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Family SATURNIIDAE. 



DIRPHIA ORIDOCEA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi and head mahogany red. Thorax verona brown 

 with some pinkish buff hairs. Abdomen above black, the base ma- 

 hogany red; anal hairs and fine segmental lines ochraceous orange; 

 lateral and sublateral round white spots; venter ochraceous tawny; 

 tibiae and tarsi mahogany red. Fore wing verona brown; a large 

 white spot at base from below costal edge to submedian, continued 

 as a line to inner margin, its proximal edge oblique, its distal edge 

 outcurved, partly irrorated with some faint tawny scales; an elon- 

 gated cream white antemedial spot below^ cell; a large irregular 

 white spot at end of cell with a broad line projecting from it along 

 vein 5 to beyond postmedial line, containing a large cluster of apri- 

 cot yellow scales; postmedial line erect, defined by pallid vinaceous 

 drab scaling beyond it which extends to apex and termen from vein 

 2 to tornus, leaving a curved terminal clear brown space. Hind 

 wing sayal brown with fuscous postmedial and subterminal shades, 

 the latter followed by pallid vinaceous drab scaling not reaching 

 termen; an oval pinkish buff spot over discocellular containing 

 some darker scales. Fore wing below broadly light buff on inner 

 margin, otherwise suffused with brown, the cell fuscous; a pale 

 shade on discocellular; a sayal brown straight postmedial line 

 distally edged with pallid vinaceous drab, and similar subterminal 

 shading as on upper side. Hind wing below sayal brown suffused 

 with pallid vinaceous drab except on costa, medial and postmedial 

 broad lines, a finer subterminal line, lunular between veins 2 and 4, 

 and the termen. 



Expanse. — 67 mm. 



Habitat. — Peru. 



Type.— C2it. No. 26351, U.S.N.M. 



DIRPHIA BINASA. new species. 



Male. — Palpi mouse gray, the fringe below tipped with cinnamon. 

 Frons hair brown, laterally cinnamon. Antennae cinnamon. Body 

 above black with scattered pinkish cinnamon hairs, especially on 

 thorax; patagia mottled with w^hite hairs; anal hairs bittersweet 

 orange; body below and innersicle of legs light ochraceous buff, 

 outside of legs black. Fore wing whitish almost entirely effaced 

 by the overlying scales and hairs; costal edge and veins from post- 

 medial line to termen ochraceous orange, and a similar spot at base 

 of inner margin ; a black line on fold from base to antemedial line, 

 the space above it mottled isabella color and white, below it mouse 

 gray and w^hite ; antemedial line, almost medial, wood brown, double. 



