No. 2307. NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA—SCHAUS. 119 



ELYSIUS GLADYSIA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi, head, and thorax crimson, the tegnlae and thorax 

 mottled with yellow; black points on tegulae, and also on patagia 

 in front and behind; abdomen above reddish with narrow black 

 segmental lines, the dorsum on basal half rosy red; underneath 

 brown. Fore wings purplish brown crossed by numerous darker 

 wavy lines; veins brown; margins and cilia finely fuscous gray; the 

 markings yellow crossed by numerous wavy, irregular, crimson lines 

 and edged with fuscous brown, the base forming a small irregular 

 spot outbent on inner margin; a broad antemedial space oblique 

 from costa to submedian vein, its edge below cell forming almost a 

 complete ring; a large spot occupying end of cell; a broad postmedial 

 space from costa to submedian, cut by veins, its outer black edging 

 forming a very distinct line; a subterminal series of small spots, 

 mostly round. Hind wings rosy red. 



ExjJanse. — Male 60 mm. 



Habitat. — Purulha, Guatemala. • 



Ty2)e.—Csit. No. 22423, U.S.N.M. 



In the arrangement of the spots this species comes nearest Elysius 

 pyrosticta. Hampson. 



THALESA DEBILIS, new species. 



Male. — Body and fore wings pale brownish yellow, whitish at 

 base of abdomen dorsally; black points on tegulae; fore wings crossed 

 by numerous wavy brown lines; antemedial line defined by grayish 

 shadings, a medial line similarly shaded from subcostal vein to inner 

 margin; a black point on discocellular; a small subterminal dark 

 brown dash between veins 5 and 6, inner margin gi'ayish brown. 

 Hind wings yellowish white. 



Expanse. — 31 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayuga, Guatemala, also in collection from Mexico and 

 Costa Rica. 



Type.— Cat. No. 22424, U.S.N.M. 



Altogether paler than T. citrina Sepp and without the white spot 

 on fore wing. 



HALISIDOTA DEMOCRATA, new species. 



Female. — Body above pale ochreous; a dark point on patagia in 

 front. Wings whitish yellow. Fore wings: a few darker irrora- 

 tions forming almost imperceptible markings; an antemedial wavy 

 line outcurved in cell about its middle then inbent to submedian; 

 some shading above and below end of cell; a small black point on 

 discocellular at veins 4 and 5 ; a broken postmedial line and a wavy 

 marginal line. 



Expanse. — 40 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayuga, Guatemala. 



Type.— Cat. No. 22425, U.S.N.M. 



