ART. 19 NEW MOTHS OP THE FAMILY CERURIDAE SCHAUS 85 



PYDNA ADJUTREA, new species 



Male. — Antenna bipectinated to near tip. Palpi avellaneous 

 streaked above with fuscous. Head and collar grayish olive. Thorax 

 light buff, the front narrowly, a dorsal line, shoulders, and tegulae 

 outwardly bay. Abdomen above light ochi^aceous buff, underneath 

 cream white. Fore wing whitish buff; base of costal edge bay; cell 

 silvery white; a bay line at base of wing; a subbasal fine cinnamon 

 rufous line, outangled on costa, followed on costa by a cluster of cin- 

 namon scales; an outcurved antemedial amber brown line from costa 

 to median, below cell outcurved to fold; from antemedial in cell to 

 near end a fine amber brown bifurcating line; a fine amber line from 

 antemedial along upper edge of cell, expanding and outcurved at dis- 

 cocellular, at vein 3 joining a thicker amber brown line from base 

 along median; a similar line from apex to vein 2, close to cell, slightly 

 crenulate from vein 4 to vein 2, with some ochraceous buff between 

 it and the line on median; a fine pinkish cinnamon postmedial line 

 outangled on costa, then obsolete; base of veins 7, 6 and 4 to 2 amber 

 brown ; outer dark specks on veins 8 to 6 ; from below vein 4 to ante- 

 medial below cell, some pinkish cinnamon scaling; a similar wavy 

 sub terminal line from vein 5 to inner margin; submarginal tawny 

 points on interspaces, larger at fold; cilia with ochraceous buff spots 

 at veins. Hind wing light yellowish buff, darker on inner margin. 

 Wings below yellowish white, the cell of fore wing suffused with 

 brownish drab. 



Expanse 58 mm. 



Habitat. — Assam, India. 



Type.— C&t. No. 33439, U.S.N.M. 



PYDNA MARCONIA, new species 



Male. — Antennae with long pectinations, in the female moderately 

 pectinated. Palpi buff white, streaked above with fuscous. Frons 

 buff white, darkly edged at eyes. Collar and thorax Ught buff, the 

 tegulae mottled with cinnamon buff" hairs. Abdomen above pinkish 

 buff, underneath white. Fore wing light buff thinly irrorated with 

 cinnamon buff and sayal brown; subbasal line indicated as a curved 

 cinnamon line on costa, and a curved black line below cell; a very 

 faint medial line consisting of cinnamon scales sinuous from within 

 cell to inner margin, preceded in cell by a large quadrate black spot; 

 an elongated black spot at end of cell to the postmedial which is 

 similar to the medial line, outcurved from costa, inbent from vein 4 

 to the medial line at fold; dark scaling on vein 5, upbent to near 

 apex; sub terminal black points on interspaces parallel with termen. 

 Hind wing light buff suffused with fight pinkish cinnamon especially 

 toward inner margin; cilia white. In some specimens the cell spots 

 are sayal brown. 



