ART. 19 NEW MOTHS OF THE FAMILY CERURIDAE — SCHAUS 59 



Hind wing and stigma light buff, the termen broadly suffused with 

 cinnamon drab, diffuse basad; cilia tipped with white. 



Expanse 35 mm. 



Habitat. — Hyutanahan and Nova Olinda, Rio Purus, Brazil. 



Type. — In Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



Paratype.—C&t. No. 33393, U.S.N. M. 



Comes nearest to H.Jlavorufa Dognin. 



HEMICERAS TEFFEA. new species 



Female. — Antenna with minute bristles. Palpi mikado brown 

 fringed below with white. Head and collar cinnamon; a white band 

 across frons at antennae. Thorax and base of abdomen light pinkish 

 cinnamon; abdomen above silvery drab gray with huffish segmental 

 lines, underneath buff white, the terminal segments suffused with 

 cinnamon buff. Fore wing silky vinaceous drab, the termen broadly 

 hessian brown; costa light pinkish cinnamon and an oblique fascia 

 from base of costa and inner margin narrowing to a point before 

 tornus; a darker shade in cell, and below cell to postmedial line; an 

 indistinct fuscous spot on discocellular; otily a postmedial line remote 

 from apex, parallel with termen, vinaceous drab defined by dark 

 lines. Hind wing almost entirely suffused with bronzy cinnamon 

 drab, more heavily on termen; cilia tipped with white. 



Expanse 34 mm. 



Habitat. — Teffe, Amazons. 



Type.— C&t. No. 33394, U.S.N.M. 



Unlike any known species. 



From the Dognin collection. 



HEMICERAS TAPERINHA, new species 



Male. — Palpi walnut brown above, light buff below. Head, collar, 

 and thorax mottled amber brown and white, the white hairs predom- 

 inating on tegulae and metathorax. Abdomen above sorghum 

 brown; anal hairs and underside white. Fore wing with termen 

 crenulate, light cinnamon drab sKghtly suffused with pale ecru drab 

 on inner margin, the costal margin and medial area thinly irrorated 

 with white; subbasal line lunular, hazel; antemedial Une from near 

 middle of costa, excurved on costa and in cell, white, outwardly edged 

 with hazel, then only hazel, shortly inbent on median, vertical to vein 

 1, and outcurved, with a black point on vein 1, and dark scaling on 

 curve below it, followed in cell by an ochraceous buff shade; a small 

 dark annulus on discocellular, and a small spot above it basad; post- 

 medial line remote, outbent on costa, white, angled on vein 7, then 

 inbent, hazel, cut by veins; the veins from cell and vein 1 chestnut 

 brown irrorated with white; sub terminal small darker shades from 

 apex to vein 2, expanding below veins 4 and 3. Ciha with white 



