ABT. 19 NEW MOTHS OF THE FAMH.Y CERURIDAE SCHAUS 83 



line, enclosing white spots which extend on cilia. Hind wing dark 

 buffy brown, cilia with white spots. 



Expanse 60 mm. 



Habitat. — Nine to thirty miles from Tatsienlu, China. 



Type.— C&t. No. 33435, U.S.N. M. 



A very distinct species described from 4 males collected by D. C. 

 Graham. One specimen shows a faint pale discal spot on fore wing. 



PHALERA SURIGAGNA.new species 



Male. — Palpi fuscous fringed with wood brown mottled with a few 

 white hairs. Frons snuff brown. Vertex white. Collar snuff brown. 

 Thorax and tegulae brownish drab; a white line at shoulders. Abdo- 

 men above bister with white segmental bands; anal segment and 

 underside yellowish white. Fore wing army brown, paler below cell 

 and vein 2 to inner margin; a broad oblique white shade irrorated 

 with brown from base of costa to antemedial line below cell; traces 

 of a fine black basal line; antemedial line double, well apart on 

 costa, then outcurved and minutely wavy to median, then close 

 together, straight and vertical to vein 1, inbent below it; a double 

 vertical medial line, finely dentate, wavy, inwardly edged with white 

 from below cell; a small buffy brown spot at discocellular; post- 

 medial line double, fine with some black and grayish points on veins, 

 lunular dentate to vein 2, below it sinuous and vertical, closely fol- 

 lowed by a fine double lunular dentate line slightly incurved below 

 vein 4, and more heavily marked between veins 2 and 1 ; a faint 

 fawn color shade from vein 4 to apex, outwardly crenulate; a terminal 

 white patch from tornus to vein 3; submarginal wood brown lunules 

 filled in with black; a terminal cinnamon brown line, extending on 

 cilia at veins, the cilia otherwise cinnamon. Hind wing army brown 

 becoming broadly fuscous on termen; cilia buffy brown with army 

 brown spots at veins. Wings below buffy brown, paler on termen; 

 fore wing with a double army brown, somewhat crenulate, terminal 

 line; hind wing with a vertical medial thick olive brown line from 

 costa to vein 2. 



Expanse, male, 80 mm.; female, 112 mm. 



Habitat. — Surigao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 



Type.— C&t. No. 33436, U.S.N.M. 



Five males and one female in the United States National Museum. 



The species is alhed to P. grotei Moore, which I do not think is 

 identical with P. raya Moore. P. grotei also occurs in the Philippine 

 Islands, and the Museum has a long series. The genitalia of the two 

 species are very different. 



BESIDA VINVALVA, new species 



Male. — Palpi: Second joint fuscous, the ciUa and third joint drab. 

 Head and collar mottled light buff and cinnamon brown, the latter 

 narrowly fuscous in front; thorax mouse gray. Abdomen above drab 



