June, i8 9 s.] New Species of Heterocera. 143 



extreme outer margin ; fringe dark violaceous brown. Secondaries light brown. 

 Underneath light brown with a postmedial line and discal spot on secondaries. Ex- 

 panse, 25 mm. 



Habitat : Orizaba, Mexico. 



Hadena xuelana, sp. nov. 



Palpi, head and collar pale fawn in color. Thorax brown. Abdomen gray ; 

 dorsal tufts reddish brown. Primaries with the basal half brown, the outer half gray, 

 the basal half sometimes mottled wilh paler shades ; the antemedial and medial lines 

 fine, geminate, very indistinct ; the postmedial line fine, dark, very wavy and twice 

 sinuate beyond the cell ; the apex darker, with a lunate subapical line outwardly 

 shaded with white ; some dark subterminal shadings at the inner angle; the spots in- 

 ristinct and faintly outlined. Secondaries with the basal half white, the outer half 

 black. Expanse, 34 mm. 



Habitat : Aroa, Venezuela. 



Out of eight specimens I have of this species no two are absolutely 

 alike and the variation is greater than the description implies. 



Eurois bertha, sp. nov. 



Head and thorax mottled brown and white. Abdomen light brown. Primaries 

 brown. A pink spot at the base ; the basal line white, inwardly shaded with dark 

 brown ; the antemedial and postmedial lines fine wh te, the basal and postmedial 

 spaces slightly speckled with white. On median space the median and submedian 

 veins pink ; the spots circled with white ; the orbicular dark brown, the reniform in 

 the shape of 8, pink and brown ; a dark brown space between the spots and a dark 

 brown spot beyond the reniform. The terminal space mottled with light brown, some 

 subterminal black streaks ; a terminal dark line interrupted on the veins. Fringe 

 mottled with gray. Secondaries brown, fringe partly white. Expanse, 30 mm. 



Habitat: Castro, Parana. 



Eurois orbiculata, sp. nov. 



Palpi yellow, laterally brown. Head yellow. Collar and throat mottled yellow 

 and gray. Primaries mottled white and olivaceous brown ; the basal line dark olive, 

 the sntemedial white, interrupted, and outwardly bordered with a black line ; a dark 

 olive space in the cell between the spots. The orbicular small, white ; the reniform 

 large, mottled gray and white ; the postmedial dark, fine, crenulate, angled beyond 

 the cell, inwardly shaded with white ; a subterminal wavy greenish white shade ; a 

 terminal black line inwardly shaded with white and interrupted in the veins. Fringe 

 olivaceous with pale streaks opposite the veins. Secondaries light brown. Under- 

 neath primaries brownish. Secondaries gray with discal spot, postmedial and sub- 

 terminal shading. Expanse, 34 mm. 



Habitat : Castro, Parana. 

 Platysenta obscura, sp. nov. 



Head, collar aad thorax black. Abdomen brown. Primaries black, brown 

 along the inner margin, in the cell and towards apex. A velvety black streak at base 



