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NEW AMERICAN THYRIDIDAE, UBANIIDAE, AND 

 GE03rETRIDAE. 



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



Family 'niVRWIDAE. 



1. Iza mediovincta spec, no v. 



Foretviiig : jnile ochreous, reticulated with red ; tlie costa broadly dull red, 

 swollen at middle iuto an irregnliirly triangular blotch, connected between veins 4 

 and o by a narrow neck with a similar blotch, which does not touch the inner 

 margin ; beyond the triangular blotch un costa is a subquadrate one reaching to 

 vein 7, and two smaller ones before apex ; in two or three places towards hind- 

 margin the reticulations are swollen into small blotches ; fringe deep red at base, 

 paler at tips. 



HiitdiriiKj : with a disjointed angulated mark across the middle ; hindmargiu 

 with a deej) brown line before fringe. 



Underside the same, but all the dark markings stronger and brighter. 



Head red ; thorax and abdomen reddish grey ; legs pale ochreous, spotted with 

 red-brown. 



Expanse of wings : 60 mm. 



1 ? from the Amazons. 



The hindwing is triangular, the hiudmargin straight, the apical angle acute, 

 the anal angle ronnded of}'. 



Family URAyilDAL. 



Subfamily EPIPLEMINAE. 



2. Epiplema rotundata spec. nov. 



Forewiny : dull fawn-colour, hardly speckled, browner along the costa ; the 

 lines brown : first at one-third, strongly angled outwards in mid wing ; the outer 

 at two-thirds, outcurved from subcostal vein to submedian fold, edged outwardly 

 by a fine ochreous line ; a cnrve of four blackish spots before margin from apex to 

 vein 4, the margin beyond them darker ; fringe concolorous ; central space slightly 

 darker than rest of wing. 



Hiiidirimi : with the same lines brown but indistinct; two small bhuk 

 marginal spots below veins 7 and 4. 



Underside uf forewing with a brown tinge, of hindwing as above ; both witli 

 slight striatious, but no markings. 



Face, palpi, and forelegs brown ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen like wings. 



ExpansL' of wings : 15 mm. 



1 S from Patino Cue, Paraguay, February (Montforts). 



Apex of forewing rounded, hindmargiu convex, simple ; hindwing rounded, 

 without teeth, faintly indented beyond cell. 



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