Noi-l-^G. ^rj^w GEOMETRID MOTHS— WARREN. 519 



PHYSOCLEORA SUFFUSCA, new species. 



Forewing. — AMiitish gni}-, thickly and unifornih' powdored with 

 olive-gray; the line.s indi.stiiict, except at costa, the exterior marked 

 by black vein spots and black from vein 5 to 3, followed by a double 

 })lotch of fulvous and fuscous scales, the fulvous iNnng on the veins; 

 the submargiiial line waved, between two darker gra}' bands; marginal 

 spots black, connected 1)y a tine blaclc festooned line; fringe gray; 

 cell spot obscure. 



IIuuliruKj. — Like forewing, without inner line, the cell spot black; 

 the shade l)e3'ond outer line complete, fulvous tinged. 



Under side of forewing- olive-fuscous, paler before the dark fuscous 

 margin; fringe whitish; cell spot black; hindwing white, with fuscous 

 cell spot and marginal spots. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings, pale gray speckled with 

 darker; face brown. 



Expanse of vximjs. — 2.5 mm. 



Locality. ; 1 female. 



Like P. rectisecta but graver, and with the hindwing- beneath wholh' 

 white. 



Type.—Q.^i. No. 9378, U.S.N.M. 



PHYSOCLEORA VENIRUFATA, new species. 



Forewing. — White, sparsely blackish speckled; the lines blackish, 

 fine; the costal area thickly dusted with gray; tirst line strongly 

 curved from one-third of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, marked 

 blacker on the veins, preceded by a broader shade, which is marked in 

 the male by a red spot on median vein; median line indistinct, angled 

 on vein 6 bej'ond the black cell spot; outer line from three-fourths of 

 costa sinuous, mottled blacker on veins, followed by a gray shade, 

 which forms a double blotch on each side of vein -i, veins 6, 4, and 3 

 being marked with rufous; submarginal line waved, whitish, defined 

 by dark shades; cell spots black; fringe whitish, checkered with gray. 



Iliiidiring. — Like forewing-, with only a dark bar at base. 



Under side white, slight grayish toward costa of forewing, which is 

 striated and spotted with dark; a broad l)lackish l)order, narrowing to 

 anal angle and continued shortly at apex of hindwing. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white, speckled with gray; abdomen 

 with gray dorsal rings and a black belt at base; face with a dark bar 

 in middle; legs white; forelegs mottled with fuscous. 



Expanse of vdngs. — Male, 25 mm.; female, 26 mm. 



Locdlith^s. — Castro, Parana, Brazil, 2 females; Rio Janeiro, 1 male. 



In the male the rufous markings are stronger, the shade beyond 

 outer line in both wings being tinged with that color and the blotch 

 below vein -i nearly wholly rufous; in females, one of which is nmch 



