244 w. scHAUS. 



with lighter brown ; the s. t. shade paler brown, straight anteriorly, wavy poste- 

 riorly, and beyond this the veins are slightly irrorated with white; a small 

 apical dark brown spot, a long velvety brown streak between veins 5 and 6, and 

 a shorter, similar streak between veins 6 and 7; the orbicular obsolete, the reni- 

 form large, indistinct, heavily shaded on either side with dark brown. Secon- 

 daries brown; an indistinct inner and outer brown line; a subterniinal yellowish 

 band, followed by a narrow whitish shade and preceded on the inner margin by 

 a dark brown shade; all the markings most distinct near the inner margin. 

 Underneath grayish brown, an outer irregular brown line, outwardly shaded 

 with grayish ; a s. t. row of spots, yellowish and most noticeable near the apex 

 of the primaries; some yellowish costal spots. Expanse 27 mm. 

 Hai). — Coatepec, Mexico. 



Tlierinesia electrica sp. nov. — Palpi reddish, last joint brown. Head 

 and collar dark velvety brown. Thorax light reddish brown, speckled with 

 black. Abdomen grayish brown. Primaries varying from buff through all red- 

 dish shades to brown ; surface more or less irrorated with black scales, a cluster 

 of black scales near the base below the median vein ; an indistinct median 

 shade; a black point in place of the orbicular; the reniforra large, gray, outlined 

 in pale buff and shaded on either side with brown scales; the t. p. line forming 

 a sharp angle between veins 6 and 7; this line pale, with an inner row of black 

 points and joined at the angle by a pale streak from the apex: some subapical 

 dark spots; a terminal row of brownish spots inwardly shaded with paler scales ; 

 fringe reddish. Secondaries brown ; fringe red. Underneath: primaries brown, 

 margins reddish, a black discal point; secondaries buff irrorated with black, 

 fringe red, and a black discal point. Expanse 38 mm. 



Hub. — Jalapa, Mexico. 



Therinesia lara sp. nov.— Head and thorax light brown. Abdomen 

 grayish brown. Wings light brown, the veins yellowish; from the apex of the 

 ]irimaries to the inner margin of the secondaries near the anal angle, a straight 

 buff line, outwardly shaded with dark brown; on the primaries this line is 

 joined near the apex by an oblique streak from the costal margin ; on the same 

 wings there is an oblique line from the inner margin near the bas^ to the costal 

 margin at a third from the base, also buff outwardly shaded with dark brown: 

 the orbicular small, round, the reuiform large, with outwardly a slight indenta- 

 tion, outlined in dark brown and then with buff; on both wings a subterminal 

 row of small blackish spots shaded with white scales, and a terminal brown line 

 surmounted by a small brown spot on each internerval space; on the secondaries 

 a small dark brown discal spot. Underneath buff, irrorated with reddish brown, 

 a wavy dark outer shade on both wings and the terminal line distinct; two 

 small brown spots in the cell on the primaries and a small discal streak and spot 

 on the secondaries. Expanse 39 mm. 



Hab. — Mexico, Peru. 



Paiigrapta riila sp. nov.— Body reddish brown. Wings above reddish ; 

 the base of the primaries and the costal margin to almost the apex broadly gray ; 

 two basal, three median and a submarginal, wavy, grayish brown, transverse 

 bands; a terminal row of minute gray spots. The secondaries are crossed by 

 numerous dentate grayish brown lines, leaving the outer margin broadly red- 

 dish, and there is also a terminal row of minute gray spots. Underneath brown, 

 with transverse darker shades. Expanse 44 mm. 



Hab. — Rio Janeiro. 



