280 MR. w. scHAus ON NEW [Apr. 5, 



Ammalo thrailkilli, sp. nov. 



Primaries dark brown, indistinctly mottled with paler scales. 

 Secondaries reddish yellow. Head and thorax brown. Abdomen 

 dorsally red, with transverse black bands ; underneath brownish. 



Expanse 55 mm. 



Hab. Paso de San Juan, Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



Halisidotaoruba, sp. nov. 



Primaries above pale fawn-colour, mottled with brown, a brown 

 line extending through the middle of the wing, from the base to the 

 apex, a brown discal spot, a marginal and a submarginal row of browu 

 spots. Secondaries whitish, a row of small spots on the apical half 

 of the outer margin. Head and thorax fawn-colour, with a central 

 brown line. Abdomen fawn-colour dorsally, white laterally and 

 underneath. 



Expanse 58 mm. 



Hab. Petropolis, Brazil. 



Sychesia hartmanni, sp. nov. 



Primaries dark brown, an indistinct wavy submarginal shade. 

 Secondaries black-brown, faintly hyaline in the disk. Head and 

 thorax above brown, an orange spot at the base of the antennae ; 

 thorax underneath orange. Abdomen dorsally black, laterally orange, 

 underneath brown. 



Expanse 40 mm. 



Hab. Petropolis. 



Sychesia janeira, sp. nov. 



Male. Primaries above light brown, with numerous transverse 

 pale streaks, all the veins orange-brown ; secondaries yellowish 

 white, black on the margins. Head and thorax brown, the collar 

 edged with dull orange. Abdomen dorsally orange, the first seg- 

 ment unspotted, the following three with large transverse black 

 spots, the other segments with subdorsal black spots ; abdomen 

 underneath brown, wavy along the sides where confluent with the 

 orange. The anus dark brown. 



The/emaZe differs in having the secondaries entirely dull brownish 

 black. 



Expanse 52 mm. 



Hab. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 



Ph^goptera schafferi, sp. nov. 



Primaries white, mottled with brown, chiefly across the centre of 

 the wing. Two orange basal spots, beyond which is a broken curved 

 row of orange spots, and orange spots at the end of the cell ; two 

 rows of orange spots beyond the cell, and an orange spot at the 

 extremity of each vein. Secondaries whitish, with black margins. 

 Head and thorax brown, spotted with orange. Abdomen dorsally 



