NEW MOTHS OF FAMILY XOTODONTIDAE — SCHAUS 569 



Expanse, 40 mm. 



Habitat. — Espirito Santo, Brazil. 



Ty^e.— U.S.N.M. no. 34686. 



DISPHRAGI3 AVICANS, new species 



Female. — Head and thorax warbler green, the patagia edged with 

 black hairs. Abdomen above biiff-brov/n with transverse citrine lines ; 

 underneath white, the legs mostty yellowish green. A large warbler- 

 green space from base of costa, its anterior edge outangled on sub- 

 costal, then shghtly incurved and angled on vein 2, incurved and 

 downbent to submedian and irregularly upbent to base below cell, 

 the inner margin at base with some white mottling; the large green 

 space crossed by a wavy black vertical line with a few grayish scales on 

 its edges; the postmedial space lilac-buff varied with warbler green, 

 broad on costa, obhque and narrow at tornus, hmited by a lunular 

 black line, which is incurved below vein 3 to inner mai'gin; a small 

 black spot in cell; the apex broadly and termen below A^ein 4 narrowly 

 warbler green with subterminal dentate black spots from vein 7 to 

 vein 4 ; the termen below vein 4 with hlac-buff mottling. Hind wing 

 vinaceous-white, the termen broadly light drab, the cilia pale drab-gray. 

 Fore wing below pale brownish drab with whitish suffusions on inter- 

 spaces. Hind wing below white. 



Expanse, 47 mm. 



Habitat. — Jepelacio, North Peru. 



Type.—V.S.^.M. no. 34659. 



DISPHRAGIS SALMA, new specks 



Male. — Palpi black fringed with white; sliaft of antenna gmy, the 

 pectinations white; head wliite with a dark curved Ime. Collar and 

 thorax palhd purplish gray mottled with wliite, the thor.'ix slightly 

 darker. Abdomen white with a slight grayish tinge. Fore wing with 

 a large triangular space from base of costa to outer hne, edged below 

 by a v.'avy dark line from base of cell to antemedial line ; the base of 

 inner margin white with liiacine motthng; antemedial line irregular 

 on costa, broken, below cell somewhat lunular to inner margin; an 

 upright dark medial Hne in ceil, outangled below cell, inangled on 

 submechan; postmedial line fine, outangled on costa, fine light brown 

 on discocellular where it joins the outer line, fuscous, incurved 

 opposite cell, with a double lunule between veins 4 and 3, inbent and 

 sinuous to inner margin; a short black line below base of vein 3 

 extending outwardly and, from costa to vein 3, broadly shaded 

 proximally with hair brown; a short black streak on inner margin 

 near base; termen broadly ecru drab cut by the fuscous veins; a 

 subterminal fuscous line; cilia liiacine with dark hairs at tips of veins. 

 Hind wing somewhat hyahne smoky gray, the costa and inner margin 



