140 PROVEEDINdS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxx. 



Genus PARTHENODES Guenee. 

 PARTHENODES BERTHALIS, new species. 



Ground color shining Avhite; primaries sliaded with brown along 

 costa, before mesial line and in a subniarginal band; inner line brown, 

 slender, near base; mesial line narrow, blackish, broken, separated 

 within b}" a narrow white space from a Ijroad ]>rown shade-band; 

 oiiter line reduced to a small oblique ])lackish bar on inner margin; 

 reniform a brown ringlet; submarginal shade-band strongly angled 

 inward on submedian; a marginal yellow line, narrowly edged with 

 black. Secondaries with traces of mesial line and on the margin 

 traces of black spots, which consist of four groups of black scales 

 with a faint tint of yellowish about them, preceded and followed b\' a 

 scattered line of black scales. 



Expan!<e.— ¥Qn\2i\&^ 22 mm. 



Habitat. — Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



7)/j9e.— Cat. No. 9650, U.S.N.M. 



Genus MACALLA Walker. 

 MACALLA PARANENSIS, new species. 



Palpi and body creamy brown; primaries creamy brown on basal 

 half with dark spot on costa and a few blackish dots below, dark 

 brown outwardl}"; raised scales in cell light within, dark without; lines 

 obsolete, the surface somewhat mottled, the submarginal showing as a 

 series of light points on the veins, preceded and followed l)y slender 

 black lines; a marginal black line; fringe light with dark checkerings. 

 Hind wings whitish, the apex fuscous, traces of a submarginal line 

 above; a marginal black line. 



E.i'panse. — Male, 32 mm. 



Hahitat. — Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



7}//A.— Cat. No. 9622, U.S.N.M. 



MACALLA ALBESCENS, new species. 



Primaries greenish brown, irrorate with black scales; me>i;il line 

 pale, running into a large white blotch on inner margin, with a broad 

 })rown- black shade l)efore and a narrow black line l)eyond above the 

 blotch; an oblique black di.scal bar; outer line wav}', pulverulent, ill 

 defined, followed l\v a white shade; a terminal row of black dots. 

 Secondaries white, stained with grey at apex and narrowl}' along outer 

 margin for the upper half. 



Expanse. — 85 mm. 



UiOutat.— 



Typ,.—OAi. No. 9651. T.S.N.M. 



