NO. 1444. NEW SO UTH AMERICA N MOTHS— SCHA US. 9 5 



MANTRUDA ERRATICA, new species. 



Thorax dark brown; autenna3 strongly bipectinate, the tips serrate. 

 Primaries dark brown, sericeous, with faint traces of darker lines. 

 Secondaries with the costal marg-in expanded in two lol)es, the outer 

 one larger; a small projection between veins 6 and 7; costa dark brown; 

 disk white; inner and outer margins pale brown. Legs brown, the 

 middle tibia? especially dark. Abdomen pale brown. 



Expanse. — 28 mm. 



Habitat. — Aroa, Venezuela. 



Type.—C^t. No. 8283, U.S.N.M. 



Genus PHECADA ^A/alker. 

 PHECADA JOANNA, new species. 



Antennre bipectinate to the tips, the shaft white, pectinations pale 

 testaceous. Primaries sericeous sordid grey; medial space all over- 

 spread with violaceous brown between the arcuate inner and crenulate 

 outer lines, except about end of cell and in center of space below and 

 above vein 1; a faint dark shade along margin above, terminating 

 obliquely to apex. Hind wing similar, the median dark band narrow 

 and less distinct. Below two common dark crenulate approximate lines 

 and faint discal dots. 



Expanse. — 50 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Jean, French Guiana. 



Type.—Q2X. No. 8284, U.S.N.M. 



Family EUPTEROTID^. 



Genus CARTHARA Walker. 



CARTHARA ROSEILINEA, new species. 



Primaries dark olive brown, the costa pale carneous shaded, espe- 

 pecially subapically ; a violaceous ray along median vein, f u rcate on veins 

 3 and A: to margin, inclosing a pale space; inner line pale, faint; outer 

 line near the margin, excurved parallel to the bent margin, distinct, 

 whitish, narrow above, obscure below; a minute black discal dot; a 

 marginal violaceous shade, obsolete below. Secondaries violaceous 

 brown, paler on costa edge; outer line pale, dark within, bent in the 

 middle; blackish superposed bars on inner margin. Collar dark brown ; 

 body violaceous shaded. Below, costa and inner margin broadly 3'el- 

 lowish carneous; secondaries dark brown; a white discal dot; outer 

 line more distinct than above, white near angle, cutting a black patch, 

 which is the continuation of a faint narrow black inner mesial line. 



Expanse. — 32 mm. 



'Habitat. — Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



Type.—C2it. No. 8285, U.S.N.M. 



