XEW SPECIES OF MOTHS— SCHAL'S 545 



Genus PROELYMIOTIS Schaus 



PROELYMIOTIS SUTILANS. new species 



Male.—Tal-pi buff above, fuscous underneath. Head and collar 

 mottled gray and brown, the patagia warm buff, dorsally fringed with 

 dark brown. Abdomen dorsally drab, with pale transverse lines, the 

 last segment and claspers ecru-drab, underneath brownish drab at 

 base becoming whitish with dark transverse lines. Fore wing warm 

 buff with deep olive-buff suffusions and irrorations, the veins with fine 

 dark streaks; a subbasal fine dark angled hne; antemedial Hne, almost 

 medial, double, irregularly outcurved, above inner margin inbent 

 toward base; a black point at each end of discocellular; the veins on 

 outer half with fine dark streaks, interrupted by the pale postmedial 

 line, which is outcurved on costa, somewhat sinuous, and incurved to 

 inner margin; termen with a faint darker angled line from apex to 

 vein 3, below the vein to vein 4 with an inbent fuscous line, and below 

 vein 4 a small fuscous lunule, the tips of veins mostly with white and 

 black scales. Hind wing pale olive-buff with terminal irregular deep 

 olive-buff suffusions, and a similar median broken fascia. Wings below 

 colonial buff, a faint dark streak below costa of fore wing. 



The female has the hind wing entirely hair brown, with the cilia 

 white; the wings below almost entirely suffused with citrine-drab. 



Expanse, male 36 mm., female 45 mm. 



Habitat. — Hansa Hum.boldt, Santa Catharina, Brazil. 



Type.— U.S.N.M. no. 34735. 



The species is somewhat variable. 



Genus TACHUDA Schaus 



TACHUD.\ ERNEA, new species 



Male. — Head and thorax hair brown, metathorax white with 

 irregular black lines; abdomen above Hght drab, the basal segment 

 partly vinaceous, underneath whitish. Fore wing base broadly hair 

 brown expanding on costa A\dth grayish scaling at base, and with faint 

 paler spots on costa, and an irregular subbasal black line; antemedial 

 line double, black, very irregular, filled in with some white scales from 

 cell to inner margin ; an irregular black medial line with a distmct white- 

 edged line on discocellular; a double postmedial black lunular line 

 filled in with white scaling, inbent from costa to vein 3 and excurved to 

 inner margin closely followed by a series of dark lunules, these Unes 

 preceded and followed by vinaceous-buff shading; subterminal black 

 lunules basally white edged, the tips extending on either side of veins 

 to termen; an interrupted terminal black line; cilia mottled white and 

 brown. Hind wing above pale wood brown slightly whitish at base. 



