NEW SPECIES OF MOTHS — SCHAU3 561 



with roseate, the costa sorghum brown, the inner margin whitish not 

 reacliing tornus; faint siibbasal, antemedial, and medial darker Hnes, 

 all irregular; a fuscous point in cell; postmedial almost vertical, broad^ 

 buckthorn brown; an irregular subterminal Hne, punctiforra, at inner 

 margin lunular; a submarginal deeply lunular line, hair brown; cihn 

 dark tipped with white. Hind wing tawny-olive, darker on termen; 

 a faint darker medial line. Fore wing below purphsh drab, the costa 

 and termen warm buff; a postmedial dark line, almost vertical; the 

 submarginal line of upper side indicated; a dark terminal line. Hind 

 wing below warm buff with some dark irrorations, a black point on 

 cell; medial hne downbent from costa, at cell inbent to middle of 

 mner margin; traces of a subterminal line; ciha white with dark 

 points at tips of veins. 



Expanse, 37 mm. 



Habitat. — Pumayaca, Peru. 



Type.—U.S.NM. no. 34694. 



THELOSIA HERTA, new species 



Male. — Closely allied to Thelosia mayaca Schaus, differing in the 

 following respect: Abdomen below white. Fore wing more of a 

 salmon-buff; the medial line more distinct; postmedial line finer, 

 nearer termen; subterminal line distinct, lunular; marginal line also 

 lunular; hind wing darker, no medial line. Wings below light ochra- 

 ceous-buff , the fore wing with a point in cell, the postmedial line very 

 fine, faintly sinuous approximated by the distinct subterminal line; 

 submarginal line sinuous. Hind wing below with the medial line 

 faint, lunular dentate, as also the subterminal line. 



Expanse, 23 mm. 



Habitat. — Villa Rica, Paraguay. 



T^pe.— U.S.N.M. no. 34695. 



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