AKT. 19 NEW MOTHS OP THE FAMILY CERURIDAE SCHAUS 37 



CHADISRA FINIANA, new species 



Male. — Palpi vinaceous buff, with some natal broAvn scales on 

 upper edge. Head, collar, and thorax mottled white, cinnamon drab, 

 and benzo brown, the tegulae whitish mottled with light buff and 

 with a few fuscous tipped hairs; sublateral white and buff hairs from 

 metathorax. Abdomen above whitish, the fourth and fifth segments 

 hay's brown; the basal segments with subdorsal cinnamon hairs; 

 anal segment white with some dark scales; underneath whitish. 

 Fore wing white with some light cinnamon drab irrorations; costal 

 edge on basal third, except the base, brownish drab followed by simi- 

 lar spots to near apex; an antemedial fuscous black space from sub- 

 costal to below median vein limited by an irregular dark line, out- 

 bent and lunular below fold; a faint medial drab shade; an ill 

 defined white lunule on discocellular; a faint drab postmedial diffuse 

 line, followed by a more distinct, very fine outer line, fuscous black, 

 lunular between veins 6 and 3, followed from vein 4 to costa by a broad 

 deep brownish drab shade, limited by a white, dentate, subterminal 

 line; below vein 3 this outer line is inset, lunular to inner margin, fol- 

 lowed by a dark incurved line between veins 3 and 2 ; a drab patch at 

 torn us; termen dark from apex to vein 4 with thick marginal black 

 lunules; below vein 4 the termen is white with a marginal black line 

 outcurved at end of veins 3 and 2. Hind wing white, the outer 

 margin fuscous, and a short curved black line about it at anal angle. 



Expanse 34 mm. 



Habitat. — Villavicencio, Colombia. 



Type— C&t. No. 33352, U.S.N.M. 



Two males from the Dognin collection. 



CHADISRA ULRICA, new species 



Male. — Palpi chestnut brown above, below whitish with benzo 

 brown irrorations. Head mottled drab and whitish, some fuscous 

 hairs on tufts at antennae. Collar mostly fuscous; thorax mostly 

 drab and white. Abdomen above drab with some white scaling and 

 whitish segmental lines, underneath whitish buff. Fore wing drab; 

 dark mouse gray suffusions in cell near base and below subcostal to 

 postmedial line; benzo brown spots and lines on costa; subbasal and 

 antemedial fuscous lines below cell, the antemedial outbent; some 

 light buff hairs at base of inner margin; no distinct mark on disco- 

 cellular; a faint cinnamon drab postmedial line outcurved around 

 cell, somewhat dentate, at submedian fold downbent forming two 

 fuscous lunules to inner margin; a more remote fine fuscous black 

 line from vein 7, slightly outangled at vein 6, vertical to vein 4, and 

 lunular inbent to inner margin, followed above vein 2 by a fuscous 

 black streak, above vein 3 a shorter similar streak outset, and small 



