INSECUTOR INSCITI-Ii MliNSl'RUUS 147 



NEW SPECIES OF NOTODONTIDiE FROM 

 CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA 



(Lepidoptera) 



By W. SCHAUS 



Nystalea mocotana, new species. 



Male. — Palpi ocherous laterally streaked and irrorated with 

 dark reddish brown. Frons ocherous mottled with brown. 

 Vertex, collar, and thorax dull brown with some ocherous 

 hairs. Abdomen dull brown above; lateral tufts at base; 

 underneath whitish ochre. Legs whitish ochre with lateral 

 reddish brown streaks and spots. Fore wings light brown, 

 darker shaded at base and through cell ; streaks of alternate 

 black and ocherous scales at base above subcostal, and below 

 cell ; antemedial line defined by a black lunule on costa and 

 below median edged on either side with whitish ochre ; a medial 

 double dark brown lunular line partly mottled with pale ocher- 

 ous scales ; a fine black and pale ocherous streak in cell be- 

 tween antemedial and medial lines, and similar scaling on 

 median vein ; discocellular spot linear, black and brown, filled 

 in and edged behind with ochreous and white ; an elongated 

 pale ochreous shade on costa medially crossed by a dark brown 

 line ; a small black shade in end of cell, and a fuscous shade 

 from discocellular spot to termen from vein 5 to vein 7 ; a 

 narrow dentate fuscous shade curved around cell to middle of 

 inner margin followed by the postmedial which consists of 

 three brownish lines, irregularly lunular with white points on 

 veins 2-7 and a short oblique white line from veins 5 to 4, all 

 of these markings being very confused ; an elongated pale 

 ochreous spot on costa from postmedial to apex, reaching be- 

 low vein 7, and with a short dark streak between veins 7 and 

 8, and some dark points on costal edge ; an indistinct sub- 

 terminal, lunular, ochreous line from vein 4 to inner margin, 

 above vein 4 forming small spots and across the apical spot a 

 pale straight line; an interrupted velvety, brown black, mar- 

 ginal line, followed by fuscous shades on interspaces of ter- 

 men ; cilia mostly fuscous crossed by ochreous streaks at veins. 



