348 PROCEEDIXaS of the national museum. vol.. XXIX. 



Expanm of %r''mgi<. — 70 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Jean, Maroui Kivei', Frei\ch Guiana; 1 female. July, 

 1904. 



Forewing with stronol}- developed shoulder at base and pointed 

 apex; hindwing with only a blunt projection at the end of vein 7. 



Type.—C'At. No. S932,\t.S.N.M. 



Genus BRIXIA \A/alker. 

 BRIXIA NEAPOLITANA, new species. 



Foreivln<j.—QiYQ2im color, streaked with fiesh colored ochreous; cos- 

 tal edge dotted alternately light and dark; four or five slightly dark 

 patches on costa imply the origin of transverse belts which are 

 obscurely broken up across wing by the pale ground color; the sub- 

 marginal belt alone is uninterrupted, marked above middle with short 

 dark horizontal streaks ending externally in white patches; from vein 

 5 to vein 1 the postmedian band becomes green, forming an oblique 

 shuttle-shaped blotch with white edge. 



Illmlwmg. — Whitish, with six trans\erse parallel darker belts, of 

 which the two middle ones are green: a few tine stride towards costa; 

 fringe of both wings ochreous. 



Underside similar, the markings rather more distinct; the green 

 belts of the hind wing very pale. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous; antenna? ferruginous, thick- 

 ened, and lamellate; legs brownish ochreous; tarsi pale fuscous with 

 whitish rings. 



Expanse of loings. — 17 mm. 



^aJ^^a^.— Geldersland, Surinam River, Dutch Guiana: 1 male. 



Tijpe.—^9X. No. 8933, U.S.N.M. 



BRIXIA GUTTULOSA, new species. 



For&wing. — Pale rufous ochreous, rather deeper towards hind 

 margin; costal area olive tinged, dotted with white, the edge deeper 

 between the dots, from which depend short white streaks: the inner 

 margin below submedian and the outer half of submedian interspace 

 filled with short white ripples; a darker shade from costa before apex, 

 separated by a short white marginal streak from the rufous fringe. 



Hindwing. — With the white ripples developed all over, the larger 

 spots forming two white lines, antemedian and postmedian, the 

 included fascia tinged with green and with minute white dots; mar- 

 ginal area and fringe deeper tinted. 



Underside deeper rufous; the white markings much as above, but 

 plainer; the fascia of hind wing without an}' green tinge. 



Head and shoulders dark brown; thorax and abdomen like wings; 

 the latter crossed by pale lines with a green belt between; patagia 

 whitish at tips; legs mottled lirown and white. 



