OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XIV, 1912. 217 



Freilla alastor, sp. n. 



Male. Palpi whitish buff, second joint laterally brown, the third joint 

 with a brown ring. Body buff white; some brown irrorations on collar; 

 abdomen with a few scattered black scales, and transverse brown shades 

 basally and terminally. Fore wings light brown, the termen whitish buff; 

 the costa at apex gray with the extreme edge black cut by pale points; 

 some fuscous striae and scattered black scales to outer line; costa with dark 

 brown shadings; a fuscous spot at end of cell; outer line fine, dark brown, 

 outbcnt from costa, incurved from vein 7 to below 4, then inbent to middle of 

 inner margin, when it is preceded by three faint brownish lines; a sub- 

 terminal reddish brown shade, expanding opposite cell and on inner margin; 

 a terminal interrupted dark -brown line. Hind wings buff white, irrorated 

 with pale brown beyond middle; a macular basal line; three antemedial 

 and a medial brown line, all close together; a small dark brown postmedial 

 spot on costa, followed by a very faint line; subterminal line dark velvety 

 brown from vein 6 to anal angle, very faint above vein 6, terminating in a 

 small dark spot on costa, followed by a paler brown shade from apex to 

 anal angle, this shade expanding to projection at vein 7; termen below 

 vein 5 shaded with gray, and with some fuscous striae; an interrupted ter- 

 minal fuscous brown line. Wings below buff white, the forewings shaded 

 with brown with some scattered black scales, and fuscous striae on costa; 

 also orbicular black point, black edged reniform, a fine interrupted post- 

 medial line, black subterminal point between veins 5 and 6, and geminate 

 black lines on inner margin near tornus. Hind wings with outer margin 

 broadly fuscous, the termen narrowly buff white. 



Expanse, 25 mm. 



Habitat: Cayenne, French Guiana. 

 Freilla abjecta, sp. n. 



Male. Head, collar, and thorax pale brown. Abdomen pale buff with 

 some dark-brown irrorations. Wings pale buff thinly irrorated with dark 

 brown; a fine terminal dark line partly punctiform. Fore wings: a fine, 

 indistinct, dark antemedial line, incurved across cell; orbicular a fuscous- 

 edged white point; reniform round, black irrorated with gray; a broad 

 pale brown postmedial shade, darkest on inner margin, outcurved around 

 cell, its outer edge defined by a fine wavy lunular line; a faint subterminal 

 line, somewhat punctiform, but thick, black, from veins 7-4, where it is 

 followed to termen by a fuscous gray shade. Hind wings; two small black 

 spots on discocellular; postmedial brown shade downturned and narrow- 

 ing to anal angle, its outer edge defined by a darker line; subterminal 

 shade brown, marked by some black points; termen shaded with gray. 

 Wings below buff brown with darker irrorations. Fore wings : a black 

 orbicular, and white reniform point, postmedial line finely lunular; sub- 



