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NEW MOTHS OF FAMILY NOTODONTIDAE — SCHAUS 583 



darker irregular lines on termen. Hind \ving pale vinaceous-fawn, the 

 veins, inner margin and termen narrowly cinnamon-drab, the cilia 

 vinaceous-white. Fore wing below avellaneous, the inner margin 

 white. Hind wing below wliite. 



Expanse, 50 mm. 



Habitat. — Virginia, Minas Geraes, Brazil. 



Type— U.S.N. M. no. 30651. 



Keceived from J. F. Zikan. 



HEMICERAS BENICA, new species 



Male. — Head vinaceous-buff. Collar and thorax nearest ecru-drab. 

 Abdomen above light drab, underneath vinaceous-buff. Fore legs 

 with white tufts. Fore wing glossy avellaneous with mottled darker 

 irrorations; a vertical fine dark brown antemedial line proximally 

 edged with pale vinaceous; a fine outbent dark line on discocellular; 

 postmedial line from apex, inbent, straight to middle of inner margin, 

 fine, dark, but pale-edged distally; termen largely with darker suft'u- 

 sions, the tornus paler; the inner margin slightly lobed near base and 

 somewhat excurved to tornus. Hind wing whitish along costa, then 

 suffused with vinaceous-buff, avellaneous on inner margin; stigma 

 deep brownish drab. Fore wing below with base and inner margin 

 broadly white, otherwise brownish vinaceous. Hind wing below 

 white with a short roseate streak at sigma. 



Expanse, 40 mm. 



Habitat. — Itatiaya, Brazil. 



Type.— V.S.N. M. no. 34657. 



Keceived from J. F. Zikan. 



HEMICERAS GUERA, new species 



Male. — Head and thorax vinaceous-buff. Abdomen vinaceous- 

 fawn. Fore wing vinaceous-buff; an antemedial outcurved puncti- 

 form fuscous line; a dark line on discocellular; outer line from costa 

 well before apex, punctiform, black, sinuous to vein 2, then slightly 

 inbent to inner margin near the antemedial line; subterminal dark 

 shading extending from costa to vein 4, then outbent and downbent 

 to termen. Hind wing white mth slight vinaceous-buff suffusions 

 terminally. Wings below whitish, the cilia on fore wing finely fuscous 

 brown. 



Expanse, 32 mm. 



Habitat. — Moengo, Cottica River, Surinam, 



Type.— U.S.N. M. no. 34653. 



Paratypes. — Male and female paratypes, Carnegie ]\Iuseum no. 

 7975, Kartabo, Surinam. The male paratype is badlj' rubbed; the 

 female is in perfect condition. 



