500 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



PHRYGIONIS SORORCULA, new species. 



Fortnriiu/. — Olive-o-ray, without the fawn-colored tint oi fraterciiJa^ 

 to w^hich it is closely allied; instead of the bright pale yellow mark- 

 ings, the t3'pical pair have it dull and clouded with olive (one female 

 alone agreeing with fratcrcnla in having the 3ellow belt inclosed); 

 they all agree in having the inner edge of the outer belt of forewing 

 expanded baseward above middle so that the belt becomes funnel 

 shaped, and the pale outer arm is either absent or narrow and incon- 

 spicuous; in the hindwing the rufous-butf outer arm is absent, the belt 

 being followed closelj^ by the lustrous line; there is no marginal red 

 shading from apex to middle, but instead a su})marginal dull lustrous 

 streak; the red blotches are conlluont externally and continued as a 

 fine red line to anal angle, along which the dull streak from the apex 

 is produced as a fine continuous metallic silvery line; the outer belt 

 generally in the hindwing is more abruptly outcurved in the middle 

 than in fratercida. 



Expanse of wings. — Male, 32 mm.; female, 35— tO mm. 



Locality. — Baracoa, Cuba; 1 male, Januar}', 1903; 1 female, Decem- 

 ber, 1902; 1 female, August, 1902, the last being the yellow belted 

 form, 



V>ot\\ fratercula2,\A sororcula diticr from other species in the 3'ellow 

 veins of the hindwings. 



ry^6.— Cat. No. 9344, U.S.N.M. 



Subfainilj- ISTEPHOI^IIlSrvT^:. 



Genus ASTYOCHIA Druce. 



ASTYOCHIA SIGNATA, new species. 



Formnng. — Dingy hyaline gray, costal area above subcostal vein 

 and marginal area opaque gray; veins, dark fuscous; discocellular 

 marked l)y a l)lackish crescent; lines oblique, first from one-third of 

 costa to one-fourth of inner margin very obscure; median thicker, 

 lunulate-dentate, incurved on both folds; outer line thick at two-thirds 

 below costa and broad beyond cell, then ol)lique and straight; submar- 

 ginal most clearly marked, zigzag, joining outer line on iinier margin; 

 fringe gray. 



IIindiiHntj. — Without two first lines; the postmedian of uniform 

 width, curved beyond discocellular in both wings, but more conspicu- 

 ously in the hindwing, the margin between veins is narrowly paler, so 

 that the gray border appears waved. 



Under side the same, but the gray tints all darker, especially the 

 postmedian line. 



lleaxl, thorax, and abdomen like wings, but the face and abdomen 

 paler ochreous; legs, dark gra}'. 



