2O6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May. 'll 



Male, Sao Paulo, Brazil; female, Castro, Parana, Brazil 

 (Schaus collection). 

 Type, No. 13622, U. S. National Museum. 



Diatraea strigipennella, new species. 



Chilo strigipennellus Hampson, MS. 



Front with conical prominence with chitinous point at tip. Mark- 

 ings as in lineolata, but gray and brown, without straw color. In the 

 male two faint curved parallel shaded lines. The pale discal ray is 

 fairly conspicuous. 



Specimens are before me from the Guianas and Brazil, in- 

 cluding- a female cotype from Castro, Parana. 



Type, No. 13623, U. S. National Museum. 



Sir G. F. Hampson writes that he suppressed his description 

 of this species, having concluded that it was the same as 

 D. lineolata Walk. It is, however, smaller, and gray, not 

 yellow, while the males are narrower-winged and have the two 

 parallel curved lines well shown. 



Diatraea berthellus Schaus, new species. 



"Fore wing with the costal portion ochreous brown, shading to yel- 

 low costally; a silvery white ray from base to outer margin, widening 

 outwardly and diffused below ; a gray area below this ; inner margin 

 broadly light yellow at base, the yellow shading into the gray out- 

 wardly and lost before the anal angle ; a row of terminal black points ; 

 fringe metallic. Expanse, 20 mm. 



Castro, Parana, Brazil," Schaus, MS. 



Type, No. 13624, U. S. National Museum. 



The front has a thick cone with sharp chitinous point. The 

 species is wholly unlike the Diatraea species here discussed, 

 and is, I think, not properly referable to Diatraea, but rather to 

 Chilo. It is true that in the type vein n makes a short anas- 

 tomosis with 12, but in the other three specimens it runs free, 

 though very close to 12. The majority of the specimens have 

 the vein free as in Chilo, while in the type itself there is only 

 a short anastomosis, not a complete union of the veins as in 

 Diatraea. The species resembles the North American Diatraea 

 parallela Kearfott, but that is a typical Diatraea with flat front. 



