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brown; at the end of the cell is a faint blackish shade, hardly dis- 

 cernible as two small black dots; on the middle of the wing are two 

 small, well-defined ocher-yellow dots, edged with reddish scales, one 

 on each side of vein l b ; extreme dorsal edge ocherous towards base. 

 Hindwings yellowish white. Abdomen above salmon red; under- 

 side and anal tufts yellowish white. Legs yellowish white, tufts on 

 posterior tibia? brown. 



Alar expanse. — 32-38 mm. 



Habitat — St. Jean, Maroni Kiver, French Guiana. Wm. Schaus r 

 collector. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13557, U.S.N.M. 



Co type in British Museum. 



A striking species typical of the genus in oral and venal ional 

 characters, but with rather unusual narrow, spear-shaped forewings. 



PSORICOPTERA APICEPUNCTA, new species. 

 Plate 9, fig. 35. 



Labial palpi light ocherous, mottled with brown. Antennae 

 brown with basal third deep black. Face ocherous. Head light 

 brown. Thorax light brown; patagia with base black. Forewings 

 light deer brown, finely mottled with indistinct, transverse, black 

 striation; on the middle of the cell is a small black, oblong spot, and 

 at extreme apex is another deep black, very prominent, larger spot. 

 Cilia light brown. Hindwings dark silky fuscous. Abdomen dark 

 fuscous above, underside light brown. Legs ocherous brown. 



Alar expanse. — 28 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayenne, French Guiana ; Panama ; Tuis, Turrialba, and 

 Sixola River, Costa Rica. Wm. Schaus, collector. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13558, U.S.N.M. 

 " Cotype in British Museum. 



A striking, clear-cut species, typical of the genus and notmistakable 

 for an} r other described species. 



Family CECOPHORID^. 



FILINOTA, new genus. 



Type. — Filinota liermosella Bnsck. 



Labial palpi long, recurved, reaching beyond the vertex; second 

 joint slightly thickened with smoothly appressod scales; terminal 

 joint long, but shorter than second, slim, smooth, pointed. Antenna? 

 longer than the forewings, finely ciliated (1); basal joint without 

 pecten. Tongue long, curled, scaled. Forewings long and narrow, 

 nearly five times as long as broad; costa and dorsum nearly parallel; 

 termen evenly rounded; apex bluntly pointed; 12 veins; 7 and 8 

 stalked; 7 to costa; 2 from before end of cell; 3 and 4 stalked from 



