90 INSECUTOR INSCITI.i; MENSTRUUS 



Type, female, No. 21131, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Plantation Kitty, 

 Georgetown, British Guiana, June, 1915 (H. W. B. Moore), 

 bred from larvae on vervain {Stachytarpheta sp.). 



Herculia psammioxantha, new species. 



Brownish straw-color, densely dusted with fine brown scales ; 

 lines straight, parallel, erect; a faint discal dot, often absent; 

 outer line faintly edged with pale. 



Hind wing with two dark lines, approximating toward inner 

 margin, faintly pale edged, the inner toward base, the outer 

 outwardly; outer line originating not far from middle of 

 costa, reaching inner margin at its outer fourth. Expanse, 

 16 mm. 



Type, male, No. 21132, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Plantation Vry- 

 heid's Lust, Georgetown, British Guiana, August, 1915 (H. W. 

 B. Moore), bred from larvae on withered, fallen leaves of 

 trumpet tree. Other specimens are before me from Cayenne, 

 French Guiana, January, 1904 (W. Schaus) ; Santiago and \ 

 Matanzas, Cuba, June and August, 1902 (W. Schaus). 



The female is larger, expanse, 17-20 mm. 

 Pococera chrysoderas, new species. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white, washed with yellow- 

 brown ; abdomen posteriorly with broad black apical segmental 

 rings ; fore wing with a pale ocherous bar along inner margin 

 to middle, sharply cut by the inner line ; two black bars above 

 this ; costal area brownish with a black mark in the cell ; inner 

 line at middle of wing, erect, straight, black, running into the 

 small white discal dot, inbent on costa ; outer half of wing 

 gray in median space, thence shading blackish to margin ; 

 outer line excurved centrally, black, single, dentate on the 

 veins ; a terminal thick black line, cut by whitish on the veins. 



Hind wing brownish yellow at anal angle, apex broadly 

 blackish, veins dark; fringe diflfusedly interlined. Expanse, 

 22 mm. 



Type, female. No. 21133, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Plantation Golden 

 Fleece, Georgetown, British Guiana, June 7, 1915 (H. W. B. 

 Moore), bred from larvse on an unidentified shrub growing on 

 the sand hills. 



