Neio Species of Lepidoptera-Heterocera from S.JS. Brazil. 149 



Halisidota dalli'pa, n. sp. 



1^. Pale oclireous. Upper-side of palpi, head antennae and 

 teguliB light brown. Patagia with black point in front. Abdomen 

 dorsally light brown. Primaries oclireous irrorated with brown 

 scales distributed in ill-defined oblique transverse lines ; costa and 

 margins slightly tinged with yellow ; a black point on base of 

 veins 4 and 5 ; a sub-terminal row of minute specks ; fringe 

 creamy-white. Secondaries semihyaline creamy-white shaded by 

 indistinct row of spots on outer-margin ; spots well defined above 

 veins 5 and 6. 



Expanse 41 mm. 



Hab. Castro, Pavand. 



Halisidota 1 fuscosa, n, sp. 



$ . Brown. Palpi ochreous, 3rd joint brown ; head antennae and 

 thorax brown ; abdomen dorsally fuscous ventrally ochreous ; 

 patagia with a black point in front. Fore-wings brown very 

 sparsely speckled with black, the veins rather darker ; a black point 

 on base of veins 4 and 5 ; a faint dark spot beyond cell and at apex ; 

 two yellowish-brown spots in cell and one beyond cell ; a very 

 oblique row of yellowish spots from before middle of inner-margin 

 meeting sub-terminal row just below costa ; cilia ochreous. Hind- 

 wings dark fuscous ; costa ochreous. Under-side : fore- wings as on 

 upper-side, but the yellow much more decided and base yellow, the 

 spot beyond the cell very distinct ; a sub-terminal series of yellowish 

 spots followed by black points : hind- wings fuscous ; costal area 

 yellow ; dark shades on termen near tornus and at apex. 



Expanse 40 mm. 



Hab. Castro, Parana, 



Emilia suffusa, n. sp. 



$. Palpi head and tegulaj fuscous; antennas stalk ochreous, 

 pectinations fuscous-brown ; thorax ochreous suffused with fuscous, 

 a fuscous stripe on patagia ; abdomen ochreous, a sub-lateral row of 

 coalescent fuscous spots, ventral surface suffused with fuscous. Fore- 

 wings ochreous suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; a small fuscous 

 fascia from base to termen below vein 6 where it coalesces with 

 apical i)atch ; a small fuscous patch on inner margin near base, on 

 sub-median fold near tornus and above vein 6 ; an indefinite sub- 

 terminal row of elongate spots, and terminal streaks between the 



