NO. 1-123. AMERICAN COCHLIDIAN MOTHS— DYAR. 375 



Genus SISYROSEA Grote. 

 (S(S(/rosm G ROTE, Can. Ent., VIII, 1876, j). 112. 



SISYROSEA DIANA Druce. 

 Semyra diana Druce, Biol. Cent.-Aiii., Lep. Het., I, 1887, p. 220. 

 Localltii. — Panama. 



SISYROSEA TEXTULA Herrich-Schaeffer. 



Lmacodfs <e.dMto Herrich-Schaeffer, Ausser. Schmett., I, 1854, fig. 184. 

 Sisyrosea textnla Dyar, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, IV, 1896, p. 185. 



locality. — Atlantic States, North America. 



SISYROSEA OBSCURA, new species. 



Allied to tsxtula Herrich-Schaeti'er, but uniformly brownish without 

 sericeous streaks or variations of color, and all irrorate with l)lack 

 scales. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown without ocherous 

 shades. 



Locality. — One male, St. Jean, Maroni River, French Guiana (W. 

 Schaus). 



TyjM.—C^i. No. 8983, U.S.N.M. 



SISYROSEA SCHAEFFERANA, new species. 



Male. — Brownish ocherous to light ocherous brown, unicolorous, 

 the fringe darker tipped on the hind wing. Fore wings with numer- 

 ous, wavy, raised striga?, shining on the convex parts, darkened in the 

 concave parts, with a diffuse, brownish, faint discal bar. 



Female. — Variable in color as the male, but more flesh colored in 

 tint. The strigas are nuich less distinct, though visible in a strong 

 light; there is no discal mark; there are a few scattered blackish scales 

 on fore wing. 



Ea'jjanse. — Male, 28 mm.; female, 30 mm. 



Hind tibiffi in both sexes swollen, flattened, without middle spurs. 



Locality. — Five males, three females; collected b}^ Mr. C. Schaefl'er 

 in the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona (Palmerlee, Cochise County). 



The types are in the collection of the museum of the Brooklyn 

 Institute of Arts and Sciences. 



Named in honoi- of Mr. C. Schaeffer, of Brooklyn, New York. 



SISYROSEA (?) PHARA Druce. 



Semyra phara Druce, Am. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), V, 1900, p. 513. 



Localities. — Mexico; French Guiana; Dutch Guiana. 



Only females are known. Mr, Druce's type is a female. There is 

 one in the British Museum from the Godman-Salvin collection and 

 Mr. Schaus took Ave in Guiana. The generic position is uncertain 

 till the male is found. 



