No. 2307. ]^EW SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA—SCHAUS. 151 



Family PEROPHORIDAE. 



LACOSOMA PERPLEXA. new species. 



Male. — Body and wings buff gray, the latter with some black irro- 

 rations. Fore wings slightly incurved below apex and produced 

 between veins 5 and 2; some roseate shading at end of cell and be- 

 yond it, also faintly below cell at base; a fine black streak on disco- 

 cellular; post-medial line fine, brownish, slightly outcurved beyond 

 cell, perpendicular from vein 5 to inner margin. Hind wings: the 

 outer margin rounded; the medial line slightly heavier; some faint 

 roseate shading in cell; termen shaded with pale brown. Fore wings 

 below similar, but the shading m cell and beyond more extended 

 and redder. Hind wings below similar, but without any roseate 

 shading. 



Expanse. — 29 mnu 



Habitat. — Quirigua, Guatemala. 



Type.— Csit. No. 22500, U.S.N.M. 



Distinguished from similarly colored species by the outer margin 

 not being crenulate. 



CICINNUS MULATRO, new species. 



Female. — Body and wings ochre brown; Fore wings: a fuscous line 

 from just beyond middle of inner margin, oblique to vein 7, followed 

 by a line of black irrorations, the base of each scale white; from vein 

 7 to apex this line continues and is fuscous brown; a fine, black, ob- 

 lique streak at end of cell. Hind wings with the line and irrorations 

 medial. Fore wings below: a black streak on discooellular; no line 

 except a short fuscous streak at apex. Hind wings below: a few 

 black irrorations, chiefly near costa; a postmedial short black line on 

 inner margin. 



Expanse. — 59 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayuga Guatemala. 



Type.— Cat. No. 22501, U.S.N.M. 



One specimen at light in October. Allied to C. Joanna Schaus. 



CICINNUS MOTAGUS, new species. 



Male.- — Head, collar, abdomen above, and legs pale brown; thorax 

 lilacine gray, with a few scattered fuscous scales. Wings gray with 

 some scattered black scales. Fore wings: a faint pale brown ante- 

 medial line; two superposed hyaline spots at end of cell narrowly 

 edged and separated by a brown Ime tmged with red at median vein ; 

 postmedial line fine, fuscous brown, down bent to vem S on costa, 

 then outbent towards apex, angled and inbent to inner margm fol- 

 lov/ed by a reddish spot between vems 6 and 8, and below 6 by a 

 narrow brownish shade coalescmg at vein 4 with a similar shade 



