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sinuate, well out on wing, bordered outwardly by a 

 narrow blackish line, inwardly (from top of cell to inner 

 margin by a broad salmon-ocherous patch filling the 

 space between antemedian line and the vertical scale 

 ridge; the latter thin, blackish, bordered inwardly by a 

 white line; subterminal line near outer margin, indis- 

 tinct, pale, bordered inwardly by some obscure blackish 

 streaklets on the veins; discal dots separated; all the 

 markings obscure except the white inner margin of the 

 subbasal scale ridge. Hind wing translucent, pale 

 smoky fuscous; the veins and terminal margin faintly 

 darkened. Alar expanse, 21 mm. 



Male genitalia with flaring apical process of gnathos 

 terminating in a shortly forked hook. Harpe with a 

 broadly triangulate projection (clasper) from near apex 

 of sacculus, the sacculus otherwise not appreciably 

 produced at apex. Penis armed with three clusters of 

 straight, strong spines. 



Type locality: Corozal, Canal Zone, Panamd (Nov.; 

 typeinUSNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Represented only by the male type. 



191. Zamagiria pogerythrus Dyar 



Figures 49, 287, 765 



Zamagiria pogerythrus Dyar, Ins. Insc. Menstr., vol. 7, p. 47, 

 1919. 



Aigrette of male maxillary palpus red. 



Forewing pale brownish gray dusted and blotched 

 with white, slightly darker along costa ; the white scaling 

 most conspicuous about the lower discal spot, as a more 

 or less diffused blotch in median area following the 

 antemedial line, as an interrupted white line preceding 

 the subbasal scale ridge, and as a short, narrow shade 

 from apex in terminal area; antemedial pale line faint, 

 its outer blackish border interrupted on the males, 

 continuous on females; the subbasal scale ridge broken 

 into two or three patches of black intermixed with some 

 red raised scales; the patch between these and the ante- 

 medial line more restricted and fainter than on dixo- 

 lophella, ocherous fuscous; subterminal line well con- 

 trasted, indented at vein 6, white, margined inwardly by 

 blackish streakings on the verus and inwardly and out- 

 wardly by dark spots on costa; discal dots separate, 

 black, the lower one elongately enlarged and the most 

 conspicuous black marking on the wing; a row of 4 or 

 5 black dots along terminal margin. Hind wing whit- 

 ish, translucent; a dark shade along costa and a narrow 

 dark line along termen; the veins very faintly darkened. 

 Alar expanse, 20-22 mm. 



Male genitalia with apical process of gnathos con- 

 torted. Harpe with apex of sacculus shortly and 

 bluntly produced at apex. Penis armed with two 

 clusters of straight, stout, moderately long spines. 



Female genitalia with signiun developed as a narrow, 

 elongate, strongly spined plate extending the length of 

 the bursa; bursa otherwise unsclerotized and minutely 

 spinose; ductus bursae very broad (as broad as long and 



broader than bm-sa), its membrane thickened and 

 bearing on its inner dorsal surface, near genital opening, 

 a large pair of conjoined sclerotized plates, and on its 

 inner ventral surface, near junction of bursa and ductus, 

 a large, thickened, corrugate, triangulate, sclerotized 

 plate bearing minute spines over its inner surface. 

 Eighth-segment collar ventrally fused. 



Type locality: Chejel, Guatemala (type d', in 

 USNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distribution: M:^xico: Campeche (July). Guate- 

 mala: Chejel (June, Aug.), Purulhd (July). 



192. Zamagiria hogpitabilis Dyar 



FiGUBB 288 



Zamagiria hospitabilis Dyar, Ins. Insc. Menstr., vol. 7, p. 48, 

 1919. 



Aigrette of maxillary palpus pale red. 



Forewing ocherous brown heavily overlaid with black, 

 giving the wing a dark, blackish brown groimd color; 

 two strongly contrasted white markings, the inner 

 border of the broken, black, subbasal scale ridge and a 

 large, irregular blotch on lower median area just beyond 

 the antemedial line; antemedial line not strongly con- 

 trasted but distinguishable throughout, sinuate, whit- 

 ish, bordered outwardly by a thin black line; subtermi- 

 nal line more contrasted, dull white, indented at vein 6 

 and at lower fold ; discal dots confluent, forming a black 

 lunate mark on discocellular vein; outer area beyond 

 subterminal line very faintly dusted with white; ter- 

 minal dots confluent forming a narrow black Hne along 

 outer margin of wing. Hind wing semihyaline white 

 with a dark shade along costa; the veins and terminal 

 margin faintly darkened. Alar expanse, 21 mm. 



Male genitalia with apical process of gnathos broadly 

 flaring and serrate. Harpe with sacculus shortly pro- 

 duced at apex, very long and with broadly triangulate, 

 median, clasperlike projection (similar to that of 

 dixolophella) . Lateral margins of aedeagus armed with 

 short, stout spines; penis unarmed except for a small, 

 flat, weakly sclerotized plate. 



Type locality: Tdnamo, Cuba (type in USNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Represented only by the male type. 



193. Zamagiria masciilinus Dyar 



FiauBE 289 



Zamagiria mascuUnus Dyar, Ins. Insc. Menstr., vol. 7, p. 46, 

 1919. 



Aigrette of male maxillary palpus whitish ocherous. 



Forewing very pale ocherous gray thinly dusted with 

 white in median area; the ocherous tint strongest in the 

 patch between scale ridge and antemedial line, along 

 the costal edge, and broadly along lower fold; ante- 

 medial and subterminal lines distinguishable, but not 

 strongly accented, whitish; black scaling of subbasal 

 scale ridge limited to one or two dots; blackish outer 



