NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE. 



Vol. VII. AUGUST, 1900. No. 2. 



NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OE AMERICAN DBEFANV- 

 LIDAE, TEYBIDIDAE, ETITLEMIBAE AND 

 GEOMETRIBAE. 



By W. warren, M.A., F.B.S. 



Family DREPANULIDAE. 



1. Platypteryx obtruncata sp. uov. 



Forewings : rnfons ochreous, dappled with darker rufons and fine grey scales ; 

 the veins finely pale ochreous ; an irregular angular-edged rufous fascia from below 

 costa before middle to one-third of inner margin, broadest in cell ; a fine pale 

 ochreous snbmarginal line from the costal elbow, angled outwards above vein 6, 

 then nearly straight to three-fourths of inner margin, the costal area in front of it 

 thickly dappled with dark grey, the portion below the angle preceded by very fine 

 grey scaling between the ochreous veins ; a row of black snbmarginal spots 

 between the veins ; apex pale ochreous along costa, dusted with grey specks below ; 

 fringe red-brown. 



Hindicings : with the pale postmedian line nearly straight, at three-fifths ; the 

 basal area grey between the veins ; costal area ochreous ; marginal area dark 

 ochreous, grey-sjseckled, paler towards apex ; in it beyond the jjostmedian line are 

 two large oval hyaline blotches between veins 4 and 6 ; fringe red-brown, with a 

 paler line at base beyond a row of marginal dark spots. 



Underside of forewiugs ochreous, coarsely mottled with reddish fuscous and 

 black ; the inner margin paler, without speckles : outer straight line marked in 

 reddish fuscous ; the snbmarginal spots black, the extreme apex vinous ; hiudwings 

 speckled only along costa and hindmargin, with two broad diffuse purplish fuscous 

 fasciae, one postmedian, the other snbmarginal. Thorax rufous ochreous, like 

 ground-colour of wings. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



One ¥ from Bahia (Feld. Coll.). 



The costa of forewings is strongly elbowed at two-thirds, the apex triangularly 

 produced. Both head and abdomen on this specimen are substitutes ; the head is 

 evidently that of a ? Pyralid. 



Family rilYRTDID^E. 



2. Aziba substrigata sp. nov. 



Foreivi/iffS : glossy, pale pinkish ochreous, thickly freckled with brown-black 



atoms, which become larger and irregularly confluent towards inner margin, and 



form indeterminate oblique streaks parallel to hindmargin ; a more distinctly edged 



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