Dec. 1900.] ScHAUS : New Species OF Heterocera. 233 



inwardly oblique towards base of inner margin ; a minute dark discal point circled 

 with whitish scales ; beyond the cell an oblique reddish brown line from costa to inner 

 margin, followed by a white line slightly curved on costa ; this latter line is partly cut 

 and preceded by a fine blackish line ; the subterminal line fine, dark brown, partly 

 lunular, and is preceded towards apex by some white scales. Secondaries whitish ; 

 the costal and outer margins broadly brown ; a small brown discal spot ; a median 

 brown shade followed by a fine dark line. Underneath white, the costal margins and 

 apices brown, also the outer margin of secondaries to near anal angle ; median and 

 subterminal brown shades, and discal spots ; the fringes brown tipped with silvery 

 white. The 9 has the lines on primaries dark gray instead of white. The second- 

 aries and also both wings underneath are entirely brown. Expanse $ 34 mm., 

 9 40 mm. 



Habitat : Castro, Parana. 

 Zanola liliana, sp. nov. 



Body fawn color ; the patagiaa mottled with lilacine scales and fringed with 

 darker hairs. Primaries lilacine mottled with reddish fawn color ; the inner line dark 

 velvety brown, preceded by a lilacine shade, slightly sinuous ; the discal spot large, 

 pale, containing a dark streak ; beyond the cell a reddish brown line, slightly curved ; 

 the outer line .somewhat curved, fine, black, preceded by a lilacine shade ; the sub- 

 terminal fine, dark brown, deeply lunular ; the outer margin reddish fawn color ; a 

 terminal brown line. Secondaries brownish ; the outer margin yellow ; a median and 

 an outer transverse line ; a terminal brown line. Underneath the primaries are pale 

 fawn color mottled with brown at apex ; a median brownish line. The secondaries 

 are shaded with lilacine ; a median dark brown line, angled beyond the cell, and 

 followed by a broad pale brown .shade ; a brown shade in cell and to apex, the outer 

 line wavy, fine, black ; subterminal and terminal brown shadings broken by the 

 veins. Expanse 41 mm. 



Habitat: Castro, Parana. 



Fam. LASIOCAMPID.E. 



Hydrias palota, sp. nov. 



$ Palpi, head and thorax gray, mottled with yellow hairs. Body dark gray. 

 Primaries whitish, thinly irrorated with gray scales ; the base dark gray ; a fine 

 median gray lunular line ; a faint subterminal grayish line ; no discal spot. Second- 

 aries with the base and inner margin dark gray, the outer portion whitish, thinly 

 irrorated with light gray. 9 with the irrorations slightly darker. Expanse $ 34 

 mm., 9 43 vam.. 



Habitat : Castro, Parana. 



Hydrias pygma, sp. nov. 



$ Body blackish, mottled with brown hairs. Primaries dark brown, the veins 

 nearly black ; a basal geminate dark line from costa to median vein, follovi^ed in cell 

 and on costa by a whitish space ; a dark spot at end of cell; a subterminal, irregular, 



