ART. 7. • NEW SPECIES OF MOTHS SCHAUS. 3 



edge curved and angled at vein 2 ; costa and inner margin narrowly 

 black; a large black spot on discocellular. Hind wing with cell 

 and costa at base broadly black ; termen black. 



Expanse. — 26 mm. 



Hahitat. — Mouth of Kio Teffe and Rio Solimoes, Brazil. 



Type. — At Cornell University. 



Faratype.—C?ii. No. 26166, U.S.N.M. 



Collected by the Cornell University Expedition, September 5, 

 1920. We are indebted to the university for the paratype. 



SAROSA ALBRAAMEA, new species. 



Male. — Antennae black tipped with buff yellow and white. Palpi 

 avellaneous with a fine lateral black line. Head, collar, and thorax 

 buff yellow; large black spots on tegulae; thorax at middle and 

 edges of patagia black, the dorsal edge very broadly so. Abdomen 

 above black with transverse buff yellow lines, the basal segment en- 

 tirely buff yellow with a black dorsal spot; underneath fuscous 

 black with short segmental white lines to either side, the valve white 

 with some black and buff yellow scaling at base. Legs entirely buff 

 yellow. Wings hyaline, the veins mostly buff yellow thickly irro- 

 rated with black. Fore wing; costal margin orange buff with semi- 

 hyaline streaks on basal half above and below costal vein; outer 

 margin fuscous black expanding slightly toward apex and at sub- 

 median fold and vein 2. Hind wing with termen fuscous black, 

 expanding below vein 2 to anal angle ; costa straw yellow ; inner mar- 

 gin narrowly buff yellow; an inangled spot at discocellular. Hind 

 wing below with the cell and costa buff yellow, the latter fringed 

 with fuscous scales from just before middle to apex. 



Expanse. — 27 mm. 



Hahitat. — Rio Potaro, British Guiana. 



7V/7e.— Cat. No. 25873, U.S.N.M. 



Near S. atritoma Dognin. 



GYMNELIA DUCEI, new species. 



Female. — Antennae black with a white point at base. Head and 

 body black; collar edged behind with xanthine orange and a similar 

 streak on patagia; a short buff yellow segmental line on either side 

 of basal segment of abdomen; subdorsal transverse blue bands on 

 following segments, also lateral and sublateral blue spots; end of 

 abdomen orange ; ventrally the two basal segments white. Legs black 

 partly irrorated with blue. Fore wing hyaline tinged with yellow 

 ochre along veins; margins finely black; a buff yellow streak below 

 submedian; apex rather broadly black. Hind wings hyaline white, 

 the margins finely black, expanding before anal angle. 



