no. 2372. NSW SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA—SCHAUS. 391 



ruinating in a slight knob. Hind wings white, the fore wings below 

 with traces of the inbent lines from termen below apex. 



Expanse. — 50 mm. 



Habitat. — Nova Friburgo, Brazil. 



Type.— Cat. No. 23448, U.S.N.M. 



HEMIPECTRONA VINNEA, new species. 



Male. — Body and fore wings creamy white; some pale brown 

 mottling on vertex, collar, and thorax. Fore wings crossed by short 

 and indistinct pale brown lines; a large round fuscous brown spot 

 in cell; a small vertical streak below cell before middle; a short 

 horizontal dark brown streak above inner margin antemedially ; 

 costal margin medially shaded with gray, beyond it shaded with 

 brown; a postmedial gray line from vein 6 inbent and narrowing to 

 submedian; finer marginal gray lines from vein 6 to near tornus at 

 termen, and from vein 7 to vein 2. Hind wings white. Wings 

 below white; fore wings with a large grayish spot irrorated behind 

 with dark brown; costal margin striated with gray; traces of lines 

 on terminal space. 



Expanse. — 37 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayuga, Guatemala. 



Type— Cat. No. 23449, U.S.N.M. 



GIVIEA GNOMA, new species. 



Male. — Head, collar, and thorax whitish gray. Abdomen dark 

 gray. Basal half of inner margin from below cell dark chocolate 

 brown, its outer edge oblique edged with white; space above it and 

 beyond it roseate gray; some black points along costal margin; an 

 oblique chocolate brown fascia from costa across discocellular to 

 vein 4, somewhat constricted below subcostal vein; a broad post- 

 medial brown shade, vertical from costa, outbent to tornus below 

 vein 2; terminal space above vein 2 pale gray, shading to white 

 along margin; a few dark gray striae on outer half of wing. Hind 

 wings pale gray with some darker striae, and a dark shade medially 

 below costa. 



Expanse. — 34 mm. 



Habitat. — Joinville, Southeastern Brazil. 



Type.— Cat. No. 23447, U.S.N.M. 



Allied to G. quadra Schaus, which has a dark discal point and no 

 oblique fascia from costa. 



GIVIRA GUATA, new species. 



Male. — Body lilacine brown, the collar darker with a fuscous 

 shade in front; abdomen with faint fuscous segmental lines. Fore 

 wings pale lilacine brown, slightly paler before an oblique brown 



