INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 173 



Family SATURNIID^ 



Periga oculata, new species. 



Male. — Body above pale orange yellow, the collar and front 

 of thorax slightly darker. Fore wings pale orange yellow ; a 

 fine brown antemedial line, outcurved and dentate across cell, 

 incurved below cell, outbent on vein 1, then vertical to inner 

 margin. A large gray spot at end of cell, circled by a black 

 line and containing some black scales ; a fine whitish line, 

 faintly lunular, and with some fuscous gray shading from 

 apex to inner margin at two thirds from base, being out- 

 wardly shaded with orange from vein 5, this shade expanding 

 to inner margin; a subterminal series of fuscous lunules on 

 interspaces. Hind wings pale orange yellow ; a streak of 

 orange hairs before inner margin ; traces of an outer line from 

 costa before apex; a subterminal darker line, dentate between 

 veins 4 and 3, and 3 and 2. Wings below yellow irrorated 

 with reddish brown ; fine black lines on discocellulars ; fore 

 wings with a fine reddish brown line from apex to inner 

 margin beyod middle ; hind wings with a similar line from 

 apex to inner margin nearer middle. 



Expanse 40 mm. 



Habitat. — Minas, Brazil. 



Type.— Cat. No. 24920, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Near P. circumstans Walker. 



Hylesia minasia, new species. 



Male. — Head cinnamon rufous. Collar and thorax dark 

 purple drab ; some cinnamon hairs in front of collar. Abdo- 

 men above black, the base hazel, the anal segment cinnamon. 

 Body below pale cinnamon, the fore legs purple drab. Fore 

 wings pallid purple drab ; base broadly shaded with dark 

 purple drab except on costa, limited by a slightly darker ante- 

 medial tint, vertical but inangled in cell, closely followed by a 

 fuscous parallel medial line from subcostal to inner margin ; 

 a fuscous streak on discocellular ; postmedial brownish drab 

 slightly curved on costa then almost vertical to inner margin ; 

 a broad subterminal purple drab shade only slightly darker 



