June, 1898.] 
New Species of Heterocera. 
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brown, shaded with white at the base and along the inner margin ; a terminal dark 
line ; fringe mottled brown and white. Expanse, 22 mm. 
Habitat: Sao Paulo, S. E. Brazil. 
Geometrid^e. 
Pityeja picta, sp. nov. 
Head and thorax cream color, the latter speckled with reddish brown ; abdomen 
cream color. Primaries with the base cream color defined by a reddish oblique line ; 
the antemedial line very oblique to the centre of the inner margin, reddish brown ; 
the space before it light brown mottled towards the base with white ; the postmedial 
line nearly straight from costa to vein 4, and then forming an inward curve to near 
the inner angle ; the median space white crossed by reddish brown veins and some 
transverse striae especially in the cell ; beyond the postmedial line the wing is dark 
gray shading to reddish brown on the outer margin, mottled with darker striae ; near 
the apex some reddish spots. In the 9 the dark basal and postmedial spaces are 
thickly spotted with white. Secondaries white, the inner and outer margins, 
especially about the anal angles, light reddish brown with some grayish striae. A 
terminal blackish line, and a black spot on the prolongation between veins 3 and 4. 
Expanse, 29 mm. 
Habitat: Jalapa, Mexico. 
Ophthalmophora fasciata, sp. nov. 
Body brown. Primaries dark brown, crossed by a broad median yellow band, 
very wide on the costal margin, narrowing at the median vein and then widening 
slightly to the inner margin ; some yellow spots on the extreme margin and fringe 
yellow, except from veins 2-4, where it is brown. Underneath the same but no spots 
on the margin except at anal angle. Secondaries above dark brown ; the apex, outer 
margin and fringe yellow ; a subterminal silvery line and four postmedial ocelli black, 
circled with yellow and containing some silvery scales. Underneath the same but 
without the ocelli or silvery line. Expanse, 23 mm. 
Habitat: Castro, Parana. 
This species is closely allied to O. asopis Druce. 
Aplogompha chotaria, sp. nov. 
Body yellow ; two longitudinal brown streaks on thorax. Abdorren with brown 
spots and transverse lines. Primaries yellow with transverse rows of small quadrate 
brownish spots ; basal, subbasal, antemedial and medial complete ; the postmedial 
and subterminal rows coalescing between veins 4, 5 and 6, and represented by a single 
spot on the inner margin ; a terminal row of smaller spots. The spots along the 
costa, the terminal and some of the subterminal spots shaded with metallic scales. 
Secondaries yellow with similar rows of spots, the terminal and subterminal rows also 
shaded with metallic s :ales. Expanse, 16 mm. 
Habitat: Jalapa, Mexico; Aroa, Venezuela. 
Bapta ruptilinea, sp. nov. 
Primaries silky white, thickly irrorated with creamy scales and sparsely speckled 
with dark brown. An indistinct antemedial shade not reaching the costa ; the post- 
