ART. 7. N-EW SPECIES OF MOTHS SCHAUS. 31 



NERITOS CYBAR, new species. 



Male. — Palpi, fi'ons, and basal joint of antennae eosine pink, the 

 palpi fringed with light ochraceons buff; vertex pale orange yellow. 

 Collar and thorax ocher red, the patagia with a yellow streak. Abdo- 

 men above peach red, underneath cream color ; legs cream color, fore 

 coxae and tibiae eosine pink. Fore wing cinnamon rufous suffused 

 with carrot red; antemedial and medial small round buff yellow 

 spots, circled with peach red, above and below submedian; a large 

 maize yellow space on middle third of costa extending to vein 2 and 

 vein 4, both sides concave; termen broadly maize yellow narrowing 

 to a point at apex and tomus; postmedial dark space broad on costa 

 narrowing to a point at vein 4, sometimes the ^^ellow medial patch 

 suffuses with the termen at vein 4, all the dark portions edged with a 

 peach red line. Hind wing cream color. Fore wing below with the 

 dark space at base and along inner margin eosine pink, the apical 

 spot with darker suffusions. 



Female. — Fore wing geranium pink, t\\^. antemedial and medial 

 small spots as in male; tlie yellow medial space with edges oblique, 

 the subterminal band equally broad from costa to vein 4. 



Expanse. — 26 mm. 



Habitat. — Tucuman, Argentina. 



Type.— Cvit. No. 26818. U.S.N.M. 



PAREVIA VULMARIA, new species. 



Female. — Palpi light coral red streaked in front with purple drab. 

 Frons and thorax purple drab; vertex orange buff edged by a red 

 line in front and one behind. Abdomen above light coral red, under- 

 neath light buff. Legs maize yellow, the fore legs streaked with red. 

 Fore wing purple drab edged witli light coral red from costa ante- 

 medially following the contour of the drab .space where excurved by 

 the marginal orange buff* spots: a spot on costa near middle to within 

 cell, extending naiTowly on costa beyond; a minute spot on costa 

 pustmedially and a small spot before apex; a spot on termen above 

 vein 4 incurved to near vein 5, then downbent to vein 3 near termen 

 and slightly incurved to tornus ; cilia orange buff. Hind wing light 

 coral red; costa narrowh' and cilia buff pink. Fore wing below 

 marked as above but more reddish, the marginal spots paler. Hind 

 wing below salmon color. 



Expanse. — 25 mm. 



Habitat. — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 



7'//;>^'.— Cat. Xo. 26819, IT,S.N,M. 



AUTOMOLIS POSTRADIATA, new species. 



Female. — -Palpi black; frons black with metallic blue spot; vertex, 

 collar, and thorax orange })uff ; a black spot on vertex, and fine black 



