416 



^Ir. W. Scliaus on 



Megalopygidae. 

 Mesocia fluxa, sp. n. 



Head whitish ; fions light brown. Legs light brown 

 partly streaked with white. Collar and thorax white with 

 some light brown and greenish-white shadings. Abdomen 

 black ; anal hairs white, and a white subdorsal tuft at base. 

 Primaries : costa, base, inner margin finely, and apex white, 

 the latter streaked with grey; the cell just beyond it, below it, 

 and narrowly along inner margin pale greenish irrorated with 

 black ; the outer margin below vein 7 broadly light brown 

 with intervenal grey streaks ; an indistinct marginal white 

 line. Secondaries black, the veins terminally wliitish, and 

 whitish shadings at anal angle. 



Expanse 27 mm. 



Hab. Sixola River. 



Pattern of wings similar to M. lorna, Schs., but different in 

 colour. 



Trosia venata, sp. n. 



Antennae, head, and collar ochreous brown. Frons and 

 legs blackish brown. Thorax pale brown ; patagia whitish. 

 Abdomen white tinged above with yellow. Wings white. 

 Primaries : the costal margin and veins light brown. 



Expanse 39 mm. 



Hab. Avangarez ; July. Esperanza; May. 



Megalopyge montatia, sp. n. 



Head reddish brown, darkest on vertex. Thorax mottled 

 reddish brown and buff posteriorly. Abdomen dark brown 

 with transverse whitish bands. Primaries : the base and 

 outer margin pale buff ; the intermediate space brown, darkest 

 antemedially and on costal margin ; some dark spots at base ; 

 an outer white line, lunular, separated by the veins and 

 shaded on either side with darker brown, except outwardly 

 between veins 3 and 5 ; the apical third of costa light brown ; 

 a terminal dark line interrupted by the veins. (Secondaries 

 light brown ; the outer margin pale buff; a terminal inter- 

 rupted dark line. Underneath brown, the outer margins 

 pale buff; the terminal line as above. 



Expanse 34 mm. 



Hah. JuanVinas; February. ElSitio; May. 



Allied to M. salacia, Druce, but altogether paler. 



