ART. 19 NEW MOTHS OF THE FAMILY CERURIDAE SCHAUS 87 



PYDNA BARASAMPHIA, new species 



Male. — Antennae fasiculate, simple in the female. Palpi hazel 

 above, white below irrorated with hazel at tips. Head, collar, and 

 thorax light buff mottled with fawn color. Abdomen above warm 

 buff, terminal segment, anal hairs and underside white. Fore wing 

 light buff thinly irrorated with tawny; tawny scaling forming a shade 

 along median, at vein 4 upbent to apex; similar scaling forming very 

 indistinct and broken antemedial, medial, and postmedial lines, all 

 outcurved, the postmedial followed by fuscous points on veins, ver- 

 tical from costa, on vein 6 to 4 small angled lines, below vein 4 inset 

 to inner margin; marginal fuscous points on interspaces. Hind wing 

 maize yellow, cilia tipped with white. 



Expanse 33-38 mm. 



Habitat. — Luzon, Philippine Islands. 



Type.— C&t. No. 33443, U.S.N.M. 



PYDNA ERCONA, new species 



Male. — Antenna and body as in P. harsampJiia Schaus. Fore wing 

 buff white; some cinnamon scaling forming a line below cell to vein 

 *2, expanding there into a spot reaching fold, then above median, 

 along vein 4 and upbent to apex; a few postmedial and subterminal 

 -cinnamon scales; marginal fuscous points on interspaces. Hind wing 

 white suffused with pinkish buff along inner margin. 



Expanse 33 mm. 



Habitat. — Luzon, Philippine Islands. 



Type.— C&t. No. 33444, U.S.N.M. 



PYDNA GODDRICA, new species 



Male. — Antennae fasciculate. Palpi: Second joint dark mouse 

 gray, the fringe and third joint whitish with slight black hairs and 

 irrorations. Head benzo brown. Collar and thorax drab, the tegu- 

 lae ecru drab. Abdomen above deep olive buff, with dark transverse 

 lines. Fore wing pale pinkish buff, the inner margin to outer line 

 suffused with dark olive buff, the lines dark olive buff; a line from 

 base of cell along median and vein 4 to termen, faintly edged with 

 whitish below; a postmedial line outcurved around cell and inbent 

 to middle of inner margin; traces of an inbent dull darker shade from 

 middle of costa to median and a similar dark olive buff line from fold 

 antemedially to base of inner margin. In one specimen a small 

 black spot on discocellular; an outer series of black points on veins, 

 parallel with postmedial, partly double, and from vein 2 to inner 

 margin triple; a faint, fine darker shade from apex to vein 4, and 

 from termen to vein 1 at outer series of points; marginal black spots 

 on interspaces. Hind wing blackish drab. 



