NO. 2039. NOCTUID MOTHS FROM TROPICAL AMERICA— 8CHAUS. 501 



line, terminating in glossy purplish brown downcurled scales. Abdo- 

 men above dark gray brown, underneath yellow brown. Fore wings: 

 Base pale brown, partly darker mottled, limited by the inbent, wavy, 

 black antemedial line, followed in cell by a slate gray orbicular shade, 

 outwardly edged with white; wing otherwise mostly slate gray; 

 costa irrorated with white between lines; inner margin medially 

 irrorated with dark gray; a fuscous shade from submedian to end 

 of cell; a white line on inner side of discocellular; some dull roseate 

 brown irrorations beyond cell; postmedial line black, oblique on 

 costa, then wavy, incurved below 4; a broad fuscous downbent 

 shade from postmedial at vein 6 extending on cilia below 5; a cir- 

 cular patch of white and brown scales from vein 4 to vein 2; sub- 

 terminal whitish shading before apex. Hind \vdngs thinly scaled, 

 brown; tinged with lilacine: termen broadly fuscous. 



Expanse. — 29 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Jean, Maroni River. 



Type.— Cat. No. 10559, U.S.N.M. 



ANGITIA ONEROSA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi, vertex, and collar dull dark brown; frons paler. 

 Thorax pale brow^n, edged in front with dark brown. Abdomen 

 dull dark brown. Fore wings dull brown; some whitish scaling 

 at base of subcostal, and subbasal fuscous brown spots in cell, and 

 above submedian; antemedial fine, dark, barely traceable, but well 

 marked on costa; reniform large, oblique, fuscous brown, heavily 

 irrorated with white, outwardly edged by a fine dark shade; post- 

 medial outcurved, minutely wavy, more heavily and darker marked 

 on costa and just below it, followed by a dark shade to vein 5, and 

 a more distinct darker spot between veins 5 and 4; subterminal 

 apparently paler, inwardly preceded by dark spots, and outwardly 

 edged by a fine dark line, expanding into a larger darker spot from 

 vein 5 to below vein 4; an interrupted terminal dark velvety line, 

 expanding at middle of interspaces. Hind wings dull dark brown; 

 terminal fuscous spots. Wings below fuscous gray. 



Expanse. — 26 mm. 



Hahitat. — St. Jean, Maroni River. 



Type.— C&t. No. 16560, U.S.N.M. 



ANGITIA HERMIONE, new species. 



Female. — Palpi and frons buff. Vertex and collar fuscous brown 

 streaked with white. Thorax buff medially, behind, and patagia 

 mottled lichen gray and brown. Abdomen pale brown. Fore wings 

 buff tinged with pale olive brown; subbasal line brown on costa, 

 fuscous below; antemedial line gray brown edged with black, with 

 a short outbent grayish shade on inner margin; orbicular and reni- 

 form outlined in creamy buff, the former crossing cell, inbent; a 



