164 W. SCHAUS. 



Primaries olive-green, darkest on median space; a large yellow space at base ; a 

 median dark grey shade; reniforni similar; outer line blackish, broken into 

 spots on inner margin ; a triangular pure white spot on costa above reniform ; 

 some dark grey marginal spots, partly shaded with creamy white; a terminal 

 white line outwardly edged with black at a})ex and a little above inner angle; 

 fringe white, except at apex, where it is dark green. Expanse 16 mm. 



Habitat. — Aroa, Venezuela. 



Spragueia taragma.— Head, collar, abdomen and secondaries light 

 greyish brown ; thorax darker. Primaries light olivaceous brown ; a dark red- 

 dish brown oblique line from base of costa to inner margin ; a buff elongated me- 

 dian spot on costal margin ; a black spot on fringe at vein '4; above this, fringe 

 yellowish, below it, brown. Secondaries greyish brown, darkest on outer mar- 

 gin. Expanse 17 mm. 



Habitat. — Sao Paulo, S. E. Brazil. 



Spragiieia tarasca. — Head and thorax grey. Abdomen light brown. 

 Primaries olivaceous brown, irrorated with white scales; three white spots on 

 costa, near base, one median space, and before apex ; an inner and a median black 

 line; the outer black line deeply incurved below end of cell; an interrupted 

 white terminal line; fringe mottled olivaceous brown, buff and black. Second- 

 aries greyish brown, pale in the disc. Expanse 16 mm. 



Habitat. — Sao Paulo, S. E. Brazil. 



Thyria crcesita. — Head and thorax brown. Abdomen yellow ; a black 

 subdorsal line ; anal tuft black. Primaries reddish brown ; the lines violaceous 

 edged with dark brown ; the basal line silver, followed by a silver spot in cell ; 

 the inner line interrupted by a silver spot in cell, outwardly curved on subme- 

 dian and followed in cell by four silver spots radiating from a central point; dis- 

 eocellular silvery, followed by a silver lunule; a large silver spot between veins 

 2 and 5; outer line deeply outcurved, inwardly shaded with dark brown, out- 

 wardly followed by dark brown intervenal spots; marginal silver spots above 

 veins 2 increasing in size to apex; the spot between veins .5 and 6 cut by an 

 oblique brown line; fringe white at base, then dark brown, terminally mottled 

 brown and white. Secondaries yellow ; the outer margin broadly dark brown. 

 Expanse 27 mm. 



Habitat. — Castro, Parana. 



Thyria satana. — Head and thorax mottled lilaciue and dark brown. Ab- 

 domen yellow; a dark subdorsal line and lilacine brown tufts. Primaries brown, 

 irrorated with lilacine; the lines dark velvety brown, edged with lilacine; basal 

 line interrupted in cell; inner line wavy, interrupted by veins; the outer line 

 lunular, interrupted by veins; subterminal brown spots, and darker terminal 

 lunular sjiots; in cell a fine silvery mark; discocellular dark, shaded with lila- 

 cine white. Secondaries yellow; the outer margin broadly dark brown ; fringe 

 white, spotted with brown. Exi>anse 33 mtn. 



Habitat — Castro, Parana. 



