ART. 19 NEW MOTHS OF THE FAMILY CERUEIDAE SCHAUS 63 



mouse gray edged basally by the fine iron gray antemediai line which 

 is outcurved from costa to median and twice sUghtly lunular to inner 

 margin, outwardly edged by an oval iron gray spot on discocellular, 

 containing some sayal brown scales, and from vein 3 by the lunular 

 postmedial line; between veins 3 and 5 the postmedial is obsolescent, 

 but there is a small oblique cinnamon shade from below vein 5 to vein 

 3; at costa the postmedial is followed b}^ a broad, irregular, subter- 

 minal iron gray shade to vein 6, and a similar small spot before tor- 

 nus; cilia tipped with iron gray. Hind wing white; inner margin 

 suffused with drab gray; veins finely dark; termen very narrowly 

 cinnamon drab, the stigma deep brownish drab; ciha white. Hind 

 wing below entirely white. 



Expanse 45 mm. 



Habitat. — Hyutanahan, Rio Purus, Brazil. 



Type. — In Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



Paratype. —C&t. No. 33401, U.S.N.M. 



HEMICERAS ELPHEGA, new species 



Male. — Palpi pale cinnamon buff, streaked above with russet. 

 Head, collar, and thorax vinaceous fawn; a white line between anten- 

 nae. Abdomen above avellaneous; anal hairs and underside buff 

 white. Fore w^ing vinaceous faw^n, lines fine, black; a black and 

 white basal point below cell; antemediai line outcurved in cell, 

 wavily outbent below cell, with black points on veins; a faint brown- 

 ish curved line on discocellular with a black point above it; postmedial 

 line inbent from near apex, crenulate, followed from apex to vein 6 

 by a narrow fuscous shade, at vein 1 outcurved; inner margin 

 excurved at base. Hind wing white; stigma and narrow terminal 

 suffusions bronzy vinaceous fawn. 



Expanse, male, 44 mm.; female, 49 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Laurent, Maroni River, French Guiana. 



Type.— Cat. No. 33402, U.S.N.M. 



Three males and one female from the Dognin collection. 



Near H. quebra Schaus, which has the postmedial line punctiform. 



HEMICERAS MONEGONDA, new species 



Female. — Differs from elpJiega in the following respects. Palpi 

 vinaceous fawn, the first joint fringed with white. Fore wing: The 

 base faintly paler limited by the antemediai line which is outbent to 

 middle of cell, then downbent and sinuous; costal margin fuscous; an 

 oblique fuscous streak on discocellular; postmedial line inbent from 

 costa toward apex to submedian fold, then vertical, followed by a 

 small darker shade on inner margin; a faint subterminal dusky shade 

 from vein 5 to termen at vein 2 and tornus fawn color. Hind wing 

 white, veins and termen narrowly cinnamon buff; cilia white suffused 

 with cinnamon buff at base. 



