AMKKICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 135 



MEW SPECIES OF AWEKICASf HETEKOCER4. 



BY W. SCHAUS. 



SYNTOMID.E. 



Honiceocera rliodocera. — Antennse red, tipped with yellow. Legs 

 black; tarsi red. Palpi hlack, streaked with blue below. Head and thorax 

 black, some blue scales ou collar. Abdomen black ; a metallic lilacine dorsal and 

 lateral line; a transverse yellow line on first segment; a lateral white spot and 

 yellow line on second segment; a white ventral spot. A white tuft at base of 

 hind legs. Wings transparent yellowish, tinged with brown along costa of pri- 

 maries; veins black except 10, 11, 12, which are reddish; fringe dark brown; 

 outer margin of secondaries near angle blackish. Expanse 38 mm. 



Ha bitat. — Ch i riqu i . 



Saroi^a iiierideiisis.— Legs black, streaked with blue; tarsi fawn col- 

 ored ; fore coxae opalescent. Head and thorax black ; a blue spot on head and 

 on tegula. Abdomen black ; transverse yellow band on first and second seg- 

 ments; dorsal lilacine spots; a lateral yellow spot on segment 2; lateral white 

 ventral spots on segments 2, 3, 4. Primaries yellowish hyaline; veins black; 

 space between costal and subcostal veins light brownish, and a similar shade at 

 base of inner margin; inner and outer margins, and fringe narrowly black, 

 apex broadly black. Secondaries whitish hyaline; the costa yellowish; the 

 outer margin narrowly hlack. Antennte black; broadly yellow before tips. 

 Expanse 35 mm. 



Habitat. — Merida, Venezuela. 



^-Etliria innotala. — Body black; a few blue scales on collar; anal tuft 

 crimson. Wings transparent, veins black. Primaries: the margins black, the 

 outer margin more broadly so, especially at apex and inner angle; the disco- 

 cellular broadly black. Secondaries with the outer margin very broadly black. 

 Expanse 38 mm. 



Habitat. — Petropolis, Brazil. 



Maerociieiue viridifusa.— Head and thorax greenish black; tegul^e 

 outwardly and inwardly edged with white. Abdomen dull green; two white 

 spots laterally at base; a white ventral spot; trochanters spotted with white. 

 Legs greenish black. Primaries brownish black ; the veins dark green, also the 

 costal and inner margins. Expanse 36 mm. 



Ha b itat. — Ca.stro, Paran a. 



Cyauopepla samarca.— Palpi black above, white below. Body above 

 bright blue; abdomen with a subdorsal and lateral whitish line, below the lateral 

 line a broad black band; ventrally white; legs black, outwardly streaked with 

 white; fore coxae white. Primaries black; a large carmine space from base to 

 close to outer margin ; this space is straight along costal and inner margins, 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXX. JUNE. 1904. 



