Lepidoptera-Heterocera from S.E. Brazil. 443 



femora brown tinged with pink; mid- and hind-tibiae ochreous 

 irrorated with light brown, a large dark patch at extremity ; frons 

 ochreous with scattered brown scales; vertex of head, tegulae, 

 patagia and thorax ochreous and light brown tinged with pink; 

 metathoracic crest tipped with dark reddish brown; abdomen 

 ochreous brown, anal tuft lighter. Fore-wings greyish brown with 

 slight lilacine reflexion; subbasal line wavy, black, geminate, en- 

 closing lilacine ; antemedial line diffused black ; a diffused dark 

 medial shade ; postmedial line pale, preceded by interrupted black 

 line and followed by indistinct dark line clearly marked by minute 

 spots on veins 1 and 2, oblique from costa to subcostal nervure, 

 strongly excurved beyond cell, incurved to inner margin; a sub- 

 terminal line of black spots, large on submedian fold and small 

 above veins 2 and 3; termen dark reddish brown; cilia light at 

 base, dark at tips; orbicular round, dark, slightly defined by 

 ochreous line; reniform oval, ringed with lilacine white excepting 

 at lower end; the space between the spots yellowish with some 

 brown irroration ; a lilacine grey apical spot, preceded by dark 

 brovra on costa. Hind-wings light brown heavily suffused with 

 dark brown on terminal area; a conspicuous dark broAvn disco- 

 cellular spot ; basal half of costal area highly iridescent ; cilia light 

 brown with dark central band. 

 Expanse 21 mm. 



Hab. Alto da Serra, Santos. 



Neostrotia ornata, sp. n. 



(^. Palpi inwardly brown, outwardly fuscous ; legs fuscous brown 

 sprinkled with grey ; tarsi light reddish broA\Ti ; frons dark purplish 

 brown; vertex of head ochreous white; antennae shaft white; 

 tegulae, patagia, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white irrorated 

 with purplish brown ; anal tuft golden brown. Fore-wings yellowish 

 grey, the scales crossed by broad central dark band giving the 

 appearance of fine striae over the whole wing ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by a diffused dark spot on costa; antemedial line very 

 indistinct excepting on costa, where it forms a black spot, fuscous 

 and yellowish below it, angled outwards in cell and on submedian 

 fold, preceded and followed by whitish ; postmedial line tawny 

 shading to fuscous below submedian fold, a black spot on costa, 

 excurved from costa to vein 3, incurved to vein 1, then straight to 

 inner margin, followed by whitish; a very wavy subterminal line 

 followed by white space thickly striated with dark fuscous ; termen 

 tawTiy interrupted by black between the veins ; cilia tawny speckled 



