Lejyidoptera of ilic Amazons. 53 



MoTADA, Walker. 



70. Motacla juruana, n. sp. 



Allied to M. lateralis, much smaller ; primaries fuli- 

 ginous brown, paler beyond the middle and at base of 

 inner margin ; an indistinct irregular band across the 

 basal third and an interrupted angulated discal band dark 

 brown ; a blackish spot on discocellulars ; external angle 

 sandy yellowish ; secondaries sordid white, outer border 

 and veins dusky, the margin and an ill-defined series of 

 submarginal spots dark brown ; body dark broAvn, abdomen 

 clothed with long saffron-yellow hair ; wings below sordid 

 white ; the costal borders discocellulars, and one or two 

 spots on the disc dusky ; primaries with dusky external 

 border ; body below dark brown : expanse 1 inch 1 line. 



Kio Jurud, 7th November, 1874. 



Family LITHOSIID^E. 

 CiSTHENE, Walker. 



71. Cisthene sanguinea, n. sp. 



Primaries fuliginous brown, the outer margin and fringe 

 slightly paler; secondaries carmine, fringe grey; head and 

 thorax greyish-brown, antennaj testaceous; abdomen car- 

 mine, anus greyish ; body below brown, legs whity-brown : 

 expanse 11 millimetres. 



Kio Jutahi, 5th February, 1875. 



Allied to C. riifibasis, of Felder. 



72. Cisthene rhodosticta, n. sp. 



Primaries brown, minutely speckled with black ; the 

 basal foui-th, a broad discal band with zigzag outer edge 

 and the fringe pale straw-yellow ; a carmine discocellular 

 spot on the discal band ; secondaries rose-red, the apex 

 broadly dark brown, fringe pale straw-3^ellow ; vertex of 

 head shining Avhitish, antennas brown, collar bright 

 ochreous, thorax dark brown, abdomen testaceous; pri- 

 maries below brown, the base inner border and discal 

 band straw-yellow, secondaries straw-yellow, apex dark 

 brown, body dark brown, palpi ochraceous, legs stra- 

 mineous with a blackish band at the end of the tibiii?, 

 margins of coxee and abdominal segments stramineous : 

 expanse 15 millimetres. 



Paricatuba, Rio Purus, 11th October, 1874. 



Most like C. subjecta, but very different. 



