Lepidoptera-Heterocera from Soutli-East Brazil. 485 



dorsal stripe from back of head to base of abdomen ; abdomen dark 

 brown, base black, anal tuft grey ; beneath ochreous. Forewings 

 white, the veins brown ; costal area and cell dark brown thickly 

 clothed with greenish grey hairs and scales ; a diffused dark brown 

 streak below median nervure from vein 1 to vein 4, and below this 

 three elongate dark brown lunules below veins 2, 3, and 4 ; a 

 diffused dark streak between veins 5 and 6 and three dark sub- 

 terminal spots below apex ; termen ochreous white ; cilia dark brown. 

 Hindwings white suflfused with pale brown on costa and inner 

 margin; a diffused brown spot at tornus; cilia white. 

 Expanse 43 mm. 



Hah. CURITYBA, Parand, Brazil. 



Fam. PEROPHORIDAE. 



Pero'phora albescens, n. sp. 



^ . Head, palpi and antennae ochreous ; legs ochreous irrorated 

 with black ; a white tuft at base of antennae ; tegulae white with 

 some ochreous and a few scattered black scales, thorax white suffused 

 with ochreous and irrorated with black ; abdomen dorsally white 

 suffused with ochreous and irrorated with black ; dark dorsal tufts 

 on segments 4, 5 and 6 ; ventrally ochreous and white. Forewings 

 white, sparsely irrorated with black ; costa ochreous ; a diffused 

 ochreous, wavy antemedial line, more distinct from vein 2 to inner 

 margin ; an irregular diffused postmedial line, ochreous from inner 

 margin to just below vein 3, then reddish brown to costa, a projection 

 at veins 7 and 8 ; preceded by ochreous suffusion which fills the 

 medial area below vein 2, with the exception of triangular space 

 between origin of vein 2 and antemedial line ; terminal area suffused 

 with ochreo-fuscous with the exception of narrow line following post- 

 medial ; a darker lunular patch beyond postmedial from veins 3 to 5 ; 

 a fuscous patch on costa close to apex ; discocellular ochreous ; 

 cilia ochreous white. Hindwings white, outwardly suffused with 

 ochreous and irrorated with black ; a very indistinct diffused 

 ochreous antemedial line, heavily suffused with reddish brown at 

 inner margin and at veins 3 and 4. Underside ochreous white 

 irrorated with black : postmedial line on both wings distinct ; 

 terminal area paler. 



Expanse 30 mm. 



Hah. Sao Paulo, S.E. Brazil. 



