NO. 1444. NEW SO UTH AMERICAN MOTHS-SCHA US. 103 



spot darker. Below dark powdered; a common dark outer line and 

 discal spots, that of the secondaries larger. 



Expanse. — 23 mm. 



Habitat. — Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



Type.— O^i. No. 9532, U.S.N.M. 



SEMIOPHORA PUNCTULA, new species. 



As in the preceding species, but without the white spots in the reni- 

 form. This is black filled, narrowly pale ringed, the upper segment 

 of the ring white; circle of orbicular nearly without white. The color 

 is a little less reddish, more faded than in S. hastula. It is perhaps a 

 variet}^ thereof. 



Expanse. — 23 mm. 



Habitat. — Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



Type.—Q^i. No. 9533, U.S.N.M. 



Genus EUSTROTIA Hubner. 

 EUSTROTIA GEOGA, new species. 



Dark grey; apex a little touched with white; a faint white shade 

 over reniform; lines single, black, transverse anterior nearly straight, 

 posterior gently excurved over cell, subterminal finely dentate, limit- 

 ing a dark shade, which runs nearly to transverse posterior line; this 

 line reddish bordered below without; claviform small, black outlined; 

 orbicular and reniform obscurely black outlined, pale filled; traces of 

 a median black line; a row of black terminal dashes. Hind wing pale 

 brownish; an outer punctate dark line; outer margin and fringe lined 

 in blackish. 



Expanse. — 21 mm. 



Habitat. — Guadalajara, Mexico. 



Type.— C2ii. No. 9531, U.S.N.M. 



Genus ISCADIA Walker. 

 ISCADIA NIGRA, new species. 



Blackish with a slight gray overcast; transverse anterior line black, 

 slightly oblique, nearly straight, obscurely geminate, the inner gemi- 

 nation brownish, the filling pale, but not contrasted; orbicular circu- 

 lar, pale with a brown center; reniform elliptical, broadly black 

 ringed, concolorous filled with a comparatively small reniform black 

 center; an ashen space on costa before it containing a small black dash; 

 transverse posterior line from costa above reniform, rounded outward 

 parallel to costa, then angled sharply downward, dentate on the veins 

 to below reniform, where it is reti-acted inward to touch the ring of 

 the reniform, and then runs more obscurely to margin; subterminal 



