NO. 2039. NOCTUID MOTHS FROM TROPICAL AMERICA— SCHAVS. 507 



it is widest; a dark-brown shade between postmedial and subterminal 

 on costa, terminating in a black-brown shade between veins 6 and 4; 

 the two lines fine, yellow brown, faintly indicated; the subterminal 

 followed by a small black shade between veins 4 and 5, and darker 

 shade across submedian fold; marginal whitish linear spots on inter- 

 spaces, outwardly dark shaded and suffusing with a dark terminal 

 line. Hind wings: Terminal markmgs as on fore wings but fainter. 

 Wings below dark-gray brown; the inner margin of fore wings 

 broadly white on basal half; a faint darker outer line on hind wings. 

 Abdomen below whitish irrorated with gray-brown. 



Expanse. — 43 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Jean, Maroni River. 



Type.—Csit. No. 16571, U.S.N.M. 



HERMINODES ALBISTRIGA, new species. 



Female. — Palpi brown, fringed below with gray. Head, collar, 

 and thorax bistre white. Abdomen above pale gray brown. Fore 

 wings grayish bistre tinged with roseate brown; a white streak be- 

 low cell from base to postmedial; lines fkie fuscous brown; ante- 

 medial wavy, outbent, angled on submedian fold ; postmedial deeply 

 outcurved beyond cell, lunular dentate; a black point as orbicular, 

 and one at end of cell; marginal black points on interspaces; some 

 brown irrorations on costal margin; cilia tipped with dark-brown 

 spots. Hind wings: Base white shading to gray brown terminally. 

 Fore wings below grayish brown. Hind wings below white; the 

 costal margin tinged with pale yellow brown. 



Expanse. — 32 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayenne, French Guiana. 



Type.— Cat. No. 16572, U.S.N.M. 



HERMINODES UMBRATA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi light brown, with short fringe below. Head, collar, 

 and thorax whitish, the latter shaded with gray behind; abdomen 

 above grayish brown. Fore wings buft' white; the costal margin and 

 the inner margin medially shaded with lilacine gray, irrorated with 

 dark purple brown; the wing otherwise thinly irrorated with brown, 

 more so on inner margin, between veins 2 and 3, and medially above 

 submedian; a faint postmedial shade, ou tangled beyond cell, slightly 

 outcurved between discocellular and submedian; traces of a subter- 

 minal brownish shade; terminal dark olive brown spots on inter- 

 spaces. Hind wings fuscous gray, the costa and cilia pale shaded. 

 Wings below whitish; fore wings with some brownish irrorations be- 

 low costa, and a dark shade on discocellular. 



Expanse. — 33 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Jean, Maroni River. 



Type.—Csit. No. 16573, U.S.N.M. 



