ABT. 19 NEW MOTHS OF THE FAMILY CERURIDAE SCHAUS 29 



MALOCAMPA MEDOMMOCA, new species 



Male. — Palpi fuscous fringed with light buffy drab. Head white, 

 collar light ochraceous buff, the hairs posteriorly tipped with white. 

 Thorax fuscous black, the tegulae chiefly white mottled with some 

 dark hairs. Abdomen above ecru drab, underneath buffish. Fore 

 wing light grayish oHve; an oblique, irregular, and broken black 

 streak from base of costa to vein 1 near antemedial line; a double 

 subbasal dark line on costa; antemedial line, fine, double, both black 

 on costa and inner margin, the inner line faint grayish ohve, the outer 

 line distinct, black, inangled on subcostal and median, outcm-ved 

 in ceil, and from above fold to vein 1 ; a fuscous spot at lower angle 

 of cell; reniform outlined by black, a dark line on costa above it; 

 postmedial line fine black, lunular on costa, outbent and sharply 

 angled, incurved to vein 4, then inbent and incurved on each inter- 

 space to inner margin; three black spots on costa toward apex; 

 subterminal diffuse black spots, oblique and connected from veins 8 

 to 6, inset from 5 to 4, outset just below 4, inset below 3, with a 

 short black streak on inner margin at tornus. A fine marginal black 

 line, parallel with termen from costa to vein 4, then wavy to tornus. 

 Hind wdng smoky benzo brown, the cilia white. Wings below hair 

 brown. Fore wing with costa narrowly white and four black spots 

 toward apex; whitish terminal streaks on interspaces. Hind w4ng 

 with termen narrowly white. 



Expanse 40 mm. 



Habitat. — French Guiana. 



Type.— C?it. No. 33339, U.S.N.M. 



From the Dognin collection. 



MALOCAMPA MAMMERTA, new species 



Female. — Palpi black above, fringe white mottled with some black 

 hairs. Head, collar, and thorax white mottled with some fuscous 

 hairs, forming a transverse line on vertex and on collar. Abdomen 

 above drab, the last two segments white irrorated with drab; under- 

 neath white. Fore wing white, the basal half with some hair brown 

 irrorations; an ovate black line from near base of inner margin, 

 curved to median, then outcurved to inner margin hmited by the 

 double medial line, the space inclosed deep mouse gray crossed by a 

 dark mouse gray curved line; a fine black subbasal line; a fine double 

 antemedial benzo brown line on costa; the double medial line fine, 

 fuscous, outangled on costa, outcurved on cell; discocellular spot 

 large outhned by black, filled in with whitish and buffy brown, the 

 space before it narrowly, broadly beyond it to postmedial line suffused 

 with wood brown, and crossed close beyond cell by an outcurved snuff 

 browTi line to just below vein 2; postmedial line fine, double, fuscous 

 black slightly outcurved, below vein 3 slightly sinuous and inbent; 



