54 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NEW CENTRAL AMERICAN SYNTOMID^. 



By a. E. Gibbs, F.L.S. 



Among 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. 



PhcB7iicoprocta biformata, n. sp. 



Head black ; frons blue ; palpi orange below ; antennge white at 

 tips ; tegulse orange with blue spots at base ; patigia and thorax 

 orange ; coxae 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, 1913. Types 

 in British Museum ; co-types of var. 1 in Mus. Gibbs. 



Napata cortes, n. sp. 



Black ; tegulae and patigia with paired blue-white spots ; fore 

 coxae white ; tibiae 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 

 basal segments ; remainder of abdomen venti'ally 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. 



Expanse, 41 mm. 



Habitat. — Punta Gorda, British Honduras, June, 1913. 



Napata cortes has a general resemblance to N. broadivayi, 

 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. 



