INSECUTOR INSClTlv^ MENSTRUUS 89 



Nacoleia veronias, new species. 



Head large; antenna? of male with a tuft beyond the middle; 

 thorax whitish, with illy defined brown markings ; abdomen 

 shaded with gray ; fore wing with the margin incised below 

 apex and way ; white, with brown markings ; a brown patch 

 at base ; a broad band at inner third, constricted in the middle, 

 lighter centrally, the upper section centered by a minute white 

 orbicular point ; a very fine line preceding the band and an- 

 other following it below and along the median vein ; a tri- 

 angular blotch across end of cell, lighter centered, touching the 

 outer line at vein 3 ; outer line slender, regularly curved, oblique 

 below ; subterminal line connecting a blotch at apex with one 

 at tornus ; a fine terminal line ; fringe white with brown bars 

 at apex, vein 7, 4, and 5. 



Hind wing excised below apex as on fore wing; white, with 

 small brown marks at base ; a band across middle, yellow cen- 

 tered on discal dot and vacuolated thence to inner margin, 

 sending a spur from cell to outer line ; outer line nearly 

 straight; apex broadly blotched with brown, widened at the 

 incision, narrowed below to a line; a terminal line just beyond; 

 fringe with dashes as on fore wing. Expanse, 11 mm. 



Type, male. No. 21130. U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Plantation Kitty, 

 Georgetown, British Guiana, December, 1913 (H. W. B. 

 Moore), bred from larv?e on Veronia curassavica. 



Allied to N. subulalis Guenee, but much smaller and differ- 

 ently marked. 



Pyrausta interlinealis, new species. 



Thorax brownish ocherous, tinged with reddish; fore wing 

 ocherous, with dull reddish markings ; costa broadly of this 

 color, the extreme edge white ; all veins and lines in the inter- 

 spaces dull reddish ; inner line scarcely traceable ; orbicular a 

 point ; renif orm a curved lunule ; outer line excurved above, 

 dentate on the veins, rather broad. 



Hind wing straw-color, darker along the margins ; a segment 

 of a grayish outer line, seen only between veins 2 and 7. Ex- 

 panse, 26 mm. 



