230 ME. W. SCHAUS ON NEW HETEKOCEEA [Mar. 6, 



19. OPHABirS GEMMA, sp. QOV. 



Palpi, legs, and abdomen below blackish. Antennae black. 

 Head, collar, and thorax light greyish brown ; two minute black 

 points on the collar. Abdomen dorsally orange, with a broad sub- 

 dorsal brownish line tapering towards the anal segment. Pri- 

 maries light greyish brown ; an indistinct dark median shade not 

 reaching the margins ; beyond the cell a large dark brown spot 

 cut by vein 5. Secondaries greyish brown. Exp. 55 millim. 



Hah. Aroa, Venezuela. 



20. PSETJDAPISTOSIA OBDINAEIA, Sp. nOV. 



Palpi, head, thorax, and primaries light brown. Secondaries 

 whitish. Abdomen dorsally brown at the base, otherwise yellow 

 with a subdorsal and a lateral row of short black streaks ; under- 

 neath brown. Exp. 41 millim. 



Hah. Castro, Parana. 



21. HaI/ISIdota pagana, sp. nov. 



S . Palpi orange, tipped with black. Head, collar, and thorax 

 black ; the patagia black bordered with orange. Abdomen dorsally 

 black ; some small yellow marks laterally and underneath ; the 

 anal segment entirely yellow. Primaries above dark brown with 

 the veins very distinct. Secondaries dull brown. Underneath, the 

 wings are dull brown, yellow at the base. Exp. 36 millim. 

 , Hah. Castro, Parana. 



Ohs. The 2 differs in having the last three segments of the 

 qbdomen yellow, with an interrupted subdorsal brown line. 



22. Halisidota lineata, sp. nov. 



Palpi, head, and collar black. Thorax brown, shading to light 

 buff posteriorly. Abdomen dorsally yellow, paler at the base ; 

 underneath whitish, with a ventral and lateral black line. Pri- 

 maries above light buff, with a broad blackish streak extending 

 from near the base on the median vein to the outer margin just 

 below the apex ; a marginal row of dark points. Secondaries 

 white. Underneath whitish ; the primaries with the costal margin 

 buff, and a small subapical dark streak. Exp. 35 millim. 



Hah. Castro, Parana. 



23. Ph^gopteea jonesi, sp. nov. 



Palpi black, orange at the base. Head and coUar buff, with two 

 black spots on the latter. Thorax buff, with a few dark streaks. 

 Abdomen dorsally orange ; white below, with a ventral row of 

 black marks, and a lateral row of small black spots. Primaries 

 above buff ; the veins brown ; the outer margin broadly brown, 

 inwardly very dentate towards the apex ; a large brown spot at 

 the end of the cell ; an outer broad, irregular, transverse brown 

 band, interrupted between veins 3 and 4, and not quite reaching 

 either the costal or inner margins. Secondaries above whitish, 

 narrowly margined with browoi at the outer angle ; a transverse 



