ON NEW MOTHS FROM SOUTH-EAST BRAZIL. 323 



18. Descriptions of New Moths from South-East Brazil. 

 By E. Dukinfield Jones, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



[Received October 15, 1920 : Read February 22, 1921.] 



(Plates I.-ill *) 



Fam. Noctuidjg. 



MlCTOCHROA PAULATA, sp. n. (PL I. fig. 17.) 



Female. — Palpi rufous brown; legs brown, the fore and mid 

 tarsi fuscous ringed with ochreous ; head and body light brown ; 

 anal tuft rufous. Fore wings brownish ochreous, suffused with 

 rufous at base and on medial and terminal areas ; dark basal 

 spots on costa, subcostal nervure, and inner margin ; a wavy dark 

 antemedial line, dilated on costa and followed by broad whitish 

 band, which includes the orbicular ; orbicular whitish, distally 

 defined by black; reniform whitish, incurved and defined proxi- 

 mally and distally by black lunules confluent with a black diffused 

 fascia in cell and beyond it ; a fine wavy postmedial line excurved 

 beyond cell, incurved from vein 4 to inner margin, followed by 

 rufous shade ; a large fuscous triangular subapical spot on costa 

 containing three white points; a sinuous whitish subterminal 

 line incurved from apex to discal fold, angled inwards on the 

 fold, excurved from discal to submedian fold and bent outwards 

 to tornus ; terminal area rufous : a terminal line of fuscous 

 lunules on the interspaces; cilia rufous and fuscous brown. Hind 

 wings brown ; cilia with ochreous spots opposite the veins. 



Expanse 27 mm. 



Hab. Sao Paulo, S.E. Brazil. 



MlCTOCHROA PALLIDULA, Sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 18.) 



Male. — Palpi and antennas light brown ; body and wings creamy 

 white; abdomen slightly irrorated with light red-brown. Fore 

 wings suffused and lightly irrorated with pale reddish brown ; 

 the lines very obscure ; antemedial line excurved from costa to 

 submedian fold, then incurved to inner margin ; orbicular and 

 reniform creamy white defined by pale reddish brown ; indica- 

 tions of medial dark shade; postmedial line sinuous, excurved 

 from costa to vein 2, incurved from 2 to inner margin ; termen 

 and cilia concolorous. Hind wings slightly irrorated with pale 

 reddish brown. 



Female similar to male. 



Expanse: male 21 mm., female 27 mm. 



Hab. Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



* For explanation of tbe Plates see p. 356. 



