AUT. 7. NEW SPECIES OF MOTHS SCHAUS. 67 



MEGASTES OLIVALIS. new species. 



Male. — Antennae with the shaft whitish but!', the pectinations 

 black. Palpi inwardly white, outwardly drab. Head, collar, and 

 thorax buff white shaded with pale drab gray according to light. 

 Abdomen above drab with paler lines posteriorly on segments: basal 

 segment cinnamon ^vith a short transverse white line in front, its 

 €nds downbent; second segment with a white line in front expand- 

 ing laterally into triangular spots, followed subdorsally by a small 

 oval white spot; a sublateral w^avy black band: ventral surface like 

 dorsum but without white markings. Fore wing grayish olive; a 

 white streak medially along costa; inner margin broadh' wdiite at 

 base; a black basal line on costa, and a similar subbasal line from 

 costa across cell ; antemedial line black, outcurved to below cell, then 

 slightly incurved; medial space whitish, with a large grayish olive 

 spot in cell, an ovate spot below cell, and an irregiilar spot on inner 

 margin ; a quadrate dark spot at end of cell with black lines on either 

 side; postmedial line black, remote, irregularly wavy to vein 2, ^hen 

 upbent and curved below end of cell and downbent to near middle of 

 inner margin, followed by semihyaline white spots, larger between 

 veins 8 and 6, then small to vein 2 and again larger from cell to in- 

 ner margin ; costa on terminal third light buff ; cilia whitish buff wath 

 small dark spots at veins, also divided by a fine dark line. Hind 

 wing semihyaline w'hite; a small black spot on discocellular; a faint 

 postmedial line from costa, outcurved below vein 5 to near termen 

 and hardly traceable, reappearing as a small spot on submedian fold ; 

 termen narrowly black, reduced to small spots between veins 2 and 5 ; 

 cilia cream color tipped with wliite. Fore wing below wdiitish, the 

 costa and termen grayish olive ; a black annulus in cell, and quadrate 

 spot at end of cell; postmedial line less distinct, only the two hyaline 

 spots between veins 8 and 6 apparent. Hind wing below with terjni- 

 nal markings fainter, the discal spot larger. 



Expanse. — 36 nmi. 



Habitat. — Trinidad, Paraguay. 



Type.— Ctxt. No. 26053 U.S.N.M. 



AZOCHIS ESSEQUEBALIS, new species. 



Femals. — ^Palpi black, basal half below white. Head, body, and 

 legs white; a fine black edge to frons laterally and in front; sub- 

 dorsal black spots at base of abdomen; two transverse black bands 

 medially, with a dorsal spot on preceding segment, and a black 

 spot on anal segment. Wings thinly scaled, iridescent white, the 

 markings black. Fore wing: basal points on costa, in cell, and 

 below submedian: subbasal patches on costa, in cell, and below 

 submedian; a thick antemedial outcurved line: a medial streak 



