Sjiecies of Pyraliilaj. 257 



(I) Samea ulophul'is, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ])ro\vii mixcil with fuscous ; 

 ahdonicn with scf];nKMital Mhitc rinpjs ; palpi at base, pectus, 

 and lefjs mostly white, the tarsi banded with black. Fore 

 wiufj yellowish brown mostly suffused with fuscous ; a white 

 point at base and some whitish on basal inner area; a white 

 antcmedial band not reaching costa with a waved line on it ; 

 a quadrate white spot in end of cell and band from cell to 

 inner margin interrupted by a brown streak on vein 2 ; post- 

 medial line with some white spots before it beyond the dark 

 diseoidal spot and beyond it towards costa and between 

 veins 5 and .2, exeurved from costa to vein 2, then retracted 

 to lower angle of cell and traversing the medial white band 

 to inner margin ; cilia chequered black and white. Hind 

 ■wing white ; a small diseoidal spot : a slightly waved post- 

 medial line exeurved between veins 5 and 2 and ending on 

 termen above tornus ; a terminal dark band broad at apex 

 and narrowing to a point at vein 1 ; cilia chequered black 

 and white from apex to vein 2. 



Hab. Mexico, Presidio {Forrer), 1 J, 2 ?; Surinam R., 

 Geldersland [Schaiis), 1 ? type, type S in Coll. Schaus. 

 Exp. 16 mm. 



(13 c) Bocchoris insulalis, sp. n. 



? . Greyish fuscous with a cupreous gloss; sides of frons, 

 tegulse, and patagia streaked with white ; palpi at base, 

 pectus, and legs white ; abdomen with dorsal and subdorsal 

 series of white spots conjoined towards base, the ventral 

 surface banded with white, anal tuft black at extremity. 

 Fore -wing with the base white; the basal area with three 

 oblique white lines, the medial line stronger ; an antemedial 

 white band from costa to submedian fold, attenuate below ; 

 a fine oblique medial line, incurved below the cell where there 

 is a white spot beyond it ; a slight diseoidal striga ; a wedge- 

 shaped oblique white postmedial patch from costa to vein 4 

 enclosed in a triangular dark patch bounded by fine lines 

 which meet at submedian fold, the outer line expanding into 

 a small spot at costa ; a small lunnlate white spot below costa 

 towards apex with a minute wedge-shaped spot on costa 

 beyond it, and a line below it from vein 5 to inner margin 

 towards which it is sinuous, its inner edge dentate towards 

 vein 5 ; a small spot just before termen above vein 2^ the 

 termen blackish from vein 5 to tornus ; cilia spotted with 

 white on apical half, white with a black line through them • 



