NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF MICROLEPIDOPTERA FROM PANAMA. By August Busck. Of United States Department of Agriculture. The following is the second installment ^ of descriptions of Micro-lepidoptera from Panama, based on material collected by the writer while a member of the Smithsonian Biological Survey of Panama, dming two periods, from January to June, 1911, 1912. The type material is deposited in the United States National Museum, and cotypes are, as far as Dossible, exchanged with the British Museum. The citation of the type under each genus does not signify that the fixation is original in this paper, in most cases it is not; but in some as yet debatable cases the citation is necessary in order to define the author's conception of the genus in question, and the uniform citation of the genotypes will be a convenience for future students. Family COSMOPTERYGID^. Genus ERITARBES Walsingham. Type. — Eritarhes otiosa Walsingham. ERITARBES GUTTATA, new species. Labial palpi straw-yellow, with terminal joint blackish toward the face. Face, head, and thorax straw-colored. Antennse nearly as long as the forewings, straw-yellow, faintly dotted on each joint with black. Forewings shiny light straw-yellow, overlaid on exterior half with light brown; a conspicuous deep black elongate spot on the fold equidistant from apex and base of the wing; an inconspicuous dark-brown dot at the end of the fold, a few dark-brown scales at apex. Cilia straw-colored. Hindwings dark straw-colored above; underside of both wings blackish brown. Abdomen yellow. Legs whitish ochreous. Alar expanse. — 14 mm. Habitat. — Cabima and La Chorrera, Panama, May, June, Type-specimen.— Qsit. No. 16668, U.S.N.M. Reminds one in a general way of Sitotroga cerealella Ohvier. 1 The first paper was published In the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection, vol. 59, No. 4, 1912. Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vou 47-No. 2043. 34848^— Proc.N,M.vol.47— 14— -1 1
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