1909] Dyar: Neiv Species of Insects. 135 



tinae I know of no other genus with the maxillary palpi so rela- 

 tively large and exceeding the labial palpi. 



Hositea gynsecia, new species. (Fig. 42, No. 19.) 



Shining white. Palpi largely black with small white rings 

 only; vertex of head black; disk of thorax black; abdomen with 

 two black spots at the base, a square brown patch on the third 

 segment and part of the second, the fifth to seventh segments 

 metallic black dorsally. Venter and legs white, without mark- 

 ings. Fore wing with some of the scales near the base tipped 

 with brown, forming a small patch; traces of an inner line, 

 showing as some brown scales in the submedian fold ; discal 

 mark large, black, centered with a fine blue line with diffused blue 

 scales about it, elliptical and close to the costa in the male, reni- 

 form and more distant from the costa in the female; outer line 

 black, starting on costa above discal mark, outwardly oblique to 

 vein 6, bent sharply inward, lost between veins 2 and 4, reap- 

 pearing below 2, more brownish with a sharp outward bent on 

 submedian fold. A brown cloud shaded with orangle scales at 

 the marginal expansion of the wing and a smaller one at the 

 lower projection of the outer line. A row of terminal black 

 marks, distinct on the upper half of the wing. Hind wing with 

 subbasal marking like fore wing. Discal spot round, large, cir- 

 cled with dark brown, with a yellow eccentric spot, impressed 

 into the mesial line and brown in color in the male, more promi- 

 nent and dark yellow in the female. Mesial line black costally, 

 brown below, closely followed by a large brown patch, in which 

 are intermixed purple scales in the female only opposite the 

 discal mark. A narrow black line parallel to the irregular ter- 

 men, the terminal space near anal angle filled in with yellow. 

 Black terminal marks on the projections of the wing. Expanse, 

 20-34 mm. 



Two $ 5 , 1 9 , Hoorie, British Guiana (C. W. Beebe) ; 1 ^ , 

 St. Jean, Maroni River, French Guiana, July, 1904 (W. Schaus) . 



Type.— No. 12664, U. S. National Museum. 



Subfamily Epipaschiin^. 



Incarchd, new genus. 



Palpi upturned far above the vertex of the head, smooth, 

 terete, the third joint lanceolate, in the male hollowed on the 

 inner side to receive the long double hair-pencil of the maxillary 

 palpi. Antennae simple in the female, fasciculate in the male 

 with a long basal process reaching back to the end of the thorax, 



