252 Mr. W. Schaus on 



thorax brownish grey. Abdomen brown ; triangular pale 

 dorsal shades on segments 2-4 ; anal hairs brownish buff. 

 Fore wings: base pale brownish to antemedial line, which is 

 very broad on costa, outcurved to below cell, then oiitbent, 

 narrow, broadly edged outwardly with black on costa and 

 cell, otherwise narrowly edged with black; a black shade at 

 base of costa ; space beyond whitish grey finely irrorated 

 with black, more heavily on costa; a thick black streak on 

 discocellular; an inbent postmedial dark brown shade, 

 mottled with black on costa and inner margin ; subterminal 

 line sinuous, indicated by small fuscous spots inwardly and a 

 dentate line outwardly ; terminal fuscous spots, cilia greyish 

 white. Hind wings semihyaline white tinged with brown ; 

 the interspaces near discocellular iridescent ; a dark terminal 

 shade. 



Expanse 16 ram. 



Hub. Juan Vinas. 



Moodna formulella, sp. n. 



? . Palpi greyish brown. Head and collar medially light 

 reddish brown ; collar laterally and thorax fuscous grey. 

 Abdomen brownish grey with fuscous dorsal shadings. Fore 

 wings: basal half fuscous grey on costa, towards middle of 

 inner margin, and median vein ; a brown shade below cell 

 and at base of inner margin; the cell greyish, the whole 

 limited by a fine whitish curved line, thickest on inner 

 margin, and a thick dark brown curved line; postmedial 

 space light brown on costa, whitish below it, irrorated with 

 reddish brown, and greyish on inner margin ; the subterminal 

 line inbent, straigiit, parallel with termen, buff-white defined 

 by reddish-brown shading, somewhat diffuse on outer edge ; 

 some dark streaks on veins on either side of pale subterminal 

 line ; termen greyish, with reddish-brown spots on inter- 

 spaces ; cilia dark silky grey. Hind wings semihyaline 

 brownish grey, the veins darker ; the termen narrowly 

 darker. 



Expanse 28 mm. 



Hob. Juan Vinas. 



Subfam. Gallerianje. 

 Athaliptis, gen. nov. 



Female. — Palpi long, slender, porrect, slightly downcurved. 

 Autennee simple. Legs smooth. Fore wings long, narrow ; 

 apex acute, outer margin oblique ; vein 3 before lower angle ; 



