NEW MOTHS OF FAMILY NOTODONTIDAE — SCHAUS 571 



space by a very fine dark line. Hind wing slightly whitish at base, 

 the outer two-thirds dark olive-buff, the cilia whitish. Fore wing 

 below brownish drab, the inner margin and apex white. Hind wing 

 below whitish, the termen broadly suffused \\ath pale brownish drab. 



Expanse, 38 nini. 



Habitat. — Itatiaya, Brazil. 



Type.— V.S.N. M. no. 34665. 



Received from J. F. Zikan. 



DISPHRAGIS LAOSOMA, new species 



Male. — Head, collar, and patagia mottled drab, wliite, and black, 

 the thorax black. Abdomen above with the hair brown, the anal hairs 

 light grayish olive with a few interrmngling black hairs. Fore wing 

 with base mottled vinaceous and black, crossed by a subbasal curved 

 black line, followed by an antemedial black fascia outbent from costa 

 to below cell, then continuing as an inbent black line to inner margin, 

 preceded below cell by a mottUng of pale green, white and black 

 scales; the fascia followed on costa by a fine wavy black line, dentate, 

 lunular, inbent from below cell to imier margin; the cell mostly deep 

 olive and fuscous, crossed by two black lunules, pale edged; the post- 

 medial line fuscous, very irregular and broken, followed on costa by a 

 deep grayish ohve, elongated spot, not reaching apex; termen above 

 tornus to vein 4 mottled white, pale green and fuscous; a sub terminal 

 dark shade from below vein 6, expanding below vein 5, reduc^^d and 

 dentate ])elow vein 4; terminal black lunules on interspaces, the cilia 

 with black at tips of veins. Hind wing with the inner margin deep 

 colonial buff and similar suffusions medially; termen deep drab, the 

 ciHa white. Fore wing below with the hair brown, the inner margin 

 and base whitish. Hind wing below with, the hair mostly brown; a 

 large whitish spot at anal angle. 



Expanse, 39 mm. 



Habitat. — Espirito Santo, Brazil. 



jy^e.— U.S.N.M. no. 34677. 



DISPHRAGIS HOSMERA, new species 



7^/cr7^ —Palpi above and frons light grayish ohve. Collar light 

 grayish olive mottled with dark hairs in front and with white scaling; 

 thorax fuscous, the patagia Hght grayish ohve. Abdomen above buff- 

 brown at base, otherwise deep olive-buff, with dark segmental lines 

 white underneath. Fore wing wdth the base pale pinkish buff with a 

 yellow, black-edged, round spot below cell; basal third of wing grayish 

 ohve, this area edged distally by a fine black, lunular line; space 

 beyond to termen, and from costa to vein 3, light grajdsh olive, the 

 costal edge darker, crossed by some short black lines; black points on 



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