NEW MOTHS FROM SOUTH-EAST BRAZIL. 34l 



with pale olive-green at base ; a dark olive-green discocellular 

 spot ; apex dark olive-green, cut by a fine luteous line from 

 above vein 5 to before apex; a crenulate dark green postmedial 

 line, broad at costa ; hind wings : a dark green discocellular 

 spot ; a crenulate diffused dark green postmedial line and similar 

 subterminal ; a brown terminal sufiusion. 



Expanse 32 mm. 



Hah. Alto da Serra, Santos. 



Rhodomena paularia, sp. n. (PI. II. fig. 7.) 



Female. — Palpi ochreous white, the first joint outwaixUy black ; 

 legs buflf heavily suffused with black, the tarsi black ringed with 

 buff; frons lustrous whitish fawn, a large central purple-brown 

 spot ; vertex of head pale buff-white with, brown central spot ; 

 antennfe slightly metallic purple-brown, the basal joint ochreous ; 

 tegulre pale buft'-white with a dark brown line ; patagia ochreous 

 white, fuscous brown on the shoulder ; a large black and brown 

 metathoracic tuft with metallic reflection ; abdomen dark ochreous, 

 ringed Avith tawny and dorsally suffused with black. Fore wings 

 ochreous white heavilv suflXised with tawny and fuscous brown ; 

 a black basal line from costa to vein 1 ; a dark difl'used ante- 

 medial line, narrow on inner margin and broad at costa ; a dark 

 difl'used medial shade, narrow below cell, broad in and above cell, 

 enclosing black discocellular spot and preceded by a narrow 

 whitish shade ; a second dark shade before postmedial ; post- 

 medial line narrow, denticulate, excurved from vein 2 to 6, 

 thence straight to costa, slightly bent outwards to vein 2, follov»'ed 

 by rather broad ochreous white ; terminal area heavily suflused 

 with fuscous and brown, the apex very dark ; an obscure wavy 

 subterminal line indicated by lilacine scales. Hind wings 

 ochreous suffused with luteous brown ; obscure diffused post- 

 medial and subterminal lines : termen brown. 



Expanse 27 mm. 



Hab. Alto da Serra, Santos. 



HyPOLEPTS BELLA, sp. n. (PL II. fig. 25.) 



Male. — Palpi, pectus, and legs tawny, the latter heavily streaked 

 and suft\ised with dark reddish brown ; frons broAvn tawny ; 

 vertex of head golden tawny ; antennse tawny, the shaft streaked 

 and sufiYised with brown ; tegulje tawny mixed with golden 

 yellow; patagia outwardly golden brown, inwardly golden yellow; 

 abdomen golden yellow heavily suflused with purplish brown 

 except at base, a dorsal and two sublateral dark spots on first 

 segment, dorsal only on second and third. Fore wings rich 

 golden brown; costa and subcostal vein barred with golden- 

 yellow strigula?, costa almost black on basal half ; a silvery-white 

 wavy antemedial line angled outwards on subcostal vein and 

 inwards on vein 1 ; a silvery-white medial band passing through 

 cell, angled outwards on vein 2, the middle of the band occupied 

 by a. narrow band of yellow irrorated with brown, the white 



