ART. 7. NEW SPECIES OF MOTHS^ SCHAUS. 63 



to discocellvilar annulus, curved and downbent to inner margin; 

 siibterminal line straight parallel with terminal line, the two con- 

 nected by a bar above vein 5; cilia white. Hind Aving white; a black 

 point on discocellular; a postmedial line from vein 6 to below vein 

 2, retracted to cell, sinuous to inner margin above angle, inter- 

 rupted near cell and before inner margin; subterminal and ter- 

 minal lines faint towards anal angle. 



Expanse. — 21 mm. 



Habitat. — Buena Vista, Bolivia. 



Type.— C^t. No. 26052, U.S.N.M. 



Near C. argentolh Cramer, 



DICHOCROCIS NIMALIS, new species. 



Male.—Y'dlin white streaked with reddish brown above. Head 

 silky white. Collar white shaded in front with buff. Thorax buff, 

 the patagia outwardly white. Abdomen dorsally brown at base, 

 with white spots, terminally gray with white segmental lines; under- 

 neath white. Legs white. Fore wing thinly scaled iridescent gray 

 brown; base darker; two small spots antemedially in cell, and two 

 streaks medially, with whitish shades around them; a darker streak 

 on discocellular, somewhat divided by a whitish line; a subterminal 

 broad white line from costa to vein 5; whitish shading terminally, 

 and small brown spots on interspaces; cilia white mottled with pale 

 brown. Hind wing semihyaline white, the costal margin and 

 tcrmen broadly grayish brown, crossed by a Avavy snbterminal 

 white line; a terminal white line; cilia dark brown at base, then 

 paler and tipped with white. Wings below gi-ayish white showing 

 indistinctly the markings of upper surface. 



Expanse. — 20 mm. 



Habitat. — Bolivia. 



Type.—C'At. No. 25596, U.S.N.M. 



Belongs near D. prosalis Druce. 



PILETOSOMA TACTICALIS. new species. 



3/«7€.— Palpi fuscous brown, the base below, throat, and fore 

 femora silvery white. Head fuscous gra}', the frons shot with blue. 

 Thorax fuscous gray with vivid metallic blue markings. Abdomen 

 above ochraceous gray tinged with metallic blue, underneath fuscous 

 gray tinged with blue and with four segmental white lines. Legs 

 fuscous. Fore wing iridescent purple, tinged with blue on basal 

 half; the immediate base, costal and inner margin brilliant dark blue; 

 cilia fuscous with paler tips. Hind wing iridiscent purple, the base 

 and inner margin tinged with blue; cilia black at base, broadly 

 tipped with white. Wings below duller with bluish tinge only on 

 inner margin of hind wing. 



