396 PROCEEDINCI^ OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.50. 



SCHIRACES MOPSUS, new species. 



FeTndle. — Palpi brown. Head, collar, thorax, and fore wings pale 

 buff. Abdomen with transverse gray brown shades. Fore wings: 

 Lines and shadings brown; antemedial line remote from base, very 

 fine, angled on costa, slightly inbent and interrupted; a black point 

 as reniform; postmedial fine, nearly vertical, darker shaded on costa, 

 opposite cell, and across submedian fold; subterminal fine, irregular; 

 some marginal shadings; a terminal fuscous brown line, interrupted 

 by veins; cilia dark shaded. Hind wings grayish brown; a dark 

 terminal line. Hind wings below pale buff, thinly irrorated with 

 browm. A round dark spot on discocellular; a fine postmedial line; 

 a dark terminal line. 



Expanse. — 16 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayenne, French Guiana. 



Type.— Cat. No. 19S78, U.S.N.M. 



SCHIRACES MORTUA, new species. 



Male. — Body and wings dull grayish brown. Fore wings: A faint 

 medial and postmedial line, consisting of darker brown irrorations ; 

 orbicular and reniform each consisting of a black point; a terminal 

 fuscous line. Hind wings: A terminal fuscous line. Hind wings 

 below whitish, irrorated with brown on costal and outer margins; 

 a dark discal point, and postmedial line; an interrupted terminal 

 fuscous line. Fore tibia somewhat dilated with a tuft of long hairs 

 at base. 



Expanse. — 15 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayenne, French Guiana. 



Type.— Cut. No. 19879, U.S.N.M. 



Genus BOLETOBIA Boisduval. 



Bolctohia Boisduval, Lepidoptera, 1840, p. A\. 



Laugasa Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., vol. 19, 1859, p. 850. Type, L. perillalia 



Walker. 

 Narulla Walker. Cat. Brit. Mus., vol. 24, 186, p. 1083. Type, N. infixaria 



Walker. 



Male. — Palpi porrect, densely scaled. Antennae bipectinate. Legs 

 smoothly scaled. Fore wings: Outer margin curved; vein 3 before 

 lower angle; 4 and 5 from lower angle; 6 below upper angle; areole 

 double; 7, 8, 9 usually stalked; 10 and 11 stalked. Hind wings: 

 Veins 3, 4, 5 equally apart; 6 and 7 stalked. 



The genus also contains : 



Boletobia funerea (Stellidia) Scliaus, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 30, 

 1904, p. 166. 



Boletobia nivosita (Stellidia) Schaus, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 

 vol.30, 1904, p. 166. 



