Lepidoptera-Heterocera from Bouth-Bast Brazil. 437 



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

 tegulae dark brown ; thorax brown ; a large white spot on front 

 of patagia, some white subdorsal hairs on metathorax ; abdomen 

 brown, underside ochreous and brown. Fore wings white ; base of 

 costa, veins and medial area below median nervure brown ; terminal 

 area suffused with brown ; a group of dark brown spots at base ; 

 two dark brown streaks in cell ; a brown fascia on median ner- 

 vure, broadening at end of cell from vein 3 to 5 ; a triangular dark 

 brown spot on discocellulars ; a small brown mark at origin of vein 8 ; 

 a diffused brown terminal line ; cilia brown. Hind wings ochreous ; 

 veins and hairs on inner area brown. Underside ochreous white, 

 suffused with brown on costal area ; veins brown. 



Expanse 36 mm. 



Hob. Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



Near M. alhieollis, Walker. 



Megalopyge lanocrispa, n. sp. 



(^ . Frons and pectus dark brown ; tarsi fuscous brown banded 

 with ochreous ; vertex of head ochreous ; back of head light brown ; 

 antennae dark ochreous ; tegulae ochreous in front, brown behind ; 

 thorax ochreous and light brown ; abdomen light brown. Fore- 

 wings ochreous white ; costa and inner margin ochreous ; veins light 

 brown ; a diffused dark discocellular spot ; apostmedial brown band 

 followed by lighter shade, excurved from vein 9 to vein 2, where it 

 is slightly bent outwards and straight to vein lb ; five wavy black 

 fasciae from base, one on subcostal nervure, two in cell, the lower 

 one reaching to above origin of vein 2, one slightly shorter just 

 below median nervure and one above lb ; a short dark streak at 

 each side of veins on terminal area : a brown terminal line, broken 

 at the veins ; cilia similar. Hindwings ochreous ; veins and inner 

 area suffused with yellowish brown. Underside ochreous ; fore- 

 wings, costa and veins suffused with brown ; hindwings, basal half 

 and veins suffused with brown. 



Expanse 40 mm. 



Jffab. Castro, Parana, Brazil. 

 Allied to M. Jieldia, Schaus. 



Edihessa ferugina, n. sp. 

 (J . Head and body bright orange tawny ; frons and antennae dark 

 fuscous ; a pinkish white dorsal spot on prothorax ; patagia inwardly 

 fringed with pinkish white ; two pinkish white spots merging into 

 patagia. Forewings fuscous ; base pinkish white followed by suffused 

 band of orange rapidly fading into fuscous ; costal area orange at 



