NO. 145(1. NE \v aEoyrErnin ;/o 7Y/.v— i r. i /.' n ex. 4 5 



spot and outer line toward costa become blackish. Head and antennae 

 deep purplish ])rown; thorax and abdomen yellow. 



E.vpat ise of / /' Ingx . — 11 mm. 



Locality. — St. Jean, Maroni River, French (xuianu; 1 female, March, 

 1904. 



Hindwung with veins 3, 4 stalked, as well as 6, 7. 



Type.—<C,^i. No. 9262, U.S.N.M. 



PTYCHOPODA TENEBRICA, new species. 



Foreivhig. — Gray, dusted with darker; the lines dark, starting from 

 black costal spots at one-third, one-half, and two-thirds; the first and 

 second angled in cell; the third on vein 6, then all obrKpie inward and 

 waved, the outer marked by ))lack spots on veins; space between tirst 

 and submarginal line, which is pale and waved, blacker gray than the 

 rest of wing; cell spot V)lack; a fine marginal line; fringe grav, with 

 dark checkering. 



H ind in In g . V^ \i\\o\xi basal lino. 



Under side cinereous, with all the markings darker. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings; face and palpi black. 



Expanse of > rings. — 15 mm. 



Locality. — Santiago, Cuba; 1 male, June, 1902. 



Type.—C^i. No. 9263, U.S.N.M. 



PTYCHOPODA USTIMARGO, new species. 



Forewing. — Bone-color with a faint olive-gray tinge; costa narrowly 

 purple; cell spot small and dark; a thick minutely crenulate dark 

 purple outer line from three-fourths of costa straight toward liind 

 margin at end of vein 2, there bluntly bent inward to submarginal 

 fold and again at right angles to anal angle, the area })eyond filled in 

 with purplish gray, becoming paler and more ochreous toward costa; 

 mai'ginal line thickly deep purplish; fringe brownish rufous. In the 

 single specimen there are traces of a fine curved median line and of an 

 inner line on inner margin; these are probably more distinct in some 

 specimens. 



Hindiiying. — With more visible traces of two dark lines across wing; 

 marginal line and fringe as in forewing, the former preceded from 

 apex to middle by a narrow purplish shade. 



Under side ochreous, suffused with rosy; the marginal areas and 

 fringes rosy brown. 



Head dark purple; thorax and abdomen like wings, but the dorsum 

 purplish. 



Expanse of icings. — IT mm. 



Locality. — Geldersland, Surinam River, Dutch Guiana; 1 female. 



Veins 3, 4 of hindwings stalked, as well as 6, 7. 



Type.—Q^i. No. 9264, U.S.N.M, 



