ART. 19 NEW MOTHS OF THE FAMILY CERURIDAE — SCHAUS 75 



costa to vein 4 by a broad space thickly irrorated with black and 

 white; terminal black spots on interspaces. Hind wing and cilia 

 white; a black Hne on discocellular; terminal black spots on inter- 

 spaces. Fore wing below smoky black, the termen broadly drab gray 

 with terminal black spots. 



Expanse 46 mm. 



Habitat. — Thirty miles north of Tatsienlu, China. 



Type.— C&t. No. 33421, U.S.N.M. 



Four males collected by D. C. Graham. 



The postmedial line is more deeply dentate than in the species of 

 Dicranura. 



SOMERA ACASIA, new species 



Male. — Palpi ochraceous tawny streaked above with fuscous, the 

 tip white. Head, collar, and thorax mottled white, pale ecru drab 

 and slightly with fuscous hairs. Abdomen above army brown, under- 

 neath wood brown. Fore wing silky grayish olive, the lines chiefly 

 black; a double subbasal line, inangled on median, outangled below 

 cell with a projecting line to antemedial; antemedial line vertical, 

 double on costa and from fold to inner margin, preceded by an inbent 

 streak from subcostal to median; a fine line on discocellular, out- 

 wardly edged with white; a faint dark grayish oHve line outbent and 

 dentate to vein 4. then incurved, macular from vein 2 to inner margin; 

 postmedial line double mostly punctiform, filled in with dark grayish 

 olive from vein 3 to inner margin; a lunular subterminal line partly 

 edged outwardly with pale olive buff, forming small lunules from 

 veins 7 to 4, below 4 incurved, sinuous; an interrupted marginal ]ine; 

 cilia with fuscous spots on interspaces. Hind wing army brown; cilia 

 with vinaceous fawn spots. Fore wing below cinnamon drab, the 

 hind wing pinkish buff, with darker suffusions; both wings with cilia 

 cinnamon brown on interspaces. 



Expanse 47 mm. 



Hahitat. — Assam, India. 



Type.— Csit. No. 33422, U.S.N.M. 



A very distinct species. 



STAUROPUS BRIACHISIA, new species 



Male. — Palpi cinnamon brown, streaked with fuscous above. Head 

 and collar prout's brown, the head mottled with white hairs. Thorax 

 white mottled with ochraceous tawny, the tegulae white mottled with 

 prout's brown. Abdomen above cinnamon brown, darker at base; 

 underneath light brownish drab with darker bands. Fore wing white 

 thickly irrorated with brownish drab, the lines diamine brown, fine, 

 on costa thicker; base of costa whiter; a subbasal line from costa 

 inbent to base below cell, followed on costa by a short longitudinal 

 streak; a broken medial line slightly inbent; discocellular spot oval, 



