ON NEW SPECIES OF TRINIDAD MOTHS, 99 1 



47. New Species o£ Trinidad Moths. By W. J. Kaye, F.E.S.* 



[Received July 30, 1922 : Read November 7, 1922.] 



(Plate I.t) 



The moths here described and figured were all (except one, 

 Ce7it7'0)iia plorator, csLUght by myself) taken by Sir Norman Lament 

 in the south of the island of Trinidad. Most likely, all the species 

 will some day also be found on the mainland in either Venezuela 

 or Guiana, as, except for numerous local races, one would not 

 expect distinct island species such as are found in Oceanic 

 islands, Trinidad being essentially a recently detached portion of 

 Venezuela. Doubtless, there are numbers of species still unknown 

 and undescribed, and very much work I'emains to be done before 

 we can even approximately guess the number of genera and 

 species that exist. 



Family H Y p s i D JS. 

 Centeonia plorator, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 3.) 



$ . Base of eyes and base of palpi orange. Antennae filiform. 

 Abdomen black with the segments below ringed with white. 

 For-e wing black with a, postmedian cuived white band com- 

 mencing very narrow on the costa but rapidly widening to about 

 3 mm. wide as far as vein 4, where it rapidly contracts and 

 becomes suffused with black to extreme angle of wings. Veins 

 showing grey on inner side of white band. Hind wing dark 

 bluish black with a narrow whitish marginal band, suffused with 

 black as far as vein 5, where it suddenly ceases. Below, the 

 white band of both fore and hind wing completely white without 

 any suffusion. Exp. 44 mm. 



Habitat. Trinidad, Siparia, 18. xi. 20 (IF. J. Kaye). In Coll. 

 B.M. 



Family Notodontid^. 



Dicentria nondescripta, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 9.) 



Head brown with a fan-shaped tuft of raised hair behind 

 antennae. Fore wing dark chocolate-brown with greenish-yellow 

 shades, especially on costa beyond middle. Discoidal spot not 

 conspicuous, of the same ground-colour as wing and edged on 

 both inner and outer edges with greenish yellow. An indistinct 

 slender pale line consisting of lunules beyond middle. Sub- 

 terminal line also of pale lunules. A very ill-defined double 

 submedian line, becoming lost in the ground-colour soon after 

 leaving the cell. Hind wing pearly transparent with the apex 



* Communicated by Gut A. K. Maeshall, C.M.G., D.Sc, P.Z.S, 

 t For explanation of tlie Plate, see p. 998. 



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