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on inner margin with first postmedial line; thi'ee postmedial lines, somewhat 

 lunular, the middle one barely traceable; a whitish subterminal line; the 

 apex fuscous crossed by a small white spot. Hind wings semihyahne, fuscous 

 brown; the inner margin and ciUa hght brovra. Expanse, 28 mm. 



Habitat: Nova Friburgo, Brazil. 



Claphe semifunebris sp. n. 



o"". Body mottled whitish, brown, and black. Fore wings: Vjase to near 

 middle black, limited by a fine velvety black hne having a few whitish scales 

 on its inner side, finely wavy, vertical, inangled below submedian fold; outer 

 space white with brownish irro rations, more thickly terminally; a small black 

 spot on discocellular; a fine black postmedial Une, outbent on costa, then 

 shghtly incurved and vertical below vein 4; an irregular subterminal macular 

 black shade, outcurved from costa, incurved opposite cell and near inner mar- 

 gin. Hind wings: basal space fuscous brown limited by a vertical broad 

 black hne from costa to inner margin near angle; terminal space as on fore- 

 wings, but shaded with brown from below vein 5 to mner margin; very faint 

 traces of a black subterminal line. Wings below whitish tinged with brown 

 and gray. Fore wings : postmedial line whitish defined by shadings, straighter 

 below costal cm-ve; subterminal better defined. Hind wings: a fuscous brown 

 vertical outer hne. Expanse, 35 mm. 



Habitat: Nova Friburgo, Brazil. 



Ocha gorgas sp. n. 



d^. Body pale lilacine brown. Fore wings above median and vein 4 gray- 

 ish, below them light brown; two fuscous points on discocellular; traces of 

 fine darker, antemedial, and medial fines; the postmedial outcurved, better 

 defined, followed by a pale outer line incmwed opposite cell, the interspaces 

 between them from vein 4 to \ein 8 darker gray; a subterminal lunular white 

 line, preceded by an orange browTi shade between veins 4 and 5, and dark gray 

 shades between 5 and 6, and 7 and 9; a terminal whitish line; the cilia dark 

 brovni on interspaces. Hind wings yellowish, with darker shading on costa 

 and short hues at apex. Wings below bro^\Tiish yellow. Expanse, 25 mm. 



Habitat: Joinville, southeastern Brazil. 



Lymantriidae 

 Trochuda ochreata sp. n. 



(^. Body and wings pale ochreous brown, the inner margin of fore wings, 

 and costal margin of hind wings tinged with white. Fore wings: a fine whit- 

 ish hne on discocellular preceded and followed by a fuscous brown shade, and 

 similar shading close to cell between veins 3 and 5. On abdomen dorsally at 

 end some pm-ple red shading. Wings below whitish, the costal half of fore 

 wings shaded with l)rown, very dark along costal edge. Expanse, 33 mm. 



Habitat: Southern Brazil. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLI. 



