NO. 2006. YALE PERUVIAN EXPEDITION, LEPIDOPTERA—DYAR. 643 



oclierous whitish. Below, ocherous whitish; fore wing with dark 

 shade along costa and patch at end of cell. Expanse, 28 mm. 



Type.— Male, Cat. No. 15635, U.S.N.M., Coropuna, 14,500 feet, 

 October, 1911. 



UTETHEISA ORNATRIX Linnseus. 



Coropuna, 14,500 feet, October, 1911. 



Family NOCTUID^. 



Siabfamily ^G!-IiOTIN"..ZE. 



MESEMBREUXOA FASICOLA, new species. 



Fore wing dull rosy ocherous subcostally to reniform; outer line 

 indicated, curved, dentate; a dark gray rounded patch on costa sub- 

 apically; sub terminal space of lighter color, with dashes on discal 

 venules; termen gray, cut by pale rays at veins 2 and 3; orbicular 

 and reniform pale, joined by a broad black bar that incloses orbicular 

 except above; area below median vein light grayish. Hind wing 

 semihyaline white, costa gray. Expanse, 38 mm. 



Type.— Male, Cat. No. 15636, U.S.N.M., Cotahuasi, 9,000 feet, 

 October, 1911. 



POROSAGROTIS PROPRIENS, new species. 



Ground color clayey ocherous suffused v/ith grayish; orbicular 

 large, elongate, reniform full, pale ringed, blackish filled, preceded 

 and separated by black in the cell and followed by a black dash; 

 claviform a large confused gray area surrounded by black and joined 

 to outer line by a dash; a claviform mark below vein 1; inner line 

 obscure; outer minutely crenulate, pale; termen with cuneiform black 

 dashes; preceded by pale scales, the palest on the wing; four oblique 

 pale dashes on costa before apex. Hind wing translucent, gray 

 tinged especially on veins; fringe whitish outwardly. Expanse, 

 30 mm. 



r:?/2?e.— Female, Cat. No. 15637, U.S.N.M., Chuquibamba, 10,000 

 feet, October, 1911. 



FELTIA ANNEXA Treitschke. 



Pampaconas River, August, 1911 



FELTIA MALEFIDA Guenee. 



Pampaconas River, August, 1911. 



FELTIA CLERICA Butler. 



Ollantaytambo, 9,000 feet, July 23, 1911. 



METALEPSIS CERPHIPHILA, new species. 



Thorax blackish haired over luteous. Fore wing pale luteous, the 

 veins narrowly white; black streaks below subcosta in cell, shading 

 below cell, the veins beyond it from 2 to 8, intensified on margin, and 

 a broad streak above vein 1. Hind wing shaded with blacldsh, 

 fringe pale. Expanse, 29 mm. 



Type.—Mdle, Cat. No. 15638, U.S.N.M., Coropuna, 14,500 feet, 

 October, 1911. 



