streaks from end of cell; ocelloid patch a pair of closely 

 appressed obscure dull metallic vertical bars connecting above with 

 fainter metallic streaks from costa and inwardly margined by a 

 narrow white line; along termen below vein 6 four black dots on an 

 ocherous ground ; at apex a short fine vertical black dash ; cilia pale 



