no. 2372. NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA—SCHAUS. 379 



base; hind wings with a darker postmedial shade preceded by a 

 broad whitish gray shade; a dark sub terminal shade. 



Expanse. — 105 mm. 



Habitat. — Joinville, southeastern Brazil. 



Type.— Cat. No. 23415, U.S.N.M. 



ORMISCODES PANAMENSIS, new species. 



Female. — Head, body below, and base of abdomen reddish brown. 

 Collar and thorax grayish purple. Abdomen above orange banded 

 with black, partly concealed by the long yellow hairs. Fore wings 

 grayish purple; a curved antemedial whitish lilacine shade, and a 

 similar faintly sinuous postmedial shade; a fine black line on the 

 oblique discocellulars; termen whitish lilacine, very narrowly so at 

 apex and tornus. Hind wings whitish lilacine with some pale reddish 

 shading at base; a broad subterminal grayish purple shade, leaving a 

 shade before it and the termen more distinctly lilacine; cilia dark. 

 Wings below brownish, the termen lilacine; a faintly paler postmedial 

 shade; a broad darker subterminal shade on hind wings partly 

 crossed by a pale shade. 



Expanse. — 98 mm. 



Habitat. — Panama. 



Type.— Qui. No. 23413, U.S.N.M. 



ORMISCODES DENTIMACULATA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi dark brown. Frons pale brown. Vertex, collar, 

 and thorax dark brown with some ocherous white hairs. Abdomen 

 above orange with transverse black bands. Body below ocherous, 

 the legs dark brown. Fore wings pale ocherous, thickly irrorated 

 with brown except on terminal space, before which there is a darker 

 brown postmedial shade diffusely encroaching on the pale terminal 

 space; medially on costa a large brown, triangular spot edged with 

 black and then whitish; this spot is deeply indentate on the proximal 

 side and has three short projecting lines on the distal side. Hind 

 wings brownish with fuscous brown postmedial and subterminal 

 shades, the space between the two lines also the termen ocherous 

 thickly irrorated with brown. Wings below pale yellowish ocher 

 with faint postmedial and subterminal fuscous shades. 



Expanse. — 80 mm. 



Habitat. — Brazil. 



Type.— Cat. No. 23414, U.S.N.M. 



DIRPHTA NINFA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi, head, and antennae orange brown. Collar and thorax 

 fuscous brown with some white hairs laterally on patagia. Abdomen 

 orange with black segmental lines above; no lateral line. Fore wings: 

 Basal third of costa whitish streaked with gray, followed by a roseate 

 white shade from middle of costa, oblique, curved to below vein 2 



