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as the postcubital area, and the latter not nearly as broad as 
the radial area; base of divisory cell about two thirds of outer 
side, and moderately oblique, tip of third cubital cell plainly 
oblique, seven cubitals beyond the divisory, the cells mostly 
longer than broad; a few cross-veins in subcostal stigmal area, 
many in the costal area, five inner and six outer gradates, only 
silghtly divergent, branches of radial sector much bent at inner 
gradates. In hind wing four gradates in each series, rows 
slightly divergent, seven cubital cross-veins. 
Length of fore wing 13 mm., width 4.7 mm. 
One from Juan Mina, Rio Chagres, Canal Zone, 12 April 
(Fairchild). Type M.C.Z. no. 25655. 
Nodita pallescens sp. nov. 
Face with a rounded red spot on each side below antenna; 
palpi pale; front of vertex with an angulate red line across; 
antennae pale, the basal joint with a faint reddish spot at outer 
tip, no distinct stripe; pronotum with a faint line each side, on 
the posterior part is a dark line on each side, its front end bent 
toward the middle; meso- and metanotum greenish, unmarked. 
Abdomen pale, slightly darker at ends of segments; legs pale, 
very slender. 
In the wings the veins are very fine; in fore wings the gra- 
dates are mostly dark (not black), the marginal forks also, the 
radial sector at base and toward stigma a rather long stretch 
dark; nearly all the cross-veins are partly dark, usually only in 
middle. In the hind wings the radial sector and two or three 
radial cross-veins dark near stigma; the gradates are scarcely 
darkened, the outer ones more plainly so; the stigma is not 
plainly brown at base, but the subcostal vein there is black. 
The pronotum is about as long as broad behind, near front 
much narrowed. 
The wings are long and slender; in the fore wings the costal 
area is almost as wide as the post-cubital, the radial area 
broader than either; the third cubital cell is scarcely narrower 
at base than at the oblique tip; the divisory cell ends far beyond 
the cross-vein above, the base quite oblique and but little more 
than one half of the outer side, seven or eight cubitals beyond; 
eight inner and nine outer gradates, the rows slightly divergent, 
branches of radial sector strongly bent by inner gradates, and 
more than usual by the outer series; fifteen radial cross-veins; 
