AKT. 19 NEW MOTHS OF THE FAMILY CERURIDAE SCHAUS 45 



brownish olive segmental lines; underneath white. Fore wing pale 

 mouse gray, the costa M^hite irrorated with army brown; base below 

 cell white irrorated with black; a subbasal black line inangled below 

 cell; antemedial line fine, double, brown, inbent on costa, black and 

 slightly outcurved to inner margin; a large crescent on discocellular, 

 outlined in black; a fine and very faint double postmedial line slightly 

 darker than ground color; a subterminal sinuous drab shade double 

 from costa to vein 4; a marginal black line parallel with termen, 

 slightly lunular below vein 3 to tornus; termen and cilia white irro- 

 rated with black. Hind wing white; a narrow terminal hair brown 

 shade, its edge outwardly wavj-; cilia white. 



Expanse 35 mm. 



Habitat. — Port au Prince, Haiti. 



Type.— Os^t. No. 33365, U.S.N.M. 



Somewhat like R. hichorda Hampson from the Bahamas. 



RIFARGIA DEMISSA BRIOCA, new form 



Female. — Differs from the typical form in having the postmedial 

 line of fore wing followed by a continuous well-defined black fascia^ 

 its outer edge partly dentate. 



Expanse 45 mm. 



Habitat. — British Guiana. 



Type.— C&t. No. 33366, U.S.N.M. 



RIFARGIA AUSCHARIA, new species 



Female. — Palpi fuscous fringed with white and a few buft'y brown 

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

 and cinnamon brown hairs on vertex, collar, and tegulae. Abdomen 

 above mottled white and benzo brown; anal hairs mostly white; 

 underneath white. Fore wing white irrorated with black and hair 

 brown, also with grayish olive on postmedial area; lines very faint 

 except on costa, hair brown; antemedial line double, inbent on costa, 

 outcurved across ceil to fold, then inbent ; a light buff incurved line 

 on discocellular, inwardly edged with fuscous; postmedial line double ^ 

 outcurved around cell, with fuscous points or short streaks on veins, 

 followed by two more series of fuscous points on veins; a marginal 

 fuscous line, mostly punctiform inangled on vein 5; cilia white with 

 benzo brown spots at veins and a few dark hairs otherwise. Hind 

 wing white suffused with smoky mouse gray, darker on veins and 

 termen; cilia white. 



Expanse 42 mm. 



Habitat. — VaJera, Venezuela. 



Type.—Csit. No. 33367, U.S.N.M. 



Easily distinguished by the punctiform lines on outer half of fore 

 wing. 



