NEW MOTHS OF FAMILY NOTODONTIDAE — SCHAUS 579 



RIFARGIA ALANIA, new species 



Male. — Head, collar, and thorax ecru-drab mottled with army 

 brown; a small spot on vertex and a line across front of collar fuscous; 

 a large triangular space on thorax posteriorly benzo brown and a 

 similar small spot dorsally on basal segment of abdomen, the latter 

 light plumbago gray dorsally, "with darker transverse shades leaving 

 the segmental lines pale; abdomen below pale vinaceous-gray. Fore 

 wing partly white; a fine double subbasal black line from costa to 

 submedian, preceded by a small dark gray spot below cell edged above 

 by a curved black line, followed by a thicker antemedial black line 

 from costa to submedian, the space below submedian white from base 

 to tornus; the antemedial line followed by a vinaceous-buff shade to 

 submedian, distally edged by a double fine lunular line; above it a 

 broad oblique fascia which is light cinnamon-drab on costa, and then 

 grayish olive from within cell to below vein 2 where it ends in a black 

 point; a colonial buff space below the fascia, and between cell and 

 submedian, extending to postmedial line; the oblique fascia broadly 

 edged by white from costa to postmedial line; above it a large dark 

 mottled spot, not reaching costa; the postmedial line fine, ochraceous- 

 salmon, sinuous; subterminal space from below costa broadly white 

 with some pale olive gray suffusions, more intense toward vein 2, 

 at tornus reduced to an oblique streak, the whole limited by the rather 

 broad termen and the cilia which are vinaceous-buff with black points 

 on the interspaces expanding into large spots on cilia ; dark points on 

 submedian vein with short streaks below the vein. Hind wing with 

 base, medial space below vein 6 to vein 2, and the inner margin 

 huffish white, the terminal space broadly brownish drab, the cilia 

 whitish. Fore wing below cinnamon-drab; a broad oblique white 

 fascia from cell and vein 2 to tornus; the apex, termen narrowly and 

 cilia pale ecru drab. Hind wing below with the inner margin broadly 

 white, the termen broadly cinnamon-drab, widest at apex, the termen 

 narrowly and cilia pale ecru-drab. 



Expanse, 52 mm. 



Habitat. — Minas Geraes, Brazil. 



Type.—V.S.^.M. no. 34661. 



RIFARGIA TERTINI, new species 



Male. — Palpi fuscous tipped with pale pinkish buff; collar pinkish 

 buff crossed by a broad fuscous band. Thorax black, also the dorsal 

 tips of the grayish-white patagia; the metathorax tipped with pinkish 

 buff hairs. Abdomen above pale ecru-drab, underneath white. Fore 

 wing above pale ecru-drab irrorated with dark scales and crossed 

 by fine double black lines; a single fine basal line; antemedial line 

 lunular, dentate; an angled velvety black line at discocellular, preceded 



