ART. 7. NEW SPECIES OF MOTHS — SCHAUS. 5 



Expanse. — 27 mm. 



Habitat. — Colombia ? 



Type.— C-^t. No. 25876, U.S.N.M. 



Received from Dr. H. G. Dyar. 



PHEIA DOSITHEA, new species. 



Female. — Antennae fuscous with gray streaks at tips; a white 

 point at base. Palpi and head black; some white scaling in front; 

 some blue scales on vertex; neck white. Tegulae, thorax, and ab- 

 domen fuscous; some blue scales on tegulae and buii' yellow streaks 

 on dorsal edge ; similar broad streaks on patagia downangled in front 

 on shoulders; a broad yellow white band on basal segment of abdo- 

 men, the other segments with fine buff yellow segmental lines and 

 traces of subdoi-sal and lateral blue scaling, the anal hairs buff yel- 

 low. Abdomen below with white segmental lines on two basal seg- 

 ments. Legs fuscous, the mid and hind tarsi clay color ; white points 

 on coxae. Wings hyaline, the veins fuscous black. Fore Aving : inner 

 margin and termen fuscous black, expanding above vein 4 to costa 

 and at vein 2 ; an ochraceous buff line on costal vein, similar streaks 

 above and below vein 1 to near middle. Hind wing: termen rather 

 narrowly fuscous black, the inner margin more broadly black ; upper 

 part of cell and disco-cellular with dark scaling ; costa white. Hind 

 wing below with costa to beyond end of cell and upper part of cell 

 buff' yellow. 



Expanse. — 27 mm. 



Habitat. — ^Aroa, Venezuela. 



Type.— Cat. No. 25877, U.S.N.M. 



Can be placed near P. scrpensis Kaye. 



PHEIA PROTERIA. new species. 



Male. — Head and body black; scarlet spots on tegulae and shoul- 

 ders; a transverse yellow Avhite spot on basal segment of abdomen, 

 blue black bands on following segments, slightly metallic on last two 

 segments. Antennae streaked with white before tips; fore coxae, a 

 lateral spot on pectus, and spots on mid and hind coxae white; base 

 of abdomen below and ventral valve white. Wings hyaline, the veins 

 black. Fore wing: margins black, the termen broadly so especially 

 from vein 4 to apex, also below vein 2 ; a black fascia on discocellu- 

 lar widest, on costa ; a scarlet spot at base below cell. Hind wing : ter- 

 men black, widest at apex. 



Expanse. — 25 mm. 



Habitat.— QdihmiVi^ Panama. 



Type.—C'At. No. 25878, U.S.N.M. 



Collected by A. Busck. 



Near P. haematosticta Jones. 



