NEW HETEEOCEROUS MOTHS — SCHATJS 503 



Expanse: 40 mm. 

 Habitat. — Esperito Santo, Brazil. 

 Ty^e.— U.S.N.M. No. 34760. 

 No paratypes. 



HAUSIDOTA LOISONA, new species 



Female. — Palpi dark bro^vn with black tip; head and collar hght 

 brownish vinaceous; thorax black, the patagia mostly white, showing 

 on outer edge a black line. Abdomen above with alternate black and 

 greenish segmental lines, underneath whitish gray with a fine black 

 subdorsal broken Une. Fore wing pale vinaceous-brown, with darker 

 veins and small black irrorations; a black spot with pale center at end 

 of cell; subterminal black lunular spots on interspaces, mostly double, 

 black, preceded by postmedial fine angled lines, also terminal black 

 spots at cilia; a faint dark line from spot at end of ceil to apex. Hind 

 wing somewhat hyaline, greenish with slightly darker suffusion on 

 inner half of wing with terminal black spots on interspaces; a larger 

 black spot at vein 6. Wings below with markings on wings less dis- 

 tinctly indicated. 



Expanse: 55 mm. 



Habitat. — Espirito Santo, Brazil. 



TV^e.— U.S.N.M. No. 34761. 



No paratypes. 



HALISIDOTA DALTONA. new species 



Male. — Palpi black; head and collar light purplish vinaceous; thorax 

 fuscous alm.ost completely covered by the white patagia; metathorax 

 dull green; abdomen above dull roseate with black spots on segments, 

 the anal hairs dull green; a subdorsal punctiform black line and black 

 lines on central segments. Fore wing pale vinaceous-fa\vn, with 

 irregular black points antemedially and on subterminal interspaces; 

 a postmedial slightly darker shade angled with a branch extending 

 toward apex. Hind wing semihyaline, with a faint greenish shade 

 more prominent on interspaces; terminal black points on veins. 

 Wings below faintly greenish, with traces of markings on upper side. 



Expanse: 42 mm. 



Habitat. — Santa Catharina, Brazil. 



TV^e.— U.S.N.M. No. 34762. 



HALISIDOTA ISHIMA, new species 



Male. — Head and collar olive-ocher, the latter with two large black 

 spots; thorax apparently with black hahs almost entirely covered by 

 the marguerite-yellow patagia; abdomen dorsally the same, with 

 transverse dark lines, underneath reed yellow. Fore \ving marguerite 

 yellow, with two black spots on costa near base and an irregular 

 series of dark spots postmedially and subterminally on interspaces, 



