176 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



Lusura ancha, new species. 



Female. — Head and thorax mottled gray and fuscous. 

 Abdomen above fuscous gray, the basal segment orange brown. 

 Body below avellaneous. Wings fuscous gray. Fore wings : 

 a geminate black brown basal line on costa; a short black 

 streak on median and one below it; very faint traces of ante- 

 medial line; a fine, faint, medial line slightly wavy, closely 

 followed by a fine distinct black line from costa to below cell 

 where it is edged with whitish and does not reach submedian 

 fold ; a short dark streak connects this line with a black lunule 

 near end of cell ; two dark points on discocellular followed by 

 four small whitish spots ; a black postmedial line outbent from 

 costa to vein 6, then inbent and macular, the spots somewhat 

 triangular and followed by whitish gray indistinct spots on 

 interspaces ; a subterminal wavy black line, the veins partly 

 streaked with black; cilia grayish, on inner margin medially 

 tipped with black. Cilia on hind wings white with dark spots 

 at veins. Wings underneath grayer without markings ; the 

 costa of fore wing narrowly cream color; cilia white with 

 dark points on both wings. 



Expanse 40 mm. 



Habitat. — Trinidad, Paraguay. 



Type.— Cat. No. 24924, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Wings broader than in the other species of this genus, and 

 the general character of markings dififerent. 



Received from Mr. Pedro Jorgensen. 



Hemiceras sericilinea, new species. 



Male. — Body above pale buff, underneath whitish buff. 

 Palpi brown above, white below. Frons brownish irrorated 

 with white ; a white line behind and white tufts at base of 

 antennae. Vertex cinnamon brown. Collar antimony yellow. 

 Legs mostly white, the tarsi brown. Fore wings pale buff, 

 silky, thinly irrorated with reddish brown, the inner margin 

 straight ; costal margin finely orange brown ; a fine antemedial 

 orange brown line, vertical, not reaching costa or inner margin ; 

 a small brown spot at end of cell circled with fuscous brown; 



