NEW SOUTH AMERICAN MOTHS— SCHA US. 329 



CICINNUS VALVA, new species. 



Primiiries falcate, incurvod l)el(>\v apex and vein 3. Secondaries 

 slightly angled at vein 8. Wings dark greyish brown in the male, 

 brown in the female. Primaries: a fawn color outer line, angled 

 below vein S, inwardly shaded with dark l)rown. Secondaries with a 

 similar straight median line. Underneath paler, the line on primaries 

 slightly curved and wavy to vein 3, then inwardly oblique and slightly 

 wavy. Secondaries with the line outcurved between veins 3 and 5. 



Expanse. — Male, 27 mm.; female, 29 nmi. 



Ilahitat. — St. Jean, Maroni River, French (xuiana. 



Type.—O^S.. No. 889S, U.S.N.M. 



CICINNUS NARGA, new species. 



Frons, thorax, and basal half of abdomen doi'sally violaceous. 

 Abdomen dorsally reddish brown on last segments; anal tufts black. 

 Collar shaded with fawn color. Primaries violaceous, thinly irro- 

 rated with black scales; a large pale reddish brown spot at end of 

 cell, and a smaller one between veins 2 and 3, partly outlined with 

 darker violaceous; the veins darker from cell to outer line; some red- 

 dish brown on costa beyond the cell; a dark o)>litiue line from costa 

 at three-fourths fi'om base to the outer line, whicii is ])lackish and 

 curves along" vein 8 to inner marg'in; the apex blackish; the outer 

 margin whitish, shaded with reddish brown terminally; submarginal 

 clusters of ))lack scales. Secondaries violaceous, mori^ thickly irro- 

 rated with black; a dark outer line from costa near apex to just al>o\e 

 anal angle; outer margin paler, slightly mottled with white and with 

 a row of small black spots on veins. Underneath paler, the lines as 

 above. 



Expaniie. — 32 mm. 



Ilahitat. — 60 miles up the Maroni Kiver on the Dutch (luiana side. 



Type.— C^t. No. 8899, U.S.N.M. 



CICINNUS LEMOULTI, new species. 



Head and collar pale reddish. Thorax roseate fawn color. AIkIo- 

 men pale roseate ))rown. Primaries acute, falcate, roseate fawn color, 

 thinly irrorated with black scales; the costa olivaceous fawn color; 

 some blackish stria? forming an indistinct median shade; a transparent 

 spot at end of cell, crossed b}^ vein 5; a dark brown outer lin(> angled 

 at vein 8, outwardly shaded with reddish ])rown })elow vein 8, and 

 followed by a dull brownish shade below vein 4. Secondaries: the 

 base roseate fawn color somewhat shaded with brown; a dark brown 

 medial line; the outer margin roseate brown at apex, otherwise dark 

 reddish, especiall}' at anal angle. Underneath: primaries reddish; the 

 outer line black, curving from vein 8 to outer margin at vein 3; ])el()\v 

 this to inner angle broadlv roseate. Secondaries roseate irrorated 



