436 Mr. E. Dukinfield Jones on Neio Species of 



Perophora fenestrata, n. sp. 



(^ . Palpi brown ; legs light oclireous brown sprinkled with 

 black, fore tibiae pinkish ; frons and tegulae creamy pink ; antennae 

 ochreous ; thorax and abdomen pale brown sprinkled with black 

 scales and slightly tinged with pinkish. Forewings light brown, 

 slightly irrorated with black and suffused with a pink shade ; costa 

 tawny ; a diffused, indistinct, double, dark medial shade from costa 

 through end of cell to inner margin ; trace of postmedial dark shade, 

 forming diffused spot above vein 8 ; a dark discocellular bar, followed 

 by minute hyaline spots above and below vein 5 ; a small pink sub- 

 terminal suffusion between veins 6 and 8 ; cilia dark brown. Hind- 

 wings similar to the forewings, but the medial dark shade is beyond 

 the cell and becomes a single line from vein 2 to inner margin ; dark 

 discocellular bar and hyaline spots larger than on the forewing. 

 Underside : forewings light brown suffused with pink and irrorated 

 with black ; veins, cell and subapical patch heavily suffused with 

 red ; a narrow, dark brown, diffused postmedial shade ; dark disco- 

 cellular bar; hindwings with the red suffusion on the veins only; 

 dark postmedial shade and dark discocellular bar. 



Expanse 46 mm. 



Hah. Castro, Parand, Brazil. 



Perophora jm^uga, n. sp. 



$. Palpi red-brown shaded with fuscous; frons and antennae 

 yellowish brown ; tegulae centrally paler ; anal tuft fuscous at tip. 

 Forewings : a very indistinct fuscous antemedial line well defined, 

 black, oblique from costa to vein 7, thence nearly straight to middle 

 of inner margin, followed by narrow light shade and broad, black 

 suffusion forming large triangular space at tornus from inner margin 

 to vein 4 ci'ossed by pale band from inner margin to vein 3, straight 

 from vein 4 to near termen on vein 8, above vein 8 reaching apex ; 

 a pale discocellular bar, slightly defined by fuscous ; termen pale ; 

 cilia dark. Hindwings ; a black medial band and obscure sub- 

 terminal shade. Both wings and abdomen are sparsely sprinkled 

 with white scales tipped with black. 



Expanse 60 mm. 



Hab. GuARUJA, Santos, S.E. Brazil. 



Fam. MEGALOPYGIDAE. 



Megalopyge nivosa, n. sp. 



$ . Frons, pectus and inner side of fore and middle femora and 

 tibiae dark brown ; outer side white ; hindlegs brown ; all tarsi 



