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that the locaHty is an error, and Brazil should be substituted. 

 See the following: 



Rhuda dimidiata Herrich-Schgeffer. 

 Drymonia dimidiata Herr.-Sch., Ausser. Schmett., p. 66, fig. 515, 1856. 

 Rhuda endymion Schaus, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1892, p. 340. 

 (Not Phcosia dimidiata of Bui. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 31 18, etc.) 



Herrich-Schasffer's figure obviously represents a female of 

 this Brazilian species and not the North American one with 

 which it has been identified. 



Rhuda lesca, n. sp. 



Head and thorax dark brown, the collar lighter, with a broken black 

 line anteriorly, the square patagial tufts pinkish tipped; abdomen dark 

 gray, yellowish at the base, with a small basal blackish tuft. Fore 

 wing pinkish silvery-white in the middle, defining a large quadrate 

 costal patch, sharply limited, following vein 4 from its origin to position 

 of subterminal line where it runs to costa parallel to outer margin; 

 inner margin of patch oblique to basal fourth of costa; the patch is 

 nearly black below but fades out to nearly whitish along the costa. A 

 dark shade from costa at base extends over the wing below vein 2, 

 terminating in three sinuous black lines subterminally, the space be- 

 yond them again narrowly white, subocellate; a white line from base 

 curves down and runs along vein i to beyond middle, below which the 

 inner area is whitish and pale brown suffused, but without any gray 

 irroration; outer margin faintly darker shaded. Hind wings largely 

 fuscous, the disk about vein 2 and the inner margin pale yellowish. 

 Expanse 50 mm. The fore wings are broad and squarely cut. 



One female, Castro, Parana, Brazil (collection of Wm. 

 Schaus). 



Type. — No. 11333, U. S. National Museum. 



Rhuda lorella, n. sp. 



Markings essentially as in the preceding species. Abdomen brown, 

 the two basal segments ocherous, without black basal tuft. Fore wings 

 with the costal patch longer, its outer border somewhat excavated; 

 basal line white, stopping before middle of wing and with silvery gray 

 irrorations below it; outer line before tornus double, incurved and 

 dentate on veins i and 2, followed by a blackish patch on vein 2 and a 

 white dentate subterminal line, beyond which is a slender black line, 

 very near the margin below, more remote above, and becoming quad- 

 rately produced between the veins above vein 4. Hind wings largely 

 fuscous, the inner margin and a small space above vein 2 ocher-yellow. 

 Expanse 55 mm. The fore wings are broad and squarely cut. 



One female, Castro, Parana, Brazil (collection of Wm. 

 Schaus). _ 



Type. — No. 11 334, U. S. National Museum. 



