PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



issued iJ-f-^^oA. Sl'^mi hy the 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 

 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Vol. 84 Washington: 1937 No. 3026 



NEW SPECIES OF MOTHS OF THE FAMILY NOTODON- 

 TIDAE IN THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



By William Schaus 



Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, United States Department of 



Agriculture 



Two NEW genera and 37 new species of notodontid moths are 

 described in tliis paper. Most of the specimens on which these de- 

 scriptions are based were received for identification from collectors in 

 Tropical America; others were presented by Frank Johnson, of Glen 

 Kidge, N. J., a most generous contributor to the national collection 

 of Lepidoptera. 



Genus PROELYMIOTIS Schaus 



PROELYMIOTIS RHETESA, new species 



Male. — Head tufts fuscous below, pale vinaceous-drab above; coUar 

 pale vinaceous mottled with black hairs. Thorax covered by the 

 patagia, which are pale vinaceous-drab, dorsally edged with fuscous 

 hau's. Abdomen dorsally deep brownish drab at base, otherwise pale 

 vinaceous-drab, underneath pallid purple-drab. Fore wing above 

 with base and costal margin broadly Ught brownish drab from ante- 

 medial line to apex; a subbasal, very irregular black line not reacliing 

 inner margin, upbent to antemedial at subcostal; antemedial out- 

 curved to a black line on basal half of submedian ; all proximally edged 

 below by a fine, pale vinaceous-drab line; a black point at upper 

 angle of cell and a similar spot below it on vein 4 ; a pale vinaceous-drab 

 streak below cell and vein 5; a double, dark excurved postmedial line, 



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