NEW SPECIES OF MOTHS— SCHAUS 555 



interspaces. Hind wing below whitish below costa and on inner 

 margin, the costa and termen broadly hair brown; ciha white. 



Expanse, 35 mm. 



Habitat. — Santa Catharina, Brazil. 



2V^e.— U.S.N.M. no. 34714. 



Also two para types in collection. 



Genus NAVARCOSTES Schaus 



NAVARCOSTES OAKLEYl. new species 



Male. — Head and collar cinnamon-buff, the latter tipped with black 

 scales; thorax vinaceous-brown, the metathorax cinnamon-buff; 

 patagia white at shoulder; abdomen above dull taupe brown, with a 

 quadrate tuft of fuscous scales at base, and a faint brownish-drab 

 dorsal line, the anal hairs white; thorax below light grayish olive, the 

 venter white on terminal half. Fore wing above with the base from 

 costa to submedian vein crossed by a double fine black Une forming 

 two lunules; space beyond to sub terminal pallid quaker drab crossed 

 by numerous fine dark olive-buff striae; an antemedial darker ante- 

 medial shade, broad on costa, expanding on inner margin, preceded 

 and followed on costa by short black lines and forming in cell a small 

 spot ; sub terminal line slightly outcurved on costa and inbent to inner 

 margin, parallel with termen, consisting of double black lunules on 

 interspaces, also with a few black points, expanding distally beyond 

 cell; termen white from vein 5 to tornus; apex suffused irregularly 

 with light brown and gray, the costa with small black spots and 

 striae; subterminal black lunules, merely punctiform at tornus; ter- 

 minal dark shading from apex to vein 4. Hind wing hair brown, the 

 base with pale suffusions, the cilia white. Fore wing below mostly 

 grayish olive, the costa, termen and inner margin white, a terminal 

 black line, also the veins terminally black; cilia cinnamon at apex. 

 Hind wing below white, the costa and termen grayish olive, more 

 diffused than on fore wing. 



Expanse, 44 mm. 



Habitat. — Santa Catharina, Brazil. 



Type.— V.S.N. M. no. 34710. 



Two paratypes in collection. 



Genus KURTIA Schaus 



KURTIA DELOSIA, new species 



Male.— Rend fuscous with a white patch in front of antenna; palpus 

 black above, underneath white; front of collar fuscous; thorax and 

 patagia mottled avellaneous and fuscous; abdomen above dark drab, 

 underneath light grayish vinaceous with transverse drab bands. Fore 



