FOUR NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM BRITISH GUIANA 5 



Similar to L. accius Smith and Abbot, but the female with an addi- 

 tional white spot and the underside of the wings differently marked. 



Cotypes, two males, two females. No. 18114, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 Georgetown, British Guiana, from larvae on blades of sugar cane 

 (H. W. B. Moore). 

 Atrytone gladolis, new species. 



Male : Forewing largely yellow, veins and broad outer border black- 

 ish ; an irregular band covering median vein to vein 1 , where it is blotched, 

 rises into the cell and projects from its end at vein 5 ; hind wing with 

 the disk only fulvous-yellow, crossed by black veins. Expanse, 32 nun. 



Female : With the black markmgs broader. Beneath, the forewing 

 as above at base, apex all fulvous-ochraceous. Hindwing of the same 

 color, a broad black ray before the inner margin. Expanse, 34-36 mm. 



Cotypes, one male, three females. No. 181 15, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Non 

 Pareil Plantation, British Guiana, larvae on leaves of sugar cane (H. W. 

 B. Moore). 



Nearest to A. mella Godman and Salvin. 



Atr3rtone heberia, new species. 



Male : Forewing brown-black ; costa fulvous to end of cell ; three 

 costo-subapical fulvous spots, a dash above vein 4, a wedge above 3, a 

 rectangulcir spot above 2 and a narrow one above 1 . Hindwing with 

 five wedge-shaped spots betv/een veins and one in lower part of cell. 

 Below, forewing Icugely fulvous, inner area shaded with black and discd 

 veins black. Hindwing yellow, v\ath broad black ray before inner mar- 

 gin. Expanse, 29 mm. 



Female : With the costa only slightly yellow ; spots white and more 

 quadrate thami in the male, except the one above vein 1 which is small 

 and yellow. Hindwing with the spots yellow and small, the one in the 

 cell obsolete. Below, the black of forewing spreads over the quadrate 

 white spots. Hindwing largely suffused with dull gray, the spots faintly 

 repeated. Expanse, 33 mm. 



Cotypes, two males, one female. No. 1 8 1 1 6, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Non 



Pareil Plantation, British Guiana, larvae on blades of sugar cane (H. W. 



B. Moore). 



LIPARID/E 



Trochuda postropaea, new species. 



Forewing pale creamy brown, the veins prominent and a little lighter ; 

 two brown lines across the wing, oblique, the inner curved toward base 



