NEW MOTHS OF FAMILY NOTODONTIDAE — SCHAUS 577 



shading; an outangled postmedial line on costa, followed by a series 

 of black points, forming an irregular line, and this followed by diffuse 

 dark gray shading; some marginal dark points; a terminal black 

 lunular dentate line partly broken; the ciha from apex to vein 3 with 

 paired dark lines from tips of veins. Hind wing deep grayish ohve, 

 the inner margm light pinldsh cinnamon; termen vinaceous-wliite, 

 proximally dentate. Fore wing below grayish olive, the costal edge, 

 termen narrowly, base below cell and basal half of inner margin 

 whitish yellow; cilia white, Hmd wing below whitish yellow, the 

 termen broadly grayish olive, expanding toward base on costal 

 margui. 



Expanse, 48 mm. 



Habitai — Hansa Humboldt, Brazil. 



T?/pe.-U.S.]S.M. no. 34648. 



MERAGISA SINDANA, new species 



Male. — Head, collar, and patagia white mottled with light mouse- 

 gray hairs; collar behind medially fuscous. Abdomen above with 

 the hair brown and with faint paler transverse lines, the anal segment 

 and hairs w^hitish gray with darker transverse hne; body underneath 

 buff white, the abdomen with grayish transverse bands. Fore wing, 

 broadly at apex and on inner margin, light cinnamon-drab; costal 

 edge white with the lines on it fuscous; base white from cell to inner 

 margin, with some black points; antemedial line double, filled in wdth 

 dark cinnamon-drab, wavily outbent from costa to median vein; 

 below cell an outcurved white Une; medial punctiform lines on costa; 

 postmedial line double, finely lunular, excmved below vein 4 and 

 again incurved, outwardly followed by black points from vein 4 to 

 costa; an irregular subterminal series of black spots and wavy lines; 

 some terminal black spots. Hind wing: Some whitish suffusions on 

 basal third ; a dark outcurved antemedial line downbent to anal angle ; 

 termen broadly glossy, with the hair brown; cilia white. Fore wing 

 below drab; costa huffish; a fuscous terminal line; cilia pale buff. 

 Hind wing below light buff" with a postmedial, outcurved and moder- 

 ately broad, drab shade. 



Expanse, 46 nun. 



Habitat. — Pueblo Guasca, Bogota, Colombia. 



TV^'e.— U.S.N.M. no. 34647. 



Three specimens. 



Genus RIFARGIA Walker 



RIFARGIA CALVESTA, new species 



Female. — Palpi laterally fuscous, underneath and above white; 

 vertex white with dark irrorations; collar grayish olive mottled with 

 white. Thorax mostly olive-brown, the patagia dorsally edged w^ith 



