AHT. 19 NEW MOTHS OF THE FAMILY CERURIDAE SCHAUS 51 



spots on interspaces. Hind wing white suffused with hair brown; a 

 dark medial line; inner margin with avellaneous scaling. Wings 

 below white, the fore wing with a hair brown vertical, dentate, post- 

 medial line. 



Expanse 58 mm. 



Habitat. — Merida, Venezuela. 



Type.— C&t. No. 33377, U.S.N.M. 



LOBEZA RHENIA. new species 



Male. — Palpi pecan brown above, otherwise white. Head, collar, 

 and thorax v/hite with scattered fuscous hairs. Abdomen above white 

 at base and terminally, the latter with some cinnamon brown hairs, 

 the second to sixth segments cinnamon with whitish segmental lines; 

 underneath white. Fore wing white thinly irrorated with fuscous 

 scales; antemedial line faint in male, more pronounced in female, 

 double on costa, almost vertical and somewhat punctiform to below 

 cell, then sinuous, outbent to the faint medial line; discocellular mark 

 white; postmedial line lunular dentate, double in female, incurved 

 opposite cell, vertical between veins 4 and 3, then very slightly 

 incurved; the male without terminal line, only some fuscous scales 

 on interspaces, the female with a fine dark terminal line projecting 

 on cilia. Hind wing white. 



Expanse, male, 62 mm.; female, 84 mm. 



Habitat. — Muzo, Medina, Colombia. 



Type.— Cat. No. 33378, U.S.N.M. 



Belongs to the L. aglone group, and the only described allied species 

 with clear white hind wings. 



From the Dognin collection. 



LOBEZA MEDINA, new species 



Male. — Palpi dusky brown, the fringe tipped with white. Head, 

 collar, and tegulae white mottled with fuscous so they appear grayish; 

 thorax overlaid with bone brown hairs from below tegulae. Meta- 

 thorax with white tufts dorsally edged with bone brown and some 

 ochraceous orange scales. Abdomen white with subdorsal snuff brown 

 spots, meeting dorsally at base. Fore wing white; base to antemedial 

 irrorated with fuscous scales, except at base of inner margin; ante- 

 medial line fuscous, macular from costa to below cell, outcurved, then 

 outbent mottled with light orange 3^ellow scales; medial area between 

 lines with very few irrorations, a few forming an indistinct hne from 

 costa across discocellular to antemedial line at fold; postmedial hne 

 vertical consisting of small fuscous spots; terminal area irrorated with 

 olive brown more densely near the postmedial series of spots; a fine 

 terminal line; cilia white. Hind wing white suffused with light buff 

 on base and inner margin; a medial hau- brown Hne from costa to 

 near anal angle. 



