PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



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U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Vol. 86 Washington: 1939 No. 3063 



NEW SPECIES OF MOTHS OF THE FAMILIESTNOTODON- 

 TIDAE AND BOMBYCIDAE IN THE UNITED_STATES 

 NATIONAL MUSEUM 



By William Schaus 



This paper contains the descriptions of 34 new species of moths, 

 some of the specimens being received from friends for identification 

 and some gained by purchase. Twenty-four of the species are from 

 various parts of Brazil, the remaining ten from scattered localities in 

 Central and South America. Twenty-six are assigned to the family 

 Notodontidae; eight belong to the Bombycidae, one in the subfamily 

 Epiinae and seven in Zanolinae. The material is all in the__United 

 States National Museum. 



Family NOTODONTIDAE 

 Genus PRONERICE Schaus 



PRONERICE LUDECIA, new speciea 



Female. — Head and collar mottled fuscous, buffy olive and white, 

 the patagia with numerous white-tipped scales; abdomen above buffy 

 olive with faint pale transverse Hues, underneath shell pink with dark 

 olive-buff transverse lines. Fore wing dark citrine with a brownish 

 tinge; costal margin with transverse black lines and white points 

 before apex; veins from cell finely darker; an antemedial irregular 

 black Une; a white line on discocellular ; a postmedial black Une, 

 partly punctiform, lunular from vein 3 to inner margin; a subterminal 



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