AHT. 19 NEW MOTHS OF THE FAMILY CERURIDAE SCHAUS 47 



Type.— Cat. No. 33369, U.S.N.M. 

 From the Dognin collection. 



Named in honor of Mr. Everit Macy, one of the two largest sub- 

 scribers to the Dognin fund. 



AFILIA VENADIA, new species 



Male. — Palpi, head, collar, and thorax mottled fuscous, hair brown 

 and white. Abdomen above cinnamon, suffused with orange cinna- 

 mon at base. Fore wing: Base, costal margin, and medial area whit- 

 ish with a few dark irrorations; antemedial and terminal area light 

 cinnamon drab; lines fine, mostly fuscous; basal line outcm-ved; ante- 

 medial line slightly outcurved, inangled on median and vein 1, pre- 

 ceded by a faint parallel cinnamon-drab line; a line on discocellular; 

 postmedial line double, cinnamon drab, the inner part with fuscous 

 scaling on costa and below vein 4, outangled on vein 6, incurved 

 opposite cell, lunular below vein 3 ; subterminal line broken by veins, 

 dentate or lunular on interspaces; a marginal line, inset and irregular 

 below vein 4 ; on medial area the white below cell is partly devoid of 

 dark scaling and forms a large spot. Hind wing white suffused with 

 light buff"; cilia white. 



Expanse, male, 28 mm.; female, 30-39 mm. 



Habitat. — Venadio, Mexico. 



Type.— C&t. No. 33370, U.S.N.M. 



A long series in the United States National Museum. 



AFILIA PURULHA, new species 



Male. — Mottling of head and thorax hair brown and white. Abdo- 

 men above cinnamon drab. Fore wing more uniformly gray than in 

 A. venadia; subbasal line outcurved black, partly double; antemedial 

 line, almost medial, double, black, curved on costa, then well inbent, 

 with a black line projecting basad to subbasal line; postmedial line 

 drab, macular, preceded by a fine, indistinct, disconnected drab line; 

 a black line on discocellular; subterminal line hair brown, macular, 

 inbent from costa to vein 4, then sinuous; marginal line fuscous, sinu- 

 ous below vein 4. Hind wing and cilia pure white. 



Expanse 38 mm. 



Habitat. — Purulha, Guatemala. 



Type.— C&t. No. 33371, U.S.N.M. 



Two males collected by Barnes and Schaus. 



LUSURA TURNINA, new species 



Male. — Palpi above cinnamon brown, the long fringe on terminal 

 half benzo brown with a few white hairs. Head, collar, and thorax 

 cinnamon brown mottled with white hairs. Abdomen above russet 

 with dark transverse bands. Fore wing: Costa to near middle 



