NEW MCTHS FROM SOUTH-EAST BRAZIL. 353 



thorax dark rufous brown ; abdomen lighter brown. Fore wings 

 light brown suffused and striated with fuscous ; a medial fer- 

 ruginous brown line outwardly shaded with fuscous, straight 

 from inner mai-gin to lower angle of cell, then bent to disco- 

 cellulars ; a whitish spot in the end of the cell ; postmedial line 

 sinuous, ferruginous brown inwardly shaded with fuscous, ex- 

 curved from costa to vein 3, incurved from 3 to 1, followed by 

 broad diflused whitish band ; a fuscous-brown subterminal line 

 from apex to vein 3, broad at apex, narrowing to vein 3 and 

 broken at the veins, a narrow whitish shade on inner side ; 

 terminal area broadly grey ; termen dark ; cilia ferruginous. 

 Hind wings light brown suffused with dark ferruginous on basal 

 half above inner margin ; terminal area brownish grey ; a fer- 

 ruginous brown antemedial line from costa to subcostal nervure ; 

 a medial line straight from before middle of costa to just beyond 

 origin of vein 7, incurved below 7 ; obscure traces of a fine post- 

 medial line. 



Expanse 24 mm. 



Hah. Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



Fam. Lasiocampid^. 

 Artace regalis, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 12.) 



Male. — Pure w^hite. Palpi outwardly black, inwardly white ; fore 

 tibise and tarsi black, ringed with white ; antennae rufous brown. 

 Fore wings : subbasal black spots at origin of vein 2 and below 

 costa ; antemedial line of black spots on veins 1-2, on median 

 nervure at origin of vein 3, subcostal nervure, vein 11, and costa ; 

 a black point on the angles of the cell ; a postmedial line of spots 

 from middle of inner margin nearly straight to v^ein 8, where it 

 bends inwards to costa ; a subterminal line of more elongated 

 spots slightly incurved from inner margin to vein 3, thence ex- 

 curved to vein 10, the spot on costa distally displaced ; a sub- 

 apical row of rather obscure spots above veins 5-8 ; a terminal 

 row of black spots on the interspaces ; cilia white. Hind wings 

 pure white. 



Female similar. 



Expanse : male 43 mm., female 70 mm. 



Hah. Castro, Parana; Alto da Serra, Santos., 



Fam. Perophorid^. 



Perophora thermesia, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 11.) 



Male. — Palpi dark brown, rufous beneath ; legs brown suffused 

 with rufous and irrorated Avith lilacine white scales tipped with 

 black ; frons anteriorly brown, posteriorly rufous ; vertex and 

 antennae reddish brown ; tegulae pale "reddish brown with a few 

 black irrorations ; thorax light brown suffused with lilacine ; 

 abdomen light yellowish brown. Fore wings lilacine iiTorated 

 with white scales tipped with black ; costa light brown, becoming 



