OF WASHINGTON, 63 



Dark, very uniform (Mex- 

 ico and Central America). 

 stibochraceum Walker. 



Dark, the lines more re- 

 lieved; hind wing paler 

 (Venezuela to Brazil). 



lotula Guenee. 



Smaller, more tan-colored, 

 lines well relieved and 

 with slight bordering 

 shades tulola Schaus. 



Hippia vittipalpis Walker. 



This species was described from Santo Domingo (1857) ; 

 insularis Grote from Cuba (1867) ; packardii Morrison from 

 Texas (1875) 5 Ugnosa Moschler from Jamaica (1886), and 

 mandela Druce from Mexico (1887). Mr. Schaus placed 

 Ugnosa and mandela as synonyms of insidaris and let the 

 others stand ; but I am unable to distinguish any of them spe- 

 cifically from the material before me, unless it be mandela, 

 which is larger and darker, the markings in the male less con- 

 trasted. I have, however, but one male of mandela and am 

 inclined to let all the names fall into the synonymy of vittipal- 

 pis Walker. A larger series and knowledge of the life his- 

 tories may possibly show distinctions, but I think it will not 

 affect the synonymy of our North American species, which 

 should be known as vittipalpis. 



Hippia schausi, n. sp. 



Antennae of the male strongly roughened with scales on the basal 

 half above; head and collar yellowish ochraceous mixed with brown; 

 thorax and abdomen dark gray, the abdomen with a dark basal tuft and 

 pale below. Fore wing dark gray, shaded with blackish at base on costa 

 and in median space and terminally above tornus; a white band stained 

 with brown runs along the costal edge from apex to middle of cell 

 where it leaves the costa and curves to inner margin at base, becoming 

 more diffused and stained with brown, relieving the crenulate curved 

 inner line, which follows it outwardly obliquely, finally curving inward 

 and cutting it on subcostal vein; discal mark small, semilunate, in a 

 dull brown cloud followed by a small white cusp joined to costal band; 

 outer line obsolete, defined by the termination of the dark shade in 

 median space, a row of white points on the veins; subterminal line 

 indicated, followed by a row of black points in brownish annuli; a 

 row of whitish points in the fringe. Hind wing blackish brown, with 

 yellowish white fringe. Expanse 42 to 44 mm. 



One male, one female, St. Laurent, Maroni River, French 

 Guiana (W. Schaus). 



