Lepidoptera-Heterocera from S.E. Brazil. 445 



rupted at the veins ; cilia brown mixed witli white. Underside : 

 fore-wings reddish brown suffused and irrorated with fuscous, the 

 terminal area white striated with fuscous ; hind-wings paler, 

 irrorated, especially on the costal area, with fuscous brown ; a 

 fuscous lunular discocellular spot ; well defined postmedial and less 

 decided subterminal dark bands ; termen black interrupted at veins. 



$. Basal half of abdomen ochreous white irrorated with dark 

 brown, terminal half clothed with dark fuscous scales tipped with 

 white. Fore-wings darker than in the c? ; the medial area suffused 

 with tawny; the lines, except the subterminal, not so well defined. 



Expanse, ^ 18 mm,, $ 17 mm. 



Hab. Castro, Parana; Sao Paulo, S. E. Brazil. 



Macapta obliqua, sp. n. 



?. Palpi, head, legs and thorax dark coppery brown; abdomen 

 lighter. Fore-wings dark coppery brown, the costal and terminal 

 areas somewhat lighter in shade ; a pure white streak beyond disco- 

 cellulars widening out at lower end above vein 4; a subterminal 

 series of minute black dots on the veins. Hind-wings yellowish 

 brown at base, suffused with coppery brown on outer half. 



Expanse 24 mm. 



Hab. GuARUJA, Santos. 



Bryolymnia castrena, sp. n. 



(J. Palpi fuscous mixed with white ; basal third of antennae shaft 

 white above, banded with fuscous, the remainder fuscous; frons, 

 head, tegulae, patagia and thoracic crest fuscous, the scales tipped 

 with whitish ; thorax white ; abdomen ochreous with fuscous 

 lateral hairs. Fore-wings white ; basal area black from costa to 

 vein 1 , angled outwards on submedian fold ; a rufous subbasal 

 striga on costa and some rufous below vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 represented by black point on costa and on inner margin ; postmedial 

 line black, geminate, wavy, oblique from costa to vein 4, incurved 

 from 4 to 1 where it is angled outwards, then incurved to inner 

 margin ; an indistinct white, wavy, subterminal line ; a large black 

 patch on costa between postmedial and subterminal lines partially 

 covered with fuscous scales with whitish tips; a smaller oblique 

 black mark from vein 3 to vein 5 confluent with a black mark 

 beyond reniform ; terminal line dark, interrupted at the veins ; 

 cilia brown, lighter at the ends of the veins ; orbicular and reniform 

 white defined by black, the former large and oblique, the latter 



