ART. 19 NEW MOTHS OF THE FAMILY CERURIDAE SOHAUS 15 



SYMM ERISTA SIGEA. aew form 



Male. — Body and forewing as in S. tlotzin Schaus. Hind wing at 

 base and on inner margin white suffused with hght buff; veins drab; 

 outer margin from middle of costa dark hair brown, becoming nar- 

 rower at anal angle; cilia white. Hind wing below with the hair 

 brown on costa to base, irrorated with white scales from base to apex; 

 outer margin and cilia as above. 



Expanse 36 mm. 



Hahitat. — Coary, Amazons. 



Type— C&t. No. 33314, U.S.N.M. 



A male and a female from the Dognin collection. 



CERURA PURUSA, new species 



Male. — Palpi black. Head white, the eyes fringed with black 

 hairs which extend along frons above palpi. Collar and thorax 

 white, a black line across front of thorax expanding somewhat dor- 

 sally; two small dorsal spots, and two larger spots on metathorax. , 

 Abdomen above black, base, terminal segment, laterally and ven- 

 trall}" white; a black line on anal hairs, not meeting dorsally. Fore 

 wing silvery white, the markings black; a triangular spot at base, 

 its apex at base of cell, its outer edge excurved and with an outbent 

 line to cilia on inner margin; a small triangle at middle of inner 

 margin filled in with warm buff; a short upturned line from inner 

 margin postmedially with black and buff scaling on its outer edge; a 

 round spot at middle of cell filled in with warm buff", and a bifurcat- 

 ing line on costa above it; a small streak on costa above discocellular; 

 and outer thick line, from above vein 4, sinuous to costa, with 

 another line close beyond from vein 6 excurved and outbent on costa, 

 a white spot between them on costa, and warm buff scales between 

 veins 8 and 6, these continuing along the outer edge of first line to 

 its end; terminal black lunules on interspaces including cilia; at 

 veins the cilia are white. Hind wing white, semihy aline in cell and 

 interspaces beyond cell. 



Expanse 34 mm. 



Hahitat. — Hyutanahan, Rio Purus, Brazil. 



Type. — In Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



Paratype.— C&t. No. 33315, U.S.N.M. 



Closely allied to C. trigonostigma Dyar from Mexico. 



PEROARA CATERINA, new species 



Female. — Head, collar, and thorax benzo brown mottled with white 

 hairs especially on tegulae, the base of the hairs, laterally on tegulae, 

 buft", also a long tuft of buff hairs on dorsal side in front. Abdomen 

 pale ochraceous buff, the basal dorsal tuft natal brown; some hazel 

 scaling sublaterally towards end of abdomen. Fore wing: Base of 



