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CATALOGUE OF THE NOG), Tea Tel)? ea IN THR COLLECTION OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. BY Sir GEORGE F. HAMPSON, Bart. LON DOWN: PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES. SOLD BY LONGMANS & Co., 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.; B. QUARITCH, 11 GRAFTON STREET, NEW BOND STREET, W.; DULAU & Co., Lrp., 37 SOHO SQUARE, W.; AND AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY), CROMWELL ROAD, S.W. 1910, PRINTED BY TAYLOR AND FRANCIS, RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET. PREFACE. Tue subject of Vol. IX. of the ‘Catalogue of Moths’ is the third and final part of the very large Noctuid subfamily Ware sham, 207 4573. chrysopis, Grote ..... 208 4574. mirabilis, Newm. ... 208 Basilica, Hmpsn. Sickie 4575, chrysosticta (Hmpsn.).. 209 Cirrodes, Honpsn. .........4-. 210 4576, phoenicea, Hmpsn. . 210 Carcharoda, Hmpsn. ....... 211 4577. flavirosea, Hmpsn. . 211 Chamaeclea, Grote ......... 211 4578. pernana (Grote) ..... 212 Ketolopha, Hmpsn. ........- 212 4579. viridescens, Hmpsn. 213 4580. marginata, Hmpsn. .... 218 Hoplolythra, Hmpsn... ..... 214 4581. discistriga (Smith) .... 214 Lythrodes, Smith.. ......... 214 4582. radiata, Smith ........ 215 4583. venata, Smith ....... 215 4584. semiluna, Smuvth ..... 216 Argyrhoda, Hmpsn.......... 216 4585. laronia (Druce) ..... 216 Satrapodes, Hmpsn.......... 217 4586. mina (Schaus) ....... 217 Chalcopasta, Hmpsn. ....... 218 4587. arianda (Druce) ..... 218 4588. territans (H. Edw.).... 219 4589. houardi (H. Edw.) .... 219 4590. arizona (French) ...... 220 4591. pterochalcea (Dyar) .. 220 4592. acantha (Druce) ...... 221 4593. chalcotoxa (Dyar) ..,. 221 4594, acema (Druce)........ 222 4595. ecebelei (Rive VD) aeroaerc 222 Centrogone, Hmpsn. . 223 4596. chloro shrysa, Hmpsn. . A PPB! Neumeegenia, Grote.......... 224 4597. poetica, Grote ........ 224 4598, albavena (Uttolengui).. 226 Page 4599. coronides (Dr uce) ..., 226 Mudaria, Moores)... «scene ee 225 4600. cornifrons, Moore...... 226 Ochrocalama, Hmpsn......... 226 4601. xanthia (HZmpsn.) 227 Syncalama, Hmpsn........-.. 228 4602. mimica, HH™mpsn. 228 Pinacoplus, Hmpsn...........- 229 4603. didymogramma (Ersch.) 229 Metopoplus, Alph. .......... 229 4604. excelsa (Christ.) ...... 230 4605. fixseni, Christ. ........ 230 Myecteroplus, Herr —Schaf. .... 221 4606. puniceago (Boisd.) .... 281 Psectrotarsia, Hmpsn......... 232 4607. fuscirena, Hmpsn. .... 232 4608. flava, Dogn. .. 022205: 233 Dicyela, ‘Guen.. i 35.07 eee eee 233 ZB09: 00, ( Tia.) ve ies eee 254 Hinaroia, “ub ost eee 235 4610. ulicis (Staud.) ........ 238 4611. regina (Staud.)........ 236 4612. borjomensis ( Christ.) .. 237 4615. staudingeri (Alph.) .... 237 4614. paleacea (5p) tee 238 4615. decolora ( Wik.) ...... 239 4616. imbuta (Dorsd.) ...... 240 4617. abluta (Hiibn.) ...... 240 Derrinia; Wiks. |. teeem ae 241 4618. stellata, Wik. 2.2.0... 241 Stiria, Grote... shes eee tere 242 4619. rugifrons, Grote ...... 242 4620, sulphurea, Newm. 245 — 4621. consuela, Streck. ...... 244 4622. hutsoni (Smith) ...... 244 4625. fuliginosa (Smith) .... 244 MAMUMITIA, L178. os. dae ee 244 4624, primulina (Druce) .... 245 mtiniodes, Ampsr.. 15.2. 22% 245 4625. obtusa (/err.-Schaff.) . 246 4626. perflava (Harv.) ...... 247 4627. demo ( Druce)........ 247 4628. procida (Druce) ...... 248 4629. umbria (Druce) ...... 248 Polenta, Morr. o/s. s.)enis oeeee 249 4630. tepperi (Morr.) ...... 249 Plagiomimicus, Grote ......... 250 4631. pitychroma, Grote .... 250 4632. triplagiata, Smith .... 261 4633. laverna (Druce) ...... 251 4634. dolli, Sith 2.2.50... 252 4635. expallida, GTO eis 252 Nocloa, Smariitics. cp an aeotee e 253 4636. aliaga (Barnes) ...... 254 4637. aleandra (Druce)...... 254 4638. cordova (Barnes)...... 254 oH 2 SYSTEMATIC INDEX. x1 Page | Page 4639. nanata (Newm.) ...... 255 4683. impudica (Sfaud.) .... 284 4640. plagiata, Smith........ 255 4684, inquinata (Gruen.) .... 285 4641. rivulosa, Smth........ 256 4685, variana (Morr.) ...... 285 4642. neszea (Smith) ........ 256 4686. interlata ( Wik.) ...... 285 4643. arivaca (Barnes) ...... 257 4687. stigmatica (Zv.) ...... 286 Oslanite Dyas io: sictelsesye tes 53» 957 4688. defecta (Grote) ...... 286 4644. viridescens (Schaus) .. 257 4689. procera (Staud.) ...... 286 4645. viridifera (Grote)...... 258 46902 elymi (Zreit.) os... 22 287 4646. rhodoxantha, Dognin .. 258 4691 fuxa(Atibe.). 1.2.2.2. 287 PMMA GLOLE .. .6 2 eee 50. 01 LON 4692. pygmina (Haw.) ...... 288 4647. obliqua (Wik.)........ 259 4693. mabillei (Zucas) ...... 289 VOM Vs) te enc sc 2 cb es cles 260 4694, mollicella (Piing.) .... 289 4648. gortynoides, Wik. .... 261 4695. modesta (Staud.)...... 289 4649. melanopyga (Grote) .. 262 4696. deserticola (Staud.),,.. 290 4650. ditlusa (Grote) ........ 262 | 4697. bondi(Knaggs)........ 290 Phalerodes, Honpsn........5.3% 263 4698, extrema (Hiibn.)...... 290 A651. cauta (Ampsn.) ...... 263 4699, sohn-retheli (Piing.) .. 291 Ramesodes, Hmpsn.......-..- 964, |) Sphetta; Wik... sca: douse. QUI 4652. divisa (Hmpsn.) ...... 264 | 4700. apicalis, Wik. .......-. 291 4653, micropis, Hmpsn. .... 265 | Atchanara, Wik, ............ 292 Lophocalama, Hmpsn......... . 266 4701. geminipuncta (Haw.) .. 298 4654, neuritis, Hmpsn. ...... 266 4702. resoluta, Hmpsn....... 294 Phragmatiphila, Hmpsn....... 266 4703. dissoluta (Treit.) ...... 294. 4655. truncata (WIk.) ...... 267 4704. neurica (Hiibn.) ...... 295 Abdo. mexa CHUbn.) 2.0... 267 (Oo. polite (Wk) 22 ston 296 4657. serrata, Hmpsn... .... 268 4706. phragmiticola (Staud.) . 296 4658. fumea (Hmpsn.) ...... 269 | 4707. sparganii (Zsp.)...... 297 4659, leucaneura, Hmpsn. .. 269 A708. serata (Butl.) ........ 297 4660. grisescens, Hmpsn..... 270 4709. oblonga (Grote) ...... 296 4661. interrogans (Wik.) .... 270 | 4710. subflava (Grote) ...... 298 4662, typhe (Thnbg.) ...... Hal A711. alameda (Smith) ...... 299 AGOS.wburpis CBUtl.)) .. sei0 <2 «- 272 4712. alge (£sp.) .......:.. 299 4664. bipartita, Hmpsn. .... 272 ATMO: lectaGMlorgy.cntecgarne 300 Omphalagria, Hmpsn. . Pere roa sO OOHODINs SLED hk tog katenct 300 4665. hemiochra,de Joan. .. 275 AG LALuitam (CELA aa. tact oe eer 300 Calamistis, Ampsn... .o0s.. 2s Zio), Eby poccena, mips. 0s. a2 x aca 301 4666. fusca (Hmpsn.) ...... 274 4715. rufostriga (Pack.) .... 301 4667. pallidicosta (Hmpsn.) .. 274 | Microlita, Hmpsn. .... ..... 302 4668. prepallens, Hmpsn..... 275 4716. leucorhabda (D. Jones). 302 4669. melanodonta, Hmpsn... 276 | Amphilita, Hmpsn........... 303 4670. nubifera, Hmpsn....... 276 4717. arcuata (D. Jones) .... 808 4671. obliquifascia (Hmpsn.) . 277 4718. punctilinea (D. Jones) .. 304 4672. microsticta (Hmpsn.) .. 277 | Acylita, Hmpsn. ............ 304 4673. submarginalis (ZZmpsn.) 278 ATI9e cara (Schais) sede sane 505 4674. stygiata, Hmpsn....... 278 4720. elongata (Schaus)...... 305 4675. unicolora, Hmpsn. .... 279 4721. sanguifusa (D. Jones) .. 305 Waa UCL co keys aceyeye toe volley. 279 4722. ducinfieldi (Schaus).... 306 4676. frontalis, Wik......... 279 4725. disticta (D. Jones) .... 306 CEA, CRO en oe on Hr 280 4724. monosticta (D. Jones) . 306 4677. cirphidia, Hmpsn. .... 280 | Neolita, Hmpsn. ............ 307 4678. leucanidia, Hmpsn..... 280 4725. perstriata, Hmpsn. .... 307 4679. immacula, Grote ...... 281 | Rhyncholita, Hmpsn. ........ 307 Arenostola, Hmpsn........... 281 4726, atripuncta, Hmpsn..... 308 4680. lutosa (Htibn.)........ ZBI AIM OLGA. GTOLE sr aensiercieievere cy ats 308 4681. phragmitidis (Hiibn.) . 288 4727, perstriata, HZmpsn. .... 809 4682. brevilinea (Fenn.) .... 284 4728) tessa. Grote 20... a. 809 ’) Xi SYSTEMATIC INDEX. Amolita (con.). Page Page 4729. sentalis (Kaye)........ 509 | Conicofrontia, Hmpsn. ...... 338 4750. irrorata, Hmpsn....... 310 4776, sesamiodes, ZImpsn. .. 338 4731. roseola, Smith ........ 510 | 4776a. mesophiea, Auriv..... 530 4732. nye tichroa, H™mpsn.. meade (i! Arcilasisa, Wit 22.28 7 eee A. 338 SS, Carale iy coo e ate x's 312 | -AT77-sobria, Wik sca oe ee 02 339 4735. distema, Grote........ 312 | Ommatostola, Grote .......... 339 RTCONR. VR ie? es oo cic cee 312 4778. lintneri, Grote ........ 340 4734. stillata (Guen.) ...... ols | ‘Galaniressiieor ee ee ae 340 OLADON, FIIMMEN. . iiss clic eens 314 4779. flavirufa, Himpsn. .... 340 4735, exanimis (Meyr.) .... 314 4780. virens (Zinn.) ........ 541 4736. curvata, Hmpsn....... 314 4781. tranquilla (Grote) .... 342 4737. acuminata (Hmpsn.) .. 315 | Clethrorasa, Hmpsn. ........ 343 4738. rhabdoneura, Hmpsn... 316 | 4782. pilcheri (Hmpsn.) .... 348 4739. hamulifera (Hmpsn.) .. 317 | Apsarasa, Moore ............ 344 4740, metaphiea, Hmpsn..... 317 | 4788. nigroceerulea, Hmpsn... 344 4741. spoliata (Wilk.) ...... 317 | 4784. atramenta, Hmpsn..... B45 4742. brunnea (ZImpsn.) .... 318 | 4785. radians ( Westw.)...... 346 4745. albivena, Himpsn....... 318 | 4786. figurata, Moore ...... B47 4744, atriceps, Hmpsn........819 | Mazuca, Wik. .............. 347 4745. leucophlebia, Hmpsn. .. 319 | 4787. hemagrapha, Hmpsn... 348 4746. prisca (Wik.) ........ 319 4788. strigicincta, Wlk....... 348 4747. carnea, Hmpsn. ...... 320 | Chasminodes, Hmpsn......... B49 4748. roseotincta, Hmpsn..... 320 | 4789. atrata (Butl.) ........ 350 4749. enigma ( Feld.) He ge 521 4790, nervosa (Butl.)........ 350 Nonagria, Ochs. 2... 2.5.6. .0 321 ATOM. -cilva( Siaud.)) Geese oe 350 4750. maritima (7ausch.) .... 321 4792. nigrilinea (Leech) .... 851 4751. enervata, Guen. ...... 323 4793. albonitens (Brem.) .... 351 Doeniesa, Staud. o- 1... sete oo | WObasmine. )I/e ae eee ae staal 4752. striata (Staud.)........ % 523 4794. sericea (Hmpsn.)...... 3D2 Sesamia, Gwen. ..5.00.0.0. 324 4795. tibiopunctata ( Beth.- 4753. vuteria (Stoll) ........ 324 Baker) 2o yeaa se 353 4754. calamistis, Hmpsn. .... 325 A796. tibialis (Fabr.) 0.2... 353 4755. coniota, Hmpsn. ...... 326 4797. alcidamea, Druce...... B54 4756. pallida (Butl.) ........ 326 4798. tenuilinea, Hmpsn..... 354 4757. rubritincta, Hmpsn, .. 327 | 4799. judicata (Wik.) ...... 354 4758. albicostata, Lower .... 327 | 4800. rejecta (Fabr.)........ 359 4759. inferens (Wik.) ...... Sif 4801. pulchra( Wik.) 20%". 355 4760. sabulosa, Hmpsn. .... 328 | 4802. maculata (Hmpsn.) .... 356 4761. rufescens, Hmpsn. .... 329 4803. sigillata (Mén.) ...... 356 4762. epunctifera, Hmpsn. .. 329 4894, biplaga (Hils:) iain 357 4763. tenioleuca (Wilgrn.) .. 330 | Molvena, Wik. .............. 357 4764. albavena, Hmpsn. .... 330 | 4805. guttalis, Wik. ....... . 358 4760, tosta, Snell» An cw e 331 | Callyna, Guen. :: 2.0.0.5 358 AGG. creticas Led. .). caste 331 4806. nigerrima, Hmpsn. .... 859 4767, uniformis (Dudgeon) .. 332 | 4807. siderea, Guen......... 360 4768. gracilis (Rebel)........ ae A808. decora, Wilk. ........ 361 Argy rospila, Herr.-Schiff. .... 332 4809. costiplag: a, Moore .... 361 4769. succinea (Esp.)........ 333 4810. leuconota, Lower ...... 562 Ui Re Sa 33 4811. figurans, Wik. ........ 363 4770, myodea (Rmbr.) ...... 334 | 4812. jugaria, Wik. ........ 368 fii musculosa (Zitibn.) .... 3884 4813. semivitta, Woore...... 564 4772. flavescens (Hmpsn.) .. 335 4814, mystica (Wik.) ...... 365 Xylestcla to 0 Sea ME 535 | 4815. obscura, Hmpsn....... 365 4773. robusta (Hmpsn.) .... 336 4816. monoleuca, Wik. ...... 866 4774. indistincta (Moore).... 836 4817. fuscantaria, Beth.-Baker 366 A775, vlivacea, Hmpsn. ...... 387 4818. cupricolora (4mupsn.) .. 367 oS 3 + ee SYSTEMATIC INDEX, Omytintess Duce: as fos 1M s.0: 4819, splendens, Druce...... ISM CKME A GTC Ls cicteiel wise « sis) 4820. laudeti ( Boisd.) a ae TATISTUs Ne coach co 3e a's 4821. schiniodes, Dogn. Page 367 368 368 369 570 ve eho) Cy Eoulny ey wel yee len ae 37 4822. obsita (Feld.) ........ 37 Sy Sais TENT or ieee ore 372 ASO Seixas (CHO) . + aerenese te 372 4824, exsiccata, Warr. .... 373 Megalodes, Guen............. 373 4825, eximia (LEI) he Peete ten co oie Narthecophora, Smith........ 37 4826. pulverea, Smith ...... 375 PALTOMIA CHT OLE! outed as a chere se 375 4827. vatersi (N.C. Roths.).. 876 ASS busa(S27h.)) 2... 2 « 376 4829. pura (Swink.) ........ 377 4830. implora, Grote........ B77 4831. edentata, Grote ...... 378 Pamssgle, En pst. so as « sacy «e's 379 4832. ochracea (Lirsch.) 379 Metegle, Hmpsn. .......... 579 4833. pallida (Staud.) ...... 80 ABTA) 12.017 Fae anes 580 4834. vespertalis (Hiibn.).... 381 4835. nubila (Staud.) ...... 351 4836. subilava (Eisch.)...... 382 4837, agatha (Staud.) ...... 382 4838. ceeceritziana (Tiibn.) .. 383 4839. hedychroa (Turner) 384 Amtaplagan Grote s . os sheeccns.< > 384 4840. pyralina (Schaus) 585 48412 dela (Druce).....6....% 386 4842. salacon (Druce) ...... 386 4843. composita (77, Edw.) .. 386 4844, dimidiata, Grote ...... 387 4845, hachita, Barnes .....- 387 4846, sexseriata (Grote) 387 4847. biundulalis (Zell.) .... 388 4848. thoracica (H. Edw.) .. 388 4849, suffumosa (Dyar) 388 4850. dulcita (Schaus) ...... 388 4851. pyronzea (Druce)...... 389 eye lopera, JEG R03 oa 5.6 OO OO 389 4852. bucephalidia (AZmpsn.). 389 4853. similis (Hmpsn.) ...... 390 4854, galactiplaga (Z/mpsn.) . 591 Selenistis, Hops. .......... 392 4855. annulella (AZmpsn.).... 892 MMS Ya. SLR. ows ar «o's @ . 393 A856. alboplagiata, Smith .... € Euterpiodes, Hmpsn. 4857, pienaari (Dist) Triocnemis, Grote .........- 4858. saporis, Grote Pseudinodes, Hmpsn. 4859. producta, Hmpsn. .... + 390 Pseudina,tGuen. ioc ances ee Ol 4860. fatuella (Dogzn.) ...... 3938 4861. vellerea, Guen. ...... 398 4862. cyanostizma, Dogn. 399 4863. albina, Hmpsn. ...... 400 Xerociris, Cockerell .........- 400 4864. vilsoni (Girrote)........ 400 EMG ty ase OSC a” om <) siete sto 2c: 40] 4865. sancti-johannis, Wik... 402 ASGG: grata (aor) cia: ase 402 4867. brevipennis, Stretch 405 A868; unio (Zebn.), os 404 @aularis se ilicwer teria otc: 405 4869. undulans, Wik. 2.2... 405 4870 lunata, Binpsn. 25.02: 406 Trocha, Wilk: aie. acess cierraee 407 4871. dolens (Druce)........ 407 4872. leucodisca, Hmpsn..... 408 4873. mumunia ( Cram.) 409 4874. leucotelus (Wik.) .... 410 4875. semiviridis (Druce).... 410 RhOsusy Wilks. soi oes ee 41] 4876. leuconoé (Feld.) ...... 412 4877. pulverosa (Roths.) .... 412 4878. postica: (WUE) x .\c tiem 412 4879. colombiana, Hmpsn. .. 418 4880. aguirreri (Berg) ...... 413 ASSL ovata. (HOLhs:)..05 winners 414 4882. spadicea (Feld.) ...... 414 A883. isabella, Dognin ...... 414 Paratuerta, Hmpsn.... 0.2.0 414 4884. marshalli, Hmpsn. .... 415 4885. laminifera (Saalm.).... 416 Genre Hie Seen es ucee 416 4886. radicalis, Wik. ...... 416 4887. sevorsa (Grote) ...... 417 A888. selia (Druce) ........ 418 Gerrodés, 22psr. i. 6 sehen oe 418 4889. lonvipes (Druce)...... 419 Auicula Wen iss waren ree 419 A890. josioides, Wik. ...... 420 A891. buprasia (Druce)...... 420 4892, hilzingeri (Berg) ...... 421 4893. magnifica (Schaus) .... 422 4894. janeira (Schaus) ...... 422 4895. sublata (Wik.)........ 493 Miespol tan MUba" oo weet tat Mee 423 4896. ceruleifera, W1k. 424 Psychomorpha, Harr......... 424 4897. euryrhoda, Hmpsn..... 425 4898. epimenis (Drury) . 425 OvtOS Mii vets eek te casekic 426 4899. capensis (Herr.-Schiiff.) 426 4900. septentrionis, Hmpsn... 427 Leucovis, Hmpsn. ........-+- 428 4901. alba:(Roths) ... 0... 428 eudyra, SUeCCh soles sce wteelees 429 xiv 4902. venosa, Moore ........ 429 4903, subflava, Moore ...... 45 4904. flavida, Leech ........ 432 4905, longipennis (W7k.) .... 452 4906. catocalina ( WW7/k.) 433 4907. mandarina, Leech 454 4908. venusta, Leech........ 435 4909. bala (Moore) ........ 436 4910, interposita, Hmpsn. .. 437 A491]. transiens (Wik.) ...... 437 4912. subalba, Leech........ 438 4913. albifascia (Wik.)...... 439 4914. nepcha (Moore) ...... 440 PENS I UiGs (hasscoeteuercuratral nee 441 4915. catocalina, Wik. ...... 44] 4916. pratti (Beth.-Baker) .. 442 Protoseudyra, Hmpsn......... 445, 4917. picta (Aompin.) Pe... =. 445 4918. secunda (Leech) ...... 444 4919. flava (Leech) ........ 444 Ehpsyra; Menpane Seeker were 445 4920. chalcoela (Hmpsn.).... 444 Leucogonia, Hmpsn. ........ 446 4921. eceicei (Beth.- Baker) .. 446 4922. cebeensis (Beth.-Laker) 447 Metaxanthia, Hmpsn.... 448 4923. cosmopis (Lower) 448 PA ists SPF Won. kocerccoc spn aes eae 449 4924. callisto, Wik. ........ 449 PAMCA, -AZMIpSIa- Oct. vate ersten 450 4925. cornigera (Butl.)...... 450, Micrapatetis, Meyr........... 451 4926. tripartita (Butl)...... 45] 4927. orthozona, Meyr. 442 4928. leucozona (Turner) .... 452 4929. albiviata, Zmpsn. . 455 4930. glyeychroa (Turner) .. 453 4931. purpurascens, Hmpsn. . 454 4932. pyrastis, Hmpsn....... 454 4933. tlavipars, Hmpsn. . 454 Xenopseustis, Meyr. ........ 455 4934. poecilastis, Mey. 455 Agaristodes, Hmpsn. ........ 456 4935. feisthameli (Herr.- SCHaifa)) Aoi eee 455 Radinocera, Hmpsn. ........ 457 4936. diversa ( Wik.) ...... 457 4937. placodes (Lower)...... 457 4938. maculosa (Zoths.) . 458 4939. vacata (Wik.)........ 458 Moalinia Lerner =<... she oe 459 4940. leonora (Douwbl.) ...... 459 4941. cyanobasis, mpsn. 460 4942. hemiphragma (Lower) . 460 4943. metasticta, Hmpsn..... 461 4944. affinis ( Boisd.)........ 461 Coenotoca, Zurner ........-. 462 4945, subaspersa (WUk.) .... 462 SYSTEMATIC INDEX, Page | Microhelia, Hmpsn........... 463 4946. angelica (Smith) ...... 463 4047. restrictalis (Smith) .... 464 Heliothodes, Hmpsn. ........ 464 4948. diminutiva (Grote) .... 465 4949. fasciata (HH. Edw.) .... 465 Hutryecopias Morty, .s5)caakes a 466 4950. nexilis, Morr. ........ 466 Xanthothrix, H. Edw. ...... 467 4951. callicore (Staud.)...... 467 4952. neumeegeni, H. dw. .. 468 4953. ranunculi, Z. Edw. 469 Apaustis, Miin. 222. ease 469 4954. rupicola (Schiff.)...... 470 4955. theophila (Staud.) .... 470 Axenus; Grote <) 250.0 eee ae 471 4956. arvalis, Grote ........ 471 Annaphila, Grote. .<.. 20... 472 4957. arvalis, H. Edw....... 473 4958. danistica, Grote ...... 474 AQb9. mera; Haru. 2ea.e oe 474 4960. domina, H. Edw. .... 475 4961. pustulata, H. Edw. .... 476 4962. divinula, Grote ...... 476 4963. germana, H. Edw. .... 477 4964. decia, Grote .......... 47 4965. depicta, Grofe ........ 478 4966. lithosina, H. Edw. .... 479 4967. miona, Smith ........ 480 4968. diva, Grote %..: 202.48 481 4969. casta, H. Edw. ...... 482 4970. superba, H. Edw. .... 482 Janthinea, Guen. ...........- 483 4971. divalis, Staud......... 483 4972. frivaldszci (Dup.) .... 484 4978. 08.CEIT) > sete oe 485 Stemmaphora, Staud. ........ 485 4974. viola, Staud. ........ 485 Micriantha, Hmpsn. ........ 486 4975. decorata (Friv.) ...... 486 Panemeria, Hiibn. .......... 487 4976. jocosa (Zell.) ........ 487 4977. tenebrata (Scop.)...... 488 Pesudacontia, Smith ........ 489 4978. lonisa, Smith ........ 489 4979. crustaria (Morr.)...... 490 4980. cansa, Seuth ........ 491 4981. aterrima (Grote) ...... 491 4982. groteana, Dyar ...... 49] Copanarta, Girore Geen ee eae 2 492 4983. aurea (Grote) ........ 492 Mydrodoxa; Butl, neta. & 493 4984. splendens, Butl. ...... 495 Daphenura, Buth 0. Fess 494 4985. fasciata, Butl. ........ 494 Hypocalamia, Hmpsn. ...... 495 4986. meterythra (inpesn.) .. 495 2805 a. 29820 a. 9823 a. 2823 b. 2830 a. 2848 a. 2864 a. 2907 a. 9922 a, 2923 a. 29381 a. 2989 a. 30387 a. 3037 0. 8067 a. 3104 a. 3155 a. 3237 a. 3296 a. 3296 b, 8296 c. 3298 a. 3319 a. 33386 a. 3378 a. 3397 a. ord a. 3452 6. 3457 a. 38457 b. 3478 a. 3490 a. 3533 a. 8553 a. 3538 a. 3725 a. 3802 a. 8887 a. Allda. 4117 a. 4127 a. 4137 a. 4152 a. 4184 a, 4264 a, 4304 a, XV ay DEN DES LO Wors: Vil) evil: Dipteryeia dolens (Druce) Parastichtis migrata (Smzth) bs standfussi (Terati) ...... a SL) Nes © 2.72777) es ee > polyglypha (Staud.) 8 Ona (SILI) ude att kc 50's Trachea confluens (Moore) .......... o OChrOtiCas FLINPSIs- Fo dee «02 o susquesa (OSY0070)) nolo cece 5 umbrifacta, Hmpsn......... # ferida (Smith) Euplexia eallichroa (Lover) % melanops ( Lower) Heterochroma thermogy rapha, iZmpsn. . Perigea eguigureni ( Dognin) ,» albistriata, Hopsn. Cars) (eho ee Centropodia vhitei (febe/) .......... Pseudamathes volloni (D. Lucas) .... Pseudopseustes tellieri (D. Lucas) . Pseudvhadena presbytis, Ping. Luperina gueneei, Doudl. ” acharis, Lung. Oroplexia simulata (.Woore) Eriopus cornuscopiz (Holl.) ........ Pachylepis dilectissima (WV7/k.) Poecilogr: mma albiscripta (Hmpsn.) . . picata ( Buti.) Chytonix haba (Dogn.) 5 segregata (Lutl.)..... Mees Bryophila simulatricula, Guen. ...... Pariambia unduligera (Butl.) Acronycta pheedra, Piing. y HOMME A STR ssn one wes as Delta phoenicraspis, Hmpsn. Antha rotunda (AZmpsn.) Dysmilichia purpurascens, Hmpsn. Proxenus pectinifera, Auriv. camptogramma, Himpsn. Micrathetis costiplaga (Smith) Nolasodes atrisignata, Hmpsn, Monodes bogotana ( Feld.) Procrateria melanoleuca, Hmpsn. .. Phobolosia reincarnata, Dyar a leleteiverie Sel eerte formosensis, Hmpsn......... Sirs Femke. 0 er\e\\6 (Hderemia confucil (Alph.).. 0.02... see eee CC Ter a wee a ec Shel ovis) #, ase felinine’ ele oor ee ene Xantholepis dicycla (W1k.).......... ef Oleh 6 e.ca. a70) 0, ee aye) eo e)ie, 6 0) 8-8, evwiaekcer ce 6: ole) e\01 6, Yelle 0), 8 sha! .e:1e)te)j6, e) <0, Deir pa ie at) ONION: 6: (6')0), (0! 6) fee: Vol. VII. p. 69 ; p. 83 a p. 85 p. 8d at p. 91 9 p. 105 * p-. 118 : p. 156 be, p. 166 i p. 167 ‘9 p. 1738 . ” p- 213 3 p. 249 5 p. 249 a5 Dae in p. 809 5 p. d44 BS p- 406 : p. 454 p. 454. p- 454 . Fe p. 497 5 p. 469 5 p- 479 . - p. old . 3 p. 035. Pe p. 084 . “ p. 084 3 p. 089 5 p. 089 a p. 606 5 p. 615 » p-. 645 os p. 661 Vol. VIIL. p. 65 _ p- 188 9 p. 196 ae p: 275 os p- 429 i p- 431 is p. 456 rs p. 444 . p. 457 . » pp. 483. " p. O54. “ p. 062 Violeixe Page .. 496 ee re 55 Ae .. 498 .. 499 .. 499 F000 1000 OO nail: . 602 are Vs (3,083 7. O04 . 504 005 .. 906 . 506 OU e “008 .. 509 SOLO .. O10 oy Wad . Ol2 ., B12 Or Or Or 5 b> to ~ © bS ho bo Ww DO Db “1 O) Ute Be Co Ge T Oro aay Or Or Cr Week CATATO.GU E LEPIDOPTERA PHALAN ©. Family NOCTUID. Subfamily ACRONYCTIN (continued). The key to the Genera is reprinted, with some additions and correc- tions, from Vol. VIIL. of the Catalogue, with the references to the pages of the present volume inserted with the figure (3) before them. Key to the Genera. A. Fore wing without an areole. a. Fore wing with vein 7 stalked with 8, 9. a, Fore wing with vein 10 stalked with 8, 9, or 9 absent. a2, Frons with pointed corneous process ...... Pacuy.errs, (2) p. 512. 62, Frons with rounded prominence with raised edges. a, Proboscis absent; hind wing with vein 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle, then approximated to it to extremity ... Sromarrontta, (2)p. 223. 3. Proboseis fully developed. a, Hind wing with vein 8 approximated to [(2) p. 224. theicelltta middle ve. .2o.2-s2s2s.ccs-cescces CrPHALOSPARGDTA, i4, Hind wing with vein 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. @, Palpi Upturned 6 6. cscs as sacescicecessscseas Promerorus, (2) p. 367. DP Ral PU POLLEChi 5. soaccnss wees ee soe swede eecies ses Ermiorgrrta, (3) p. 112. ce. Frons with slight rounded prominence. a3, Abdomen with dorsal crest at base ...... Emareinga, (3) p. 112. 73, Abdomen without crests ................0.065 Micrapareris, (3) p. 401. d*. Frons without prominence. a, Abdomen with dorsal series of crests. a!, Fore wing with the termen angled at WICC LO ig eticee seen cine ao naceleaetide ats ssi Neopristria, p. 530. d+, Fore wing with the termen evenly curved. a, Fore wing with vein 9 absent ............ Cinearesa, (2)p. 561. 6°. Fore wing with vein 9 present ......... ARBORICORNIS, p, dO8, 3, Abdomen without crests. at, Fore wing with vein 9 absent; meta- thorax with pairedicrests | .22.22.0..--1.- Neotaruyema, (2) p. 266. ++. Fore wing with vein 9 present. a. Proboscis aborted, small ..........:..00..- Neoira, (3) p. 307. b°, Proboscis fully developed. a’. Metatborax with spreading crest. a’, Palpi fringed with long hair in front. Puosotosta, (5) p. 525. 67, Palpi fringed with scales in front .... Neostrotia, (2) p. 562. 66, Metathorax without crest. a, Tarsi with the Ist joint tufted with SCALES.” Srcucats sess ive esvoacteassssacertas Lopycrarsia, (2) p. 268. VOL, IX. B 2 NOCTUID&. }, Tarsi with the Ist joint not tufted with scales. a’, Fore wing with the termen angled Mb VEEN. © Ai Si vesscka..2-e5-<2-s seers SremMArHORA, (3)p. 485. bs, Eyes large, round, «a, Palpi extending to just beyond frons. a®, Metathorax with spreading crests... Tristyna, (3)p. 393. &, Thorax without crests. a7, Fore wing with vein 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ............ Carcuaropa, (3) p. 211. 7, Fore wing with vein 9 from 10 anas- tomosing with 8 to form the areole. Muparta, (3) p. 225. b°, Palpi very short and not reaching as fans frons)-..s.c-cccscse eee ees Syntuyutia, (3) p. 372. cl, Frons with long bilobate corneous process. a3, Proboscis aborted, small. a, Fronswith long triangular plate belowit. Protirinax, (2) p. 220. 4, Frons with short plate below it excised l in front. ; a, Thorax clothed with hair and scales, the pro- and metathorax with spread- Ing crests o:....0-s.csacee Seseateees seme Stinpina, (2)p. 168. &®. Thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ............... Cycuorera, (3) p. 389. c, Thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales and without crests ..............- Ocnrocarama, (3) p. 226. c*, Frons without plate below it ............ Arcuanara, (8) p. 292. 4%. Proboscis fully developed. ut, Metathorax with spreading crest ......... Dremactia, (3) p. 370. b4, Metathorax without crest .................. AEGLE, (3) p. 380. d?, Frons with rounded prominence with shovel-shaped process at middle and cor- neous plate below it. Probuscis absent | ccsc.cccveccsevcue cee eee Hyrrvurarna, (2)p. 169, Proboscis aborted, sinall. - - . i, a‘, Frons with the corneous process some- what pointed at extremity and keeled DOLOW? cc sevroitenscen sense Vonoiue see sotees Drrarorsis, p. 509. ACRONYCTIN A. #4. Frons with the corneous process not pointed or keeled. Gis lekillloyl Gye tiinaele i cregeeaarnneasocccoc aoaptinbvec 65, Palpi obliquely porrect .................. <. Proboscis fully developed. a4, Tiyes small, reniform .......... ge cwtisieaaeesies Eyes large, round. Thorax clothed chiefly with scales. a, Frons with trilobate plate below it ; hind wing with veins 3,4 from cell... 46, Frons with triangular plate below it ; hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked c6, Frons with the corneous plate below it excised in front; hind wing with vein D from well below middle of cell. 45. Thorax clothed with hair onty ..... SpoD e?. Frons with truncate conical prominence with raised edges. «3, Abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. at, Proboscis aborted, minute, Fore wing with the termen and cilia strongly Renee ee ce ae . Fore wing with the termen and cilia sliphtlytchenulaties. ts.:..cecesccesassoe pits Proboscis fully developed. @. Thorax with slight double ridge-like CHESDig cmraiaseretistssiaaisectseieastoaitsinslissieeiaiseit Pro- and metathorax with spreading COS USI esescunceuyascsae sence eae aen cet en eeaee ©, Prothorax without erest, metathorax with large spreading crest ............... d, Thorax without crests. 16, Thorax clothed with rough hair and scales MIKE di saangeeers corcciesceses emer Thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales. a, Palpi upturned 07, Palpi porrect Abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. at. Prothorax with spreading crest. a. Frons with flattened vertical process to the frontal prominence .................. 6°. Fronswith longcentral process hollowed out in front to the frontal prominence. a6, Proboscis aborted, minute .......... a 06. Proboscis fully developed ............... ©, Frons without central process to the frontal prominence. Ge WPLODOSCISiAbOrbed, | 52-2.-asssestersnuoeenee 56. Proboscis fully developed. a’, Hind wing with vein 5 from middle olidiscocellmlarsstss.s.cedsscarsetoee 67, Hind wing with vein 5 from below middle of discocellulars. a8, Frontal prominence large ............ 48, Frontal prominence small ............ 64. Prothorax without crest. Frons with truncate process in middle Ofsprominenceyss. sseeseaceseseeneccseec ee = 6. Frons without truncate process in middle of prominence. . Proboscis aborted, small ............... Proboscis fully developed. a, Frontal prominence large. oO Amurrontia, (2) p. 417. Stiriopss, (3) p. 240. Avrna, (3) p. 449. Coripryoruita, (2)p. 226. Propiceuta, (2) p. DAA Aumprtina, (2) p. 229. Ipanica, (3) p. 450. Crrona, (2) p. 182. Arreeness, p. 284. Sravroripes, (2) p. 269, Sppocropra, p. 200 Eupryas, (3) p. 401. Panratuerta, (3)p. 414. Suupyra, (3) p. 429. Gerra, (0) p. £16. Ruacopes, (2) p. 537. SyncaLama, (3) p. 228. HADENELLA, (2%) p. 2 Ecsorenra, p. 448. 251. Caramecta, (2)p.540, ProcraTeria, (2)p. 533, Hyvorrricea, (2) p. Nocuoa, (3) p. 253. Osiarta, (3) p. 257. o NOCTUIDE. a8, Palpi upturned. a®, Mesothorax with paired crests ... }°, Mesothorax without crest ......... b . Palpi porrect. a9, Eyes small, reniform ..........+. ‘ 6°, Eyes large, round. a”, Thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, a, Patagia fringed with long rough hair‘and scales’ <:..2-c-ucteen-= 1, Patagia normal. @2, Abdomen with fan-like crest formed of scales ............--- 2, Abdomen with tufted crest formed ofihairste..-ss.-ss a 6, Thorax clothed with hair only. au, Patagia with the extremities turned upwards, the meta- thorax with paired crests ...... bly Pataria monmall cee scrascsesee b7, Frontal prominence very small. @®. Palpi wpturned s cccsyscs sarees ane ensaes 28, Palpi porrect, the 3rd joint down- turned and dilated at extremity .. c8, Abdomen without dorsal crests. a‘, Eyes small, reniform. a, Frontal prominence with its lower edge produced to a corneous plate ......... 65. Frontal prominence with its lower edge not produced to a corneous plate. a’. Frontal prominence with central JOHOLE SEM GanenghcosdbecendaassocostKisoago0se8 65, Frontal prominence without central PIOCESA Fe. sch ao aes ieseder seee area eee 3, Eyes large, round. a. Frons with beak-sbaped process from lower edge of prominence ............... . Frons with flattened plate from lower edge of prominence, grooved in front. °*, Frons with wedge-shaped process in middle of prominence ...............++- d°, Frons with rounded truncate process in middle of prominence. a, Palpi upturned ......... Reeeaseeene atten 6°. Palpi short, upturned...................-- e*, Frons with vertical ridge in middle of pape mae ge tarsi short, the ungues large. . Frontal ridge forming a large vertical 1 eee ppncE EE Arner Retin dseecoacica Sos 47, Frontal ridge slight ..........0.0..c0+0s 6%, Hore tars! normal) os7-.cese eee J°. Frons without process in middle of prominence. a®_ Frontal prominence long. a’, Thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed ; abdomen smoothly scaled. a8, Palpi upturned, the 8rd joint porrect. f _ealpt porrect. Proboscis absent. “alo, Prothorax with spreading crest . 40, Prothorax without crest ......... 49. Proboscis aborted, minute; frontal prominence indented below ...... c?. Proboscis fully developed. a, Frons with pointed corneous plate DElOW It s. cccsscerenecysttes Tampronpgs, p. 659. ApocatymntA, (3) p. 184. Acaristoprs, (3) p. 456. Ovios, (3) p. 426. Rapinocera, (3) p. 458. Erocna, (3) p. 407. Gerrropgs, (3) p. 418. Cauranris, (3) p. 405. Tuanaria, (2)p. 42. Leveoconta, (3)p. 446. Axgnus, (3)p. 471. Mieroue ta, (3) p. 463. Heurornopss, (3) p. 464. Cyrocants, (3) p. 110. Cauiacta, (3) p. 56. Basiuica, (8) p. 209. Crrrones, (3) p. 210. SELENISTIS, (3) p. 3U2. Lytnropes, (3) p. 214. ArGyruona, (3)p. 216, CuaMAKcuiEA, (3) p. 211. Iparia, (3)p. 459. Rasixa, (3) p. 2 Eremocuroa, (2)p. 370. Escaria, (2) p, 228. Motytna, (3) p. 857. ~J ACRONYCTIN A, 4, Frons without corneous plate pelowpittas-.s.-creenssetteecer acces Ruosus, (3)p. 4il. 87, Thorax clothed with hair only ; ab- domen clothed with rough hair, Gees balpiupburtied' \cccesccasessnsseenesece Avcuna, (3) p. 419. GemCalpumorrect, ..3..2.ccecsessectermenr rs Lgvcovis, (3) p. 428 46, Frontal prominence short. a’, Vherax with broad dorsal ridge of scales. a8. Frons with the corneous promi- MONCOM MVE sssoasisinssiejsosajese siecle Paracrorta, (2) p. 281 68, Frons with the corneous promi- Mencelsmalle esc atesnescsseepcsecess ees TnyaTiropEs, (2)p. 282. 47, Pro- and metathorax with spreading crests. a8. Proboscis aborted, minute............ Ompraraenta, (3) p. 272. 8, Proboscis fully developed ............ Hypercatynta,(9)p. 183. c?, Metathorax with depressed crest ; hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked... Panompnats, (2)p. 421. @, Thorax without crests. a®. Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales ...... Sryaiatueris, (2)p. 444. 48, Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching middle of frons; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed. a9, Palpi upturned, slender ; fore wing with thetermen excurvedat middle and oblique towards tornus ...... SarrapopEs, (3)p 217. +’, Palpi eblique, short; fore wing with the termen evenly curved... Dysminicnia, (2) p. 426. J?. Frons with pointed prominence. a8, Wyes small, reniform ...........0- Se Sees 23, Eyes large, round. a*, Abdomen with dorsal crests on basal Psycnoworria, (3) p. 424, Lo) segments. a>, Proboscis aberted, minute ............++- Acnatopss, (5) p. 30. 4°, Proboseisfully developed ............+-- Canotoca, (3) p. 462. 64, Abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. a. Prothorax with sharp triangular ridge- like crest, the metathorax with divided Xanruacia, (3)p. 32, GEES Li scmsieciectoae docs alee sais cine toiale isle eeessiains'e 5, Prothorax with divided crest, meta- thorax with spreading crest ........ ... Xerociris. (5) p. 400. ©, Thorax without crests. a, Frons with beak-like pointed process ; palpi with the 2nd joint very broadly BCA Od gitee wee scecsn anc scacd= ser cecataeacecs 66. Frons with slight pointed prominence ; palpi slender. Apsarasa, (3) p. 344. Gi. PALO WV UPbUINOG) «pecsessseseoesscevorse ses Mazuea, (3) p. 347. Di RAlGUPOLrect vu. sh-cestesocessesnesestene Proroseupyra, (3)p. 443. c4, Abdomen without crests. «>. Probescis aborted, minute ........ weseese CORICOFRONTIA, (3) p. 338, 6°. Proboscis fully developed. a®, Thorax clothed almost entirely with SCALES) ower ene etre eee seeds Microuita, (3)p. 302. 5°, Thorax clethed with hair and khair- ITKCRSCALCS * cieccrosccccteemesccssateccinssees Cayosra, (3) p. 300. g°. rons with rounded prominence with trans- : verse corneous plate at middle square in [(3) p. 266. PON alee secretive fave lactone cominrsenencmceese sss PURAGMATIPHILA, 42, Frons with rounded prominence with ver- tical ridge at middle. a, Abdomen with dorsal series of crests ...... Evcroria, p. 286. 68. Abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. PePEAIDYCUPLULNO ‘siyanccescevenseerens sche: PanramBia, p. 660, NOCTUIDAE. DA, SPALL POLTOCE cvsenes.-ss.nocsscasavavyneasente Meraxaytura, (3)p. 448. c3, Abdomen without crests .............se00000 Curysoxcta, (3) p. 182. i- Frons with rounded prominence with slight transverse ridge. ais Frons with corneous plate below it. 4, Abdomen with dorsal crests on first two BOQMONtS: 5. ...-eresen.0: noanetvacenemeDeees CnaLcorcsa, Ope ne +4, Abdomen without crests .............. .-- Proracuta, (2) p.2 48, Frons without corneous plate below it .... C&virLexta, p. re J*. Frons with rounded prominence. Abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. a‘. Proboscis absent. «, Pro- and metathorax with spreading GOES; 4.x: csccanswele-deeeee neem ncaa TumipirronTIA, (3) p. 18. , Pro- and metathorax without crests .... Mionrpes. p. 616. 4, Proboscis fully developed. a®. Pro- and metathorax with spreading Crests > fee wcrc ceeeee sere ean eee (Eperemia, p. 405. }°, Pro- and metathorax without crests. a®, Thorax smoothly clothed with scales CON Be SS SndeacnAptoanaOsncA ioeinscneonacabane Gornycra, (2)p. 49. 46, Thorax clothed with rough hair and acales MIKedihz oss. sqcseeee eee econ eres ZALissa, (3) p. 441. Abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. a4, Prothorax with spreading crest. a. Fore wing with the termen oblique towards tornus. as. Fore wing with seale-tooth at tornus. Evcronoria, (3)p. 212. b°. Fore wing without scale-tooth at torus! (nds.eho: cose nest omen see XyiLome@a, (2)p. 534. }°, Fore wing with the termen evenly curved. a, Build stout. «7, Fore wing with the termen erenulate. AANa, (2) p. 538. 47, Fore wing with the termen not crenmulalie’ 22 .:f.c. 5s eccteeente sae eee Maroro, (2) p. 185. be. Buildislenderstc-29.c0 seer aoe eee Neominicenta, (2)p. d18. 2‘, Prothorax without crest. «. Thorax clothed chiefly with seales. «a, Pore wing with the apex produced, the termen obliquely curved ......... Foren.a, (2)p. 232. i5, Fore wing with the apex not pro- duced, the termen more erect. a, Antennz laminate, almost simple ... Tycracona, (2)p. 30. iv, Antenne ciliated. a8, Fore wing narrow, the margins sub- parallel .....c.csc.sccmeeseeeeeteeeenee Bryoiyunia, (3)p. 119. (Nore wing trang ul arene eeteeeees Tricnocosmta, (3)p. 153. 18, Thorax clothed with hair only ......... Eryrurecia, (3) p. 57. c*, Abdomen without dorsal crests. a4, Eyes small, elliptical. «®. Vhoraxclothed with rough hairand scales. Annapuia, (3) p. 472 ©, Thorax smoothly scaled .........-......0- Mrsornosta, (2)p. 437. }4. Eyes large, round. a, Metathorax with erest. a®, Prothorax with spreading crest. i. “PTODORCIS|ADBEN Tt, “aces neces e tinea eeee Acora, (2)p. 410. b7. Proboscis aborted, small ..............- FLemassia, (2)p. 40 ci. Proboscis fully developed ............ Cra, (3)p. 280. +6. Prothorax without crest. a’. Proboscis aborted, minute. a’, Thorax clothed with hair and scales IITXER 25. Meet ices encodes seen Leiometoron, (2) p. 172 . Thorax clothed with hair only senses Srnipa, (3) p. 259. i foatne fully developed...... SSocntte RuaBINoPTeRYX, (2)p. 287. ACRONYCTIN A. . Metathorax without crest. a’. Thorax clothed almost entirely with scales. a’. Proboscis aborted .............sssecesse0e 67, Proboscis fully developed. a8. Frons with corneous ridge above ... 48. Frons without corneous ridge above. a’, Fore wing with the apex rather produced ANG ACUte:..Jeceseesecease Fore wing with the apex rounded . BG, ee clothed with hair and hair- Nike scalesttncconce. s.soscccsteeeceetee ates e5, Thorax clothed with hair only......... A*, Krons with vertical flattened process with rounded edge. a’, Abdomen w vith dorsal series of crests...... 43, Abdomen with dorsal crest at base only... d-. Frons with transverse ridge. a3, Abdomen with dorsal series of crests ...... Abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. v4, Pro- and mietathorax with spreading CLESUS pec eee case cek cee were sisace tee anssiee ae Pro- and metathorax without crests...... m?, Frons smooth and without prominence. a’, Proboscis aborted or absent. a, Abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Prothorax without crest, metathorax WALMS Dread Mg, Crest) Sosvessses acerca . Thorax without crests. aS, Palpi upturned, thickly scaled ......... GowPalpisporrectsslender. ic.corc.+seessarcs= 24, Abdomen with dorsal crest at eas only. 65, Thorax clothed almost entirely with seales. a®, Prothorax with divided crest............ 46. Prothcrax without crest. a7, Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching WeLLexTOlMNeaGumecearattacccnee ster secs b7, Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching about middle of frons................6+ 65, Thorax elothed with hair and hair-like scales. a°, Pro- and metathorax with spreading CHES UB aterretetoicrorsieie ave alaccicrsiere stetetels eter oisal erste b6. Pro- and metathorax without crests. a’, Fore wing very narrow and produced at apex ...... pddonbnechodvaroncdticane suns b7. Fore wing triangular ................ ae ci, Abdomen without crests. ‘Thorax clothed chiefly with scales. . Hind wing with vein 8 anastomosing with the cell to near extremly ..... 46, Hind wing with vein 8 anastomosing withthe cell?to middiles..sssscssse.-e5- c®, Hind wing’ with vein 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. ad, Pro- and metathorax with spreading CHOSUSE steamed bseccotlen ciseaie cles islat eleleleistelsiviate 47, Pro- and metathorax without crests. a8, Palpi with the hair at extremity of 2nd joint produced to a point, the OLA POLE Cana .: acgnadss neeeceae ane eine Palpi with the 2nd joint slightly fringed with hair in front. a®. Palpiwith the drd joint porrect... 4°, Palpi with the 3rd joint upturned. Merorevca, p. 687. Neum@GeEsta, (3) p. 224. XyxosTota, (2) p. 335. AcoswetiA, (2)p. 412. Arcinasisa, (3)p. 338. Oxytures, (3) p. 367. Empoiactia, (3)p. 59. CoprrrRontIA, (3) p. 53. Anti, (2)p. 274. Qe Leuconycta, (2)p. 39. PotyGrRamMata, p. 689. Bryomaa, p. 615. ACHERDOA, p. O91. Poutosrya, p. G17. PuALeropgs, (3) p. 263. Piusinna, p. 590. Bryouewuca, p. 686. Cavamistis, (3) p. 273. Euroncin, es 162. Merononc i (2) p. 165. Acyuita, (3) p. 304. 3 9 DoeErninsa, (3) p. O08 Erimorica, (2) p. 418. Dantona, (3) p. 312. Cinta, (3) p. 312. Amouita, (3) p. 308, 10 NOCTUID ©. 48, Thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, aS. Pro-and metathorax with spreading crests. a’, Palpi upturned ; fore wing with the termen not crenulate. a’, Fore wing with the termen oblique towards.tormus ..2.:i:-s-cesseaseaesees 8. Fore wing with the termen evenly SURV oc. icenenwnasankaunnyene eaten nate 67. Palpi porrect; fore wing with the fermen crenulate.......--scsscseseseeses 28. Thorax without crests. a7. Fore wing with the apex produced and acute; hind wing with veins 3, 4 usually stalked, 5 from below middle of discocellulars ............... #7, Fore wing with the apex not pro- duced; hind wing with veins 3, 4 from cell, 5 from middle of disco- cellulars, a®, Palpi upturned; frons with large toil Of NAIK. .<.scp, Prothorax with spreading crest, meta- thorax with divided crest ...... wenetetes Tuaupornia, p. 679, e&, Pro- and metathorax with spreading crests. aS. Thorax clothed chiefly with scales, 7, Fore wing long and narrow, a8. Palpi with the 2nd joint reach- Imou vertex Of NeAdhjcsscaacesseosees . Arma, p. 688. U8, Palpi with the 2nd joint not reach- ing middle of frons ............. .... SyYRRUuSIS, p. 508. 67, Fore wing broad. a. Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head. a, Palpi with the 3rd joint long. a, Hind wing with vein 5 from middle of discocellulars ......... GRACILIPALPUS, p. 42. bo, Hind wing with vein 5 from below middle of discocellulars, Suuampina, p. 516. 69, Palpi with the 3rd joint moderate. a, Palpi with the drd joint porrect. a, Fore wing with the apex pro- duced’s.:. 50% Pouesasianesunmane enna Cattogonta, p. 589. é1, Fore wing with apex rounded... Carpona, (2) p. 560. ob, Palpi with the 3rd joint up- turned; fore wing witb the apex somewhat produced and BCULC. §s chee cecavatecees eoaoreeeees Srriagipuiusr, (2)p. 283, b8. Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching about middle of frons ............... AMPHIDRINA, (2) p. 204, 45, Thorax clothed with hair and hair-like SCALCS tene siasec nec Sec eee Pe ccanea rea see 16 NOCTUID.E. a, Palpi with 2nd joint reaching vertex of head; hind wing with the termen excised at discal fold ..............--.- SryarosToa, p. 44. 7, Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching middle of frons; hind wing with the termen evenly curved. a8, Palpi with the 8rd joint porrect ; ~ fore WINZ NALTOW .......--.. «eonese0- Luperina, p. 466, 8. Palpi with the 3rd joint upturned ; fore wing: broaden’... .....ser-smeneasiee Menisris, (3) p. 152. Jf. Prothorax with spreading crest ; meta- thorax without crest. a®, Fore wing narrow, the margins sub- parallel. a. Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head. a8. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked. Hypostrisra, (2)p. 298. 8, Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from cell. Arueris, (2) p. 296. 7, Palpi slender, the 2nd joint reaching MIdGdle OfMrOnamee ate ede sere ae eee ArayrosrILa, (8) p. 333. b6, Fore wing broad, triangular. a7. Thorax clothed with hair and scales ArT Ct a asocerenmiccoosereco-GaccdaCaneone 3 RamesopgEs, (3) vp. 264. 07. Thorax clothed with hair and hair- Jiketsculles’.<..scssve.case weseeeeeee neces ARrENOSTOLA, (3) p. 281. @. Prothorax without crest ; metathorax with small paired crests .............-- Artatnisa, (2) p. 383. }5, Prothorax without crest; metathorax with spreading crest. a8. Thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed. a7, Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head. «8, Palpi with the 3rd joint porrect ... Arima, (3) p. 125, 2°. Palpi with the 3rd joint upturned... Canymyropss, (3) p. 128. 27, Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching about middie of frons...............++- Psrupina, (3) p. 397. c7, Palpi shert, porrect. a, Tegulx produced behind intoa slight 1 aYaYots Wee eepre iadedee son-cectasceEdoseodosac Erinecr, (2) p. 288. 8. Tegule not produced into a hood, a’, Fore wg long and narrow. a, Fore wing with the apex pro- duced, the termen oblique ...... FerGana, (2) p. 289. #0, Fore wing with the apex not produced, the termen less vblique. Sriipra, (2) p. 290. 29, Fore wing shorter and broader... Prestripia, (2) p. 292. 16. Thorax clothed with hair only ......... Mypropoxa, (3) p. 493. #, Thorax without crests. aS, Thorax clothed chiefly with scales. a7. Abdomen dorsally flattened............ PERINESIA, p. 21. 7, Abdomen not dorsally flattened. a. Fore wing long aid narrow, 3: Wuild'stout fvecescee eee se eee enes AGromistA, p. 692. OM Bitildislender cceccsevseosetes eee Proxenvs, (2) p. 480. é8. Pore wing short and broad. a’, Build stout. «0, Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, slender, a, Palpi flattened against frons ... Caxiyna, (3) p. 358, Pt Palpreylindricali..s. cesses Etypna, (8) p. 158. ACRONYCTIN®. i7/ 210, Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching middle of frons, broadly scaled. a, Hind wing with the termen excised at discal fold ............ Puupuena, p. 593. uu, Hind wing with the termen evenly curved: “gesecsseee sre ces Nrcara, (3)p. 183. 6. Build slender. aw, Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head. a''. Palpi with the 3rd jointlong... Munacramma, p. 691. 6, Palpi with the 3rd joint mode- Babecesoene. cose ccsecsenee eee Micrartuerts, (2) p. 443. 610, Palpi oblique, the 2nd joint reaching middle of frons......... AmMpniira, (3) p. 303. 4°. Thorax ciothed with hair and hair- like scales. ai, Abdomen dorsally flattened. a8, Palpi with the 2nd joint fringed with hair in front. a, Hind wing with vein 5 from middle of discocellulars............ Prripyra, p. 25. 4, Hind wing with vein 5 from below middle of discocellulars ............ Synromovus, p. 22. 68. Palpi smoothly scaled ; hind wing with vein 5 from middle of disco- Collulars® tenccacstesecsst or see erener Ampuipyra, p. 26. 5". Abdomen not dorsally flattened. a8, Head and thorax clothed with rough hair and spatulate seales ......... Oropiexra, p. 510. 8, Head and thorax smoothly clothed with hair and hair-like scales. a’, FKrons with ridges of hair above and between antenne.............+. MimEvcant, (2) p. 285. 09. Frons without ridges of hair. a, Kore wing with the apex some- what produced and acute ...... CatymniA, (3) p. 187. blo, Fore wing with the apex rounded. Drcycua, (3) p. 233, ©&. Thorax clothed with hair only. ai. Eyes small, reniform. a8, Palpi extending about the length Otnead ys sean cuacesesecsacceouews coeies Evrricorts, (3)p. 466. 48. Palpiextending to just beyond frons. Panrmerta, (3) p. 487, b7, Kyes large, round. a8, Abdomen dorsally flattened ......... Biryua, p. 41. 48, Abdomen not dorsally flattened. a’. Abdomen entirely clothed with MOUPIMM AIT scasiecce ssomecessserese = Dapuxnora, (3)p. 494 4°, Abdomen with rough hair at base only. a, Build stout. a, Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint moderately fringed with hair AMPLE OMU rs cecseecacess ccceeeeneescss Enaraia, (3) p. 285. bu, Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint fringed with long hair below, a'2, Fore wing arrow ............... Cauamta, (3) p. 340. 62, Fore wing broad! Vescsswccesee aes Orta, (3) p. 833. DON mild sslender scavececssdsecsccsese ee Hypocana, (3) p. 801. c9, Abdomen smoothly scaled. q)0> Palpi tipburned). j5....c.08 8. -e- OmMATOSTOLA, (3) p. 839. GINS Alp POITOCH, .cceccteeenavedscevehsee Hyrocaramta, (4) p, 495. VOL. IX. Cc 18 NOCTUID. Genus TUMIDIFRONTIA. Type Tumidifrontia, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 282 (1902) ... castaneotincta. Proboscis absent ; palpi very short, porrect, and slightly fringed with hair elow, not reaching nearly to extremity of the very large rounded frontal prominence, with corneous plate below it; eyes large, round; antenne of male bipectinate with short branches to apex; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, pro- and metathorax with large spreading crests; tibiw fringed with long hair, the tarsal joints with shght tufts of hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anas- tomosing With the cell near base only. 4311. Tumidifrontia castaneotincta. Tumidifrontia castaneotincta, Hmpsn. Ann.S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 283 (1902). ¢. Head and thorax rufous mixed with grey and a few blackish scales ; tegule and patagia at tips and thoracic crests bright rufous ; legs pale rufous, the tufts of hair on tarsal joints whitish ; abdomen whitish tinged with rufous except at sides towards base, the crests bright rufous. Fore wing pale violaceous grey suffused with pinkish on basal and costal areas, the medial area whitish; some black irroration at base and on inner area before the antemedial line, which is pale rufous defined by whitish on inner side, minutely waved, oblique; orbicular and reniform rather small, whitish Fig. 1.—Tumitifrontia castaneotincta, d. +. g “ ? ze defined by diffused rufous, the former round, the latter with rufous line in centre; a rufous medial line, diffused to median nervure, then sinuous; postmedial line indistinct, rufous defined by whitish on inner side, slightly bent outwards below costa, then sinuous, strongly incurved below vei 3 and bent outwards from submedian fold to inner margin, some black suffusion beyond it on inner area ; a fine brown terminal line cilia whitish tinged with pink. Hind wing white, the costa and termen slightly tinged with ochreous brown ; the underside with pinkish suffusion from middle of costa to middle of discocellnjars Hab. Masuonatann Salisbury (Marshall), 1 ¢ type. Exp. 30 millim, LOPHOTYNA. 19 Genus LOPHOTYNA, nov. Type, L. albirena. Proboseis fully developed ; palpi oblique, fringed with long naiet in front, the 3rd joint short, porrect ; frons smooth, with large tuft of hair; vertex of head crested ; eyes large , round ; ; antennae of m: ale ciliated ; head and thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the tegule produced to a slight dorsal ridge, the prothorax with high triangular crest, the metathorax with spreading erest ; tibize moderately fr inged with hair; abdomen with dorsal erests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex produced and acute, the termen strongly crenulate and obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from ‘upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell, Hind wing with the termen w aved, veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent, from below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4312. Herlewue albirena. Mamestra atbirena, Moore, P. Z. 8S. 1867, p. 53; Himpsn. Moths Ind. p. 212. ¢. Head and thorax dull reddish brown mixed with some white ; frons with lateral black bars; basal joint of antennae white; tarsi fuscous with pale rings; abdomen reddish brown slightly irrorated with grey and fuscous. Fore wing dull reddish brown tinged with grey and fuscous, the terminal area rather darker, the veins with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line whitish, waved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line whitish, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, waved ; claviform a minute dark mark ; orbicular very small, round, with slight pale annulus detined by brown; Fig. 2.—Lophotyna albirena, 3. }. reniform represented by a white bar with point above it and bifid spot below it on its outer edge; traces of a dark oblique medial line bent inwards to costa; postmedial line black slightly defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate and produced to streaks on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish slightly defined by brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7, then waved and somewhat excurved at middle; a fine waved black terminal line; cilia with fine pale line at base. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia with whitish line at base, fuscous medial line and pale reddish tips ; the underside whitish tinged with c2 20 NOCTUIDE. rufous and irrorated with black, a black discoidal lunule and minutely waved postmedial line. Hab. Sixumm (Atkinson, Moller, Dudgeon, Pilcher), 6 3 type; Benear, Caleutta, 1 ¢. xp. 42-46 millim. Genus GORTYNA. Type. Gortyna, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v, (2) p. 330 (1825) ..........2.00 leucostigma, Helctropha, Led. Noct, Eur. p. 118 (1857)..........00c0-cosessensee- leucostigma. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded ; antenne of male, typically ciliated ; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibix moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of diseocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Secr. I. Antenng of male bipectinate with moderate branches ending in a bristle, the apex ciliated. A. Fore wing with the postmedial line black defined by grey on Outer Side: =< -spss35os..cee eee coete Me eRe eee en er eee Japonica. B. Fore wing with the postmedial line very indistinct except CHU | COREE 055 . Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly bent outwards below costa. ; : a®, Fore wing with rufous spot in centre of orbicular. a, Fore wing with the claviform and orbicular filled in with white ......... purpurifascia. b7, Fore wing with the claviform and orbicular filled in with pale yellow... anargyrea. 6. Fore wing without rufous spot in centre Olorbiculars Keb ee sect ee ee plerisiz. b°. Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly : angled outwards below costa ............... rigida, 6*. Fore wing not tiuged with rufous. a, Fore wing with the stigmata filled in with WIHNLO Sis ahvan setae Cr ecard RS EM ace a eater duovata. +8, Fore wing with the stigmata not filled in with WELLES Art astauecm eee te, atk eee hh ee eles phe cataphracta. », Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous brown. a', Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines double. - a*. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial areas purple-browns...cccssecto ce eae eet eee eee imperspicua. b°, Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial areas CONCOLOTONS. ba sa0t50h save maser ey ene at cee aceon unimoda. bt. Fore wing with the ante- and posimedial lines Single w5.25 eth bivesecssces cee eee ene ee aveme. ce. Fore wing with the ground-colour purple or olive- brown. a‘, Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved from below costa to vein 4, then incurved. @, Fore wing with the whole medial area bronze- brown. a’, Fore wing with the postmedial line erect below WOU Syxvaoctuws eases esa hve neka ic eri ee ceeene re meinen nelita. PAPAIPEMA. 65 3, Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique DelOWaVeINES: wcme sci. ace ocee reese doecteseseeers ees Srigida. . Fore wing with the inner medial area deep red irrorated with yellow, the reniform elongate and constricted.at middle .........cccsseeeesseeeeees cerrussata. c3, Fore wing with the inner medial area red not irrorated with yellow, the reniform shorter and IDROAG GIN e a's chalice cons hoe re eee eee sciata. d2. Fore wing with the whole medial area concolorous WiIGhEneSt Ole WAM C!s aocceaksc sss: oui cance sacee eemeteetee limpida. 61, Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique from below costa to vein 6, then inwardly oblique. a.) Hore wine, OlLVE-DrOWNL...5-<5. 62560026000. scsceasess se nebris. o2. Fore wing purple-brown. a’, Fore wing with the medial and terminal areas tinged WitheBOwn ties) cls... ae duplicata. 3, Fore wing uniform purple-brown irrorated with RWIS mein. sania isa eae Seta sisesers sadins selocia nesses sale cece ees martina, . Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly angled outwards below costa, them oblique. |. .........s.8e.0. eupatorii. d\ ce wing with the postmedial line absent. . Hind wing tinged and irrorated with brown; BIZe SEAS TAMIR toi sscureatace. Goce otvemsedecte necopina. b*. Hind wing whitish irrorated with brown; size DOMITUMULINTY \. Siete aictarers otis a's seaies se piagainns eaeiee s amseehetiales inperturbata. 4364. Papaipema appassionata. (Plate CXXXVIIL. fig. 5.) Gortyna appassionata, Hary. Can, Ent. viii. p. 155 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 178. Head and thorax purplish pink mixed with some white; antennee white ; outer edge of patagia and thoracic crests at tips dark brown; abdomen pale yellow, the basal crest and anal tuft tinged with rufous, Fore wing pale yellow suffused in parts with bright rufous and the veins streaked with rufous to the postmedial line, the postmedial and terminal areas purplish red with fiery red "patch at apex; subbasal line rufous with yellow before and beyond it, waved from costa to submedian fold, then bent inwards to base; antemedial area rufous to vein 1; antemedial line double filled in with yellow, somewhat inwardly oblique and sinuous to vein 1, then bent outwards above inner margin; claviform represented by two white spots defined by brown, divided by a rufous streak in submedian fold and with a few rufous scales on them; orbicular white defined by brown and with rufous point in centre, slightly constricted at middle; reniform very large with yellow line in centre defined by rufous, surrounded by white spots separated by rufous streaks on the veins; an oblique waved rufous medial line from cell to inner margin; postmedial line double filled in yellow, the inner line rufous, the outer dark, dilated at costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some yellow points beyond it on costa; traces of a yellowish subterminal line, incurved below costa and bounding the red apical patch, then slightly waved and excurved at middle; a slight red-brown terminal line. Hind wing pale yellow tinged with rufous, except on terminal area, the veins 64 = : NOCTUID.E. brownish ; a slight discoidal line and oblique waved postmedial line excurved at median nervules; a slight brown terminal line; cilia tinged with crimson; the underside yellow with the costa and terminal area to vein 4 tinged with rufous; a faint oblique post- medial line. Hab, Canana, Ontario, Ottawa (Young), 1 ¢, 2 2, London, 1 9 type. Exp. 34-38 millim. Larva. Bird, Can, Ent. xxxv. p. 91. Sienna-brown, dorsal and subdorsal lines pure white. Food- plant, Sarracenia. 4365. Papaipema cerina. (Plate CXX XVIII. fig. 6.) Gortyna cerina, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1874, p. 200; id. Illustr. Essay, p. 59, pl. ii. f. 25; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 176. 2. Head and thorax bright yellow, the head, tegule at base, shoulders, a band behind tegule, tips of patagia and metathoracic crests at sides suffused with purplish rufous; legs with rufous mixed; abdomen ochreous yellow. Fore wing bright yellow ; sub- basal line rufous, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold, the antemedial area purplish rufous except at costa; antemedial line rufous, double, waved, oblique; claviform short and broad, purplish rufous defined by rufous; orbicular and reniform purplish rufous defined by rufous, the former very small, elliptical, the latter strongly constricted at middle; arufous medial line incurved and dentate below the cell ; postmedial line rufous, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 4 to lower extremity of reniform ; postmedial and terminal areas except at apex purplish rufous, the subterminal line yellow, excurved below vein 7 and slightly at middle; a terminal series of slight brown striz; cilia purplish rufous slightly mixed with yellow. Hind wing pale ochreous yellow slightly tinged with rufous except on costal area; an indis- tinct diffused subterminal brownish band; the underside with the costal area tinged with rufous, a slight discoidal lunule, oblique postmedial line, and traces of subterminal band. Hab. U.S.A., Maine, Kansas, 1 2 type. ep. 50 millim. 4366. Papaipema inquesita. (Plate CXX XVIII. fig. 7.) Gortyna inquesita, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 344 (1868); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 176. Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with yellow; abdomen yellow faintly tinged with rufous, the crests brownish. Fore wing yellow suffused with bright rufous, the veins and submedian fold streaked with brown; subbasal line faint, double, rufous, waved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line indistinctly double, rufous, waved; claviform defined by rufous, elliptical and bisected by the streak in submedian fold; orbicular small, elliptical, yellow defined by rufous ; reniform narrow and faintly defined by rufous, oblique ; medial line rufous, somewhat diffused, very oblique from PAPAIPEMA. 65 costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique; postmedial line double, rufous, bent outwards below costa, obliquely excurved to vein 4, then very oblique, some whitish points beyond it on costa; faint traces of a rufous subterminal line excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a red-brown terminal line. Hind wing pale yellow tinged with rufous, the veins brownish; a fine brown terminal line; the underside yellowish white faintly tinged with rufous, a slight rufous postmedial line excurved to vein 4, ‘then oblique. Hab, ‘U.S.A., Eastern, Middle, and Central States, New Hamp shire, New York, ig, bi dive: (Bind) oe Rhode IEW Aizp: 36 33, 2 42 millim. Larva. Head shining pale brown with a blackish shade over the ocelli. Body sordid whitish without markings; cervical shield and anal plate pale brown with black edges; tubercles small, black, those around the spiracles larger. Food-plant, Onoclea sensibilis, Linn.—H.G. D. *4367. Papaipema speciosissima. (Plate CXXXVIIL. fig. 8.) Gortyna speciostssima, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. i. p. 342, pl. vii. f. 02 (1868) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 177. 3. Head and thorax bright rufous; abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous, the ventral surface rufous. Fore wing yellow, almost wholly suffused with bright rufous, the veins streaked with rufous ; subbasal line represented by two red striz from costa; antemedial line double, the outer line less distinct, angled outwards below costa, then sinuous, excurved above inner margin; claviform two small white spots defined by brown; orbicular a small white bar defined by brown; reniform a very narrow and elongate oblique white lunule defined by brown; medial line red, oblique from costa to median nervure, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line double, the inner line fine, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique and~ minutely waved to vein 5, then inwardly oblique; the terminal area rather redder ; subterminal line indistinct, faintly defined by yellowish on outer side, somewhat dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a fine rufous terminal line; cilia bright rufous. Hind wing yellowish suffused with rufous ; traces of a sinuous postmedial line; a fine rufous terminal line; the underside with distinct curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, Rhode I., New Jersey in Coll. E. Shoemaker, Hep. 52 millim. *4368. Papaipema stenoscelis. (Plate CXhX XVIII. fig. 9.) Hydreecia stenoscelis, Dyar, J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. xv. p. 52 (1907). Q. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous and mixed with purplish ; abdomen ochreous white tinged with purplish. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous and suffused with purplish except on inner half of medial area and before postmedial line; antemedial line indistinct, double, nearly straight; stigmata pure VOL, IX. F is a. 66 NOCTUIDAE. white, the claviform and orbicular forming narrow bars separated by the median nervure, the reniform an oblique bar; medial line | distinct, brown, oblique, slightly excurved at median nervure ; postmedial line double, the inner line indistinct, shghtly bent out- wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line represented by a series of faint dark lunules; the veins of terminal area with dark streaks; an apical yellow patch. Hind wing ochreous tinged with fuscous ; cilia ochreous. Hab, U.S.A., Maryland, Baltimore. vp. 40 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a drawing from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. . *4369. Papaipema nephrasyntheta. (Plate CXX XVIII. fig. 10.) Gortyna nephrasyntheta, Dyar, Can. Ent. xl. p. 78 (1908). 2. Head and thorax purple-brown; abdomen whitish suffused with purple-brown. Fore wing purplish red, the inner half to post- medial line and the apical patch yellowish red; a white point at base; subbasal white spots below costa and cell followed by the sinuous red-brown subbasal line defined by white marks on outer side and with white point beyond it in cell; antemedial line indis- tinct, oblique, sinuous, bent outwards above inner margin ; clavi- form represented by two superimposed round white spots; orbicular a small round white spot ; reniform with white centre surrounded by white spots except at middle of inner side; medial line brown, oblique to median nervyure, then minutely waved ; postmedial line double, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then slightly incurved, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line reddish defined on inner side by brown, minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle; a fine red-brown terminal line. Hind wing whitish suffused with red; a slight discoidal lunule, faint sinuous postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. Hab. U.S.A., Maryland, Plummer’s I. Z£wp. 54 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a drawing from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 4370. Papaipema marginidens. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 11.) Gortyna marginidens, Guen. Noct. i. p. 123 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 177. eee Birdi, Dyar, Can. Ent. xl. p. 78 (1908). Head and thorax purple-red, the vertex of head whitish ; antenne with the basal joint white; tegule tipped with white ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen whitish suffused with purplish rufous. Fore wing rufous, the inner area yellower, the antemedial and post- medial areas to vein 1 greyish purple; subbasal line waved, from costa to vein 1, with white patches before it below costa and cell, defined by white on outer side and with white point beyond it in cell; antemedial line indistinctly double, angled inwards on sub- PAPAIPHMA, 67 costal nervure, incurved in submedian interspace and strongly excurved above inner margin, an oblique white striga on it below the cell; claviform represented by two white spots defined by rufous, the lower round, the upper small and oblique; orbicular white defined by rufous and with rufous point on it near outer edge, rather triangular; reniform large, oblique, constricted at middle and expanding below, with yellow line in centre defined by rufous surrounded with white spots defined by rufous ; medial line red- brown, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique; postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line brown, dentate, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; an apical yellow patch; a fine brown terminal line. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with purplish red; traces of a discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line and diffused subterminal band; a fine brown terminal line; the under- side whitish tinged with purplish red, an indistinct curved post- medial line. Hab. U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, and Middle States, 1 ¢, New York, Rye (Bird), 1 g,1 2, Ilinois. Hep. 46-50 millim. Larva. Head reddish brown, the mouth blackish. Body sordid whitish, translucent ; cervical shield and anal plate brown ; tubercles large, brown, the two on joint 1 the same size as the four dorsal ones on joint 12. Food-plant, Cicuta maculata.—H. G. D. 4371. Papaipema baptisie. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 12.) Hydrecia haptisie, Bird, Can. Ent. xxxiv. p. 109 (1902); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 176. $. Head and thorax deep purple, the scales slightly tipped with grey, the tips of tegule and a patch behind prothoracic crest and on upper edge of patagia orange; abdomen ochreous slightly suffused with purple, more strongly on ventral surface. Fore wing orange-yellow, the antemedial, postmedial, and the terminal area except at apex deep purple-red, the medial area mostly suffused and irrorated with chocolate-red, the apical area irrorated with chocolate-red ; subbasal line deep red with yellow before and beyond it, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, double filled in with some yellow, waved, rather oblique; claviform represented by two obliquely placed pure white spots, the lower larger; orbicular pure white defined by brown, round; reniform with yellow line in centre defined by red surrounded by pure white spots separated by red streaks, its inner edge excised ; an indistinct sinuous red line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; post- medial line double filled in with yellow towards costa and inner margin, the inner line indistinct, the outer dark except towards costa, bent outwards below costa, then very slightly waved, oblique to vein 6 and incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line dark brown with a few yellow scales on its F 2 68 NOCTUID.&. outer edge, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved and waved at middle, incurved at discal and submedian folds; a fine brown terminal line; cilia purplish at base, dark brown at tips. Hind wing pale yellow, the veins and terminal area tinged with purplish: an indistinct sinuous postmedial line and traces of a diffused sub- terminal band; the underside with the costal area irrorated with purplish red, a discoidal point, curved postmedial line and indistinct diffused subterminal band. Hab. U.S.A., New York, Rye (H. Bird), 1 ¢ ecotype. Exp. 38 millim. Larva, Semitranslucent ; 1st four abdominal segments dark, the outer segments with pale dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral lines, the dorsal line showing slightly on the dark somites ; head yellow with dark lateral line. Food-plant, Baptisia linctorina. *4372. Papaipema furcata. (Plate CX XXVIII. fig. 13.) Hydrecia furcata, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xxvi. p. 46 (1899); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 177. ¢. Head and thorax pale yellow mixed with rufous; antenne with the basal joint white; pectus and legs whitish tinged with rufous; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing pale yellow more or less suffused with rufous, the veins slightly streaked with red-brown; traces of a waved red-brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line very indistinct, waved, red-brown, with pure white spots before it in cell and above vein 1; claviform represented by two round pure white spots defined by red-brown, the upper rather smaller ; orbicular pure white defined by red-brown, round ; reniform with pale yellow lunule at centre and spot on outer edge, defined by three small white spots above and four below all defined by red-brown ; an oblique diffused rufous shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line double, red-brown, bent outwards below costa, then crenulate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line red-brown, dentate, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, a yellow patch beyond it at apex; a fine red-brown terminal line, Hind wing very pale yellow ; the underside whiter, the costa and veins slightly tinged with rufous, traces of a curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., New Hampshire, Manchester, New York, Long L., New Jersey, Carlstadt, Washington, D.C. (Hay), in U.S. Nat. Mus., Illinois, Urbana. Lap. 44 millim. 4373. Papaipema circumlucens. (Plate CXX XVIII. fig. 14.) Hydrecia circumlucens, Smith, Trans, Am. Ent. Soc. xxvi. p. 43 (1899); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 176. ¢. Head and thorax purplish rufous mixed with some greyish, the mesothorax with some orange fulyous ; antenne with the 1st joint white; pectus and legs rufous, the tarsi slightly rimged with white ; abdomen rufous tinged with purplish brown, the crests PAPAIPEMA, 69 brown. Fore wing fulvous, the basal, costal, and terminal areas tinged with brown; a white point at base of inner margin; sub- basal line double, brown, filled in with whitish at costa and with whitish point beyond it in cell, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, indistinct except towards costa and inner margin and filled in with white at costa, inwardly oblique and sinuous from costa to above vein 1, then strongly bent outwards ; claviform represented by two round white spots defined by blackish, the upper smaller: orbicular small, white defined by Dlackish. rather constricted at middle; reniform with yellow line in centre defined by brown surrounded with small white spots defined by rufous except at middle of inner side, oblique; an oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner margin to which it is slightly bent outwards; postmedial line double, the inner line indistinct except below vein 3, bent outwards below costa, then very minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some small white spots beyond it on costa ; subterminal line brown slightly defined by fulvous on outer side and with fulvous patch bey ond it at apex, excurved at vein 7 and middle, a fine brown terminal line; cilia red-brown with a slight davic line through them. Hind wing yellow tinged with rufous, the veins and terminal area suffused with purplish red; cilia with a slight pale line at base: the underside yellowish white, the costal and terminal areas tinged with purplish red, an indistinct curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, 1¢,29, Rye (Bird), 1g,192. Hep. 48 millim. Larva. Bird, Can. Ent. xxxix. p. 137. Head pale brown with a black mark on the ocelli. Body cylindrical, translucent, faintly purplish, the dorsal line paler ; cervical shield and anal plate large, brown; tubercles small, brown, a large brown area aroundiy. Food-plant: Hop (/Zumulus), forming a gall in stem of vine.—H. G. D. 4374. Papaipema rutila. (Plate CXXXVIIL. fig. 15.) Gortyna rutila, Guen. Noct. i. p. 128, pl. vi. f. 1 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N, Am. p. 177. Gortyna nepheleptena, Dyar, Can, Ent. xl. p. 77 (1908). Head and thorax red-brown mixed with greyish; abdomen greyish tinged with brown. Fore wing suffused with brown, the inner area reddish ochreous to postmedial line ; indistinct yellowish spots at base below costa and cell, crossed by the slight subbasal line; antemedial line obsolete ; aleronn represented by two small white spots, the upper excised on inner side; orbicular a small round white spot ; reniform a narrow yellow lunule surrounded by white spots ; a slight incurved medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, bent outw ards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subtermin: il line yellowis! defined by brown on inner side, diffused on outer, minutely waved, 70 NOCTUIDE. 4 angled outwards at vein 7 and at middle; an apical yellow patch. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown leaving an ill-defined terminal whitish band. Hab. U.S.A., New York, Illinois (Doubleday), 1 ¢ type. Exp. 36 millim. *4375. Papaipema ochroptena. (Plate CXXXYVIII. fig. 16.) Gortyna ochroptena, Dyar, Can. Ent. xl. p. 77 (1908). Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous yellow slightly tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale yellow slightly tinged with rufous, the lines indistinct ; subbasal line curved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line sinuous, bent outwards above inner margin ; claviform represented by two obliquely superposed white spots ; orbicular a small white spot ; reniform with white lunule in centre surrounded by white spots; an oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line indistinctly double, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line yellow defined by brown on inner side, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; an apical yellow patch; a fire brown terminal fine Hind wing white faintly tinged with rufous. Hab, U.S.A., Colorado, Denver. vp. 34 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a drawing from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 4376. Papaipema merriccata. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 17.) Papaipema merriccata, Bird, Can, Ent. xxxix. p. 270 (1907). Head and thorax rufous mixed with some brown ; basal joint of antenne pure white, the pro- and metathoracic crests dark brown ; abdomen ochreous yellow with the crests brown. Fore wing yellow thickly suffused and irrorated with bright: rufous, the terminal area deeper rufous ; subbasal line double, rufous filled in with yellow and with some yellow before it, waved, from costa to submedian fold, a white point beyond it in cell; antemedial line indistinct, double filled in with yellowish ; angled inwards below costa and on vein J, angled outwards at median nervure and strongly bent outwards above inner margin; claviform a round white spot with white point above it, both defined by black; orbicular a rather elliptical white spot defined by black; reniform a narrow yellow Junule defined by rufous with two white spots on its inner side and three on outer all defined by black, and a yellow lunule defined by rufous at middle of outer edge; an indistinct brown medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then sinuous ; postmedial line double, the inner line indistinct except at inner margin, the | outer dark brown; a yellow spot on it at costa, bent outwards below costa, then very slightly waved, excurved to vein 4, then PAPAIPEMA. (pe! oblique and slightly incurved below vein 2, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line represented by very faint yellowish lunules very slightly defined by brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; an apic cal yellow patch ; cilia dark brown. Hind wing pale yellow, the veins tinged with red-brown, a faint diffused red-brown subterminal band; a fine brown terminal line; cilia with a slight brown line near base and brownish tips; the underside with the costal area irrorated with rufous, slight curved postmedial and subterminal lines. Hab, U.S.A (Doubleday, Grote), 2 3, Pennsylvania, New Brighton (Merrick), 1 2 cotype. Hwp. $42, 2 48 millim. Larva, Pink; dorsal, subbasal and lateral lines pale yellowish, the last two interrupted on Ist four abdominal somites ; tubercles brownish ; spiracles black’ Food-plant, Podophyllum peltatum. *4377. Papaipema insulidens. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 18.) Hydrecia insulidens, Bird, Can. Ent. xxxiv. p. 112, pl. 3 (1902); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 176. Yellow suffused with bright rufous. Fore wing slightly irrorated with dark scales especially on the veins; a yellowish or whitish point at base; subbasal line waved, from costa to submedian fold, the area before it sometimes whitish ; antemedial line indistinct, waved; medial area yellow with purplish shading towards costa ; stigmata yellowish white; claviform double, orbicuiar round, reniform with central lunule surrounded by small spots; medial line nearly erect from cesta to vein 2, then oblique; pestmedial line double, oblique from costa to vein 6, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, the area beyond it purplish to the dentate subterminal line which is angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; an apical yellowish patch or the whole terminal area yellowish. Fore wing yellowish suffused with fuscous especially towards termen ; cilia purplish ; the underside tinged with pinkish. Hab. Canava, Vancouver I. Exp. 32-37 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from drawing from type in Coll. Bird. *4378. Papaipema angelica. (Plate CNX XVIII. fig. 19.) Hydrecia pagel 2, Smith, Trans, Am. Hut, Soc. xxvi. p. 40 (1899); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N Am. p- 176. g. Head and thorax pale orange-yellow, the pro- and meta- thoracic crests and patagia tipped with dark brown; abdomen pale yellow. Fore wing pale yellow slightly irrorated with red-brown, rather more thickly on postmedial area; antemedial line indistinct, double, angled outwards below costa, incurved in submedian interspace and excuryed above inner margin; clavitorm faintly 72 NOCTUIDAE. defined by red-brown, extending to median nervure ; orbicular and reniform defined by red-brown, the former indistinct, round, with brown point in centre, the latter with some brown suffusion on inner part; medial line indistinct, oblique from costa to reniform, inwardly oblique below the cell and bent outwards to inner margin ; postmedial line double, the inner line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 5, then oblique; subterminal line waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards at discal fold to postmedial line, excurved at middle; the veins of terminal area \ slightly tinged with brown; a fine red-brown terminal line; cilia brown mixed with greyish. Hind wing pale yellow with indistinct diffused brownish subterminal line and slight terminal line ; the underside yellowish white, the costal area slightly irrorated with red-brown, an indistinet curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., California, Los Angeles (Coquillet),in U.S. Nat. — Mus. vp. 44 millim. ‘ *4379. Papaipema astuta. (Plate CXKXXVIII. fig. 20.) Papaipema astuta, Bird, Can. Ent. xxxix. p. 272 (1907). Q. Head and thorax yellow mixed with brown, the prothoracic crest dark brown and grey at tip, the thorax edged with black- brown at sides and behind; abdomen pale yellowish tinged with brown. Fore wing yellow irrorated with red, the postmedial and terminal areas purple-brown, the former deeper in colour, leaving | a yellowish apical patch ; subbasal line double, red, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold, with a minute yellow point beyond it in cell ; antemedial area with a purplish-brown band; the antemedial line indistinct, double, red, sinuous; claviform represented by two superposed white spots defined by rufous; orbicular a small round white spot defined by rufous; reniform a narrow yellow lunule surrounded by small spots, those at lower extremity whitish and all defined by rufous; medial line rufous, oblique and sinuous from costa to median nervure, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line double, the inner line rufous, the outer blackish, strongly bent outwards below costa, erect to vein 6, then obliquely incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, brown, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a fine dark terminal line; cilia purplish fuscous. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown, the veins slightly streaked with brown; a fine brown terminal line; the underside with slight discoidal lunule and indistinct postmedial line. Hab, U.S.A., New York, Rye, type T Q in Coll. Bird. Exp. 36 millim. Larva. Yellowish, lines very faint, obsolete on the Ist four abdominal somites which are dark ; tubercles small, black ; thoracic shield black at sides. Food-plant, Collinsonia canadensis. PAPAIPEMA. 73 4380. Papaipema arctivorens, n.sp. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 21.) Head and thorax purple mixed with yellow; antenne with the basal joint white; tegule slightly edged with yellow behind; abdomen yellow tinged with rufous, fhe crests dark. Fore wing yellow irrorated with bright rufous, the postmedial area purplish, the terminal area suffused with red-brown except at apex, the veins slightly streaked with brown, subbasal line rufous defined on outer side by slight yellow marks and with yellow point beyond it in cell, sinuous, on costa to submedian fold; antemedial line indistinct, inwardly oblique and sinuous to vein ie then bent outwards above inner margin ; claviform represented by two obliquely placed white spots defined by brown, the upper small; orbicular small, elliptical, white defined by brown ; reniform with sinuous oblique yellow line in centre defined by rufous, with curved white mark on inner edge above, white point below and two white points beyond lower extremity ; a slight sinuous rufous medial line, oblique to median nervure, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line double, the inner line indistinct and rufous except at costa where it is filled in with yellow, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, erect to vein 6, then oblique, some whitish points beyond it on costa; a yellowish minutely waved subterminal line, incurved below costa and defining the yellowish apical patch, excurved at middle ; cilia greyish brown. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with rufous, the veins brownish; a faint diffused subterminal brown band; the underside yellowish white, the costal and terminal areas suffused and irrorated with rufous; a slight discoidal line and curved postmedial line. Hab, Canava, Montreal (Bird), 1 ¢. Evp. 36-44 millim. Six males and five females in Coll. Bird examined. Larva. Food-plants : Burdock and Thistle. 4381. Papaipema harrisi. Gortyna harrisii, Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr. vi. pp. 268, 276 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 177. 3. Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with red-brown ; Fig. 21.—Papaipema harrisi, gd. }. antenne with the basal joint pure white: fore tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen yellowish irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing 74 NOCTUID. yellow almost wholly suffused and irrorated with rufous, the area before postmedial line yellower and the postmedial area deeper rufous; a white point at base; subbasal line rufous defined by yellow on outer side and with some yellow before it, angled out- wards below costa and ending at vein 1, a yellow point beyond it in cell ; antemedial line indistinct, red-brown, excurved in cell and bent outwards above inner margin; claviform represented by two round pure white. spots defined by dark brown, the upper smaller ; orbicular pure white defined by dark brown, rather small, elliptical ; reniform with yellow line in centre defined by rufous and surrounded by small white spots defined by brown except at middle of inner side; an oblique rufous line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line double, the inner line rufous, the outer dark brown strongly bent outwards below costa, then very minutely sinuous, erect to vein 6, then oblique, some slight white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line represented by slight yellow marks on outer edge of the dark rufous area, dentate at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2; a terminal series of small red-brown lunules; cilia dark brown. Hind wing yellowish tinged with brown, the costal area whitish ; a faint diffused poe subterminal band ; aslight brown terminal line from apex to vein 2; cilia yellowish with slight brown line through them from apex to vein 2, then whitish ; the underside yellowish white, the costal half and terminal area irrorated with rufous, a small discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and traces of diffused subterminal band. 2. Head, thorax, and fore wing yellow and less rufous. Ab. 1. 9. Fore wing more uniform rufous, and without ahs white spots on the stigmata : in Coll, Bird. Hab. U.S.A., Maine, Kittery Point, 1 ¢, 2.2 type, Massachusetts, New York (Doubleday), 1 $,19. Eup. 40-42 millim. Larva. Bird, Can. Ent. xxxii. p. 282. Pale and semitranslucent ; dorsal line indistinct ; tubercles black. Food-plant, Heracleum lanatum. 4382. Papaipema impecuniosa. (Plate CXKXXVIII. fig. 22.) Gortyna impecuniosa, Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr. vi. p. 267 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 176. Head and thorax purplish rufous mixed with white; abdomen pale rufous, the crests and anal tuft with white mixed. Fore wing yellow suffused in parts with purplish and irrorated with fiery red to postmedial line, the terminal area purplish rufous ; subbasal line slight, red, waved, from costa to submedian fold, some purplish suffusion beyond it; antemedial line slight, red, waved, bent out- wards below submedian fold; claviform yellow defined by brown, constricted at middle; orbicular and reniform yellow defined by brown, the former small, round, the latter with some red in centre, its outer part broken up by streaks, an oblique dark line from lower PAPAIPEMA. 79 angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line double, the outer line dark, bent outwards below costa, erect to vein 6, then oblique, some pale points beyond it on costa; an apical yellow patch, the subterminal line arising from it and represented by a series of slight yellow marks defined by brown marks un inner side, somewhat excurved at middle; a terminal series of dark strive; cilia dark brown mixed with grey. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown ; a fine brown terminal line; cilia brown at base, white at tips; the underside pale, tinged with purplish and irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal spot. Hab. Canana, Alberta, Red Deer R. (Wolley-Dod),1 3,1 9; U.S.A., Massachusetts, 1 ¢ type, New York, Rye (Bird), 16, 12. exp. 30-40 millim. Larva. Bird, Can. Ent. xxxii. p. 279. Flesh-colour, thoracic somites white; tubercles black; head reddish; thoracic shield yellowish; anal plate large and dark. Food-plant, Aster umbellatus. 4383. Papaipema verona. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 23.) Hydrecia verona, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xxvi. p. 82 (1899); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 176. 3. Head and thorax yellow, tinged with rufous and mixed with purple-brown and grey; palpi and sides of frons purple-brown mixed with grey; the edges of patagia and metathoracic crest dark purple-brown; pectus and legs grey mixed with purple-brown ; abdomen ochreous, suffused with purple-brown, Fore wing yellow irrorated with rufous, the postmedial and terminal areas ‘suffused with purple-brown, except at apex and tornus; subbasal line represented by a slight rufous striga from costa and a curved mark below the cell; antemedial line indistinctly double, excurved to vein 1, then strongly exeurved above inner margin; clayiform represented by two spots defined by dark brown, the upper spot yellow, the lower white; orbicular small, round, yellowish white defined by dark brown and with brown point in centre; reniform yellow defined by dark brown and with three whitish spots on edges of lower part, constricted at middle; medial line red-brown, excurved and slightly sinuous; postmedial line double at costa and below vein 3, the inner line red-brown, the outer rather diffused, blackish, bent outwards below costa, erect to vein 3, then oblique and slightly excurved below vein 2; subterminal line yellowish, defined on inner side by small red-brown lunules, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved and minutely dentate at middle; a fine dark- brown terminal line; cilia yellow at base, brown at tips. Hind wing ochreous white ‘inrorated with red- brown ; a sight discoidal bar, indistinct postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band; a fine dark brown terminal line; cilia yellowish white. flab, Canapa, Manitoba, Aweme (Criddle), 1 3, Winnipeg ; U.S.A., Pennsylvania. ap. 40 millim. Larva. Food-plant, Eupatoriui. 76 NOCTUID®. *4384. Papaipema limata. (Plate CXX XVIII. fig. 24.) Papaipema limata, Bird, Can. Ent. xl. p. 30 (1908). ¢@. Head and thorax yellow suffused with pinkish; abdomen white tinged with yellow. Fore wing bright lemon-yellow, the ante- and postmedial areas tinged with pinkish; subbasal line slight; antemedial line red-brown, waved, obsolete towards inner margin ; claviform white, formed by two confluent elliptical spots ; orbicular and reniform small, white defined by red-brown, the former elliptical, the latter with its annulus broken up into spots, some pinkish suffusion between them ; postmedial line double, the inner line very fine, slightly bent outwards below costa, erect to vein 6, then inwardly oblique, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line only defined by the contrast between the post- medial and terminal areas ; cilia pinkish. Hind wing white tinged with yellow; cilia pinkish ; the underside yellowish irrorated with pink. Hab, U.S.A., Washington, Pullman. Zap. 36 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a drawing from type in Coll. H. Bird. *4385. Papaipema latia. Hydrecia latia, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het., Suppl. 2, p. 6 (1899); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 177. Head reddish brown ; thorax rather paler ; abdomen paler. Fore wing yellow suffused with rufous, the postmedial area suffused with purplish brown; antemedial line purplish, indistinct ; orbicular very small, round, white; reniform white with a few rufous scales on it; medial line dark, oblique from costa to median nervure, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line dark purple, very strong, oblique and straight from costa to inner margin; subterminal line sinuous ; terminal area with the veins streaked with purple. Hind wing white tinged with reddish. Hab. U.S.A., Illinois, Chicago. Exp. 40 millim. This species is unknown to me. 4386. Papaipema purpurifascia. (Plate CXX XVIII. fig. 25.) Gortyna purpurifascia, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. i. p. 341, pl. 7. f. 51 (1868); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 176. 2. Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with yellow ; antenne with the basal joint pure white; tegule tipped with yellowish ; patagia with the outer edge and tips and the tip of metathoracic crest dark brown ; pectus and legs red-brown, the tarsi with faint whitish rings ; abdomen yellowish tinged with rufous, the crests brown. Fore wing yellow more or less suffused with fiery rufous, the post- medial area purplish brown except at inner margin; subbasal line rufous defined on each side by yellow, waved, from costa to vein 1, a yellow point beyond it in cell; the antemedial area with some PAPAIPEMA, fie purplish fuscous suffusion on costal half ; antemedial line indistinct, double, rufous, excurved in cell and bent outwards above inner margin ; claviform represented by two white spots defined by black except on inner side, the lower elliptical, the upper small ; orbicular small, round, white defined by black and with rufous spot in centre ; reniform yellow tinged with rufous, defined by black and rufous, its centre by rufous, with small white spots on inner edge above and below and constricted at middle; medial line rufous, sinuous, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line double, the inner line indistinct, rufous, the outer black and rather diffused except below costa, strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique and the inner line slightly bent inwards to inner margin, some slight pale points beyond it on costa ; subter- minal line approximated to postmedial line, brown slightly defined by yellowish on outer side and with yellow patch beyond it at apex, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a dark brown terminal line; cilia purplish brown. Hind wing pale yellow, the veins brownish ; a diffused brownish subterminal line with dentate outer edge; a fine brown terminal line; the underside with the costal area tinged and irrorated with rufous, a slight brown discoidal bar, curved postmedial line, and faint diffused subterminal band, Hab. Caxava, Ottawa (Gibson, Young), 4 9; U.S.A., Maine, Massachusetts, New Yor k, Rye (Bird), 1 Q, Mlinois, Colorado. Exp. 34-42 millim, Larva. Head shining reddish brown. Body faintly purplish, translucent, cervical shield large with black sides, anal plate black ; tubercles black, iv. large, a rectangular dorsal shield on joint 15. Food-plants: Aquilegia and Lysimachia quadrifoluaa—H. G. D. *4387. Papaipema anargyrea. (Plate CXhAXXVILI. fig. 26.) Gortyna anargyrea, Dyar, Can. Ent. xl. p. 79 (1908). ¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish suffused with red. Fore wing yellow suffused and irrorated with red, the pose area purple, a yellowish subbasal patch on costal area traversed by the shght subbasal line ; antemedial line indistinct, brown, sinuous ; claviform pale yellow, elliptical, bisected by the streak in submedian fold; orbicular pale yellow defined by brown and with red point on its outer edge, small, round; reniform with yellow centre sur- rounded by small yellow spots; medial line brown, oblique from costa to median nervure, then inwardly oblique; postmedial line double, the outer line blackish and rather diffused, bent outwards helow costa, then oblique ; subterminal line brown defined on outer side by yellow, dentate, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3,2; a fine terminal brown line. Hind wing yellowish white tinged with red ; a diffused brown subterminal band. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado. wp. 36 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a drawing from type in U.S. Nat. Mus, ~J io NOCTUIDX, 4388. Papaipema pterisii. (Plate CXKX XVIII. fig. 27.) Papaipema pterisii, Bird, Can. Ent. xxxix. p. 310 (1907). Gortyna triorthia, Dyar, Can. Ent. xl. p. 79 (1908). Head and thorax yellow mixed with bright rufous; tegule with slight yellow tips; abdomen pale ochreous yellow, the crests brownish. Fore wing yellow suffused with bright rufous, the outer part of medial area rather yellower, the postmedial area purplish brown except at inner margin; subbasal line double, red filled in with yellow, angled inwards in cell where there is a minute elongate yellow spot beyond it and ending at vein 1; antemedial line indistinct, double, red filled in with yellow, sinuous, bent out- wards above inner margin ; claviform and orbicular obliquely placed bar-shaped white spots defined by black ; reniform with yellow line in middle defined by red with white bar on its inner side con- stricted at middle and defined by black on inner side and four yellow spots on its outer edge; a brown medial line sinuous and rather diffused from costa to median nervure, then oblique; _post- medial line dark brown, strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly incurved below vein 3, some white points beyond it on costa; the veins of terminal area streaked with brown ; subterminal line only defined by the contrast between the post- medial and terminal areas, angled outwards at veins 7, 4,3 and incurved at discal and submedian folds; a dark brown terminal line ; cilia purple-brown. Hind wing pale yellow with diffused brownish subterminal band and fine brown terminal line except towards tornus ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the upper part of claviform, orbicular, and points round reuiform yellow. Hab. Cananva, Ottawa( Young), 1 6,1 9; U.S.A., Massachusetts, Newtonville, 2 ¢,1 9, New York (Hagen), 19, Rye (Bird), 1 2 cotype. Exp. 34-38 millim. 4389. Papaipema rigida. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 28.) Gortyna rigida, Grote, Can. Ent. ix. p. 87 (1877); id. Papilio, ii. pl. i. ff. ae id. Illustr. Essay, p. 58, pl. ii. f. 24; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 149. 3. Head and thorax pale yellow, mixed with some purplish rufous; a purplish band behind the tegule; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing pale yellow irrorated with rufous, some purplish suffusion before antemedial line on costal area and on terminal area except at apex, the veins slightly streaked with rufous; subbasal line slight, rufous, curved, from costa to submedian fold; ante- medial line rufous, oblique, from costa to median neryure where it is acutely angled, then inwardly oblique and strongly bent outwards above inner margin ; claviform defined by rufous, figure-of-8-shaped, not touching antemedial line; orbicular and reniform defined by rufous, the former small, rather elliptical, the latter with its outer Pas ein é, PAPAIPEMA. 19 part broken up into spots by the streaks on veins and double dis- coidal line; an oblique rufous line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line strong, red-brown, angled outwards below costa, then very oblique, straight; an indistinct waved subter- minal line; a fine red-brown terminal line; cilia purplish mixed with red-brown. Hind wing ochreous white, the veins and terminal area slightly irrorated with red-brown; a fine red-brown terminal line; the underside with the costal area irrorated with red-brown, a slight discoidal point and indistinet curved postmedial line. Hab. Canava, Manitoba, Aweme (Fletcher);. U.S.A., Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, 1 ¢ type, Lllinois. Lap. 34 millim, 4390. Papaipema duovata. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 29.) Hydrecia duovata, Bird, Can. Ent. xxxiv. p. 115 (1902); Dyar, Cat. Lep. IN. Am. p. 176. Head and thorax ochreous mixed with purplish brown ; abdomen red-brown mixed with greyish ochreous. Fore wing yellow, thickly irrorated with dark brown and black to postmedial line, the terminal area suffused with purplsh and irrorated with black ; subbasal line red-brown defined on each side by yellow, waved, from costa to submedian fold, with a dark patch beyond it from below costa to vein 1; antemedial line slight, excurved from costa to submedian fold, incurved at vein 1 and bent outwards above inner margin, traversing the inner side of the claviform, which is white tinged with yellow on inner side and bisected by a dark streak in submedian fold; orbicular white defined by brown and with brown point in centre, round; reniform with ochreous line defined by brown in centre surrounded by smail white spots defined by brown, the spot at middle of outer side tinged with ochreous ; a diffused dark medial shade, oblique from costa to Jower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique; postmedial line double filled in with yellowish, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excuryed to vein 4, then oblique; a yellowish patch at apex with the dentate brown subterminal line arising from it, somewhat excurved at middle and defined by yellowish on outer side; a ter- minal series of slight dark lunules; cilia dark brown mixed with greyish and with slight brown line through them. Hind wing yellowish irrorated with brown ; traces of a fine postmedial line and diftused subterminal band ; a fine brown terminal line ; the underside ochreous white irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point, curved postmedial line, traces of subterminal band and fine terminal line. Hab. U.S.A., New York, Rye (H. Bird), 2 6, 1-9 cotype Exp. 36-46 millim. Larva. Bird, Can. Ent. xxxii. p. 276 (rutila). Head reddish brown, the mouth blackish. Body, translucent purplish with broad whitish dorsal and lateral lines; shields pale brown, not contrasting ; tubercles very small, inconspicuous. Food- plant, Solidago sempervirens.—H. G. D. SO NOCTUID, 4391, Papaipema cataphracta. (Plate CXXXVIIL. fig. 30.) Gortyna cataphracta, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil.. iii. p. 81, pl. ii. £3 (1864); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p, 176. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey-white; antenne with the basal joint whitish; tegule slightly edged with wkite behind; tarsi with slight pale rings; abdomen greyish ochreous suffused with reddish brown. Fore wing golden yellow irrorated with dark brown, the antemedial, postmedial, and the terminal area except a patch at apex dark greyish brown, the veins with dark streaks ; a yellow patch at base traversed by the faint waved sub- basal line from costa to submedian fold and with yellow spot beyond it in cell; antemedial line double filled in with yellow, inwardly oblique and sinuous from costa to vein 1. then bent outwards above inner margin; claviform represented by a double yellow spot defined by brown and bisected by a slight brown streak in submedian fold ; orbicular large, round, yellow defined by brown and with a few brown scales in centre ; reniform large, with sinuous yellow line in centre defined by brown, surrounded by yellow spots divided by streaks on the veins; a medial yellow shade from costa to median nervure, then an oblique line to inner margin; postmedial line double filled in with yellow, bent out- wards below costa and oblique below vein 6, with shght yellow points beyond it on costa; a faint minutely waved brown subter- minal line, incurved before the yellow apical patch, then with slight yellow marks on its outer edge ; a slight dark terminal line. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown; a diffused brown subterminal band ; a fine brown terminal line; the underside whitish irrorated with red-brown, a faint discoidal lunule and diffused subterminal band. Hab. Canava (Norman) 1 2, Ottawa (Fletcher, Young), 4 3, Ontario, Orilla (Bush), 1g; U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, 1¢, Rye (Bird), 13,12, Colorado. Hap. 32-40 millim. Larva. Head reddish brown with a black stripe from ocelli to occiput. Body faintly purplish, translucent, with whitish dorsal and broader lateral stripes ; cervical shield and anal plate pale brown with black borders; tubercles large, brown, two large contiguous shields on joint 13. Food-plants: Wild Parsnip, &c.—H. G. D. *41392. Papaipema imperspicua. (TPlate CXXXVIII. fig. 31.) Papaipema imperspicua, Bird, Can. Ent. xl. p. 29 (1908). Head and thorax purple-brown; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing yellow-brown, the ante- and postmedial areas purple-brown ; subbasal line slight; antemedial line double, sinuous, strongly excurved above inner margin; claviform and orbicular absent; reniform ill-defined, purple-brown ; medial line oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then slightly incurved ; postmedial line double, the inner line minutely lunulate, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 5, then incurved, some white points beyond A ) é f ‘ PAPAIPEMA. 81 it on costa; subterminal line slight, yellowish, minutely waved; a yellowish apical streak. Hind wing uniform fuscous brown. Hab. U.S.A., New Hampshire, Franconia, New York, Buffalo. Exp. 40 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a drawing from type in Coll. H. Bird. *4393. Papaipema unimoda. (Plate CXX XVIII. fig. 52.) Hydrecia unimoda, Smith, Trans, Am. Ent. Soe. xxi. p. 73 (1894); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 176. o. Head and thorax ochreous-brown tinged with rufous, the outer edge of patagia and metathorax with dark brown; abdomen ochreous suffused with brown, the ventral surface red-brown. Fore wing ochreous-brown tinged with rufous and thickly irrorated with brown except on inner area to postmedial line ; traces of a waved brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; ante- medial line indistinct, double, waved, oblique ; orbicular and reni- form brownish, very ill-defined ; a diffused curved brown medial shade; postmedial line rather indistinct, double, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line represented by a series of small ‘brownish lunules, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a faint oblique pale mark from apex ; a fine brown terminal line; cilia dark brown with fine pale line at base. Hind wing ochreous uniformly suffused and irrorated with brown ; cilia pale at base, brownish at tips; the underside ochreous white irrorated with brown, a small dark discoidal spot and diffused curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Durango in Coll. J. B. Smith. Hp. 36 millim. 4394. Papaipema aveme. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 1.) Gortyna aweme, Lyman, Can. Ent. xl. p. 254 (1908). g. Head and thorax rufous mixed with pinkish grey, the edges of patagia and the metathorax behind greyish fuscous; palpi blackish above; pectus and fore legs in front greyish brown ; abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous. Fore wing ochreous-brown suffused with rufous and greyish; the antemedial area except towards inner margin and the terminal area except at apex suffused with blackish brown; subbasal line slight, waved, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line shght, waved, nearly erect; claviform absent or with slight dark spot at extremity; orbicular a small brown spot or moderately developed ; reniform brown defined by blackish, strongly constricted at middle; a diffused black-brown medial line, oblique from costa to median neryure, then slightly incurved ; postmedial line black-brown, oblique from costa to vein 6, then slightly incurved and with short dark streaks beyond it on the yeins; subterminal line almost obsolete towards costa, then formed Vi ae Ix. G 82 NOCTUIDAE. of minute dark lunules, excurved at middle, the dark area beyond it cut off obliquely at apex. Hind wing pale ochreous slightly tinged with rufous; a fine rufous terminal line; the underside pale yellow slightly tinged with rufous. Hab. Canava, Manitoba, Aweme (Fletcher), 1 ¢. Exp. 36 millim. Type t in Coll. Fletcher. 4395. Papaipema nelita. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 2.) Hydrecia nelita, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het., Suppl. i. p. 8 (1898) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 176. 2. Head and thorax brown mixed with purplish grey ; tegule slightly edged with white; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the crests brown. Fore wing deep purple-brown irrorated with a few violaceous-white scales, the medial area golden-brown; subbasal line represented by a slight brown striga from costa; antemedial line indistinct, oblique, waved ; claviform represented by a dark patch ; orbicular and reniform dark, very indistinctly detined ; an oblique brown line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line fine, brown, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then in- curved and erect below vein 2, some white points beyond it on — costa; traces of a waved brown subterminal line excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia dark brown. Hind wing purplish grey uniformly suffused and irrorated with brown ; cilia brown, greyish at tips; the underside grey-white irrorated with brown especially on costal area; a slight discoidal lunule and faint diffused postmedial line. i Ab. 1. Fore wing with the orbicular a yellowish point, the reni- form a yellowish line surrounded by yellowish-white spots. Hab, U.S.A., New York, Rye (Bird), 1 2, Ilinois, Chicago in Coll. J. B. Smith. vp. 34 millim. " Larva. Bird, Can. Ent. xxxix. p. 313. :' Semitranslucent whitish; lines absent; tubercles and spiracles blackish. Food-plants: Rudbeckia laciniata and Arctium lappa. 4396. Papaipema frigida. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 3.) Hydrecia frigida, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvi. p. 39 (1899) ; Dyar Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 176. Gortyna thalictri, Lyman, Can. Ent. xxxvii. p. 807 (1905). Gortyna perobsoleta, Lyman, Can. Ent. xxxvii. p. 309 (1905). (thalictri.) Head and thorax deep bronze-brown mixed with grey- white, the tegul tipped with grey-white; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen greyish suffused with brown. Fore wing with the area before the subbasal line, the medial and terminal areas deep golden- bronze, the antemedial, postmedial and terminal areas greyish purple ; subbasal line represented by a wayed series of white points PAPAIPEMA. 83 from costa to vein 1, with small white spot beyond it in cell ; antemedial line indistinct, double, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, oblique to vein 1 and bent outwards above inner margin, some white scales on it in submedian interspace; claviform represented by two obliquely placed round white spots; the orbicular a larger rounded white spot with yellow point on outer edge; the reniform with curved yellowish-white line in middle surrounded by small white spots ; medial line indistinct, dark, oblique from costa to median nervure, then erect and slightly waved ; postmedial line double with whitish spot at costa, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, oblique below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line formed by a series of slight dark lunules with some white scales on them from costa to vein 7, angled outwards at veins 7, 4, 3, then oblique; a faint yellowish apical spot ; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing greyish suffused with cupreous brown; cilia with a fine brown line through them and whitish tips; the underside grey irrorated with brown, thickly on costal area, a dark discoidal spot and indistinct curved post- medial line. Ab. 1. frigida. Fore wing without the white spots on the stigmata. Ab, 2. Fore wing with the terminal area not tinged with golden brown, the reniform less elongate-—New York. Hab. Canapa, Montreal (Lyman), 1 3, Ottawa (Young), 1 3, 1 2, Manitoba, Winnipeg; U.S.A., New Hampshire, White Mts., New York, Rye (Bird), 1 $6,292. Hwp. 34-44 millim. Typest thalictrt and perobsoleta in Coll. Lyman, Larva. Semitranslucent whitish, with pale reddish-brown seg- mental bands in early stages, disappearing in the later stages ; tubercles small, black; head and thoracic plate pale red-brown. Food-plant, Thalictrum. 4397. Papaipema cerussata. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 4.) Gortyna cerussata, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 431, pl. ix. f. 1 (1864) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 178. Head and thorax very dark red-brown mixed with some greyish ochreous; antennze with the basal joint white; tegule edged with white behind; abdomen dark reddish brown mixed with greyish ochreous, the crests dark at tips. Fore wing very dark purple- brown, the medial area red irrorated with yellow towards inner margin, the postmedial and terminal areas with a greyish gloss ; a small white spot at base; subbasal white spots in and below cell, followed by two small spots in cell, then a single spot ; antemedial line indistinct, sinuous, bent outwards above inner margin, defined slightly by rufous on inner side from cell to inner margin ; clavi- form represented by two obliquely placed white spots, the upper smaller; orbicular white, rather triangular; reniform narrow, oblique, with pale yellow line in centre defined by brown surrounded » 7 Ga S4+ NOCTUID&. by small white spots except at middle of inner side; an indistinct — oblique dark line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; post- medial line indistinct, double, dark with whitish point at costa and filled in with rufous towards inner margin, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved to lower edge of reniform, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, rufous defined on inner side by dark brown and with more prominent rufous point below costa, slightly waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and bent outwards to tornus; a fine blackish terminal live; cilia with a faint dark line near base. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown with a cupreous gless ; a slight dark terminal line; cilia with a fine greyish line at_ base; the underside whitish suffused and irrorated with brown, especially on costal and terminal areas, a slight dark discoidal bar and diffused curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, Rye (Bird), 1 6,3 9. Fup. 46-54 millim. Larva. Head reddish brown. Body purplish, translucent ; cervical shield brown with blackish sides; anal plate dark brown, rough; | tubercles small dorsally, larger about the spiracles, the four dorsal ones on joint 12 large, nearly touching: a large roughened shield on joint 18. Food-plant, Vernonia noveboracencis.—H. G. D. 4398, Papaipema sciata. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 5.) Hydreecia limpida, Bird, Can. Ent. xxxiii. p. 64 (1901), nee Guen. Papaipema sciata, Bird, Can. Ent. xl. p. 28 (1908). Head and thorax purplish grey slightly mixed with brown; antenne whitish ; tegule tipped with white; abdomen pale grey slightly mixed with brown, the crests darker. Fore wing purple- grey, the inner medial area red ; a white point at base; subbasal — line indistinct, bronze-brown, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- medial line indistinct, double filled in with bronze-brown, sinuous, — strongly bent outwards above inner margin; claviform represented by two obliquely placed rounded yellowish white spots, the upper with some bronze scales in centre ; orbicular yellowish-white with — some brown scales in centre, rounded ; reniform a narrow yellowish- white lunule defined by brown scales, with white bar on its inner side, constricted at middle and with five white spots on its outer side — and below ; an indistinct oblique dark line from lower angle of cell to” inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, double, with whitish spot at costa, bent outwards below costa, then mmutely waved, ex- curved to vein 4, then incurved; the veins of terminal area with dark streaks ; subterminal line slight, yellowish defined on inner — side by fuscous, minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and — excurved at middle; a dark terminal line. Hind wing grey with — fine dark terminal line ; the underside whitish suffused and irrorated — with grey, a rather diffused curved dark postmedial line. | PAPAIPEMA, ref) Hab. U.S.A., New York, 1 9, Rye (Bird), 1 3,1 2 cetype. Exp. 40-42 millim, Larva. Pale purplish red; dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral lines indistinct, pale ochreous; tubercles and thoracic plates indistinct, brownish. Food-plant, Veronica virginica. 4399. Papaipema limpida. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 6.) Gortyna limpida, Guen. Noct. i. p. 124 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N, Am. Bee palts: Gortyna erata, Lyman, Can. Ent. xxxiii. p. 319 (1901). Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with grey ; antenne with the basal joint and base of shaft white; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen greyish suffused with reddish brown. Fore wing dark reddish brown irrorated with grey; traces of an antemedial line bent outwards above inner margin; claviform represented by two rounded white spots defined by black-brown and divided by a brown streak in submedian fold; orbicular small, round, white defined by black-brown ; aon narrow with yellowish- white line in centre defined by brown scales with white spot above it, three white spots below it and a yellowish-white spot on outer edge ; an indistinct rather diffused oblique dark line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, double, dark with whitish mark at costa, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some slight white points beyond it on costa; faint traces of a dark subterminal line ex- eurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a slight dark terminal line; cilia with slight white points at base. Hind wing grey suffused with brown, the veins brown; a slight bien terminal line and faint line at base of cilia from apex to vein 2; the underside whitish irrorated with brown especially on costal area, a sinuous brown postmedial line. Ab. 1. erata. Fore wing without the white spots on the stigmata. Hab. Canapa, Montreal (Lyman), 1 9; U.S.A., Eastern and Middle States, Massachusetts, New York, Illinois (Doubleday), 1 3, 29 type. Exp. ¢ 34, 2 40 millim. Larva. Lyman, Can. Ent. xl. p. 252. Purplish brown with dorsal and subdorsal cream-coloured or whitish stripes, continuous, the Ist four abdominal segments rather darker; warts dark; head yellowish brown with purplish-brown streak at sides ; thoracic and anal shields yellow, the former purple- brown at sides. Food-plants: Arctium lappa and Burdock, boring in the stems. 4400. Papaipema melts. (Plate CXXXIX., fig. 7.) Gortyna nebris, Guen. Noct. i. p. 124 (1852). Gortyna nitela, Guen. Noet. i, p. 124 (1852); Riley, Am. Ent. i. p. 22, 86 NOCTUID.. f. 11; Le baron, 3rd Rept. Ins. Ill. p. 141, ff. 1,2; Pack. 9th Ann. Rept. cen. Surv. p. 719, pl. 65. f. 6; Saund. Fruit Insects, p. 354, ff. 347-8; Lint. lst Rept. New York State Ent. p. 110, f. 26; Smith, Cat. Noct, N, Am, p. 178. Tlead and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey-white ; vertex of head whitish ; antenne with the shaft whitish towards base ; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen yellowish white suffused with reddish brown, the crests darker. Fore wing olive-brown tinged with grey , the postmedial area somewhat paler ; ; antemedial line indistinct, brown defined slightly by whitish on inner side, some- what angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell and bent out- wards above inner margin; claviform represented by two small white spots defined by brown; orbicular small, conical, white defined by brown and with brown point in centre; reniform a small white lunule defined by brown with white spot above it and three white points below it; postmedial line slight, brown defined on outer side by whitish, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique and slightly sinuous below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line represented by a series of slight white marks defined on inner side by small dentate brown marks, ex- curved below vein 7 and at middle and bent outwards to fornuee 3 a slight brown facatitial line ; cilia brown with slight pale line at base. Hind wing pale grey-brown with a reddish tinge ; cilia with a slight pale line at base; the underside whitish tinged and irro- rated with brown especially on apical half of terminal area, a slight disecidal point. Ab. 1. nitela. Fore wing with the claviform, orbicular, and reni- form obscure without white spots. Hab. Canava; U.S.A., South to Georgia and West to Rocky Mts., Massachusetts, Cambridge (Burgess), 1 2, New York (Packard), 26, Kye (Bird), 1 g,1 Q, Illinois (Doubleday), 4 $,1 9, type and type nitela, Algon, 1 ¢. Exp. 38-42 millim. Larva. Head light brown with a curved black stripe on each side from ocelli to occiput. Body sordid whitish, shaded with purplish in the middle; dorsal and subdorsal diffused whitish lines, lost centrally in the purplish shade; cervical shield and anal plate large, brown with black sides; tubercles black, a large brown area around iv.; thoracic feet black. Food-plants: stems of various plants, Ambrosia trifida, Burdock, &c.-—H. G. D. 4401. Papaipema duplicata. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 8.) Papaipema duplicatus, Bird, Can. Ent. xl. p. 25 (1908). Q. Head and thorax deep bronze-brown, the scales tipped with grey-white ; abdomen greyer mixed with brown. Fore wing deep bronze-brown irrorated with white, some purple-grey suffusion beyond postmedial line ; antemedial line indistinct, double, obsolete towards costa, incurved from cell to vein 1 and bent outwards above inner margin ; orbicular a faint round dark spot; reniform a i) ae oe PAPAIPEMA. 87 faint dark bar with slight pale line in middle; traces of an oblique dark line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 5; subterminal line represented by a series of slight yellowish-white ‘lunules, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing greyish suffused and irrorated with cupreous brown ; the underside whitish slightly irrorated with brown, thickly on costal area, a slight discoidal spot and indistinct rather diffused curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the postmedial and subterminal lines obsolescent. Hab. U.S.A., New York, Rye (Bird), 3 9. Exp. 46 millim. Larva. Dull semihyaline whitish, dorsal line continuous ; head chestnut-brown. Food-plant, Collinsonia canadensis: the larva entering the stem a few inches above the ground and boring down into the woody root-stock, where a cell is formed. 4402, Papaipema maritima. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 9.) Papaipema maritima, Bird, Can. Ent. xli. p. 59 (1909). Head and thorax red-brown, the scales tipped with white ; abdomen ochreous white mixed with red-brown. Fore wing cupreous red-brown irrorated with purplish white; a very in- distinct oblique waved brown antemedial line; postmedial line indistinct, brown slightly defined by white on outer side, oblique from below costa to vein 6, then inwardly oblique. Hind wing white suffused aud irrorated with reddish brown; the underside with rather diffused curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., New York, Rye (Bird), 1 ¢, 3 9 cotypes. Exp. 46 millim. Larva. Food-plant, Helianthus giganteus. 4403. Papaipema eupatorii. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 10.) Gortyna eupatorii, Lyman, Can. Ent. xxxvii. p. 312 (1905). gd. Head and thorax deep bronze-brown, the scales tipped with grey-white ; abdomen greyer mixed with brown. Fore wing deep bronze-brown mixed with purplish grey, the area beyond the post- medial line tinged with purple to near termen; antemedial line indistinct, dark, incurved, from cell to inner margin; claviform a faint dark mark ; orbicular an indistinct round dark spot ; reniform faintly defined by dark brown; an oblique dark line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct and defined by whitish on outer side, slightly bent outwards below costa, ther oblique ; subterminal line formed by white scales defined on inner side by slight dark marks, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards at discal fold and vein 2; cilia with a brown 88 NOCTUIDE. line through them. Hind wing greyish suffused with cupreous brown, the cilia rather paler with a brown line through them ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown especially on costal and terminal areas, a slight discoidal bar and diffused oblique post- medial line. Hab, Caxsva, Montreal, Quebec; U.S.A., Pennsylvania, New Brighton (Bird), 1 ¢. Hap. 42 millim. Larva. Bird, Can. Ent. xxxix. p. 312. Pale sienna-brown; dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral lines broad. eream-coloured, absent on 1st four abdominal somites ; tubercles weak ; head yellow. Food-plant, Lupatorium. 4404. Papaipema necopina. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 11.) Gortyna necopina, Grote, Can. Ent. viii. p. 25 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 179. Head and thorax reddish brown irrorated with grey-white ; antennze with the basal joint white, the shaft ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous white suffused with reddish brown. Fore wing reddish brown thickly irrorated with grey-white and without trace of markings. Hind wing whitish thickly irrorated with pale reddish brown especially on terminal area; cilia white mixed with reddish brown; the underside white irrorated with reddish brown especially on costal and terminal areas. Hab. U.S.A., New York, Buffalo, 1 ¢, 1 9 type. Hap. g 36, ® 48 millim. Food-plant, Helianthus tuberosus. 4405. Papaipema imperturbata. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 12.) Papaipema imperturbata, Bird, Can. Ent. xxxix. p. 274 (1907). Q. Head and thorax dark brown largely mixed with grey- white; abdomen grey thickly irrorated with brown. Fore wing ~ deep bronze-brown thickly irrorated with white and without trace of markings. Hind wing whitish irrorated with brown; a fine terminal brown line from apex to vein 2; the underside with the costal area thickly irrorated with brown. Hab, U.S.A., Pennsylvania, New Brighton (Bird), 1 9 cotype. Exp. 32 millim. Larva. Pale sienna-brown; lines broad, straw-coloured, the dorsal line uninterrupted, the others interrupted on somites 3 to 7 ; tubercles minute ; spiracles and legs black head shining reddish. Food-plant, Helianthus divaricatus. a OGDCCONTA, 89 - Genus OGDOCONTA. _ ype. Ogdoconta, But]. A. M.N. H. (6) vii. p. 462 (1891) ............6 wees Conereola. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antenney of male ciliated; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the prothorax with long oblique flattened crest, the meta- thorax with spreading crest; tibiz moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on Ist two segments. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate; veins 8 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 38,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsclescent from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with oblique white band from apex to inner DIALAINGDS YONGGMIGAIS © .c.ducssae sence snnge sere vaecens dees veces muscula, B. Fore wing without oblique white band from apex to inner margin. a. Fore wing with the postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then oblique and nearly straight. w, Fore wing with distinet whitish annulus to reniform constricted at middle, a>. Fore wing with the medial area black-brown and much darker than the postmedial area, the post- medial line obsolescent...... toda sHadsisce ns Sebeciecesivalcs carnecia, }°, Fore wing with the medial area red-brown, the postmedial area pinkish, the postmedial line CishinCtfmeagemsccaeiesssecuorcscee uecer saeeteane eee eee cinercola. b', Fore wing with the reniform an ill-defined pale MUMS, 252 o,soe voces cue Na Coesiean aces ecuacsenees bn eatsees Moreno. b. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved at middle and oblique below vein 4. a'. Fore wing with the reniform angled inwards on median nervure to below orbicular...................4 tacka. b', Fore wing with the reniform constricted at middle, but not angled inwards on median nervure ......... lilacina. e', Fore wing with the reniform elliptical ............... cymographa. *4406. Ogdoconta muscula. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 13.) Plagiomimicus musculus, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 144 (1898). 3. Head and thorax grey irrorated with dark brown; abdomen grey mixed with brown, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing grey- white tinged in places with ochreous and very thickly irrorated with dark brown ; an indistinct antemedial grey line obtusely angled on median nervure, then oblique; a straight oblique white band from apex to inner margin beyond middle, towards which it is broader and diffused on outer side and with traces of a line beyond it. Hind wing white slightly irrerated with brown, especially towards apex and termen; the underside with the costal area except towards base and apical area irrorated with dark brown. Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca, type fT ¢ in Coll. U.S. Nat. Mus. Eep. 30 millim. 90 NOCTUID®. *4407. Ogdoconta carneola. Telesilla carneola, Smith, Trans, Am, Ent. Soe. xviii. p. 110 (1891) ; id. Cat. Noct. N, Am, p. 246. Head and thorax grey tinged with flesh-colour or purplish ; abdomen grey. Fore wing purplish red irrorated with grey, the medial area suffused with blackish brown; subbasal line very indistinct, formed of white scales; antemedial line fine, grey, slightly excurved; orbicular and reniform with grey annuli, the former small, round, the latter somewhat constricted at middle; postmedial line hardly defined except by the contrast between the medial and postmedial areas, with slight dark streaks on the veins ending in white points; terminal area suffused with brown; sub- terminal line hardly traceable, interrupted, irregular ; cilia dark, with a grey line at middle. Hind wing yellowish tinged with fuscous at base, darker towards termen : ‘cilia with a pale line at base; the underside pale at base, a small dark discoidal spot and broad postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., New Mexico, Las Vegas. Exp. 25 millim. This species is unknown to me. 4408. Ogdoconta cinereola. Placodes cinereola, Guen. Noct. ii. 316, pl. 15. f. 1 (1852); Herre Schiff. Aussereur. Schmett. Pp. 68, f. Bis, Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 245 Miana atomaria, W\k. xxxii. 675 (1865). Head and thorax rufous mixed with white, the prothoracic crest brown tipped with white; palpi blackish with some white scales ; pectus and legs whitish mixed with fuscous; abdomen whitish tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown, the crests darker. Fore wing whitish suffused with rufous and slightly irrorated with ey a ~ weet (OVS a Fig. 22.—Ogdoconta cinercola, 3. }- brown, the costal half of basal area, the medial area and termen suffused with red-brown ; subbasal line slight, white, curved, from costa to median nervure; antemedial line white, slightly angled _ outwards below costa, excurved in submedian interspace ; orbicular 4 and reniform with white annuli, the former oblique elliptical, touching antemedial line, the latter figure-of-8-shaped: postmedial — line double filled in with white, strongly bent outwards below a é OGDOCONTA. 91 costa, oblique and sinuous below vein 5, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by brown, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a fine waved white line just before termen. Hind wing white tinged and irro- rated with pale rufous; a fine brown terminal line; cilia white with a faint brown line through them; the underside white irro- rated with brown, the costal and terminal areas tinged with rufous, a faint diffused curved postmedial line. Hub. Canava; U.S.A., Massachusetts, Beverley (Burg), 3 do, New York (Doubleday, Packard), 8 6, 3 Q type, Evans Center (Grote), 1 3, Delaware, Illinois, Virginia (Scudder), 1 9, Alabama, 1 2, Minnesota, Nebraska, Texas. Hap, 28-32 millim. Larva. Coquillet, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 52. Green, subdorsal area paler; dorsal and subbasal lines whitish, the subdorsal area with a series of whitish points ; stigmatal stripe white ; ventral surface deep green; head smooth, green with a whitish stripe at sides and inverted Y-shaped white mark on frons, *4409. Ogdoconta moreno. (Plate CXXXIX, fig. 14.) Ogdoconta moreno, Barnes, Can. Ent. xxxix. p. 96 (1907). Head and thorax whitish mixed with olive-brown ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale olive ; subbasal line represented by a slight striga from costa ; ante- medial line dark defined by whitish on inner side, almost erect and hardly curved ; orbicular and reniform represented by very ill-defined pale marks ; postmedial line dark defined by whitish on outer side, slightly bent outwards below costa, then oblique and nearly straight ; subterminal line pale, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of slight dark lunules; cilia pale. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown especially towards termen ; the under- side whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a distinct postmedial line. Hab, U.S.A., Arizona, Babaquivera, Huachuca and Chiricahua Mts. Hexp. 30 milum. ‘This species is unknown to me; figured from a drawing from type in Coll. W. Barnes. 4410. Ogdoconta tacna. (Plate CNXXIX. fig. 15.) Caradrina tacna, Barnes, Can, Ent. xxxvi. p. 167 (1904). 3. Head and thorax brown mixed with white ; tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous white suffused with brown. Fore wing reddish brown irrorated with white; subbasal line slight, white, curved, from costa to median nervure; antemedial line indistinct, double filled in with whitish, minutely waved towards costa and angled inwards on vein 1; orbicular and reniform defined by white, the former oblique, acute at lower extremity, the latter 92 NOCTUID.©. constricted at middle and angled inwards on median nervure to lower edge of reniform ; postmedial line brown defined by whitish on outer side and with slight dark pots beyond it on the veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold and oblique below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; sub-_ terminal line fine, white, minutely waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and exourved at middle’: a terminal series of dark lunules defined on inner side by a fine waved white line. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown especially on apical area; a brown terminal line; the underside whitish, the costal area aud terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with brown. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, Shovel Mts., 1 ¢ cotype. Exp. 28 millim. 4411. Ogdoconta lilacina. Celena lilacina, Druce, P. Z.S. 1890, p. 512; id. Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 478, pl. 93. f. 14. 3. Head and thorax cupreous red-brown mixed with violaceous grey ; pectus and legs whitish, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; — abdomen fuscous, the genital tufts pale ochreous, the ventral surface irrorated with white. Fore wing cupreous red-brown irrorated and in parts suffused with violaceous grey especially on postmedial area ; subbasal line represented by some violaceous suffusion below costa and cell; antemedial line violaceous, diffused, oblique, sinuous ; orbicular hardly traceable and confluent with the antemedial line ; reniform defined by violaceous and with some violaceous irro- ration in centre, constricted at middle ; postmedial line indistinct, violaceous, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line wiglaceous defined on inner side by brown suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a series of slight violaceous lunules just before termen; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing greyish brown; cilia brown, pale ochreous at base and with whitish tips; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a slight brown discoidal spot. Hab, Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 1 ¢ type, Godman-Salvin Coll. xp. 30 millim. 4412. Ogdoconta cymographa, n. sp. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 16.) Celena lilacina, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 478 (part.). do. Head and thorax cupreous red-brown mixed with violaceous grey ; pectus and legs ochreous white mixed with some brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen grey suffused with reddish brown, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing cupreous red-brown irrorated and suffused with viola- ceous grey except on terminal area; antemedial live red-brown defined by whitish on inner side, waved, inwardly oblique from 4 . 4 OGDOCONTA.—GERODA. 93 eell to inner margin ; orbicular faintly defined by brown, round, confluent with antemedial line; reniform faintly defined by brown, elliptical, with whitish patch on its outer edge; an indistinct brown medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell across lower part of reniform, then inwardly oblique; postmedial line brown defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, slightly incurved at discal fold, then oblique, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line repre- sented by whitish scales slightly detined on inner side by red-brown, somewhat waved; a series of slight whitish lunules just before termen. Hind wing whitish suffused and irrorated with cupreous brown, the cilia paler; the underside white slightly irrorated with brown. Hab, Mexico, Vera Cruz, Atoyac (Schumann), 1 3 type, Godman- Salvin Coll. vp. 28 millim. Genus GERODA. Type. Geroda, Wk. xix. 832 GUSHON eizeere . b arenGamneirce eee mere ne - =xeneusalis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons smooth; eyes large, reund ; antenne of male minutely serrate and ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax with long flattened crest projecting obliquely backwards, the metathorax with spreading crest ; tibiee moderately fringed with hair; build slender; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing witb the costa strongly arched at base, the apex produced and acute, the termen excised below apex and more or less excurved at middle, then oblique to tornus ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolesceut from middle of disco- cellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with the reniform a narrow white lunule angled InWards On Median NELVUTE.............decceceseecscecececscocess cornifera, B. Fore wing with the reniform with complete white annulus. ewxcisa. C. Fore wing with the reniform figure-of-8-shaped, its lower part with white annulus, its upper part incomplete. leucocycla. D. Fore wing with the reniform yellow, its lower part with rufous spot and white annulus | ...............ceceeeeeeee ares xeneusalis, 4413. Geroda cornifera. Deva cornifera, W1k, xxxiii. 849 (1865). 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous ; pectus whitish. Fore wing rufous; a black subbasal point in cell; a strongly waved antemedial dark line, angled inwards on vein 1; orbicular repre- sented by a black point ; reniform white slightly defined by black, very narrow, produced to a long excurved point above and angled inwards on median nervure ; medial line rather indistinct, excurved from costa to discal fold beyond the cell, then incurved to lower angle of cell and oblique to inner margin; postmedial line fine, 94 NOCTUID.. dark, dentate and produced to black points on the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, an oblique white bar beyond it from costa; cilia tipped with white except at apex and middle, Hind wing pale red with slight dark terminal line ; cilia yellow; Fig. 23.—Geroda cornifera, . }. the underside whitish tinged and irrorated with red, a black dis- coidal lunule, curved dentate postmedial line, and terminal series of striz from apex to vein 4. Hab. ignotus (? Brazil), 1 g type. xp, 34 millim. *4414, Geroda excisa. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 17.) Macapta excisa, D, Jones, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 159. ¢. Head and thorax bright rufous, some of the scales tipped with white, pectus and legs with grey mixed ; abdomen grey mixed with brown. Fore wing with the termen slightly excurved at middle; rufous tinged with gréy especially on costal area and slightly irrorated with fuscous, the costa with series of minute white streaks; a subbasal white point in cell; antemedial line fuscous, oblique, very slightly waved, bent inwards to inner margin ; claviform and orbicular absent: reniform small with red- brown centre and white annulus slightly defined by blackish ; post- medial line fuscous, very minutely waved, oblique from costa to vein 7, excurved to vein 5, then incurved, a series of black points beyond it on the veins; an indistinct dark subterminal line diffused on inner side, incurved below vein 3. Hind wing fuscous brown, the costal area whitish to beyond middle; cilia white; the underside whitish suffused with rufous and irrorated with fuscous except on inner area, a slight dark discoidal spot and postmedial dentate line produced to black points on the veins, Hab. Braztt, Bahia in Mus. Oxon., Sao Paulo, type t in Coll. D. Jones. Lap. 24 millim. *4415. Geroda leucocycla. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 18.) Geroda leucocycla, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) iii. p. 460 (1909). 2. Head, thorax, and abdomen bright rufous ; tarsi ringed with —s GERODA. 95 white. Fore wing greyish suffused with bright rufous, the outer part of medial area and the terminal area with a faint fuscous tinge, a white point at base of cell; subbasal line represented by a white striga from costa and point on median neryure, a white point beyond it in cell ; antemedial line blackish defined on inner side by white, minutely waved and obliquely curved; orbicular absent ; reniform figure-of-8-shaped, white defined by blackish, its upper part almost obsolete; postmedial line dark, defined on outer side by rufous and by whitish at costa and inner margin, oblique from costa to vein 6, then dentate, incurved below vein 4, a series of black and white points beyond it on the veins and some white points on costa; subterminal line absent; a terminal series of white points; a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown with a cupreous gloss; cilia rufous and brown with a whitish line at base; the underside greyish suffused with rufous and slightly irrorated with white, a black discoidal striga, a double postmedial series of small black spots, excurved to vein 2, then oblique and single. ; Hab, Cotomsia, Minca (H. H. Smith), type fT 9 in Coll. Druce. Exp. 28 millim. 4416. Geroda xeneusalis. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 19.) Geroda weneusalis, Wik. xix. 833 (1859). @. Head and thorax rufous mixed with greyish; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen grey irrorated with red-brown. Fore wing with the termen strongly excurved at middle; rufous mixed with some grey and slightly irrorated with fuscous, the veins greyish; a yellowish tinge below base of cell; antemedial line indistinct, curved, waved; orbicular absent; reniform golden yellow, its lower part with rufous spot in centre and white annulus defined by black ; postmedial line indistinct, slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, and with series of black points beyond it on the veins, excurved to vein 5, then oblique; an indis- tinct diffused yellowish subterminal band; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia tipped with white except at middle. Hind wing greyish, almost entirely suffused with fuscous brown and with a faint reddish tinge, the costal area pale to beyond middie ; cilia yellowish at tips; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with rufous, a slight dark discoidal spot and curved dentate postmedial line produced to black points on the veins. ¢. Fore wing with the reniform filled in with rufous. Hab. Brazit, Rio Janeiro, type T ¢ in Mus. Oxon., Organ Mts., Tijuca (Wagner), 1 Q. Hevp. 30 millim, 96 NOCTUIDE. Genus MACAPTA. ays Makapta, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus, xxx. p. 99 (1906)... .....-++ carnescens. Kohlera, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 99 (1906) ............ nebula. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd typically long; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded; tegule produced to a slight dorsal ridge; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the prothorax with very long oblique flattened crest, the metathorax with slight crest; tibia moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 at oh from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8— to form the areole: 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle — of cell; 5 obsolescent. from just below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Antenne of male bipectinate with rather long branches. A. Palpi upturned, the 3rd joint short. a. Fore wing with the postmedial line double ............... Lruma. b. Fore wing with the postmedial line single ............... psectrocera. — 4417. Macapta bruma. Kohleria bruma, Schaus, Pr. U.S, Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 100 (1906). Head and thorax bright rufous, the scales tipped with white; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing greyish irrorated — and suffused with rufous, the basal half and terminal area rather more rufous ; an indistinct rufous subbasal line from costa to submedian Fig. 24.—Macapta bruma, 3. }. fold; antemedial line double, incurved from costa to median nervure and excurved in submedian interspace; orbicular and reniform round, grey defined by rufous and with slight rufous centres; a diffused rufous medial line excurved from costa to median nervure, then oblique ; postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, some grey points beyond it on costa; subterminal line rufous, minutely waved — and rather diffused, oblique below vein 7; a fine rufous terminal line with indistinct greyish lunules before it. Hind wing pale suffused and irrorated with pale reddish brown; a fine brown terminal line; cilia whitish, the underside whitish irrorated with ECTS Ee rete a ee MACAPTA. 97 rufous, a dark discoidal point and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Brazit, Rio Janeiro (EZ. Wilson), 1 3, Castro Paraifia. Exp. 30 millim. 4418. Macapta psectrocera, n. sp. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 20.) 6. Head and tegule yellow mixed with fiery red ; palpi brown, whitish at tips ; shaft of antenne white ringed with brown ; thorax red-brown with the vertex whitish; pectus, legs, and abdomen whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing greyish almost wholly suffused with deep cupreous brown, the postmedial area rather paler ; traces of a waved brown subbasal line from costa to vein 1; antemedial line indistinctly double, filled in with greyish, waved and somewhat oblique; orbicular with faint whitish annulus, somewhat elongate elliptical; reniform faint, greyish, shghtly defined by brown on inner side; a rather diffused incurved red-brown line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line red-brown slightly defined on each side by whitish, bent outwards below costa, then very minutely waved and with white and dark points beyond it on the veins, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by cupreous brown, slightly angled outwards at veins 7, 6 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of minute black lunules defined on inner side by whitish points. Hind wing white tinged with red-brown especially on terminal area; a fine brown terminal line; the underside whitish, the costa] and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal point and traces of a curved postmedial line. Hab. Corompta (H. H. Smith), 1 3g type, Bonda. Lwp. 30 millim. B. Palpi with the 2nd joint oblique and fringed with hair above, the 5rd joint porrect. 4419. Macapta rubrescens. (Makapta) rubrescens, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 166 (1904). 36. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale purplish pink mixed with Fig. 25.—Macapta rubrescens, S$. +. some whitish especially on ventral surface. Fore wing pala purplish pink; subbasal and antemedial lines absent; orbicular absent ; reniform a narrow oblique bar, brown defined by white ; VOL. IX. Kt 98 NOCTUIDE. postmedial line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and with short dark streaks beyond it on the veins, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line absent. Hind wing pale purplish pink ; the underside pinkish suffused with white, the apical area pinker, a slight discoidal spot and postmedial series of minute streaks on the veins. Hab. Braziv, Castro Parana (D. Jones), 1g. ap. 32 millim. Secr. II. Antenne of male minutely serrate. A. Fore wing without white streak beyond lower angle of cell. a. Fore wing with white discoidal bar dilated below ). Fore wing without white discoidal bar. a’. Fore wing with pure white spot in lower part of reniform, a2, Fore wing with fascia below base of cell and the orbicular and reniform yellow suffused with red. /urida. b2. Fore wing without fascia below base of cell, the orbicular and reniform not yellow suffused WIG Ted cstnoe a STIBADIUM. 109 white, oblique from costa to vein 6 near subterminal line, then inwardly oblique; subterminal line indistinct, diffused, grey- white, oblique from apex to vein 5, then slightly excurved and incurved below vein 3; a fine dark terminal line and whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish, almost wholly suffused with glossy ochreous brown ; traces of a pale diffused subterminal _ base; a fine dark terminal line and yellowish line at base of cilia ; the underside white irrorated with brown; traces of a diffused curved postmedial line. Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (Schaus), typef ¢ in U.S. Nat. Mus., Guadalajara. Hep. 40 millim. 4439, Stibadium jalada. (Plate CXL. fig. 3.) Stibadium jalada, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. vi. p. 144 (1898). @. Head grey, the palpi tinged with rufous; tegule grey edged with rufous ; patagia rufous; vertex of thorax dark brown mixed with rufous; pectus and legs grey mixed with rufous; abdomen grey. Fore wing grey irrorated with bronze-green and suffused with bronze-green to beyond middle except on costal area; ante- medial line very indistinct, bronze-green, oblique from costa to subcostal nervure, then waved; orbicular and reniform faintly defined by bronze-green, the former produced to a point on inner side, the latter rather narrow and with bronze-green bar to it from costa ; postmedial line bronze-green, oblique from costa to vein 6, then inwardly oblique and incurved below vein 4, an oblique dark shade from costa towards apex to its angle; the terminal area paler, with traces of a waved subterminal line; a fine brown terminal line. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown; a fine brown terminal line; cilia ochreous white with slight brown line through them ; the underside ochreous white faintly irrorated with brown ; traces of a diffused curved postmedial line. Hab. Mexico, Guadalajara (Schaus), 1 Q. Hxp. 38 millim. 4440, Stibadium navia. (Plate CXL. fig. 4.) Telesilla navia, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci, iii. p. 10 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 268. Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with white; palpi and frons brown ; antennee ringed brown and white; fore legs brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen white. Fore wing pale rufous slightly irrorated with white, the medial and terminal areas red-brown irrorated with white; subbasal line represented by a faint brown striga from costa; antemedial line whitish, oblique and irregularly sinuous to submedian fold, then angled inwards on vein 1; orbicular absent; reniform small, whitish, constricted at middle and with brown points in upper and lower parts ; post- medial line whitish slightly defined by brown on outer side, slightly bent outwards below costa, then very minutely waved, 110 NOCTUID ©. excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards at vein 2; a terminal series of white strize; cilia dark brown mixed with white and with fine white line at middle. Hind wing white, the terminal area rather narrowly irrorated with brown except towards tornus; a fine brown terminal line from apex to submedian fold ; the underside with the costa and termen slightly irrorated with brown. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 3, 1Q type, Kerrville, 1 g, 1 - Exp. 26-30 millim. Genus CYTOCANIS, nov. Type, C. denticulosa. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd moderate ; frons with large corneous prominence with raised edges, its lower edge produced to a beak-like process; eyes large, round; antennze of male Jaminate and almost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibia smoothly scaled, the joints of fore tarsi rather short and the ungues rather large; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of ceil; 5 obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4441. Cytocanis denticulosa. Miana denticulosa, Wik. xxxii. 676 (1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 310, Head and thorax bright red-brown mixed with whitish ; abdomen ochreous white suffused with rufous. Fore wing bright red-brown irrorated with white; a slight curved whitish subbasal line from costa to median nervure; antemedial line fine, white, oblique . 29.—Cytocanis denticulosa, S. }. from costa to below cell, then angled inwards on vein 1; orbicular and reniform small, slightly defined by white, the former oblique elliptical ; postmedial line slight, white, bent outwards below costa, then waved, incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; a fine white subterminal line strongly dentate to termen ; a white line just before termen; cilia white mixed with red-brown. Hind wing whitish suffused with pale rufous; a fine white sub- terminal line strongly dentate to the white line just before termen ; cilia white mixed with red-brown; the underside white irrorated with rufous. Hab. Bompay (Leith), 1 ¢, Kutch, 3 2 ; Manpras, Coimbatore (Watlhouse), 1 3d type. Exp, 28-30 millim. * 1 « > Mey &. yh ye aw halt ier TT EULYMNIA. alglal Genus EULYMNIA, nov. Type, E. pulcherrima. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, short, hardly reaching middle of frons and smoothly scaled ; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antennee of male simple, laminate; thorax clothed entirely with scales and without crests; tibis slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and non-crenulate; the inner margin somewhat lobed at base and excised towards tornus, which is slightly hooked; veins 38 and 5 from nearangle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with cell to near middle. 4442, Eulymnia pulcherrima. Conservula pulcherrima, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 295 (1902). o. Head, tegule, upper edge of patagia, prothorax, and meta- thorax behind clothed with ochreous and chocolate-red scales, the rest of patagia and thorax violaceous grey; palpi white, red at tips: antenne with the basal joint white behind; pectus and legs white, the fore legs red-brown in front, the tarsi red-brown ringed with white ; abdomen grey with slight white segmental rings, the 1 T°? basal crest chocolate-red, the anal tuft tinged with rufous, the ventral surface white. Fore wing violaceous grey, the basal halt to vein 1 ochreous irrorated with chocolate-red, more thickly below the cell, the veins streaked with red; an ochreous patch irrorated with red and with red streaks on the veins and two small white spots on its outer edge on costal area towards apex ; subbasal line double, red, slightly waved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- medial line double, red, angled outwards below costa and cell, then incurved, bent inwards and blackish above inner margin; orbicular and reniform defined by red, their annuli formed of yellowish-white spots divided by red streaks, the former round, the latter elliptical ; a dark brown medial line excurved round outer edge of reniform, then oblique ; postmedial line double, red and distinct on the costal patch, excurved from below costa to vein 6, then oblique, sinuous, indistinet'; subterminal line formed of red scales, indistinct to vein 3, then incurved and prominent; cilia greenish grey with two slight brown lines through them. Hind wing pure white, the costal area and veins 7, 6 suffused with golden brown; a slight brown terminal line. Underside of fore wing white with yellowish, reddish, and fuscous suffusion on terminal half of costal area; hind wing wholly white. Hab. Masuonarann, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 3 type. Exp. 42 millim. 112 NOCTUID. Genus ETHIOTERPIA, nov. Type, EZ. neavi. Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, hardly reaching middle of frons, which has a large corneous prominence with raised edges ; eyes large, round; antennw of male laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibiz moderately fringed with hair; abdomen elothed with woolly hair but without crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 from above angle ; 6 from below upper angle; 7, 8,9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 strongly stalked; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4443. Ethioterpia neavi, n. sp. 3. Head and thorax creamy white; palpi black with white bands at middle and extremity; frons with lateral black marks; antennee blackish ; thorax with some black scales mixed and with black bands behind tegule and on metathorax ; tibie and tarsi banded with black; abdomen blackish, the extremity and ventral surface white. Fore wing creamy white; some black marks at base of Fig. 31.—Ethioterpia neavi, J. tf. inner area; a subbasal black striga from costa; antemedial line blackish, obsolescent towards costa, oblique to submedian fold where there is a slight streak representing the claviform, then slightly sinuous; an oblique sinuous medial black line, strongly excurved below the cell and with a black striga beyond it from costa; the outer half of medial area almost entirely suffused with fuscous ; reniform a large irregular white mark defined by black expanding into a large lobe below costa and into a small lobe on inner side at lower extremity; postmedial line black, slightly sinuous, oblique from costa to discal fold, then incurved, the costa beyond it with a conical black patch with two white points on it, and slight black marks beyond the postmedial line at middle, sub- median fold, and inner margin; a faint subterminal dark ‘shade forming brownish patches at and below middle ; a fine waved black line on middle of termen ; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing semihyaline white with a faint subterminal shade ; the under- side with a few black scales on costal area towards apex. Hab. N.K. Ruovesta, Tanganyika Plateau, Lope Valley (Neave), 1g type. vp. 30 millim. EMARGINEA. 113 Genus EMARGINEA. Type. Emarginea, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 288 (1852)...............s0ceseeee Aer CURA NV a KU OOM CUSD 1) hacks cosecese canes soeteen cteteeecton ee combusta. Cyathissa, Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr. vi. FOTO CUBGM) Mirccsas cscs nacbisseesecesewevatercesanatosvamvarsinas percura. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, very short and only reaching middle of frons, which has a slight rounded prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded; antenne of male laminate with slight scale- teeth on base of shaft above ; thorax clothed with velvety scales and hair, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with large spreading crest ; mid and hind tibiz very broadly fringed with hair on outer side, the tarsal joints short and thick ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only and lateral fringes of hair, the male with lateral tufts of hair from base. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen excised to vein 4, then curved and not crenulate; the cell short, vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from beiow upper angle; 7, 8, 10 on a long stalk; 9 typicatly absent ; 11 trom cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sxcr. I. (Emarginea). Fore wing with vein 9 absent; 7 from before 10. A. Fore wing with the terminal half bright rufous, wita blacks patchvon costal . sess s-cececeedensasabesescnanenctets combusta. B. Fore wing with the terminal half black with patches of fulvous yellow and White ......:.c.sscccdisssecsseceseceseses gammophora. 4444, Emarginea combusta. (Plate CXL. fig. 6.) Dacira combusta, Wik. xii. 802 (1857). 3g. Head pure white, the palpi and antennz except basal joint black ; thorax black, the metathorax rufous and white ; fore tibie at extremity and mid tibie at middle with white patches, hind tibie with small white spot at base, the tarsi with the lst two joints white ; abdomen fuscous black dorsally, white at sides and fulvous yellow below. Fore wing with the basal half white; a basal black patch angled outwards below cell and retracted to inner margin, followed by some orange suffusion ; an antemedial black annulus on costa filled in with orange; a black medial line slightly excurved from costa to median nervure, then slightly sinuous ; the terminal half brick-red with a black patch rather - diffused outwardly extending to three-fourths of costa and ending in a point on medial line at vein 2; a small V-shaped white mark on costa at middle, followed by a slight red streak below costa; postmedial line represented by minute whitish points on the black area, otherwise obsolete; two white strie from costa beyond middle; subterminal line only defined by the terminal arev being rather deeper red; cilia white, blackish at apex, middle, and above tornus. Hind wing pure white; the underside with the costal area tinged with orange, irrorated with a few black scales and with diffused blackish patch at middle. Hab. Brazit, Amazon, Villa Nuovo (Bates), 1 ¢ type. Hap. 24 millim, VOL. IX. I 114 " NOCTUID-¥, ; * 4445. Emarginea gammophora. Emarginea gammophora, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 289, pl. 14. f. 1 (1852). ¢. Head white; palpi black except at tips; antenne black except at base; thorax deep velvety black, the metathorax bright rufous and white; mid and hind tibiz with white patches, the tarsi with the lst three joints white ; abdomen black-brown, the basal crest white, the lateral fringes and ventral surface white. Fore wing white, extending on costa to near middle and below the cell to postmedial line, the basal area suffused with orange, the terminal half black suffused with leaden grey leaving a white wedge-shaped apical patch extending to vein 4 and tinged with fulyous yellow on lower half and a rounded fulvous-yellow patch Fig. 32.—Emarginea gammophora, 3. {| IT- at tornus ; a black streak below median nervure curved up to base of costa and a short streak above base of inner margin; slight subbasal and antemedial black strive from costa; a medial fulvous striga from costa near inner edge of the black area, followed by a whitish patch centred with fulvous and with black streak on costa and an oblique white bar from its lower edge to the white area at median nervure; postmedial line indistinct, black slightly defined by whitish scales on outer side, oblique and minutely waved to vein 4, then strongly incurved and defined by white on outer side, a white striga beyond it on costaand a black striga on the apical patch ; some slight fuscous suffusion on the fulvous patch at tornus ; a terminal series of black strive ; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing pure white slightly tinged with brown at apex and on termen ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with a few — black scales. 2. Fore wing with black patch at base with curved outer edge conjoined at costa to the medial black area, the curved white mark at end of cell reduced; hind wing with rather more brown on terminal area. Hab, Centr. Braztt, Chapada (A. Robert), 1 3; S. Brazit, Castro Parana; Urvevay. Hep. 22 millim. Secr. II. Fore wing with vein 9 present. A. Fore wing with vein 7 from beyond 10. a. Fore wing orange with the antemedial and inner medial BYERS WU sence cis éce sos .nce's ncune eae ale eemet ee eee eee oleagina. b, Fore wing pale greenish, the medial and postmedial areas suffused with rufous except towards inner margin ...... niphoplaga, EMARGINEA. DS 4446, Emarginea oleagina. Dacira oleagina, Dognin, Le Nat. (2) iii. p. 134 (1889). 3. Head white; palpi black except at tips; antenne black except basal joint; thorax velvety black with a few. white scales on vertex and at tips of patagia; mid tibiz with white patch at extremity, hind tibize with white terminal band, the tarsi with the basal joints white ; abdomen black, the basal crests, subbasal fascize, anal tuft and ventral surface except at base white. Fore wing pale orange, some white before antemedial line, the area below submedian fold white from antemedial line to tornus ; the base black and diffused black streaks below base of cell and above base of al Fig. 33.—Hmarginea oleagina, 3. 3. inner margin ; subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa ; the costal edge black except at apex ; antemedial line black, curved, interrupted from submediun fold to below vein 1; a black annulus on middle of costa filled in with white and with black streak on costa, extending to middle of discocellulars ; postmedial line black, waved, erect from costa to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa; a conical black patch at tornus; cilia with black points from apex to vein 4. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the underside with the costal-area tinged with ochreous and irrorated with a few black scales, a diffused black patch at base, slight medial patch, and small subapical spot below vein 8. Hab. Ecvavor, Loja; Peru (Simon), 1 ¢. Hap. 22 millim. 4447, Emarginea niphoplaga. (Plate CXL. fig. 7.) Emarginea niphoplaga, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) iii. p. 346 (1909). 2. Head white; palpi black with white ring at extremity of 2nd joint; sides of frons and antenne black; tegule white edged with black ; thorax white tinged with ochreous and mixed with black ; the metathoracic crests deep black ; pectus and legs black, the mid and hind tibie banded with white at extremity, the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen blackish, the basal crest white, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing white tinged with green, the medial and postmedial areas suffused with red-brown from costa to submedian fold leaving some ochreous white below costa; an oblique brown and black fascia from base of costa to one third of inner margin; subbasal line represented bya black 12 116 NOCTUID®. striga from costa and short streak below the cell; antemedial line represented by a small black spot on costa and oblique line from cell to inner margin; a rather conical silvery white patch in end of cell from subcostal nervure defined by black at sides and below ; an oblique waved black line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line arising below costa, black slightly defined by whitish on outer side, minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4; some white points on postmedial part of costa with slight blackish streaks between them; subterminal line only defined by the contrast between the postmedial and terminal areas, excurved at middle and incurved in submedian interspace; a small black spot on termen below vein 7; cilia black at tips. Hind wing white, the base of inner margin slightly tinged with brown; a faint discoidal point and sinuous postmedial line; a black striga on termen at discal fold; the underside with the costal area sparsely irrorated with black and with diffused dark patches at base and middle, the discoidal spot and postmedial line distinct. Hab, Cotompra, type t 2 in Coll. Druce, San Antonio (Palmer), 36,192. Hap. 28 millim. B. (Cyathissa). Fore wing with vein 7 from before 10; tibiz not so strongly fringed with scales. a. Fore wing with the costal half of medial area suffused with black. a‘, Fore wing suffused in parts with grey-green ......... percara. 4‘, Fore wing suffused in parts with reddish ochreous... quadrate. b, Fore wing with the patch at middle of costal area slightly defined by black. a‘, Fore wing suffused in parts with reddish ochreous... ochvacea. b'. Fore wing suffused in parts with blue-grey............ pallida. 4448, Emarginea percara. Bryophila percara, Morr. Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 218 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 50. 3. Head pure white; palpi except at tips, sides of frons and antennee except basal joint black; thorax white tinged with grey-green, the tegule edged with black, the metathoracic crest with paired black patches; pectus and legs black and reddish brown, the fore and mid tibixe with white patches, the hind tibie Fig. 34.—Emarginea pereara, 3. }. with white ring at middle and tips, the fore and mid tarsi with the | lst and 3rd joints white, the hind tarsi with the Ist three joints | white tinged with rufous ; abdomen white suffused with yellowish — aa ie EMARGINEA. ita b7/ and fuscous. Fore wing white suffused with grey-green; a black streak below base of cell extending to costa at base and expanding at extremity ; a small subbasal black spot on costa; antemedial line black, oblique, waved, much interrupted, expanding into small spots at costa and inner margin; stigmata absent; an oblique sinuous black medial line from costa to submedian fold, with black suffusion beyond it from costa to median nervure enclosine a four- pointed stellate white mark below costa, with white points above it on costa before the postmedial line, which is black defined by white on outer side, interrupted towards costa, bent outwards below costa, then waved, erect to vein 3, then incurved, with conical black patch beyond it on inner area and white points with black streaks between them on costa; faint traces of a diffused white sinuous subterminal line; some black strize on termen ; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing semihyaline white with very slight fuscous suffusion and traces of a diffused sinuous post- medial line; the underside with the costal area tinged with brown and irrorated with black and with blackish patches at middle and towards apex, a small black discoidal spot and lunulate postmedial line bent inwards at costa. Hab, U.S.A., Florida, Texas, 1 ¢, Colorado. vp, 24 millim. 4449, Emarginea quadrate. (Plate CXL. fig. 8.) Cyathissa quadrate, Smith, Can, Ent. xxxviii. p. 225 (1906). Head and thorax white mixed with ochreous ; palpi black, white at tips; sides of frons and head behind eyes black; antennse Rlackish ; ; tegule with black streak at middle and black marks behind them ; metathorax with paired black patches ; pectus and legs black, the tibiz and tarsi banded with white; abdomen ochreous white irrorated with black. Fore wing creamy white more or less suffused with reddish ochreous especially on basal inner area and on medial area below the cell; a black streak below base of cell, extending to costa at base and expanding at extremity ; a subbasal black stri iga from costa; antemedial line represented by a black spot on costa and oblique line from cell to inner margin above which it is angled outwards; an oblique sinuous black medial line from costa to submedian fold, the area beyond it black to just below cell enclosing a four-pointed stellate whitish mark just below costa with point above it on costa before the postmedial line, which is black defined on outer side by white, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, the costa beyond it black with white points on it, a black patch bey ond it on inner area; a terminal series of black striw ; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing white; a slight discoidal point, the area beyond it and the terminal area more or less irrorated with fuscous; a sinuous postmedial line and terminal series of strix ; the underside with the costal area tinged with brown and irrorated 118 NOCTUIDX. 7 with black and with blackish patches at middle and before apex, the discoidal spot and postmedial line more distinct. Hab, U.S.A., Arizona, Cochize Co., San Bernardino Ranch, Nogales (Oslar),2 6,29. Exp. 22-24 millim. 4450. Emarginea ochracea. (Plate CXL. fig. 9.) Cyathissa ochracea, Smith, Can, Ent. xxxviii. p. 225 (1906). 2. Head and thorax white, the vertex of thorax tinged with ochreous and with some blackish on pro- meso- and metathorax ; palpi blackish except at tips; sides of frons blackish ; antenne brown except at base; palpi and legs mixed with black-brown ; abdomen white suffused with reddish brown except at base. Fore wing white with some reddish ochreous suffusion on inner area before antemedial line, in and beyond lower angle of cell to post- medial line, beyond the postmedial line from costa to vein 2 above which it extends to termen and on termen at vein 6; aslght black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line represented by a black point — below costa, the antemedial line by an oblique series of points below costa, on median nervure and above and below vein 1; a curved black bar representing outer edge of orbicular with diffused spot above it on costa and diffused streak from it to the curved line which represents the lower edge of reniform, with streak from it io postmedial line, which is black defined by white on outer side, oblique to vein 4 and slightly angled inwards at discal fold, slightly angled outwards at veins 4, 3, then incurved and slightly waved, a conical blackish patch beyond it on inner area; some black points on termen at the excision below apex; cilia with series of fuscous brown marks at tips. Hind wing white with faint fuscous post- medial line from vein 2 to inner margin and faint fuscous patch on terminal area from vein 2 to tornus; the underside with the costal area slightly tinged with brown, traces of an oblique post- medial line. Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, Baboquavaria Mts. (Poling), 1 Q cotype. Ewep. 22 millim. 4451. Emarginea pallida. (Plate CXL. fig. 10.) Cyathissa pallida, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 35 (1902) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Ain. p. 107. 2. Head and thorax white; antenne brown except at base ; pro- and metathorax with brown patches; tarsi brownish ringed with white; abdomen white. Fore wing white, the antemedial area tinged with blue-grey below costa and on inner margin, a blue- grey patch in cell between the stigmata and below and beyond the cell to postmedial line, a triangular blue-grey patch on costa beyond the postmedial line and an oblique patch from middle of postmedial line to termen at submedian fold; subbasal line represented by a black point below costa, the antemedial line by points below costa and above inner margin; the outer edge of orbicular and inner edge of reniform defined by slight blackish lines, the stigmata otherwise undefined ; postmedial line black, minutely waved, excurved below costa and at middle, then incurved, the blue-grey extending to its inner side below costa; a blue-grey line on termen at the excision below apex. Hind wing pure white; the underside with curved blackish postmedial line from below costa to vein 4. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado desert, 1 2, California, Walters Station. Exp. 24 millim. EMARGINEA.—BRYOLYMNIA. 119 Genus BRYOLYMNIA, nov. Type, B. roma. _Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and woderately fringed with hair, the 3rd moderate ; frons with slight rounded prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes lar ge, rounded ; antenne of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the pr othorax without crest, the ‘netathorax with decumbent crest ; tibiee moderately fringed with hair ; ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; ‘veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the small areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 8, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Srcr. I. Fore wing of male with brush of long hair on underside from near base of inner area; hind wing with veins 6, 7 stalked. 4452. Bryolymnia floccifera Grammophora floccifera, Moschl. Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv. p. 41, f. 7 (1886). Head white ; palpi black except at tips; antenne black except basal joint ; tegule orange fulvous ; thorax white and emerald-green, the pro- and met: thorax with black bands ; pectus and legs blackish, fore tibize with white patches, the spurs and tarsi ringed with w hite ; : abdomen fuscous grey, the basal crest black, the anal tuft rufous, Fig. 35.--Bryolymn ia floccifera, o. ft. the ventral surface black. Fore wing emerald-green with patches of white on costa, in and below cell and beyond postmedial and subterminal lines; the costa with wedge-shaped black subbasal, antemedial, medial and postmedial spots followed by a small quadrate 120 NOCTUID&. spot; asubbasal black patch below cell; antemedial line represented by small black spots in cell and on vein 1 and a lunule further from base on inner area; stigmata absent; an irregular oblique black patch in and below lower end of cell; postmedial line represented by a black bar beyond cell, then incurved, sinuous and expanding into a triangular spot on inner margin; subterminal line represented by a rather oblique wedge-shaped black patch from costa to vein 5 with white point on costa, its inner edge angled inwards at vein 7, a quadrate patch at middle and an oblique bar to tornus angled inwards on inner margin; some black points on middle of termen and a diffused streak below the quadrate sub- terminal patch; cilia with black patches above middle and tornus. Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous, the apical area darker ; cilia white tipped with black except towards tornus. Underside of fore wing black with white postmedial bar with some points beyond it and white apical patch, the tuft of hair in male rufous; hind wing with the costal half black, the inner half white with some black irroration on termen, a blackish discoidal spot. Hab. Jamaica (Sturridge, Rendall), 2 3, Up Park, 1 ¢ , Moneague (Walsingham),1 92. Exp, 22 millim, Sect. II, Fore wing of male without brush of hair ; hind wing with veins 6, 7 from cell. A. Fore wing with the ground-colour not green. a. Head white. a. Fore wing with the dark postmedial area angled inwards at middle to cell. a, Fore wing with the medial area pure white, the postmedial area black ................---..---seeseeee- roma. b*. Fore wing with the medial area yellowish white, the postmedial and terminal areas red-brown ... forreri. Fore wing with quadrate black patch beyond the cell. dicon. b. Tea black, ‘the vertex with whitish streak (2. ecole os atriceps. 3B. Fore wing with the ground-colour green. a. Fore wing with the antemedial line bent inwards in submedian interspace and outwards above inner MAM BIN we viecka pavesa sevens acwasls tang ceccle pees rescemonaaeeeee viridimedia. b, Fore wing with the antemedial line bent inwards to Inner Margin ..,...... ACS JAH OO ARON ICTS HOBO ToS RS HOD aCUNSclconOns picturata. 4453. Bryolymnia roma. Dacira roma, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xiii. p. 361 (1894); id. Biol. Centr.- Amer., Het. ii. p. 493, pl. 95. f. 6. ¢. Head white; palpi except at tips and antenne black; tegule rufous, whitish at middle; patagia rufous at base, black at tips; thorax black, the metathorax rufous and white; pectus and legs black, the tarsal joints with white points ; abdomen fuscous brown. Fore wing with the basal area black extending on costa to near middle, its outer edge angled inwards in cell, outwards in sub- median fold, then recurved to inner margin near base; medial area BRYOLYMNIA. At pure white with medial black points on costa and inner margin and a few scales at middle and upper angle of cell ; postmedial line black, retracted at vein 7 and between veins 5 and 2 emitting an upeurved tooth to lower angle of cell, a purplish -black band beyond it extending on costa to near apex and narrowing to inner margin, with some white points on costa and leaving a pale brown semi- circular terminal patch with white striga at tornus; a slight black terminal line. Hind wing pure semihyaline white, the apex tinged with fuscous; the underside with diffused fuscous patches at middle of costal area and apex. @. Hind wing with discoidal black point, the apical half of costal area and the termen tinged with fuscous. Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 3 $3; Guaremata (Rodriquez), 19, Godman-Salvin Coll. ap. 22-26 millim, 4454. Bryolymnia forreri. Dacira forreri, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 309, pl. 28. f. 27 (1889). @. Head white; palpi black except at tips; antenne black except basal joint; tegule white tinged with orange; thorax fulyous orange, the outer edge of patagia black; pectus and legs black-brown, the tarsi with slight white rings ; abdomen brownish white, dorsaily suffused with fuscous except at base. Fore wing with the basal area black, its outer edge angled outwards at sub- costal nervure and submedian fold and retracted to inner margin ; the medial area yellowish white with antemedial small black spots on median nervure and inner margin and medial triangular spot on costa ; postmedial line black, angled outwards at vein 6, inwardly gopaue to vein 4, then running inwards to a point at origin of vein 2, then bent outwards and ‘obliquely incurved to inner margin ; the terminal area red-brown suffused with black except bey ond the postmedial line below costa and on inner area; some white points on costa; two small white spots just before termen below apex and a striga above tornus; cilia white, black at apex, above middle and towards tornus. Hind wing semihyaline white, the apex tinged with fuscous; a slight terminal fuscous line from apex to vein 2 and a slight fuscous line through cilia towards apex; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous and with slight diffused dark patches beyond and before middle. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the postmedial line less angled outwards at vein 6 and inwards at vein 2.—Costa Rica. 122 NOCTUIDE. : j Hah, Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), 1 2 type, Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Cosra Rica, La Trinité in Coll. Joannis. Lep. 26 millim. 4455. Bryolymnia bicon. (Plate CXL. fig. 11.) Calymnia bicon, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 295 (1889). Dacira ranapa, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 116 (1898). Head white ; palpi except at tips, points at sides of frons, and antenne black; thorax black, the tegule tipped with white, the patagia and metathorax with whitish patches ; pectus white ; legs black, the extremities of tibize and tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen pale rufous, ventrally black with whitish patch at middle. Fore wing with the basal area black with small rufous subbasal spot below costa, its outer edge waved and inwardly oblique, forming the antemedial line to vein 1 where it is interrupted and strongly bent outwards with pale rufous before it on inner margin ; medial area white tinged with pale rufous in and below end of cell; claviform with its upper edge slightly defined by fuscoys at extre- mity ; orbicular a minute elliptical rufous annulus; reniform white, bar-shaped, slightly expanding above and below and tinged with rufous above, a black patch from it to postmedial line between veins 7 and 4; an interrupted oblique sinuous fuscous medial line; postmedial line white defined by small black lunules on inner side, very oblique from costa to vein 6 where it is acutely angled, then nearly erect and minutely waved, the area beyond it pale rufous with blackish patch on costal area extending to subterminal line with white points on the costa; subterminal line represented by slight blackish spots at middle; a terminal series of black striz ; cilia fuscous, pale rufous at apex and with fine white line at base. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the termina] area suffused with brown, a slight discoidal lunule ; cilia brown at base, white at tips ; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous from apex to vein 3, a black discoidal lunule with brown patch beyond it on costa, and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 6. 19, Coatepee (Brooks), 23; Braziz, Castro Paraiia (D. Jones), 1 3. Exp. 28 millim. 4456. Bryolymnia atriceps, n. sp. (Plate CXL. fig. 12.) Calymnia oryx, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 295 (nec Feld.). ¢. Head and thorax black, vertex of head with brownish-white streak, the metathorax with rufous patch; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen whitish suffused with fuscous, the basal crest rufous, the anal tuft pale brown, the ventral surface black. Fore wing with the basal area black; subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa slightly defined on each side by rufous; antemedial line forming the outer edge of the black area to vein 1 and slightly defined by rufous on inner side, oblique towards costa, angled BRYOLYMNIA. 123 inwards on median nervure, interrupted and strongly bent outwards above inner margin with rufous before it extending to base ; medial area whitish tinged with rufous and slightly with brown; claviform represented by a faint fuscous spot at its extremity; orbicular small, round, white defined by diffused brown and with dark point in centre ; reniform white tinged with fuscous above and slightly defined by black on inner cite. strongly constricted at mingle! and with black patch beyond it between veins 7 and 4 extending to postmedial line; a diffused curved medial line with black spot costa; postmedial line black, slightly defined by white on outer side with black spot at costa, very oblique to vein 6, then incurved to vein 2, forming small lunules between veins + and 2 and a wedge- shaped spot in submedian fold, angled outwards on vein 1; terminal area cupreous red with purplish patch on costa beyond the post- medial line, with white points on it on costa and oblique black bar on its outer edge and a fuscous patch on inner area, very faint traces of a subterminal line excurved below vein 7 and at middle; cilia black-brown except at apex. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the apical area darker ; a faint discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line; cilia with fine white line at base; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous towards apex, a black discoidal lunule with dark bar above it from costa, and crenulate postmedial line. Hab. Guatemata, Cerro Zunil (Champion), 1 3 type, Godman- Salvin Coll. wp. 30 millim. *4457, Bryolymnia viridimedia. (Plate CXL. fig. 13.) Bryophila viridimedia, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. xiii. p. 188 (1905). 3. Head black, the vertex pure white; thorax purple-brown, the tips of tegulie, a slight dorsal streak and the metathoracic crest white ; abdomen white tinged with brown. Fore wing with the basal area deep purple-brown except on inner margin which is bright yellow-green, bounded by the black antemedial line which is bent inwards between median nervure and vein 1; medial area bright yellow-green; orbicular and reniform small with white annuli defined by black scales, the former round, the latter figure- of-8-shaped ; a deeper green medial shade; a quadrate black patch beyond the reniform, which is black defined by white on outer side, excurved and minutely waved; postmedial area violaceous grey with a deep brown patch on costal area with some white points on costa; terminal area bronze-brown, angled inwards in discal fold: cilia dark brown. Hind wing dirty white, the terminal area tinged with brown; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, the apex suffused with brown, a slight discoidal lunule and postmedial line. Hab, U.S.A., Arizona, Cochise Co. Hvp. 32 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a drawing from type in Coll. J. b. Smith. 124 NOCTUID®. *4458. Bryolymnia picturata. (Plate CXL. fig. 14.) Calymnia picturata, Schaus, Trans. Am, Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 238 (1894). ©. Head and thorax black mixed with white; antenne ringed with white ; pectus and legs whitish mixed with brown, the tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen white tinged with rufous, ventrally irrorated with brown. Fore wing pale olive-green ; the basal area almost entirely suffused with black to the black ante- medial line; which is excurved in cell and submedian fold and bent inwards to inner margin; the subbasal line represented by an ochreous striga from costa; medial costal area ochreous ; the clavi- form represented by a small blackish mark at its extremity; orbicular white defined by black, small, irregular ; reniform defined by black except above, the upper part yellowish, the lower part white with black spot in centre, very strongly constricted at middle; an olive-brown medial shade irrorated with black and with black spots at costa and inner margin; postmedial line double, black, the inner line strong, expanding at discal fold into a wedge-shaped mark to reniform, the outer line slight, minutely waved, slightly angled outwards at vein 6 and inwards in submedian fold, a blackish patch beyond it on costal area irrorated with white; subterminal line slight, blackish, oblique to vein 7, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and with a blackish bar beyond it between veins 7 and 4; a slight black terminal line; cilia chequered white and black. Hind wing whitish tinged with ochreous brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; a slight discoidal striga; a ‘fine black terminal line; cilia white with a blackish line near base; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with black especially at apex, a blackish shade from middle of costa, discoidal spot and diffused sinuous postmedial line. Ilab. Mexico, Las Vigas (Schaus), type fT 2 in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 30 millim. Genus GONOSTYGIA, nov. Type, G. agonax, Proboseis fully developed ;_ palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and fringed with iong hair in front, the 3rd moderate, porrect ; frons smooth with tuft of hair; eyes moderate, round ; antennx of female ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the tibiee fr inged with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced, the termen excised from below apex to middle and from middle to tornus ; veins 38 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 ; anastomos ing with the cell near base only. 4459. Gonostygia agonax. Anarta agonax, Druce, P. Z. 8. 1890, p. 515; id. Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ivy ja 490, pl. 94. f. 22. 2. Head and thorax fuscous black slightly mixed with grey; tarsi whitish; abdomen fuscous black paler at base. Fore wing GONOSTYGIA.—ATIM.EA. 15) fuscous black slightly mixed with grey ; subbasa] line represented by brownish-white bars from costa and cell; antemedial line brownish white, erect, minutely waved; orbicular very small, round, white defined by black ; reniform white defined by black, rounded above and truncate below; postmedial line black defined on outer side by brownish white, broadly diffused below costa and dentate at middle and vein 1, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 5, then oblique and very minutely dentate, some white points beyond if on costa; subterminal line represented by obliquely placed white points on and below costa and a point at vein 4; a series of minute Fig. 37.—Gonostygia agonar, 2. 3. white points just before termen ; cilia white intersected with black at and below apex and at veins 4,3. Hind wing black with trian- gular white patch in, below and beyond lower end of cell; cilia white, black towards apex; the underside with the costal half irrorated with white, a black discoidal spot incompletely defined by white. Hab. Muxico, Jalapa (Hoege), 1 2 type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 24 millim. Genus ATIMAAA, nov. Type, A. pictura. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head, the 3rd moderate or short, porrect; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennx of male minutely serrate and Gecieulaie thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the prothorax without erest, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibia moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the costa somewhat excised towards eS which is rounded, the termen obl liquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle. of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole: if from eell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of Giscocellul lars ; 6,7 shortly stalked or fr om angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with the crescentic patch on medial area black and greatly expanded at upper extremity ................0.08 pretura, B. Fore wing with the crescentic patch on medial area red- brown and slightly expanded at upper extremity............ erescentica, 4460, Atimea pictura. Timea pictura, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 809, f. 240 (1891). @. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi with the 2nd joint dark brown at sides; frons with lateral dark bars; tegule with strong medial black line. Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous and irrorated with dark brown; 126 NOCTUID 2. subbasal line double, black filled in with whitish, from costa to submedian fold, with short black streak beyond it below the cell ; antemedial area suffused with red-brown and with black streak above inner margin; antemedial line double filled in with whitish, angled outwards below costa, oblique from below cell to vein 1 where it is angled outwards, then bent inwards to inner margin ; medial area black-brown from subcostal nervure to vein 1; orbicular and reniform rufous defined by yellowish white, the former very narrow and oblique, expanding below and strongly confluent with the latter which is very narrow and angled inwards at middle, forming an irregular U-shaped mark; postmedial line white, indis- tinct and strongly bent outwards below costa, very oblique to vein 5, then inwardly oblique and minutely waved, some whitish points on black-brown suffusion beyond it on costa; subterminal line repre- sented by a series of whitish striz with small black-brown spots before them, almost obsolete between veins 6 and 4, excurved below vein 7, then waved; a terminal series of slight brown striz; cilia yellow mixed with rufous. Hind wing yellow slightly tinged with reddish brown; cilia yellow; the underside yellowish white slightly irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule and indistinet curved postmedial line. Hab. Mapacascar, Betsileo (Cowan), 29. Exp. 32 millim. 4461. Atimea crescentica, n. sp. 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous; palpi red-brown at sides; frons with lateral dark bars ; antenne red-brown. Fore wing ochreous tinged with red-brown ; traces of a double sinuous subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; ante- medial line fine, double filled in with white, obliquely incurved from median nervure to just below vein 1 where it is confluent with the fine double postmedial line filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, then very obliquely curved to the antemedial line below Fig. 38.—Atimea crescentica, d. }. vein 1, the area between the lines occupied by a semicircular red- brown patch not reaching costa, its upper edge excised by a semi- circular yellowish patch edged with whitish and extending to just below median nervure representing the orbicular and reniform; a diffused brown patch on postmedial part of costa with some pale points on costa; traces of a red-brown subterminal line, excurved at vein 7, then oblique; a fine red-brown terminal line ; cilia LEUCOSIGMA. ee 7 yellowish at base, red-brown at tips. Hind wing yellowish white tinged with red-brown ; cilia yellowish white; the underside with the costal area tinged with rufous, a slight discoidal lunule. Hab. Mapagascar, Betsileo (Cowan), 1 go type. Hxp.30 millim. Genus LEUCOSIGMA, nov. Type. L. wuncifera. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth; eyes large, round; anteunz of male ciliated; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibisee moderately fringed with hair, the inner spurs long; abdomen with some rough hair at base, but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen excised from vein 6 to 4 where it is angled, then oblique and crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6,7 from upper angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen slightly excised at discoidal fold; veins 3,4 from anele of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. *4462. Leucosigma uncifera. Leucosigma uncifera, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) i. p. 802 (1898). 6. Head and thorax fiery red mixed with some yellow; frons with lateral white spots; basal joint of antennee white in front ; tibize and tarsi rufous; abdomen white suffused with red-brown, the anal tuft with fiery red mixed. Fore wing fiery red mixed with yellow, white and some brown, the veins streaked with brown; a subbasal white striga from costa to an irregular white patch in base of cell; antemedial line represented by an oblique brown striga from costa and oblique line from vein 2 near its origin to inner margin, both defined by white on inner side; a crescentic white g. 89.— Leucosigma uncifera, S. 3. spot in and below end of cell expanding into white spots at inner extremity and at upper angle of cell, defined by dark brown; an oblique minutely waved brown line from vein 5 just beyond the cell to inner margin ; postmedial line brown defined by white on outer side, bent outwards and obsolescent below costa, then dentate, oblique to vein 4, then inwardly oblique, some white points beyond it on costa; a diffused oblique white bar from apex; a terminal series of small white lunules. Hind wing white suffused with red- 128 NOCTUIDE, brown except on inner area, the veins brown; the termen tinged with fiery red from apex to vein 2; the underside whitish, the costal area suffused and irrorated with fiery red to postmedial line, which is black, curved, dentate, ending at submedian fold; some slight terminal dark lunules from apex to vein 5. Hab. Perv, Carabaya, La Oroya (Ockenden), type T ¢ in Coll. Druce. wp. 26 millim. Genus CALYMNIODES, nov. Type, C. basicarnea. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antenne of male ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with slight spreading crest; tibia moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wing rather narrower, the apex rectangular, the termen not crenulate, oblique towards tornus; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Secr. ] Abdomen of male clothed with long woolly hair. A. Fore wing of male with the basal area clothed with thick woolly hair, 4463. Calymniodes basicarnea. Hadena basicarnea, W1k. xi. 587 (1857). Calymnia cirrus, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 109. f. 5 (1874). ¢. Head and thorax deep purplish red; antenne brown, the shaft with white points above towards base; pectus and legs grey- brown, the tarsi ringed with ochreous white ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Fore wing with the basal area thickly clothed with purplish-red hair; antemedial line white, oblique, sinuous, bent outwards above inner margin and confluent with the postmedial line ; orbicular a smal] orange spot defined by Fig. 40.—Calymniodes basicarnea, 3. }. deep red; reniform represented by a slight orange and red bar dilated into a small spot at lower angle of cell; an indistinct oblique dark medial line; postmedial line white, oblique, slightly excurved below costa and discal fold, bent inwards above inner margin to the autemedial line, a band of violaceous grey beyond it except at costa CALYMNIODES. 129 and inner margin, the veins streaked with grey to the subterminal line; some white points on postmedial part of costa; the terminal area red-brown; subterminal line grey, inwardly oblique from costa to vein 7 where it is angled outwards, angled inwards at discal and submedian folds and with small brown spots before it above and below vein 1; cilia with a fine whitish line at base and greyish line at middle. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, especially on terminal area; a faint brown discoidal spot; cilia whitish with a brown line through them; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas suffused with red-brown and irrorated with white, a large black-brown discoidal lunule and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Vunezvrta (Dyson), 1 3 type; S.E. Perv, 8. Domingo. Exp. 38 millim. B. Fore wing of male with the basal area not clothed with woolly hair. a, Fore wing wiih the stigmata not silvery white. a, Hind wing white, the terminal area more or less suffused with brown. a’, Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines not confluent above inner margin ................2. rhodopis. b°. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines confluent above inner margin. . a®, Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly excurved at discal fold. a*, Fore wing deep chestnut-brown, the ante- and postwedial areas suffused with white ......... leucoyrapha. b+. Fore wing yellow tinged with rufous ......... promentoria, 6°. Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly excnmvedtat discal fold 222.0 sneees.cs-cemesecsesass obconica. b'. Hind wing entirely suffused with brown. a*. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines confluent above inner margin. : wing with prominent series of dark brown a°. Fore wing with pron t series of dark brow spots before subterminal line. a‘, Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines confluent at yeim Is 222.22. .c....cscscsese00 tee sids grandimacula. +4, Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines confluent just above inner margin ...... oliveata. b*, Fore wing without prominent series of dark brown spots before subterminal line ............ mastoides. b°. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines not confluent above inner margin. a®, Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines WH bO mete eiigee Paes sncth-acedy smouiasiees daseotonsbane bilineata. 8. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines OCMECOUS Dc .guceueneeersaee seni ons isn diseosatatertaes rufula. ce’, Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines dark, a4, Fore wing fulvous yellow ...............sceeeee0s vanthia. b4. Fore wing ochreous brown....... siosaacietes seeks infirma. b. Fore wing with the stigmata silvery white. a‘. Fore wing with the orbicular heart-shaped. a”. Fore wing without white subbasal point in cell... conchylis. 6°, Fore wing with white subbasal point in cell ...... acamas. 6\. Fore wing with the orbicular y-shaped ............... pyrostrota c'. Fore wing with the orbicular crescentic with a white ABOU PAW OVOS) Ib son. ctaaateues + Gasceacs decaak rateguaecose cede turcica, VOL, 1X. K 130 NOCTUID.E. 4464, Calymniodes rhodopis. (Plate CXL. fig. 15.) Calymniodes rhodopis, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) i. p. 800 (1908). Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with some whitish and black; tegule silvery white at base; metathoracie crest black ; tarsi black ringed with whitish ; abdomen grey-white suffused with brown, the anal tuft with rufous mixed. Fore wing white mixed with rufous and black, the veins of terminal area streaked with black ; subbasal line white, waved, from costa to vein 1, a black streak in submedian fold from it to beyond the antemedial line where it represents the claviform ; antemedial line white, oblique, angled outwards on subcostal and medial nervures, then sinuous ; orbicular orange-red defined by black, round; reniform reddish irrorated with black and defined by black except above, somewhat angled outwards at middle ; medial line blackish, diffused, oblique, sinuous, angled outwards to the reniform ; postmedial line double, black filled in with white and rufous, broader and filled in with pure white towards costa, oblique from costa to vein 6, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and excurved below submedian fold, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish, oblique to vein 7 where it is angled outwards, incurved at discal fold and excurved at middle; the terminal area rather darker; a terminal series of black strie with white points at the veins; cilia fuscous with whitish lines at base and middle. Hind wing white, the termen suffused with brown from apex to vein 4; a small discoidal spot; a brown line near base of cilia; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with black and rufous, a black dis- coidal spot, interrupted postmedial line, and terminal series of striae. Hab. S.E. Perv, Oconeque (Ockenden), 1 &, 1 9, Aquilani (Ockenden), Exp. 38 millim. Type fT in Coll. Druce. 4465. Calymniodes leucographa, n. sp. (Plate CXL. fig. 16.) Head, tegule, and patagia bright rufous; thorax deep chestnut- red with some whitish on metathorax; palpi deep fiery red; antenne dark brown; pectus and legs deep chestnut-red, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen dark greyish brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing deep chestnut-red, with slight dark irroration and streaks on the veins; subbasal line white, waved, from costa to vein 1; some white suffusion from below costa to submedian fold and yellow irroration on inner area before the antemedial line, which is white, very oblique from costa to above inner margin where it is curved outwards to meet the postmedial line, which is white slightly defined by brown on outer side, very oblique from costa to vein 6, incurved below vein 5 and below sub- median fold curved inwards to meet the antemedial line; orbicular | small, round, orange defined by fiery red; reniform an indistinct red and yellowish mark with whitish points above and below; some | yellowish below costa and beyond lower angle of cell before the | i “s CALYMNIODES. 131 postmedial line, and a narrow white band beyond it with white streaks on the veins from it to the white subterminal line, which is oblique from costa to vein 7, slightly excurved below vein 7 and more strongly at middle, angled inwards in submedian fold ; cilia with a fine whitish line at base and blackish line at middle. Hind wing white, the base and inner margin tinged with brown ; a brown discoidal spot ; a red-brown terminal band, broad at costa, narrowing to a point at submedian fold ; cilia rufous at apex, then white with a brown line near base and brownish tips to submedian fold; the underside with the costa and terminal band deep red irrorated with white, some brown irroration below costa and before the terminal band; a black discoidal spot and curved postmedial line from costa to submedian fold. Hab. S.E, Perv, 8. Domingo, 2 ¢, 1 Q type, Aquilani, 1 9, Quinton. “wp, 36 millim. 4466. Calymniodes promentoria. (Plate CXL. fig. 17.) 92 Calymniodes promentoria, Dogn. Ann. Sec. Ent. Belg. li. p. 238 (1907). 3. Head and thorax bright yellowish rufous: tarsi brown ringed with whitish; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale yellow tinged with rufous, the post- medial area with whitish ; subbasal line faint, brown, waved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line fine, brown defined by white on inner side, very oblique and slightly sinuous, somewhat angled outwards in submedian fold, below vein 1 bent outwards and joining the similar postmedial line, which is very oblique from costa to discal fold, then incurved and below submedian fold curved inwards to the antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform represented by faint pale marks; traces of a brown medial line, oblique from costa to reniform, inwardly oblique and waved from lower angle of cell to vein 1; a whitish patch on costa beyond the postmedial line with slight white streaks on veins 8 and 7 from it to the sub- terminal line, which is white and oblique from costa to vein 7, then slight whitish defined by dark brown spots on inner side, waved, and angled inwards in discal fold to postmedial line; a white line at base of cilia. Hind wing white; a small blackish discoidal spot ; a red-brown terminal line from apex to submedian fold; cilia tinged with rufous towards apex; the underside with the costa tinged with rufous, the costal area, and terminal area to vein 3, irrorated with rufous, a black discoidal spot and diffused curved postmedial line indistinct below vein 4. Hab. Ecuavor, Loja, typef ¢ in Coll. Dognin. S.E. Perv, Aquilani (Ockenden), 1 $, Oconeque (Ockenden), 1 S$. Hxp. 42 millim. 132 NOCTUID. 4467. Calymniodes obconica. (Plate CXL. fig. 18.) Calymniodes obconica, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) i. p. 300 (1908). Head and thorax deep rufous; metathoracic crest greyish ; pectus grey suffused with red-brown; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous, the ventral surface with rufous. Fore wing with the basal, medial and terminal areas deep rufous, the ante- and postmedial areas violaceous grey ; subbasal line white, waved, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line white, oblique, straight to vein 1, then bent outwards to join the postmedial line, emitting a minute white streak in submedian fold on outer side; orbicular and reniform very faint, reddish, the former round ; a faint oblique blackish medial shade from below costa to inner margin; postmedial line white, oblique to vein 6, excurved to vein 5, then slightly incurved and below submedian fold bent inwards to join the antemedial line, a white patch beyond it on costa with a red-brown spot on it; subterminal line oblique and white from costa to vein 7, giving off white streaks on the veins on the red-brown patch on inner side, then violaceous grey defined on inner side by small red-brown spots, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a fine whitish line at base of cilia. — Hind wing white, the terminal area brown from apex to vein 2; a small brownish discoidal spot; cilia white, brown at apex and with brown line near base from apex to vein 2; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown and rufous, a black discoidal spot and curved sinuous postmedial line. Hab. S.E. Perv, Oconeque (Ockenden), 1 §,1 92. Exp. 40 millim. Type fin Coll. Druce. 4468. Calymniodes grandimacula. (Plate CXL. fig. 19.) Agrotis grandimacula, Guen. Noct. i. p. 296, pl. 5. f. 5 (1852). 3. Head and tegule bright rufous ; palpi grey-brown; thorax rufuus mixed with grey-brown; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey- brown. Fore wing violaceous grey irrorated with brown; the basal costal area suffused with rufous, bounded by the waved white subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line white, very oblique from costa to vein 1, where it is curved outwards to meet the postmedial white line slightly defined by brown on outer side, oblique from costa to vein 5, somewhat inwardly oblique to submedian fold, then curved inwards to the antemedial line, the enclosed area deep chestnut-red; a slight white streak from the antemedial line in submedian fold; orbicular and reniform small, fiery red, ill-defined, the former small, the latter an indistinct lunule ; some white beyond the postmedial line on costal area; the outer part of postmedial area with rufous patches in the interspaces and two brown marks above inner margin divided by grey streaks.on the veins and by white streaks towards costa; subterminal line white and oblique from costa to . CALYMNIODES. oe vein 7, then grey, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; the terminal area rufous; cilia rufous with a fine grey line at base. Hind wing grey suffused with reddish brown; an_ indistinct discoidal spot; cilia with a fine white line at base followed by a brown line, the tips grey ; the underside grey, the costal area and terminal area to vein 3 irrorated with rufous, a brown discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Brazit, New Fribourg, Rio Janeiro, 1 g. vp. 36 millim. 4469. Calymniodes oliveata, n. sp. (Plate CXL. fig. 20.) 3. Head and thorax pale rufous, metathoracie crest blackish ; palpi brown in front; antenne dark brown; pectus, legs, and abdomen dark brown, the tarsi ringed with pale yellow. Fore wing orange-yellow slightly irrorated with black and suffused in parts with red-brown, the inner and terminal areas suffused with dark brown; subbasal line represented by a faint oblique greyish striga from costa; antemedial line grey defined by black on outer side, very oblique from costa to above inner margin where it is curved outwards to meet the postmedial line, which is grey defined by black on inner side, very oblique from costa to vein 5, then slightly incurved and below submedian fold curved inwards to meet the antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform orange slightly defined by fuscous, the former elliptical, the latter constricted at middle and angled inwards on median nervure, the extremity of which is streaked with grey; medial line represented by blackish marks below costa and cell and above vein 1; a small black spot followed by white points on costa beyond the postmedial line and some whitish suffusion below costa; subterminal line whitish towards costa, then indistinct, greyish, with three black marks before it below costa divided by white streaks on the veins and black spots in the interspaces below vein 4, the line slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a rather diffused blackish terminal line ; cilia with black line at middle on inner half and some black scales near tips on apical half. Hind wing greyish brown, the terminal area darker from apex to vein 2; an indistinct discoidal spot ; cilia brownish grey with a dark line near base; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with dark brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, the apical area with rufous, a black discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line and fine terminal line. Hab. S.E. Perv, 8. Domingo, 1 ¢ type. wp. 34 millim. 4470. Calymniodes mastoides, n. sp. (Plate CXL. fig. 21.) Lycophotia grandimacula, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 287 & ii. p. 484 (nee Guen.). Head and thorax bright rufous; palpi dark red-brown; antennex black; pectus, legs, and abdomen dark red-brown, the tarsi ringed with white. Fore wing bright rufous tinged with yellow, the 134 NOCTUIDE. inner margin and terminal area tinged with brown; a slight sinuous grey subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; ante- medial line grey-white, very oblique, sinuous; two black points at angles of cell; a faint sinuous dark line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line grey-white, obliquely excurved from costa to vein 5, then slightly incurved and below vein 1 bent inwards to inner margin and running along it to antemedial line ; a band of violaceous grey suffusion beyond it and some white points on costa; subterminal line very oblique and white from costa to vein 5, then indistinct, grey, excurved, angled inwards in submedian fold and whitish towards inner margin; a terminal series of minute white points at the extremities of the veins; cilia with slight grey lines at base and middle. Hind wing dark glossy brown; cilia with brown line near base and greyish tips; the underside brown, the costal area tinged with rufous and irrorated with white, some grey suffusion in and beyond cell, a dark discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. Fore wing much deeper chocolate-red. Hab. Muxtco, Jalapa (Zrujillo), 1 9, Coatepee (Brooks), 1 3; Guaremara, Volean de Atitlan (Champion), 1 2; Cosra Rica, Cande- laria Mts. (Underwood), 1 g; Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 1 3, Godman-Salvin Coll., Cana Mines (Tylecote), 1 ¢ ; Trintpap (Kaye), 1g; Venezurza, Aroa, 4 ¢, 1 9; W. Conomsia, San Antonio (Palner), 1 3; Perv, 8. Domingo (Ockenden), 1 ¢. Eap. 30- 40 millim. 4471. Calymniodes bilineata. Caradrina bilineata Mssn. Stiibel’s Reise, p. 142, pl. vi. f. 18 (1890). ¢. Head and thorax deep red-brown, the hairs tipped with greyish; pectus and legs fuscous brown, the tarsi ringed with ochreous; abdomen fuscous brown. Fore wing dark red-brown ; antemedial line violaceous white, oblique, straight except that it is” T° Fig. 41.—Calymniodes bilineata, G. } slightly angled outwards in submedian fold; orbicular represented by an indistinct round fiery-red spot, the reniform by some red scales; an indistinct blackish slightly curved medial line; post- medial line violaceous white, oblique from costa to discal fold, _ incurved to submedian fold, then excurved and bent inwards to inner margin, a band of slight violaceous-grey suffusion beyond it or CALYMNIODES. co except at costa and inner margin and the veins slightly streaked with white to the subterminal line; some white points on post- medial part of costa; subterminal line inwardly oblique and white from costa to vein 7, then indistinct, greyish, angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards at discal and submedian folds ; cilia golden brown with a fine white line at base. Hind wing brown with a cupreous tinge ; a faint discoidal lunule and fine white line at base of cilia; the underside dark brown slightly irrorated with white and the costal area with red, a blackish discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab, Ecvavor, Guayaquil; §.E. Perv, 8. Domingo, 6000’, 1 3. Exp. 38 millim. 4472. Calymniodes rufula. (Plate CXL. fig. 22. Calymniodes rufula, Dogn, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. li, p. 238 (1907). 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown, the head and tegule brighter rufous; tarsi ringed with whitish. Fore wing red- brown; antemedial line greyish ochreous, oblique from costa to above inner margin to which it is bent inwards ; orbicuiar orange, small, elliptical ; reniform small, defined by orange, constricted at middle and forming a figure-of-8-shaped mark; an indistinct diffused dark medial shade; postmedial line greyish ochreous, excurved from costa to vein 5, then incurved and excurved below submedian fold; subterminal line greyish ochreous, slightly incurved at submedian fold; cilia with a fine whitish line at base. Hind wing red-brown aah a greyish tinge; an indistinct brown discoidal lunule ; cilia with a fine whitish line at base ; the underside red- brown irrorated with greyish, a dark discoidal Innule, indistinct diffused sinuous postmedial line, and traces of diffused subterminal band. Hab. Cotompia, Micay, type tT ¢ in Coll. Dognin, San Antonio (Palmer), 1 3; S.E. Perv, S$. Domingo. ap, 44 millim., *4473, Calymniodes xanthia. (Plate CXL. fig. 23.) Cosmia xanthea, D. Jones, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 164. 3. Head and thorax fulvous yellow; palpi, sides of frons, and antennee fuscous ; metathorax with fuscous patch ; pectus and legs greyish suffused "with fuscous, the fore coxee fulvous, the tarsi slightly ringed with whitish ; abdomen greyish fulvous tinged with brown. Fore wing fulvous yellow, the inner margin before ante- medial line and the terminal area tinged with brown; a slight subbasal line angled outwards below costa and ending at submedian fold; antemedial line fuscous defined by a few white scales on inner side, slightly excurved below costa, then very oblique ; orbicular faintly defined by brown, round; reniform obsolete; a faint oblique medial line with blackish points on the veins ; post- medial line fuscous slightly defined by whitish on outer side, 136 NOCTUID.E. oblique from costa to vein 5, then ineurved, excurved in submedian interspace and bent inwards to inner margin; an indistinct whitish subterminal line defined by brownish suffnsion on inner side, oblique to vein 6, incurved at middle and below vein 2 and ~ bent outwards to tornus; cilia dark brown with a fine white line at base. Hind wing yellowish white irrorated with brown on the yeins and terminal area; a dark discoidal spot; cilia dark brown with a fine white line at base; the underside with the costal area suffused with yellow and slightly irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot and rather diffused postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 3. Hab. Brazit, Castro Parana, type T in Coll. D. Jones. Exp. 32 millim. 4474. Calymniodes infirma. (Plate CXL. fig. 24.) Caradrina infirma, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 236 (1894). 2. Head and thorax ochreous-brown, the scales tipped with grey, the vertex of thorax pale rufous; tarsi brown with pale rings; abdomen pale reddish brown. Fore wing pale ochreous brown slightly mixed with grey, the costal area tinged with ochreous except at apex; subbasal line very indistinct, straight, from costa to vein 1; traces of a double, oblique, slightly sinuous antemedial line ; saeco and reniform very small, faintly defined by brown; an indistinct sinuous brown medial line ; postmedial line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by brownish suffusion on inner side, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; the terminal area rather browner; a fine white line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins_and terminal area rather darker; a fine white line at base of cilia; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, the former tinged with ochreous, a small discoidal spot and traces of postmedial line. Hab. W. Cotomsta, San Antonio (Palmer), 1 ¢,1 93; Brazit, Castro Parana (D. Jones), 1 2. Lap. 36 millim. 4475. Calymniodes conchylis. (Plate CXL. fig. 25.) Celena conchylis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 223 (1852). Head and tegule fiery. red mixed with orange; palpi and antennee red-brown, the latter with the basal joint white; thorax red-brown ; abdomen ¢ greyish suffused with red-brown. Fore wing glossy red-brown slightly irrorated with black except on terminal area, the postmedial area with a greyish gloss; a slight streak of fiery scales below base of costa; antemedial line very indistinct, oblique; claviform represented by an oblique pure white striga with some fiery scales before and beyond it; orbicular pure white, heart-shaped, its apex towards base on the antemedial line; reniform pure white, trilobate, with small fiery-red discoidal lunule . Ze “xr oN Parl o— SP. _ iw iva CALYMNIODES. 30 on it with yellowish centre ; an oblique black somewhat sinuous medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line black, erect from costa to vein 6 where it is angled outwards, then dentate and somewhat oblique, very near the subterminal line which is formed of small indistinct red lunules, obsolete towards costa ; a series of very indistinct reddish marks just before termen. Hind wing white, the inner margin tinged with red-brown, the terminal area suffused with red- brown, in female wholly tinged with brown; a faint discoidal point and fine postmedial line ; the underside ochreous white, the costal and terminal areas anrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Venezureta, Aroa, ] 9; Braziz, Organ Mts., Tijuca (Wagner), 1 9, Rio Janeiro (Wilson), 2 5. Hap. 26-32 Pate 4476. Calymniodes acamas. (Plate CXL. fig. 26.) Noctua acamas, Herr.-Schitf. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 566 (1869); Druce, A.M. N. H. (8) iii. p. 459 (1909). Head fiery red with some rufous on vertex; palpi rufous ; antenne brown with the basal joint white; thorax rufous, the tegule with fiery-red and yellow patches at base, the dorsum with red and yellow stripe; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen rufous, Fore wing rufous, the base and costal area to beyond middle suffused with fiery red and yellowish ; subbasal line represented by a yellow striga from costa with white point beyond it in cell; antemedial line indistinct, dark, defined on inner side by yellow except towards costa, oblique, sinuous ; claviform represented by an oblique white mark at upper extremity defined by black above ; orbicular pure white, elliptical, its outer edge somewhat excised ; reniform pure white interrupted at middle by an oblique blood- red mark, oblique, expanding and rather bilobed above, with white point beyond its lower extremity; an indistinct oblique black line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; ean line black, bent outwards and obsolescent below costa, then oblique, minutely dentate and produced to black points on the veins, some slight yellow points beyond it on costa; subterminal line yellowish defined on inner side by brown, slightly excurved below vein 7 and incurved at discal fold, then minutely waved; a slight black terminal line with white points at the veins, Hind wing cupreous red-brown with blackish discoidal spot; the underside rather whiter, the costal area and terminal area to vein 3 irrorated with red-brown, a black discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Vennzvrta; 8.E. Peru, Oconeque, La Oroya (Ockenden), 3 3, Quinton, §. Domingo (Ockenden), 1 2. Eup. 28-32 millim. *4477. Calymniodes pyrostrota. cre CXL. fig. 27.) Calymniodes pyrostrota, Dogn, Ann, Soe. Ent. Belg. li. p. 237 (1907). 5: ®. Head and thorax fiery red, the patagia and metathoracic 138 : NOCLUIDE. crest red-brown ; palpi red-brown except at tips; pectus and legs red-brown, the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen red-brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing fiery red suffused in parts with red-brown, especially on medial area except towards costa and in submedian fold and on terminal area; subbasal line indistinct, yellow, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinet, double, filled in with yellow towards costa, oblique, minutely waved ; claviform represented by an oblique silvery-white streak on its upper edge, the orbicular by an oblique silvery-white Y-shaped mark just beyond antemedial line ; reniform yellow and red with oblique silvery-white bar on its inner edge and slight oblique line on outer with minute point below it; a blackish medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique; postmedial line double, black filled in with greyish and with red at costa, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, oblique to vein 6, then inwardly oblique; the veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks; subterminal line represented by a series of reddish strie slightly defined by brown on inner side and somewhat bent inwards at vein 2; a fine red- brown terminal line; cilia red-brown with slight punctiform pale line at base. Hind wing greyish tinged with brown, the terminal area darker; an indistinct discoidal spot and diffused sinuous postmedial line; cilia pale red-brown with a fine dark line near base ; the underside pale tinged with brown, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with red-brown, a dark discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line, and indistinct diffused subterminal line. Hab. S.E. Prru, Carabaya, 8. Domingo (Ockenden), 1 ¢,1 9. Exp. 32 millim. Type Tt 2 in Coll. Dognin. *4478, Calymniodes turcica. (Plate CXL. fig. 28.) Calymniodes turcica, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) i. p. 801 (1908). Head and thorax whitish tinged with red-brown and mixed with rufous ; tarsi red-brown ringed with white; abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing silky greyish suffused with red-brown; some blackish marks at base; subbasal line represented by diffused black spots below costa and cel] ; antemedial line indistinctly double, oblique, minutely waved, interrupted, angled inwards at vein 1; claviform represented by an oblique white striga defined by black at its extremity ; orbicular represented by a_ silvery-white crescent with white point above it, both defined by black; the reniform with two oblique white stri# on inner side, a yellowish bar at middle with white striga beyond it and white point at lower extremity, all defined by black, some blackish suffusion before and beyond it; medial line diffused, blackish, oblique from costa to reniform, inwardly oblique from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line double, black filled in with grey, the outer line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 5, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line with an oblique grey bar from costa, then very indistinct and with black spot at inner margin ; a terminal CALYMNIODES. 139 series of black striae with whitish points between them. Hind wing red-brown with blackish discoidal bar; cilia with a fine whitish line at base; the underside grey tinged with red-brown, the costal and eral areas irrorated a red-brown, a nlacle discoidal spot, curved maculate postmedial line, diffused subterminal band, and terminal series of black striz. Hab. 8.K. Peru, 8. Domingo (Ockenden), type fT in Coll. Druce. Exp. 30 millim. Seer. II. Male without secondary sexual characters. A. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform not filled in with black, a. Fore wing with the orhicular not white. a, Fore wing with the wedial area whitish tinged with Bees . Fore wing with the antemedial line strongly in- curved from costa to above inner margin ..........+- orbica. O°, Fore wing with the antemedial line nearly straight from costa to above inner margin. @. Fore wing with the reniform ‘oblique Sia sree ee oes latifascia, 43, Fore wing with the reniform erect ...........2.0000- mesochroa, b1. Fore wing with the medial area whitish or pale more or less autuised with brown. ¢ Fore wing with the reniform erect ..........2..ceeeeeee albiorbis. . Fore wing with the reniform oblique. a’, Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique, waved. a‘, Fore wing with the basal area white except towards Costa ....sccecseceescecesssessesseseensenes ampliplaga. ai, pa wing with the Baicaits area brown. . Fore wing with the medial area whitish ...... n@via. Oo. Fore wing with the medial area hardly p: aicr than the sround-Coloun y toc.csscendseecadsteadce melagona, 03, Fore wing with the antemedial line angled out- wards below costa and inwards at vein 1 ......... aperiens. cl, Fore wing with the costal half of medial area yellow . purta. b. Fore wing with the orbicular pure white. aw, Fore wing with the reniform defined by white points ONMIMMCN CAS Gs e nese caeeuh cree van weet eos emnerteae aaheoane dislocata. 1, Fore wing with the reniform with white annulus angled inwards on median nervure to orbicular ...... retracta. b. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform filled in with [DENG Fe ks paiement Beas sees eens cones Santee seeeaceteee Suscoma, 4479, Calymniodes orbica, n. sp. (Plate CXL. fig. 29.) Hadena latifascia, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 294 (part. nee WIk.). Head fuseous brown; tegule rufous; thorax ochreous tinged with rufous, the extremities of patagia dark brown; tibiwe and tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen greyish suffused with fuscous brown, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing with the basal area rufous; an oblique waved black subbasal line defined by ochreous on inner side from costa to submedian fold, with a greyish fuscous patch beyond it to antemedial line, which is double, the inner line black, the outer rufous, filled in with ochreous, ineunend from costa to median neryure, then very oblique to mails of inner margin ; medial area ochreous tinged with rufous; claviform 140 NOCTUID. represented by a dark point at its extremity; orbicular white slightly defined by rufous and with dark point in centre, round ; reniform very narrow and oblique, curved, concave towards base, slightly defined by rufous and its centre by rufous; an obliquely curved rufous medial shade, diffused on inner side ; postmedial line double filled in with rufous, the inner line black, the outer fuscous, very minutely sinuous, oblique from costa to vein 6 and inwardly oblique below vein 2, the area beyond it fuscous with a greyish tinge and with some ochreous points on costa; subterminal line represented by a series of ochreous lunules defined on inner side by slight dentate black marks and expanding into diffused patches at apex and tornus, slightly angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4,3; a fine black terminal line with white points at the extremities of the veins. Hind wing pale suffused with brown, the terminal area darker, a slight blackish discoidal lunule; cilia whitish with a brown line through them; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line expanding into spots below costa and at discal and submedian folds, diffused subterminal band from costa to vein 4, and terminal series of slight lunules. Hab, Guaremata, Cerro Zunil (Champion), 1 ¢ type; Panama, Chirigui (Champion), 1 9 , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Venrzurna, Aroa, 196,19. Exp. 28-30 millim. 4480. Calymniodes latifascia. Hadena latifascia, Wik. xxxiii. 7380 (1865); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 294. Calymnia oryx, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 109. f. 85 (1874). Head and thorax dark reddish brown, the metathorax more rufous; abdomen dark brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface greyish. Fore wing fuscous brown with a greyish tinge, the inedial area ochreous suffused with rufous; subbasal line re- presented by small black marks below costa and cell; antemedial Fig. 42.— Calymniodes latifasciu, $. }. line double, black filled in with rufous, slightly sinuous ; claviform represented by a black point at its extremity: orbicular small, round, pale ochreous slightly defined by brown and with dark point in centre; reniform very narrow and oblique, pale ochreous slightly defined by brown, its centre very narrow and defined by rufous, some brown suffusion in cell before it ; an indistinct medial line, CALYMNIODES, 141 oblique from costa to median nervure, then waved ; postmedial line double, the outer line indistinct, minutely waved, very oblique from costa to vein 6 where it is acutely angled outwards, then bent inwards to lower extremity of reniform and oblique to inner margin near tornus, some black suffusion before it beyond the reniform, some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line | represented by a diffused dentate black mark below costa with some rufous beyond it, then by a series of minute black points in the interspaces ; cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing brown with a reddish gloss, somewhat paler at base; cilia with a fine whitish line at base; the underside whitish irrorated with fuscous, the terminal area suffused with fuscous, a large black discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line with dark spots below costa and at discal and submedian folds. Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 9, Coatepec (Brooks), 1 2, Vera Paz (Champion), 1 2, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Venezorra (Dyson), 1 2 type. Hep, 30-34 millim. The type has the abdomen of a ¢ stuck on. 4481. Calymniodes mesochroa, n. sp. (Plate CXL. fig. 30.) Hadena latifascia, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 294 (part. nee W1k.). g. Head and thorax bright rufous, palpi whitish in front; tarsi with slight pale rings; abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing red- brown suffused with greyish, the medial area ochreous white tinged with rufous; subbasal line represented by two slight dark points on costa; antemedial line erect, very slightly sinuous; claviform represented by a black point at its extremity ; orbicular with very indistinct brown annulus, round; reniform very narrow, with brown centre and whitish annulus faintly defined by brown ; medial line blackish diffused and slightly waved towards costa, then indistinct, brown; a black line inwardly oblique from costa to reniform, then forming the outer edge of reniform, then incurved from lower angle of cell to inner margin, the fuscous postmedial line approximated to it except beyond cell where it is excurved and minutely dentate, slightly defined by whitish on inner side, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line very indistinct, whitish defined on inner side by slight blackish marks except towards costa, very minutely angled outwards at veins 7, 4,3; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing red-brown somewhat paler at base; cilia red-brown at base, white at tips; the under- side pale suffused with rufous, a dark discoidal point, slight punctiform postmedial line, and fine dark terminal line. Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion), 1 ¢ type. Hap. 22 millim. 4452. Calymniodes albiorbis. (Plate CXL. fig. 31.) Calymniodes albiorbis, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) i. p. 80]. (1908). Head yellowish with some brown on vertex and at sides of palpi; antenne brown; thorax dark red-brown, the tegule whitish at 142 NoOcrurip.T. tips ; pectus whitish ; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen red-brown, whitish at base, the anal tuft yellowish tinged with rufous. Fore wing dark red-brown, the medial area whitish tinged with yellowish and rufous; subbasal line represented by a slight pale striga from costa; antemedial line blackish defined by whitish on outer side, angled outwards at subcostal nervure and submedian fold and incurved at vein 1; claviform very small, white detined at ex- tremity by black; orbicular pure white with two faint dark spots in centre, oblique, elliptical; reniform with white annulus, its centre yellowish at middle, dark brown above and below, narrow, angled inwards on median nervure to the orbicular, a black-brown patch between them in cell with another above it on costa; traces of an incurved brown line from lower angle of cell to inner margin where it expands into a patch; postmedial line black slightly defined on outer side by whitish, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 5, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, pale, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a slight dark terminal line ; cilia greyish mixed with brown, a dark line near base. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown especially on terminal area; a dark discoidal spot ; cilia whitish mixed with brown, a dark line near base; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated and suffused with brown, a black discoidal spot and rather diffused postmedial line incurved below vein 3. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial area nearly pure white, the markings almost obsolete. Hab. S.E. Prrv, 8. Domingo (Ockenden), 1 g, Oconeque. Exp. 20-24 milim., Type fT in Coll. Druce. 4483. Calymniodes amplipiaga. (Plate CXL. fig. 32.) Celena ampliplaga, Wik. xv. 1687 (1858). ¢. Head and tegule ochreous mixed with red-brown; thorax greyer; pectus and legs pale rufous, fore and mid tibize with fuscous bands, the tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen grey- brown. Fore wing pale red-brown with slight fuscous suffusion on terminal area, the basal and medial areas except at costa and the antemedial area below the cell grey-white; subbasal line repre- sented by two black striz from costa; antemedial line double towards costa, oblique, waved, with some blackish before it in cell; orbicular very faintly define, odblique elliptical; reniform in- distinctly defined, with fuscous centre ; medial line represented by an oblique black striga from costa; postmedial line black defined by whitish on outer side with fuscous suffusion beyond it, very slightly angled outwards below costa, oblique to vein 5, then incurved, some white points with black streaks between them beyond it on costa; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with black ; an oblique white shade from apex; subterminal line indistinct, pale, slightly defined on each side by fuscous, excurved at veins 7, 6 and at middle; cilia chequered fuscous and grey with i ve CALYMNIODES. 143 white line at base. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown ; cilia white with a brown line through them; the underside pale rufous. Hab. Harri (Tweedie), 1 3 type. vp. 30 millim. 4484, Calymniodes nevia. (Plate CXLI. fig. 1.) Celena nevia, Guen. Noct. i. p. 225 (1852). Hadena latifascia, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 294 (part. nec W1k.). ‘Head and thorax dark red-brown, the palpi blackish, the meta- thorax rufous and ochreous; pectus greyish; tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen greyish suffused with red-brown. Fore wing dark reddish brown with a greyish gloss, the medial area grey irrorated with brown ; subbasal line double filled in with rufous, angled outwards below costa and ending at submedian fold in which there is a black streak from it to the antemedial line, which is double filled in with rufous, sightly sinuous and ineurved from costa to above inner margin where it is bent outwards; claviform represented by a brown point at its extremity; orbicular with brown centre and whitish annulus defined by brown, round ; reniform very narrow and oblique, whitish defined by brow n, its centre defined by brown and constricted at middle; an indistinct waved medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell; a black streak in discal fold from the reniform to the postmedial re which is minutely dentate, very oblique from costa to vein 6 where it is angled, then nearly erect, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line very indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by small dentate black marks below costa, then by some small black spots, somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a fine black terminal line ; cilia with fine pale line at base. Hind wing pale suffused with reddish brown, the terminal area rather darker; cilia white with sight brown line through them ; the underside grey-white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with dark brown, a large black discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line with blackish spots at discal and submedian folds. Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo, Schaus), 3 3, Coatepee (Brooks), 1 $; Guaremata, Volcan de Atitlan (Champion), 1 3, Duenas (Champion), 1 9, Godman-Salvin Coll.; S.E. Prru, 8. Domingo ; Braziz, Rio Janeiro (Wilson), 1 og. wp, 28-34 millim, 4485, Calymniodes melagona, n. sp. (Plate CXLI. fig. 2.) Hadena latifascia, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 294 (part. nee W1k.), Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with blackish, the meta- thorax ochreous tinged with rufous; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous brown. Fore w ing pale red-brown, the basal and ferminal areas suffused with faseous, the medial area irrorated with dark brown; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold in which there is a black streak from it to the antemedial line, which is double filled in with rufous, slightly 144 NOCLUIDZ. waved, oblique; claviform slightly defined by blackish above towards extremity ; orbicular small, round, with fuscous centre and pale annulus defined by brown; reniform very narrow and oblique, somewhat constricted at middle, with whitish annulus defined by black and brown centre with whitish striga on it; an indistinct minutely waved medial black line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell; a black streak in discal fold from the reniform to the postmedial line, which is double, the outer line indistinct, minutely waved, very oblique from costa to vein 6 where it is acutely angled, then incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa; faint traces of a diffused rufous subterminal line, defined on inner side by a wedge-shaped black mark below costa, then by some black points ; a terminal series of slight dark strie with minute whitish points at extremity of the veins. Hind wing pale red-brown, the terminal area rather darker; a slight dark discoidal lunule; cilia white with a brown line near base; the underside grey-white irrorated with brown, a large black discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line with blackish spots below costa and at discal and submedian folds. Tiah. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 3 ¢, 19, type, Coatepec (Brooks), 1 9; Guarrmana, Volcan de Atitlan (Champion), 1 g; Costa Rica, Candelaria Mts. (Underwood), 1 ¢@, Godman-Salvin Coll, vp. 28-30 millim. 4486. Calymniodes aperiens. (Plate CXLI. fig. 3.) _ Hadena aperiens, Wik. xi. 755 (1857); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 294 & ii. p. 487. Head reddish brown, the vertex and palpi at sides suffused with fuscous; thorax fuscous black with reddish-ochreous patch on metathorax ; pectus and legs fuscous brown, the tarsi ringed with whitish; abdomen pale fuscous brown. Fore wing with the basal area fuscous with some rufous on inner margin, the medial area rufous slightly irrorated with black; the terminal area fuscous ; subbasal line represented by slight double dark striew from costa and cell filled in with rufous; antemedial line double filled in with rufous, angled outwards below costa, inwardly oblique to vein 1 and bent outwards above inner margin; claviform narrow and elongate, slightly defined by blackish at extremity only ; orbicular defined by black and with fuscous centre, small, round ; reniform very narrow and oblique, defined by black, its centre very narrow, defined by brown and with blackish spot at lower extremity; a rather indistinct medial line, oblique and waved from costa to median nervure, then dentate; postmedial line double filled in with rufous, minutely waved, oblique from costa to vein 6, then almost erect, some sligkt pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line rufous, waved, rather diffused and expanding into patches at apex und tornus, defined on inner side by a slight wedge-shaped black mark below costa and slightly angled outwards at veins 7 and 4; CALYMNIODES. 145 a terminal series of black points defined on inner side by slight rufous lunules; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the veins and costal and terminal areas suffused with brown, the last narrowing to tornus; a small discoidal spot; cilia white with a brown line through them; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a diffused fuscous mark at middle of costa, black discoidal spot, faint sinuous postmedial line with dark spots below costa and at discal and submedian folds, and terminal series of striz. Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 6; Guaremana, Volcan de Atitlan (Champion), 1 3, Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Vennzuena (Dyson), 1 3,1 2 type. vp. 24-30 millim. 4487. Calymniodes parta. (Plate CXLLI. fig. 4.) Perigea partu, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 230 (1894). 9. Head ochreous, the palpi brown at sides; thorax bright rufous, the tegulz tipped with white; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen red-brown mixed with greyish. Fore wing bright rufous, the medial part of vein 1 irrorated with black and white ; subbasal line represented by double blackish strive from costa and cell ; antemedial line almost medial, indistinct, double, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then incurved; the medial area orange- yellow irrorated with red from costa to submedian fold ; claviform small, slightly defined by brown; orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli defined by brown, the former round, the latter somewhat constricted at middle and with black points in upper and lower parts; a brown medial line excurved from below costa to below cell, then oblique; postmedial line double filled in with whitish towards costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 5, then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa; sub- terminal line yellowish, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown with a reddish tinge, greyish towards base ; cilia ochreous white with a brown line through them ; the underside grey-white very thickly irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot and indistinct diffused postmedial line. Hab. Brazit, Castro Paraiia (D. Jones), 1 9. Exp. 22 millim. 4488. Calymniodes dislocata. (Plate CXLL. fig. 5.) Celena dislocata, Wik. x. 266 (1856). 9. Head and thorax red-brown with a few white scales mixed, basal joint of antennze white at extremity, tegule tipped with white; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen greyish brown. Fore wing red-brown with some yellow mixed especially on basal area ; VOL. Ix. L . 146 NUCTUIDE. subbasal line brown, waved, from costa to submedian fold; ante- medial line double, minutely waved, erect; orbicular pure white defined by a few black scales, somewhat oblique elliptical; reniform very indistinctly defined, narrow and constricted at middle, with some white points on its inner edge; postmedial line defined by yellow on each side at costa, strongly bent outwards below costa, then double, minutely waved and produced to black and grey points on the veins, incurved below vein 4, some slight fuscous suffusion beyond it except towards costa and inner margin and some white points on costa; subterminal line formed of small yellow spots — defined by brown on inner side, angled inwards at discal and sub- median folds, outwards below vein 7 and excurved at middle; the veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks; a slight dark terminal line with white points at the veins. Hind wing whitish tinged with red-brown, the terminal area suffused with red-brown ; cilia with white line at base, followed by a brown line and white and brown tips; the underside white irrorated with large red-_ brown scales except below the cell, a large blackish discoidal spot and diffused waved postmedial line from costa to vein 4. Hab. Vunezunia (Dyson), 1 2 type. Exp. 26 millim. y 4489. Calymniodes retracta, n. sp. (Plate CXLI. fig. 6.) 2. Head and thorax dark reddish brown; palpi with the 2nd and 3rd joints whitish at tips; tegule and prothoracic crest whitish _ at tips; pectus, legs, and abdomen greyish suffused with red-brown. Fore wing dark reddish brown, the medial area and a patch on — inner margin before antemedial line yellowish tinged with rufous ;_ subbasal line represented by slight blackish marks below costa and cell ; antemedial line blackish, angled inwards in cell and on vein 1 and outwards in submedian fold; claviform minute with pure white centre defined by black, acute at extremity ; orbicular pure white, — small, oblique elliptical; reniform with blackish centre and white — annulus, narrow, constricted at middle and angled inwards on median nervure to the orbicular, the cell between them blackish, a— dark mark. above them on costa; postmedial line blackish, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line yellowish, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a blackish terminal line with minute white points at the veins and a blackish line at base of cilia. Hind wing grey-brown; cilia whitish with dark line near base and some dark scales at tips; the underside greyish suffused and irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and diffused postmedial line excurved below costa. Hab. Perv, Tinguri (Ockenden), 1 9 type. Hap. 22 millim. CALYMNIODES.—IPIMORPHA. 147 449), Calymniodes fuscoma. (Plate CXLI. fig. 7.) Oligia fuscoma, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 102 (1906). 2. Head yellow ; palpi blackish at sides ; frons with lateral black bars ; thorax rufous, the base of tegul yellow followed by a black line; tarsi slightly ringed with white; abdomen red-brown, the anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing with the basal and terminal areas ochreous tinged with brown, the medial and postmedial areas rufous irrorated with yeilow; subbasal line represented by an oblique brown striga from costa; antemedial line defined by yellow on inner side, angled outwards below costa and above inner margin; orbicular and reniform with black centres and fiery- orange annuli; the former very small, elliptical, the latter small, rounded above and narrowing below, with some greyish before and beyond it; a slight fiery-orange streak in submedian fold before the postmedial line, which is broadly defined by yellow on outer side, strongly bent outwards below costa and slightly incurved below vein 5, some small yellow spots defined by brown beyond it on the veins and some small yeilow spots on costa with yellow streak below them; subterminal line yellowish, slightly excurved at middle and bent outwards to tornus; a terminal series of slight brown points; cilia rufous. Hind wing pale red-brown; cilia whitish with a pale rufous line through them; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with rufous, a blackish discoidal lunule and rather diffused curved postmedial line. Hab. Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers), 1 2, Godman-Salvin Coll. Brazit, Sao Paulo, in Coll. D. Jones. Hap. 24 millim. Genus IPIMORPHA. Type. ipumorpha, Wiibn. Verz. p. 238 (1827) ..........csccesscesceoseeedenees retusa. miastenis. Boisd. Ind. Meth. p: 93 (840) .0....2..scc0c sees scscsecenee subtusa. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair; eyes large, round; antennz of male laminate and ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the tegule produced to a dorsal ridge, the prothorax with sharp triangular crest, the metathorax with spreading crest ; tibia moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair, but without crests. Fore wing with the costa arched at base, then almost straight, the apex produced and acute, the termen typically excised below apex, then excurved, not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 trom 10 anas- tomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 148 NCCTUIDE. Seer. T. (Jpimorpha). Fore wing with the termen excised below apex, then excurved. 4491. Ipimorpha retusa. Noctua retusa, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 321 (1761); Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 178. f. 1; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 214; Dup. Lép. Fr. vi. p. 145, pl. 82. f. 3; Frr. Beitr. iii. pl. 143; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 205. Noctua vetula, Hiibn. Beitr. pl. 2, H (1791). Noctua gracilis, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 268 (1809); Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ili. p. 57. Cosmia eurvata, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1886, p. 131. Head and thorax reddish brown slightly mixed with grey; pectus with some whitish; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface greyer. Fore wing reddish brown tinged with grey and with slight dark irroration, the costal area irrorated with whitish ; Fig. 43.—Ipimorpha retusa, . }. subbasal line whitish, oblique, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line whitish defined by a brown shade on outer side, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, slightly excurved at submedian fold; orbicular and reniform very large, dark brown with whitish annuli, — the former elliptical and slightly constricted at middle, the latter strongly constricted at middle; a rather diffused oblique sinuous brown line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line whitish slightly defined by brown on inner side and strongly on outer, arising from costa towards apex, oblique, slightly sinuous; subterminal line slight, pale, defined by dark brown on outer side, minutely waved, oblique from costa to vein 5, excurved at middle and angled inwards in submedian fold; a slight brown terminal line ; cilia with a slight brown line at middle. Hind wing glossy grey-brown ; cilia brownish white with a slight brown line near base ; the underside whitish tinged and irrorated with brown, a small brown discoidal spot, obliquely curved postmedial line and rather diffused subterminal line from costa to termen at submedian fold, Ab. 1. curvata. Fore wing somewhat redder.—Japan. Hab, Brivatn, Leech Coll.; FRrancr, Sand and Leech Colls.; Germany, Zeller and Leech Colls.; Ausrrra, Leech Coll.; Hungary; Swirzeryany, Frey Coll.; N. Irany; S. Russra, Leech Coll.; We Srepria, Altai; E. Siserra, Amurland, Ussuri; Japan, Yesso (Pryer), 3 3, Fukushima (Lewis), 1 9 type curvata, Yokohama (Pryer), 2 Q2.. Eap. 86-34 millim. IPIMORPHA. 149 Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 118; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 830, pl. 226. f. 1. Pale green ; broad dorsal, slender subdorsal and waved spiracular whitish lines ; head yellow-green or black-brown. Food-plants: Salix, Poplar, Birch, between leaves spun together, 5-6. Secr. II. Fore wing with the termen nearly straight from apex to vein 3, then oblique. A. Hind wing of male with vein 2 arising from towards base of cell and with semihyaline streaks above and below it. a. Fore wing with the postmedial line hardly bent inwards to costa, the claviform and orbicular large ............... pleonectusa, b. Fore wing with the pcstmwedial line strongly curved inwards to costa. a, Kore wing grey-brown; hind wing suffused with brown, the claviforim and orbicular small BS RANTES subvera. }!, Fore wing ochreous white ; hind wing slightly tinged with brown, the orbicular large ............... eeetrastnes NANALINO. 4492. Ipimorpha pleonectusa. Brel pleonec tusa, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soe. Nat. Sci. i. p. 191 (1873)> Smith, Cat. Nuct. N. Am. p. 212. Calymnia equilinea, Snith, Bull, Brooklyn Ent. Soc. v. p. 67 (1882). Head and thorax red-brown tinged with greyish ; pectus whitish ; abdomen yellowish white dorsally tinged with red-brown. Fore wing yellowish suffused with red-brown, the costal edges pale yellow; subbasal line yellowish, from costa to submedian fold; Fig. 44.—Lpimorpha pleonectusa, 3. antemedial line pale yellow, very oblique, straight ; claviform large, red-brown defined by pale yellow; orbicular and reniform large, red-brown defined by pale yellow, the former elliptical, the latter constricted at middle and slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; a diffused red-brown shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line pale yellow, almost straight ; sub- terminal line indistinct, yellowish white defined on inner side by a slight red-brown shade, excurved below costa and at middle and ending at tornus; a terminal series of faint red-brown lunules; cilia with a slight vellowish line at base. Hind wing pale yellowish suffused with reddish brown ; cilia yellowish white ; the underside 150 NOCIUID, yellowish white faintly tinged with red-brown, a faint curved post- medial line. Ab. 1. Paler and less red.—Manitoba, Alberta. Hab. Caxava, Renfrew Co., 7 ¢, Manitoba, Winnipeg, 2 ¢, Alberta, Calgary ( Wolley-Dod), 1 g, 4 2 ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, Evans Center, 2 ¢ type, New Jersey, Utah, Colores Exp. 24-40 millim. Larva. Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus, xxvii. p. 874 (1904). Head rounded, disk- like, yellowish white, white on face which is edged by a heavy semicircular black band, jaws and sutures of mouth black; body flattened ventrally, somite 12 not enlarged; translucent green; a broad dorsal white band on somites 3 to 13, narrowing in front; thoracic shield green, not cornified ; narrow subdorsal and substigmatal white lines ; legs tipped with black ; tubercles small, pale, white with dark hair points, iv. at the lower corner of spiracles which are white edged with black; skin shagreened. Food-plant: Aspen, living in a dwelling formed of the leaves with a hole at the lower end. 4493. Ipimorpha subvexa. (Plate CXLI. fig. 8.) Ipimorpha subvexa, Grote, Can. Ent. viii. p. 189 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 212. 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with grey ; antennz with the basal joint white, the shaft ringed with whitish; — pectus mixed with whitish; abdomen with the anal tuft tinged with rufous, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with olive-brown ; subbasal line whitish, slightly angled inwards on median nervure and ending at submedian fold; ante- medial line brown defined by pale yellow on inner side, oblique and slightly excurved at median nervure; claviform very small, brown slightly defined by whitish ; orbicular and reniform brown defined by whitish, the former small, elliptical, the latter large and con- stricted at middle ; a shght brown medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line brown defined by pale yellow on outer side, obliquely curved from costa to discal fold, then straight, oblique ; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, defined on inner side by olive-brown suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, angled inwards at discal and submedian folds and bent outwards to tornus; a terminal series of small brown lunules; cilia brown with slight pale line at base and whitish tips. Hind — wing whitish suffused with brown except on costal area; cilia — ochreous white with a brown line through them; the underside — ochreous white, the costal area irrorated with brown, a brown postmedial line from costa to discal fold. Hab. U.S.A., Texas (Belfrage), 1 § type, Colorado. Eup. 42 millim. ; IPIMORPHA. alii *4494, Ipimorpha nanaimo. (Plate CXLI. fig. 9.) Ipimorpha nanaimo, Barnes, Can, Ent. xxxvii. p. 196 (1905). 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white slightly tinged with brown. Fore wing ochreous white tinged with brown; ante- medial line dark, oblique, slightly incurved at middle; orbicular and reniform large, faintly defined, elliptical, the former produced to a slight point on outer side, the latter on inner side ; an oblique dark shade from lower angle ‘of cell to inner margin; postmedial line dark, slightly excurv ed; subterminal lime only defined by the terminal area being somewhat paler and slightly irrorated with black, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; costa and cilia towards apex reddish. Hind wing whitish faintly tinged with brown; a diffused dark postmedial line. Hab. Canapa, Br. Columbia, Victoria. Hvp. 39 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a drawing from type in Coll. W. Barnes. B. (Plastenis). Hind wing of male normal. 4495. Ipimorpha subtusa. Noctua subtusa, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 88 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p- 152 (178 7); Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 213; Dup. Lép. Fr. vi. p. 148, pl. 82. f.4; Frr. Beitr. i. pl. 10; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii, p. 56 ; ey Cat. Lep. pal. p. 205. Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; antenne whitish ; pectus whitish; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing glossy grey suffused arid irrorated with reddish brown, the itil area rather greyer ; subbasal line yellowish white, foora costa to submedian fold; antenatal line brown defined by yellowish white on inner side, very oblique, straight; claviform moderate, reddish brown defined by yellowish white ; orbicular and reniform large, reddish brown defined by Fig. 45.—lpimorpha subtusa, $. }. yellowish white, the former elliptical, the latter constricted at middle ; a brown medial shade from costa to reniform and slightly incurved from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line brown defined by yellowish white on inner side, slightly excurved below costa and somewhat oblique below vein 4; subterminal line very faint, whitish defined on inner side by a red-brown shade, angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards at discal fold, excurved at middle and incurved below 3; cilia reddish brown with a darker 152 NOCTUID.E. line at middle, Wind wing grey suffused with reddish brown ; a faint discoidal lunule ; cilia white tinged with ochreous at base ; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown; a brown discoidal lunule filled in with white, curved postmedial line and subterminal brown spot below vein 2. Hab, Brivary, Leech Ooll.; Francn, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Ausrria, Leech Coll.; Hungary; Switzr- ranp; N. Iraty; Russra, Livonia, Zeller Coll., Sarepta; ARMENIA ; W. Srpprra, Altai; E. Smprra, Ussuri. vp. 34-38 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 118; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 328, pl. 225. f. 3. Pale yellowish green ; rather broad dorsal and narrow subdorsal pale yellow or whitish lines; spiracular line pale yellow; head yellow marked with black. Food-plants: Poplar and Aspen, between leaves spun together. 4-5. Genns MERISTIS. Type. Meristis, ubn-IV era; po 2oo Kl Gad) ieessrerene +p da soceapenteereceses trigrammica. Grammesia, Steph. Il. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 151 (1829)...... trigrammica. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and broadly scaled, the 3rd short, upturned; frons smooth ; eyes large, round; antennze of male serrate; thorax clothed with hair and hair- like scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibize moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing rather broad, the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell, 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with — the cell near base only. 4496. Meristis trigrammica. Noctua trigrammica, Hifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 408 (1767); Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 123. f. 6; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 195. Noctua trilinea, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 84 (1776); Hiubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 216; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. p. 103, pl. 107. f. 2; Steph. I. Brit. Ent., Haust. u. p. 152. Noctua quercus, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 214 (1781). Noctua notacula, Faby. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 188 (1787). Phalena quercicola, Gmel, Ed. Syst. Nat. 1, 5, p. 2535 (1788). Noctua bilinea, Hiiby. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 217 (1802); Steph. Ill. Brit. — Ent., Haust. ii. p. 152; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 398. Grammesia obscura, Tutt, Brit. Noct. i. p. 142 (1891). Grammesia fringsti, Schultz, Soc. Ent. xiii. p. 163 (1899). Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with rufous ; palpi brown at sides; abdomen whitish ochreous. Fore wing whitish ochreous irrorated with rufous; subbasal line brown, slightly waved, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line fine, brown, slightly bent inwards to costa and incurved above vein 1; medial line stronger, slightly angled outwards below costa and oblique below vein 1; postmedial line fine, brown, slightly angled outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4; a fine waved brown terminal line; cilia reddish = Le —. MERISTIS.— TRICHOCOSMIA. 153 brown. Hind wing whitish ochreous suffused with brown except on costal area; cilia whitish at tips: the underside with the costal area }rrorated with brown, a discoidal point, slight bar from middle of costa, and subterminal line from costa to vein 6. Fig. 46.—Meristis trigrammica, $. 1}. Ab. 1. bilinea. Fore wing suffused with brown, the medial line hardly traceable. Ab. 2. fringsi. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines absent, the medial line present. Hab. Brrratn, Leech Coll.; France; Hottanp, Zeller Ooll.; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Austria, Frey Coll.; Houneary; Swirzertanp; Iraty; Datmarra, Leech Coll.; Bauxay strates; S.Scanpinavia; Russra, Livonia; Arwenra; Asta Mrnor, Pontus. Hep. 32-40 millim. Greyish ochreous, dull reddish brown or dark grey; dorsai line pale, black-edged at excisions; subdorsal line pale, interrupted, sometimes edged with blackish marks above; spiracular line brown; head brown. Food-plant: Plantago, subterranean in habit. 7-4. Genus TRICHOCOSMIA. Type. Trichocosmia, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. 6 (1883) ............. ee Ae inornata. Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint not reaching middle of frons and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd short; frons with slight rounded prominence with corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round; antenne of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading erest; tibie slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4497. Trichocosmia inornata. Trichocosmia inornata, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. 6 (1883); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 210. Head and thorax white tinged with rufous; abdomen white, the basal crest. tipped with rufous. Fore wing white tinged with rufous ; antemedial line indistinct, rufous, slightly defined by whitish on inner side, erect, waved, with minute black points on 154 NOCTUIDE. > median nervure and vein 1; a small fuscous spot at lower angle of cell; a faint diffused sinuous rufous medial line; postmedial line indistinct, rufous, slightly defined by white on outer side, very minutely waved and with minute dark points on the veins, slightly excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line Fig. 47.— Trichocosmia inornata, dg. }. indistinct, white slightly defined by rufous on inner side and some- what excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of slight dark points. Hind wing pure white; the underside with the apex faintly tinged with rufous. Ab. 1. Fore wing without the dark spot at lower angle of cell aud points on the veins. Hab, U.S.A., Arizona, 1 ¢, Phoenix (Kunzé),19g¢,10 9. Hap. 24-28 millim. Genus BAGISARA. Type. Bagisara, Wik. xy. AiO (USD) cc ca vce ncn sacee pedataee nee eee subusta. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head and slender, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antennze of male laminate and moderately ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibiae moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with — dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with veins 3 ane 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angele of cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing | with the cell near base only. Srcr. I. Fore wing with the termen somewhat excised below apex and towards — tornus and excurved at middle. 4498, Bagisara subusta. Alethmia subusta, Hibn. Sammi. Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 8, ff. 205-6 (1827) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 290; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Ain. — 9. 215. Ajeamig inusta, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 12, pl. 8. f. 1 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. — Neeatinie pales : Anthophila erecta, W\k. xii. 828 (1857). Anomis dispartita, Wk. xiii. 990 (1857). Poaphila congesta, Wk. xv. 1838 (1858). Bayisara incidens, Wik. xv. 1771 (1858). Laphygma trilinea, Wik. xxxii. 649 (1865). Head and thorax pale ochreous yellow ; tarsi tinged with brown; abdomen pale yellow dorsally tinged with fulvous. Fore wing pale glossy ochreous yellow irrorated with pale brown; the Ist line almost medial, brown defined by whitish on inner side, angled outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly incurved; two BAGISARA, 155 black discoidal points; postmedial line brown defined by whitish on outer side, excurved from costa to vein 5, then incurved ; sub- terminal line brown defined by whitish on outer side, exourved below costa, then slightly incurved; a terminal series of black Fig. 48.—Bagisara subusta, $. 4. points; cilia tinged with rufous. Hind wing semihyaline yellowish white, the termen tinged with ochreous; a terminal series of black points; the underside with the costa and termen slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown, a small dark discoidal spot and postmedial series of minute points on the veins, Ab. 1. tnusta. Fore wing much more strongly irrorated with brown. ; Ab. 2. incidens. Fore wing with round blackish discoidal spot instead of the two points. Hab.. U.S.A., Florida, Texas; Mexico, Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith), '1.6, Guerrero (4. H. Smith), 1 g,2 2, Coatepec (Brooks), 1 3, Orizaba (Zrujillo), 1 Q, Cuesta de Misantla (Zrwillo), 1 9 , Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 = , Presidio (Forrer), 1 9 ; Guaremaxa, San Geronimo (Champion), 5 53,1 9, Zapota (Champion) , 1 2, Vera Paz (Cham- Me pion), 1 2; Cosra Rica, Irazu (Joggers), 2 6, 39; Panama, a Chiriqui (Champion, Ribbé), 3 9, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Jamaica | (Gosse, Bowry, Cockerell, Kaye), 1 3, 4 Q types dispurtita and e ae Moneague CH alsin Gham), 1 $; Cusa, Santiago (Schaus), feo, 1 9; Harer (Tweedie), 2 5, 1 2 types erecta and trilinea ; Sr. Lucra (Cowie), 12; Grenava (H. H. Smith), 2 2; Barsavos (Frampton), 33,39; Vuenezurta (Dyson),1 ¢ type congesta ; Br. Guiana, Potaro R. (Kaye), 1 9; Braziz, Espiritu Santo (Higgins) 1 3, 1 2, Sao Paulo (Jones), 2 2 ; PARAGUAY, Sapucay (foster), 8 S, 8 2; ARceEntINA, Goya (Perrins), 39. Exp. 26 millim. Sucr. II. Fore wing with the termen evenly curred. A. Fore wing with the reniform not represented by two small white spots defined by black. a. ae wing with the postmedial line excurved below costa. gtiore wing with the lines white. peOLe Wile Tey —bLOWN |... 252... nceesenensrsemecenscmelicsiees obscura. 2 Fore wing ochreous white a PEeoonuconochrnsecroncricns cncore rectifascia, }’, Fore wing w with the lines dark ......0..c:ccccssecssessseeseees paulensis. b. Fore wing with the postmedial line angled outwards at vein 6. a’. Fore wing yellowish white ...............cccccscesecsseeeceeee buxea. 61, Fore wing creamy ochreous slightly irrorated with DROW Dire ctacs seat sateen cicissackinnds emaneenne master ome Stee c delicia. B. Fore wing with the reniform represented by two small white spots defined by black,........tcscossnssnceveens Fisdendeance RB nAeete patula. 156 NOCTUIDE. 4499, Bagisara obscura, n. sp. (Plate CXLI. fig. 10.) 2. Head and thorax grey suffused with reddish brown; palpi fuscous, whitish at tips; antennae fuscous; tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey suffused with reddish brown and slightly irrorated with black; subbasal whitish strixe from costa and cell with some blackish scales on their outer edges; antemedial line whitish defined on each side by fuscous, very obliquely excurved; orbicular a faint minute whitish spot ; reniform with whitish anuoulus, very narrow and constricted at middle; a slightly oblique curved medial blackish line; postmedial line whitish defined on each side by fuscous, bent outwards below costa and incurved below discal fold, some faint whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line slight, pale, somewhat ex- curved below vein 7 and at middle, the terminal area darker with slight pale strie just before termen and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown, the cilia whitish — with fine pale lines near base and tips; the underside grey irro- rated with brown, a blackish discoidal striga and indistinct minutely waved postmedial line. Hab. Br. Guiana (Rodway), 1 Q type. Ewp. 24 millim. 4500. Bagisara rectifascia. (Plate CXLI. fig. 11.) Schinia rectifascia, Grote, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvi. p. 242 (1874); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 214. 2. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white irrorated with brown. Fore wing ochreous white suffused with pale yellow- brown except on costal area and irrorated with brown; the Ist line almost medial, white, angled outwards below costa, then oblique; a slight whitish discoidal bar; postmedial line white, excurved below costa, then oblique; subterminal line white, excurved below costa, then erect and ending at tornus; the ter- minal area tinged with rufous, with slight ditfused whitish streaks on the veins; terminal black points on veins 3, 2; cilia rufous with fine red line at base. Hind wing ochreous white, the costa towards apex and termen slightly irrorated with brown; cilia tinged with rufous ; the underside with the costal half and terminal area irrorated with re brown, a slight discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line from costa to submedian fold. Ha. U.S.A., Pennsylvania, 1 2 type, New Jersey, Illinois, Alabama. Zep, 3+ millim., 4501. Bagisara paulensis. (Plute CXLL. fig. 12. Atethmia paulensis, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 116 (1898). 2. Head and thorax ochreous white; palpi at sides and antenne brownish ; legs irrorated with fuscous ; abdomen fulvous yellow with slight ftuscous irroration, the Ist segment ochreous white. J‘ore wing ochreous ycllow slightly irrorated with red-brown, the BAGISARA, aay © terminal area tinged with rufous; the Ist line almost medial, brown, oblique from costa to subcostal neryure, then nearly straight and almost erect; postmedial line brown, excurved from costa to vein 6, then incurved; subterminal line brown, excurved from costa to vein 6, then almost straight and ending at tornus; cilia red- brown with a slight yellow line at base. Hind wing pale yellow, the termen faintly tinged with rufous; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, the termen tinged with brown from apex to vein 2, a postmedial series of dark points on the veins from costa to vein 2 anda series of slight points just before termen from apex to submedian fold. Hab. Cotompta, 1 ¢ ; 8. Brazir, Sao Paulo. wp. 36 millim. 4502. Bagisara buxea. Schinia buxea, Grote, Can. Ent. xiii. p. 230 (1881); id. Papilio, ii. p. 64, pl. 1. f. 4; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 213. Head and thorax white tinged with ochreous ; palpi tinged with rufous at tips; antenne pale rufous; abdomen cchreous white with slight orange segmental lines. Fore wing yellowish white shghtly tinged with rufous except at base, rather more strongly tinged on terminal area; the Ist line almost medial, fine, rufous, angled outwards on subcostal nervure, then oblique; a slight rufous discoidal line; postmedial line fine, rufous, oblique from Fig. 49.—Bagisara buxea, $. } Te costa to vein 6 where it is acutely angled outwards, then inwardly oblique and shghtly inecurved at submedian fold ; subterminal line fine, rufous, excurved below vein 7, then oblique and slightly excurved at middle; cilia bright rufous, Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area faintly tinged with rufous from apex to vein 2; cilia white; the underside white with the costal area faintly tinged with ochreous. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, Kerrville, 1 ¢, Arizona, Prescott (Kunzé), 1g, 29, Huachuca Mts. (Barnes) 26, 29. Hap. 30-34 millim. *4503. Bagisara delicia. (Plate CXLI. fig. 13.) Trileuca delicia, Dyar, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xv. p. 52 (1907). d. Head, thorax, and abdomen creamy ochreous. Fore wing creamy ochreous with slight brown irroration; the lines fine, 158 NOCTUID.E. brown; the Ist line almost medial, angled outwards on subcostal nervure, then oblique; postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 6 where it is angled outwards, then inwardly oblique and slightly excurved towards inner margin; subterminal line angled outwards below vein 7, then oblique and slightly excurved at middle; the terminal area and cilia more tinged with brown. — Hind wing white, the termen tinged with yellow from apex to — vein 2. Hab, U.S.A., Wisconsin, Milwaukee Co. #xp. 32 millim. This — species is unknown to me; figured from a drawing from type in — U.S. Nat. Mus. 4504, Bagisara patula. Xanthia patula, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 486, pl. 94. f. 14 (1898). 3. Head and thorax orange mixed with red scales; antenne brownish except at base; patagia with oblique fuscous line across them; the metathorax with blackish dorsal streak; pectus and legs pinkish white mixed with rufous; abdomen pale pinkish brown, the ventral surface whitish suffused with rufous. Fore wing bright golden yellow irrorated with red, the veins streaked with rufous; subbasal line red-brown, oblique, from costa to median nervure; antemedial line red-brown, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then inwardly oblique ; orbicular represented by a black point, the reniform by an oblique white striga at upper angle of cell and pear-shaped spot at lower angle, both defined by black ; a very oblique red-brown line from costa well beyond middle to middle of inner margin, touching lower extremity of reniform and followed by another oblique red-brown line, excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved and again excurved below submedian fold; — a faint subterminal shade excurved below costa and at middle and incurved at discal and submedian folds; cilia red-brown with white tips. Hind wing orange-yellow tinged with pinkish especially at inner margin; cilia red-brown with slight pale line at base and white tips; the underside ochreous, the costal area irrorated with brown and white, a small black discoidal spot, medial line excurved below costa and obsolescent on inner area, and slight curved post- — medial line with minute black streaks on the veins. Hab, Costa Rica, Sta. Clara Valley (Zurcher), 1 ¢ type,Godman- Salvin Coll. Avp. 32 millim. 7 Genus ELYDNA. Type. Elydna, Wk. xv. 1712 (1858) .......eeeeeeee ences eset eeeerneeeeeneeees transversa. - Dyrzela, Wik. xv. 1758 (1858) .......-. eee eeeeeeeeeee eed Wcuncsessee plagiata. Dadica, Moore, P. ZS. 1881, p. 349 «.. 1.0 c.ccccecscsssetessoncnnree lineosa. Radinacra, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 161 (1878) ............... cinerascens. Leucocosmia, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 394................6+ reclusa. Floccifera, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 281 (1894)................-. erigida, * Proboscis fully deyeloped; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of ELYDNA. 159 head, slender, the 8rd long; frons smooth ; eyes large, round; antenne of _ male typically ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without erests ; tibize fringed with long hair; abdomen smoothly scaled and without, erests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly erenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars or rather stronger from well below middle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sucr. I. Antenne of male bipectinate with long branches to just beyond middle, the apical part ciliated. 4505. Elydna bosca. Dyrzela bosca, Swinh, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 266; Hmpsn. Moths Ind, ii. p. 267. ¢. Head and thorax pale reddish brown, the scales tipped with greyish; tarsi ringed with whitish; abdomen grey tinged with ‘reddish brown. Fore wing reddish brown tinged with grey and sligntly irrorated with fuscous; antemedial line indistinct, double, obliquely curved and very slightly waved: an indistinct medial line, oblique from costa to just below cell, then erect ; postmedial Fig. 50.—Elydna basea, S$. } T- line indistinct, double, excurved to vein 6, incurved at discal fold, then oblique and very slightly waved, an oblique black spot beyond it between veins 7 and 6; traces of a minutely waved subterminal line excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a series of prominent black points just before termen ; cilia fuscous. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia with a fine pale line at base; the underside grey tinged with reddish brown. Hab. Burma, Rangoon, 1 ¢ type, Bhamo, 1 ¢ ; Borneo, Sara- wak (Wallace), 1 g. Hap. 34 millim., Sect. II. (Dyrzela). Antennx of male strongly serrate above to middle, strongly fasciculate below. 4506. Elydna plagiata. Dyrzela plagiata, Wik. xv. 1758 (1858) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 267. Oglasa costipannosa, Swinh. ‘Trans. Ent. Soe. 1890, p. 266. Oglasa costiplaga, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 153. Tlead and thorax chocolate-brown, the vertex of head whitish ; 160 NOCTUID.E. antenne blackish; palpi in front towards base white; pectus greyish; abdomen reddish brown, the ventral surface whitish except at extremity. Fore wing reddish brown suffused with glossy leaden grey; a large chocolate-red patch from costa at middle to near apex and extending to below vein 4, with rather — sinuous white edges and rounded below ; a subbasal black point in cell; two indistinct oblique sinuous dark antemedial lines, wide apart below the cell; postmedial line indistinct, dark, curving Fig. 51.—Llydna plagiata, G. i. round the outer edge of the chocolate patch and minutely waved from its lower edge to inner margin ; a series of black points just — before termen. Hind wing dark brown with a cupreous red gloss ; a fine pale line at base of cilia; the underside greyish suffused with brown, a black discoidal lunule, indistinct curved postmedial line, and terminal series of black points. Hab. Punsas (James), 1 ¢ ; Bompay, Kanara, Karwar (Bell), 19; Cxnyton, Kandy (Green), 1 ¢, 1 9, Matale (Pole), 1 9; Burma, Moulmein (Clerk), 1 g type, Rangoon, 1 ¢ type costi- pannosa, Bhamo, 1 ¢. Ep. 30 millim. Secr. ITI. Antenne of male minutely serrate and strongly fasciculate. 4507. Elydna incrassata. Dyrzela incrassata, Wk. xv. 1759 (1858). Dyrzela parallela, Wik. xxxiii. 787 (1865). Palpi, frons, and antenne black-brown; vertex of head and basal half of tegule orange-fulvous; tips of tegule and thorax — red-brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen greyish brown. Fore wing — Fig. 52.—Elydna incrassata, g. 4. red-brown with a greyish gloss, the costal edge orange fulvous to beyond middle; a black point in base of cell; antemedial line red- brown, oblique, waved; medial line red-brown, waved, oblique 3 BLYDNA. 161 from costa to median nervure; postmedial line red-brown, slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved and oblique to inner margin near tornus; a chocolate-brown patch beyond it from costa to above vein 6, with some white points on costa, its lower part black with the patch constricted above it; a faint sinuous dark subterminal shade between veins 5 and 3; a series of black points just before termen. Hind wing dark brown with a reddish gloss; a fine pale line at base of cilia; the underside greyer with blackish discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line from costa to vein 2. ' Hab. Stxeavorn (Ridley), 10 ¢,3 29 ; Borneo, Sarawak ( Wal- lace), 5 3$,1.9, Kuching (Shelford), 1 3 ,Sandakan (Creagh), 1 9. Evp. 26-52 millim. Sect. TV. Antenne of male ciliated. A. Palpi of male with the terminal part of 2nd joint and the 3rd joint fringed with hair in front, the second joint with small tuft of hair behind at extremity, the tegule produced behind into a hood over thorax, the fore coxe on outer side and femora above fringed with thick tufts of scales. 4508. Elydna tristicta. Caradrina tristicta, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1898, p. 246, pl. 17. f. 2. Xanthodes amorata, Barnes, Can. Ent. xxxix. p. 66 (1907). 6. Head and thorax white tinged with reddish yellow and irrorated with a few black scales; palpi yellow at sides; antenne rufous ; fore legs with the fringes of scales bright rufous ; abdomen ochreous white with reddish orange dorsal segmental bands. Fore wing white, the basal area suffused with rufous, the medial area suffused with rufous and yellow except towards inner margin, the terminal area suffused with rufous between veins 6 and 5, the i. Big. 53.—Elydna tristicta, 3. ~~ basal area with some black irroration, the rest of wing irrorated with rufous, the veins streaked with rufous; subbasal line repre- sented by a black striga from costa and a point on median nervure, the antemedial line by a diffused blackish band from costa to vein 1, sometimes broken up into two spots; medial line rufous, erect and slightly sinuous; small white spots in the angles of cell and another beyond the rufous discoidal line; veins 6 and 5 Strongly streaked with rufous; postmedial line rufous, oblique from costa to vein 6 where it is angled, then inwardly oblique and VOL. 1x. M 162 NOCTUIDZE. slightly incurved between veins 3 and submedian fold ; subterminal line fine, rufous, oblique from costa to ah 6 then inwardly oblique and slightly incurved between veins 3 and 2; a series of stnall black spots just before termen from apex to submedian fold ; cilia rufous except towards tornus. Hind wing yellowish white with series of small red-brown lunules from apex to vein 2 and . the cilia red-brown at tips between those points; the underside with the costal area and terminal area to vein 3 sparsely irrorated with black, a small black discoidal spot and indistinct curved rufous postmedial line. ©. Fore wing with the basal area not suffused with rufous, the antemedial line slight, rufous. Hab. U.S.A., Arizona; Hartt (Tweedie), 1 9 ; Grenava (H. H, Smith),2 $,1 9 type. Hep. 28 millim. B. Palpi of male fringed with short downturned hair in front, the tegulze and femora normal. a. Fore wing with the lines silvery .........22. sesesusereseeeeeeerees gulnare. b. Fore wing with the lines brown defined by fulvous and WHI bigh: cs eee ee ene ee ree eee ae Ee eR ee laverna. c. Fore wing with the lines brown defined by whitish. ...c--cosesee. malacha. *4509. Elydna gulnare. 4 Schinia guinare, Streck. Proce. Davenport Ac. Sci. ii. p. 274, x ix. tou (1878); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 213. Head olive; thorax and abdomen olive with a metallic gloss, the — ventral surface greyish. Fore wing olive with a silvery gloss, + the lines silvery; antemedial line angled outwards below costa, then — oblique; postmedial line acutely angled outwards at vein 6a then obliquely incurved ; subterminal line acutely angled outwards : to termen below apex, then obliquely incurved; a small golden mark just before apex and another patch pointed above and “below on termen from the subterminal line to vein 2; cilia silvery grey. Hind wing pale glossy olive, the terminal area deeper olive. Underside rather paler; fore wing with the costal edge pale and_ with postmedial and subterminal striz from costa, the apex with a golden gloss; hind wing with indistinct discoidal point and subterminal and terminal narrow bands. Hab. U.S.A., Pennsylvania, Dlinois. Hap. 40 millim. This species is unknown to me. 4510. Elydna laverna. Xanthodes laverna, Druce, Biol. Ceutr.-Am., Het. i. p. 804, pl. 28. f. 18 (1889). Head and thorax pale olive mixed with white, especially on head and base of tegule; palpi white with fulvous line at side of 2nd joint and fulvyous tips; antenne fulvous brown; pectus whitish; legs ochreous slightly irrorated with brown; abdomen ochreous with dorsal fulyous segmental lines, the ventral surface slightly irrorated with brown. Fore wing ochreous white thickly ; ¥ ol E ELYDNA. 163 irrorated with olive-brown, the costal edge fulvous; the Ist line almost medial, brown defined by fulvous and whitish on inner side, very oblique from costa to subcostal nervure, where it is acutely angled outwards, then inwardly oblique and with fulvous between the brown and white lines; postmedial line brown defined by fulvous then whitish on outer side, very oblique from costa to Fig. 54.—Hlydna laverna, 3. }. vein 6 where it is acutely angled outwards and with whitish streak to termen, then very oblique to inner margin and slightly incurved ; subterminal line brown defined by fulvous, then whitish on outer side, very oblique from costa to termen at vein 6, then inwardly oblique and slightly incurved; cilia rufous, red-brown at tips. Hind wing yellow suffused with rufous; cilia yellow at base, brownish at tips; the underside yellowish white, the costal and terminal areas broadly irrorated with red-brown, a curved pale rufous postmedial line. Hab. Muxtco, Cuesta de Misantla (Trujillo), 2 9, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 9; Guatemara, Zapote (Champion), 1 2 , 8. Geronimo (Champion), 1 & type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Hep. 38-44 millim. 4511. Elydna malacha. Xanthodes malacha, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 805, pl. 28. f. 14 (1889). Head and thorax grey-white irrorated with brown, the head tinged with rufous ; palpi rufous except at base; antenne rufous ; pectus and legs ochreous white, the latter irrorated with brown ; abdomen ochreous white slightly irrorated with brown and with dorsal fulvous yellow segmental lines. Fore wing white irrorated with red-brown, especially on costal area to postmedial line, beyond the antemedial line, before the postmedial line, and beyond the subterminal line ; antemedial line red-brown defined by whitish on inner side, arising from middle of costa, slightly angled outwards on subcostal nervure, then oblique and slightly incurved; a slight brown discoidal line on a whitish patch; vein 6 with fine brown streak; postmedial line red-brown defined by whitish on outer side on inner half, very oblique from costa to vein 6 where it is acutely angled outwards, then obliquely incurved ; subterminal line defined by whitish on inner side, very obliquely downcurved from costa to termen at vein 7, and obliquely incurved from termen at vein 6 to inner margin; a series of brown strie just before termen; cilia M2 164 NOCTUID2E. red-brown. Hind wing pale golden yellow ; the underside yellowish white, the costal and terminal areas broadly irrorated with red- brown. Hab. Mexico, Cuernavaca (H. H. Smith), 1 ¢ type, Durango (Becker), 1 2, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 3 34, 2 36 millim. C. Palpi of male normal. a. (Leucocosmia). Vertex of head of male with a cleft corneous ridge clothed with seales; abdomen clothed with woolly pile; fore and hind wings with the basal half clothed with woolly hair above. 4512. Elydna reclusa. Prodenia reclusa, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soe. vi. p. 185 (1862) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 264. . Saphpane agrotoides, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. 1880, p. 77, pl. 6. f, 6. Radinacra thoracica, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 31, pl. 148. f. 4 (1884). Leucocosmia ceres, Buil. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 394, pl. 9. f. 10. Caradrina euthusa, Hmpsn. Il. Het. B. M. viii. p. 79. pl. 145, f. 1 (1891), Caradrina heliarcha, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 370. Caradrina unipunctata, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 201 (1906). Caradrina insignifica, Beth.-Baker, Noy. Zool. xiii, p. 201 (1906). ¢. Head and thorax brownish ochreous irrorated with some black scales ; palpi black at sides, whitish in front and at tips; antennz with black spot on basal joint behind, the shaft blackish ; tegule black-brown, ochreous white at base and sides; abdomen Fig. 55.—Elydna reclusa, g. 1}. black-brown, the extremity and anal tuft whitish; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated with fuscous except on basal area which is thickly clothed with olive-yellow scales ; 2 | subbasal line blackish, minutely waved, from costa to submedian fold: antemedial line indistinet, double, slightly bent inwards ok to costa and obsolete towards inner margin; traces of a minute round orbicular with two black points on its outer edge ; reniform _ absent; an indistinct diffused slightly curved medial line; a dark — point on costa above end of cell; postmedial line indistinctly double — filled in with whitish, slightly excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line absent ; a terminal series of slight black points; cilia with a pale line at base. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the basal area with yellowish, the veins browner; some brown on middle of inner margin; cilia yellowish white with ‘a slight brown line through them; the underside whiter, the costal area irrorated with brown, a small brown discoidal spot, post-— ELYDNA. 165 medial series of points on the veins atid terminal series from apex to vein 2. Hab. Bompay (Leith), 1 $; Mavras, Belgaum ( Watson), 2 3, Nilgiris (Hampson), 2 9 type euthusa; Crynon, 1 5, 3 2 type thoracica ; Yunnan, Teng Yeuk (Hobson), 1 9; Srycarore (2idley), 29; N. Borneo, M. Marapok, 1 9; Creneses; Br. N. Guinea, Ekeikei, Mt. Kebea, Aroa R., types T wnipunctata and insignifica in Coll. Bethune-Baker ; Qurunstanp, Brisbane (Turner), 1 o,1 9; Fisi, 1 9 type ceres; Ssanpwicw Is., Oahu (Perkins), 2 5,19. Exp. 30-36 millim. 6. Vertex of head of male normal. a), (Floccifera.) Abdomen of male with large sublateral tufts of flocculent lair from base. 4513. Elydna erigida. Aletia erigida, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1890, p. 221; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. li. p. 281. Caradrina crenulata, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 202 (1906). Head and thorax ochreous suffused with grey-brown, the frons whiter; palpi black at sides, whitish in front and at tips; antennw blackish except basal joint ; pectus and legs whitish irrorated with fuscous ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft whitish, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing greyish ochreous Fig. 56.—Elydna erigida, 3. 1. thickly irrorated with brown ; subbasal line shght, blackish, angled outwards below costa and ending in a black point below median nervure; antemedial line very indistinct, waved, bent inwards to costa ; Ee aculan represented by a black point, the reniform by a small white spot with a point above it ut upper angle of cell and two at lower angle; a diffused medial dark shade, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell; postmedial line indistinct, dark, slightly bent outwards below costa, then oblique, minutely dentate and produced to black points on the veins ; a subterminal series of blackish points slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle; ~a terminal series of slight black points; cilia with a fine yellowish line at base. Hind wing semihyaline whitish tinged with brown, the veins browner; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia yellowish white with a fine brown line through them; the underside whiter, the costal area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot, post- 166 NOCTUID®. medial series of short streaks on the veins, and terminal series — of points from apex to vein 2. Hab. Travancorr, Pirmdd (Imray), 1 9 ; Burma, Rangoon, 1 ¢ type, N. Chin Hills (Watson), 1g; Br. N. Guinea, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), typet crenulata in Coll. Bethune-Baker. Exp. 36-40 millim. 6’, Abdomen of male without sublateral tufts of long hair from base. a*, Hind wing of male with the costal area on underside clothed with rough downturned scales, with thicker ridge of scales along subcostal nervure. a3, Hind wing of male on underside with ridge of scales on medial part of vein 1, covered by a thick fringe of hair from inner margin. a‘, Fore wing with the reniform represented by some puhite POINGE. deg. eac ahs. ase Sno Nae hene mae Saran stellata. 4, Fore wing with the reniform represented by a slight 1% black: pointeise cee. cores treats sees ae ences eee ee pene gemini. 4514. Elydna stellata. q Graphiphora stellata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 119 (1882) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind, il. p. 2605. Caradrina lophophora, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 299; id. Moths — Ind. iv. p. 512. Caradrina pratti, Beth.-Baker, Noy. Zool. xiii. p. 202 (1906). gd. Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey; palpi blackish, whitish at tips and in front ; tegule tipped with whitish ; Fig. 57.—Elydna stellata, g. 3}. tarsi fuscous ringed with white; abdomen grey suffused with — brown. Fore wing grey suffused and irrorated with reddish brown; subbasal line blackish, angled outwards below costa and ending at submedian fold, a white point beyond it in cell; _ antemedial line indistinctly double, blackish, erect, slightly bent inwards to costa and outwards above inner margin; orbicular absent; reniform represented by a small white spot with white point above it and usually two below it; a brown medial line, oblique from costa to median nervure, then incuryed: postmedial line blackish, slightly excurved between veins 7 and 2 and with — short black streaks beyond it on the veins followed by an indistinct diffused brown line; subterminal line rather diffused, brown, | excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a fine terminal brown — line with whitish points at the veins. Hind wing greyish suffused ELYDNA. 167 with reddish brown; a fine brown terminal line; cilia whitish with slight brown line near base; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, the discal fold tinged with fulvous, the hair on inner area fuscous brown, an indistinct curved post- medial line. 2. Hind wing whiter with indistinct postmedial line; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, a shght discoidal bar and diffused sinuous postmedial line. Ab, 1. Fore wing with the discal spot yellowish, a small black spot before subterminal line in discal fold. Hab, Punsan, Kulu, Sultanpur (@. Young), 1 6,19; Srxum (Dudgeon), 1 9 ; Assam, Khasis, 1 @ type, Nagas, type ¢ lopho- phora in Coll, Rothschild; Boryno, Sarawak (Wallace), 1 9 ; Br. New Guinea, Dinawa (Pratt), 1 3. Exp. 28-42 millim. Type f pratti in Coll. Bethune-Baker. *4515. Elydna gemini. (Plate CXLI. fig. 14.) Caradrina gemini, Beth.-Baker, Noy. Zool. xiii. p. 202 (1906). Q@. Head and thorax grey-white tinged with reddish brown and irrorated with a few black scales ; palpi black, white at tips; lower part of frons white ; pectus and legs whitish mixed with brown, the tarsi black ; abdomen grey suffused with brown. Fore wing grey- white suffused with brown and irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented by a black point on costa; antemedial line with black point on costa, then very indistinct, waved; orbicular and reniform represented by very slight black points ; a faint brown medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, postmedial line with black point on costa, then very faint, minutely dentate with slight black points at the veins, incurved at submedian fold, a rather diffused rounded black spot beyond it on veins 4,3; faint traces of a sub- terminal line with the area beyond it somewhat browner; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing grey suffused with brown; cilia whitish with a faint brown line through them ; the underside whitish tinged with brown, the costal area irrorated with black, a black discoidal lunule, postmedial series of minute streaks on the veins, and terminal series of slight lunules. Hab. Br. N. Goinns, Ekeikei (Pratt), type t+ 2 in Coll. Bethune- Baker. wp. 36 millim. b8. (Dadica.) Hind wing of male with the inner area normal. 4516, Elydna lineosa. Dadica lineosa, Moore, P.Z.S. 1881, p. 349; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. ) p- 265. 3. Head and thorax grey mixed with reddish brown, the head whiter; palpi blackish, whitish at tips; abdomen grey suffused with reddish brown. Fore wing pale grey slightly suffused and irrorated with reddish brown, the veins with dark streaks ; sub- basal line blackish, straight, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 4 168 NOCTUIDE. medial line blackish, oblique, straight, slightly bent inwards to costa; orbicular a minute black point; reniform a small white spot with white point above it; a rather diffused brown medial line, very oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then slightly incurved ; postmedial line blackish, slightly excurved below vein 7, Fig. 58.—Elydna lineosa, g. }. then oblique: subterminal line indistinct, brown, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing greyish suffused with fuscous brown, the apical area whitish ; cilia whitish ; the underside suffused with fuscous brown, the terminal area paler, an indistinct subterminal line. Q. Hind wing on underside whitish irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal bar and indistinct postmedial line. Hab. Javan, Tokic (Maries), 1 ¢,1 9, Yokohama (Pryer), 3 6, 29 ; Corza, Gensan (Leech). 1 9 ; W. Curna, Omei-shdn, 1 9, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 ¢ ; Punsas, Kulu (Hocking), 1 g, 1 9, Dalhousie, 1 ¢, type. Hap, 34-42 millim. b*, Fore and hind wings of male with the medial part of termen excised. 4517. Elydna truncipennis, n. sp. Head and thorax whitish suffused with pale rufous, the head rather whiter ; palpi blackish, whitish at tips and in front: tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen greyish suffused with fuscous — brown. Fore wing pale rufous with shght dark irroration, the Fig. 59.—Elydna truncipennis, d. }. terminal area rather darker; subbasal line blackish, straight from _ costa to submedian fold in which there is a black point beyond it and a white point in cell further from base; antemedial line plackish, erect, slightly bent inwards to costa and incurved below submedian fold; orbicular represented by a black point, the reniform by a small yellowish-white spot usually with white point above it and two minute points below it; a diffused dark medial line, oblique from costa to median neryure, then incuryed ; 7 » ? ELYDNA. 169 postmedial line blackish, slightly bent inwards to costa and incurved below vein 3, with minute black streaks beyond it on the veins ; subterminal line indistinct, brown, slightly incurved between veins 6 and 4; a fine dark terminal line; cilia fuscous brown with a fine whitish line at base. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown especially on the veins and terminal area; cilia whitish with a brownish line near base from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal: area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot, postmedial series of slight black streaks on the veins and traces of a postmedial line towards costa, Hab. Japan, Satsuma (Leech), 1 ¢, Tokio (Maries), 1 ¢, Yoko- hama (Jonas, Manley, Pryer), 4 3, 3 9 ; Cora, Gensan (Leech), 1 $; N. Cutna (Pletcher), 1 2, Foochow (Leech), 1 3 ; W. Cuina, Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1 ¢, Omei-shan, 1 9 ; Punsaz, Kulu, Sultanpur (G. Young), 1 6 ; Srxnim (Dudgeon), 1 9; Assam, Khasis, 1 ¢, type; Cxyrzon, Pundaloya (Green), 1 Q. Hexp, 28-34 millim. c?, (Elydna.) Wings of male normal. a’, Kore wing grey-brown. a‘, Fore wing with the postmedial line minutely dentate. a, Fore wing with ochreous spot on outer edge of reniform, with white points above and be lowaltigaeccct sat scetettostce tecanaandes sondeaeneen ochreipuncta. 6°, Fore wing with white points on outer edge of reniform...... AER e ce or earner reece en cae Bc subpartita, ce, Fore wing without white points on outer edge Of rentOrm Mescecascessseacisesmacdnesoeseceeeeess CiNCTASCENS. 64, Fore wing with the postmedial line not dentate. a, Fore wing with series of black points on the veins beyond postmedial line .................. renalis. 6°, Fore wing with series of short black streaks on the veins beyond postmedial line. a’, Fore wing with the postmedial line ex- eurved from costa to vein 4, then IM CURVOC oa ca gaceeue -oecwseenpoeneessensgens sce albisignate. b8, Fore wing with the postmedial line str aight from just below costa to inner margin ... rectidinea, 8, Fore wing with the ground-colour greyish ochreous, yellow, or red-brown. a‘, Fore wing with blackish patches on costa at middle and. before apex sos..2.602 60. cosee sass coe hisignata, b4, Fore wing with chocolate-brown patches on costa at middle and before apex. a, Fore wing grey tinged with pink............... pellicea. }°. Fore wing red-brown tinged with purple...... costiplaga. et. Fore wing without dark patches on costa. a, Bore wing with the postmedial line minutely waved and excurved beyond the cell. aS. Fore wing with black discoidal spot or point. atripyneta. 56, Fore wing without black discoidal spot or | YO) Seas aetna A nb aSeeeceonhaknn Sb ticnncnonnneAnncdd ochracea. 6%. Fore wing with the postmedial line not waved, angled at vein 6, then oblique. a°, Fore wing with the antemedial line bent IMWAROS LOPCOStAlLcs..wecsstemecsescdeoweeees tnconspicud. 4°, Fore wing with the anteme‘ial line oblique, ShYat pee cstna sao aes closmestereecetaso eee fransversa. 170 NOCTUID®. . 4518. Elydna ochreipuncta. (Plate CXLI. fig. 15.) Caradrina ochreipuncta, Umpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 263 (1894). . Head and thorax dark purplish brown; palpi with some whitish scales in front and at tips; antenne with the basal joint white in — front; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen greyish brown, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing dark red-brown suffused with purple; subbasal line black, waved, from costa to submedian fold; ante-— medial line black, oblique, waved, angled inwards on vein 1; orbicular a black point; reniform indistinct, brown, slightly defined by black, with round ochreous spot on its outer edge with white — point above it and two below it; an indistinct medial line, oblique from costa to discal fold ; postmedial line black, slightly bent out- wards below costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4, some ochreous points beyond it on costa; subterminal line formed by some whitish scales defined on inner side by minute black marks, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a slight dark terminal line. Hind wing greyish suffused with reddish brown; a brown line near base of cilia; the underside whitish tinged with brown, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal spot and rather diffused sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Stxumm (Pilcher), 1 go. Exp. 40-42 milliim. Type Tin Coll Rothschild. { 4519, Elydna subpartita. (Plate CXLI. fig. 16.) i Caradrina subpartita, Beth.-Baker, Noy. Zool. xiii. p. 201 (1906), ¢. ‘- Caradrina funerea, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 201 (1906), 9. a ¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown ; palpi black, whitish at tips; antenne with the shaft whitish above towards base ; pectus and legs whitish mixed with brown, the tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen ventrally whitish mixed with red-brown. Fore wing whitish strongly suffused and irrorated with red-brown, the terminal half darker; subbasal line blackish, excurved below costa and ending at submedian fold; a blackish point beyond it in cell; antemedial line indistinctly double towards costa and inner margin, angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1; orbicular — represented by a black point; reniform very indistinctly defined, with small whitish spot on its outer edge with white point above it and two below it and a white point on inner side below ; a diffused curved dark medial line; postmedial line black defined on outer side by a pale band, minutely dentate, excurved from costa to vein +, then oblique ; subterminal line very indistinct, greyish defined on inner side by black points and with more prominent spot at discal fold, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of black points; cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing whitish tinged with red-brown, the veins and termen red-brown ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia whitish with a brown ELYDNA. aly line through them ; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, a postmedial series of minute dark streaks on the veins from costa to vein 2. 2. Head, thorax, and abdomen tinged with fuscous; fore wing with a uniform fuscous tinge obscuring the markings. Hab, Br. N. Guinea, Alcs Ree keikei (Pratt),1 9, Mt. Kebea, type T and type t funerea in Goll. Bethune-Baker. Hap. 3 82, 2 36 millim. 4520. Elydna cinerascens. Cosmia cinerascens, Motsch. Etud. Ent. ix. p. 54 (1860). Radinacra palpalis, Buti. M. N. H. (5) 1. p. 161 (1878); id. Ill. Het. Ba Me ii:%p. 26, pl. 29. f. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with brown; palpi black, whitish at tips ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white. Fore wing grey tinged with ochreous brown and thickly irrerated with fuscous ; Bubbasal line shght, blackish, angled outwards below costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line slight, blackish, oblique, sinuous ; orbicular a black point; reniform hardly traceable with faint pale points on its edges; a diffused blackish medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line blackish, dentate and produced to black points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line hardly traceable, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of minute black points. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown especially on terminal area; cilia with a slight yellowish line at base ; the underside white tinged and irrorated with brown especially on costal area, a blackish discoidal spot, indistinct post- medial line with minute dark streaks on the veins from costa to vein 4, and terminal series of small black lunules from apex “tO vein 2. Hab. Javan, Yokohama (Jonas, Pryer), 7 3,29 type palpalis ; W. Cains, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 2. Hvp. 28-36 millim. 4521. Elydna renalis. Radinacra renalis, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 30, pl. 147. f. 4a (1884) ; Hmpsr. Moths Ind. ii. p. 265. Head and thorax reddish brown slightly mixed with grey ; palpi black, whitish at tips ; antennze blackish ringed with white at base ; tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface white irrorated with brown. Fore wing dark reddish brown slightly irrorated with grey ; subbasal line indistinct, waved, from costa to submedian fold, a white point beyond in cell; ante- medial line black, excurved towards costa and inner margin and angled inwards below submedian fold; orbicular a black point defined by white scales ; reniform a round white spot with small spot above it and one white point below it on inner side and two 172 NOCTUID.E. on outer; an indistinct diffused sinuous dark medial line; pos medial line black, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then ineurved, with series of black points beyond it on the veins and some grey points on costa; subterminal line slight, greyish defined ou inner side by dark brown, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, incurved at submedian fold and bent outwards to tornus; a fine brown terminal line with minute white points at the veins. Hind — wing whitish suffused with brown; a fine brown terminal line; ~ cilia with yellowish line at base followed by a brown line, the tips’ white tinged with brown at apex; the underside white, the costal area prominently irrorated with brown, the terminal area slightly irrorated, a black discoidal spot, and indistinct postmedial line with dark streaks on the veins. Hab, Cryion, Pundaloya (Green), 2 3, 2 Q type. Eup. 267 millim. 4522. Elydna albis'gnata. Caradrina albisignata, Oberth. Diag. Lep. Askold. p. 14 (1879); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p 198. Caradrina ceca, Oberth. Diag. Lep. Askold. p. 14 (1879 Caradrina albosignata, Oberth, Et. Ent. v. p. 73, pl. 4. ‘ 1 (1880); Mill, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyons, xxix. p. 154, pl. 1. f. 2 (1883). Head and thorax greyish brown; palpi fuscous brown ; pectus and legs fuscous brown, the tarsi mnged with white; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface fuscous brown. Fore wing grey- brown with slight dark irroration, the terminal area rather darker; subbasal line black, slightly sinuous, from costa to submedian fold 5 antemedial line blackish, excurved from costa to median nervyure, then incurved and slightly excurved above inner margin ; orbicular absent; reniform indistinct, blackish with a white point on if, some- times with a minute point above it ; an indistinct diffused medial line, erect from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; postmedial line blackish, oblique from costa to below vein 7 and slightly incurved below vein 3, with minute black streaks beyond it on the veins ; an indistinct diffused dark subterminal line, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of slight whitish — points ; cilia dark brown at base. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown; cilia whitish with a slight brown line near base ; the under- — side greyish, the costal area thickly irrorated with brown, a dark — discoidal point and diffused postmedial line with minute dark streak cs on the veins. Ab. 1. ceca. Fore wing without the white point on reniform, Hab. 2S. Francr, Alpes Maritimes; E. Sreerta, Amurland, | 26,192; Japan, Hakodaté, 6 35, 0: ae (Pryer), 1 3, Tokio (Maries), 1 Q ; Corea, Gensan (Leech), 1 g. Exp. 30-86 millim, — TE Cae oe ere ee eS en ee 1 a ee | 2 4523. Elydna rectilinea, n. sp. (Plate CXLI. fig. 17.) Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous, the head rather whiter; palpi fuscous, white at tips and in front; tarsi fuscous ringed with white; abdomen grey tinged with brown, Fore wing f ELYDNA, 73 pale grey tinged with pale reddish brown; subbasal line slight, ek, straight, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line blackish, oblique, straight or slightly incurved in submedian inter- space, slightly bent inwards to costa; orbicular represented by a minute dark point, the reniform by some white scales; a diffused dark medial shade, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then erect ; postmedial line blackish, erect, straight, sightly bent inwards to costa, with minute black streaks beyond it on the veins; sub- terminal line indistinct, dark, rather diffused, excurved below vein 7 and-at middle; a fine brown terminal line with minute white points at the veins ; cilia grey-brown with a slight yellowish line at base. Hind wing whitish suffused with oa. a fine brown terminal line; cilia “whitish with a yellowish line at base; the underside white, the marginal areas irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal lunule, diffused sinuous subterminal line, and terminal series of black strie. Hab. Punsas, Kulu le ing), 2 9, Sult tanpur (G. oung), 1 3 type, Dalhousie (Harford), 2 2. Exp. 32 millim. 4524, Elydna bisignata. (Plate CXLI. fig. 18.) Cosmia bisignata, Hmpsn. J: Bomb. Soc. xvii. p. 476 (1906). @. Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous, palpi white, the extremity of 1st joint and 2nd joint except at extremity black antenne fuscous; fore and mid tibice fusqous, the tarsi nee ringed with white ; abdomen greyish white with faint ochreous Segmental rings, the ventral surface white. Fore wing greyish ochreous slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown; sub- basal line represented by a small black spot on costa and indistinct striga in cell; antemedial line with small black spot on costa, then pale brown defined by whitish on inner side, obliquely incurved ; orbicular and reniform with very faint pale annuli. the former round, the latter constricted at middle and with rather S-shaped black mark on its inner edge confluevt with an oblique blackish patch from costa; an indistinct incurved pale line from lower angle of cell to inner margin with dark point on it in discal fold ; post- medial line double, pale brown filled in with whitish, and with black point on the inner line at costa, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved; a quadrate black patch on costa before the sub- terminal line, which is indistinct, pale, slightly defined by fuscous on inner side, minutely waved and ending at tornus; a terminal series of black striz; cilia ochreous white tinged with rufous and with blackish tips except towards tornus. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown especially on the veins and terminal area ; afine brown terminal line ; cilia with a fine white line at base; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight dark discoidal lunule. Fab. Mapras, Bellary, Ramandrug (Campbell), 1 9 type. Eup, 34 millim. 174 NOCTUID®. 4525. Elydna pellicea. (Plate CXLI. fig. 19.) Plecoptera pellicea, Swinh. A. M. N, H. (7) xi. p. 507 (1908). ¢. Head and thorax pale pinkish grey with an ochreous tinge; palpi black at sides except at tips; sides of frons and shoulders with black patches ; spurs and tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous brown, the anal tuft yellowish, the ventral surface whitish, — Fore wing greyish ochreous tinged with purplish pink; a black point — at base of costa; faint traces of an oblique waved antemedial line with — black point at costa; a chocolate-brown conical patch on middle of © costa, its apex almost reaching median nervure and somewhat dilated on outer side ; postmedial line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to slight blackish points on the — veins, incurved in submedian interspace where there is a black point before it ; a truncate conical chocolate-brown patch on costa before apex ; faint traces of a minutely waved subterminal line; a series of slight blackish points just before termen ; cilia brown with fine pale lines at base and middle. Hind wing ochreous suffused with brown, the cilia paler; the underside ochreous white, the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal lunule and indistinct curved postmedial line. Hab. Stam, Muok-Lek, 10,000 feet (Pruhstorfer), 1 ¢ typ Exp. 40 millim. *4526. Elydna costiplaga. (Plate CXLI. fig. 20.) Aidia costiplaga, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 254 (1906). Hypetra costiplaga, Beth.-Baker, Noy. Zool. xv. p. 201 (1908). Q. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; palpi whitish, the 2nd joint black on outer side except at extremity; frons whitish; pectus and legs whitish suffused with brown ; abdomen red-brown with slight rufous dorsal line, the ventral surface whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing red-brown mixed with purplish grey; a— antemedial line with black spot on costa; a conical chocolate-brown patch from middle of costa to lower angle of cell, defined on outer = side by a sinuous black and white line on discocellulars ; postmedial - line indistinct and whitish from costa to vein 4, bent outwards. below costa, oblique to vein 6 where it is angled outwards, angled inwards in discal fold and outwards at vein 4, then dark, strongly incurved and bent outwards to inner margin, a black point before it in submedian fold and a truncate conical chocolate-brown patch beyond it from costa defined on outer side by the faint whitish subterminal line which is oblique towards costa, slightly exeurved below vein 7 and at middle and ending at tornus; a series of faint blackish points just before termen; cilia dark brown mixed with some greyish and with slight ochreous line at base. Hind wing | fuscous brown with a cupreous gloss; cilia brown with a slight i pale line at base from apex to vein 2, then whitish tinged with brown; the underside whitish tinged with reddish ochreous and irrorated with red-brown on costal half, a small black discoidal spot and curved minutely waved postmedial line. Hab. Br. N. Guryea, Ekeikei (Pratt), types T Q in Coll. Bethune- Baker. vp. 40 millim. ELYDNA. VT 4527. Elydna atripuncta, n. sp. (Plate CXLI. fig. 21.) 9. Head white, the palpi, frons, and antenne except at base dark brown; thorax white tinged with ochreous and irrorated with a few black scales; tibiz and tarsi brown ; abdomen whitish dorsally tinged with ochreous and irrorated with a few dark scales except at base. Fore wing white tinged with ochreous and irrorated with black scales, the terminal area tinged with rufous; antemedial line brown, double on inner area, oblique towards costa, then waved, angled outwards at vein 1; a round black discoidal spot 5 post- Biodial line brown, excurved and minutely waved to vein 2, angled inwards in subniedian fold to near antemedial liue and outwards on vein 1; subterminal line diffused, brown, oblique from costa to vein 7, incurved at discal and submedian folds; a series of small black spots before termen ; cilia ochreous with series of fuscous points. Hind wing whitish suffused with ochreous yellow especially on terminal area; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot. g. Fore wing with black discoidal spot. Hab. Cryton, Kandy (Green), 1 g, Puttalam (Pole), 1 9 type. Exp. 36 millim. *4528, Elydna ochracea. (Plate CXLI. fig. 22. Cosmia ochracea, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 322 (1894). 2. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous yellow ; palpi, antenne, and legs tinged with brown. Fore wing ochreous yellow irrorated with a few black scales, the terminal area suffused with red-brown ; subbasal line represented by a black point on costa; antemedial line indistinct, brown with black point on costa, oblique towards costa, then waved; orbicular absent; reniform represented by a faint elliptical pale patch ; postmedial line brown with black point at costa, minutely waved, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line brown, minutely waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a series of minute blackish striae before termen ; cilia dark brown with fine yellowish lines at base and middle. Hind wing pale yellow, the terminal area slightly tinged with rufous; the underside with the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 slightly irrorated with black, a small brown diseoidal spot. Hab. Burma, E. Pegu, 4,500 feet (Doherty), type + 2 in Coll. Rothschild. Hep. 42 millim, 176 NOCTUID. *4529, Elydna inconspicua. (Plate CXLI. fig. 23.) Cosmia inconspicua, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 210 (1906). 9. Head white; palpi tinged with brown except at base in front; frons brown; antenne tinged with brown; thorax pale reddish ochreous sparsely irrorated with large black scales; legs brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen reddish ochreous, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous and sparsely irrorated with black scales, the costal area white to beyond middle; antemedial line diffused, fuscous, bent inwards to — costa; a small brownish discoidal spot; postmedial line diffused, fuscous, oblique from costa to vein 6 just beyond the cell, then inwardly oblique; a very indistinct dentate brown subterminal — line, bent inwards to costa; a series of slight blackish points just before termen; cilia fuscous with a reddish ochreous line at base. Hind wing ochreous yeliow, the termen slightly tinged with rufous ;_ cilia yellowish at base, with brownish line at middle and white tips ; the underside yellowish white, the apical area slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown, an oblique brown postmedial line from costa to vein 6. Hab. Br. New Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), type 7 2 in Coll, Bethune- Baker. wp. 34 millim. 4530. Elydna transversa. Elydna transversa, Wik. xy. 1718 (1858) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 321. ¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated with fuscous; subbasal line slight, dark, Fig. 60.—Elydna transversa, 3. }. oblique, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line dark brown, — very oblique, straight ; a dark line on discocellulars ; postmedial line dark brown, oblique from costa to vein 6, then slightly incurved ; subterminal line dark brown, oblique from costa to vein 6 and ending at tornus; a fine brown terminal line; cilia at tips withthe dark brown mixed. Hind wing ochreous suffused with rufous, the costal half suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia black-brown, from apex to vein 2; the underside reddish ochreous, the apical — area slightly irrorated with brown, bem! ay CLOSTEROMORPH:. 1 Q. Hind wing wholly ochreous. Hab. Bompay, Kanara ( Ward), 1 2, Karwar (Bell), 19; Cryton, Kandy (Mackwood), 1 3 ; Burma, Moulmein (Clerk), 1 9 type. Exp. 34-40 millim. Genus CLOSTEROMORPHA. T ype. Closteromorpha, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 3 (1874), non deser. ...... reniplaga. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, slenderly scaled, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 5rd long; frons smooth; eyes large, round ; antenne of male almost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; mid tibiz moderately fringed with hair; hind tibize of male dilated with a fold on upper side containing a fringe of large scales ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing broad, the apex rounded, the termen. slightly excised from vein 3 to tornus; vein 2 somewhat curved upwards; 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing ample; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with the apical chocolate patch cornucopia- BIT AND eee eats saeco ace oe wenn mosnsnsines ser eeneemspuieseiGenaese nes reniplaga. B. Fore wing with the apical chocolate patch rounded below... smodesta, 4531. Closteromorpha reniplaga. Closteromorpha reniplaga, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 883. f. 16 (1874). 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen bright rufous; tibiz with some chocolate-brown. Fore wing bright rufous with a greyish tinge, especially on inner area and terminal half; subbasal line slight, pale, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line pale, rather oblique and slightly ineurved ; orbicular and reniform small, with whitish annuli, the former narrow, elliptical, the latter bar-shaped, Fig. 61.—Closteromorpha reniplaga, G. }. open below; a large cornucopia-shaped chocolate-brown patch with pale edges, extending on costa from above reniform to apex and down to vein 3 where its apex is curved outwards, the pale post- medial line arising from it, strongly incurved, then erect ; a ter- minal series of chocolate-brown striz from below apex to vein 2, below which there is a small round spot; cilia rufous with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing deep red-brown; cilia with a fine Vou. 1X, N 178 NOCLrUIDE. pale line at base and whitish tips; the underside red-brown irrorated with white. 2. Fore wing much greyer, the postmedial patch rufous, Hab. Br. Guiana, Demarara (Rodway), 1 9; Brazin, type Td in Coll. Rothschild. ap. 42 millim., 4532. Closteromorpha modesta. (Plate CXLI. fig. 24.) Closteromorpha modesta, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 69. 3. Head and thorax rufous ; tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen — rufous irrorated with a few large black scales, the ventral surface — dark red-brown, the genital tufts white. Fore wing rufous, the — apical area beyond the reniform down to vein 4 deep chocolate-— brown with some blue-white suffusion on costal area between post-— medial and subterminal lines ; antemedial line rufous, oblique from costa to median nervure, then slightly sinuous; orbicular ee sented by a whitish point defined by brown ; reniform an oblique — fuscous black bar with white annulus; postmedial line whitish, — strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 6, incurved to vein 4, then bent inwards to lower extremity of reniform and oblique to inner margin ; subterminal line represented by two white points below costa, then excurved and almost obsolete to vein 3, then whitish and oblique to tornus. Hind wing black-brown with a reddish tinge. Underside of both wings black-brown; fore wing with the inner and terminal areas gr eyich and with two subterminal white points below costa. Hab. Braztt, Amazons, Parana de Buyassu (Austen), 1 § Parantins (7’rail), 1 ¢ type. Hep. 40 millim. Genus NEOCALYMNTIA, nov. Type, NV. obconica. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about middle of frons, the 3rd short; frons smooth : ; eyes large, round ; antowan of male ciliated; thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without crests; fore | mid tibize moderately fringed with hair, the hind tibia and 1st joint of tarsus moderately fringed with hair above and below; abdomen with dorsal erest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen strongly excurved . at middle, then excised to tornus; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with the tornus lobed; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; a from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. fi *4533. Neocalymnia obconica. Neocalymnia obconica, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) i. p. 302 (1908). ¢. Head and thorax red-brown, the vertex of head whitish tinged with rufous; pectus whitish tinged with rufous; abdomen rufous with a yellowish tinge. Fore wing red-brown mixed with greyish ochreous, the basal area more rufous, a large conical chocolate-brown patch on postmedial area from costa to vein 33 subbasal line absent ; antemedial line greyish defined by brown on a NEOCALYMNIA.—ANDROLYMNIA. 179 outer side, erect to submedian fold and bent outwards to inner margin ; orbicular with faint greyish annulus, elliptical; a greyish discoidal bar with curved streak from it to subterminal line below the chocolate patch ; a sinuous dark medial line; postmedial line represented by a slight oblique pale line from submedian fold to inner margin near tornus; subterminal line only defined by the terminal area being slightly greyer, angled outwards at vein 7 and Sy Fig. 62.—Neocalymnia obconica, 3. is incurved at discal fold and below vein 3; a terminal series of slight dark lunules. Hind wing black-brown with a reddish tinge ; cilia greyish, dark at tips. Underside of both wings uniform Dlack- brown. Hab. Perv, 8. Domingo (Ockenden), typet $ in Coll. Druce. Exp. 38 millim. Genus ANDROLYMNIA, nov. Type, 4. emarginata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head and slenderly scaled, the 5rd long; frons smooth, with large tutt of hair above; eyes large, round; antennew of male somewhat laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the prothorax with ridge-like crest, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibize moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing typically with the apex produced and acute, the termen excised below apex and excurved at middle, the inner margin with antemedial lobe and scale-tooth ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sxcr. I. Fore wing of male with the apex produced to a rounded lobe, the termen strongly excised below it and not excurved at middle, the cell broad and the neuration rather distorted. 4534. Androlymnia torsivena. Perciana torsivena, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 376 (1902). 6. Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey mixed with some brown ; palpi blackish at sides. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with Fitolate-brown:; subbasal line indistinct, brown, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line slight, brown, oblique to submedian fold and incurved at vein 1; orbicular absent; reniform with slight white annulus, its centre slightly defined by brown, its inner edge somewhat excised; medial line NZ 180 NOCTUIDE. brown, oblique and with rather diffused chocolate-brown band on _ its outer edge from costa to median nervure, above which there is a black wedge-shaped mark beyond it before the reniform, then incurved ; postmedial line fine, brown defined by whitish on outer side, oblique to vein 6, then minutely waved, slightly incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, a truneate conical patch beyond it on — costal area with two white points on the costa; subterminal line Fig. 63.—Androlymnia torsivena, d. }. whitish with slight black marks beyond it below the costa, angled outwards at vein 7, then minutely waved, angled inwards at discal fold and vein 2; a terminal series of blac striz slightly defined by whitish on inner side. Hind wing grey suffused with brown; — the cilia with whitish points at base, wholly whitish towards tornus; the underside grey suffused and irrorated with brown, a _— slight discoidal bar and slightly waved postmedial line. , Q. Fore wing with truncate conical chocolate patch on middle of costa on outer side of medial line extending to inner side of reniform just above the black mark which is Iunulate. YY Hab. Gop Coast, Acropong Mts. (Sir G. Carter),1 3, 1 Q type, — C. Coast Castle (//iglett), 1 2 ; Lacos, Olokemeji (Dudgeon), 4 2; Nara, Victoria Distr. (Gooch), 1 9, Durban (Leigh, Clarke), 2 93 | Capp Conony (Sir A. Smith), 1g. Ewp. 28-32 millim. ie > Secr. II. Fore wing of male normal. A. Fore wing with the outer edge of the subterminal costal patch strongly indented ..........20:.0seeseeseseeeeeeeetteseaeees clavatan B. Fore wing with the outer edge of the subterminal costal patchimop ind entede-ceceneessscerss-=-Ue enone sues oasneeeeeee eer emarginata, 4535. Androlymnia clavata, n. sp. (Plate CXLI. fig. 25.) $. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale purplish grey slightly mixed with brown: palpi at sides and frons blackish ; legs blackish, the tarsi with pale rings. Fore wing pale purplish-grey irrorated with chocolate-brown ; Sei line ‘slight, sinuous, from costa to sub- median fold; antemedial line ‘irdistiniot: double, rather diffused, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then incurved ; orbicular absent ; reniform with faint whitish aunulus and: its centre defined by brown ; an oblique wedge-shaped chocolate-brown patch from | middle of costa to median nervure before the reniform, before the lower part of which there is a small black spot; a diffused incuryed ANDROLYMNIA. 181 blackish line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line indistinct, defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved and slightly angled outwards at vein 1, a triangular chocolate-brown patch beyond it from costa, its outer edge excised and its lower extremity produced to a point; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, angled outwards at vein 7, then minutely waved; a terminal series of minute black points and a small spot at apex. Hind wing grey suffused with brown; cilia whitish; the underside grey, tinged and irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule, and rather diffused postmedial line. Hab. Br. E. Avrica, Taveta (K. St. A. Rogers), 1 g type. Exp. 20 millim. 4536, Androlymnia emarginata. zarba emarginata, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. B. M. viii. p. 76, pl. 145. f. 22 (1891); id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 333. Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey mixed with some chocolate- brown, the thoracic crests dark-tipped ; palpi and frons blackish ; tarsi blackish with pale rings. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated and in parts suffused with chocolate-brown; a dark point at base of costa; antemedial line with dark point at costa, then indistinct and strongly excurved from below costa; a triangular chocolate-brown patch from middle of costa with a black spot at its apex above median nervure before the reniform, which has a fine brown outline, slightly constricted at middle; an incurved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line red-brown, all tone, Y Fig. 64.—Androlymnia emarginata, 8. }. oblique from costa to vein 6, incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4, a truncate chocolate-brown patch beyond it on costa, its inner and lower edges dentate and with some whitish points on costa ; subterminal line pale slightly defined by brown on inner side, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, angled inwards at diseal fold and incurved below vein 3; a terminal series of brown strie ; cilia red-brown at tips. Hind wing grey suffused with reddish brown ; cilia with a pale line at base ; the underside grey tinged and irrorated with red-brown, an indistinct diffused curved postmedial line. Hab. Ponsa, Simla (Harford), 1 3; Mavras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 13,19 type; Cryton, Putlam (Pole), 2 9 ; Batt (Doherty), 1 3. Evp, 22-24 millim. 182 NOCTUID. (renus CHALCOECIA, nov. Type, C. emessa. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturued, the 2nd joint not reaching middle of frons and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd short; frons with slight rounded prominence with slight transverse ridge at middle and cvorneous plate below it; eyes large, round; antenne of male ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with decumbent crest; tibia moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on Ist two segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a minute areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 5, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4537. Chalcoecia emessa. Anthecia emessa, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 300, pl. 28. f. 4 (1889). 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish suffused with rufous, the metathoracic crest purplish rufous, the abdominal crests bright rufous. Fore wing with the basal and terminal areas grey suffused with purple, the basal half of medial area and postmedial area olive tinged with cupreous, the outer half of medial area grey-white ; antemedial line dark brown, curved ; postmedial line red-brown, Fig. 65.— Chalcoecia emessa, S. }. excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique and bent outwards to — inner margin; cilia white tinged with olive. Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous brown, especially on terminal half; cilia brownish at base, whitish at tips. Hab. GuatEMALA, Pantaleon (Champion), 1 3 type, Godman- Salvin Coll. wp. 36 millim. Genus CHRYSOECIA. Type. C. seira. Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint not reaching middle of frons and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd short; frons with slight rounded prominence with vertical ridge at middle and corneous plate below it; eyes large, round; antenne of female ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax — witk decumbent crest ; tibize moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without — erests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from — 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars; 6 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. , CHRYSOECIA.—NICARA. 183 4538. Chrysoecia scira. Anihecia scira, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 301, pl. 28. f. 5 (1889). Q. Head brown; tegule and patagia orange-fulvous ; thorax whitish ; pectus and legs tinged with ochreous, the fore legs brown, the tarsi brown with pale rings; abdomen brown, the ventral surface whitish tinged with ochreous. Fore wing olive-fulvous, the medial area suffused with brown from costa to submedian fold, the terminal area creamy white, the inner half of basal area, the medial area towards costa and inner margin and beyond the cell irrorated with silvery blue; antemedial line silvery blue, oblique Fig. 66.—Chrysoecia scira, 2. 3. from costa to submedian fold, angled inwards on vein 1 and excurved above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform olive-fulvous, indistinctly defined, the former round with silvery blue spot in centre, the latter with silvery blue line in centre ; postmedial line represented by the curved waved edge of brown area from costa to vein 2, with silvery blue point on costa and double oblique strix from inner margin, defined by an olive-fulvous band on outer side. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish at tips; the underside whitish suffused and irrorated with brown. Hab. Mexico, Guerrero (77. H. Smith), 1 Q type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 84 millim. Genus NICARA. Tore miLard,Moore, Lep. Atk. p: 126 (1882). ........c00c00 ssesesenee eevee castaned. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, short, the 2nd joint broadly scaled, the 83rd minute; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded ; antennz of male minutely ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibie fringed with rather long hair on outer side; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather short and broad, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate; veins 8 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form theareole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsoleseent from middle of discocellulars; 6, '7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4539. Nicara castanea. Nikara castanea, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 126, pl. 4. f. 24 (1882); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 258. 3. Head and thorax dark brown irrorated with blue-grey ; farsi with pale rings; abdomen dark brown. Fore wing dark 184 NOCTUID. 3 brown irrorated with blue-grey to postmedial line, extending to median nervure and vein 2, the submedian fold except at base, the postmedial area and apex deep coppery red, the inner area pale rufous irrorated with blue-grey ; the terminal area blue-grey ; sub- basal line absent; antemedial line indistinct, deep red, very oblique from costa to submedian fold, then obsolete; claviform absent; orbicular with red centre and blue-grey annulus, very narrow and extremely oblique; reniform very indistinct, its centre defined by brown and with faint blue-grey annulus ; postmedial Fig. 67.—Nicara castanea, G. }. line strong, black-brown, oblique from costa to vein 6, then excurved to vein 2 where it terminates, emitting streaks towards cell above and below veins 5 and 2, a patch of blue-grey irroration beyond it on costa; subterminal line blue-grey defined on each i side by pale rufous, evenly curved and obsolete on costal and inner areas ; cilia rufous. Hind wing very dark brown, the cilia grey at tips; the underside blue-grey thickly irrorated w:th brown, a ~ brown discoidal lunule and diffused curved postmedial line, Hab. Sixurn (Pilcher), 2 ¢. Hap. 40 millim, z Genus APOCALYMNIA, nov. ‘ Type, A. tencbrosa. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and moderately sealed, the 3rd short; frons with large © corneous process with raised edges; eyes large, rounded; antennz of female Jaminate; head and thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with slight crest ; tibia moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen slightly waved and somewhat excised towards tornus; veins 5 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anasto- mosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4540. Apocalymnia tenebrosa. Caradrina tenebrosa, Hmpsn. J. Boinb. Soe. xiv. p. 204 (1902). 2. Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown; palpi black at sides; frons fuscous at sides; pectus whitish, the tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen whitish irrorated with brown and dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing purplish grey, irro- rated with fuscous and suffused in parts with brown; subbasal oy yh} APOCALYMNIA.—HYPERCALYMNIA. 185 line represented by an oblique black striga from costa ; antemedial line very oblique and black from costa to median nervure, then yery indistinct, minutely dentate and inwardly oblique ; orbicular absent; reniform faintly defined by fuseous, somewhat constricted at middle; medial line black and very oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then indistinct, diffused and inwardly oblique ; post- medial line black and very oblique from costa to vein 6, then reduced to slight streaks and dentate marks, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; a dark brown patch on postmedial part of costa with Fig. 68.—Apocalymnia tenebrosa, Q. 4. some pale points on costa; subterminal line hardly traceable, minutely dentate, with diffused blackish streaks beyond it above and below vein 5; a series of minute black ea just before termen; cilia fuscous intersected with grey. Hind wing whitish tinged with ochreous, the terminal area suffused with brown especially on the veins; cilia brownish with fine pale line at base and whitish tips; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal spot. Hvb. Mavras, Cuddapah, Horsleykonda (Campbell), 1 9 type. Exp, 30 millim. Genus HYPERCALYMNIA, nov. Type, H. metaxantha. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, short, hardly reaching to middle of frons and slightly fringed with hair in front ; frons with rounded cormeous prominence with raised edges and corneous ee ee! it ; eyes large, round ; antenne of male laminate “and almost simple; thorax clothed with rough hair and scales mixed, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibiz slightly fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Kore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4541. Hypercalymnia metaxantha, n. sp. 3g. Head yellowish white ; antenne tinged with rufous; thorax pale yellow mixed with rufous; abdomen pale rufous tinged with brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing yellowish white ; the basal area irrorated with rufous and brownish ; ; an oblique diffused fuscous line from upper angle of cell to inner ‘margin, with 186 NOCTUIDE. whitish band before it and brownish suffusion beyond it; post- medial line whitish, oblique from costa to discal fold, then in- wardly oblique to submedian fold and bent outwards to inner margin, some brownish suffusion beyond it on costal area; the — Fig. 69.—Hypercalymnia metaxantha, ge }. termina] area rufous with an ill-defined oblique whitish bar across apex; a terminal series of slight brownish points ; cilia brownish white. Hind wing pale yellow. Hab, Congo, Katanga Distr. (Neave), 1 $ type. Exp. 34 millim. Genus MUSOTHYMA. Typ Musothyma, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 375..............-ss000- cyanastis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi slender, upturned to above vertex of head ; frons with rounded prominence with small corneous plate below it; eyes smooth ; antennz of male minutely ciliated ; thorax smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crests on Ist three segments, the crest on 3rd segment large, the male with large lateral tufts at base from edge of stigmata. Fore wing with veins 5 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6,7 from upper angle; 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomos- ing with the cell near base only. *4542. Musothyma cyanastis. Musothyma cyanastis, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 375. 3. Head and tegule pale ochreous, the 3rd joint of palpi and frons above black; thorax olive-brown; abdomen olive-brown, whitish below. Fore wing brownish ochreous thickly irrorated — Fig. 70.—Musothyma cyanastis, 3. }- with large black scales to the postmedial line; a slate-coloured — fascia on inner margin, bent upwards on inner side of postmedial — line to vein 2 where it is met by an obscure diffused oblique blackish band from middle of costa; postmedial line whitish, ' MUSOTIYMA.—CALYMNIA. 137 oblique from costa to vein 6, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved ; a slate-coloured we edge- shaped mark, oblique from costa before apex to near termen at vein 5, its edges ‘defined by whitish ; _ iJl-defined dark streaks on terminal area on veins 5 and 2; an - incurved whitish subterminal line towards inner margin. Hind wing yellowish, the terminal area strongly and the inner area slightly suffused with fuscous brown. __ * Hab. Qurenstanp, Townsville (Dodd), in Coll. Turner. Exp. 382 millim. : Genus CALYMNIA. ee Calymnia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 235 (1827) ............006 Loca ee seats trapezina. 3 Eustegnia, Hibn. Verz. p. 236 CUSED srecnacecceenreaas eeauincceaaee diffinis. | Huperia, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1839, p. 486 ............c0teeee trapezina. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and moderately scaled in front, the 5rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ;-antennz of male laminate and ciliated ; therax smoothly clothed with hair and hair-like scales and without crests; tibie moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat. produced and acute, the termen nearly straight to vein 4, then oblique, typically not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars; 627 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with the postmedial line obliquely downcurved from costa to vein 6. a. Fore wing with wedge-shaped white patch on costa at postmedial line. — a. Fore wing with oblique quadrate white patch from costa at antemedial line with outwardly oblique white point PROM AGS OWE EXtT EMILY co.ccesacudencseesecisciiacvedosie ves restitula b'. Fore wing with small triangular white patch from costa at antemedial line, its lower extremity bent inwards... diffinis. b. Fore wing without wedge-shaped white patch on costa at A redial line. . Fore wing with chocolate-brown patch beyond the cell extending to costa before and beyond the postmedial line which is strong and white on costal area ......... cara. }. Fore wing without chocolate-brown patch beyond the cell. a, Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique from ‘ vein 4 to inner margin near tornus «..............66- ethiopica. }?, Fore wing with the postmedial line not oblique from vein 4 to near tornus. a’, Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique, waved. pyradina. 68, Fore wing with the antemedial line angled out- wards below costa, then oblique to inner margin. affinis. ©, Fore wing with the antemedial line angled out- wards below costa and excurved on inner area... flavifimbria. d3, Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique from costa to above inner margin to which it is bent AM WATS ucatee de sense sc ceoaten nese ene tateade meee ac ane camptostigma., e’. Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique , POROUS OUL. .ischeasies atin ccisinaan annaedeaaccoseememamicuees unicolora, 188 NOCTUIDE, B. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 6, a. Fore wing with the postmedial line minutely waved below vein 6. a, Head, thorax, and fore wing creamy white............... Jancousci. )!, Head, thorax, and fore wing suffused with red-brown or dark brown. a2, Fore wing with the lines whitish ......................06 achatina. 62, Fore wing with the lines dark .................sssesesese ochreimargo. }. Pore wing with the postmedial line not waved. a’, Hind wing yellow, the terminal area suffused with FUSCOUS 2.55 cta-asikeweassBenases dans scscesueemensenesesntase moderata. . Hind wing wholly suffused with fuscous brown......... evigua. . Hind wing more or less strongly tinged with iuscous brown, the costal area yellow ........2.nc-:5--) uo tame rent | wing white. . Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, Prescott (Xunzé), 1 9. Exp. 40 millim, — *4590. Chalcopasta arizona. Plusia arizona, French, Can. Ent. xxi. p. 161 (1889); Ottolengui, Can. Ent. xxx. p. 106; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 248. ¢. Head and thorax purple-brown mixed with ochreous, the crests darker at tips; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing brilliant metallic gold; the costa narrowly purple-brown; a small triangular purple-brown patch from costa at base to inner margin before middle; a quadrate antemedial patch from costa to median nervure; a subquadrate patch from costa in and beyond end of cell, extending to near apex; patches on termen at middle and tornus; cilia chequered whitish and purple-brown. Hind wing whitish with a fine dark terminal line. Hab, U.S.A., Arizona. Evp.38 millim. This species is unknown — to me. } Sect. II. Antenna of male minutely ciliated. A. Fore wing purple-grey with patches of golden green. a. Hind wing white with subterminal dark shade............ pterochaleea, 6, Hind wing brown. a‘, Fore wing with subterminal golden green band con- fluent with the oblique band from middle of cell to ROSEN, soopeaoo seco te ode CosEebaaaoar os macaceceacscacesceneics: acantha. }', Fore wing with the oblique golden green band only. a’, Fore wing with the oblique band narrow and elliptiealbelowthe cell 12.2 55.0. s.2.ssc-paenecsoee ee chalcotoxa. o?. Fore wing with the oblique band broad and quadrate\beloywthe\ cell (2-225... .--s02-er eee eeeee acema, B. Fore wing silvery white with ante- and postmedial rufous Wats (ork sdsc.Bacwcde ane hese ons oes anpendace as tnd eee eee cebelei. 4591. Chalcopasta pterochalcea. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 7.) Basilodes pterochalcea, Dyar, Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. xi. p. 24 (1909). 3. Head and tegule grey mixed with reddish brown, the latter with pale tips; thorax dark brown mixed with grey; abdomen whitish suffused with rufous. Fore wing metallic brassy; the costal edge grey mixed with red-brown expanding into an irregular brown-edged patch on discocellulars, then narrowing to a point before apex ; the base of inner margin grey and brown expanding into a sharp triangular patch before middle extending nearly to cell; a subterminal series of slight brown spots excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; cilia grey and red-brown, Hind wing white lg 4 7 ‘7 CHALCOPASTA. 921 irrorated with brown; an indistinct subterminal shade and fine terminal line; the underside white, the apex slightly irrorated with brown, a faint postmedial line on costal area. Hab. Mexico, Tehnacan (Muller), 1 3. Hep. 36 millim. 4592. Chaicopasta acantha. Plusia acantha, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 329, pl. 30. f. 13 (1889). Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown tinged with greyish; palpi, pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen more rufous ; tarsi brown ringed with rufous. Fore wing brown suffused with purplish grey ; the basal half of inner area dark olive-brown with a greenish gold spot below base of cell bounded by the brown ante- medial line, which is oblique from costa to submedian fold, then inwardly oblique; orbicular greenish gold slightly defined by brown, oblique elliptical, very large, and connected with the greenish gold on postmedial area; reniform slightly defined by brown and strongly constricted at middle; postmedial line slight, brown, oblique from costa to vein 6, inwardly oblique to vein 4, Fig. 84.—Chaleopasta acantha, 3. }- then retracted to origin of vein 2 and outwardly oblique to inner margin; an oblique series of greenish gold spots from apex to vein 3, then expanding into a large patch extending to origin of vein 2 and termen; cilia dark brown mixed with whitish. Hind wing very dark red- brown ; cilia dark brown mixed with whitish. Underside of both wings grey- -brown with the costal areas ochreous white. Hab. Mextco, Guerrero (H. H. Sinith), 1 S$ type; Guaremara, 8. Geronimo (Champion), 1 9 ,Godman-Salvin Coll, #xp,. 36 millim. 4593. Chalcopasta chalcotoxa. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 8.) Basilodes chaleotoxum, Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash, xi. p. 25 (1909). 3g. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark reddish brown mixed with grey ; lower part of frons and ventral surface of abdomen whitish, Fore wing dark red-brown irrorated with grey; a metallic brassy - patch at base from just above to just below cell with another patch beyond it in and above cell, its extremity connected with an oblique patch extending from the cell to tornus; antemedial line dark brown, oblique, sinuous; an oblique sinuous medial line from cell 222 NOCTUID.E. to inner margin ; traces of a postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 6, then oblique and minutely waved: cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing red-brown with a cupreous gloss; the cilia with a fine pale line at base; the underside grey-white © irrorated and suffused with red-brown. ‘ Hab, Mexico, Tehnacan (Muller), 1d. Eup. 32 miilim. 4594. Chalcopasta acema. ‘ Plusia acema, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 330, pl. 30. f. 14 (1889), ¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey mixed with brown; palpi, pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish tinged with ochreous. Fore wing red-brown suffused and irrorated with purplish grey; a brilliant golden patch in cell from base to near extremity, extending to just below it at base and to just above it at extremity and confluent with a very broad oblique golden band extending from cell to inner margin near tornus; reniform small, indistinct, brownish faintly defined by grey, strongly constricted at middle and with small golden spots in upper and lower parts; « faint postmedial line, oblique from costa to vein 7, then inwardly oblique to the golden band at vein 3; the terminal area rathe redder irrorated with a few golden scales; cilia whitish with a — dark brown line through them. Hind wing brown irrorated with grey ; cilla whitish with a brown line through them. Underside o both wings grey suffused with brown, the costal area of fore wing ochreous. I Hab, Muxico, Guerrero (H. H. Smith), 1 g type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 28 millim, *4595. Chalcopasta cebelei. (Plate CXLII. fig. 11.) Antaplaga kebelei, Riley, Ins. Life, v. p. 833 (1893); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 183. 3. Head and thorax white mixed with bright rufous; palpi — white, rufous at tips; rufous bars above frons and between antenne ; tegule with rufous bands at sides; patagia edged with 4 rufous; pro- and metathoracic crests rufous; abdomen white — slightly tinged with rufous. Fore wing silvery white, the base — and costal and inner margins rufous to the nearly straight erect narrow rufous antemedial band which is unusually near base; a — minute black discoidal lunule; postmedial line strong, double, rufous filled in with pale yellow, dilated at costa, oblique to vein 6, strongly incurved below vein 8 and very slightly excurved below submedian fold, a rufous fascia in discal fold from it to the rufous subterminal line, which is very near termen, incurved and slightly waved from costa to vein 4, the area beyond it pale yellow; a rufous terminal line; cilia white with the tips rufous at apex and towards tornus. Hind wing white tinged with brown except inner CHALCOPASTA.— CENTROGONE. 223 area. Underside of fore wing suffused with brown except the costa; hind wing pure white. mee dad. U.S.A., Ronsas, Argus Mts. (Ailey), in U.S. Nat. Mus., California. Exp. 32 millim. Genus CENTROGONE, nov. Type, C. chlorochrysa. Proboscis aborted, small; palpi obliquely porrect, extending to just beyond frons, the 2nd joint moderately scaled, the 5rd short; frons with corneous prominence with raised edges and central process, a lar ge corneous plate below frons; eyes large, round ; antenne of male bipectinate with moderate branches To apex; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the pro- and metathorax with small spreading crests ; fore tibizx short with curved claw on inner side at extremity, the mid and hind tibize smoothly scaled; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and _ hardly erenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of disco- cellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 4596. Centrogone chlorochrysa, n. sp. 3. Head, tegule, and legs ochreous white mixed with rufous; thorax ochreous white ; abdomen ochreous white slightly tinged with rufous at middle of dorsum and on ventral surface. Fore wing pale golden green, the extreme base aud costal edges ochreous white thickly irrorated with rufous; antemedial line represented by shght dark points on the veins; orbicular very small, round, with ochreous white centre defined by fuscous; reniform with Fig. 85.— Centragone chlorochrysa, G. +. rufous centre surrounded by small rufous fuscous-edged spots ; postmedial line represented by an oblique series of dark points on the veins trom vein 7 to inner margin, the subterminal line by points on veins 7, 6,4; a fine waved brown terminal line with black points in the interspaces ; cilia red-brown at base, chequered red-brown and white at tips and with fine dark line through dann Hind wing pure white, the cilia brownish from apex to vein 2; the underside ‘with the costal area irrorated with rufous. Hab. TRANSVAAL, Johannesbarg (Cholmley), 1 3 type, Gemsbok- fontein (Janse), 4 $; Orayen River Coroyy, Bloemfontein (Lckers- ley), 1 3. Hep. 34 millim. pop NOCTUID®. Genus NEUM@GENIA. Type. Neumagenia, Grote, Pap. ii. p. 182 (1882) .............sseserenserens poetica. Kallitrichia, Ottolengui, Can. Ent. xxx. p. 107 (1898), nec Callitriche, Poli, Moll: V792 ...5-.cescapessete races venversecnee peeres coronides, Trichocala, Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 196 (1902) .................. coronides, v Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint hardly ; reaching middle of frons and moderately sealed, the Srd short; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below and ridge above; eyes large, round; antenne of male somewhat laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibiw slightly fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat — produced, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with white streak on terminal half of median Se a te ee neryure. * a. Fore wing with the streak on median nervure bifureating on VOLNG A FB cs ocs obat onc cteheceesions Soemetin sae seeeeseicet oucen tamceeerante poetic. b. Fore wing with the streak on median nervure and vein 4 NOt DIE UVCATO <5 cisco oe or eee eee hae oo Cae oe Seno aa ene EEE albavena, — B. Fore wing with purple-brown spot at lower angle of cell edged i With White 22.25. coccxcslocweeecoce tae ween ec eee hae weet peas ERE Neo eeer ees coronides. 4597. Neumegenia poetica. Neumegenia poetica, Grote, Papilio, ii. pp. 132, 184 (1882); Smith, Cat.) Noct. N. Am. p. 265. * Plusia smithi, Druce, Biol, Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 329, pl. 30. f. 12 (1889); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 196. big Kallitrichia sagittalba, Ottolengui, Can. Ent. xxx. p. 108, pl. 5. f. 7 (1898). Head, tegule, and front of thorax yellowish white, the rest of thorax brown; palpi, frons, and antenne brownish ; pectus and legs ochreous white, the fore legs tinged with brown ; abdomen ochreous | Fig. 86.—Newmagenia poetica, g. }. white. Fore wing brilliant metallic golden green, the costal area ochreous white expanding somewhat towards apex, the termen with narrow ochreous white band ; the base reddish brown with oblique outer edge ; the extremity of median nervure and bases of veins 5, 4, 3 streaked with ochreous white ; the termen and cilia pale olive with NEUM@4ENIA.—MUDARIA. 225 a fine white line at base of latter. Hing wing ochreous white tinged with brown; cilia ochreous white. Underside of fore wing tinged with fuscous, the costa and termen pale rufous; hind wing ochreous white. Hab. U.S.A., Oregon, Arizona, Huachuca Mts. (Oslar), 23,29, Oracle (Oslar), 22; Mexico, Durango (Becker), 23, Guerrero (A. H. Smith), 23,22 type smithi, Tabasco (H. H. Smith), 13, Godman-Salvin Coll. vp. 28-34 millim. *4598. Neumegenia albavena. Kallitrichia albavena, Ottolengui, Can. Ent. xxx. p. 107, pl. 5. f. 5 (1898) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 196. 9. Head, thorax, and abdomen white; antenne brown except at base. Fore wing metallic golden green ; narrow white fascice on costa and inner margin; a white streak on terminal half of median nervure and basal half of vein 4; cilia white. Hind wing pure satiny white. Hab. U.S.A., Arizona. Exp. 30 millim. This species is 1n- known to me. 4599. Neumegenia coronides. Plusia coronides, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 528, pl. 30. £ 10 (1889); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 196. Kallitrichia pendula, Ottolengui, Can. Ent. xxx. p. 108, pl. 5. f. 6 (1898). 2. Head, tegule, and base of patagia white; palpi, frons, antenne, shoulders, thorax, legs, and abdomen pale rufous, Fore wing brilliant metallic golden green; the costal area white thickly irrorated with rufous, its lower edge expanding into a slight pro- jection just beyond end of cell, and just before termen narrowing abruptly to apex; a rufous fascia irrorated with white on inner margin to before middle, the margin then with some rufous and white scales ; a rufous spot at lower angle of cell slightly edged with white; cilia rufous and white. Hind wing white suffused with pale rufous ; cilia white at tips. Underside of fore wing pale grey- brown with a metallic gloss, the costal area pale rufous ; hind wing white tinged with rufous, Ab. 1. pendula. Fore wing with the spot at lower angle of cell connected with the costal fascia, Hab, U.S.A., Arizona; Muxico, Guerrero (7. H. Smith), 12 type, Godman-Salvin Coll. HAwp, 36 millim. Genus MUDARIA. Type. Mudaria, Moore, Indian Museum Notes, iii. p. 68 (1893) sveaas cornifrons. ' Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, the 2nd joint moderately fringed with scales below, the 3rd rather long; frons with jarge trilobate corneous process from middle, a corneous plate below frons excised in front ; eyes large, round ; antennze of male laminate ; ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales Vol, IX, Q 226 NOCTUID 3. and without crests; tibie fringed with long hair; abdomen smoothly scaled — and without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen eveniy — curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from LO anastomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle _ of discocelluJars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4600. Mudaria cornifrons. Sere? © “et Mudaria cornifrons, Moore, Indian Museum Notes, iii. p. 69 (1893); _ Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 245. ‘| Head and thorax white tinged with pale brown and more or less irrorated with black; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous white dorsally suffused with brown. Fore wing ochreous white thickly irrorated with pale brown and with a ae black scales ;_ subbasal line represented by a slight black striga from costa ; ante. medial line black, double towards costa, oblique from costa to — submedian fold, then strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and — outwards to inner margin: orbicular and reniform forming a — confluent patch of the sround-colour defined on inner and outer Fig. 87.—Mudaria cornifrons, G. }. a: sides and below by black, extending to below cell; postmedial line black, double on costal half, minutely dentate, ‘angled outwards — at vein 5 and oblique below vein 3; subterminal line indistinet, | dentate, and with slight ay dark marks before it at middle, — angled outwards at vein 7 and oblique below vein 3: a terminal series of black points ; cilia whitish at base, brownish at tips. | Hind wing pure semihyaline white, the termen with fine brownish line and some black points towards apex. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the orhicular and reniform patch strongly | defined by diffused black. Hab. Buxear, Calcutta (Cotes), 3 6, 1 2 type. Eup. 40-44 millim. Lurva. Feeds in the pods of the Silk-Cotton (Bombax malabaricum) end pupates in the soil in cocoons made of earth and silk. Genus OCHROCALAMA, noy. Type, O. xanthia. Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi obliquely upturned, reaching about tu middle | of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front; frons with long corneous” process bifid at extremity and corneous plate below it excised in front; eyes” 7 Ai: OCHROCALAMA. oo large, round ; antenne of male bipectinate with rather long branches to apex, of female ininutely serrate ; thorax clothed with rough hair and hair-like scales and without crests ; tibiee smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anas- tomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with yeins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4601. Ochrocalama xantiia. Megalodes xanthia, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. iii. p. 484 (1905). $. Head and thorax yellow mixed with rufous, the tips of tegule and upper edge of patagia with some black scales; tibize and tarsi brownish, the latter ringed with whitish ; abdomen ochreous yellow. Fore wing yellow sparsely irrorated with rufous, the terminal area paler; a subbasal dark point in cell; an ill-defined rufous ante- medial line, angled outwards below costa, in submedian fold and above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform rounded, yellow with some rufous scales in centre, defined by red-brown before and between them in cell and by an irregular fascia on median nervure _ expanding at base of vein 2 and beyond lower angle of cell; a | red-brown medial line oblique from costa to reniform, oblique and Fig. 88.—Ochrocalama xanthia, &. 4. sinuous from cell to inner margin ; an ill-defined rufous postmedial line, oblique from costa to vein 6, then waved, strongly incurved below vein 4, some short red-brown streaks beyond it on costa; an ill-defined waved red-brown subterminal line, angled outwards at vein 7 and excuryed at middle; a terminal series of red-brown strie ; cilia yellow mixed with red-brown. Hind wing pale yellow, the terminal area slightly irrorated with red-brown ; a brown discoidal lunule, traces of a waved postmedial line from costa to vein 2 and of a subterminal series of small spots; a fine red-brown terminal line; cilia yellow mixed with red-brown ; the underside with the costa slightly irrorated with rufous, a brown discoidal | lunule and indistinct curved postmedial line. 2. Hind wing wholly suffused with red-brown. Hab. Masuonatann (Dobbie), 19; Transvaat (Pead), 25,19, Piet Retief (Crawshay), 13; Narat, Delvin (Stanger), 1g type, Bushman’s R. (Hutchinson), 1 9; PonpoLann ,» Nggeleni (Swinny), 1g. ep. 28-38 millim. az 998 NOCTUID®. Genus SYNCALAMA, nov. Type, S. mimica. . Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, hardly extending as far as frons and fringed with long bair below ; frons with large round corneous prominence — with raised edges and short central process hollowed out in front; a trilobate — corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antenne of male serrate ; thorax — clothed with rough hair and hair-like scales and without crests; tibiae moder-— ately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing — with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing — with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. ; 4602. Syncalama mimica, n. sp. ¢@. Head and thorax ochreous mixed with brown; antenne . red-brown; upper edge of patagia and metathorax with some — blackish scales; abdomen pale ochreous dorsaily suffused with — brown. Fore wing ochreous yellow suffused in parts with brown, — especially on inner basal area, in and beyond cell, and on postmedial — area; subbasal line represented by slight black strive from costa and cell; traces of a black streak below base of cell; antemedial line rather ill-defined, black, oblique, waved; claviform large, rather — incompletely defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, yellow Fig. 89.—Syncalama mimica, g. }. defined by black, the former round, the latter open above and | rather constricted at middle; an indistinct waved black line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line brown, rather ill-defined, excurved from costa to vein 5, then oblique; subter- minal line hardly defined except by the constrast between the rufous and yellow areas, waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved ; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia yellow mixed with rufous. Hind wing yellowish white with terminal series of small black spots; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with rufous, a small discoidal spot and rather diffused curved postmedial line from costa to vein 4. Hab. Carn Cotony, Deelfontein (Sloggett), 1 ¢ type. Hap. 36 millim. . PINACOPLUS.—METOPOPLUS. 229 Genus PINACOPLUS, nov. Type, P. didymogramma. ™ Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, hardly reaching beyond the frons and moderately fringed with scales below; frons with long shovel-shaped plate rather hollowed out above and with curved corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round; antenne of female ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests; tibiee slightly fringed with hair, the fore tibix with long curved claw from inner side; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the costa nearly straight, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from well below middle ee cocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4603. Pinacoplus didymogramma. Myctcroplus didymogramma, Ersch. Fedtsch. Reis. p. 44, pl. 8. f. 43 (1874) ; Stand. Cat. Len. pal. p. 222. @. Head and thorax white; palpi at tips, sides of frons, antenne and legs tinged with ochreous; abdomen white dorsally tinged with ochreous on basal half. Fore wing yellowish white ; antemedial line double, rufous, rather diffused, the inner line indistinct, slightly angled outwards on median neryure ; postmedial Fig. 90.—-Pinacoplus didymogramma, 2. 1 line double, rather diffused, the outer line indistinct, oblique, slightly excurved beyond lower angle of cell and bent outwards to inner margin, the veins beyond it slightly streaked with rufous ; cilia tinged with rufous. Hind wing white faintly tinged with yellow and with traces of curved rufous postmedial line. Hab, W. Tourxestan, Turcomania (“rschoff), 1 9, Ferghana. Exp. 40 millim. Genus METOPOPLUS. Pyne ype. Metopoplus, Alph. Iris, vi. p. 92 (1892) ............. penudetensrcrte ss en Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, hardly reaching as far as frons and slightly fringed with hair below; frons with rounded corneous process from middle with raised edges and corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antenne of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair only and without erests ; tibia moderately fringed with hair, the fore tibia with long curved claw on 230 NOCTUIDE. inner side; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the costa nearly straight, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anas- tomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; ° obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with triangular white spot on antemedial line just below the cell. csctesrstenseteenens sce atercaecea cer tere excelsa. B. Fore wing without white spot on antemedial line ......... fixseni. 4 *4604. Metopoplus excelsa. Clidia eacelsa, Christ. Rom. Mém. ii. p. 205, pl. 18. f. 4 (1885) ; Staud. Cat. — Lep. pal. p. 222. oH ‘ 2. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow. Fore wing yellow mixed with some brown and white; subbasal line dark brown defined by reddish brown on outer side, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line dark brown, slightly sinuous interrupted just below the cell bya small triangular pure white spot defined by dark brown; orbicular and reniform absent ; a diffused reddish-brown medial shade ; postmedial line dark brown, excurved below costa and at middle, then slightly — sinuous; a diffused red-brown band beyond it expanding to near termen between veins 7 and 6 and to termen between veins 5 and 4; cilia chequered pale yellow and reddish brown. Hind wing pale yellow. * Hab. Anmenta; Prrsta, Schahkuh. Zap. 42 millim. This — species is unknown to me. : 4605. Metopoplus fixseni. 4 Metopoplus fixsent, Christ. Iris, vi. p. 92 (1893); Alph. Rom. Mém. ix. p. 221, pl. &. f. 6; Staud. Cat, Lep. pal. p. 222. 3d. Head and thorax yellowish white tinged with ochreous ; fond femora brown above; tarsi banded with brown; abdomen yellowish — Fig. 91.—Metopoplus firseni, $. }. white dorsally suffused with brown. Fore wing pale yellow, the ante- and postmedial areas suffused with brownish ochreous ; ante-— medial line rufous, double, the inner line indistinct, curved; a medial brownish ochreous shade ; postmedial line rufous, double, the outer line indistinct, slightly excurved below costa and at median nervules, incurved at discal fold and below vein 3 and bent. METOPOPLUS.—- MYCLTEROPLUS, 251 outwards to inner margin; subterminal line only defined by the contrast between the postmedial and terminal areas, angled outwards at veins 7, 6,4,3; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with brown ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia with series of rufous spots at tips. Hind wing yellowish white; an indistinct sinuous post- medial line and pale rufous terminal band from apex to vein L ; red-brown terminal line. Underside of fore wing with rufous suffusion in cell leaving a round whitish orbicular stigma, the postmedial band rufous ; “hind wing faintly tinged with rufous. Hab. W. TURKESTAN, econ: Achal Tekké, 1 ¢. hup. 36 millim. Genus MYCTEROPLUS. Type. Mycteroplus, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 242 (1849) ... puniceago. epranza, Guen. Noct. 11. yp. 172 (1852) ......2.c.ceecesoeceraeeese puniceayo. Proboscis aborted, small; palpi porrect, hardly extending beyond the frons and fringed with long hair beluw ; frons with round corneous prominence with raised edges and curved co rneous plate below it; eyes iarge, round ; ; antennze of male laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibia fringed with long hair, the fore tibia short and rather dilated, the Ist joint of tarsus with four curved claws on outer side longer at extremity ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with; ‘he apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate; veins "3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 1] from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. 4606. Mycteroplus puniceago. AXanthia puniceago, Boisd. Gen. & Ind. Meth. p. 146 (1840) ; Dup. Lép. Fr., Suppl. iv. p. 234, pl. 70. f. 5; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 43, 436; Frr. Neue Beitr. pl. 516. f. 4; Guen. Noct. ii, p. 178, pl. ?. f.8; Mill. Icones, iii. pl. 139. ff. 6,7; Alph. Iris, viii. p.175 (fig.) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 222. Mycteroplus viridicolor, Krul. Rey. Russe, Ent. i. p. 287 (1901). Head and thorax pale yellow suffused with rufous; pectus and legs pale yellow, the fore legs tinged with rufous; abdomen white Fig. 92.—Mycteroplus puniceago, 3. }. dorsally tinged with rufous at base. Fore wing pale yellow sligh suffused with rufous ; a faint subbasal rufous striga from costa 232 NOCTUIDE. point on median nervure; slight obliquely placed antemedial rufous points on costa and inner margin and a dark point in submedian fold; a rufous medial band diffused on outer side, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then somewhat incurved ; a post- medial dark point in discal fold; an indistinct diffused subterminal — rufous band, excurved between veins 7 and 2. Hind wing pure white. Ab. 1. viridicolor. Fore wing greenish; hind wing greenish white. Hab. Roumeria; 8. Russra, Odessa, Zeller Coll.,Sarepta (Christof), Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Armenia; W. Turkestan, Turco- mania. ep. 40 millim, Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 164; Hifm. Raup. p. 105, pl. 29. £70; Keddish yellow mottled with red and with red lateral line. Food-plants: seeds of Atrivlea nitens and Chenopodium polyspermum. — Genus PSECTROTARSIA, nov. Type, P. fuscirena. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, reaching to just beyond frons and fringed with hair below, the 8rd joint short; frons with rounded corneous prominence with slight raised edges and corneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded; antenne of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair only and without crests; tibiz moderately fringed with hair; fore tarsi with seven curved claw-like spines on outer side of Ist joint; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; — veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with the basal and postmedial areas white Irroratediwithi brow -.esecess cesses ae ceeee eee eee sitecenees Juscirena. 3. Bere wing wholly yellow: <-....+:<0.-4:5c.0ce-> oo flava. 4607. Fsectrotarsia fuscirena, n. sp. ¢. Head and thorax ochreous white; antennie pale brown; — pectus white; legs yellowish, the tarsi brownish; abdomen Fig. 93.—Psectrotarsia fuscirena, 3. }. ochreous white slightly irrorated with brown. Fore wing with the basal, costal, and postmedial areas ochreous white irrorated PSECTROTARSIA.—DICYCLA. oon with brown, the medial area bright lemon-yellow except at costa and on the veins, the terminal area pale yellow; orbicular white with brown-irrorated centre, oblique elliptical, a small blackish spot below it in submedian fold; reniform an oblique blackish lunule with white annulus; cilia pale yellow mixed with brown at tips. Hind wing pure white. Hab. Ancrntina, Mendoza, Trofero Sosa (Bayne), 1 ¢ type. Exp. 30 millim. *4608. Psectrotarsia flava. (Plate CXLIL. fig. 12.) Psectrotarsia flava, Dogn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. li. p. 240 (1907). 2. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow. Fore wing yellow, the costa and postmedial area suffused with rufous; antemedial line rufous, obliquely curved from costa to vein 1, then strongly bent outwards; orbicular slightly defined by rufous on outer side ; reniform a diffused rufous patch with some fuscous and grey at middle ; an oblique waved rufous line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line rufous, very minutely waved, ex- curved below costa, then oblique; the postmedial area with some fuscous suffusion from costa to vein 6; subterminal line slight, rufous, somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle; some slight dark points on apical part of termen; cilia yellow at base, rufous at tips. Hind wing pale yellow, with slight discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. Underside of fore wing with the discoidal patch blackish, a rather diffused postmedial line from costa to vein 3 and diffused sub- terminal band; hind wing with the costal area irrorated with rufous, a slight dark disccidal spot and curved postmedial line from costa to vein 4. Hab. Perv, Trujillo, typet 2 in Coll. Dognin. Lxp. 32 millim. Genus DICYCLA. Type Dicycla, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 7 (1852)...... Sasha wisccsntuauere ae siaae teeta 00. Eugramma, Steph. Cat. Brit. Lep. p. 110 (1856), non deser. ......... 00. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antenne of male bipectinate with short branches, the apex serrate; thorax smoothly clothed with hair and hair-like scales and without crests; tibia moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen slightly crenulate and rather oblique towards tornus; veinsdand 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of disco- cellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 234 NOCIUIDA, 4609. Dicycla oo. Bombyx oo, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 507 (1748); Esp Schmett. iii. pl. 71. ff. 2-5; Dup. Lép. Fr. vi. p. 174, pl. 84. ff. 2,3; Geyer, Eur. Sclmett., 7 Noct. f. 867; Frr. Neue Beitr. pl. 454; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. lil. p. 59; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 203. Noctua Jerruginago, Hibn, Kur. Schmett., Noct. f. 195 (1802). Noctua renago, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 2388 (1809). Dicycla sulphurea, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 203 (1901). Dicycla griseago, Schultz, Soe. Ent. xxi. p. 3 (1907). Head and thorax very pale yellow, the vertex of head with a few blackish scales and the thorax tinged with red-brown except in front ; palpi with the 2nd joint red-brown at sides; antenne red- brown except at base; pectus and legs with red-brown mixed; abdomen whitish slightly tinged with rufous except at tase. Fore wing very pale yellow irrorated with rufous, the veins streaked Fig. 94.—Dicycla 00, J. }. with rufous, the basal area suffused with rufous except at base of costa, and the postmedial area tinged with rufous ; subbasal line red-brown defined by yellow on outer side, waved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line red-brown defined by yellow on inner side, waved, excurved below costa, then oblique ; claviform defined by red-brown, small, elliptical; orbicular and reniform defined by red-brown, the former small, round, the latter rather rounded with slight rufous lunule in centre; medial line rather diffused, red-brown, obliquely excurved to median nervure, then oblique ; postmedial line red-brown defined by yellow on outer side, oblique to vein 6, then very minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line formed of small brown lunules, slightly excurved below vein 7, then almost straight, a brown mark beyond it above and below vein 5; a red-brown terminal line; cilia pale yellow intersected with red-brown. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins faintly tinged with red-brown ; a pale red-brown terminal line: cilia pale yellow; the underside with the costal area slightly yellower. Ab. 1. renayo. Fore wing with the basal and postmedial areas suffused with fuscous brown. Ab. 2. sulphurea, Fore wing nearly uniform pale yellow. Hab, Brirary, Leech Coll. ; France; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Auvsrkra; Huneary, Leech Coll.; Swirzpriann; N.W. Spain (Chapman); lraty; Datmarra, Leech Coll. ; 8. Scanpi- See ee ee et St ir ears See Seren rere were seerrert: pee seen DICYCLA.—ENARGIA. O30) wavia ; Russia, Sarepta (Christof) ; Anmenta ; Asta Miyor, Pontus, Taurus, Amanus Mts., 1 ¢; Syria, 1 3¢, Mardin; Prrsta; W. Stpprra. Hep, 34-40 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 118; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 812, pl. 223. f. 3. Blackish ; an irregular dorsal and slender icca white tae spiracular line broad, yellowish white, traversed by a fine dark line; dots white; head black. Food- plant, Oak; among leaves spun together. 4-5. Genus ENARGIA. Type. organ ub Mey VELZe Ps SO(LG27) sagescces«e.couersacsentateontees paleacea. Euperia, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1841, p. 242, non descr. ; HOMPNOCESMIcyPeONLSOZ) oi skiscsscsacdssecsseeeecdecsessneceaeedstarss paleacea. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round; antennz of male typically ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair only and without crests; tibiz moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rather produced and acute, the termen slightly crenulate and oblique towards tornus ; veins3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obso- lescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked or from angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base ait Secr. I. Antennx of male bipectinate with rather long branches, the apical part serrate. A. Fore wing with the antemedial line very oblique. a, Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly excurved from) below costa to Veit 4.0... .i0..c.sesesecersssceseeseas ulicis, b. Fore wing with the postmedial line straight from below costa to Vein 4 ........cccceseeeseesseeceesecteeneees regina. B. Fore wing with the antemedial line almost erect ......... borjomensis. 4610. Enargia ulicis. Cosmia ulicis, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 214; Herr.-Schaff. Neue Schmett. ff. 121, 122; Rmbr. Cat. Lep. 8. And. pl. 11. f. 63 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 204. @. Head and thorax crimson-red mixed with some whitish ; pectus, mid femora, and hind legs whitish; abdomen whitish suffused with crimson except at base. Fore wing crimson-red, the base and basal half of costal area with a Scan tinge; an oblique red antemedial line defined by whitish on inner ne orbicular a faint minute whitish annulus ; reniform narrow, defined by whitish except on outer side where it is hardly traceable, and with a blackish bar on inner edge of centre; postmedial line red defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4+, then oblique to inner margin near antemedial line; subterminal line very indistinct, whitish, defined on inner side by black scales from costa to below vein 7, where it is angled 236 NOCTUIDZ. outwards; a slight pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white suffused with pink except at base, in cell, and on costal area; cilia white tinged with pink at tips; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with pink, an indistinct curved post- medial line. The male is more red-brown and the female may be olive-brown. Hab, Searx, Andalusia, Catalonia; Syria, Eibes, 1 9. Eup. 38 millim. . 4611. Enargia regina. Cosmia regina, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 297, pl. 4. f. 2 (1891); id. Cat. Lep. pal- p- 204. $. Head and thorax ochreous yellow slightly tinged with rufous ; palpi pinkish at sides; antenne rufous; tibie and tarsi strongly tinged with rufous; abdomen ochreous white suffused with rufous. Fore wing ochreous yellow tinged with rufous, more strongly on medial area; a blackish subbasal point in cell ; ante- medial line indistinct, rufous defined by whitish on inner side, very Fig. 95.—Enargia regina, g. }. oblique and almost straight; orbicular and reniform with rufous centres and pale ochreous annuli, the former small, oblique — elliptical, the latter oblong, the inner side of centre suffused with — blackish ; postmedial line indistinct, rufous defined by yellowish white on outer side, slightly bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4; subterminal line yellowish white with 4 three small black spots on inner side below costa, slightly bent inwards at discal fold, excurved, minutely waved and faintly defined by brown on outer side at middle; cilia more strongly tinged with rufous, with faint yellowish lines at base and middle, Hind wing white, the inner and terminal areas tinged with pink; cilia pale yellow, whitish at tips; the underside with the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with rufous, a slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial line, 2. Head, thorax, and fore wing rufous, the last with the medial area bright rufous; hind wing suffused with brown. Hab. Auerrta, Le Tarf, 1 9 ; Cyprus (Miss Bate), 2 6,1 23 Asta Minor, Pontus, 1 ¢d, Taurus; W. Turxusran, Ala Tau; E. Srperta, Amurland. Lap. 40-42 millim. he ENARGIA. Psy *4612. Enargia borjomensis. Cirredia borjomensis, Christ. Rom, Mém. ii. p. 61, pl. 3. f. 6 (1885) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 204. Q. Head white, the palpi and frons reddish brown; thorax reddish yellow; pectus reddish white, the legs and abdomen pale red. Fore wing yellowish suffused with red; a subbasal black point ; antemedial line dark, almost erect; reniform black-brown, quadrate ; postmedial line dark, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved. Hind wing yellowish white tinged with reddish, especially on terminal area; a pale curved postmedial line; cilia white. Hab. Axmenta, Borjom. Eap. 40 millim. This species is unknown to me. Secr. Il. Antenne of male ciliated. A. Forewing with the ante- and postmedial lines not defined by white. a, Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique, waved... staudingeri. 6. Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique from costa to submedian fold, where it is more or less angled. a, Fore wing yellow slightly irrorated with rufous...... paleacea. &@, Fore wing whitish to yellow or flesh-red thickly irrorated with rufous or dark brown ...............065 decolora. B. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines defined by white. a. Fore wing yellow more or less irrorated and suffused WAGIUIMEGUS oo. cccaem-cusns ices ciierloptuiesesiecm , conmonsenmencsns wmobuta. b, Fore wing yellowish white more or less irrorated and SUMUSEd! with DLOWIL 4 cacccsentesesasiensiocomesiescertecetee sane abluta. *4613. Enargia staudingeri. (Plate CXLII. fig. 13.) Hiptelia staudingeri, Alph. Hor. Ent. Soc. Ross, xvii. p. 86, pl. 3. f£. 60 (1882); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 204. Head and thorax pale yellow tinged with rufous; antenne white; abdomen yellowish white slightly tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale yellow thickly irrorated with rufous, the veins irrorated with a few dark scales; subbasal line represented by an indistinct rufous striga from costa; antemedial line rufous, oblique, waved, bent inwards to costa and incurved at vein 1; orbicular ‘and reniform slightly defined by rufous, the former round, the latter rather produced at upper extremity and with slight dark mark at lower angle of cell; postmedial line rufous slightly defined on outer side by whitish, minutely waved, oblique to vein 6 and below vein 3; subterminal line slightly defined on inner side by rufous suffusion, somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of slight dark points; cilia with a slight whitish line at base. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area faintly tinged with rufous; a fine curved postmedial line and slight terminal line ; cilia white; the underside with the 238 NOCLUIDE. costal area and terminal area to vein 3 tinged and irrorated with ( rufous, a discoidal point and sinuous rufous postmedial line. au Hab. W. Turkestan, Merv, Issyk-kul; E. Tvrxesran, Ili, — Alexander Mts, in Coll. Piingeler. Hap. 40 millim. 4614, Enargia paleacea. Noctua paleacea, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 122. ff. 3,4 (1788); Staud. Cat. Lep. yal. p. 204. Weetad fealooret Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 198-9 (1802), nee Linn.; Dup. Lép. Fr. vit. pt. 1. p. 125, pl. 109. f. 1; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 62. Noctua angulago, Uaw. Lep. Brit. p. 239 (1809). Cosmia teichi, Krul. Bull. Mose. 1893, p. 81. Cosmia fusca, Schultz, Soc. Ent. xiv. pp. 139, 165 (1899). Head and thorax bright yellow tinged with rufous ; pectus — mixed with white; abdomen white tinged with yellow except at — base. Fore wing orange-yellow slightly irrorated with red; sub- _ basal line red, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line red, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then inwardly oblique; ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by red, the former round, the latter with red-brown spot in lower part; medial line rather — diffused, rufous, oblique from costa to reniform, inwardly oblique — from lower angle of cell to inuer margin; postmedial line red, Fig. 96.—Enargia paleacea, G. }. oblique from costa to vein 6 and below vein 4; subterminal line faint, diffused, rufous, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of small red-brown lunules, almost obsolete at apex and between veins + and 2. Hind wing very pale yellow; the underside with taint reddish discoidal spot, sught curved postmedial line from costa to vein 2, and series of slight terminal lunules from apex to vein 2. Ab. 1. teichi. Fore wing with the medial and terminal areas tinged with fuscous. Hab, Brrraty, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Grruayy, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Ausrrra ; Huneary ; Swirzer.and, Frey Coll.; N. lvary ; Rossra, Livonia, Zeller Coll., Sarepta, Leech Coll.; W. Turkestan, Ala Tau; W. Srperra, Altai; Moneorta, Changai Mts.; E. Srrerita, Amurland, Ussuri. Zap. 40-46 millim, = J ENARGIA. 239 Larva. Meyyr. Brit. Lep. p. 118; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 808, pl. 223. f. 2. Pale dull green irrorated with white ; segmental incisures yellowish ; dorsal and subdorsal lines white ; spiracular line double, white; spiracles edged with purple; head pale yellow. Food- plants: Birch, Oak, 5-6. 4615, Enargia decolora. (Plate CXLII. fig. 14.) Mythimna decclor, Wik. xv. 1658 (1859). -Orthosia infumata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soe. Nat. Sei. ii. p- 160 (1874). lusmia punctirena, Smith, Can. Ent, xxxii. p. 222 (1900); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 179. Cosmia discolor, Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 214 (1893). Head and thorax orange-red mixed with yellowish ; palpi brownish mixed with white ; pectus and legs white tinge 2d with brown; abdomen ochreous white dorsally suffused with brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface tinged with rufous. Fore wing orange-red slightly irrorated with brown ; subbasal line brown, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line brown, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then inwardly oblique; orbicular and reniform large, defined by brown, the former large, the latter with blackish spot at lower angle of cell; a diffused fuscous medial shade, oblique from costa to reniform and incurved from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line brown, oblique from costa to vein 6 and incurved below vein 4; a broad oblique fuscous brown shade from costa before subterminal line to lower angle of cell ; subterminal line yellewish, excurved at vein 7 and at middle; terminal area suffused with fuscous brown except at apex; a terminal series of slight dark points; cilia red-brown, whitish at tips. Hind wing very pale yellow with a faint reddish tinge; a faint curved postmedial line and traces of a diffused subterminal line; cilia whitish at tips; the underside with the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with red-brown, a small brownish discoidal spot and indistinct curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. infumata. Head, thorax, and fore wing much greyer, thickly irrorated with fuscous. Ab. 2. Fore wing yellowish white with slight dark irroration. Ab. 8. Fore wing pale yellow irrorated with red, the markings reddish. Hab, Canava (Norman), 1 9, Renfrew Co., 1 ¢, Ontario, Orilla (Bush), 1 3 type, Manitoba, Aweme (Criddle), 1 g, Cartwright (Heath), 3 S$, 2 2, Alberta, Calgary (Wolley-Dod), 10 3,4 9; U.S.A., New York, 1 5,2 9, Albany (Mill), 1 9, Malawqua Co., 13,1 9 type infumata, California, Lr. Klamath RB. ( Walsingham), 23. Hp. 38-46 millim. Larva. Coquillet, J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. x. p. 169. Green ; dorsal, subdorsal, and less distinct substigmatal whitish lines ; warts and spiracles white, the latter ringed with black ; Pentral surface and legs green; head yellowish green. Food-pl: RF : Populus trichocarpa. 4. 240 NOCTUID BE. 4616, Enargia imbuta. Cosmia imhuta, Boisd. Gen. & Ind. Meth. p. 143 (1840); Frr. Neue Beitr, pl. 359. ff. 2,3; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 112, 115-6 ; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 204. Cosmia rufula, Stuud. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 115 (1871). ss Cosmia arenaria, Bartel, Iris, xv. p. 210 (1902). : Head and thorax pale ochreous yellow faintly tinged with rufous ; palpi and antenne more strongly tinged with rufous ; pectus with 4 white mixed ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing pale ochreous yellow slightly tinged with rufous; subbasal line absent; faint traces of a curved rufous antemedial line; orbicular and renifori absent; a rufous point at lower angle of cell; traces of an oblique rufous line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial — line rufous, excurved to vein 4, then slightly incurved ; ‘subterminal line absent ; cilia rufous at base, white at tips. Hind wing . yellowish white, the inner half tinged with rufous; cilia ochreous at base, white at tips; the underside ochreous white. 4 Ab. 1. rufula. Fore wing suffused with bright rufous, the lines and stigmata clearly defined “by pale yellow. . Ab. 2. arenaria. Fore wing with the terminal half irrorated with fuscous, strongly in female. Hab. 8. Russta, Sarepta, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. Hap, — 36-42 millim. e 4 4617. Enargia abluta. £ Noctua abluta, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 351 (1808): Dap. Lép. Fran Suppl. iti. p. 327, pl. 30. f. 3; Stand. Cat. Le sp. pal. p. 204. Euperia glaucula, Guen. Noct. ii. p- 5 (1852). * Head and thorax yellowish white slightly mixed with brown; palpi with the 2nd joint brownish above ; antennz brownish; abdomen yellowish white faintly tinged with brown. Fore wing yellowish white slightly irrorated with brown especially on terminal half; subbasal line represented by a slight brown striga from costa; antemedial line pale brown, oblique from gosta tosubmedian fold, then nearly erect ; orbicular and reniform with very faint whitish annuli, the former small, oblique elliptical, the latter with — round fuscous spot at lower angle of cell; a faint curved diffused brownish medial shade ; postmedial line pale brown defined by white on outer side and with slight dark point at costa, oblique from costa to vein 6 and slightly incurved below vein 4; an in- distinct whitish subterminal line excurved below vein 7 and at — middle; cilia with brownish line at middle. Hind wing white faintly tinged with brown except on costal area and termen ; an in- distinct curved postmedial line ; a slight brown terminal line; the underside white, a slight brown postmedial line from costa to vein 6. Ab. 1. glaucula. Fore wing suffused with grey-brown, the lines and stigmata clearly defined by white. DERRIMA. ‘ 241 Hab. Avusrris; Huneary, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; 2N. Iraty; ? Russta, Urals. Lwp. 34-42 millim. Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 185; Hffm. Raup. p. 115. Green with fuscous dorsal stripes; head brown. Food-plant: Populus alba. 7-8. Genus DERRIMA. Type. EE RUNE I NV lice X1le FO (NSOM) > soc beaccanccs ce ees aces saceeseaaesaecase stellata. Philomma, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ili. p. 2 (1864) ............ stellata. Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint not reaching middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short; trons with slight rounded prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennx of male serrate; thorax clothed with hair over- lying scales and without crests; tibis moderately fringed with hair, the fore tibizs with long curved claw on inner side and two claws on outer; abdomen without crests. Fore wing short and broad, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole: 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4618. Derrima stellata. Derrina stellata, W1k. xii. 770 (1857). Philemma henrietta, Grote. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 3, pl. 2. f. 1 (1864) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 271. (henrietta). Head and thorax bright crimson-pink, the meta- thorax yellowish, the antenne whitish tinged with crimson, the pectus ochreous except in front, the legs crimson; abdomen ochreous tinged with crimson. Fore wing olive-yellow, the costal and terminal areas broadly bright crimson-pink ; an antemedial Fig. 97.—Derrima stellata, J. }. round silvery white spot below the cell defined by black and ringed with crimson and a similar discoidal spot ; postmedial line repre- sented by a series of white points on inner edge of the pink terminal area, excurved from costa to vein 6, then oblique. Hind wing ochreous yellow. Underside of fore wing with the disk suffused with fuscous brown; hind wing with the costa suffused with pink. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the ocellate spot below the cell centred with grey. VoL. 1x. R 242 NOCTUIDE. Ab. 2. stellata. Fore wing with the two spots not ringed with pink, the postmedial series of white points more prominent; hind wing almost wholly suffused with pink. Hab. U.S.A. (Doubleday), 1 Q type, Massachusetts (Grote), 2 g, 6 9, New York, Rhode I.,1 ¢, South to Florida and West Mississippi States. wp. 24-30 millim. 6 te ee Oy pce 8 Pm + onthe er ly Su Genus STIRIA. Stiria, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 73 (1874) ......... dew Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, extending to just beyond the frons, the 2nd joint moderately fringed with hair below, the 3rd short; frons with large heart-shaped corneous prominence with raised edges, i 8 lower edge produced to a point, a corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round; — antennz of male laminate and minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed with rough scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests, the patagia curled upwards at extremity; tibiee moderately fringed with hair, the fore tibie with large curved claw on inner side; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex produced and acute, the termen oblique below vein 4 and crenulate, the tornus with slight scale-tooth ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; ¢ from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form theareole ; 1] from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars; 6,7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with grey-brown patch on medial inner area, a. Fore wing yellow. a‘. Fore wing with the patch on medial area large and irreplarly, quadrate ::'.. (sc. .sdav~odsn cher ease seeces rugifrons, &'. Fore wing with the patch on medial area much smalleriand/ conical wrccs.s..-scssse-se eee a cease nee sulphurea. 6. Fore wine grey- white. °.-.c212..c