ART. 19 NEW MOTHS OF THE FAMILY CEETJRIDAE SCHAUS 5 



ELYMIOTIS MORANA, new species 



Male. — Palpi dusky drab with a few whitish hairs; a steel black 

 line at upper edge, and fuscous transverse line at end of second joint. 

 Head, collar, and thorax chestnut brown mottled with dusky drab; 

 tegulae brownish drab. Abdomen above deep brownish drab with 

 dorsal and lateral whitish buff hairs at base, and a dusky brown dor- 

 sal tvift on second segment; a fuscous segmental line towards end of 

 abdomen; underneath huffish with an interrupted fuscous ventral line 

 and outer fuscous lines on last three segments. Fore wing brownish 

 drab, the base and veins to middle of wing irrorated with sea-foam 

 green and black scales; a velvety black broken subbasal line; ante- 

 medial line double, velvety black, lunular, inset at fold, so the outer 

 line falls below the inner line; a double dark medial line, outbent to 

 within cell where it is marked by fine velvety lines, inset below median, 

 where the inner line consists of raised velvety black scales reaching 

 vein 1 and is preceded by a triangular fuscous shade ; a round velvety 

 black spot at lower angle of cell, a small spot edged with white above 

 it basad, and a vertical streak above it outset; a velvety fuscous line 

 in cell from medial line, extending well beyond it, below vein 5 marked 

 beyond cell by a short silvery white line, interrupted and continued 

 with a branching curved tip; some pale sea-foam green scaling at 

 base of interspaces between veins 2 and 4; postmedial line double, 

 wavily lunular, sorghum brown filled in with avellaneous, well out- 

 curved beyond cell with a white line inwardly on inner margin; subter- 

 minal velvety short fuscous streaks above veins 5 and 6; a marginal 

 fine, crenulate, black line; cilia mottled fuscous and avellaneous with 

 white points at veins. Hind wing benzo brown, the cell white; base 

 below cell white extending toward termen, some dark scaling before 

 anal angle crossed by a white line; cilia white with a benzo brown 

 patch near anal angle. Fore wing below dark grayish brown; costa 

 whitish buff crossed by dark lines on outer half; some white mottlings 

 on terminal interspaces; cilia chestnut brown mottled with white- 

 Hind wings below white; termen dark grayish brown wide at apex, 

 narrow at anal angle; costal margin irrorated with deep brownish 

 drab; veins 2-4 from cell dark; traces of a double postmedial line. 



Female. — Fore wing dusky drab; lines and discal spots reduced; 

 pale greenish shading near lower angle of cell present; marginal line 

 with greenish scaling outwardly; all the double lines with faint paler 

 shading between them. 



Expanse, male, 42 mm.; female, 50 mm. 



Habitat. — French Guiana; Colombia; Mexico; Guatemala. 



Ty^pe.— Cat. No. 33293, U.S.N.M. 



Four males and eight females in the collection. 



