PREFACE.

THE subject of Vol. XIII. of the ‘Catalogue of Moths’ is the

classification of the remainder of the Noctuid subfamily Cutocaline

and the subfamilies Momine and Phytometrine.

The Catocaline are represented in the present volume by

44 genera and 379 species, making a total of 107 genera and

1022 species for the subfamily.

The Momine, with 11 genera and 74 species, are characterized

by the eyes being hairy and vein 5 of the hind wing being fully

developed and arising from close to the lower angle of cell; that

they are rather closely related to the only other Noctuid subfamily

with hairy eyes—the Hadenine—seems probable, but the exact

relationship between the Trifid and Quadrifid subfamilies of

Noctuide is still rather obscure.

The Phytometrine, with 15 genera and 226 species, are

similar, but the eyes are smooth and are overhung by bristly cilia ;

_the tibiz are sometimes spined, but they do not appear to be at

all closely related either to the Catocaline, which subfamily is

characterized by having spiny tibie in the Quadrifid series, or to

the Agrotine of the Trifid series.

v1 PREFACE.

Sir George Hampson has to acknowledge the assistance which he

has received, mostly from those whose help has been referred to

in earlier volumes of the Catalogue, by the loan of types and

specimens, and in other ways.

The coloured drawings which have been made for him from

types of species which are not in the Collection of the British

Museum, and of which he has been unable to examine specimens,

have been reproduced, and are severally acknowledged in the text.

The Plates published in connection with this volume are

numbers CCX XIT.—CCXX XIX.

CHARLES J. GAHAN,

Keeper of Entomology.

British Museum (Natural History),

September Ist, 1913.

SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

Fam. NOCTUIDAH (continued) 1

Subfam. CaTocaLIn# (con-

GUIMUTE LP ee ateca uate st tetera 1

ANDER JIC ee mH Olio aio ee 8

7(71. regalis (Moore) ....:. 8

C00: 100 (CDM) oo oto oe co 6 9

7773. ethiopica, Hmpsn. .. 10

7774. woetaleuca Hmpsn. .... 11

CWollouisayViGicwe soe kos ce iar diss 11

“775. euclidica, Wik. ...... ul

Acanthodelta, Hmpsn......... 12

7776. distriga, Hmopsn....... 5)

Grammodes, Gen. .......... 13

7777. ocellata, Tepper ...... 15

CI0Ss COMMCO A, UUs bobooe 15

7779. pulcherrima, Zucas.... 16

7780. arenosa, Swink. ...... 17

TU So OSE MIMS 85. Ee eee 17

Misa concemita, licen. 18

7783. geometrica (Mabr.) .... 18

THE, COME, SOMM0s canasace 20

7785. queesita, Swink. ...... 21

TUS, Solna, (CAAA) ooo coo 2]

7787. euclidioides, Gwen. .... 23

7788. boisdeffrei (Obderth.) 24

7789, palestinensis (Staud.).. 25

7790, microgonia (fmpsn.) .. 25

Olnalloiere, JEU. saccobodoses 26

goles Gaisjuncta Moone) ssn. 26

7792. hyppasia (Cram.)...... 27

GO See OUSti ay (PLLC) ee ao 29

io tecepnisey (CHa Im): 30

CIOS, Moan (CMA) soonone dL

Cimersigma, eepsi ein a 31

Gil Gxobstans) (Willie). 32

7797. cumamita (Beth.-Baker) 33

7798. rivulata (EImpsn.) ....

Parachalciope, Hmpsn. ......

7799. euclidicola (Wdk.) ....

. deltifera ( eld.)

> lonimeneia, (JEl0U,) os o6n606

. longiplaga, Hmpsn.....

3. benitensis (Hol/.)......

. trigonometrica, Hmpsn.

5. mahura (Feld.)........

. monoplaneta, Hmpsn. . .

7807. agonia, Ampsn.

Kuclidisema, Himpsn.

SUS MeLecta E7757 men

7809. bisinuata (Snell.)......

7810. imminua ( Snel.)

7811. mygdon ( Cram.)

Gol2s alevonan(Druce)) oa ..

7815. emathion (Sred/.)......

7814, delta (Boisd.) .

Leucomelas, Hmpsn. ........

7815. juvenilis (Brem.)......

Euclidimera, Himpsn. ........

ANG, Tit (CUD) ooeccracac

7817. annexa (H. Edw.) ...

OSM, toils CMR) 65 6 5 5 0's

MSG), HERI, (SHOVE) gosocce-

7820. ceerulea (Grote)

CGonospileray(CHWb77)) een eee

7821. cuspidea (Hiibn.)......

7822. dentata (Staud.)

7823. glyphica (Linn.)

7824. triquetra (Schiff)

7825. munita (Tiibn.)

Megistoclisma, Hmpsn. .

7826. ribbei (Pag.)

labyjoweiies, (Cais) Sombie coe os

7827. macrostidsa, Hinpsn. ..

7828. complens, W7k.

eee ea eee

ooo noo

eee nee ece

vill

Hypeetra (con.). Page

7829. stigmata, WHO 0.606 00 60

7830, ethiopica, JEGEOs no00 Oh

7831. novaguineana, Beth.-

TOGO sis Oo ao ot 62

7832. discolor (Fabr.) ...... 63

7883. noctuoides, Guen. .... 64

Obeiaminea, WUls seccvosrenac 65

7834, fortalitium (Tausch.) .. 66

Ueksioy, sverantees (CHAGL)) 5605 50% 67

7836. convalescens (Guwen.) .. 67

7837. aralbistia, (UU) oo ceoons 68

7838. togataria (WIk.) ...... 69

7839, interealaris (Grote).... 70

7840. diagonalis (Dyar) .... 71

7841. erechtea (Cram.)...... ral

7342. crassiuscula (Haw.) .. 73

7843. distincta (Neum.) .... 7

Remigiodes, Hmpsn. ........ 74

7844. remigina (Mab.) ...... 75

Mocis, Hines & oper 76

7845. phasianoides (Giuen.) .. 76

7846. electaria (Brem.)...... 77

7847. antillesia, Himpsn. .... 79

7848, megas (Gwen.)........ ae

(849; cubana, Hapsn. . 3... - 80

7850. bahamica, Hinpsn. .... 81

Gs, wowace, (VUE) oo6 0680 81

7852. marcida (Giuen.) ...... 82

(805. texana (Jor7.) ...... §3

7854. disseverans (Wik.) .... 88

7855, repanda (Faér.) ...... 84

7856. diffluens (Gwen.) ...... 86

7857. frugalis (Fabr.) ...... 87

7858. vitiensis, Ampsn. .... 89

7859. paraguayica, Hmpsn. .. 90

7860. undata (Fadr.) ...... 91

7861. trifasciata (Steph.) .... 98

7862, alterna (Wik.)........ 95

7863, dolosa (Butl.) ........ 95

7864, mutuaria (Wik.)...... 96

7865, inferna (Leech)........ 98

7866, persinuosa (Jimpsn.) .. 98

7867. inornata (foll.) ...... 99

7868. ramifera, Hompsn. 100

7869, diplocyma, Hmpsn..... 101

7870. undifera, Hmpsn....... 101

7871. escondida (Schaus) 101

7872. propugnata (Leech) .... 102

7873. annetta ae Bre - 102

Usieh ep (WWE) gio 0000602 103

CSS, Cisenos (COW) o55 60506 104

JEMUOANs (CDI so ood een oo neo 105

7876. vinculum, Geen. ...... 105

7877. immunis, Guen. ...... 106

7878. basilans, Guen......... 108

SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

Page

7879, agrapta, IEG HOS 26655 ¢ 108

Csi worse (VW) oo cob 06 109

7881. bistriga, Herr.-Schiiff... 109

HS, Ine, (GWERo oocacoooce 110

7883, herbarum (Giuen.) bo EO)

7884, bistrigata (Hiibn.) .... 111

(880. OWALIS GTOLC ee ner > A

7886. campanilis, Smith .... 112

7887. flavistriaria (Hiibn.) .. 112

7888. carolina, Smith ...... 115

Doryodes, Guen. i eth pee uae Hes

7889. insularia, Hompen. .... 114

7890. bistrialis (Geer) ee aoe 114

7891. spadaria, Guen. ...... 115

INAvin Nish (CMWalan chaos dbo 0645 115

USA emromeney (UME os enns 116

7893. helvina (Guen.) ...... Wy

7894, montana (Schaus) 118

7895. fuscilineata (Kaye) . ING

7896. teligera (Wik.)........ 119

SOC. watlentan ((1/{Uics) caer ere 120

7808, 1m wal iG. Wes, wee nee 121

Ue), jueves, (WEEE) oo none. 122

7900. garnoti (Guen.) ...... 123

CHONG Tues (CHIE) oo cokea' 6-0 124

7902. lineolaris (Hiibn.) .... 125

7903, jaliscana (Schaus) 126

7904. copiola (Guen.) detec 126

(Qomilexay (Grecian ae 127

7906. moxa (Schiaus)\s 3. ous: 127

7907. candida (Dogn.) ...... 128

7908. bigutta (Schaus) ...... 128

7909. navilla (Schaus) ...... 129

7910. monaxa (Schaus)...... 129

(o)al Ss dimieray Dian.) eee 150

CelipteranG cian hee eee: 5

7912. remigioides (Gwen. ) 131

CONS, levying, (SGON)) soso 52 152

7914, cometephora, Hmpsn... 133

7915. grisescens (Schaus) .... 134

7916, thericles (Schaus) 155

7917. valina (Schaus) ...... 135

7918. frustulum, Guen....... 136

7919. codo, Dyar amen Sreuctees 137

CHINO, COs goovesbon 6 boc 13

7920. idonea (Stoll) ........ 138

7921, semicuprea ( Wik.) .... 13

USP INS (CH an 6 one 6 Ae 140

Plecopterodes, JEG IT “peo 5e 141.

7923. melliflua (Holl.) ...... 142

7924. heterochroa (Hmpsn.).. 142

7925. gviseicilia (Hmpsn.) 143

7926. synethes, Hmpsn. . 148

7927.

7928.

moderata (Wilgrn.).... 144

molybdopasta (HZmpsn.) 145

‘SYSTEMATIC INDEX. — 1x

7929. pulchra (fudr.)

Gonodontodes, Hmpsn.

7935.

7936,

7937.

7938.

7939.

7940.

7941.

7942.

7943.

7944,

7945.

7946.

bucetum (Grote)

diffundens ( W7k.)

herbicola (Gen. )

sylvarum (Guen.)

erasa (Guen.)

7949. laba (Druce)

7950. albizona (Latr.)

Safidia, Hmpsn.

7951, azteca (Sehaus)

7952.

7955.

7954.

7950.

7956.

7957.

7958.

7959.

7960.

7961,

7962.

rufipicta (Schaus)

pascuala (Schaws)

obsolefacta (Schaus)

simplicior (IV7k.)

demera (Schaus)

subrosea ( W/k.)

guayaquilata, Dogn.

pheeochroa, JZmpsn.

7963. brunea (Schaus) .....

7964. sublimis (Schaus) ....

7965. pacifica (Wik.).......

7966. metopis, Hmpsn......

7967. amazonica (Butl.) ....

7968.

7969.

7970.

oar

7972.

7973.

7974.

7975.

7976,

olearos, Schaus

meretricia (Schaus) .

aperta ( W/k.)

celia (Cram.)

7930. chionosticta, Hmpsn. .

79381. dispar (Herr.-Schdff.). .

INCU, EGOS. Gononodooe

7932. texana, Hmpsn. .....

7933. bipunctata (W/k.) ....

7934. grenadensis, Himpsn. ..

Argyrostrotis, Hiibn. .......

surrufula (Dyur).....

pacalis (Wik.).......

coutempta (Guen.)...

deleta (Guen.).......

obsoleta (Grote) .....

quadrifilaris (Hiibn.) ..

anilis (Drury) .......

(Cima, WU eo 6 conn d000 aco

7947. albopunctella, Wik....

Cymosafia, Hmpsn..........

7948. pallida, Empsn. .....

Inepiny aula, Cries ecb eodvocue

Sune, GUIs, oaooosu0guuudeo

endomelas, Hmpsn.. .

separabilis ( Wik.) . a

coenochroa, Hmpsn.....

leucopis, Hinpsn......

permixta, Schaus.....

bruma, Schaus.......

caminata (Schaus) ...

leucoplaga (Schaus)...

Page

CG Us, Sines (LOWEN 3 oo bo oo 188

7978. amella (Guen.) ...... 188

7979. mollis (Méschi.) ...... 189

7980. chalybeata, Hmpsn. 190

7981. minta, Schaus ........ 190

7982. obscura (Schaus)...... lig

7983. albidiscata (Schaws) .. 192

(9845 decessan( Wiliams ae 193

7985, acharia (Cram.) ...... 193

7986. abscisa, Schaus........ 194

7987. barata- (Schaus) ...... 195

7988. coeruleotineta, Schaus.. 196

7989, guapila (Schaus) ...... 196

7990. thermochroa, Hmpsn... 197

7991. mascara (Schaus)...... 198

7992. diodonta, Hmpsn. .... 198

7993. bidens (Kaye)......... 199

7994, subvaria (Schaus) .... 200

7995. nigrescens (Schaus).... 201

7996. irresoluta (Wik.)...... 201

7997. meroleuca, Hmpsn..... 202

7998. picturata, Schaus,..... 203

7999, divaricata (Schaus).... 208

8000. eminens, Sechaus ...... 204.

8001. cades (Diruee) ........ 205

8002. nyctichroa, Hmpsn..... 206

80038. noctar (Sehaus) ...... 206 .

8004. minax (Giuen.)........ 207

LE MVE™ MELLO TU ee RO ar ee 207

8005. discisigna (WUk.)...... 208

S0OGMsetipes) (Gen. etn ae ae 209

8007. exhausta (Guen.)...... 2138

8008. pachystrigata, Hmpsn... 214

8009. galactea, Hmpsn....... 215

8010. viridans (Gwen.) ...... 215

8011. fictilis (Guen.)....%... 216

S02 terrosa, (Gven)n sae oe Ne,

SOlame erate) og 7eamenenreters 218

8014. sabena (Schaus) ....,. 219

8015. configurata (Wik.) .... 219

8016. fuliginosa (Wik.) .... 220

8017. rufosa, Himpsn. ...... 221

8018. sexplagiata (Wik.) .... 221

SOME, Sabo WGP) cocacone Ze

8020. lunata (Drury)........ 223

8021. rhigodora, Dyar...... 225

8022. pheograpta, Hmpsn. .. 225

8023, unilineata (Grote) .... 226

8024. declarans (Wik.)...... 227

8025, albidula (Wik.) ...... 227

8026. galbanata (Mor7.) .... 228

8027. edusina (Harv.) ...... 229

8028. ceruginosa (Guen.) .... 229

8029. undularis (Drury) .... 259

80380. corvus (Schuus) ...... 28

8031. coracias (Guen.) ...... 2382

D. SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

Zale (con.).

80382. janisca (Schaus) .....

8033. insuda (Smith).......

8034. minerea (Gwen.)

8035.

8036. lunifera (/2ibn.)

8037. penna (Morr.)

8088. australis, HZmpsn.

8039. benesignata (fHarv.)

8040.

8041.

8042.

curema (Smith)

duplicata (Bethune)

8043, bethunei (Smith)......

squamularis (Drury) ..

8044.

8045.

8016.

largera (Smith)

obliqua ( Gen.)

8047, rubiata (Smith)

8048. rubi (HZ. Edw.)

8049, yavapai (Smith)

8050. colorado (Smuth)

8051.

8052.

Ab).)

SOS INO, JEM a5 oe non

Sypnoides, Hmpsn. .......... 2

excellens (Schaus) ace

metata (Smith)........

eecteee

cingulifera (WUk.) ....

calycanthata (Smth &

ovooOmoOoO DD oOo Ga

8064, equatorialis ( Holl.) .... 249

8055. mandarina (Leech) .... 250

8056. pannosa (Moore) ...... 250

Molmuogles el 77psi weer ee 252

8057. dasynota (eld.) ...... 252

Hypogrammodes, Hinpsn. .... 253

8058. abscondens (W/k.) .... 254

BUS 9s contusag 5276/3) eeee ees 255

8060. eeolia (Druce) ........ 256

S061- feroniay (Feld.).5. 5... 256

8062. micropis, Hmpsn. .... 257

8063. subocellata (Schaus) .. 258

8064.. glauca (Cram.) ...... 258

8065.. glaucoides (Schaus).... 259

Anisoneura, Gwen. .......... 260

8066. hypocyanea, Gwen. .... 260

8067. papuana, Hnpsn. . 262

8068 zeuzeroides, Gwen. . .. 262

8069. salebrosa, Gwen. ...... 263

ANDY CRO PW OVO 5655006 00c 264

S070;-sumiolalCPings)) 525... 265

SO. mamiives, BPS.) ooo506 266

8072) imitatrix (Chivst.) 72... 267

8073. sabouraudi, D. Lucas... 267

Cemowalla, JROUSGh noroor000008 268

OPE CrsllNia, IPS@D. > sco 00c 268

8075. illustrata, Holl, ...... 270

8076, insana (Herr.-Schiff.).. 270

S070. Sama, SuMaIh, 505500006 ial

SOUS, Oye, (WORE) saclosc 272

S072), memela, JDP ssocosce LAD

8080.. seapulosa (Jiibn.) .... 273

)

Page

8081. vermiculosa, Mer. -

Schafer sce 275

8082. socotrensis (Hmpsn.) .. 276

8083. orientalis, de Joan..... 277

8084. masaica, Ampsn....... 278

8085. contraria (Wik.)...... 278

Leucanitis, Giwen....... segs ZOEY

8086. cabylaria (Bang-Haas). 280

8087. sesquistria, Hy. ...... 280

S088. picta; Chast ee 282

8089. christophi, Alph....... 283

8090. roda (Herr.-Schiff.) 283

Scodionysx, Siqud.. “iar sea 285

8091. mystica (Staud:) ...... 285

Gnamptonyx, Hmpsn......... 286

OSES walls) (CUMS) moe on case 286

8093. obsoleta, Himpsn....... 287

Hypoglaucitis, Staud......... 287

8094. benenotata ( Warr.) 288

8095. infrequens (Swinh.).... 289

ClytiercEibn) hue aks a etn 289

8096. devia (Swnh,) ........ 290

8097. scotorrhiza (Piing.).... 290

8098. sancta (Staud.) ...... 291

8099. illunaris (Hiibn.)...... 291

8100, haifse (Habich) ...... 292

8101. distincta (Bang-Haas) . 295

8102. syrdaja (Bang-Haas) .. 293

8103. arenosa, Roths......... 294

8194. syriaca (Bugnion) ..., 294

8105. sublunaris (Staud.) .... 295

8106. nabateea (Piing.) ...... 296

8107. delunaris (Staud.) 59 8

8108. terrulenta (Christ.).... 297

Pericyma, Herr.-Schdff....... 297

-8109. albidens (Wik.) ...... 298

8110. cruegeri (Buitl.) ...... 299

SAA tunbidian (5262/5) eee 300

8112. umbrina (Gwen.)...... 301

81138. glaucinans (Gwen.) .... 3803

8114. atrifusa (Hmpsn.) . 805

S555 amend ance (GUIZU:9) eee 305

S11G.. detersa ( Wik:) os 2 ae as 307

8117. metaleuca, Hmpsn..... 308

8118., squalens, Zed. = ....:.. 308

8119. albidentaria (Frr.) .... 809

8120. scandulata (Fedd.) . 310

8121. polycramma, Hmpsn... 311

Cortyita, Wiliee rare eee K 312

(8122. remigiaua, Himpsn..,.. 312

8123. diapera, Hmpsn... . 3l4

8124. metaxantha (Hmpsn.) 314

8125. leucoptera (Himpsn.) .. 315

rollatoy (obichehe (JETWAGE))S 206 oon 315

8127.. fasciolata (Warr.) .... 316

S128) ballmeartan(@D7s/9) meee... 317

SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

8129. impar, Mmpsn........ 317

8130. eremochroa (Hmpsn.).. 318

Slaly yetusta (Wik.). 0. .: 18

8132. rosacea (Rebel) ..... 320

8133. polycyma (Hmpsn.).... 520

8134, pheocyma, Hmpsn..... 321

8135. canescens, Wik. ..... 321

8186. grisea (Leech) ....... 322

Sis. profestay(Chi7st.))..... 323

8138. ruficolora (mpsn.) O24

Idnlnoubvams JID, 3 arene ok 324

8139. impartialis, Harv. 325

Matigramma, Grote......... 326

8140, nitida, Hmpsn. ..... 326

8141, pulverilinea, Girote.... 327

8142. rubrosuftusa, Grote .... 327

SHI keine (CHOU geno non oo 328

8144. metaleuca, Hmpsn..... 329

8145. perigeana, Hmpsn. .... 329

_ Subfam. Mominz . 33

i) PICATISIS 5 /0l ye eee ate 337

8146. smithi (Mad.) ....... 308

TMesuUlOnGles, JaaIt, ococeendna0d 239

8147. pygaria, Warr. ..... 389

8148. papuensis, Warr. 340

8149. luteifascia, Himpsn..... 340

S150, sericea, Bull, ....... 342

8151. coerulea, Butl........ 343

8152. albiplaga, Warr. ..... 344

8153. cornelia (Staud.)..... 345

8154, plumbea (Butl.) ..... 345

8155. catocalina (Moore) .... 546

8156. variegata (Moore) .... 847

8157. subflava, Wileman .... 348

8158. albitessellata, Ampsn... 348

8159. entoxantha (Zmpsn.).. 849

8169. flavala (Moore) ..... 51910)

S161, nitida (Butl.) ....... 351

8162. caliginea (Butl.) ..... 352

8163. pallidipennis ( Warr.).. 353

8164, infausta (WIk.) ..... 353

8165. obscura (Leech) ..... 354

8166, glauca, Hmpsn. ..... 304

8167. c-album (Leech) ..... 356

Hilzeodes, Hmpsn..........-> 306

8168. virescens (Butl.)..... 357

8169. acatharta, Hmpsn. .... 357

8170. brevicornis (Wik.) .... 358

8171. utescens (Herr.-Schiff.) 359

WallocastamOchssary torrie 360

8172. umbrosa ( Wileman) 361

SITS, Cony (Vis) seo soee 361

8174, flavicornis (Smith) .... 362

8175. electa (Snuth) ........ 365

8176. propinquilinea (Grote) . 363

8177. infanta (Smth) B64

Page

lige, TMS (CHa) 6 oooso6 364

IDitolaneien, WR So ooannutoae 365

S79) coenobita (Hsp) 2..... 366

8180. acronyctoides (Wilk.) .. 867

8181. grisea (Wileman)...... 307

Sie 2eiuTeilllay CLachs ae « 368

8183. portlandia (Grote) .... 869

8184, gigantea (French) 369

8185. virginaria (Grote) 370

8186, palata (Grote) ........ 570

Chiaraditayeli sear eee 3f1

S187> pata (Drwce) ........ 371

8188. nitens, Schaws ......:. 372

8189. ingenua, Smith..:..... 373

8190. deridens (Guen.) ...... 373

SOI, UCN, STO Soocb so. 375

8192. nigracreta, H. Edw. 370

8193. dispulsa, Morr. ...... 376

Nios JED, = oop bao bankas 376

8194. obsolescens, Warr. .... 377

8195. champa, Moore ...... 378

8196. ainu (Wileman) ...... 379

8197. gypsochrca, Hmpsn. .. 379

S198" luditica, ann). ....... 380

8199. nigrescens, Warr. .... 382

architec nrciera ese ree 382

8200. sagata (Wik.) ........ 383

8201. chavannesi (feld.) .... 884

CawmyjOUIe, DOs oocucarcecce 385

8202. arbosa, Dogn. ........ 386

8203. arbosioides, Dogn. 386

8204. vau-nigrum, Hmpsn. . . *887

8205. renifera, Hmpsn....... 387

Lichnoptera, Herr.-Schiff. .... 388

S206 zdecora(oi7:\n ae 389

S20 pela rucen an 390

8208. cavillator (Wik.)...... 391

8209. albidiscata (Dogn.).... 392

8210. rufitincta, Hmpsn. .... 393

eZ ME milludens) 7k) on: 394

8212. gulo, Herr.-Schiff. .... 3894

8213. primulina, Dogn....... 395

8214. spissa (#7. Hdw.)...... 396

8215. marmorifera (Wik.) .. 396

8216. atrifrons, Dogn. ...... 397

8217. moestoides, Dogn. ,... 898

8218. meesta, Herr.-Schiiff. .. 399

Elydnodes, Hmpsn. .........% 399

8219. variegata (Leech)...... 400

Subfam. PuHyromstrinm .. 401

OmonpiinaeAl phe ere ne 403

8220. aurantiaca, Alph....... 403

Autographa, Hiibn. .......... 404

C2 2h panilis) CEwb7:) sees ar 404

Caloplusiay S727 ee 405

8222, virgula (Blanch.)...... 406

xl SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

Caloplusia (co2.). Page

8223. devergens (HHiibn.) .... 407

8294. alticola (WiUk.).......>. 407

8225. hochenvarthi( Hochenw.) 408

8226. ionea (Grote) ........ 409

tachiplusia, Hmpsn. ....+... 410

SPN iit (GRC)! saocseobse 410

8228. pedalis (Grofe)........ 412

Syngrapha, Hibn. .......... 412

8229. ain (Hochenw.)........ 414

8230. microgamma (Hiibn.).. 415

8231. oroplila (Aimpsn.) .... 416

8232. diasema (Boisd.)...... 416

8233. sacceni (Grrote)........ 417

8234. snovi (H. Edw.) ...... 418

8235. falcifera (Kirby) ...... 419

8236. simplicissima

( Ottolenga) 420

8237. speciosa (Ottolenguz) .. 420

8238. epigeea (Grote) ...... 421

8239. selecta (WIk.) ........ 421

S240 Mcelsas (Hi diu. eae 499

8241. rectangula (Airby) .... 428

8242. alias (Ottolengu)...... 494

243, u-aureum (Gwen. ) 424

8244. octoscripta (Grote) .... 425

8245. arctica ( Ottolengut) 426

8246. excelsa ( Ottolengut).... 42

8247. angulidens (Smuth) .... 427

8248. pyrenaica, Hmpsn...... 428

8249. altera (Ottolengw) .... 429

8250. v-alba (Ottolengu) .... 429

8251. surena (Grote)........ 430

5252. interrogationis (Linn.) . 480

8253, grcenlandica (Staud.) .. 452

8254. circumflexa (Zinn.).... 482

8255. gammoides (Llanch.) .. 454

8256. egena (G'uen.) ..... ».. 490

8257. feisthameli (Gwen.) .... 436

8258. egenella (Her7.-Schiff.). 456

8259. illustrata (Gwen.) A37

Elusiopalpa,eeloll) Vee sere 437

8260. camptogamma

(Hnpsn.) 458

S261 yadnastay CKelds)\ een 438

Clinysoptera, aden aan 439

8262. sica (Greser) 2 o.0...6 440

8263. micadina (Butl) ...... 44]

8264. c-aureum (Knoch) .... 442

8265. splendida (Butl.)...... 443

8266. aurata (Staud.) ...... 444

8267. moneta (Fabr.)........ 444

8268. morigera (H. Edw.) .. 445

Kosphoropteryx; Dyar ...... 446

8269, thyatyroides (Gwen.) .. 446

Ieseudevayeenup sienna 447

8270. purpurigera ( Wik.)

. 448

Page

8271. palligera (Grote)...... A49

8272. rubrigera, Hmpsn. .... 449

Plusidias570tl merece eae 450

8273. cheiranthi (Tausch.) .. 450

Bhytometia, 07) pertain 452

8274, pterylota (Meyr.) .... 452

8275. psectrocera, Hmpsn. .. 453

8276. lavendula (Hmpsn.) .. 454

SPIT. (xengles (CARI) poco nase 455

8278. chalcopasta (Zmpsn.).. 456

Se) linmcles VEIL) ooo on nes 457

8280. phocea (Hmypsn.) . 408

8281. eeneofusa (Mmpsn.) .. 459

rice, JOUR) (WUE) Goocs con 459

8283. placida (Moore) ...... 460

8234. gammaloba (Hmpsn.).. 463

8285. cupreomicans (Himpsn.) 464

8286. chalcedona (Hmpsn.).. 464

8287. circumscripta (#77r.) .. 465

8288. verruca (Fabr.) ...... 465

8289. hemichalcea, Hmpsn... 466

8290. dorfmeisteri (Feld.) .. 467

8291. brassicae (Riley) ...... 467

SHSRE tut eG.) oobocencen 468

8293. subsidens (Wik.)...... 470

8294, angulum (Gwen.)...... 471

8295. limbirena (Guen.) .... 472

8296. tarassota, Hmpsn. .... 473

8297. furcifera (Wik.) .:.... 473

8298. eugrapha, Hinpsn. .... 474

8299. ablusa (Meld.) ........ 475

8800. lunata (Fabr.)........ 475

8301. violescens, Hinpsn..... 476

8302. microstigma (Hmpsn ). 477

8303. daubei (Boisd.) ...... ile

8304. indicator ( IW7k.)...... 478

8305. obtusisigna (Wik.) .... 479

8306. lectula (Wik.)........ 480

8307. distrlagma, Honpsn. 480

8308. brachychalcea, Himpsn. 481

8309. bipartita (Srell.)...... 482

8310. chaleytes (Zsp.) ...... 484

Sail, basigera (Wik) 5 a.. 486

8312, impulsa (Wik.) ...... A487

8313. meretricia (Schaus).... 487

8314. longicornis (Druce) 488

8315. caudata (Schaus)...... A489

8316. argentifera (Guen.) 489

8317. calceolaris (Wik.) .... 490

8318. signata (Fabr.) ..... . 491

8319. rubida (Ottolengw).... 491

8320. accentifera (Lef.)...... 492

8321. phocina, Hmpsn....... 493

8322. abrota (Drwce) ...... 493

8323. oxygramma (Geyer) .. 494

8324, cebew (Beth.-Baker) .. 495

8325.

8326.

- 8327.

8328.

8329.

8330..

8331.

8332.

8333.

8334.

8335.

8336.

8337.

8338.

339.

8340.

8341.

8342.

8343.

8344.

8345.

8346.

8347.

8348.

8349.

8350.

8351.

8352.

8353.

8354.

8355.

8356.

8357.

8358.

8359.

8360.

8361.

8362.

8263.

8364.

8365.

8366.

8367.

8368.

8369.

8370.

8371.

8372.

8373.

8374.

8375.

8376.

8377.

8378.

8379.

SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

Page

albostriata (Brem. &§

Grey)

subchalybeea (Wik.) .. 496

gorilla (foll.)... . 497

permissa (Wik.)...... 497

cebeana (Leth.- Baker). 499

rome) (HUE poo eeoar 499

festucee (Zinn.) ...... 507

festata (Gir@s.) ...... 508

putnami (Grote) ...... 509

nicholle, Hmpsn. .... 510

contexta (Grote)...... 510

bonaerensis (Berg) .... 511

lolliolaes (SHAM) cacao n 60 512

rhopalosema, Hmpsn... 513

confusa (Steph.) ...... 514

argyrosigna (Moore) .. 515

ornatissima (W/k.).... 515

agualaniata (Dogi.) 516

pyropia (Butl.) ...... 517

rutilifrons ( Wk.) 517

megaloba (Hmpsn.) 518

nigriluna (WUk.)...... 518

pannosa (Moore)...... 519

admonens (Wik.) .... 520

geminipuncta (Ampsn.)

dalei ( Woll.)

00 ( Cram.)

pseudochalcytes, Hmpsn.

camptosema, Hmpsn.., 523

precationis (Guen.).,.. 524

Sestertia (Héld.) ...... 525

GiVCSHEHION) Rrra ie alee « 526

y-argenteum (Esp.) 527

ornata (Brem.) ...... 528

clarcis(CElanpstiy\ana a - 528

corusea (Streck.) a5) 029

labrosa (Grote) ...... 530

bimaculata (Steph.) 530

macrogamma (Hv.).... 531

mandarina (F77.) ..., 532

mappa (Grote § Rob.) . 533

pulchrina (Haw.) .... 584

NOUR (CEEM2s)) oo boee boos 585

nigrisigna ( W/k.) 536

schalisema, Hmpsn. 537

gamma (Linn.) ....... 3

pseudogamma (Grote). 6

californica (Speyer).... 540

flagellum (Wik.)...... 541

ou “(Guen. Yagi cae . 542

purpureofusa (Hmpsn. ip 543

dudgeoni, Hmpsn. .... 5

limata (Schaus) Sabieas 544

jessiGe (GSiills) 5n.509058 545

|gellle, ( CLUS) n00o0006 545

8380.

8381.

8382.

8383.

8384,

8385.

8386.

8387.

8388.

8389.

pasipheeia (Grote) ....

sansoni (W. Dod) .... 546

exquisita (Keld.)...... 547

semivitta a O) cba, G88

purissima (Butl.)...... 548

tetragona (WIk.)...... 549

anda “(Dr HOD elem sete 550)

omobisr (Goa) oooone 550

parabractea, Hmpsn. .. 551

bractea(Schefajmenecn: 551

8390. metallica (Gio/e) 552

8391. excelsa (Az- ee 553

8392. emula (Schiff.) ...... 554

8398. argyrodonta (Hmpsn.) . 555

8594, v-minus (Oberth. )) e600 Une

8395, tancrei (Stawi.) ...... 556

8396. ochreata (Wik.) ...... O57

8397. transfixa (WIk.) ...... 557

8398. arachnoides (Dist.) .. 558

8399. aranea (Zmpsn.)...... 559

8400. tetrastigma (Empsn.).. 559

8401, disticta, Hmpsn....... 560

8402. hampsoni (Leech) . 560

8403. emichi (Rghfr.) ...... 561

8404. dorsiflava (Stndf.) .... 561

8405. maria (Staud.) ...... 562

8406. augusta (Staud.)...... 562

8407. variabilis (Piller)...... 56:3

8408. modesta (Hiibn.)...... 564

8409. uralensis (Ev.) ...... 565

8410. siderifera (Hv.)) ...... 565

8411. inconspicua (Gres.) .. 566

8412. generosa (Staud.) . 566

8418. cashmirensis (Jfoore).. 567

8414, herrichi (Stawd.)...... 567

8415. renardi (Z£v.) ........ 568

8416. consona (Fabr.) ...... 569

8417. albavitta (Odttolengui).. 570

8418. ampla (Wék.) ........ 570

8419, deaurata (Lsp.) ...... 571

8420. sereoides (Girote)...... 572

8421. masoni (Schaus) ...... 573

8422. peponis (Fabr.) ...... 573

8423. hebatata (Butl.) ...... 574

8424, wrea (Hiibn.) .. -.... 575

8425. leonina (Oberth.) . 575

8426. chryscn (Zsp.)........ 576

8427. balluca (Geyer) ...... 577

8428. zosimi (Hiibn.) ...... 578

8429. chrysitis (Linn.)...... 578

8430. florina (Guen.) ...... 579

8431. orichaleea (£aér.) .... 580

Palzoplusia, Hmpsn. ........ 581

8432. venusta (Wik.) ...... 582

IN oromweila, (OWNS, go0n000c0000 582

8433, formosa (Grote) ...... 583

X1V

Abrostola (con.).

8434.

8455.

8436.

8437.

8438.

8439.

8440.

SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

Page

Ovals, CWS. socoovo0 584

WIRES, COs 66600900 585

tripartita (iibn.) .... 585

asclepiadis (Schiff) .. 586

triplasia (Lanm.) ...... 587

anophioides, Moore.... 588

HOOPS, JELPDIOs 600000 589

Page

8441. abrostolina (Butl.).... 589

8442. canariensis, Hinpsn. .. 590

8143. brevipennis (Wilk.).... 591

Wiowrmabia, [Uso scc0gc0cbboa0 591

8444, tinctoides (Guen.) .... 592

Bipisema, Och Seer ania 593

8445, ceruleocephala (Linn.). 593 -

ADDENDA TO VOL. XI.

Vol. XIII.

Page

7342 a. Ulothrichopus maccvoodi, Hmpsn. Vol. XII. p. 222...... 330,

7576.a. Anua rufescens, Hmpsn......... re Peto2 cet: 331

7604. a. Tolna macrosema, Hmpsn....... 25 PATE eee 3el

7748 a. Parallelia rectivia, Hmpsn....... 5 105 BOS4 o's ooh 332

CATALOGUE

LEPIDOPTERA PHALAIN A.

Family NOCTUID.

Subfamily CATOCALIN Al (continued).

The Key to the Genera is reprinted from Vol. XII. of the Catalogue,

with the references to the pages of the present volume inserted with

the figure (2) before them.

Key to the Genera.

A. Hind tibiz spined.

a. Fore tibive spined.

a‘, Hind wing with the cell about one-fifth

length of wing.

a?, Wings with the termen non-crenulate ... AGownisTa, p. 267.

62, Wings with the termen highly crenulate... Nycrrpao, p. 273.

61, Hind wing with the cell about one-third

length of wing.

a2, Abdomen with dorsal crests on basal

REERAGIMUS cooonsandsca: popos0DbDDOVaDDOEDEDGD0RAC CaraBarta, p. 11.

6?, Abdomen without dorsal crests.

a®, Abdomen dorsally clothed with woolly

hair at base.

a4, Palpi with the 3rd joint thickly

scaled, somewhat dilated at ex-

tremity and very long.

a’, Fore wing with the apex produced

(FONE: JOON Soncahechoadsopsadoospossan XYLOPHYLLA, p. 387.

65, Fore wing with the apex not pro-

duced ir nonce acscccteceaseaciesnecs Mrniornytuopes, p. 401.

bt, Palpi with the 3rd joint moderate

and dilated by a tuft of scales at

extremity.

VOL. XIII. B

v4 NOCTUIDM.

. Fore wing with the inner margin

str ongly lobed before middle

o5, Wore wing with the inner margin

TAOLH NO|DEC! cocccononcono06no0000 o0050000

4, Palpi_ with the 8rd joint naked,

moderate and not dilated at ex-

(ABI? oodnedooodeooDHocHKe vooDOoBCOR0NGKO

d', Palpi with the 3rd joint minute.

a. Abdomen dorsally flattened and

entirely clothed with woolly hair.

b®, Abdomen not dorsally flattened and

clothed with woolly hair at base

@MIK7 cosos0eceocoseenovancondon0nsnsb090e

03, Abdomen not dorsally clothed with

_ woolly hair at base.

Se with the 3rd joint long.

. Fore tibiee fringed with long hair

on outer side; fore wing with

the termen evenly curved.

a®, Fore wing with the costa highly

arched towards apex which is

TOE OROGIOES! .ceocnocenoeoooona5c0

®, Fore wing with the costa highly

arched towards apex which is

produced and acute ............

c&, Fore wing with the costa slightly

arched towards apex which is

produced and acute.

a’, Hind wing with the termen

strongly angled at vein 4 ...

&7, Hind wing with the termen

evenly curved ............0.0.5-

5, Fore tibize smoothly scaled.

a®, Fore wing with the termen

nearly straight; veins 7, 8, 9

stalked, 10, 11 from cell, and

much attenuated ..................

46, Fore wing with the termen evenly

curved ; the areole present.

a’. Palpi with the 2nd joint

reaching to above vertex of

head, the 3rd dilated at ex-

(HREWDTIE 7. coscavaocono0deoccosn0000¢

b7, Palpi with the Ond. joint not

reaching above vertex of

head, the srd not dilated at

extremity.

a8, Thorax clothed with scales

and hair mixed ... ........

68, Thorax clothed with hair

ODIWT 05. ccosea opagedoona0000D 200

b*, Palpi with the 3rd joint short.

a5, Thorax clothed with hair and scales

MIKE “le cceme sara mecemaeweere ceoae

b°. Thorax clothed with hair only ..,....

c\. Hind wing with the cell half the length of

wing.

a*, Frons with transverse ridge not clothed

with scales, and corneous plate below it.

62, Frons smooth.

a®, Hind wing with vein 8 approximated to

Line) GEN tro) MANLCNE) “oa ccecooces conncco9006 .

Lozornyiiongs, p. 400.

Puy.iopas, p. 389.

Mintopzs, p. 402.

Cocytongs, p. 258.

Opororny ta, p. 386.

Meropta, p. 300.

Enromoaranma, p. 813,

Hexamirorrera, p. 312.

Eymonopra, p. 319,

CynicramMa, p. 302.

Crrocata, (2) p. 268.

Catuiopus, p. 344.

SrEIREDONTA, p. 546,

Commraster, p. 362.

Donuvca, p. 364.

Lornoripra, p. 242,

AcANTIODELTA, (2) p. 12.

CATOCALIN A.

6°, Hind wing with vein 8 anastomosing

with the cell near base, then approxi-

miatedytojititopmuid dieses. -seelereeetes

. Hind wing with vein 8 anastomosing

with the cell near base, then diverging.

a‘, Abdomen with dorsal series of crests.

6*. Abdomen with crests on two basal

SESAINS, oooanbodocontondadoousdododoo0en0

c*, Abdomen without crests.

a’. Vibiz fringed with long hair.

a®, Kore wing short and broad, the

costa hivhly arched towards

EN 01=>'s auonaeeeiananiaemosanonTo BeOnesE

8, Fore wing longer and narrower,

the apex more produced, the

costa not highly arched towards

E]OGD:< gaconadeoouanecdronnebpascetondes

1°, Tibize smoothly sealed.

a®, Kyes small and elliptical; fore

wing short and broad............

6°, Eyes large and round; fore wing

longer and narrower, the apex

THNGIRE) [DRONES « Sooncsencabacdaca¢

b. Fore tibize not spined.

@, Hind tibiew spined above the medial spurs.

a. Hind wing with the termen produced

H® @ teenlll ANG Sveti 4b ccooondonsoaccnneqoaa0Ns

. Hind: wing with the termen produced

to a slight lobe at vein 4 ...............

ec’. Hind wing with the termen evenly

curved.

a®, Fore tibiz with long curved claw on

outer side at extremity ...............

63. Fore tibiz without claw at extremity.

a‘, Abdomen with dorsal series of

GRESUSW. oy.\ccsitsecteeateceiecitnee eiisiseiies

6, Abdomen with dorsal crests on basal

segments.

a. Palpi with the 3rd joint

moderate; pro- and meso-

thorax with crests ....... Gondbnad

b°. Palpi with the 3rd joint long;

pro- and mesothorax without

GPGEE| 5 coooasns00pba00000808002000000

ce, Palpi with the 3rd joint minute ;

pro- and metathorax with

crests; hind tibie of male

with the medial spurs absent ,

ce‘, Abdomen with basal crest only.

a. Frons with pointed conical

[DROWANMEMNES .oo0cosnso0000000500000r

a®, Pro- -and metathorax with

small crests; fore wing with

scale-teeth at middle of inner

margin and tornus............

6°, Thorax without crests; fore-

wing without scale-teeth at

middle of inner margin and

WOIFMUIS) Goescnconosonanscce00090000

d’, Abdomen without. dorsal crests. .

a, Abdomen dorsally clothed with

woolly hair at base.

Doryopss, (2) p. 113.

Sarrpra, (2) p. 163.

Prionorrera, p. 471.

Nieuza, p. 872.

Aupga, p. 209.

Evucuipiuera, (2) p. 45.

Cayunrcta, (2) p. 65.

PrrrocycLornora, p. 466.

Ornyusa, p. 377.

ACANTHONYX, p. 382,

Sypyorpus, (2) p. 248.

Mormonta, p. 42.

Tona, p. 475,

Acantmopica, p. 249.

Remiatopes, (2) p. 74.

Careritonns, p. 481.

Hienpra, p. 482,

NOCTUIDA.

a®, Thorax with dorsal ridge-like

(GRAS sovascudscsnsaqsoaqH0b05000000

6°. Thorax without ridge - like

crest.

a’, Abdomen dorsally flattened.

a. Hrons with large tuft of

hair above; palpi with

the 3rd joint porrect ...

8, Frons with slight tuft of

hair above; palpi with

the 8rd joint upturned

b7, Abdomen not dorsally flat-

tened.

a8, Fore wing with the apex

somewhat produced and

fal Catewapteteresceesesoe

8, Fore wing with the apex

not produced and fal-

cate.

a, Frons with tuft of hair

above.

a, Fore wing long and

MEVARONA | Soganancens

b10, Fore wing short and

I OLE! Jonconccedaccas

49, Frons without tuft of

hair above ; fore wing

short and broad ......

o°. Abdomen dorsally smoothly

scaled.

a®. Abdomen dorsally flattened ...

v8, Abdomen not dorsally flat-

tened.

a’, Thorax clothed with hair

and scales. .

a®, Fore wing with the apex

produced and acute;

eves large, round.

a’, Hind wing with the cell

about one-third length

of wing.

a, Frons with tuft of hair

above.

@}1, Fore wing with the

termen oblique and

hardly excurved

b', Fore wing with the

termen more erect

and strongly ex -

COP VEE nadda: sns0o0000900

}'°, Frons without tuft of

INTE poo9c6boccon8a0o7 fede

6°. Hind wing with the cell

about half the length of

b?, Fore wing short and

broad.

a9, Hyes small, elliptical ......

b°. Eyes large, round.

«'°, Fore wing with the

termen crenulate

Minvcta, p. 423.

HErminiocata, p. 234.

Dourmaturra, p. 406.

Huniormisma, p. 461,

Anva, p. 425.

Gonoponropss, (2) p. 146.

Acuma, p. 496.

Eccrita, p. 236.

Cuatcrorg, (2) p. 26,

Nynpis, (2) p. 115.

Puurys, (2) p. 105,

Mocrs, (2) p. 76.

Lzucomznas, (2) p. 44.

Hypoc.auciris, (2) p. 287.

CATOCALIN”. 5

6'°, Fore wing with the ter-

men not crenulate..._Pircopruroprs, (2) p. 141.

6”, Thorax clothed with hair

and hair-like scales; fore

wing with the apex pro-

duced and acute ......... .-. GRAMMODEs, (2) p, 13.

e’, Thorax clothed with hair

only ; fore wing with the

apex not produced and

Seen YOGYBING) oopocgassne banoNbonasonanbe Cuyris, (2) p. 289.

b'. Hind tibie spined hetween the medial and

terminal spurs only.

a*, Palpi with the third joint dilated into a

rounded knob at extremity.

a. Abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Rampur, (2) p. 161.

b?. Abdomen with dorsal crests on two

basalisepnientessscceceseeneeteneret res Ampiioraceras, p. 376.

?, Palpi with the 3rd joint not dilated at

extremity.

a®, Abdomen with dorsal series of crests, Evrartuernos, p. 9.

6%, Abdomen with dorsal crest at base

only.

a‘, Thorax with ridge-like dorsal crest Cutrprera, (2) p. 130.

++, Metathorax with paired crests ...... Arratia, (2) p. 8.

e*, Abdomen with dorsal ridges of hair

on basal segments,

a*. Thorax with dorsal ridge-like crest. Evsinucra, p. 421

6*, Prothorax with spreading crest ;

fore tibize with claw ............... Cie Lecaa, p. 240.

¢e*, Thorax without crests.

a, Fore wing with the apex pro-

duced and acute ................08 Lacorrmra, p. 413.

b°. Fore wing with the apex not pro-

duced and acute.

a§, Fore wing broad and tri-

BNTEUWENO: ioadoaddaoneeonadonHadane Catocata, p. 98.

08 Fore wing longer and narrower.

a’, Palpi with the 2nd joint

reaching to vertex of head,

the 3rd long; hind wing

with the cell about one-

third length of wing ...... Hypanua, p. 459.

6’, Palpi with the 2nd joint

reaching to middle of

frons, the 3rd moderate ;

hind wing with the cell

about half length of wing. Tactrosa, p. 241.

d°, Abdomen dorsally smoothly scaled.

a‘. Metathorax with crest.

a, Frons with large tuft of hair;

palpi with the 3rd joint long... Eupotra, (2) p. 324.

6°, Frons without tuft of hair; palpi

with the 8rd joint moderate... Anyproputa, (2) p. 264.

b*, Metathorax with crest.

a>, Palpi with the 3rd joint porrect.

a’, Frons with large flattened tuft

of hair above; fore wing

long and narrow.............++6 Hyporacna, p. 243.

6°, Frons with small tuft of hair ; %

fore wing triangular ......... Huruivsa, p. 550.

6°, Palpi with the 38rd joint up-

turned,

6 - NOCTUID 4.

a®, Fore wing with the apex some-

what produced and acute,

a’. Palpi with the 8rd joint long

and acuminate; fore wing

with the termen exclaee

elow apex and excurve

Fe cova PEOHApiyaeannonagncunt Fociiiia, (2) p. 148.

U7, Palpi with the 8rd joint

moderate, blunt ; fore wing

with the termen evenly

curved ...... Foeicongeanoatous Cunnisrana, (2) p. dl.

b°, Fore wing with the apex

rounded. aie i 7

a’, Kyes small and elliptical ... GonosPILEIA, (2) p. 50.

b7, Byes large, round ........++-- AnpreusiA, p. 206,

B. Hind tibiz not spined.

a. Abdomen with dorsal series of crests.

al, Thorax clothed with hair and scales, the

prothorax with spreading crests.

a, Patagia broadly. dilated with scales at

extremity ; abdomen with very large

basal crest.

a, Abdomen with the crests on medial

segments large and somewhat bifid. Sarra, (2) p- 165.

3, Abdomen with the crests on medial

segments simall.........:-eseeesseeeeereee Zax, (2) p. 207.

b?, Patagia not dilated with scales at ex-

tremity.

a, Abdomen with the crests on medial

seoments large......seeeceeerseeeeeeeraee Pericyma, (2) p. 297.

b3, Abdomen with the crests on medial

‘segments small .....ecee-cseeseeeeeeees Atnorrta, p. 204.

4’, Thorax clothed with hair and hair-hke

scales, ;

a*, Metathorax with spreading crest ........- Totnaopus, (2) p. 202.

b?, Metathorax without crest ...........ee08e Caxyerts, (2) p. 188.

b. Abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. _

a’, Frons with tuft of hair above; palpi with

(Tn® BiG] TOWNE MOE cconsssonnassoeseaos0000008 CaLLopisma, p. 265,

b', Frons without tuft ef hair above; palpi

with the 3rd joint moderate .............+: Coxsusa, (2) p. 11.

c, Abdomen with dorsal ridges of hair on basal

segments.

a). Kore tibize with curved claw at extremity. Scopronyx, (2) p. 289.

U1. Fore tibiee without claw at extremity.

a>, Fore wing with the apex somewhat pro-

duced and acute.

a3. Fore wing long and narrow, the costa

not highly arched towards apex, the

termen obliquely curved.

a. Prothorax with crest, metathorax

TAUMOWG GRIK5 cpoocoaccsvasssssco0nsd Unormriciorus, p. 220.

6%. Prothorax without crest, meta-

thorax with spreading crest ...... HyroGrauMopgs,

b°. Fore wing short and broad, the costa [(2) p. 253.

highly arched towards apex.

a‘, Fore wing with the apex strongly

produced and falcate ............... OruisMA, p. 539.

b4. Fore wing with the apex slightly

produced and not falcate.

a, Fore wing with the termen :

excurvediat vein 5 ......... dadagae Puasmaticvs, p. 048.

CATOCALIN”.

6°, Kove wing with the termen not

excurved at vein 5 ...............

6°, Fore wing with the apex not pro-

duced.

a. Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching

to above vertex of head, the 3rd

long.

a‘. Palpi with the 3rd joint dilated at

COUUROMN TH Apoureasanbcad oc ansnenoeta-eone

4, Palpi with the 3rd joint not dilated

at extremity.

@. Thorax clothed with scales and

hair mixed,

a®, Hind wing with the cell about

one-fourth length of wing...

é8, Hind wing with the cell about

one-half length of wing ......

65, Thorax clothed with hair only ..,

%, Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching to

vertex of head, the 3rd long .........

e*, Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching to

middle of frons, the 3rd moderate.

at, Hind wing with the termen excised

between veins6and2 ... .....

6+, Hind wing with the termen not

excised between veins 6 and 2 ...

d. Abdomen dorsally smoothly scaled and with-

out crests.

a, Fore tibie with claw at extremity.

a>. Metathorax with spreading crest

8°, Metathorax without crest................0.

b!. Fore tibiz without claw at extremity.

a, Palpi with the 3rd joint porrect.

a>. Palpi with the drd joint long, slender,

__ and somewhat dilated at extremity.

6%. Palpi with the 38rd joint moderate,

thickly scaled, and not dilated at

extremity,

a’. Palpi with the 2nd joint bent

forward at extremity and fringed

above and below with hair.........

b4, Palpi with the 2nd joint net bent

forward at extremity or fringed

HITS |i JANE — gosodacoe vodosososooc

62, Palpi with the 3rd joint upturned.

a. Krons with tuft of hair above.

a‘, Hind wing with the cell about one-

third length of wing.

’ @, Palpi with the 3rd joint long and

acuminate.

a®, Palpi with the 2nd joint reach-

ing to above vertex of head .

v6. Palpi with the 2nd joint not

reaching to above vertex of

Meader Urasscnancaenansesar cease

5, Palpi with the 3rd joint moderate

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b!, Hind wing with the cell about half

the length of wing ..................

63. Frons without tuft of hair above.

a‘, Fore wing with the apex produced

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PaRALLELtA, p. 551,

ParaGanistA, p. 262.

AntsonEura, (2) p. 260.

Hypzxrra, (2) p. 58.

Eaypotts, p. 264.

Hemasasts,p. 266.

Meraracna, p. 288.

Henesta, p. 143.

Leucanitis, (2) p. 279.

Gnamrronyx, (2) p. 286.

Meersrociisma, (2) p. 55.

Cryrsoripra, p. 246.

CorryTa, (2) p. 312,

PArRAcnALcropE, (2) p. 35

Honma, p. 384.

Eucuipisema, (2) p. 40,

Areyrostrortis, (2) p. 101.

Curina, (2) p. 157.

8 NOCTUID &.

4, Fore wing with the apex not pro-

duced and acute,

a, Metathorax with depressed crest.

a’, Fore wing with the termen

angled at veins 6and 4, then

OIOING MS scosontis ceosouccuocosouc: CymosariA, (2) p. 188.

i§, Fore wine with the termen

evenly curve diieseelels sancceee: MarticraMMa., (2) p. 326.

6°, Metathorax without crest ......... Conrisce, p. 207.

Genus ATTATHA.

Type.

Ania e, WOO), 125 7A, fh USES, 10s SHE coacovdseponocesoencnsossnoe ecossod regalis.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about.

vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth ;

eyes large, round; antenne of male somewhat laminate and almost simple ;

thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the metathorax with paired crests ;

tibiz smoothly sealed, the fore tibiz not spined, the hind tibiz with spines

between the mid and terminal spurs only ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base

only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and

not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9

from 10 anastomosing with § to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing

with the cell about one-third length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5

fully developed from above angle ; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing

with the cell near base only

A. Hind wing scarlet or tinged with scarlet.

a. Hind wing with series of small black spots just before termen

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6. Hind wing with subterminal wedge-shaped blackish band

POUR QOS WO VED 2 — coo qooocsosecossass sa0cvasnadssneusocancnso0noue ino.

By Hund winepyellowgess-ce-steeeeecees ce eeeeeneee SLSR Eek aed ebe dagee mane ethiopica.

©), letting! Wns GRADY (AWS - ocooannooosonstengasceoanodopoHoEHoBoHaGAsoDES metaleuca.

7771. Attatha regalis.

Hypercompa regalis, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1872, p. 575, pl. 33. f.7; Hmpsn.

Moths Ind. ii. p. 528.

Head and thorax white; palpi pale scarlet, the extremity of 2nd

joint, the 8rd jomt and the frons black; antenne black; tegule

except at base, shoulders, a band across patagia and mesothorax and

a patch on metathorax black ; pectus orange, scarlet in front; legs

orange, the fore and mid legs black-brown in front; abdomen

orange, the basal crest black, the ventral surface tinged with scarlet.

Fore wing creamy white; the costal edge blackish towards base; a

black fascia on base of median nervure, rounded at extremity; a

black fascia on inner margin from near base to beyond middle,

pointed at extremities ; a triangular black patch from middle of costa

to lower angle of cell with an oblique tail from it to submedian fold

above tornus, a slight oblique red-brown line from its outer edge

below costa to above vein 2 near termen, then erect and waved

to inner margin above which it has a small black spot on it; a

wedge-shaped black patch from apical part of costa, its lower part

attenuate, bent outwards, and ending below vein 4 towards termen ;

a fine black line on apical part of termen, then black spots on veins

ATTATHA. 9

4, 3, 2, the termen tinged with scarlet towards tornus. Hind wing

scarlet; a round subterminal black spot in submedian interspace, a

series of minute black spots before termen from apex to below

Vig. 1.—Attatha regalis, §. 3.

vein 2, and black points on termen at veins 4, 3, 2. Underside of

both wings pale scarlet; fore wing with the oblique medial mark

reduced and not extending to costa, a black patch before middle of

termen.

Hab. “N. Inpta”; Bompay, Kanara; Cayton (Mackwood),

1 $; Burma, Kalewa (Watson), 1 3, Up. Tenasserim (Wood-

Mason), 2 3, Dawnat Hills (de Nicéville), 1 9 ; Pururerres,

Luzon, Cebu. Hap. 48-58 millim.

Larva. Semper, Reise Phil., Schmett. ii. p. 566, pl. T. ff. 3-5.

Yellow with a black lateral stripe except on Ist and terminal

somites, defined by whitish and with some black striz above it; or

green with a pale lateral line, the stigmata crimson. Food-plant,

Streblus. 7. Forms a brownish white cocoon of silk and hair.

7772. Attatha ino.

Noctua ino, Drury, M1. Exot. Ins. iii. p. 39, pl. 29. f. 8 (1782); Hmpsn.

Moths Ind. ii. p. 529.

Noctua notata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2. p. 89 (1794).

Grammodes nundicolor, Wik. xxxiii. 973 (1865).

Head and thorax creamy white; 8rd joint of palpi, frons and

antennz black-brown; tegulze except at base, shoulders, a band

across patagia and mesothorax and a patch on metathorax black ;

fore and mid tibie in front and the tarsi tinged with brown ;

abdomen ochreous yellow, the basal crest black, a lateral series of

small black spots. Fore wing creamy white; the costal edge

blackish towards base; a wedge-shaped subbasal black mark on

median nervure; an antemedial black fascia on inner margin; a

10 NOCTUID&®.

quadrate black patch from costa to lower end of cell with a curved

fascia from its inner side to submedian fold above tornus with a

small black spot beyond it above vein 1; a triangular black patch

from terminal part of costa to above vein 2 before termen, a fine

black line before its inner edge except above vein 6; a fine black

line on apical half of termen followed by small spots on veins 4, 3, 2,

the lowest larger and round; the terminal part of vein 2 streaked

with crimson and the termen tinged with scarlet towards tornus.

Hind wing pale scarlet ; a wedge-shaped black-brown band from.

apical part of costa to submedian fold towards which it becomes

maculate; small terminal black spots on veins 4,3, 2; cilia blackish

at apex. Underside of both wings ochreous yellow with the

markings obsolescent.

Hab. Punsas (James, Horne), 3 3,2 9, Kangra,1 2 ; Nupat

(Hardwicke), 1 3 ; Stkutm; Beneat, Pusa (Mason),1 5,1 2;

Bompay, Kutch, Anjar, 1 ¢ ; Mapras (Watson), 1.3. Exp.

32-40 millim.

Larva. Indian Museum Notes, v. p. 114, pl. xiii. ff. 6 a, b.

Yellowish white or dark pink above, yellowish white below;

lateral lines pale, more or less distinct; each somite with a few

colourless bristles ; head dirty white, pinkish, or brown. Food-plant,

Pipal. Pupates underground without cocoon.

773. Attatha ethiopica.

Atiatha ethiopica, Hmpsn. P, Z. §. 1910, p. 425, pl. xxxviii. f. 17.

Head orange, the frons with black bands at middle and above ;

palpi with some black above; antenne blackish ; thorax yellow, the

tegule at tips, the meso- and metathorax with velvety black bands ;

pectus in front and fore legs orange; abdomen orange above,

yellow below. Fore wing ochreous yellow tinged with rufous

towards tornus; a triangular velvety black patch in and below base

of cell, its outer edge somewhat excised and its lower extremity

rather produced ; a black fascia on inner margin from near base to

beyond middle, its extremities acute; a triangular velvety black

patch from middle of costa, its outer edge produced to a point

between veins 4, 3 and its lower extremity produced to a long

oblique fascia where it is somewhat dilated and bifurcate; a

triangular velvety black patch from costa before apex, its lower

extremity obliquely produced to a point near termen below vein 3,

rather lobed on outer side, a fine oblique brown line before the patch

from vein 7 to below vein 3; a fine black terminal line from apex

to vein 4, followed by small spots at veins 4, 3, 2; a few black

scales at tornus; cia black at tips between veims 4 and 2.

Hind wing orange-yellow with narrow black band or series of small

spots between apex and vein 3 sometimes followed by some points

towards tornus ; the underside yellow with more or less complete

series of small black spots just before termen.

ATTATHA.—COLBUSA. Wil

Hab. Conco, Katanga, Kambove (Neave), 1 2; Germ. E.

Arnica, Usagara Distr. Kilossa (Neave),1 2; Br. C. Arrica,

Lr. Shiré Valley, Chikawa (Neave),1 9; N.E. Ruopssta, E.

Luangwa Distr., Mterize R. (Neave),1 3,1 2 type; Mozam-

BIQUE, Gorongoza. Hap. 44 millim.

7774. Attatha metaleuca, sp. n. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 4.)

3. Head and thorax creamy yellow; palpi at tips, frons, and

antenne blackish; tegulz black, white at base ; streaks on shoulders,

a band across patagia and mesothorax, and a patch on metathorax

black ; fore and hind legs in front and the hind tarsi blackish ;

abdomen white tinged with ochreous, the basal crest black. Fore

wing ochreous yellow; a subbasal wedge-shaped black mark in sub-

median interspace; a black fascia on antemedial part of imner

margin; an oblique quadrate black patch from costa to lower end of

cell with its lower extremities produced to points; an oblique black

streak in postmedial part of submedian fold; a wedge-shaped black

patch from apical part of costa to below vein 3 near termen, its

inner edge indented above vein 6 and incurved with a fine black line

before it below vein 6; a brownish line on medial part of termen, a

small black spot at vein 3 and larger rounded spot at vein 2; the

terminal area tinged with scarlet towards tornus, a subterminal

black striga above vein 1. Hind wing creamy-white ; a wedge-

shaped fuscous band from apical part of costa to below vein 5 ;

cilia fuscous at apex, then tinged with scarlet. Underside of both

wings creamy white with the markings shewing faintly.

Hab. N. Nigeria, Zungeru (Simpson), 1 S type. Hap.

36 millim.

Genus COLBUSA. ype

Collonsa, \WIIK, xesal, O7's) (USIGD)) eoocsaccacocsasd0anes Bs008000000000000008 euclidica,

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about

vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd short or moderate; frons

smooth; eyes large, round; antennez of male ciliated; thorax clothed with

hair and scales mixed, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibie slightly

fringed with hair, the fore and hind tibis not spined ; abdomen with dorsal

crest at base oniy. 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 the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully

developed from well above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with

the cell near base only.

7775. Colbusa euclidica.

Colbusa euclidica, W1k. xxxiii. 978 (1865).

Head and thorax white ; palpi, frons, antennze, tegulz, shoulders,

a band across patagia and mesothorax and a patch on metathorax

black-brown ; pectus scarlet ; fore and mid legs blackish brown,

12 NOCTUID®.

hind legs ochreous brown ; abdomen ochreous with some blackish at

base and some scarlet at sides. Fore wing black-brown; a white

fascia on basal half of costa leaving the costal edge blackish; an

oblique white line from the fascia before middle to above imner

margin near base ; a narrow oblique white band from the extremity

of the costal fascia to a crimson patch at tornus, the band with a

hooked black mark on its lower extremity, the crimson patch with

two small subterminal and two terminal black spots on it, the upper

terminal spot larger; a terminal black line with a narrow white

band before it ending at the tornal patch; cilia brownish. Hind

wing crimson; a terminal black-brown band, broad at apex, narrowing

Fig. 2.—Colbusa euclidica, §. 1.

to tornus; a slight black streak on mner margin above tornus.

Underside of fore wmg with the white band extending to tornus

and not extending to costa.

Ab. 1. Hind wing yellow.

Hab. Gown Coast, Cape Coast Castle (Higlett), 1 3, Ashanti,

2 5,1 2 type; S. Nigeria, Lagos, Olokemiji (Dudgeon), 5 3,

Mama (Dudgeon), 1 9, Onitsha, 1 g,1 9. Hxp.30—48 millim.

Genus ACANTHODELTA. Type

Acanthodelta, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (8) i. p. 487 (1908) ............ distriga.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about

vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd porrect ; frons smooth, with tuft

of hair above; eyes large, round ; antenne of male laminate; thorax clothed

entirely with hair and without crests; tibia smoothly scaled, all the tibiz

spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing short and

broad, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, crenulate; vein 3 from

well before angle of cell; 5 from above angle; 6 from upper angle; 9 from

10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with

the apex extending to well beyond tornus of fore wing, the termen crenulate ;

ACANTHODELTA.—GRAMMODES. 13

the cell about half the length of wing; vein 3 from well before angle; 5 fully

developed from above angle ; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 approximated to the

cell to middle.

7776. Acanthodelta distriga.

Acanthodelia distriga, Hmpsn, A. M. N. H. (8) i. p. 487 (1908).

$. Head and thorax dull reddish brown; antenne rufous, the

shaft white above; legs and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing

grey-brown with a cupreous gloss; a black point at lower angle of

cell; a whitish streak in discal fold from the cell to well before

termen; a whitish streak in submedian fold from middle to well

Fig. 3.—Acanthodelta distriga, 3. }-

before termen with a black postmedial point on it; a terminal series

of black points. Hind wing glossy grey-brown with a slight waved

dark terminal line ; the underside greyer with slight dark iroration,

a black discoidal point.

Hab. Carz Cotony, Table Mt. (Meade-Waldo), 1 3S type.

Exp. 40 millim.

Genus GRAMMODES.

Type.

Grammodes, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 275 (1852) ...........1..-200 yenee Geometrica,

Prodotis, John. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxxix. p. 622 (1910)...... stolida.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and moderately scaled, the 8rd moderate, oblique; frons smooth, with

tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antennz of male ciliated; thorax

clothed with hair and hair-like scales and without crests; tibiae moderately

fringed with hair, the fore tibize not spined, the hind tibiz spined to base ;

abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. 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

14 NOCTUIDA.

form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one-third

length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from above angle ;

6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

A. Fore wing with the medial and postmedial bands out-

wardly oblique.

a. Fore wing with ocellate mark above tornus.

a, Fore wing without oblique white striga from costa

towards apex.

a2. Fore wing with the postmedial band strongly

incurved below vein 3 with a large ocellate mark

beyond it above tornus ............eeseeeenee ee eee eee

22, Fore wing with the postmedial band much less

strongly incurved below yein 3 and with smaller

ocellate mark beyond it above tornus ............

bl. Fore wing with oblique white striga from costa

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b. Fore wing without ocellate mark above tornus.

a, Fore wing with oblique white striga from costa

towards apex, the postmedial band ending at vein 4.

b'. Fore wing without oblique white striga from costa

towards apex, the postmedial band extending to

above vein 2 near termen, thea bent inwards to

inner margin ..... Ber Rena ocr na tacenas camernaa aoe bonor

B. Fore wing with the medial and postmedial bands nearly

erect.

a. Fore wing with the postmedial band not incurved below

vein 3.

aw, Fore wing with the postmedial band straight from

costa to above inner margin.

a®, Fore wing with the postmedial band angled

inwards at inner margin to near the antemedial

band.

a, Fore wing with the antemedial band almost

erect; hind wing with the medial white band

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63, Fore wing with the antemedial band more

oblique; hind wing with the medial white

[epivel CHSOTACS consococadoaoqssodoonoHsonogadoonosGodace

b*, Fore wing with the postmedial band not angled

inwards to imMer Margin .............cee.e-eeeeseeees

b!, Fore wing with the postmedial band slightly ex-

curved from below costa to above inner margin ...

b. Fore wing with the postmedial band incurved below

yein 3.

a. Fore wing with the medial band straight. :

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1, Fore wing with the medial band excuryed in the

cell and incurved below it.

a?, Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique below

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v2, Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved

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C. Fore wing with the medial band oblique and confluent

with the nearly erect postmedial band on inner area ...

ocellata.

oculicola.

puicherrima,

Grenosa.

Justa.

congenita,

geometrica.

cooma.

quesita,

stolida.

euclidioides.

boisdeffr et.

palestinensis.

microgonia.

GRAMMODES. 15

7777. Grammodes ocellata. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 5.)

Grammodes ocellata, Tepper, Comm. Native Ins. 8. Austr. pt. 2, p. 46 (1890).

Grammodes excellens, Lucas, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) vii. p. 257 (1892).

Head and thorax dark brown tinged with greyish; palpi white

except behind; lower part of frons white; antennz with the shaft

whitish in front towards base; pectus and legs white, the tibice

slightly tinged with brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white ;

abdomen grey-white irrorated with brown and suffused with brown

on basal half, the anal tuft ochreous white, the ventral surface

white. Fore wing black-brown ; an oblique yellowish white band

from costa before middle to inner margin beyond middle; an

oblique yellowish white band from costa beyond middle to just

before termen above vein 2, then strongly incurved and narrow

to inner margin, enclosing an ocellate black mark irrorated with

blue-white with some yellow marks round it defined by a curved

black-brown line above, and on inner side and on outer side by the

terminal line; cilia yellowish white with a brown line near tips.

Hind» wing black-brown; an obliquely curved white band from

below middle of costa to just above tornus towards which it narrows;

slight white marks before termen towards apex and below middle ;

cilia white, brown at apex, middle, and tornus. Underside of

fore wing with the basal half white with oblique outer edge, the

terminal half black-brown, with a white band excurved to vein 3

then incurved and narrowing to near tornus; hind wing with the

basal half white with oblique black antemedial line and curved

medial line with slight white marks beyond it, the white marks

before termen more distinct.

Hab. QuEENSLAND, Brisbane (Lucas, Turner), 1 3,49; W.

Austratta, Sherlock R. (Clements), 13, 22. Kap. 40-52

millim.

7778. Grammodes oculicola. (Plate CCX XII. fig. 6.)

Grammodes oculicola, W\k. xiv. 1446 (1858).

Grammodes oculata, Snell. Tijd. y. Ent. xxiii. p. 103, pl. viu. f. 6 (1880).

Head and thorax dull reddish brown; abdomen pale reddish

brown; palpi, pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish

tinged with brown. Fore wing blackish brown; an oblique yel-

lowish white band from costa before middle to inner margin beyond

middle where there is some red-brown on it; an oblique yellowish

white band from costa beyond middle to below vein 3 towards

termen, then bent inwards, oblique, narrow, and defined by black

to inner margin near the antemedial band; a brownish white line

from termen below apex to beyond the angle of the postmedial

line, then diffused and enclosing a black ocellate mark above tornus

with slight white streaks above and below it on veins 2 and 1;

cilia ochreous with a brownish line at middle. Hind wing fuscous

brown ; an oblique white band from middle of costa to submedian

fold, then bent inwards, narrow, and ending at. vein 1; a blackish

16 NOCTUID®.

terminal line with some ochreous white before it above and below

middle ; cilia white, black-brown at apex, middle, and towards

tornus. Underside of fore wing brownish white to the oblique

white antemedial band, a curved white postmedial band; hind wing

with the basal half white, the basal area irrorated with brown,

obliquely curved black-brown medial and postmedial lines, the latter

with some white beyond it on inner area.

Hab. CutEBes; Br. N. Guinea, Port Moresby, 1 3b, 3 Q,

New Heprives (Mathew), 192 ; N. Ausrrauia, Baudin I. (J. J.

Walker), 23, 3 9, Adelaide R. (J. J. Walker), 1 3, Port

Darwin (Buckland, J. J. Walker), 43, 12; QUEENSLAND,

Townsville (Dodd), 1 2, Cooktown (de la Garde), 1 3, Brisbane

(Lucas, Turner), 23,29; N.S. WaueEs, Sydney (Diggles), 1 3

type; Frrenpty Is., Vavau (Kelipse Hap.), 1 9; Coox’s Is.,

Aitutaki I. (J. J. Walker), 13. Hap. 34-44 millin.

7779. Grammodes pulcherrima. (Plate CCX XII. fig. 7.)

Grammodes pulcherrima, Lucas, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) vii. p. 258

(1892).

Grammodes clementi, Swinh. A, M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 1383 (1901).

Head and thorax grey-brown; palpi, pectus, legs, and abdomen

whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing fuscous brown tinged with

erey; an oblique white band from costa before middle to inner

margin beyond middle; a white point at upper angle of cell and

minute spot above lower angle; an oblique white band from costa

beyond middle to below vein 38 towards termen, then incurved,

narrow, and ending at vein 1; an oblique white bar from costa

towards apex; an incurved whitish line from before termen below

apex to beyond the angle of the postmedial band, then diffused and

enclosing a round black spot m submedian interspace with slight

white streak above it; cilia with whitish line at base and whitish

tips. Hind wing fuscous brown tinged with grey; an obliquely

curved white band from middle of costa to above tornus towards

which it narrows; some whitish before termen above and below

middle, where there is a blackish mark; cilia white with a brown

patch at middle. Underside of fore wing with the basal half white,

an oblique whitish medial shade, a postmedial white band obliquely

excurved to vein 3, then incurved, a curved white mark from costa

before apex to vein 6; hind wing white, the terminal area suffused

with fuscous brown, an obliquely curved blackish antemedial line,

curved postmedial line with series of small white spots beyond it,

and bar from costa towards apex to vein 6.

Hind tibiz usually with a single spine between the mid and hind

spurs.

Yield QUEENSLAND, Brisbane (Lucas, Turner), 3 2; N. Aus-

mratta, Alexandria (Stalker), 26, 1 2; W. Austratta, Sher-

lock R. (Clements), 13,4 2. Hap. 28-34 millim.

GRAMMODES. Wy

7780. Grammodes arenosa. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 8.)

Grammodes arenosa, Swinh, A. M. N. H. (7) ix. p. 422 (1902).

3. Head and thorax grey-brown; abdomen white suffused with

brown ; palpi except at tips, pectus, legs, and ventral surfrce of

abdomen white, the legs tinged with brown. Fore wing grey-brown,

the postmedial area white irrorated with brown except towards

costa ; an oblique white band from costa before middle, to which it

is slightly bent inwards, to middle of inner margin; an oblique

white postmedial band from costa to vein 4, narrow at costa and

expanding to vein 4; a narrow oblique white subterminal band

from below apex to above inner margin hardly differentiated from

the white postmedial area; cilia whitish at tips. Hind wing

whitish suffused with brown; an oblique brown discoidal bar defined

on outer side by a diffused white band; cilia white towards apex,

blackish brown at middle and brownish towards tornus; the under-

side whitish with oblique sinuous medial and postmedial brownish

lines from costa to vein 2, diffused subterminal band exeurved at

middle, and waved blaekish terminal line. /

Hind tibize with a single spine between the mid and hind spurs.

Hab. W. Ausrratta, Roeburne (Clements), 1 3 type. Exp.

30 millim. ;

7781. Grammodes justa. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 9.)

Grammodes justa, W\k. xiv. 1445 (1858).

Grammodes ceca, Pag Zoologica, xxi. Hft. 29, p. 108, pl. 1. f. 12 (1960).

Head and thorax reddish brown with a grey gloss; antennze white

in front; peetus, legs, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing dark

brown with a cupreous gloss; a rather narrow oblique white band

from costa before middie to inner margin beyond middle ; a nar-

rower white band from costa beyond middle to above vein 2 near

termen, then bent inwards and linear to inner margin just beyond

the antemedial band; a dark terminal line defined on inner side by

ochreous from below apex to tornus; cilia white at apex, then grey-

brown with darker lines near base and tips. Hind wing brown with

a greyish gloss; an obliquely curved white band from below middle

of costa to just above tornus; a blackish terminal line slightly

defined on inner side by whitish above and below middle ; a black

spot in submedian fold before termen ; cilia white, brown at apex and

middle and with brown line through them towards tornus. Under-

side of fore wing grey-brown with an obliquely curved white

postmedial band; hind wing white thickly irrorated with brown, the

terminal area suffused with brown, a slight minutely waved brown

postmedial line defined on outer side by small white lunules.

Hab. Bismarck Ancu.; N. Ausrraria, Port Darwin (Lyell),

1 2; QueensnanD, 1 3, Brisbane (Lucas, Turner), 13,4 &,

Moreton Bay (Gibbons, Diggles),1 3,22 type. Eup. 34-36

millim.

VOL. XIII. : Cc

18 NOCTUIDAE.

7782. Grammodes congenita. (Plate CCXXII. fig. a

Grammodes congenita, Wlk. xiv. 1443 (1857).

Grammodes exclusiva, Pag. Reis. in Ost-Afr. ii. p. 121, pl 6. f. 19 (1907).

Head and thorax brown irrorated with white; abdomen whitish

suffused with brown. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with brown;

a black subbasal line from costa to median nervure; a black patch

from median nervure to inner margin before the rather oblique

white antemedial band extending from below subcostal nervure to

inner margin and tinged with rufous above and at inner margin,

defined by black lines extending to costa where they are bent

inwards and wider apart; medial area black-brown from below costa

to inner margin; a rather oblique postmedial rufous band from

vein 6 to inner margin, defined on inner side by a yellowish white

line bent inwards +6 inner margin and with a black line from it

bent inwards to costa, the band defined on outer side by black

forming dentate marks at veins 6 and 4 and inner margin; a black

patch from apex diffused on inner side, its outer edge oblique

to vein 6, then bent inwards to just above the outer edge of the

postmedial band; an obliquely curved whitish shade from termen

just below apex to tornus; a fine waved black terminal line

angled inwards to slight dentate marks in the interspaces. Hind

wing brown, the terminal half suffused with fuscous; an oblique

whitish band from middle of costa to inner margin towards tornus ;

an oblique whitish shade from vein 4 to termen at submedian fold ;

cilia white, brown at middle and towards tornus. Underside of

fore wing grey tinged with brown, the terminal area suffused with

fuscous, a dark postmedial line defined on outer side by a white

band ; hind wing whitish thickly irrorated with brown, the terminal

area suffused with brown, a slight dark postmedial line.

Ab. 1. exclusiva. Fore wing with the white antemedial band

very narrow.

Hab. Coneo, Katanga, Kambove (Neave),1¢; Br. H. Arrica,

Taveta (Rogers), 2 6; Br. C. Arrica, Ruo Valley (Weave), 19°,

Fort Mangoche (Weave), 2 6,12, Zomba (Johnston), 3 5,22,

Blantyre (Weave), 1 9; Masnonatann (Dobbie), 1 3, Salisbury

(Marshall), 5 3,29; Transvaat, Piet Retief (Crawshay), 16,

1 2, Modderfontein (Oruger), 1 $, Zoutspanberg (Janse), 1 2,

Waterfalonder (Ross), 19, Johannesburg, 1 9, Pretoria (Distant),

13; Naat, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 6,1 2, Durban ( Guein-

zius, Marsden), 23, 19 type; Mapagascar. Hap. 36-46

millim.

7783. Grammodes geometrica.

Noctua geometrica, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 599 (1775); Godt. Lép. Fr. v. p. 114,

pl. 53. f.4; Mill. Icones, ii. pl. 75. ff. 4-6; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii.

p. 531; John. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxix. POG ple save wy axe

f, 25, & xxiii. f. 50; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 245.

Phalena ammonia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 98, pl. 250. f. D (1779);

Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 179.

GRAMMODES. 19

Noctua bifasciata, Petag. Spec. Ins. p. 38, f. 26 (1787).

Noctua linearis, Hiibu. Beitr. ii. p. 26, piv, & 79):

Noctua chalciptera, Borkh. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 771 (1792).

Noctua parallelaris, Hiibn. Bur. Schmett., Noct. f. 324 (1802).

Head and thorax brown irrorated with grey ; pectus, legs, and

abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale reddish brown irrorated

with grey; a black patch before the oblique yellowish white medial

band, its inner edge extending obliquely from middle of cell to

submedian fold, then erect to inner margin, the band extending to

discal fold and with a slight black line from it to costa to which

it is slightly bent inwards; medial area black from just above

discal fold to inner margin ; a rather oblique postmedial band from

vein 6 to inner margin, yellowish white on inner side, rufous on

outer, its inner edge bent inwards to inner margin near the medial

Fig. 4.—Granumodes geometrica, 3. 3.

band and with a slight blackish line from it to costa to which it is

bent inwards, the outer edge of the band detined by black, excurved

at middle and slightly at vein 2 and inner margin; an oblique

black mark from apex to above vein 6, where it is bent inwards to

just above the outer edge of the postmedial band ; a faint curved

pale shade from apex to tornus; a slight crenulate dark terminal

line ; cilia with a faint dark line at middle. Hind wing brown,

the terminal half tinged with fuscous; an oblique whitish band

from middle of costa to above tornus; an oblique whitish shade

from vein 8 to termen at submedian fold; cilia white, brown at

middle and tornus. Underside of fore wing greyish brown with

white postmedial band from below costa to inner margin; hind

wing pale brown, a slight dark discoidal spot, faint minutely waved

medial and postmedial lines, and a subterminal shade except on

inner area.

20 NOCTUID &.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial white band very narrow and

not extending above median nervure.

Ab. 2. Fore wing with the medial band bright yellow.

Hab. 8. France, Frey & Leech Colls.; Spain, Leech Coll. ;

Trany; Ausrria, Carniola; Datmatta; Grerce, Merlin Coll. ;

Goxtp Coast, Ashanti, 1 ¢, Kumasi (Whiteside), 19; S. NrGERta,

Old Calabar (Cockburn), 1 3, 2 9, Ilesha (Humfrey), 1 & ;

Con@o, Opobo (Marsden), 13; Br. E. Arrica, Eb Urru (Betton),

13, Nairobi (Crawshay), 1 6; Ucanpa, Wadelai (Hmin Pasha),

1¢@; Br. C. Arrtca, Fort Maguire (Neave), 1 9, Fort Magoche

(Neave), 1 2, Blantyre (Neave), 1 3, Lr. Shiré Valley (Weave),

29; N.E. Ruopesta, Lr. Loangwa R. (Weave), 1 5; MAsHona-

LAND, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 6, 1 2; Brecuuanarann, Lake

N’Gami (Lugard),1 3; Transvaat, Pretoria (Distant), 1 ¢ ;

Nara, Durban (Burrows, Meade-Waldo, Leigh), 83,22; CaPE

Cotony, Plettenburg Bay (Trimen), 1g; Fareunar Is. (B.

Fletcher), 1 6; AnmMenta; Asta Minor, Bithynia; Persia;

Formosa, Takow (Hobson), 1 6; W. Cutna, Washan (Pratt),

1 3g, Omei-shan (Pratt), 1 6, Chung-king (Pratt), 1 3, Chia-

kou-ho (Pratt), 192, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1$; Punsas (Horne),

19, Almorah (Boys), 192, Allahabad, 19, Manpuri, 19; StkHiM

(Moller), 1 9; Assam, Silhet (Stacnsforth), 1 6,19; BEneat,

Calcutta, 1 6; Bompay (Leith), 2 2, Thanna Distr., Waneni

(Swinhoe), 1 2, Mhow (Swinhoe), 1 9, Kanara (Ward), 1 3;

Manras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 2 9; Cryion, Colombo (Netner),

292; Burma, Moulmein (Clerk), 1 9; AnDamans, 1 9; Srvea-

PORE (Audley), 1 5, 19; Puno Laur (Doherty), 1 d; Java

(Horsfield), 1 3,2 2; Quumnsrann, Geraldton (Turner), 1 3.

Hap. 38-52 milli.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 281; Hffm. Raup. p. 146, pl. 36.

f, 24.

Pale bluish grey with slender yellowish lines; two dorsal ochreous

yellow stripes and a lateral pale yellow stripe defined by fuscous.

Food-plants: Polygonum persicaria and Cistus salvifolia.

Cocoon strong and waterproof.

7784. Grammodes cooma. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 13.)

Grammodes cooma, Swinh, Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 158 (1900).

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-

brown ; a black patch with oblique inner edge before the nearly

erect white medial band which extends from below subcostal nervure

to inner margin; medial area black from below costa to inner

margin; a postmedial erect band from vein 7 to inner margin,

its inner part white and narrow, its outer part rufous, defined on

outer side by black, forming a dentate mark at vein 4 and smaller

mark at vein 3; an oblique black shade from apex to vein 7, then

angled outwards at vein 6 and incurved to join the black on outer

edge of the postmedial band ; a fine pale line at base of cia. Hind

wing fuscous brown; an oblique white band from costa before

GRAMMODES. 1

middle to submedian fold; a waved black terminal line with white

lunules before it from apex to vein 5 and an oblique bar from

vein 2 to submedian fold; cilia brown, white towards apex and at

submedian fold. Underside of fore wing grey-brown, a white post-

medial band from below costa to inner margin, its inner edge

slightly incurved at discal fold; hind wing pale brown with slicht

dark medial and postmedial lines with black spots on them at discal

fold and white marks beyond them at discal and submedian folds

a broad blackish subterminal shade. i

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial band bright yellow.

Hab. CELEBES, Patinoean (Cockayne), 1 © ; QUEENSLAND,

ee 1 3 co-type, Brisbane (Zwrner), 13. Exp 46-56

millim.

7785. Grammodges quesita. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 14.)

Grammodes quesita, Swinh, A. M. N. EH. (7) viii. p. 1382 (1901).

Head and thorax brown mixed with grey; abdomen pale erey-

brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface cf abdomen whitish tinged

with brown. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with brown; a

large triangular black-brown patch from middle of cell to inner

margin before an erect white medial band from below subcostal

nervure to inner margin; the outer part of medial area black-brown

except towards costa ; a slight curved blackish postmedial line from

costa to inner margin defined on outer side by a yellowish white

line except towards costa, followed by a rufous band with dentate

black marks on its outer edge at veins 4, 3, a point at vein 2, and

triangular mark at immer margin; a dark brown apical patch with

curved black mark on the lower part of its outer edge to the outer

edge of the postmedial band; the terminal area with some blue-

white suffusion except towards apex; some dark brown at middle

of termen anda fine terminal black lne. Hind wing brown, the

terminal area suffused with fuscous; an oblique white band from

middle of costa to above inner margin towards tornus ; some whitish

suffusion on terminal area above and below middle; cilia white at

tips except at middle and tornus. Underside of fore wing grey

suffused and irrorated with brown, a whitish postmedial band from

below costa to inner margin; hind wing whitish irrorated with

brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, a dark discoidal point

and faint postmedial line defined on outer side by whitish except

towards costa.

Hind tibiz with a single spine between the mid and hind spurs.

Hab. N. Austrawta, Port Darwin (Buckland), 1 9; QUEENS-

LAND, Duaringa, 1 3,1 9 type. Exp. 26-28 millim.

7786. Grammodes stolida.

Noctua stolida, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 599 (1775); Godt. Lép. Fr. v. p. 117,

pl. 53. f.5; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 532; John. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross.

xxxix. p. 622, pl. xviii. f. 5 ¢, & xxi. f. 26; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 244.

Noctua cingularis, Hibu. Kur, Schmett., Noct. ff. 852, 512 (1808).

22 NOCTUIDH.

Euclidia stupida, Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 428, Noct. ff. 297-8

(1845).

Grammodes curvilinea, Wk. Proc. Nat. Hist: Sce. Glasgow, i. p. 361

(1869).

Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown tinged with grey ;

palpi white at base; pectus and legs whitish tinged with brown ;

ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing grey-brown ; a large

triangular black-brown patch from subcostal nervure to inner margin

before the erect yellowish white medial band also extending from sub-

costal nervure to inner margin ; the outer part of medial area black-

brown except towards costa; a narrow yellowish white postmedial

band, arising below costa, excurved to below vein 3, where it is angled

inwards, then again excurved, followed by a rufous band from

vein 6 to inner margin with a minute black spot on its outer edge

below vein 6, dentate mark at vein 4, points at veins 8 and 2, and

dentate mark at inner margin ; a blackish mark from costa towards

apex to vein 6, diffused on inner side and defined on outer side by

whitish; some blackish at apex and brown at middle of termen ;

cilia brown with a fine whitish line at base and white patch at

apex. Hind wing fuscous brown; an oblique white band from

middle of costa to Just above tornus where it narrows to a point;

a subterminal white spot between veins 3 and 2; cilia white, brown

at middle and tornus. Underside of fore wing with the basal half

whitish irrorated with grey at costa, the terminal half fuscous, a

white discoidal bar, white postmedial band slightly excurved to

vein 2, then outwardly oblique, a subterminal series of white spots

except at middle, slight towards costa and confluent towards

tornus ,; hind wing white, the terminal area fuscous, narrowing to

tornus, an oblique dark antemedial line and sinuous medial line

converging towards inner margin near tornus, an incurved maculate

subterminal white band on costal area and spot below vein 3.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the white medial band reduced to a narrow

line from below the cell to inner margin.

Ab. 2. stupida. Fore wing with the white medial band reduced

to a small spot on inner margin; hind wing without the white

subterminal spot between veins 3 and 2.

Hab. S. France; Spain; Ivatry, Zeller Coll. ; Atamria, Batna

(Eaton), 1 2; Avusrria, Carniola; Datmaria, Leech Coll. ;

GREECE, Merlin Coll.; Arnmenta; Asta Minor, Bithynia, Taurus;

Syrra, 1¢,19, Leech Coll., Lebanon (Pratt), 13,19; Stmrra

Leone (Foxcroft), 19; N. Nicerta, Zungeru (Macfie), 13,19;

Congo (Marsden), 1 3 type curvilinea; Supan, White Nile,

Gabt el Megahid (Dunn), 1 2; Axyssrnta, Atbara (Gerrard),

16, Essen Gola (Drake-Brockman), 2 9; Somatitanp, Bulhar

(Drake-Brockman), 1 9; Br. E. Arrtca, Kilima’njaro (Han-

nington), 13,1 2, Nakuta (Bodeker), 2 2, Machuna (Betton),

1 3, Eb Urru (Betton), 1 9, Munisu (Betton), 1 9, Nairobi

(Crawshay), 13, Machakos (Crawshay), 83,192; Uaanpa, Port

Ugowe (Johnston), 19, Ketoma (Doggett), 33,42; Gmrm. E.

Arrica, Moschi, 1 9; Br. C. Arrica, Fort Maguire (Neave),

GRAMMODES. 23

1 3, Chiromo (de Jersey), 1 $6; Becnuanatanp, Lake N’Gami

(Lugard), 22, Ovampo Lake (Ericsson), 1 2; Transvaan, Lim-

popo, 1d, Lydenburg, 1 9, Johannesburg (Cregoe), 1 9, Pretoria

(Distant), 19; Narat, Maritzbure (Burnup), 12, Victoria

Distr. (Gooch), 1 9; Basurotanp, Maseru (Crawshay), 2 2;

Orance R. Conony, Bloemfontein (Eckersley), 29; Carx

Cotony (Str A. Smith, Trimen), 2 2, Deelfontein (Sloggett),

1 3d; Aven (Yerbury), 1 S; Persta; W. Turxesran, Turco-

mania, Ferghana; Punsas (Horne), 12, Kulu (Hocking), 1 2,

Campbellpur (Yerbury), 23,19, Almorah (Boys), 1 3, Chittar

Pahar (Yerbury), 1 9, Wuzeerabad (Hearsey), 3 5,1 2, Allah-

abad, 1 3; Sinp, 1 9, Kardchi (Swinhoe), 23,1 2; Bompay,

19, Kutch, 1 9, Kanara (Ward), 1 5; Mapras, 1 3, Coimba-

tore (Walhouse), 1 9; Burma, Theyetmyo (Watson), 1 ¢.

Exp. 380-44 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p, 281; Hoffm. Raup. p. 146.

Yellowish grey with slender blackish lines. Food-plants: Pali-

urus aculeatus, Rubus fruticosus, Coriaria myrtifolia, and

Quercus. 6-7.

7787. Grammodes euclidioides.

Grammodes euclidioides, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 276 (1852); Herr.-Schaff.

Aussereur. Schmett. ff. 137-8.

Euclidia dubitans, W1k. xiv. 1463 (1858).

Head and thorax grey-brown; frons white at sides; abdomen

pale grey-brown; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen

whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous;

a pale rufous medial erect band from subcostal nervure to inner

margin, defined on inner side by a white line with black suffusion

before it, the outer edge of the band shghtly incurved; the outer

part of medial area black-brown, narrowing to costa and inner

margin ; a narrow white postmedial line excurved to vein 3, then

slightly incurved, and again somewhat excurved below vein 2,

followed by a rufous band from vein 6 to inner margin, with small

dentate black marks on its outer edge below vein 6 and at vein 4

and inner margin ; some white points on postmedial part of costa ;

a blackish patch from apex, diffused on inner side, its outer edge

oblique to vein 6 where it is bent inwards to the postmedial band ;

some brown suffusion on middle of termen and a fine waved black

terminal line; cilia white at apex. Hind wing fulvous yellow, the

basal area tinged with brown; a dark discoidal striga with slight

line from it to submedian fold; an oblique dark line from below

middle of costa to inner margin towards tornus ; the terminal area

blackish, narrowing to tornus, and witha narrow fulvous yellow sub-

terminal band from vein 6 to tornus; cil’a white, blackish at middle

and tornus and with slight blackish spots towards apex. Underside

ot fore wing yellow with blackish discoidal striga, postmedial line

slightly incurved below discal fold, the apical area blackish, with

blackish subterminal band with waved edges and blackish terminal

QA NOCTUID A.

band from it to submedian fold; hind wing with slight discoidal

striga, faint simuous postmedial line, the yellow subterminal band

with waved edges.

Hab. Transvast (Ross), 1 3, Barberton (fendall), 1 d,

Modderfontein (Cruger), 1 3, Rietfontein (Janse), 1 9, Pretoria

(Janse, Distant), 33; ORANGE KR. Conony, Bloemfontein (Wilson,

Eckersley), 3 3, Vredetort Rd. (Hamilton), 1 3; Navan, Hst-

court (Hutchinson), 1d, Durban, 1 ¢ type; BasuTonanp,

Masite (Orawshay), 1S, Maseru (Crawshay), 1 3, 2 9; CapE

Cotony, Albany, 1 3. xp. 30-36 millim.

7788. Grammodes boisdeffrei.

Ophiusa boisdeffre?, Oberth. Et. Ent. i. p. 54, pl. 4. f. 6 (1876); Staud.

Cat. Lep. pal. p. 244.

Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white ; antenne brownish ;

palpi white, brownish at tips; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of

abdomen white, the legs slightly irrorated with brown. Fore wing

pale ochreous irrorated and in parts suffused with red-brown ; ante-

medial line black, slightly sinuous, from subcostal nervure to mner

margin, a conical red-brown patch before it; a medial whitish band

from subcostal nervure to inner margin, excurved in cell and incurved

in submedian interspace ; the outer part of medial area red-brown,

narrowing to a point at inner margin, defined on outer side by the

black postmedial line, which is oblique from costa, towards which

it is obsolescent, to vein 6, incurved below vein 3, and bent inwards

to inner margin ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by

red-brown, and by a slight black streak above vein 6, then by some

blackish marks, oblique to vein 6, then incurved and_ slightly

sinuous and bent outwards to near tornus; a small black spot on

termen just below apex and some red-brown suffusion on middle of

termen; cilia white with a brown line at middle. Hind wing

ochreous white tinged with red-brown; an oblique dark medial

line with some brown suffusion before it, followed by a white

band; the terminal area suffused with black-brown, narrowing to

tornus and leaving pale patches just before termen at apex and

below middle ; a blacker spot at middle of termen; a dark terminal

line ; cilia white with a dark line at middle from vein 4 to tornus.

Underside white tinged in parts with ochreous ; fore wing with a

dark discoidal striga, smuous postmedial lime from vein 7 to sub-

median fold and brownish subterminal and terminal shades ; hind

wing with dark discoidal striga, slight sinuous line from lower

angle of cell to submedian fold, curved slightly waved postmedial

line from below costa to submedian fold, and sinuous subterminal

shade.

Hab. Aucerta, Batna (Haton), 1 6, Hamman-es-Salahin

(Walsingham), 23,39; ? Pauesrine., Hap. 34-48 milli.

GRAMMODES.

7789. Grammodes palestinensis. (Plate COX XII. fig. 15.)

Leucanitis palestinensis, Staud. Iris, x. p: 299, pl. 9. f.19 (1897); id. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 244. :

2. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white; antennz ringed

with black; palpi white irrorated with brown ; pectus, legs, and

ventral surface of abdomen white, the legs irrorated with brown.

Fore wing with the basal area and costal area to the subterminal

line ochreous white tinged and irrorated with red-brown: ante-

medial line black, exeurved below costa and incurved in submedian

interspace, a conical dark brown patch before it from subcostal

nervure to inner margin; medial band ochreous white tinged with

rufous, exeurved in cell and incurved below it; the outer half of

medial area reddish brown except towards costa, narrowing to a

point at inner margin, defined by the black postmedial line, which

is excurved below costa and incurved below vein 3 and to inner

margin, its outer edge defined by a creamy white line; the narrow

postmedial area rufous except towards costa; a patch of fuscous

suffusion on costal area with some white po‘nts on costa before the

shght whitish subterminal line, defined on inner side by black

marks, oblique to vein 6, then incurved and slightly angled out-

wards at veins 4 and 3; the terminal area suffused with grey-

brown; a fine blackish terminal line; cilia white at base, with a

dark ne at middle and brownish tips. Hind wing with the basal

half white slightly tinged with ochreous brown ; a narrow oblique

brown medial band; the terminal area suffused with black-brown,

narrowing to tornus and leaving pale marks just before termen at

apex and below middle; cilia white, brown at tips at middle.

Underside. white; fore wing with dark discoidal striga, sinuous

postmedial line from below costa to submedian fold and subterminal

and terminal brown shades; hind wing with slight discoidal spot,

faint line from lower angle of cell to submedian fold, minutely

waved postmedial line from below costa to submedian fold, sub-

terminal black shade with dentate outer edge, and black terminal

line with diffused patch before it at middle. :

Hab. Pauustinn, 1 9. Hep. 34 millim.

7790. Grammodes microgonia.

Chalciope microgonia, Ampsn. P.Z. 8. 1910, p. 424, pl. xxxvii. f, 24.

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown

irrorated with fuscous; a triangular velvety black patch im sub-

median interspace from near base to middle, its outer edge obliquely

excised and slightly defined by white; a blackish point in end of

cell; a triangular velvety black patch on postmedial area defined

on inner and outer sides by whitish, its angles on discocellulars and

vein 6 and its apex below vein 2, followed by a rufous band from

26 NOCTUID HE.

vein 6 to above inner margin, met at vein 6 by an oblique diffused

black fascia from apex, its outer edge then defined by small dentate

black marks, the mark above inner margin diffused to tornus; a

fine blackish terminal line. Hind wing grey-brown with a broad

diffused fuscous subterminal shade, a fine black terminal line; the

underside grey-brown tinged with fuscous.

Hab. N.K. Ruopesta, EH. Luangwa Distr., Petauke (Neave),

1 @ type, Selukwe (Short), 1d. Hap. 44 millim.

Genus CHALCIOPE.

Type.

Challatoyng, IsttloMs WOR We AGS (SBT) — cosoossopsoosaceccnnocnsscna000n6 cephise.

Trigonodes, Guen. Noct. ili, p. 281 (1852) .........ecesec es eceeeeenee cephise.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate and fringed with scales in

front; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antenne of

male typically ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without

crests ; fore tibie of male fringed with long hair on outer side, the mid and

hind tibiz with long hair on inner side, the fore tibia not spined, the mid and

hind tibiz spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing

with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen oblique 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; male with the

cell and area just below it on underside clothed with rough hair. Hind wing

with the cell about one-third length of wing; veins 3and 4 from angle of cell ;

5 fully developed from just above angle; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anasto-

mosing with the cell near base only ; male with the basal area on underside

clothed with rough hair.

Secr, I. Antennz of male dilated into a knot fringed with hair above just

before iniddle, then bipectinate to near apex.

7791. Chalciope disjuncta.

Chalciope disjuncta, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 171 (1882); Hmpsn. Moths Ind.

iil. p. 528.

Head and thorax red-brown, the vertex of head with some

blackish ; tegulee brownish white at base with black medial line ;

pectus, legs, and abdomen grey-brown with a reddish tinge. Fore

wing grey-brown slightly irrorated with blackish, the veins tinged

with reddish ; an elongate triangular black patch defined by whitish

lines in submedian interspace from near base to beyond middle; a

black point in middle of cell; a triangular black postmedial patch

defined by whitish lines, its angles at middle of discocellulars, at

vein 7 towards apex, and below vein 2 towards tornus, a rufous

band beyond it from apex to submedian fold followed by a faint

double slightly waved dark line with some black points on the

outer line on inner area; a terminal series of blackish points ; cilia

reddish brown with a darker line near base. Hind wing grey-

CHALCIOPE. D7

brown with a reddish tinge, a fuscous subterminal shade and fine

terminal line ; the underside with diffused curved postmedial line

and subterminal shade.

Fig. 5.—Chaleiope disjuncta, 3. 1}.

Hab. Bompay, 1 @ type; Manpras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 3;

TRAVANCORE, Pirmad (Imray), 12. Hap. 40-48 millim.

Secr. IJ. Antenne of male normal.

A. Fore wing without incurved subterminal black-brown band

extending to apex.

a. Fore wing with the antemedial triangular black-brown

patch extending above the base of vein 2 .................. hyppasia.

b. Fore wing with the antemedial triangular black-brown

patch not extending above the base of vein 2.

a’, Fore wing with the antemedial black-brown patch very

narrow and not extending to vein | ................6..5 pusilla,

61, Fore wing with the antemedial black-brown patch

broader and extending to vein 1.....................00000e cephise.

B. Fore wing with inecurved subterminal black-brown band

GRIGAGIINY (1 BIDET cocoecacscosno00e9cn0099000b0000005n0NG0000005000 lucasi.

7792. Chalciope hyppasia.

Noctua hyppasia, Cram. Pap. Exot. ili. p. 99, pl. 250. f. E (1779); Moore,

Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 186; Indian Museum Notes, v. p. 161, pl. 13. f. 5;

Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 527.

Phalena deliana, Stoll. Cram. Pap. Exot. v. p. 160, pl. 36. f. 4 (1790). _

Ophiusa anfractuosa, Boisd. Faun. Ent, Madag., Lep. p. 104, pl. 15. f. 6

(1833).

Trigonodes acutata, Guen, Noct. iii. p. 283, pl. 22. f. 6 (1852).

28 NOCTUID HE.

Trigonodes inacuta, Guen. Noct. ili. p. 284 (1852).

Trigonodes exportata, Guen. Noct, iii. p. 284 (1852).

Trigonodes compar, W1k. xiv. 1451 (1858).

3. Head grey-brown ; thorax ochreous grey with a brown streak

on dorsum of tegule and patagia; pectus, legs, and abdomen

ochreous whitish. Fore wing grey-white tinged with brown; an

antemedial blackish brown patch defined by whitish lines in sub-

median interspace from near base to beyond middle, its apex extend-

ing to the cell above base of vein 2, separated, except by a streak

above median nervure, by an oblique whitish band from a triangular

blackish brown postmedial patch defined by whitish lines except

above and with its angles at lower angle of cell, at vein 6 towards

apex and below vein 2 towards tornus; a reddish brown shade

beyond the postmedial patch followed by an incurved whitish line

from apex to near tornus, with some blackish brown suffusion

before it above and below middle and blackish points on its outer

edge at veins 4, 3, 2; a whitish shade before the dark terminal line

which extends from apex to submedian fold; cilia whitish with

a brown line near base. Hind wing ochreous whitish, the veins

tinged with brown; a faint curved brown postmedial line from

below costa to vein 2; a brown subterminal shade, broad at apex

and ending on termen at vein 1; a dark terminal line from apex to

submedian fold; cilia whitish with a brown line near base. Under-

side of both wings ochreous whitish tinged with rufous; fore wing

with an incurved brown subterminal shade; hind wing with a

brown subterminal shade from costa to submedian fold.

2. Browner, especially the hind wing.

Ab. 1. Fore wing much redder brown, the white markings

reduced.— Bougainville.

Ab. 2. Fore wing with the oblique medial band very narrow and

not nearly extending to the pale costal area.

Ab. 8. inacuta. Fore wing with the postmedial triangular patch

shorter, rounded below and with the white on its edges stronger.

Hab. Stprra Leone (Morgan, Smith),2 3, 2 2; Goup Coast,

Appan, 1 ¢; 8S. Niemrta, Lagos (Boag), 1 9, Old Calabar (Cock-

burn, Crompton), 5 3, Sapele (Sampson), 1 3; N. Nigerta, Bida

(Macfie), 1 2, Zungeru (Macfie), 1 2; Cameroons, 1 d ; Coneo,

Katanga, Kambove (Neave), 1 $; ANGonta, San Salvador, 1 d;

Supan, Port Sudan (Mrs. Waterfield), 2 9, White Nile, Gabt

el Megahid (Dunn), 1 2; Asyssinta, Atbara (Gerrard), 1 9°,

Zegi Tsana (Degen), 1 29; Br. EH. Arrica, Mombasa (de la

Garde), 1 3, Taveta (ltogers), 19, Sanduk (Betton), 1,

Nairobi (Crawshay), 19, Eb Urru (Betton), 12; Ucanna,

Entebbe (Johnston), 1 36, Wadelai (Hmin Pasha), 1 2, Ruwen-

zori (Wollaston), 1 9; Br. C. Arrica, Mlangi Boma (Weave),

1 2, Zomba (Johnston), 1 5, Deep Bay (Crawshay), 1 9;

MozampBiqueE (Ansorge, Muir), 1 ¢6,1 2, Delagoa Bay (Junod),

1 $6; Tranysvaat, Bultfontein (Janse), 1 9; Naran, Durban

(Gueinzius, Burrows), 1 3,29; CapE Cotony (Sir A. Smith),

CHALCIOPE. 29

1 g, Grahamstown, 1 2, Deelfontein (Sloggett), 1 9; Mapa-

GascaR, Betsileo (Cowan), 1 9; Mauririvs, 1 9; Roprievez

(Gulliver), 1 5, 1 2; Comoro Is., Mayotta (Meade-Waldo),

1 $6; Guortosa (Meade-Waldo), 1 6; SrycuntuEs, Felicité

(Meade-Waldo), 2 3, ue Cerf (Meade-Waldo), 1 3,2 2, Mahé

(Meade-Waldo), 2 3,1 9; AvEN (J. J. Walker, Yerbury), 3 3,

5 2; Loocnoo Is. (Pryer), 1 5, 1 2; Formosa (Secbohm),

1g, Takow (Hobson), 1 3, 2 9; CrntTR. Cuina, Foo-chau

(Lay), 13,1 2 type compar, Ichang (Mrs. Pratt), 1 2; Ship-

y-shan, 1 9, Fokien, Sam-sah (de la Garde), 1 9; W. Curia,

Chia-ting-fu (Pratt), 2 9; Punsaz, Kulu, Sultanpur (@. Youn iG)

1S, Kangra (Hocking), 3 2, Masuri,1 g, Allahabad, 1 3,

Manpuri, 1 ¢ , Cawnpore (Betton), 13; Assam, Shillong (Parish),

1 2; Beneat, Calcutta, 2 ¢; Barucnisran, Ormara (Cumming),

1g; Stnp, Karachi (Swinhoe), 1 3; BomBay, 1 ¢,1 9, Poona

(Swinhoe), 1 3, Ratnagin (Jayaker), 1 9; Mapras, Nilgiris

(Hampson), 1 9, Coimbatore (Walhouse),1 3; Cryion, Colombo

(Mietner), 1 S$, 1 2; Burma, Moulmein (Clerk), 1 ¢, 1 9;

AnpaMaAns (Rogers), 2 3, 12; Nicopars (fogers), 1 9,

Camorta, 1 9, Nancowry, 1 3, 1 9; Sumarra, -Pulo-Wek Is.

(Meade-Waldo), 1 9; Putrippines, Tacao (MacGregor), 1 3,

Taytai (Betton), 1 29; Java (Horsfield), 1 §, Tanjong Priok

(J. J. Walker), 1 5, 1 2; New Gutyea (Mathew), 1 ¢;

Sonomons, Bougainville (Meck), 1 2, Lord Howe L.,1¢; N. Avs-

mRALia, Adéle I. (J. J. Walker), 1 3, Bathurst I. (J.J. Walker),

1 3, Baudin I. (J. J. Walker), 1 2, Port Darwin (J. J. Walker,

Lyell), 1 3, 1 9; QuEEnstanD, Brisbane (Turner), 1 3,1 @ ;

N. 8. Watus (Lambert, de la Garde), 3 6. Exp. 34-50

millim.

7793. Chalciope pusilla. (Plate CCX XII. fic. 16.)

Grammodes pusilla, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 86, pl. ii. f. 26 (1894).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing

ochreous white faintly tinged with brown; a narrow elongate tri-

angular black-brown patch in submedian interspace from near base

to well beyond middle, not extending to vein 1 and with its apex at

origin of vein 2; a triangular postmedial black-brown patch, its

angles at middle of discocellulars, on vein 7 towards apex and below

vein 8 towards tornus, its outer edge defined by a slightly waved

white line; a dark subterminal line from apex to submedian fold ;

a terminal series of black points. Hind wing creamy white; a

slight dark terminal line from apex to vein 2.

@. Hind wing suffused with brown.

Hab. N. Nigerta, Minna (Macfie), 1 29; Gapoon, Ogové R.,

1 g cotype. Harp. § 26, 2 30 millim.

30 NOCTUID ME.

7794. Chalciope cephise.

Noctua cephise, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 59, pl. 227. f. C (1779); Hmpsn.

Moths Ind. ii. p. 528.

Trigonodes maxima, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 282 (1852).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish ochreous tinged with

brown ; palpi and frons dark reddish brown; antennz with the

shaft whitish above; pectus and fore and mid femora dark brown,

the fore tibie and tarsi white. Fore wing greyish ochreous tinged

with brown and slightly irrorated with black; a triangular black-

brown patch defined by white lines in submedian interspace from

near base to well beyond middle, its apex at origin of vein 2,

separated by an oblique white band from a triangular black-brown

Fig. 6.—Chaiciope cephise, §. 3.

postmedial patch defined by white lines, its angles at middle of

discocellulars, on vein 7 towards apex, and on vein | near tornus ;

a dark shade from apical part of costa and a series of black points

on outer edge of the white line defining the outer edge of the post-

medial patch; the termen and cilia dark brown except towards

tornus. Hind wing ochreous suffused with brown; a dark medial

shade from costa to submedian fold, diffused in the cell to near

base, separated by a pale ochreous band from a fuscous black sub-

terminal shade, extending to termen on apical area, then narrower

and ending at submedian fold where it is produced to a point near

termen. Underside of fore wing suffused with red-brown except

on inner area, the cell and area below and beyond it suffused with

black partly interrupted by an obliquely curved reddish band from

CHALCIOPE.—CUNEISIGNA. Bill

lower angle of cell to submedian fold ; hind wing ochreous whitish,

the costal area broadly suffused with red-brown.

2. Fore wing with the oblique medial band replaced by a large

triangular ochreous white patch with its base towards costa, a

blackish streak above the middle of its base, the triangular post-

medial black patch replaced by a band before the subterminal line

pointed at extremities and its inner edge curved.

Ab. 1. 2. Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous white ;

hind wing bright yellow without any brown on basal half, the sub-

terminal band much reduced.

Hab. Brencan (James), 2 9, Calcutta (Hearsey), 1 3 ;

Burma, Moulmein (Clerk), 1 5,2 2; Borneo, 2 9; Durcn N.

Guinea, Mimika Bay (Wollaston), 2 6; KitIs, 1 $6; Furst

(Mathew), 13, 1 9; Samoa, Tutuila 1 (Nicholl), 1 3, 1 9.

Exp. 52-62 millim.

7795. Chalciope lucasi. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 17.)

Trigonodes lucastz?, Guen. Noct. 111. p. 282 (1852),

Trigonodes problematica, W1k. xiv. 1448 (1858).

Head and thorax greyish ochreous tinged with red-brown espe-

cially the vertex of head and tegule, the latter tipped with white,

the patagia edged with blackish; fore and mid legs tinged with

fuscous ; abdomen greyish ochreous. Fore wing greyish ochreous

tinged with brown, the costal edge fuscous; a blackish streak in

upper part of cell; a triangular black antemedial patch, its base

above inner margin and its apex on median nervure beyond origin

of vein 2, separated by an oblique pale medial band from an

incurved black-brown postmedial band with pointed extremities

below costa and above inner margin, followed by an incurved reddish

brown band with two fine black lines on it; an obliquely incurved

black-brown subterminal band from just below apex to just before

tornus, edged by black and with black spot below apex, followed by

a rather strong white line; the termen reddish brown with a rather

strong black terminal line; cilia reddish brown. Hind wing greyish

suffused with brown; the terminal area fuscous except towards

tornus ; a black terminal line defined on inner side by grey except

towards apex; cilia greyish. Underside of both wings greyish

ochreous, the rough hair at base tinged with rufous; fore wing

with a fuscous subterminal shade.

Hab. Jamaica, 1 6, 1 9; Hatrt (Hearne, Tweedie), 2 3,

1 2 type problematica. Exp. 44-48 millim.

Genus CUNEISIGNA, nov.

Type, C. obstans.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about

vertex of head and broadly scaled, the 8rd rather long; frons smooth, with

tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antenne of male with bristles and

32 NOCTUID#.

cilia; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, and without crests; fore

tibix fringed with long hair, the mid and hind tibiz moderately fringed with

hair, the mid tibiz of male dilated with a groove containing a fringe of large

scales, the fore tibiz not spined, the bind tibize spined between the mid and

terminal spurs only ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore

wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved

and 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 the cell about one-third length of wing; veins 8, 4 from angle ;

5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anasto-

mosing with the cell near base only.

A. Fore wing with the pale postmedial band produced toa

rounded knob on outer side at middle.

a. Fore wing with the antemedial black patch wedge-

Shaped csccncstanee sbeecieseckicemacdecerhectne oan eee rene natts obstans.

b. Fore wing with the antemedial black patch narrow and

UMTEMOENE Bib GROEN, ocdoonsancacasonpqoabooacbduacecnnobce cumamila.

B. Fore wing with the pale postinedial band produced to a

SURO HOM Orn OMe ANCE Min WANGHEII) Soaccocsoace eosdeanooacood rivulata.

7796. Cuneisigna obstans.

Trigonodes obstans, W1k. xiv. 1449 (1858).

Trigonodes hemidelia, Mab. Ann. Sve. Ent. Fr. 1800, p. 46.

Head and thorax greyish ochreous tinged with brown, the tegule

with three brown lines, a brown line across middle of patagia and

thorax; abdomen greyish ochreous. with slight dark irroration.

Fore wing greyish ochreous, the costal and terminal areas tinged

with brown, the basal area with some black irroration ; an oblique

wedge-shaped black patch defined by white lines except above, from

inner margin near base to median nervure at lower angle of cell, its

CUNEISIGNA. 30

lower extremity just above vein 1, a black streak above its apex in

and beyond lower end of cell, almost bisected by an oblique striga

of the ground-colour ; five fine oblique brownish postmedial lines

arising below costa, slightly sinuous and the three outer lines

excurved at middle, at vein | very strongly bent inwards to inner

margin below the antemedial black patch ; a black-brown sub-

terminal band defined by white lines shading to a pale brown point

edged with black below apex and pale brown at middle, its inner

edge incurved above and below middle and excurved at middle, its

lower extremity bent outwards and ending above tornus, followed

by two indistinet dark lines arising below apex and excurved at

middle; a fine sinuous black line with series of black points on it

just before termen ; eilia whitish, with brown line near base and

fine dark line near tips which are reddish brown. Hind wine

ochreous white irrorated with brown except at base, the leaned

area suffused with fuscous brown; a sinuous blackish line before

termen ; cilia white with fine dark lines near base and tips which

are reddish brown at middle; the underside white irrorated with

black, the costal area and terminal area to vein 4 tinged with red-

brown, a series of black points before termen. :

Hab. ZAnzipar; Transvaan, Limpopo, 1 9, Barberton, 1 on

ZULULAND (Anderson), 12; Navan, Estcourt (Hutchinson),

24,3 9, Durban (Gooch), 1 6,19; Carz Cotony (Sir A.

Smith), 1 2 type, Cape Town, 1g. Hxp. 36-44 millim. Type

+ d hemidelta in Coll. Mabille. ,

7797. Cuneisigna cumamita. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 18.)

Chalciope cumamita, Beth.-Baker, A. M. N. H. (8) viii. p. 528 (1911).

3. Head and thorax pale ochreous tinged with red-brown;

palpi browner except 8rd joint; frons with brown line; tegule

with three red-brown lines, the patagia with oblique bars near base

and tips, the prothorax with brown line; abdomen ochreous white,

dorsally tinged with brown, ventrally irrorated with brown. Fore

wing greyish ochreous irrorated with a few black scales to the

postmedial line; a subbasal black striga from costa below which

if is angled outwards; an oblique black-brown fascia defined by

yellow-white from above inner margin near base to before the post-

medial line below vein 3, pointed at extremities; a black point in

middle of cell; a brownish mark defined by yellow-white and by

black on its inner side except towards base on extremity of median

nervure, running inwards to a point below the medial black point

and outwards to a rounded lobe beyond lower angle of cell; three

fine double postmedial brown lines filled in with yellowish white

from below costa near apex to submedian fold, then bent inwards

to inner margin before middle; a reddish brown band defined by

black and with a yellow line on its outer side from below apex,

where it ends in a point, to above inner margin towards tornus,

excurved at middle and bent inwards at lower extremity, a double

VOL. XIII, D

34 NOCTUIDE.

rather diffused fuscous line beyond it; a fine black subterminal

line followed by a double brown line filled in with yellowish white ;

a fine black terminal line; cilia red-brown at tips. Hind wing

yellowish white ; the terminal area brown to vein 1, narrowing to

apex and with a slight punctiform dark line on its inner side; a

slight dark line just before termen ; cilia yellowish white, with a

rather diffused brown line near base and fine line near tips except

towards tornus; the underside irrorated with brown, a double black

discoidal point, postmedial line excurved below costa, and a series

of black points just before termen and two small lunules in sub-

median interspace.

Hab. Br. KE. Arrica, Elburgon Ry. Station, type t ¢ in Coll.

Bethune-Baker; Transvaat, White R. (Cooke), 13. Hap.

40 millim.

7798. Cuneisigna rivulata. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 19.)

Chalciope rivulata, Hmpsn. Ann. 8, Afr. Mus. ii. p. 334 (1902).

Head and thorax ochreous white irrorated with brown, the vertex

of head and metathorax tinged with red-brown, the tegule with

three fine brown lines; abdomen ochreous white tinged with red-

brown. Fore wing white thickly irrorated with brown, the costal

area brownish with fine white streaks on the veins, the terminal

area suffused with red-brown; a black line with a brown band

above it arising below lower angle of cell, oblique to submedian

fold, then strongly incurved to inner margin before middle; a

blackish point in middle of cell; a slight wedge-shaped brown mark

defined by fine white lines beyond lower angle of cell and running

to a point on median nervure at origin of vein 2; the whitish post-

medial area emitting a strong fork on outer side at vein 4 and with

five fine brown lines on it arising well below apex and ending at

submedian fold, the three outer lines bent outwards into the fork,

this area defined on outer side by a fine black line extending to

inner margin and excurved at vein 1; the red-brown terminal area

with two slight brown subterminal lines filled in with grey and

defined on outer side by greyish followed by some blackish,

following the sinuations of the pale postmedial area; the termen

whitish with a black point just below costa before apex, a fine dark

line before termen with a black point at submedian fold and a fine

dark terminal line; cilia whitish at base, brown at tips. Hind

wing white ; the terminal half and inner area tinged and irrorated

with brown; a fuscous subterminal shade from below apex to sub-

median fold; a slight dark line just before termen with some black

points on it; cilia white; the underside white tinged with red-

brown and irrorated with black except on basal and inner areas, a

brown subterminal shade from costa to submedian fold.

Hab. Br. EH. Arrica, Nairobi (Crawshay), 1 2; TRANSVAAL,

Pretoria (Cooke), 1 56; Navtat, Weenen, 1 ¢ type, Durban (Bell-

Marley), 1 9; Carr Cotony, Transkei (Ass F. Barrett), 1 3,

12. Hap. 34-36 millim.

PARACHALCIOPE. Bua)

Genus PARACHALCIOPE, nov.

Type, P. euclidicola.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to above

vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long and acuminate; frons

smooth ; eyes large, round; antenne of male with bristles and cilia; thorax

clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests; femora of male and

the fore tibiz fringed with long hair; the fore and hind tibiz not spined ;

abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests, long and slender in male. Fore

wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, 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 the cell about one-third length of wing; veins 8,4 from

angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle;

8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

Szer. I. Hind tibiz of male fringed with long hair.

A. Fore wing dark reddish brown except the costal area ...... euclidicola,

B. Fore wing grey-brown with black ante- and postmedial

patches.

a, Fore wing with the postmedial black patch triangular and

separate from the antemedial patch which extends to

beyond middle above inner margin...............c0seeeeeeees deltifera.

b, Fore wing with the postmedial black patch rounded below

and confluent above with the antemedial patch which

does not extend to middle .............cccccceseeceeeeeeeenees binaria.

C. Fore wing brownish ochreous, with elongate black patch

from near base to beyond middle ............0cscecececececn ens longiplaga.

7799. Parachalciope euclidicola.

Fodina euclidicola, Wk. xiv. 1438 (1858) ; Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 144, pl. ii.

f. 11.

Mecodina furcifera, Hmpsu. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 863 (1902).

Fig. 8.—Parachalciope euclidicola, 5. 1.

Head and tegule reddish brown; thorax and abdomen grey-

brown. Fore wing black-brown with a reddish tinge, the costal

36 NOCTUID&.

area grey-brown to beyond middle; a very oblique yellowish white

line from subcostal nervure near base to inner margin before

middle; an obliquely curved white line from middle oa subcostal

nervure to vein 1, where it is joined by an obliquely curved white

line from below costa well beyond middle, the two lines emitting a

slight spur to just above inner margin; a waved black terminal

line; cilia greyish at tips. Hind wing fuscous brown with a fine

waved blackish terminal line. Underside of both wings uniform

fuscous brown.

Hab. 8. Leone; 8. Nigeria, Old Calabar (Aingsley, Cromp-

ton) Sy 2, Tlesha (Humfrey), 19; FERNanpo Po

(Fraser), 2 9 type; Conco, Kambove (Neave), 1g; Narat,

type t do furcifera in Coll. Druce. Hxp. 36-44 millim.

7800. Parachalciope deltifera

Chalciope deltifera, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 117. f. 24 (1874).

Chalciope albifissa, Hmpsn. P. Z. 8. 1910, p- 424, pl. xxxvil. f. 6.

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing greyish

ochreous suffused with red-brown ; a velvety black tr iangular “patch,

its angles on median nervure near base and lower angle of cell and

on vein 1 near tornus, divided by an oblique white streak from

another velvety black tr angular mark on postmedial area, defined

on outer side by white, its angles on discocellulars, on vein 7 below

apex and submedian fold above tornus; a fuscous subterminal line

diffused on outer side and bent outwards to apex; a fine waved

black terminal line; cilia white at tips. Hind wing grey-brown ;

a fine black terminal line; cilia white at tips; the underside grey

suffused with reddish brown.

Hab. W. Arrica, Bogos, type + ¢ in Coll. Rothschild ;

S. Niceria, Olokemeji (Dudgeon), oN Niraurms Minna

(Macfie), 3 3, Baro (Macfie), 13,1 om N.W. Ruovesta,

Alala Plateau, Mkushi Distr. (Neave), 1 9 type albijissa ; N.E.

RHODESTA, Bangeweolo Distr. (Weave), 1 3. Hap. 34-40 millim.

7801. Parachalciope binaria. (Plate CCX XII. fig. 20.)

Trigonodes Linaria, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 86, pl. ii. f. 24 (1894).

Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish brown mixed with some

blackish; palpi black-brown at base; pectus, fringes of hair on

legs, and ventral surface of abdomen pale reddish brown. Fore

wing grey-brown irrorated with blackish ; a triangular black-brown

patch on antemedial area confluent with a triangular postmedial

patch, the upper edge of the conjoined patches running obliquely

from submedian fold towards base to vein 6 well beyond middle,

their lower and outer edges defined by a whitish line, the apex of

the antemedial patch at middle of vein 1 where it is acutely pro-

duced, the apex of the postmedial patch extending to submedian

PARACHALCIOPH. 37

fold and rounded; an oblique blackish shade beyond the post-

medial patch from apex to tornus ; cilia black-brown. Hind wine

grey suffused with brown, the terminal area tinged with fuscous to

vein 3. Underside of both wings grey suffused with brown; fore

wing with curved dark postmedial shade and oblique shade from

apex to vein 3; hind wing with curved postmedial shade and faint

oblique subterminal shade from costa to vein 2.

Hab. 8. Nicerta, Lagos (Boag), 1 3; Gazoon, Ogové R.,

1 $ cotype; Ucanna, Entebbe (Minchin), 1°. Hep.50 millim.

7802. Parachalciope longiplaga, n. sp. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 21.)

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous tinged with brown ;

fore tibiz and the mid tibiz and tarsi fuscous above. Fore wing

ochreous tinged with red-brown and irrorated with blackish; a

minute black discoidal spot; an oblique black wedge-shaped patch

defined by white from submedian fold near base to vein 6 towards

apex, its lower edge sinuous, its outer edge oblique; an oblique

fuscous streak from apex to the apex of the wedge-shaped patch ;

a slight fuscous subterminal shade; a terminal series of black

points. Hind wing pale ochreous tinged with brown, the terminal

area suffused with fusecous brown; a terminal series of blackish

points ; cilia pale brownish ochreous; the underside pale ochreous

irrorated with brown, a small black discoidal spot and terminal

series of black points.

Hab. Ucanna, Kafu R. (Neave), 1 3 type. Exp. 46 millim.

Sxcr. IT. Hind tibize of male smoothly scaled.

A. Fore wing with ante- and postmedial triangular black

patches.

a. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial black

patches long.

a’, Fore wing with the antemedial black patch ex-

tending into the cell.

a*, Kore wing with the postmedial black patch

THOMIMNICIEC! NOON eno soopsdoooododacane ao nadeboecnedec benitensis.

b?, Kore wing with the postmedial black patch tri-

ENAGAIIENP ” ocsoneddonoscas oanbadocoondtonOsousobReeqobaobuC trigonometrica,

o', Fore wing with the antemedial black patch not

_ extending into the cell, the postmedial patch

(ANNEAL. jccsaoonncadkdoodedoonagsnadae ssoaeenencanusddcD mahura.

b. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial black

PHONES Sitaalll ocapeegedassoscee denn baboaondsHae0DG iment monoploneta.

B. Fore wing without ante- and postmedial black patches. agonza.

7803. Parachalciope benitensis.

Grammodes benitensis, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 85, pl. ii. f. 25 (1894).

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown, the tegule and patagia

with black stripes on upper edge ; palpi with the 8rd joint black ;

fore and mid legs black in front. Fore wing with the costal area

38 NOCTUID®.

grey irrorated with fuscous, some brownish ochreous below it, the

inner and postmedial areas rufous, the terminal area grey suffused

with fuscous; a large triangular black antemedial patch defined by

yellowish white lines and separated by a narrow oblique yellowish

white medial band from a large conical black postmedial patch

defined on outer side and below by a yellowish white line, these

markings extending from below subcostal nervure and vein 6 to

submedian fold; the postmedial rufous area with black points on

its inner and outer edges ; an oblique black shade from apex; a

fine waved black terminal line; cilia grey-brown. Hind wing

Fig. 9.—Parachalciope benitensis g. 1.

grey-brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous; cilia brown,

pale at tips. Underside of both wings grey-brown, the terminal

areas fuscous. —

Hab. Stmrra Leone (Clements), 1 9; 8. Nigeria, Old Calabar

(Kingsley, Crompton), 1 3,2 9, Sapele (Sampson), 2 3; Hesha

(Humfrey), 1 $; N. Nieerta, Minna (Macfie), 1 3, Bauchi

Prov., Kabwir (For), 1 9 ; CamEroons (Rutherford), 1 ¢ ;

Gapoon, Benita; N.E. Ruoprsta, Kulungwisi (Weave), 1 do.

Exp. 34-44 wmillim.

7804. Parachalciope trigonometrica, n. sp.

(Plate CCXXII. fig. 22.)

3. Head and thorax grey tinged with brown and mixed with

fuscous; palpi and frons black; legs blackish; abdomen grey

suffused with fuscous brown, the ventral surface paler. Fore wing

with the costal area pale brownish grey, the costa suffused with

black to beyond middle and with some black irroration below it ;

a large triangular black patch between the cell and vein 1 from

PARACHALCIOPE. 39

near base to beyond middle, its apex extending just into the cell,

separated by an oblique whitish band from a triangular black patch

beyond the cell, its base resting on the discal fold and vein 6 and

its acute apex below the submedian fold, defined on outer side by

a white line; the inner area and the postmedial area below vein 6

rufous; an oblique black shade from apex diffused below, then a

subterminal series of minute black spots with a rather diffused

waved blackish line beyond them; the termen grey with slight

blackish streaks in the interspaces; a fine waved black Aaamiell

line; cilia pale brownish with a slight dark shade at middle and

whitish tips. Hind wing pale reddish brown; a fuscous terminal

shade, broad at apex, narrowing to a point at termen at sub-

median fold and leaving some grey-brown on middle of termen ;

a fine dark terminal line; cilia brownish grey, fuscous at apex.

Underside of both wings fuscous grey, the terminal areas fuscous

with a paler band before them.

Hab. Br. EH. Arrica, Ravirondo, Up. Nzoia R. (Neave), 1 3

type. Hap. 48 millim.

7805. Parachalciope mahura.

Chalciope mahura, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 117. f. 13 (1874)

Chalciope ditrigona, Hmpsn. P. Z. 8. 1910, p. 424, pl. xxxvii. f, 5.

Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish ochreous mixed with some

fuscous. Fore wing greyish ochreous tinged with red-brown and

irrorated with fuscous; a velvety black triangular mark defined by

silvery white, its angles on vein 1 near base and beyond middle and

its apex on median nervure ; another velvety black triangular patch

defined by silvery white on postmedial area, its angles on disco-

cellulars, at vein 7 below apex and above vein 1 towards tornus;

two brown subterminal lines bent outwards to apex; a terminal

series of black points; cilia whitish with a fuscous line near base.

Hind wing grey suffused with brown; a fuscous subterminal shade

from apex to vein 2; a terminal series of black points ; cilia whitish

with a fuscous line from apex to vein 2; the underside white tinged

with brown and irrorated with fuscous except on inner area, a faint

curved pale postmedial shade from costa to vein 2.

Hab. Br. EB. Arrica, Kilima’njaro, Taveta Forest (Hanning-

ton), 1 3; Br. ©. Arrtca, Zomba (Johnston), 1 3; N.H. Ruo-

pDESIA, H. Luangwa Distr., Petauke (eave), 1 3 type ditrigona ;

Nara, Durban, type + @ in Coll. Rothschild. Hap. 42 millim.

7806. Parachalciope monoplaneta, n. sp.

(Plate CCX XII. fig. 28.)

@. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brownish ochreous; an-

tenne, 3rd joint of palpi, and legs rather browner. Fore wing pale

ochreous tinged with brown ; a small oblique triangular antemedial

40 NOCTUID &.

patch, its upper angles produced and resting on the submedian fold

and median nervure near origin of vein 3; a similar but not oblique

patch on vein 4 just beyond the cell, its outer angle extending to

just above vein 4, where it is joined by an oblique blackish streak

from apex with a brownish shade beyond it extending to inner

margin; a series of black points just before termen. Hind wing

aelimeors white with a faint fuscous subterminal shade; the sandler

side ochreous white slightly irrorated with brown.

Hab. Ueanpa, Toro, Mpanga Forest (eave), 3 2 type. Hap.

42-46 millim.

7807. Parachalciope agonia, n. sp. (Plate CCXXIL. fig. 24.)

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous tinged with red-brown

and irrorated with fuscous; tarsi fuscous with pale rings. Fore

wing pale ochreous tinged with red-brown and ssnromecvar with

fuscous ; a minute blackish discoidal spot; a diffused oblique

blackish brown streak from apex to vein 5 with a faint curved

shade from it to inner margin ; a faint diffused waved subterminal

line, incurved below vein 4; a series of black points just before

termen. Hind wing pale ochreous tinged with brown ; a diffused

fuscous subterminal shade, darker towards apex; a terminal series

of black points; the underside pale ochreous slightly irrorated with

brown and tinged with rufous towards base.

Hab. Uaanpa, Entebbe (Neave), 1 3 type, Toro, Mpanga

Forest (Weave), 1 ¢. Hap. 3 54, 2 50 millim.

Genus EUCLIDISEMA, nov.

Type, H. mygdon.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth with tuft of

hair above; eyes large, round; antenne of male minutely ciliated; thorax

clothed with scales and hair mixed and without crests; tibiee of male fringed

with long hair, the mid tibie dilated with a groove containing a tuft of long

hair, of female moderately fringed with hair, the fore and hind tibie not

spined; abdomen smoothly scaled and withont crests. 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 the cell about one-third

length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle;

6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

A. Fore wing with the antemedial band erect ......... Malieeaaecoere erecta.

B. Fore wing with the antemedial band oblique.

a, Fore wing with the antemedial band arising below the costa

well beyond the base.

a‘, Fore wing with the outer edge of the postmedial black

patch strongly excised at middle, then strongly ex-

COIN 2X allenic Sener nee enna an nen baandannecenone sacrnddancGensonaube bisinuata.

b'. Fore wing with the outer edge of the postmedial black

patch slightly excised at middle, then slightly excurved. dnminua.

EUCLIDISEMA. Al

RCM. Geinlly CUA! ausseopsdodosoncdan ca aneaaee sai aa mygdon.

joniteln suatciendl hy CleIbWG(Ue. focaseconpandconobonddencbenneboseacn. alevona

b', Fore wing with the outer edge of the postmedial black E ;

patch erect and slightly excised at middle.................. emathion

cl. Fore wing with the outer edge of the postmedial black ae

patch outwardly oblique’.......... sceninne oom se eeiaonien Seneee delta.

7808. Euclidisema erecta. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 25.)

Chalciope erecta, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr, Mus, ii. p. $33 (1902),

OF: Head and tegule grey-brown ; thorax blackish brown ; an-

tenne with the shaft white in front; pectus, legs, and abdomen

grey-brown. Fore wing black-brown to the postmedial line except

on costal area, the rest of wing grey-brown; a very narrow erect

white antemedial band from below costa to inner marein: post-

medial line double, brown filled in with whitish, oblique from

costa to below vein 6 where it is angled outwards, then obliquely

incurved, two white pomts beyond it on costa; an oblique black-

brown shade from apex diffused on inner side and bent inwards

above vein 6 to near the angle of the postmedial line; a fine waved

dark terminal lime with poimts at the interspaces, and fine whitish

line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia paler ;

the underside grey-brown with small discoidal spot, curved post-

medial line and terminal series of points.

Hab. Navan, Northdene, 1 9 type. xp. 36 millim.

‘7809. Euclidisema bisinuata.

Grammodes bisinuata, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p, 104, pl. 8. f. 8 (1880),

2. Head and tegule grey-brown ; thorax black-brown; abdomen

grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown with a reddish tinge; the

basal area black-brown except at costa; an oblique white band from

below costa before middle to above middle of inner margin where

it forks slightly, a large black-brown patch beyond it from below

costa to just above inner margin defined by slight whitish lines,

its outer edge produced to a point at vein 6 where it is met by a

curved dark streak from-apex, then strongly excised and again

strongly excurved on inner area. Hind wing reddish brown.

Hab. CaLEBES, Makassar, Saleyer, Takalar. Hp. 32 millim.

This species is unknown to me.

*7810. Euclidisema imminua.

Grammodes imminua, Snell. Tijd. vy. Ent. xlv. p. 91, pl. 8. f. 4 (1902).

@. Head and thorax black-brown; abdomen grey-brown. Fore

wing grey-brown ; the basal area black-brown except towards costa ;

a rather broad oblique white band from below costa before middle

42 NOCTUID ®.

to middle of inner margin, a large black-brown patch beyond it

defined by white lines, its outer edge produced to a point at vein 6,

then slightly excised and again slightly execurved below vein 2; an

oblique dark shade from apex to the angle of the postmedial patch,

defined on outer side by the whitish subterminal line which is

slightly waved below vein 6; a fine dark terminal line and whitish

line at base of cilia. Hind wing grey-brown.

Hab. Werrer. Hap. 32 millim. This species is unknown

to me.

7811. Kuclidisema mygdon.

Noctua mygdon, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 94, pl. 156. f. G (1777); Moore,

Lep. Ceyl. ili. p. 180; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 581.

Noctua triangulum, Fabry. Mant. ii. p. 145 (1787).

Chalciope mygdonias, Hibn. Verz. p. 268 (1827).

Head and thorax reddish brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen pale

red-brown. Fore wing dark chocolate-brown, the costal and

terminal areas grey-brown, the costal edge whitish towards base ;

a narrow oblique white band from subcostal nervure before middle

to inner margin towards tornus; the upper edge of the dark area

on postmedial area and its outer edge defined by white lines; a

triangular blackish patch on apical part of costa, its outer edge

Fig. 10.—LKuclidisema mygdon, S. }.

oblique, a whitish subterminal shade from it to tornus; a fine

waved dark terminal line with black pomts at the interspaces ;

cilia red-brown. Hind wing fuscous brown; a waved dark ter-

minal line with some grey-white before it towards tornus; cilia

erey-white below apex and towards tornus; the underside whitish,

the costal and terminal areas suffused and irrorated with brown.

Hab. Loo-cuoo Is. (Pryer), 2 5; Formosa, Takow (Hobson),

1g, 19; Honexone (J. J. Walker), 2 3; Centr. Cura,

Kiukiang (Pratt), 1 gd; Punsas (Horne), 1 ¢, 1 9, Kulu

EUCLIDISEMA. 43

(Hocking), 1 3g, Jubbulpur (Ff Butler), 1 2, Fattehpur (Betton),

1 2, Manpuri, 2 9; Srxum, 19; Assam (Badgley), 1 3;

Benear, Caleutta 1 g; Mapras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 2 3,

Commbatore (Walhouse), 1 §; Cuyton (Templeton), 1 3,1 ¢

Trincomali (Yerbury), 1 2; Burma, Moulmein (Clerk), 2 Q,

Rangoon (Noble), 1 3,192, Hsipaw (de Micéville), 1 9; Anpa-

MANS (feogers), 3 3; Ntcopars (Rogers), 2 ¢,1 9, Nancowry,

13,19; Prnane (Ridley), 13; PERax, Goping (Kiinstler),

1 dg; Serancor (Meade-Waldo), 1 9; Stnearore (Ridley),

5 9; Sumarra, Pulo-Weh Is. (Meade-Waldo), 1 9; Borneo,

Sarawak (Wallace), 2 2, Mt. Marapok, 19; Java (Horsfield),

36,292. EHzp. 30-38 millim. ;

7812. Euclidisema alcyona. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 26.)

Grammodes alcyona, Druce, P.Z.S8. 1888, p. 225, pl. xiii. f. 5,

Grammodes hoplitis, Meyr, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1902, p. 28.

T'rigonodes isusceles, Warr. Noy. Zool. x. p. 123 (1908).

Head and tegule grey-brown, the thorax fuscous brown ; antenne

with the basal half of shaft in front white; pectus, legs, and

abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing deep chocolate-brown, the

costal area grey irrorated with brown, the terminal area violaceous

white ; an oblique white fascia from subcostal nervure near base to

vein 1 towards tornus; the dark area defined above except towards

base and on outer side by white; an oblique blackish streak from

apex, diffused on inner side and followed by a narrow rufous band

beyond the white line defining the dark area; a fine waved brown

terminal line with black points at the interspaces; cilia dark

reddish brown. Hind wing dull reddish brown; a fine waved dark

terminal line with some grey-white before it towards tornus; cilia

whitish towards tornus; the underside whitish, the costal and

terminal areas broadly suffused with reddish brown, a small brown

spot on upper discocellular.

Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Port Moresby, 1 9; QuEENSLAND, 1 9;

First (Mathew),1 3,192. Kxp. 32-36 millim.

*7813. Euclidisema emathion.

Grammodes emathion, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xlv. p. 90, pl. &. f. 5 (1902).

Head and thorax black-brown; abdomen grey-brown. Fore

wing grey-brown; a white fascia from below costa close to base to

above inner margin beyond middle, its extremities pointed, the area

below it black-brown; a large triangular black-brown patch above

the white fascia defined by white lines, its outer edge erect and

slightly excised at middle; an oblique black-brown shade from

apex to vein 6, diffused on inner side; a faint whitish subterminal

line; a fine black terminal line. Hind wing grey-brown.

Hab. CrtEpes, Bonthain, Menado. zp. 36 millim. This

species is unknown to me.

dt. NOCTUID..

7814. Euclidisema delta.

Ophiusa delta, Boisd. Faun, Ent. Mad., Lép. p. 105, pl. 13. f. 1 (1833),

Grammodes crestonion, Snell. Lijd. v. Ent. xlv. p. 90, pl. 8. f. 3 (1902).

Head and thorax reddish-brown, the head with some whitish

above frons and behind; legs and abdomen grey-brown ; pectus

and ventral surface of abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore

wing deep chocolate-brown, the costal area grey tinged with brown

except at apex; an oblique white fascia from base of subcostal

nervure to vein 1 just before tornus; the dark area defined above

except towards base and on outer side by strong white lines; a

dark terminal line slightly defined on inner side by grey from below

apex to tornus; cilia grey witha fine white line at base. Hind

wing dull reddish brown, a dark terminal line; cilia whitish,

brown at apex, then with brown line near base; the underside

whitish, the costal and terminal areas broadly suffused with red-

brown, a small brown spot on upper discocellular.

Hab. ZanzxBar (de la Garde), 1 3; Br. E. Arrica, Taveta

(Rogers), 1 9, Tanga (Hollis), 1 3; Masnonatann, (Dobbie),

1 $6; Becnuananann, Lake N’Gami (Lugard), 1 3; TRANSVAAL

(Pead), 1 9; CarE Cotony, Plettenburg Bay, 1 9; Mapagascar

(Kitching), 1 ¢; AupaBra (Meade-Waldo), 1 3; AMIRANTES,

D’Arros I. (B. Fletcher), 1 9; Mauritius; CrLeBrs, Menado.

Exp. 30-38 millim.

Genus LEUCOMELAS, nov.

Type, L. puvenilis.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and moderately scaled, the rd moderate; frons smooth, with tuft of

hair above; eyes rather small and elliptical; antennz of male minutely

ciliated ; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and without crests ; tibiz

slightly fringed with hair, the fore tibie not spined, the hind tibiw strongly

spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing short and

broad, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and nct 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 the cell about

one-third length of wing’; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just

above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base

only.

7815. Leucomelas juvenilis.

Agnomonia juvenilis, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 61, pl. 5. f. 18 (1864); Staud.

Cat. Lep. pal. p. 242.

Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown shghtly mixed with

grey; antennz with the shaft white above towards base; palpi and

legs strongly irrorated with white; pectus and ventral surface of

‘abdomen grey-white. Fore wing black-brown; a creamy-white

band from costa beyond middle to tornus, its outer edge angled

to)

outwards at vein 6, then narrowing to tornus, the costal edge

LEUCOMELAS.—EUCLIDIMERA. 45

white for a short distance on each side of the band; a minute

white streak on costa towards apex; cilia white at tips from apex

to below vein 5 and from submedian fold to tornus. Hind wing

black-brown ; an oblique creamy white band from vein 6 well

beyond middle to termen at vein 1, interrupted by slight dark

Fig. 11.—Leucomelas juvenilis, $. 3.

streaks on the veins; cilia white at tips from apex to below vein 5.

Underside of fore wing with the band rather broader and with

irregular edges; hind wing with the inner area slightly irrorated

with white.

Hab. HK. Stperta, Amurland, 2 ¢, 4 2, Zeller & Leech Colls.,

Ussunl. Hap. 38-44 milli.

Genus EUCLIDIMERA, nov.*

Type, 2. mi.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and fringed with long hair in front, the 8rd moderate; frons smooth ;

eyes rather small and elliptical; antenne of male ciliated; thorax clothed

with hair and scales mixed and without crests; tibia slightly fringed with hair,

all the tibiw strongly spined; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests.

Fore wing short and broad, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and

not crenulate; veins 38 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 cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully

developed from above angle; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the

cell near base only,

* Kuclidia, Treit, (1826) type fixa should take precedence over Synthymia,

Vol. ix. p. 372.

AG NOCTUID ®.

A. Hind wing not blue-white.

a. Hind wing without subterminal series of small black spots.

a, Fore wing with the markings clearly defined by ochreous

or white.

a, Hind wing with ochreous white or yellow maculate

postmedial and subterminal bands............s0...se002- 008 mt.

62, Wind wing with the postmedial and subterminal bands

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61, Fore wing with the white markings reduced to the post-

medial line and slight spots; hind wing with the white

Coraline! {HO (Hae) WINE BIEL, oc cnvoce coonosonoonsqcanonbospEeHoAceT Sutilis,

b, Hind wing with subterminal series of small black spots ...... regua.

1s, labwagdl Gri DlN@AWM@codassgoo0onaccaoao00GGenaG0506 oooadaqcCoG050ODq000r cerulea,

7816. Euclidimera mi.

Phalena mi, Clerck, Icones, pl. 9. f. 5 (1759); Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii.

p. 838 (1767); Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 89. ff. 3,4; Hibn. Eur. Schmett.,

Noct. f. 8346; Godt. Lép. Fr. v. p. 98, pl. 52. ff. 3-5; Steph. Ill. Brit.

Ent., Haust. iii. p. 189; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 240.

Phalena litterata, Cyr. Ent. Nap. i. p. 2, pl. 1. f. 9 (1787).

Euclidia explanata, Rebel, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, lvili. p. (271)

(1908).

Huclidia extrema, Bang-Haas, Iris, xxvi. p. 162 (1912),

3. Head and thorax black-brown mixed with greyish; palpi,

pectus, and legs ochreous white mixed with brown; abdomen

black-brown with whitish segmental lines, the ventral surface

ochreous white. Fore wing red-brown mixed with ochreous; an

elliptical black spot defined by ochreous just above inner margin

before middle; an oblique ochreous line defined on outer side by

Fig. 12.—Kuclidimera mi, $. }.

dark brown from costa before middle, below which it is slightly

incurved, to just above middle of inner margin, then curved round

upwards and incurved to lower angle of cell, then defined on inner

side by dark brown and running downwards to submedian fold, then

EUCLIDIMERA. AT

up to the costa beyond middle with a strong outward curve beyond

the cell ; orbicular black-brown with some ochreous suffusion beyond

it; reniform dark brown with an ochreous bar on its outer edge;

subterminal line ochreous defined on inner side by wedge-shaped

black-brown marks from below costa to submedian fold except at

middle where it is strongly incurved, an ochreous shade or line just

beyond it from vein 7 to submedian fold; cilia dark brown at base,

chequered ochreous and brown at tips. Hind wing dark brown,

mixed with ochreous on basal half; a round ochreous spot beyond the

discocellulars ; a maculate ochreous postmedial band, excurved at

discal fold, incurved beyond lower angle of cell, then again excurved ;

a subterminal series of eight ochreous spots, excurved at middle

and angled inwards between veins 4, 3; cilia brown at base, the tips

ochreous, chequered with brown from apex to vein 2. Underside

of fore wing ochreous, the costa irrorated with brown, orbicular

and reniform black, a black-brown postmedial line angled outwards

at discal fold, then incurved and ending at submedian fold, a

subterminal band interrupted between veins 4, 3 and excurved

above that point, the veins of terminal area streaked with black-

brown, a terminal band expanding at middle; hind wing ochreous,

the base irrorated with black-brown, a black discoidal lJunule,

postmedial line angled outwards at discal fold, excurved below

vein 2 and ending at submedian fold, a subterminal line diffused on

inner side, incurved below costa, interrupted between veins 4, 3,

excurved above and below that point and ending on termen at vein 1,

a terminal line expanding at apex and between veins 4, 3.

@. The markings whiter; fore wing with the antemedial line

not incurved below costa.

Ab. 1. litterata. Fore wing with more white especially beyond

the postmedial line ; hind wing much whiter.

Ab. 2. explanata. Fore and hind wings with the markings clear

whitish yellow.—Bohemia.

Ab. 38. Hind wing orange-yellow with the markings black.—

Portugal. ,

Hab. Brivatn, Leech Coll.; Francr, Sand Coll.; GERMANY,

Zeller, Frey, & Leech Colls.; Austria; Huncary ; SwitzERLAND,

Frey Coll.; Spary; Porrueat (Haton); Ivaty; Russa, Livonia,

Zeller Coll., Sarepta, Leech Coll.; Armunta; Asta Minor, Bithynia,

? Pontus; Syria, 1 9, Leech Coll.; W. Turxnstay, Issyk-kul,

Ala Tau; W. Srperta, Altai; E. Turkestan, Ih; E. Srperta,

Amurland, 4 2, Ussuri. Hap. 32-36 millim.

Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 163; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 274, pl. 255.

f. 2; Hffm. Raup. p. 145, pl. 36. f. 20.

Pale ochreous or yellow; dorsal and lateral lines double, pale

brown or fuscous; subdorsal and supraspiracular lines darker

brown ; spiracular line pale edged with darker brown; head pale

pinkish ochreous. Food-plants: Zrifolium, Medicago, and Meli-

lotus. 7-9.

4S NOCTUID #,

7817. Buclidimera annexa. (Plate CCXXIIL fie. 1.)

Kuclidia annera, WH. Haw. Ent. Am. vi. p. 115 (1890); Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 319.

Drasteria conspicua, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxii. p. 224, pl. v. ff. 138, 14 (1999),

Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with dark brown. Fore

wing orey-white thickly irrorated with dark brown; subbasal line

slight, double, brown filled in with whitish, from costa to sub-

median fold; antemedial line oblique from costa to middle of

inner margin, slightly simuous, dark brown defined on inner side

by whitish; a small black 20 in middle of cell and ditfused brown

discoidal mark defined on outer side by whitish; a dark brown band

beyond the cell from costa to submedian fold edged by the dark

postmedial line defined on outer side by whitish, excurved below costa

and at submedian fold retracted to lower angle of cell, then curved

inwards to near the antemedial line and obliquely excurved to

inner margin, with dark sutfusion between it and the antemedial

line below the cell; a brown subterminal shade with blackish spots

on it above and below vein 7, the lower shghtly angled outwards ;

the termen dark brown with a series of blackish pomts. Hind

wing yellowish white sparsely irrorated with dark brown and with

diffused brown fascize along median nervure and on inner area to

the postmedial line, which s strong, black-brown, incurved beyond

lower angle of pall a black discord lunule; a black-brown sub-

terminal band and a narrow terminal band; cilia yellowish white

suffused with brown at base; the underside yellowish white sparsely

irrorated with black, a black discoidal lunule, postmedial line

oblique to discal fold and incurved beyond lower angle of cell, sub-

terminal and terminal bands narrow.

Hab. Canapa, Alberta, Pine Creek (Wolley-Dod), 13, 19,

Bantie (iis: sNecvoll)\ a ree bras Colmmprasms Ops Keremeos

(Mrs. Nicholl), 19 ; U.S.A., Oregon, The Dalles, 3¢, 2 2 type.

Hep. 32-384 millim.

*7818. Euclidimera futilis.

Fuclidia futilis, Stand. Iris, x, p. 341, pl. 9. f. 23 (1897); id. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 240.

3. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with some grey; abdo-

men dark brown with segmental white rmgs. Fore wing dark

brown; two slight grey-white marks at base of inner margin ;

amnemedliall line Tadistimet greyish, oblique, sinuous; a small rather

elongate white discoidal spot; postmedial line wihghishh, oblique

towards costa, angled outwards at discal and submedian folds and

incurved between them; subterminal line indistinct, greyish, in-

eurved at middle; cilia white. Hind wing dark brown, the inner

area suffused with white; cilia white.

Hab. K. Stperta, Apfel Mts. xp. 28 millim. This species is

unknown to me.

EUCLIDIMERA. 49

7819. Euclidimera regia.

Euclidia regia, Stand. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 48; Alph. Rom. Mém. y,

p. 185, pl. 8. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 240.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown mixed with white, the

ventral surface of abdomen whiter. Fore wing deep red-brown ; some

diffused white on basal costal area and a streak on base of inner

margin ; a narrow very oblique white band irrorated with blackish

from costa before middle to middle of inner margin, angled at

vein 1; orbicular a small elongate black spot; reniform creamy-

white with black lunule in centre, confluent with a white patch on

costa ; postmedial line creamy white, diffused at costa, oblique to

vein 6, and at submedian fold emitting an oblique streak below

vein 2 to below end of cell; subterminal line creamy white, emitting

streaks on its inner side on veins 7 to 2, those on veins 6 to 2

connected with the postmedial line and leaving spots of the ground

colour in the interspaces, ending at tornus; cilia dark brown at

base, creamy white at tips, chequered with brown at veins 4, 3.

Hind wing orange-yellow ; the basal inner area suffused with black-

brown with irregular outer edge; a small black discoidal spot ;

postmedial line black-brown, incurved at discal fold and excurved

above and below that point; a subterminal series of small black

spots with wedge-shaped mark at tornus; a terminal black-brown

band except towards tornus ; cilia black-brown at base, yellow at

tips. Underside orange-yellow ; fore wing with the orbicular and

renitorm black, the former with black irroration above and below

it, a narrow black postmedial band angled outwards at discal fold

and ending at submedian fold, a subterminal bar from costa to

vein 6, a series of wedge-shaped brown patches in the interspaces of

terminal area; hind wing with slight antemedial band of black

irroration from costa to submedian fold, black discoidal lunule,

postmedial line angled outwards at discal fold, excurved at vein 2

and bent inwards to inner margin, subterminal series of small spots,

and series of brown spots on termen and cilia at the veins.

Hab. W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 1¢, Ferghana, ? Pamirs.

Exp. 26 millim.

7820. Euclidimera cerulea. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 2.)

Drasteria cerulea, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 155 (1873) ; Smith,

Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 318.

Euclidia aquamarina, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 117. f. 10 (1874).

Drasteria livida, Letcher, Ent. News Philad. vii. p. 223 (1896).

(aquamarina). Head and thorax blue-white mixed with brown ;

antennz brown; abdomen blue-white mixed with some blackish.

Fore wing blue-white irrorated with brown, the terminal area

suffused with brown, narrowing to tornus; subbasal line slight,

brown, curved, from costa to vem 1; antemedial line reddish brown,

oblique, slightly sinuous ; a diffused brownish bar from middle of

costa; a black point in middle of cell ; reniform slightly defined by

brown, large ; postmedial line fine, brown, oblique to vein 6, angled

VOL. XII. E

50 NOCTUID&.

inwards at discal fold to the reniform, then running down to

vein 2, where it is sharply retracted to the lower edge of the reni-

form and oblique to inner margin; a subterminal chocolate-brown

mark on costa with black spots below it above and below vein 7,

followed by a faint slightly waved line to inner margin; a faint

waved brown terminal line; cilia brown, concolorous with the brown

terminal area. Hind wing bluish white, the basal half irrorated

with fuscous; a faint dark postmedial line, incurved from below

costa to submedian fold where it is angled outwards; a strong

blackish terminal line; cilia white; the underside white sparsely

irrorated with black.

Ab. 1. c@rulea. Fore wing with the antemedial brown line

diffused on outer side, not reaching inner margin but curved out-

wards to join the postmedial line to which it is more closely

approximated on inner area, a red-brown band beyond the cell

before the postmedial line; hind wing with narrow dark sub-

terminal band slightly excurved at vein 6.

Hab. Vancouver I. (Lyall, J. J. Walker), 2 $,1 2, Dun-

cans (Livingston), 2 3, Galliano I. (Stephenson), 1 3, 1 9;

U.S.A., Washington, 1 d, California, 3 ¢, 19 type, Sierra Nevada,

2 2, Mendocino Co., Rancherie Creek (Walsingham), 4 3,2 9.

Erp. 36—40 millim.

Genus GONOSPILEIA. =

ype.

CMOS UO, Velvia, WO Ws BSI (MSHA) csccoccecooonsetersondoscocnadese munita.

Jing iad, Valley, ALi TG, -oosacoasapadcedhs eon daceasnnceccoocoGHAABHAROHS glyphica,

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to

vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth with

slight tuft of hair ahove; eyes rather small and elliptical; antennsz of male

ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests; tibise

slightly fringed with hair, the fore tibiz not spined, the hind tibie spined

between the mid and hind spurs only; abdomen smoothly scaled and 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 ceil. Hind wing

with the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully

developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle; § anastomosing with

the cell near base only.

A. Hind wing with the basal and inner areas dark brown.

a. Hind wing with the terminal half reddish brown ............ cuspidea.

6. Hind wing with the terminal half yellow with dark sub-

terminal band.

a‘, Fore wing with prominent acute triangular dark brown

mark beyond the reniform before the postinedial line... dentata.

b'. Fore wing with faint and not acute triangular shade

beyond the reniform before the postmedial line ......... glyphica.

B. Hind wing with the basal and inner areas orange slightly

tinged with brown. \s..cassec-ck ancccetececoueec cease cee emer triquetra.

C= Hind wing tulvoustved:sce-taae vanersl oeeae eter eee nate munita.

GONOSPILETA, 51

7821. Gonospileia cuspidea. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 3.)

Drasteria cuspidea, Hiibn. Zutr. ex. Schmett. i. p. 16, ff. 69-—

Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 319. 1. p. 16, ff. 69-70 (1818) ;

Head, thorax, and abdomen dark chocolate-brown suffused with

grey. Fore wing dark chocolate-brown suffused with grey ; around

black spot just above inner margin before the antemedial deep

chocolate-brown band, its inner edge strongly incurved above vein 1

over the black spot, its outer edge obliquely excurved ; an indistinct

sinuous medial line with an oblique elliptical brown annulus beyond

it in and below angle of cell cutting into the lower edge of the

indistinct elliptical greyish reniform which has a triangular deep,

chocolate-brown patch beyond it; postmedial line chocolate-brown

with a pale grey patch before it below the costa and slightly

defined on outer side by pale grey, bent outwards below costa,

incurved below vein 6 and slightly excurved at submedian fold; a

chocolate-brown patch beyond it from costa to vein 6 with some

pale points at costa, its outer edge defined by black and acutely

angled outwards above vein 6 ; a very faint waved grey subterminal

line from vein 6 to inner margin with a series of small blackish

spots beyond it followed by a pale grey shade; the terminal area

suffused with red-brown; a fine waved brown terminal line; cilia

red-brown mixed with some grey. Hind wing with the basal half

dark brown, the terminal half cupreous reddish brown; the dark

area defined by a sinuous dark line from middle of costa to tornus ;

a narrow dark brown subterminal band with somewhat dentate outer

edge; the termen suffused with brown from apex to vein 3; a

waved dark brown terminal line; cilia red-brown mixed with some

grey. Underside of both wings with the basal half dark brown,

the terminal half pale red-brown, irrorated with brown ; fore wing

with the dark area extending to the subterminal line except towards

costa.

Hind tibiz sometimes with one or two spines above the medial

spurs.

Hab. Arctic America, Slave R. (Taylor), 1 3 ; Canana,

Ottawa (Irs. Nicholl), 1 3, Br. Columbia, Mabel Lake (Brooks),

13, Pentecton (Ms. Nicholl),1 3,12, Greenwood (Mrs. Nicholl),

1 2, Lr. Kootenay, Nelson (Mrs. Nicholl), 4 9, Okanagan R.,

Up. Keremeos (Mrs. Nicholl), 2 3, 1 2; Vancouver I., Cor-

vichan Bay (Livingston), 1 3, Ladysmith (Livingston), 1 Q ;

U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, Middle, and Central States, New York

(Packard), 23,492, Kansas (Snow), 2 9, Texas, Dallas (Boll),

1 Sg, California (Walsingham), 23,22, Knights Valley, 1 9,

Hanlah,1 9. Hap. 30-42 millim.

gg. Lembert, Can. Ent. xxvii. p. 107.

Pea-green with deep vertical lines.

Larva. 1st stage. A slender looper ; thoracic somites pale green,

then dark green to the somites which carry the prolegs, of which

there are two pairs, then pale green. Food-plant : clover.

52 NOCTUIDAE.

7822. Gonospileia dentata.

Euclidia cuspidea, Kv. Bull. Mosc. 1857, iv. p. 436 (nee Hiibn.).

Euclidia dentata, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur, ed. ii. p. 135 (1871); id. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 240.

Ruclidia consors, Butl. A. M.N. H. (5) i. p. 293 (1878) ; id. Il. Het. B.M.

ii, p. 42, pl. 34, f. 6.

Head and thorax bright rufous ; pectus and legs fulvous yellow ;

abdomen yellow dorsally suffused with red-brown except towards ex-

tremity. Fore wing pale red-brown with a greyish tinge to beyond

middle, the terminal area yellow slightly tinged with rufous leaving

the termen red-brown from apex to vein 2; an oblique red-brown ante-

medial band, broadening to above vein 1 where its outer edge is

angled outwards, then bent inwards to inner margin; an oblique

brown medial line, sinuous below the cell; the outer part of medial

area red-brown except a yellow patch before the postmedial line on

costal area; reniform with faint pale annulus, elliptical, a trian-

gular chocolate-brown patch beyond it ; postmedial line indistinctly

double, rufous filled in with yellow, excurved to vein 6, then de-

fining the red-brown area, incurved to below vein 3, then excurved,

some rufous suffusion beyond it from vein 4 to inner margin, a

conical chocolate-brown patch beyond it from costa to vein 6, with

two minute oblique pale strize from costa and its outer edge

excised ; a waved red-brown terminal line; cilia red-brown. Hind

wing with the basal and inner areas red-brown with a greyish tinge,

defined by an oblique sinuous line from below costa to tornus,

excurved beyond the cell and below vein 2; a narrow dark brown

subterminal band, almost obsolete towards costa, incurved below

costa, excurved at middle and ending on termen at vein 1; the

termen suffused with rufous from apex to submedian fold ; a waved

red-brown terminal line; cilia rufous. Underside yellow tinged

with rufous; fore wing with brown discoidal lunule, postmedial

line angled outwards at discal fold, and incurved subterminal shade

from costa to vein 6, the terminal area yellow except towards apex ;

hind wing with discoidal striga and red-brown subterminal shade

excurved at costa and discal fold, then obsolescent and ending at

submedian fold.

Hab. W. Srperta, Altai, 3 5,29, Zeller Coll.; E. Srperta,

Ussuri; Japan, Yezo (Pryer), 1 5,1 9, Orwaké (Pryer, Leech),

1 g,1 9, Tokio (Afaries), 2 9, Yokohama (Jonas), 22 type

consors. Hap. 38-40 millim.

7823. Gonospileia glyphica.

Noctua glyphica, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 510 (1758); Esp. Schmett. iv.

pl. 89. f. 2; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. p. 347; Godt. Lép. Fr. v.

p. 96. pl. 52. f. 2; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 138; Curt. Brit.

Ent. 659; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 240.

Euclidia tristicula, Schultz, Soc. Ent, xxii. p. 186 (1908).

Head and thorax dark red-brown ; antennze with the shaft whitish

above towards base; abdomen black-brown; palpi, pectus, legs,

GONOSPILEIA. 53

and ventral surface of abdomen grey mixed with brown. Fore

wing grey tinged with red-brown and irrorated with black ; an

oblique red-brown antemedial band from costa to just above inner

margin, its edges angled outwards at vein 1 and its inner edge

incurved in submedian interspace; an oblique sinuous red-brown

medial line, the reniform indicated by some dark brown defined by

a greyish line on its outer side; postmedial line red-brown, ex-

curved below costa, then incurved and excurved in submedian inter-

space, the area between it and the medial line suffused with red-

brown except towards costa; a conical chocolate-brown patch on

postmedial part of costa with two grey points on costa, its outer

edge excised at middle, traces of a double sinuous subterminal line

from the outer edge of the patch to inner margin; a red-brown

terminal band ending in a point at submedian fold, and a fine dark

terminal line. Hind wing yellow with the basal and inner areas

black-brown ; an oblique black line from vein 6 well beyond the

cell to termen at vein 1, incurved below vein 5; a terminal red-

brown band with waved inner edge, and dark terminal line from

apex to submedian fold; cilia red-brown. Underside orange-yellow ;

fore wing with black discoidal spot, postmedial striga from costa,

subterminal patch on costal area and terminal band from apex to

vein 2; hind wing with black discoidal lunule, slight postmedial

line angled outwards at discal fold and ending at vein 2, sub-

terminal line forming patches at costa and discal fold where it is

excurved, and ending at submedian fold, and terminal line.

Ab. 1. tristicula. Darker.

Hab. Brirratn, Leech Coll.; Franch, Sand and Leech Colls. ;

GERMANY, Zeller and Leech Colls.; Austria; HUNGARY; SwitzEr-

LAND, Zeller and Frey Colls.; Spary ; Corsica, Zeller and Leech

Colls.; Irary, Courmayeur (Hampson); GrreEcE, Merlin Coll. ;

Barkan Staves; Norway, Frey Coll.; Russta, St. Petersburg,

Zeller Coll.; ArmMENTA; Asta Minor, Pontus, Bithynia; Syrta,

2 2, Leech Coll.; W. Turkestan, ? Ferghana, Tarbagatai Mts. ;

W. Sreerta, Altai; E. Srperta, Amurland, 2 ¢, 8 9, Ussuri.”

Hep. 26-34 millim.

Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 164; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 270, pl. 255. f.3 ;

Hffm. Raup. p. 145, pl. 36, f. 21.

Ochreous yellow, sometimes tinged with ferruginous at: sides ;

dorsal line double, brown; subdorsal line double, dark grey; spira-

cular line yellow edged with dark grey: head brown marked with

yellow. Food-plants: Trifolium and Medicago. 7-9.

7824. Gonospileia triquetra.

Noctua triquetra, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 94 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii.

p- 143 (1787); Hiibn. Beitr. i. 3, p. 14, pl. 2, f. I. (1788) ; Esp. Schmett.

iv. pl. 145. f. 4 (1789); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 348; Godt. Lép.

Fr. v. p. 94, pl. 52. f. 1.

Noctua fascialis, De Vill. Ent. Linn. ii. p. 450, pl. 6. f. 28 (1789).

Noctua fortificata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2. p. 52 (1794). ;

Euclidia aurantiaca, Staud. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xvi. p. 79 (1881).

Euclidia fumata, Hirschke, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, Ix. p. 414 (1910).

Head and thorax red-brown with a greyish tinge ; palpi except at

5A NOCTUIDH.

tips, pectus, and legs rufous; abdomen grey irrorated with brown,

the anal tuft yellow. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with red-

brown ; a triangular chocolate-brown patch, edged with black and

defined by white, from subcostal nervure before middle to above

inner margin where its lower edge is excised; reniform pale red-

brown defined on outer side by white, oblique elliptical, followed by

a triangular deep chocolate-brown patch extending to the post-

medial line ; a slight incurved oblique line from lower angle of cell

to inner margin followed by some pale red-brown, then deep choco-

late-brown before the postmedial line, which is white defined on

inner side by black except at costa and vein 6, obliquely curved

from vein 6 to beyond lower angle of cell where it is strongly

ineurved, then strongly excurved, a reddish-brown band beyond it

incurved and obsolescent below vein 6; the termen suffused with

red-brown except towards apex and tornus; cilia reddish brown.

Hind wing orange-yellow, the inner area irrorated with brown; a

brown subterminal band, execurved at discal fold and ending on

termen at vein 1; the termen suffused with red-brown from apex

to submedian fold; cilia palered-brown. Underside golden yellow ;

fore wing with the costa and apical area irrorated with brown,

brown subterminal bars from costa and imner margin; hind wing

irrorated with red-brown, traces of a curved postmedial line from

costa to vein 2, the terminal shade faint.

Ab. 1. aurantiaca. Hind wing orange-red.—Pontus.

Ab. 2. fumata. Both wings thickly irrorated with fuscous ob-

scuring the markings.

Hab. Austria, Zeller and Leech Colls.; Huneary, Frey and

Leech Colls.; Bankan Sratres; 8. Russta; ARMENIA; ASIA

Minor, Pontus; W. TurKxestan, Chwalynsk (Christoph), 1 3,

Ala Tau; W. Srpprta, Altai; E. Siperta. Hep. 28-32 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 278; Hffm, Raup. p. 145, pl. 36. f. 22.

Pale rusty yellow dotted with brownish, each somite with four

black warts, two pairs of ventral prolegs. Food-plant : Astragalus

onobrychis.

7825. Gonospileia munita.

Noctua munita, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 593 (1818); Staud. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 241.

Euchidia angulosa, Kv. Nouy. Mém. Mose. ii. p. 353, pl. 19. f. 7 (1832).

Euclidia immunita, Mill. Icones, ii. p. 406, pl. $2. f. 11 (1867).

Head and thorax pale rufous; antennee with the shaft white

above towards base; abdomen fulvous yellow. Fore wing pale

rufous with slight dark irroration ; a triangular chocolate-brown

patch defined by white from just below costa before middle to

above middle of inner margin, its lower outer angle produced to a

point ; the outer part of medial area bright rufous except towards

costa, deeper towards the postmedial line where it is produced to an

acute angle beyond the cell; postmedial line black defined on outer

side by white, faintly towards costa, obliquely incurved below

GONOSPILEIA.—MEGISTOCLISMA. 55

vein 6 and excurved below vein 3, the area beyond it yellowish

below vein 6, where it is joined by some yellowish from apex.

Hind wing yellow tinged with rufous ; a brown subterminal shade

excurved at discal fold and ending at tornus; the termen and cilia

rufous. Underside of both wings yellow suffused with rufous.

Fig. 13.—Gonospileta munita, G. }.

Ab. 1. tmmunita. Fore wing with the markings almost obso-

lete, without the triangular chocolate-brown patch before the

antemedial line or the chocolate-brown before the postmedial line.

Ab. 2. Similar but both wings grey-brown tinged with red-

brown.

Ab. 3. Wings grey-brown without red-brown tinge; fore wing

with the black markings present.

Hab. Russta, Sarepta, Zeller, Frey, D’Emmich, Leech and

Crowley Colls.; ARMENIA; W. TuRKESTAN, Transcaspia, Buchara,

Ferghana; E. Turkestan, Ili. ZHwvp. 32-40 millim.

Genus MEGISTOCLISMA, nov.

Type, M. ribbei.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned,

reaching to above vertex of head and fringed with hair in front and behind,

the 3rd porrect, long, slender, and somewhat dilated at extremity; frons

smooth, with slight tuft of hair above; eyes large, round ; antenne of male

minutely ciliated; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, and without

crests; fore tibiz and Ist joint of tarsus of male fringed with long hair, the

mid and hind tibiz smoothly scaled, the fore and hind tibiz not spined;

abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the costa

highly arched towards apex which is rounded, the termen evenly curved and

strongly crenulate; vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from just above

angle; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the

areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen highly crenulate; the cell

about one-third length of wing; vein 3 from just before angle; 4, 5 from

angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only ;

the costal area in male sparsely clothed with very long fine hair on upperside.

56 NOCTUID®.

7826. Megistoclisma ribbei.

Nyctipao ribbei, Pag. J.B. Nass. Ver. xxxix. p. 140, pl. x. f. 2 (1886).

@. Head ochreous mixed with red-brown; tegule ochreous at

base, red-brown at tips; thorax grey-brown with a blackish line

behind the tegule; pectus and legs yellow, the fore legs suffused

with red-brown in front; abdomen yellow with a black-brown band

at base of dorsum and the two following segments suffused with

grey-brown. Fore wing with the costal area grey-brown from

inner margin near base to the postmedial line with some black

Fig. 14.—Megistoclisma ribbei, Q. 3.

suffusion along its very irregular lower edge and before the post-

medial line, the inner area to the subterminal line and the apical

area ochreous tinged with red-brown, the terminal area below vein 6

grey-brown with some dark strize and patches of blackish suffusion ;

a curved subbasal black striga from costa defined on outer side by

greyish and a black striga below the cell; a curved antemedial

black striga from costa defined on inner side by greyish; antemedial

line double, the inner line dark, the outer faint, arising at submedian

fold from a tooth from the lower edge of costal area, sinuous to

inner margin to which it is slightly bent outwards; a yellow line

on outer edge of the tooth and along lower edge of the costal area

MEGISTOCLISMA. 57

to a large semicircular black-brown discoidal spot which it defines

except above; a rufous fascia beyond the cell below vein 6 to the

subterminal line where it ends in a point, defined above by a slight

pale streak on vein 6 with a semicircular grey spot above it at

middle ; postmedial line double, brown filled in with ochreous,

arising from costa towards apex, incurved between veins 8 and 6,

interrupted at the rufous fascia, then oblique and waved to vein 1,

with deeper excision between veins 3 and 2, at vein 1 retracted

upwards with an inward curve to the outer edge of the discoidal

spot where it terminates, its sinus below the rufous fascia filled in

with chocolate-brown ; subterminal line indistinetly double, brown

filled in with yellow, arising below vein 6 and at submedian fold

bent outwards to inner margin towards tornus, some blackish brown

suffusion beyond its upper extremity and at middle and before and

beyond it towards inner margin; a lunulate black-brown line before

termen from the apical area to above tornus ; a double chocolate-

brown terminal line. Hind wing pale grey-brown striated with

red-brown, the terminal area fuscous brown except at tornus, on

costa extending to middle; a large white medial patch from costa

to vein 3, with a band from its lower extremity before a slightly

sinuous dark brown postmedial line, with a faint line before it on

the white band; a waved ochreous subterminal line from discal

fold to inner margin to which it is bent outwards with black spots

on its inner side at veins 5 to 2 and a blackish bar on inner area ;

some white on apical part of termen with an indistinct waved

brown line before termen from it to inner margin followed by a

fine waved yellow terminal line with black-brown suffusion before it.

Underside of fore wing with the basal area and costal area to

the postmedial band yellow, the rest of wing fuscous with white

patches on apical area and on termen above tornus; a yellow

discoidal annulus filled in with black with a blue-white point in

centre, a white postmedial band interrupted by slight dark streaks

on the veins, oblique to discal fold, then slightly incurved, a series

of blackish strize before termen double and filled in with some white

on the dark area; hind wing with the basal and inner areas yellow,

the rest of the wing fuscous with white patches at apex and on

termen towards tornus, a round black discoidal spot with white

point in centre and slight yellow mark towards outer edge, an

obliquely excurved white medial band interrupted by shght dark

streaks on the veins, its inner edge defined by a narrow dark band

with dentate outer edge.

3. Fore wing with the inner medial and postmedial areas more

red-brown, the apical area yellower; hind wing without white patch

on medial costal area or at apex, the postmedial line distinctly double,

the underside with the postmedial band narrower and bluer, the

white marks on termen much reduced except at apex of fore

wing.

Hab. Aru Is.; Dutcu N. Guinea (Burke), 1 2, Octakwa R.

(Meek), 3 in Coll. Rothschild; Br. N. Guryea, Albert Edward

Range (Roker), 19. Exp. 116-120 millim.

58 NOCTUIDS.

Genus HYPASTRA.

Type.

Hypetra, Guen. Nect, iis p: 209) (S52) oe nena.qearacieeisea net steneae ities

Alpandoa, Wiss Satin, NINO (AUSIS)) concesnoaccosoonacodoocnaceobonsanendd000d discolor.

Pseudathyrma, Butl. A. M. N. H. (6) x. p. 299 (1892) ............ complens.

Pterocheta, Holl. Nov. Zool. vii. p. 568 (1900) ............ccseceeee stigmata.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and broadly scaled, the 8rd long; frons smooth, with tuft of hair

above ; eyes large, round; antennzof male typically minutely ciliated ; thorax

clothed with hair and scales and without crests; fore tibiz broadly fringed

with hair, the mid and hind tibiz slightly fringed with hair, the fore and hind

tibiz not spined; abdomen with ridges of hair and hairy crests on basal

segments. 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 the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from

angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle;

8 anastowosing with the cell near base only.

Secr. I. (Pseudathyrma.) Antenne of male with serrations ending in a bristle ;

fore wing with the subcostal nervure curved downwards, with a large

patch of androconia edged by rough scales above it on underside, the

subcostal neuration distorted; hind wing with an elliptical patch of

androconia on underside below extremity of vein 6.

A. Fore wing of male with the terminal area ochreous tinged

with brown; hind wing with whitish patch at middle of

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B. Fore wing with the terminal area brown suffused with

purplish grey; hind wing without whitish patch at

middle of terminal area.

a. Fore wing without distinct oblique pale medial band ... complens.

b. Fore wing with distinct oblique pale medial band ...... stigmata,

7827. Hypextra macrostidsa, n. sp. (Plate CCXXIIL. fig. 4.)

o. Head and thorax brown mixed with ochreous; antennz

brown; palpi creamy white suffused with black-brown at sides ;

lower part of frons white, black at sides; pectus and legs ochreous

white mixed with brown, the tarsi blackish rmged with white ;

abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface ochreous white, irrorated

with brown towards extremity. Fore wing grey-brown largely

suffused with black-brown, the terminal area except at costa ochreous

suffused with red-brown; subbasal line represented by small black

spots on costa and median nervure; antemedial line double, black

filled in with black-brown, oblique, the lines separating below

submedian fold and forming a lobe on inner side and hook on outer

above inner margin, defined on outer side by ochreous white below

median nervure; the medial area red-brown with the depressed area

pale with grey-brown and two blackish patches on costa; reniform

obscurely defined by black, very narrow and forming a somewhat

bilobate mark beyond lower angle of cell, an obliquely curved waved

black line from it to inner margin; an oblique waved black line

from below costa joining the upper extremity of the reniform ;

postmedial line very indistinct, double, oblique, defining the dark

area, a dark brown patch before it beyond the reniform ; some

HYPETRA. 59

ochreous white points on apical part of costa; subterminal line

with two small black marks below costa, then slight and dentate ;

a fine crenulate black terminal line. Hind wing reddish brown,

the terminal area with an ochreous patch irrorated with red-brown

between discal fold and vein 1; postmedial line represented by

double blackish bars between vein 3 and submedian fold and a small

black spot on vein 1; a slight waved brown subterminal line on the

pale patch and a series of minute blackish lunules on medial part of

termen ; cilia white towards apex and above vein 1; the underside

pale grey-brown, a small whitish discoidal spot defined by brown

and shght curved postmedial line with small blackish spots on it.

@. Fore wing much more uniform grey-brown, the terminal

area not paler, the medial area red-brown with oblique dark line

from costa to the reniform and black spot on costa above end of

cell, the postmedial area with some red-brown suffusion at middle 2

hind wing without the pale patch on termen.

Hab. Durcw N. Guiyza, Kapaur (Doherty), 9 3,42 type.

Exp. 3 36-38, 9 40-44 millim.

7828. Hypztra complens.

Hypeira complens, Wik. xiv. 1415 (1858) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 909.

Cropia glaucofascia, Wik. xy. 1804 (1858).

Cropia onerata, W\k. Journ, Linn. Soc., Zool, vii. p. 166 (1864).

flypetra ruinosa, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 159 (1905).

3. Head and thorax dark brown with a slight purplish grey

tinge, the base of tegule ochreous ; palpi white suffused with black

Fig. 15.— Hypetra complens, 3. 4.

at sides; lower part of frons white, black at sides ; pectus white ;

legs banded black and white; abdomen grey-brown, the base and

anal tuft reddish brown, the ventral surface creamy white at base.

Fore wing reddish brown, irrorated and in parts suffused with dark

60 NOCLUID&.

brown, the terminal area suffused with purple-grey ; an oblique

waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial

line double, black, oblique, minutely waved, the lines separating

below submedian fold and forming a lobe on inner side and a hook

on outer just above inner margin; a black point in middle of cell ;

reniform indistinctly defined by black, narrow, its lower extremity

forming a bilobate mark beyond lower angle of cell; medial line

indistinctly double, oblique and diffused to the reniform, waved

below the cell; a semicircular pale brown patch on costal area

beyond the medial line enclosing a black-brown patch on costa, its

outer edge defined by a black line connected with the upper edge

of the reniform ; postmedial line indistinct, double, oblique, minutely

waved, a dark brown patch before it beyond the renitorm ; apical

part of costa with alternating black and ochreous sivoales > a very

faint pale subterminal line, slightly waved and defined on outer

side by black marks Eowmantle costa; a crenulate black terminal line

with series of ochreous points beyond it on the termen. Hind

wing greyish brown ; postmedial line represented by a double black

bar filled in with reddish brown from vein 3 to submedian fold and

black and reddish striga at vein 1 ; a waved black line on middle of

termen ; cilia white towards apex and above vein 1; the underside

brownish grey ; a small ochreous discoidal spot defined by brown

and small postmedial spots in discal fold and below vein 2.

@. Fore wing with the patch on costa beyond the medial line

less distinct and irregular, the dark spot on it nearer its inner edge ;

underside of hind wing browner with faint curved waved postmedial

line.

Hab. Assam, Silhet, 1 ¢ ; ANDAMaNs, 1 29; SINGAPORE

(Ridley),6 3,4 2 type ruinosa; Sumatra (Sir S. Raffles), 1 3,

1 Q type and type glaucofascia ; Bornéo, Kuching (Shelford),

292. Hep. 36-50 millim.

7829. Hypetra stigmata. (Plate CCXXIIL fig. 5.)

Hypetra stigmata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1877, p. 610; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii.

p. 509.

Pterocheta dohertyi, Holl. Nov. Zool. vii. p. 568 (1900).

3. Head and thorax dark reddish brown with a faint purplish

grey gloss; tegule with some white at base; palpi white suffused

with black at sides ; ; lower part of frons white, black at sides ;

pectus white; legs banded black and white ; abdomen reddish

brown, the ventral surface white suffused aati brown towards

extremity. Fore wing reddish brown suffused in parts with black-

brown and glossed with purple-grey; an oblique waved black

subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double,

black filled in with dark brown, oblique, the two lines separating

below submedian fold and forming a lobe on inner side and hook on

outer just above inner margin, an oblique ochreous band beyond it

suffused with red-brown on outer side ; a black point in middle of

cell; reniform indistinctly defined by black, narrow, its lower

HYPRTRA. 61

extremity forming a somewhat bilobate mark beyond lower angle

of cell; an obliquely curved sinuous black medial line; a black-

brown spot defined by greyish on costa above end of cell and a

small ochreous spot below its outer edge with a sinuous black line

beyond it connected with the upper extremity of the reniform :

postmedial line indistinctly double, brown, oblique ; some ochreous

points on postmedial part of costa; subterminal line indistinct,

black-brown, waved to vein 4, then incurved; a crenulate black

terminal line with series of rufous points beyond it. Hind wine

reddish brown ; postmedial line represented by a double black bar

filled in with red-brown from vein 3 to submedian fold and black

and reddish striga at vein 1, some dark brown and blue-grey

suffusion beyond them ; a waved blackish line at middle of termen ;

cilia white towards apex and above vein 1; the underside ochreous

suffused and irrorated with red-brown, an ochreous discoidal spot

defined by brown, traces of a curved postmedial line with dark spots

at costa, discal fold, and below vein 2.

@. Fore wing with the band beyond the antemedial line redder

brown, the spot on costa above end of cell smaller without ochreous

spot below it, the postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then

oblique.

Hab. Anpvamaws, 1 ¢; Burv, typet+ og dohertyi in Coll.

Holland ; Soromons, Choiseul (Meek),2 3,19. Exp. 3 42,

Secr. II. Antenne of male ciliated.

A. Mid tibiz of male dilated with a fold containing a tuft of long hair.

7830. Hypetra ethiopica, n. sp.

Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey and some pale

rufous; antennz blackish; palpi black-brown slightly irrorated

with grey, pale at tips; legs blackish irrorated with grey, the

extremities of the tibize and the tarsi ochreous ringed with black ;

abdomen fuscous brown, the ventral surface with white bars on

terminal segments, lateral series of white points. Fore wing grey-

brown suffused in parts with black-brown and with slight dark

irroration, the terminal area paler; a waved black subbasal line

from costa to vein 1 defined on inner side by ochreous brown ;

antemedial line black, waved, oblique to submedian fold, then bent

inwards to inner margin, some black suffusion before it on inner

area, defined on outer side by ochreous brown, broadly at costa and

extending in the cell to its extremity ; two indistinct waved dark

medial lines, oblique to end of cell, then inwardly oblique ; post-

medial line black, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and

rather irregularly waved, a dark brown band beyond it; the post-

medial part of costa with alternating ochreous and black marks ;

subterminal line slight, dark defined on inner side -by ochreous,

minutely dentate, slightly incurved below costa and with two small

black marks on it towards costa with ochreous marks beyond

62 NOCTUID ®.

them; a crenulate blackish terminal line with ochreous points

beyond it in the interspaces ; cilia black-brown. Hind wing fuscous

brown ; two slight blackish marks on vein 1 towards its extremity

Fig. 16.—Hypetra ethiopica, §. }.

- with an oblique whitish bar beyond them ; cilia with a punctiform

whitish line at base; the underside with small whitish discoidal

spot and dark postmedial line from costa to submedian fold.

Hab. Goud Coast, Bibianaha (Spurrell), 1 9 ; 8. Nr@erta,

Tlesha (Humfrey), 1 3 type; Ueanna, Entebbe (Minchin),

LQ. wp. 42-46 millim.

B. (Hypetra.) Mid tibieze of male not dilated.

a. Fore wing with quadrate black-brown patch beyond

the cell forming a hook on inner side below............ novaguineana.

6. Fore wing with lunulate dark patch beyond the cell,

sometimes obsolete, and without subbasal and ante-

medial black bars from costa ..............seeeceeeeeeen ees discolor,

c. Fore wing with subbasal and antemedial black bars

from costa, and without dark patch beyond the cell.. noctwoides.

7831. Hypetra novaguineana. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 6.)

Hypetra novaguineana, Beth.-Baker, Noy. Zool. xiii. p. 262 (1906).

Head and thorax bright red-brown; palpi pale at tips; pectus,

legs, and abdomen greyish brown. Fore wing bright red-brown

with some grey irroration on basal and medial parts of costa and

on postmedial area; a quadrate antemedial velvety black patch in

submedian interspace defined at sides by yellow lines; a black

point in middle of cell; a velvety black discoidal patch defined at

sides by yellow lines, extending to well below the cell where it

forms a hook on inner side; traces of a dark postmedial line,

sinuous to vein 4, then incurved, the grey irroration forming slight

streaks beyond it on the veins; an indistinct sinuous dark sub-

HYPATRA. 63

terminal line, excurved below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing

dark fuscous brown, the cilia whitish at tips towards apex and in

submedian interspace.

Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing paler and more ochreous.

Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), 1 3, 4 2, Mt. Kebea

ee 33,32. Hxp. 44-54 millim. Type in Coll. Bethune-

aker.

7832. Hypztra discolor.

Noctua discolor, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii, (2) p. 50 (1794).

Avatha includens, Wik. xiii. 1107 (1857) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 172,

pl. 170. f. 6; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 507.

Hypetra trigonifera, Wik. xiv. 1411 (1858).

Hypetra curvifera, Wik. xiv. 1412 (1858); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 174,

pl. 170. f. 4; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 507.

Hypetra complacens, Wik. xiv. 1414 (1858).

Ophiusa frontalis, W\k. xiv. 1434 (1858).

Achea expectans, Wik. xv. 1827 (1858).

Head and thorax reddish brown ; antennz blackish; palpi and

sides of frons deep chocolate-brown; pectus and legs grey-brown,

the spurs and tarsi with pale rings; abdomen grey-brown, the

ventral surface whitish. Fore wing purplish grey-brown faintly

irrorated and striated with brown; a small tuft of white-tipped

scales below base of cell; subbasal line black-brown, curved, from

costa to median nervure; a deep chocolate- brown antemedial

lunulate spot in submedian interspace slightly defined at sides by

yellowish scales, with a red-brown band from it to costa, where

there is a pale oblique striga with some dark brown beyond it;

medial area pale greyish ochreous irrorated with red-brown ; a black

point in middle of cell; medial line red-brown, slight, excurved

and sinuous to discal fold, then incurved; postmedial line black-

brown, sinuous towards costa, incurved at discal fold to the disco-

cellulars where there is a chocolate-brown spot on its outer side

defined on inner side by yellow scales, beyond lower angle of cell

produced to a small oblique loop, excurved below submedian fold,

some pale points beyond it on costa; a slight crenulate dark

terminal line. Hind wing grey-brown, the cilia white intersected

with brown towards apex and white above vein 2; the underside

grey-brown, the inner area whitish, a slight whitish discoidal

lunule and rather diffused curved dark postmedial line from costa

to submedian fold.

Ab. 1. Fore wing without the dark antemedial lunulate spot.

Ab. 2. Fore wing without the pale medial band, the antemedial

spot present.

Ab. 3. trigonifera. Similar to ab. 2 but fore wing red-brown.

Ab. 4. Fore wing with blackish suffusion before the antemedial

and beyond the postmedial lines, the medial area reddish brown,

the antemedial spot absent.—N. Guinea.

Ab. 5. Similar to ab. 4 but fore wing with the basal and terminal

areas suffused with silvery grey —N. Guinea.

64: NOCTUID &.

Ab. 6. expectans. Fore wing grey-brown striated with red-brown,

the medial area suffused with dark brown, the antemedial spot

absent. 5;

Ab. 7. frontalis. Fore wing grey-brown or reddish brown, the

ante- and postmedial lines absent or obsolescent and the antemedial

spot absent, a brown patch on costa confluent with the postmedial

spot.

Ab. 8. curvifera. Fore wing entirely suffused with deep choco-

late-brown, the lines pale and indistinct, the ante- and postmedial

spots absent.

Ab. 9. Fore wing grey-brown, the medial area red-brown, the

lines indistinct, the spots absent.—Thursday I.

Hab. “Inpta,” 1 S$ type curvifera; Manpras, Nilgiris

(Hampson), 2 2 ; TravancorE, Pirmad (M/s. Imray), 1 @ ;

Cryton (Templeton),5 3,7 Y% types trigonifera, curvifera, and

expectans, Colombo (Nietner, Meade-Waldo),2 2 type complacens,

Kandy (Green, Meade-Waldo),2 3,1 2, Trincomali ( Yerbury),

389; Java (Horsfield, Miller), 1 6,192, Arjano (Doherty),

12; Dutcn N. Guinea, Kapaur (Doherty), 1 9; Br. N:

Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), 6 6, 5 2, Port Moresby, 1 5, Milne

Bay (Meek), 1 2 ; QuerNstanp, Thursday I. (Mathew), 1 ¢ ;

Coox’s Is., Rarotonga (J. J. Walker), 1 3 ; Society Is., Tahiti

(J. J. Walker), 1 9, Eimeol. (J. J. Walker), 13. Hap. 34—

50 millim.

Larva. Semper, Reise Phil. Schmett. ii. p. 562, pl. 8. ff. 14, 15.

Grey ; 1st somite with pair of dorsal black spots, the 83rd to 6th

and 11th somites with dorsal black bars, the 11th with dorsal hump ;

abdominal somites with the dorsal area yellowish, the incisures

with black lines, the lateral area with shght black streaks and

more prominent streaks above the stigmata which are ringed with

red-brown, the 12th somite with red-brown lateral streak and black

sublateral streak; head red-brown; the anterior pair of claspers

aborted and small. Food-plant, Ca/licarpa mesa. 7.

7833. Hypetra noctuoides.

Hypetra noctuoides, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 259 (1852); Hmpsn. Moths Ind.

il. p. OU7.

Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown; palpi chocolate-

brown, except the 3rd joint; tarsi with pale rings; ventral surface

of abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing reddish brown tinged

with grey and with slight dark irroration; an oblique black sub-

basal bar from costa, its lower extremity produced to a slight hook

on outer side; an inwardly oblque small wedge-shaped deep

chocolate-brown antemedial spot from costa and large lunulate spot

in submedian interspace slightly edged at sides by pale scales;

faint traces of a curved dark medial line; reniform a bluish grey

spot slightly defined by black scales, extending to below the cell

and rather concave on inner side ; faint traces of a dark postmedial

line slightly excurved below the costa and closely approximated to

HYP ®TRA.—CENURGTIA. 65

the reniform ; an indistinct waved dark subterminal line, excurved

below vein 7 and at middle; a faint crenulate dark terminal line.

Hind wing grey-brown with a reddish tinge ; a fine pale line at

base of cilia; the underside pale reddish brown with a slicht whitish

discoidal striga. i

Fig. 17.—ypetra noctuoides, §. 3.

Hab. “ N. Ixpta” (James), 2 2 ; Assam, Silhet (Stainsforth),

13,12; Burma, Moulmein (Clerk), 1 $, Rangoon (Noble),

1 §; N. Borneo, 1 9; Java (Horsfield), 2 5,1 2 type. Eup.

40-42 millim.

Genus CH NURGIA.

Type.

Ceopimmpgiids, Ni. wale WEIL (LUSIIS)) acoopnecocnnenedeononocosno0noeencen Pre

Litosea, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 49 (1875) ...............ccccee ee convalescens.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching

to about vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 8rd moderate; frons

smooth, with slight tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antenn of male

typically bipectinate; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without

crests; build slender; tibise smoothly scaled, all the tibix spined ; abdomen

smoothly scaled and without crests, Force wing rather long and narrow, the

apex rounded, the termen obliquely 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 fromcell. Hind wing with the cell about half the length

of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from above angle; 6, 7

from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

Scr. I. Antenne of male bipectinate with moderate branches to apex.

A. Fore wing with the postmedial line angled outwards at

submedian fold, then retracted and bent upwards to the

TREIMIUKOTATM Aa gpanoa sdqbocD de adeandan os auadusCosasse ae ononeconeE maracas. Sortalitium.

B. Fore wing with the postmedial line bent inwards to the

IRETOMIOMUN Gb (BIN GB), Soodnodopooncobca9o0000es08000bospocnoobseonsenE runica,

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66 NOCTUID.

7834. Cenurgia fortalitium.

Noctua fortalitium, Tausch. Mém. Mose. 1809, p. 323, pl. 20. f.7; Staud.

Cat. Lep. pal. p. 241.

Noctua fortatilium, Hibn. Bur. Schmett., Noct. f. 592 (1818) ; Dup. Lép.

Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 523, pl. 44. f. 5; Frr. Neue Beitr. pl. 399. ff. 3, 4.

$. Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; abdomen grey

irrorated with black-brown. Fore wing pale grey irrorated with

dark brown; an oblique wedge-shaped brown patch from the cell,

where it extends from near base to near extremity, to just above

middle of vein 1, edged by black and defined by white except

above, its outer edge angled inwards at submedian fold; a wedge-

shaped brown patch in end of cell with a black spot in lower angle,

followed by the oblique whitish medial band ; a brown postmedial

band from below costa to submedian fold, edged by black and

defined by white except above, its inner edge oblique, its outer edge

excurved above, then incurved and angled outwards at submedian

fold to near the subterminal line, which is white and strong, defined

—

Fig. 18.-—Cenurgia fortalitium, 3.

on inner side by brown suffusion at costa and blackish spots above

and below veins 7 and 9, defined on outer side by dark brown

except towards tornus; a fine dark terminal line; cilia with

two brown lines through them. Hind wing ochreous whitish

suffused and irrorated with brown ; a narrow ochmenns whitish post-

medial band, angled inwards beyond lower angle of cell and bent

inwards to inner margin; an ochreous white subterminal line; the

underside grey-white irrorated with brown, faint postmedial and

subterminal dark shades except on imner area.

Hab. Russta, Urals, 1 5; W. Siperta, Altai; EH. Turxesran,

Thian Shin Mts. Hap. 34 millim.

CENURGIA. 67

7835. Cenurgia runica.

Euclidia runica, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 117. f. 11 (1874).

Euclidia tehuelcha, Berg. Bult. Soc. Mosc. xlix. iy. p- 221 (1875).

moe magalhaensi, Staud. Hamburgh Magalhaens, iv. p. 79, pl. f. 8.

(1898).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish tinged with brown;

antennze with the branches black. Fore wing pale erey suffused

and irrorated with brown ; antemedial line whitish defined on outer

side by dark brown, very oblique from costa to middle of vein 1

where it is Joined by the whitish postmedial line defined on inner

side by dark brown, which is excurved below below vein 7 and at

vein 3 bent inwards to below end of cell, then sinuous to the ante-

medial line at vein 1; a minute brown spot in middle of cell; reni-

form faintly defined by brown and with brown striga in centre ; the

postmedial area rather browner to the strong somewhat oblique

whitish subterminal line defined on outer side by brown. Hind

wing whitish tmged with brown; an oblique brown postmedial

line; a brown subterminal band rather diffused on inner side and

excurved at vein 6; the underside whitish slightly irrorated with

brown, the postmedial and subterminal lines faint and diffused.

2. Pectus and abdomen fulvous yellow irrorated with brown ;

fore wing strongly suffused and irrorated with red-brown, the

area between the ante- and postmedial lines below the cell dark

brown, the subterminal line tinged with yellow, a waved brown ter-

minal line, cilia with fulvous yellow mixed; hind wing fulvous

yellow, the postmedial line and subterminal band darker, a brown

terminal line, cilia with brown mixed.

Hab. Cunt (Sadler), 1 3,12, Mulchen (Hlwes), 25,39,

Araucania (B. Calvert), 1 3, 8392 ; Paraconta, Chubut, Lago

Blanco, 53,12, Straits of Magellan (J. J. Walker), 22, Sandy

Point (J. J. Walker), 12; Trmrra DEL Funco. Hap. 34-44

millim.

Secr. II. Antenne of male bipectinate with short branches, the apex ciliated,

A. Fore wing with the postmedial line retracted at sub-

median fold to lower angle of cell.

a. Hind wing of male whitish tinged with brown, of

female with the basal and inner areas suffused with

IDIPOWIN 09 cocenococoqon0sbag0dacescoousH pon odoseg0cUGDGDOGCaENABOAE convalescens,

b. Hind wing of male white, of female ochreous yellow... adusta.

B. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique to inner é

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7836. Cenurgia convalescens.

Drasteria convalescens, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 289, pl. 22. f. 9 (1852); Smith,

Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 318.

Cenurgia purgata, W\k. xiv. 1492 (1858),

Cenurgia socors, Wik. xiv. 1492 (1858).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white suffused with brown,

the abdomen somewhat paler. Fore wing grey suffused and

68 NOCTUID&.

irrorated with brown; antemedial line brown faintly defined on

inner side by whitish, oblique to submedian fold, then erect and

slightly sinuous ; a small brown spot in middle of cell; reniform

faintly defined by brown, slightly angled mwards on median

nervure ; postmedial line brown faintly defined on outer side by

whitish, slightly excurved at vein 7, then slightly waved, at vein 2

retracted to lower angle of cell and at submedian fold again

excurved, some brown suffusion on its outer side at discal fold; a

faint pale subterminal line defined on outer side by blackish points.

Hind wing whitish tinged with brown; a diffused slightly smuous

brown postmedial line; a narrow diffused brown subterminal band;

a brown terminal line; the underside tinged with red-brown, a faint

Fig. 19.—- Cenurgia convalescens, G. 4.

brown discoidal spot, the postmedial line curved and ending at

vein 2, a brownish subterminal shade from costa to vein 8.

2. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing more strongly suffused

with brown, the last with the ante- and postmedial limes very

indistinct; hind wing with the basal and inner areas strongly

suffused with brown.

Hab. Canava, Renfrew Co. (Grote), 12, Br. Columbia, New

Westminster (Durrant), 192; U.S.A., New York, 3 g, 29,

Georgia, 1 $, Florida (Doubleday), 3 3 types purgata and secors,

Centr. States. Hap. 36-46 millim.

7837. Cenurgia adusta. (Plate CCX XIII. fig. 7.)

Poaphila adusta, Wk. xxxiii. 988 (1865).

? Drasteria convalescens, Hery.-Schaff. Corresp.-blatt. zool.-min. Ver.

Regensb. xxiii. p. 155 (1869).

@. Head and thorax pale rufous; abdomen yellowish white

slightly irrorated with rufous, the ventral surface suffused with

rufous. Fore wing bright rufous irrorated with grey; antemedial

line rufous, curved ; medial line rufous, oblique to middle of cell,

then erect and waved; reniform slightly defined by rufous; post-

CENURGIA. 69

medial line rufous defined on outer side by whitish, oblique to

vein 6, then erect and slightly waved to submedian fold, then

indistinct and retracted to lower angle of cell and again excurved at

submedian fold, a black mark beyond it between veins 6 and 4;

subterminal line whitish, slightly waved, defined on outer side by a

series of black points; a waved rufous terminal line. Hind wing

whitish suffused with ochreous and irrorated with brown ; a diffused

dark postmedial line; a fuscous subterminal band diffused on inner

side and defined on outer side by whitish; a waved red-brown

terminal line; cilia rufous; the underside suffused and irrorated with

rufous, a dark discoidal spot, slight postmedial line, and subterminal

band slightly excurved at middle.

3. Head, thorax, and fore wing grey tinged with brown and

irorated with fuscous, the last with slight dark mark beyond the

postmedial line at discal fold; hind wing white faintly tinged with

brown, the postmedial line and subterminal band much reduced.

Hab. Honpuras (Dyson), 13; ? Cupa; Harrt (Tweedie), 19

type. Hap. 34 milli.

7838. Cenurgia togataria. (Plate CCXXIIL. fig. 8.)

Anaitis togataria, Wik. xxv. 1444 (1862).

Litosea adversa, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 49 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 318.

Cenurgia purgata, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 887 (nee W1k.).

3. Head and thorax pale grey suffused with brown; abdomen

white slightly tinged with brown. Fore wing pale grey tinged

with brown and irrorated with dark brown; antemedial line very

indistinct, brownish, oblique, sinuous ; a blackish point in middle

of cell; reniform faintly defined by brown and slightly angled

inwards at median nervure ; traces of an oblique brown line from

lower angle of cell to inner margin at the antemedial line; post-

medial line whitish faintly defined on each side by brown, oblique

below vein 7 ; a faint oblique pale subterminal line defined on outer

side by minute blackish points at the veins; a slight waved brown

terminal line. Hind wing white faintly tinged with brown; a

faint oblique diffused brownish postmedial line and faint white sub-

terminal line slightly defined on each side by brown; the underside

with the costal half irrorated with red-brown.

@. Fore wing browner; hind wing with the subterminal line

more distinctly defined on inner side by diffused brown except

towards apex and tornus.

Hab. U.S.A., California, 1 56, 2 2, type adversa, Palo Alto

(Barnes), 13, Sta. Barbara (D’ Urban) 23; Mexico, 1d, Oajaca

(Salle), 1 2 type, Orizaba (Hlwes, Godman), 13, 1 2, Jalapa

(Hoege),1 3, Milpas (Forrer), 13,192, Coatepee (Brooks),

23, Cuernavaca (H. H. Smith), 1 3, Durango (Becker), 2 3;

GUATEMALA, San Geronimo (Champion), 23,292; Costa Rica

(Van Patten), 1 2, Candelaria Mts. (Underwood), I gall Oe

Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 13, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp.

38-50 millim.

70 NOCTUID®.

Sect, LIT. Antenne of male ciliated.

A. Fore wing with triangular black-brown antemedial patch in

submedian interspace and two postmedial patches.

a. Fore wing with the lower extremity of the antemedial

triangular patch produced to belew the sinus of the

postmedial line above inner margin ..... .....-..-s1seeee-- intercalaris.

. Fore wing with the lower extremity of the aipenmecliel

triangular patch not produced to below the sinus of the

postmedial line above inner Margin ...........0eee.e.eeeees diagonalis.

~B. Fore wing without ante- and postmedial black-brown

patches.

a. Hind wing strongly suffused with brown to the post-

medial line.

a. Kore wing with the antemedial line bent outwards

above inner margin to join the postmedial line ...... crechtea.

b', Fore wing with the antemedial line extending to inner

margin and not bent outwards to join the postmedial

Tite: saselsdSitsanrearsaamtastsse clswigemitetoe sing seeaatee queers eee eee a meee erassiusculd.

. Hind wing cchreous white wilh some brown irr oyaltionn .. distineta.

7839. Cenurgia intercalaris. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 9.)

Luclidia intercalaris, Grote, Bull. Geog. Geol. Sury. Terr. vi. p. 563

(1882); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 319.

Euclidia dyari, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 214 (1805).

Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; antennz whitish ;

abdomen grey tinged with brown. Fore wing grey irrorated with

dark brown, the costal edge brown; a short black fascia above

inner margin before middle; an obliquely curved wedge-shaped

black patch shading to brown below median nervure, on which it

extends from before middle to the reniform, to above inner margin

beyond middle, defined by whitish except above; the cell except

towards base suffused with red-brown with a wedge-shaped black

streak in it before the reniform, which is oblique, grey with its

centre irrorated with brown; a white line from outer edge of reni-

form curving down to submedian fold, then upwards as the post-

medial line to costa towards which it is defined on inner side by

black ; an elongate black patch from the upper part of reniform to

the postmedial ‘line and a conical. black patch filing in the lower

part of its sinus, the area between them suffused wih red-brown

with whitish streaks on veins 4, 3; some red-brown sufifusion

beyond and below the postmedial line ; a double white subterminal

line with a black bar before it on costal area and black line from

vein 3 to inner margin; a waved black terminal line; cilia brown

at base, white at tips. Hind wing grey suffused with brown; a

brown postmedial line diffused on inner side and defined on outer

side by whitish; a curved brown subterminal shade diffused on

inner side; a blackish terminal line; cilia brown at base, whitish

at tips; the underside erey-white tinged and irrorated with brown.

Hab. U.S.A., New Mexico, 1 2 type, Arizona, Tucson (Oslar),

1 $, Oracle (Oslar), il @, Phoenix Co., Sta. Catalina Wlhsh Ike

Exp. 34 millim.

CENURGIA. fll

7840. Cenurgia diagonalis. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 10.)

Euclidia diagonalis, Dyar, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 41 (1898); id. Cat. Lep.

N. Am. p. 221.

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with brown; antenne

whitish. Fore wing grey irrorated with brown; a short black

fascia above inner margin before middle; a triangular antemedial

black patch defined by white in submedian interspace; median

nervure streaked with white; a slight wedge-shaped black streak in

~cell before the reniform, which is red-brown with faint pale annulus,

elliptical; a white line from lower angle of cell curving down to

submedian fold, then upwards as the postmedial line to costa, towards

which it is defined on inner side by black; an elongate black patch

from the upper part of reniform to the postmedial line and a conical

black patch filling in the lower part of its sinus, veins 4, 3 between

them streaked with white; some red-brown suffusion beyond the

postmedial line, then running upwards to the cell before its sinus ;

subterminal line double, white, defined on inner side by two black

spots below costa, then by some black scales and two spots between

veins 38 and 1; the terminal area tinged with brown except at

apex; a waved black terminal line; cilia brown at base, white at

tips. Hind wing grey suffused with brown and irrorated with

blackish; a sinuous white postmedial line excurved at submedian

fold ; a curved dark subterminal shade defined on outer side by

whitish except towards costa; a blackish terminal line; cilia brown

at base, white at tips, the underside whitish tinged and irorated

with brown, a sinuous brown postmedial shade and curved sub-

terminal shade.

Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, Tucson (Oslar), 1 g, Oracle (Oslar),

192. Kap. 28-32 millim.

7841. Cenurgia erechtea.

Phalena erechtea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 149, pl. 275. f. E (1782) ;

Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 316.

Poaphila patibilis, Wik. xiv. 14771 (1858).

Poaphila narrata, Wik. xiv. 1474 (1838).

Drasteria agricola, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am, Ent. Soe. i. p. 189, pl. iv.

f. 34 (1868).

Drasteria mundula, Grote & Rob. Trans. Ain, Ent. Soe. i. p. 191, pl. iv.

f. 35 (1868).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish mixed with brown ;

antenne ringed with white; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of

abdomen whitish mixed with brown. Fore wing purplish grey

ivrorated with brown; a slight oblique subbasal brown striga from

costa; antemedial line dark defined on inner side by whitish and on

outer side by diffused chocolate-brown, oblique and sinuous from

costa to above middle of inner margin where it is met by two faint

sinuous lines from median nervure before end of cell; a black point

in middle of cell; reniform faintly defined by brown ; a chocolate-

brown postmedial band from costa to submedian nervure, attenuated

72 NOCTUID.!.

above and below and diffused inwards on costa to aboye the reni-

form, defined on outer side by the very faint slightly sinuous post-

medial line, which is somewhat oblique to vein 7; a subterminal

dark shade from costa to below vein 7, diffused on inner side and

waved on outer, followed by a series of blackish points on the veins;

the termen suffused with reddish brown from apex to submedian

fold; a waved brown terminal line. Hind wing grey suffused with

brown ; a brown postmedial line defined on outer side by whitish

-and excurved at submedian fold; a brown subterminal shade and

terminal line; cilia whitish tinged with brown at base ; the under-

side white tinged with rufous and irrorated with red-brown, a

sinuous brown postmedial line.

Fig. 20.—Cenurgia erechtea, S. }.

@. Fore wing suffused with red-brown, the markings very

indistinct, no chocolate-brown beyond the antemedial or before the

postmedial lines.

Hab. Canapa, Renfrew Co. (Grote), 2 ¢, 2 2, Toronto

(Prout), 1 3, Vancouver I. (J. J. Walker), 1 3,22; USA,

Massachusetts, Beverly (Burg), 1 2, New York (Doubleday, Fuchs,

Packard), 93,79, Garrison (Cockerell), 13,19, Texas, Dallas

(Boll), 1 2, Washington, 1g, Colorado, Durango (Osiar), 3 3,

1 9, California (Osten Sacken, Behrens), 3 3. Hap. 38-54

millim.

Egg. Greyish green with irregular grey-brown markings, the

apex with rounded facets, the sides coarsely ribbed,

Larva. Saunders, Can. Ent. i. p. 4 & vii. p. 116; French, Papilio, iv.

p. 149; Riley, 4th Rept. U.S. Ent. Comm. p, 352, pl, 62, f. 5.

Greyish yellow with two broad blackish somewhat interrupted

dorsal stripes. Food-plants: Grass, Clover, Cottonwood.

Pupa. Head and thorax dark brown ; abdomen pale brown with

the incisures darker, with slight purplish bloom, the extremity with

eight hooklets.

CHENURGTIA. 73

7842. Cenurgia crassiuscula. (Plate CCX XIII. fig. 11.)

Phytometra crasstuscula, Haw, Lep. Brit. p, 259 (1809); Steph, Ill, Brit.

Ent,, Haust, iii, p. 126; Wood, Index Ent. pl. 17, f, 486; Siaith, Cat,

Noct, N, Am. p. 317.

Drasteria erichto, Guen, Noct, iii. p, 290 (1852),

Microphysa sobria, Wik. xii. 885 (1857).

Drasteria ochrea, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc, Nat. Sci. i. p. 155 (1873).

Remigia impressa, Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 117 (1872); id. Lep. Exot.

pl. Ixi. f. 19.

Remigia latipes, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 388 (part.), nec Guen.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey mixed with

brown; antenne ringed with whitish; palpi, pectus, legs, and

ventral surface of abdomen whitish irrorated with brown. Fore

wing purplish grey irrorated with brown; subbasal line brown,

curved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line brown

defined on inner side by whitish and on outer side by diffused

chocolate-brown, oblique and sinuous from costa to above middle of

inner margin where it is met by two slight sinuous brown lines

from median nervure before end of cell; a small black spot in

middle of cell; reniform defined by brown, large; a chocolate-

brown postmedial band from below costa to submedian fold, its

edges slightly waved and its outer edge defined by the slight post-

medial line ; an oblique subterminal series of small dentate blackish

marks on the veins with some chocolate-brown at costa and larger

black spots at veins 8 and 7; the termen suffused with reddish

brown from apex to submedian fold; a waved brown terminal line.

Hind wing whitish tinged with grey-brown and slightly irrorated

with brown, the basal half more strongly tinged with brown; a

rather diffused brown postmedial line strongly incurved beyond

lower angle of cell, then excurved; a rather diffused dark brown

subterminal band, slightly execurved at discal fold and ending on

termen at vein 1; a dark brown terminal line; cilia whitish tinged

with brown; the underside whitish faintly tinged with rufous and

irrorated with brown except on inner area.

@. Fore wing with the antemedial line extending to mner

margin, oblique and nearly straight, not defined on inner side by

whitish and the chocolate-brown beyond it not diffused ; the inner

line from median nervure (medial line) erect and sinuous, the outer

line (part of the postmedial line) excurved below submedian fold,

reniform smaller, postmedial line with slight red-brown suffusion

before it beyond the cell, terminal area without red-brown

suffusion; hind wing with the basal half more strongly suffused

with brown, the underside with the inner area irrorated with

brown, a faint sinuous postmedial line.

Hab. Canapa, Hudson’s Bay, Albany R., St. Martin’s Falls

(Barnston), 42, Nova Scotia (Redman), 13, 32, Ottawa (Ms.

Nicholl), 1 2, Calgary (Wolley-Dod), 3 3, Vancouver I. (JS. oJ.

Walker), 13; U.S.A., 1 2 type sobria, Massachusetts, 1d, New

York (Packard), 33 ,3@, Trenton Falls (Doubleday), 16, lor

74: NOCTUID®.

Garrison (Cockerell), 1 5, N. Illinois, 2 dg, 2 9, Texas, Dallas

(Boll), 2 3,2 2, Colorado, Boulder (Cockerell), 1 3; Mexico,

Durango (Becker), 13, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Costa Rica, Cas-

tago (Van Patten), 1 3 type impressa. Evp. 34-44 millim.

7843. Cenurgia distincta. (Plate CCX XIII. fig. 12.)

Drasteria distincta, N: am. Papilio, iit. p. 143 (1883); S nith, Can. Ent.

XXX. p. 225, pl. v. H. 11, 12; 1d. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. dl7.

3d. Head and thorax pale grey mixed with brown; antenne

ringed with white towards base; palpi, pectus, legs, aml abdomen

erey-white slightly irrorated with brown. Fore. wing pale grey

irrorated ihe brown ; subbasal line brown, curved, from cost to

submedian fold ; antemedial line chocolate- brown, strong, obliquely

curved from costa to above middle of inner margin, alborre which it

is curved outwards and met by a sinuous medial line and two lines

from lower angle of cell execurved below submedian fold; a small

black spot in middle of cell; reniform defined by brown, large; a

reddish brown postmedial band from costa to submedian fold,

defined on outer side by the postmedial line, which is shghtly

excurved below the costa and vein 3; two subterminal black spots

below costa followed by a series of minute blackish spots on the

veins on a slight brownish shade; the costa towards apex and the

termen from apex to vein 2 suffused with brown; a waved brown

terminal line; cilia suffused with brown. Hind wing ochreous

white with some brown irroration, the basal and inner areas

browner; a somewhat diffused dark postmedial line from below

costa to (comm, incurved beyond lower angle of cell, then excurved ; a

dark brown arisgenmatnall band, shghtly oxcnnvell at discal fold and

ending on termen at vein i a ‘dank brown terminal line; cilia

erey, tinged with brown except towards tornus; the underside

grey-white irrorated with brown, a faint subterminal shade.

Q. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing rather darker, the

last with the lines more dttnsedl, the antemedial line extending to

inner margin.

Hab. Arctic America, Slave R., Rapids of the Drowned

(Taylor), 2 9; Canapa, Manitoba, Aweme (Criddle), 1 3,

Alberta, Calgary (M/s. Michell. Wolley-Dod), 83, 3 2, Br.

Columbia, Greenwood (d/rs. Nicholl), 23, Pentecton (Js.

Nicholl), 3 3, Okanaga R., Hedley (dis. Nicholl), 1 9, Up.

Ashnold (drs. Nicholl), 4 3. KHxp. 32-88 millim.

Genus REMIGIODES, nov.

Type, R. remigina.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching

to vertex of head and broadly scaled, the 3rd porrect, moderate, and thickly

scaled; frons with pointed conical prominence covered by a tuft of hair

above; eyes large, round; antenne of male bipectinate with moderate

REMIGIODES. Ty

branches ending in bristles, the apex serrate; thorax clothed with scales and

hair mixed and without crests ; tibia moderately fringed with hair, the fore

tibiae not spined, the mid and hind tibia spined; abdomen with dorsal crest

ut base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved

and 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 the cell about half the length of wing; veins 5, 4 from angle; 5 fully

developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing

with the cell near base only.

7844. Remigiodes remigina.

Euclidia remigina, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxviil. p. exci (1884 .

Remigia pectinata, Hmpsn. Tr. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 110, pl. iv. f. 82 (1909).

Head and thorax purplish grey suffused with red-brown; abdomen

yellow, the basal crest brown. Fore wing purplish grey suffused

and irrorated with red-brown; a small red-brown subbasal spot on

costa ; antemedial line brown, oblique, defined on outer side by red-

brown from costa to vein 1, incurved in submedian interspace where

there is a conical red-brown patch beyond it, a small round black

spot before it above inner margin; a sinuous brown medial line

angled outwards in cell and inwards at vein 1; reniform obscurely

ONY =

IS,

<2 3 $

Oy 2

Fig. 21.— Remigiodes remiyina, 3. 3.

defined by brown and with a dark red-brown patch beyond it; a

brown annulus below end of cell, its outer edge indented; post-

medial line red-brown with some red-brown suffusion before it,

oblique to above vein 6, slightly bent inwards at discal fold, then

obliquely curved to inner margin, a red-brown patch beyond it on

costal area; a very indistinct dentate subterminal line shghtly

defined on each side by brown and with blackish points at veins 6

to 1; the termen suffused with red-brown from apex to vein 23 a

76 NOCTUID ®.

waved red-brown terminal line; cilia red-brown at tips. Hind

wing yellow, the terminal area suffused with red-brown; a slight

oblique brown postmedial line from discal fold to inner margin,

excurved in submedian interspace; a waved red-brown terminal

line ; cilia red-brown at tips. Underside yellow ; fore wing tinged

with brown except on terminal area; hind wing slightly irrorated

with brown, a slight curved postmedial line from costa to vein 2.

Hab. S. Niesria, Lakoja, Mt. Patti (Christy), 1 9; Ucanna,

Ruwenzori (Wollaston), 1 3,1 2 type pectinata; MavaGascar,

type fT ¢ in Coll. Mabille. Hyp. 44-50 millim.

Genus MOCIS.

Type.

Aikoeds, Iattlon, Wer, jo. BOY (USA) socnsnccseasconscqcnsdos0nsconesane undata.

Pelamia, Guen. Noct. ili. p. 286 (1852) .......... cece cece eee phasianoides.

Remigia, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 812 (1852) 2.0... nec essen eee Srugalis.

Japadoe, VWs, seeati, OB (CUED) cocccccso0c0sn0000 wpoac009asc0000 disseverans.

Cauninda, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 190 (1884) .................. undata.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to

vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd typically moderate, oblique ;

frons smooth; eyes large, round ; antenne of male typically ciliated ; thorax

clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibie of male

typically fringed with long hair, the fore tibize not spined, the hind tibiz

spined; build slender; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore

wing with the apex somewhat produced, 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 § to form the areole; 11 from cell.

Hind wing with the cell one-half length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle;

5 fully developed from just above angle; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anasto-

mosing with the cell near base only.

Secor. I. (Pelamia.) Antenne of male bipectinate with moderate branches ;

tibize smoothly scaled.

A. Fore wing with diffused brown shading above the paie

streak in submedian fold and beyond the oblique post-

Ded Tal LING, cece sae ewe acenn ne acmeccimaue seinen uecmeteiemeneisetcat phasianoides.

B. Fore wing with a narrow blackish streak above the pale

streak in submedian fold and narrow blackish band

beyond the oblique postmedial line ....................0000005 electaria.

7845. Mocis phasianoides.

Pelamia phasianoides, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 286, pl. 22. f. 8 (1852).

6 .-Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white irrorated with brown ;

antenne with the branches brown; legs brown. Fore wing grey-

white irrorated with brown ;.an oblique white line from below costa

well beyond middle to above vein 1 along which it is bent inwards

to base with a wedge-shaped brown patch above it; a shght brown

discoidal striga; the postmedial line followed by a brown band

extending to the oblique rather diffused white subterminal line

defined on outer side by brown suffusion; a brown terminal line ;

cilia brownish with a white line at base. Hind wing white, the

MOCTS. 77

inner area slightly irrorated with brown; a faint brownish sub-

terminal shade; a fine brown terminal line; cilia tinged with

brown ; the underside white irrorated with brown.

Fig. 22.—Mocis phasianoides, ¢. 1

@. Hind wing yellower, more suffused with brown and with

diffused brown postmedial and subterminal lines.

Hab. Uracuay, Montevideo; Paraguay; ArarntIna, Buenos

Ayres (O. Thomas, Bayne),1 3,19. Exp. 34-44 millim.

7846. Mocis electaria.

Doryodes electaria, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 84, pl. vii. f. 12 (1864); Staud.

Cat. Lep. pal. p. 241.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white tinged with brown ;

antenne with the branches blackish. Fore wing white tinged and

thickly irrorated with brown; an oblique white line diffused on

inner side from below apex to submedian fold, then bent inwards

above vein 1 to near base and defined above by a black streak, the

line defined on outer side by a narrow black band from below apex

to submedian fold; a minute blackish discoidal spot; a brownish

subterminal line defined on each side by whitish; a brown terminal

line; cilia whitish with a brown line at middle. Hind wing white,

the inner area tinged with red-brown ; a red-brown terminal line ;

the underside white faintly tinged with red-brown.

@. Hind wing more suffused with brown.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the black streak in submedian fold obso-

lescent.

Hab. E. Stperta, Amurland, Ussuri; Japan, Yesso (Leech),

1 9, Hakodaté (Pryer), 1 9, Oiwaké (Pryer), 2 5,1 2, Tokio

(Fenton), 2 5, Yokohama (Jonas, Manley), 2 3, 1 2; Cork,

Gensan (Leech), 1 5, Douglas Inlet (6. Fletcher), 1 3; CEntTR.

Cua, Chekiang (Pryer),1 3. Exp. 34-42 millim.

78 NOCTUID H.

Secr. Il. Antenne of male ciliated.

A. Fore and mid tibize of male moderately fringed with hair,

the hind tibise thickly clothed with hair.

a. Adami tarsi of male fringed above with long hair,

a', (Remigia.) Wings of male on underside clothed with

woolly hair to beyond middle.

Hind wing tinged with rufous.

Case Fore wing with the postmedial line retracted at

submedian fold and forming a sinus below end

of cell.

a4. Hind wing with the basal and inner areas tinged

with brown; size large.

«>, Fore wing of male with small antemedial

black spot above inner margin; hind wing

strongly suffused with brown ..................

+5, Fore wing of male without small antemedial

black spot above inner margin; hind wing

with the basal and inner areas. slightly

TERE! WME IVRONWAM — sonauoocncaocosaconoavacn00ed

b', Hind wing with the basal and inner areas not.

tinged with brown ; size smaller.

a, Kore wing of male with small antemedial

black spot above inner margin...............+..

b5, Fore wing of male without small antemedial

black spot above inner margin ...............

. Hind wing with the postmedial line oblique to

inner margin and not connected with the

annulus below end of cell .................8. eee

22, Hind wing not tinged with rufous.

a’. Fore wing with the postmedial line retracted at

submedian fold and forming a sinus below end

OW GALS VAS TANF Go saddsoobsoaadsnovcssoodosqqansonascen

. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique to

inner margin.

Hind wing not strongly suffused with brown.

a, Fore wing with the ground-colour clear grey ;

BIAS IGNNRS). “oonson onsannousnsocanoodtoosodoncaGedoaded

. Fore wing with the ground-colour brownish

ochreous sAuiaeitis Som blabla isu aoeiate GEE see naerst a6

U4. Hind wing strongly suffused with brown.

a, Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved

below costa, then moderately oblique.

a6, Fore wing ‘hot varievated with red-brown

and without triangular red-brown patch

at middle of terminal area; the fringe of

hair on hind tarsi and ventral surface of

abdomen greyish in male.............. .....-

1°, Fore wing variegated with red-brown and

with triangular red-brown patch at

middle of terminal area; the fringe of

hair on hind tarsi and ventral surface of

abdomen yellowish in male..................

b°. Fore wing with the postmedial line arising

from below costa towards apex and much

more oblique.

a‘, Hind wing grey tinged with brown .........

(D2 Jalinnal wating? @ONREOWS cooccoosncoesoaecoovaese5 ot

antillesia.

megas,

cuband.

bahamica.

munda,

marcida.

TexLand.

disseverans.

repanda.

diffluens,

Jrugalis.

vitiensis.

MOCTS. 79

7847. Mocis antillesia, n. sp. (Plate CCXXTII. fig. 13.)

3. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with greyish, the

patagia with slight oblique white line at middle; pectus and legs

dark reddish brown; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore

wing grey suffused and irrorated with brown ; subbasal line slight,

double, brown, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line

strong, brown, obliquely incurved below subcostal nervure, a small

black spot before it above inner margin; a minute whitish spot

defined by brown in middle of cell; reniform defined by brown and

with some dark suffusion in centre; a slight waved dark medial

line; postmedial line brown, excurved below costa, then obliquely

incurved to submedian fold where it is bent inwards, then curved

upwards to lower angle of cell and down to submedian fold, then

again excurved, the area beyond it darker brown from costa to

submedian fold; traces of a waved subterminal line with a series of

black points beyond it on the veins; a fine waved dark terminal

line; cilia dark brown. Hind wing brown with a reddish tinge; a

dark postmedial hne, excurved in submedian interspace; a dark

subterminal shade from apex to termen at vein 1; a fine dark

terminal line; cilia dark reddish brown from apex to vein 2; the

underside grey-brown with a reddish tinge to beyond middle, a dark

subterminal shade from costa to vein 2.

Hab. Bawamas (Neville Chamberlain), 1 3 ; Nevis (Taylor),

2 ¢ type. Hap. 50-58 millim.

7848. Mocis megas. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 14.)

Remigia megas, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 817, pl. 23. f. 6 (1852).

Remigia remanens, Wik. xiv. 1498 (1858).

Remigia alipes, Feld, Reis. Noy, pl. 117. f. 12 (1874).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey suffused with reddish

brown; pectus and the hair on femora and hind tibize and tarsi

rufous. Fore wing grey suffused with reddish brown; a sheht

brown subbasal line defined on outer side by whitish from costa to

submedian fold; antemedial line brown defined on inner side by

whitish and with some brown suffusion beyond it, oblique and very

shghtly incurved below subcostal nervure; a minute white spot

defined by brown in middle of cell; reniform defined by brown and

with brown striga in centre; a slight waved brown medial line;

postmedial line brown, oblique and sinuous from costa to above

vein G, then obliquely incurved to submedian fold where it is bent

inwards, then curved upwards to lower edge of reniform and down

to submedial fold where it is again excurved, a slight waved dark

line before it from costa to vein 3 and a browner shade beyond it

from costa to submedian fold; traces of a waved subterminal line

with series of black points beyond it on the veins; a fine waved

dark terminal line; cilia dark brown at tips from apex to sub-

median fold. Hind wing grey-brown with a slight rufous tinge ;

SO NOCTUID ®.

an indistinct dark postmedial line incurved in submedian inter-

space, and a dark subterminal shade ; a fine dark terminal line ; the

underside pale rufous to beyond middle.

@. Redder; fore wing with the antemedial line more incurved

and without black spot before it ; underside of hind wing ochreous,

the basal costal area tinged with rufous, a slight postmedial line

and subterminal shade from costa to vein 2.

Hab. GUATEMALA, type 7 d alipes in Coll. Rothschild ; Jamatca

(Gosse), 1 3, Cinchona (Kaye), 1 9; Harri (Tweedie), 1 S,

1 2 type remanens. Hxp. 52-60 millim.

7849. Mocis cubana, n. sp. (Plate CCXXIIT. fig. 15.)

3. Head and thorax grey mixed with reddish brown ; pectus

and the fringes of hair on hind legs rufous; abdomen ochreous

tinged with rufous, the ventral surface rufous. Fore wing grey

tinged with rufous and irrorated with red-brown; a subbasal

brown striga from costa; antemedial line red-brown defined on

inner side by ochreous, slightly excurved below costa, then oblique,

a small black spot before it above inner margin; a minute white

spot defined by brown in middle of cell; reniform faintly defined

by brown and with some fuscous in centre ; medial line indistinct,

dark, oblique to median nervure, then inwardly oblique and with

some fuscous suffusion above inner margin; postmedial line red-

brown, oblique and sinuous to above vein 6, then inwardly oblique

to submedian fold where it is bent inwards, then curved upwards

and sinuous to lower edge of reniform and down to submedian fold

where it is again bent outwards ; the postmedial area suffused with

deep red-brown towards costa ; traces of a waved subterminal line

with a series of black points beyond it on the veins; a fine waved

dark terminal line ; cilia dark red-brown, except at base, from apex

to vein 2. Hind wing ochreous tinged with rufous; a slight dark

line from costa beyond middle to above tornus, excurved in sub-

median interspace ; a dark subterminal shade, extending to termen

on apical area ; a fine waved dark terminal line ; cilia with a dark

line at middle from vein 5 to submedian fold; the underside pale

rufous, the terminal area irrorated with brown from apex to sub-

median fold.

@. Head, thorax, and fore wing more suffused with red-brown,

the last without the black spot above inner margin before the

antemedial line; hind wing with the postmedial line and subterminal

shade more distinct ; underside of both wings yellow tinged with

rufous and irrorated with brown except on inner area; fore wing

with dark postmedial line and subterminal shade except on inner

area; hind wing with dark postmedial line from costa to vein 2.

Ab. 1. 2. Fore wing yellower, the markings of both wings less

distinct.

Hab. Cupa, Santiago (Schaus),5 6,4 2 type. Hxp. 40-48

millim.

MOCIS. §1

7850. Mocis bahamica, n. sp. (Plate CCXXIIL. fig. 16.)

3S. Head and thorax grey mixed with reddish brown ; pectus

and the fringe of hair on hind legs rufous; abdomen ochreous

tinged with rufous. Fore wing grey-white irrorated with brown ;

antemedial line slight, red-brown defined on inner side by whitish,

oblique ; a minute whitish spot in middle of cell; reniform very

faintly defined by brown; traces of a sinuous brown medial line,

double towards inner margin; postmedial line red-brown, oblique

and sinuous to above vein 6, then obliquely incurved and with

series of dark points beyond it to submedian fold, then hardly

traceable, curved upwards to lower edge of reniform and down to

submedian fold where it is excurved; the postmedial area suffused

with deep red-brown on costal area with some pale points on the

costa ; an indistinct pale waved subterminal line with a series of

black poimts beyond it on the veins; a slight lunulate dark

terminal line ; cilia red-brown at tips from apex to vein 2. Hind.

wing ochreous tinged with rufous; a dark rather diffused sub-

terminal line, diffused to termen on apical area; a fine dark

terminal line; the underside ochreous tinged with rufous, the

termen irrorated with brown from apex to vein 2.

2. Head, thorax, and fore wing suffused with bright red-brown,

the last with the termen greyer, the markings more distinct; hind

wing redder, a dark postmedial line excurved in submedian inter-

space; underside of both wings yellow tinged with rufous and

irrorated with brown except on inner areas and with dark post-

medial line and subterminal shade from costa to vein 2.

Ab. 1. 6. Hind wing with postmedial line.

Hab. Bawamas, Abaco (Bonhote), 1 3, Nassau (Bonhote),

1 ¢ type, Andros (Neville Chamberlain), 12. Hap. 50 millim.

7851. Mocis munda. (Plate CCX XIII. fig. 17.)

Remigia munda, W1k. xxxiii. 1020 (1865).

Remigia diffuens, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 388 (part.), nec

Guen.

3. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with red-brown; tegule

with a white line at tips, the patagia with oblique white line at

middle ; pectus and hind legs yellow tinged with rufous, the fore

and mid tibize and tarsi blackish in front; abdomen ochreous

tinged with rufous. Fore wing ochreous white irrorated with

brown; subbasal line slight, brown, excurved below costa and

ending at submedian fold; antemedial line red-brown defined on

inner side by whitish, incurved, a small black spot before it above

inner margin ; a minute white spot defined by brown in middle of

cell ; reniform defined by brown and with brown striga in centre ;

an indistinct dark sinuous medial line, diffused above inner margin ;

a brown annulus below end of cell and traces of a double oblique

sinuous brown line beyond the cell; postmedial line double, the

inner line red-brown, the outer indistinct, excurved below costa,

Vou. XIII. a

$2 NOOTUID &.

then oblique ; postmedial area tinged with red-brown from costa to

vein 2; traces of a waved subterminal line with a series of black

points beyond it on the veins and an oblique dark shade from apex;.

the terminal area tmged with red-brown from apex to below vein 3;

a fine waved dark terminal line. Hind wing ochreous tinged with

rufous ; a rather diffused brown line from costa beyond middle to

above tornus; a dark subterminal shade, diffused to termen on

apical area; a dark terminal line; cilia yellowish. Underside of

both wings ochreous tinged with rufous except on terminal areas ;

fore wing with broad dark subterminal shade from costa to vein 2.

Ab. 1. &. Fore wing suffused with violaceous grey, the lines of

medial area very indistinct, the black spot above inner margin

touching the antemedial line.

Ab. 2. &. Fore wing greyer, the hind wing rather browner.

Ab. 3. 9. Fore wing without the black spot above inner margin

before the antemedial line, a diffused fuscous patch above middle

of inner margin. 3

Ab. 4. Q. Fore wing redder brown; hind wing rather browner.

Ab. 5. 2. The type. Similar but fore wing with the ante-

medial line almost obsolete.

Hab. Mexico, Guerrero, Venta de Zopilote (H. H. Smith),

1 2, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Cusa, Santiago (Schaus), 1 3,2 @ ;

Sta. Lucra (Cowie), 1 5,2 2; Sr. Vincent (A. A. Smith),

1 $6; Grenava (H. A. Snuth), 2 9; Has. ren., 1 2 type. Hap.

42-52 millim.

7852. Mocis marcida. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 18.)

Remigia marcida, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 317 (1852); Smith, Cat, Noct.

N. Am. p. 364.

Phurys perlata, Wik. xiv. 1480 (1858).

3. Head and thorax whitish tinged with red-brown; tegule

white at tips; a curved white line across patagia and prothorax ;

pectus and legs ochreous suffused with red-brown; abdomen pale

ochreous. Fore wing ochreous whitish tinged with red-brown and

slightly irrorated with dark brown; the costal edge brown; sub-

basal line slight, brown, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial

line slight, red-brown defined on inner side by whitish, excurved

below costa, then oblique and slightly incurved, a small black spot

before it above inner margin; orbicular a minute white spot

defined by brown; reniform defined by brown and with curved

brown line in centre, large ; an indistinct sinuous dark medial line,

double and diffused towards inner margin; postmedial line red-

brown, excurved below costa, then obliquely incurved to submedian

fold where it is bent inwards, then curved upwards to lower edge of

reniform and down to submedian fold, then excurved, a diffused

brown shade beyond it from costa to submedian fold; faint traces

of a pale waved subterminal line with a series of black points

beyond it on the veins; a fine slightly waved dark terminal line;

cia dark brown at tips except towards termen. Hind wing

MOCTS. 83

ochreous white faintly tinged with rufous; an indistinct slightly

sinuous brown postmedial line from below costa to above tornus - a

brown subterminal shade; a fine brown terminal line; cilia with

brown line near tips except towards tornus; the underside clothed

with reddish ochreous hair to beyond middle.

_ @. Rather browner. Fore wing without the black spot above

inner margin before the antemedial line; hind wing on underside

ochreous white slightly irrorated with fuscous.

Ab. 1. 3. Darker—Grand Cayman.

Hab. U.S.A., Georgia, 2 3, Florida (Doubleday), 2 3,1 2

type perlata; Bermupa, Challenger Coll. 1 9; Granp Cayman,

Georgetown (Savage-English), 1 3. Hxp. 54-58 millim.

7853. Mocis texana. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 19.)

Remigia texana, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 219 (1874); Smith,

Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 364.

Remigia hexastylus, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 282 (1&75).

3S. Head and thorax white mixed with pale red-brown; tegule

tipped with white ; a curved white line across patagia and prothorax ;

pectus and legs ochreous, the pectus tinged with red-brown in

front, the tibize and tarsus suffused with brown; abdomen pale

ochreous faintly tinged with red-brown. Fore wing grey-white

irrorated with dark brown, the costa tinged with red-brown; sub-

basal line red-brown, excurved below costa and ending at sub-

median fold; antemedial line red-brown defined on inner side

by white, erect and slightly sinuous; orbicular a minute spot

defined by brown; reniform defined by brown and with brown line

in centre, large ; an indistinct sinuous brown medial line, excurved

to the reniform ; postmedial line red-brown defined on outer side by

ochreous, excurved below costa, then slightly incurved to inner

margin, some reddish brown suffusion beyond it, especially towards

costa; traces of a pale waved subterminal line with a series of

black points on its outer edge; a fine waved dark terminal line;

cilia red-brown at tips, except towards tornus. Hind wing whitish

tinged with red-brown and slightly irrorated with dark brown; an

indistinet rather diffused brown line from costa beyond middle

to above tornus, slightly incurved below discal fold; a faint brown

subterminal shade; a fine dark terminal line; cilia with brown

line near tips; the underside with the basal half clothed with

reddish-ochreous hairs.

Hab. Canapa; U.S.A., Texas, 3 do type hexastylus. Kap.

54-5 5 millim.

7854. Mocis disseverans. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 20.)

Remigia disseverans, Wik. xiv. 1495 (1858); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

. 304.

Remigia persubtilis, Wik. xiv. 1497 (1858). §

84 NOCTUIDH.

Baratha acuta, Wik. xxxiii. 1022 (1865).

Remigia diffluens, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 888 (part.), nec Guen.

¢. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with brown; pectus and

legs suffused with rufous ; abdomen pale brownish ochreous. Fore

wing brownish ochreous irrorated with brown; antemedial line

very indistinct, brown, oblique, a blackish pomt before it above

inner margin; a minute white spot defined by brown in middle of

cell; reniform tinged with fuscous, defined by fuscous, and with

fuscous striga in centre; a very indistinct waved dark medial line

and traces of an annulus below end of cell; postmedial line reddish

brown, slight, oblique below vein 7, indistinctly double and with

diffused fuscous points beyond it between veins 6 and 2; traces of

a waved subterminal line, with a series of black points beyond it

on the veins; an oblique fuscous shade from apex to vein 6, then

between the postmedial and subterminal lines to vein 2; a fine

waved dark terminal line; cilia with a brown line at middle,

obsolescent towards tornus. Hind wing ochreous, faintly tinged

with rufous ; an indistinct dark postmedial line and fuscous sub-

terminal shade expanding to termen at apex; a fine waved dark

terminal line and slight line through the cilia; the underside

ochreous tinged with rufous, a slight dark subterminal shade from

costa to vein 5.

2. Head, thorax, and fore wing tinged with rufous, the last

with slight fuscous mark on the medial line at vein 1; hind wing

with the postmedial line more distinct; the underside irrorated

with brown except on inner area, a slight postmedial line.

Hab. U.S.A., Florida (Doubleday), 13 type ; Mexico, Guerrero

(H. H. Smith), 2 3, Vera Cruz (Godman), 1 3 ; Honpuras

(Dyson), 1 3; Panama, Chiriqui (#2bbé), 1 9, Godman-Salvin

Coll.; Jamatca (Gosse, Cockerell, Kaye), 65, 12; Harr

(Tweedie), 2 3, 2 2 type persubtilis; Grenapa (H. H. Smith),

13; Brazin, Amazons, Santarem (Austen), 1 ¢; Hap. tan., 1 9

type acuta. KHxp. 44-52 millim.

7855. Mocis repanda.

Noctua repanda, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 49 (1794); Boisd. Faun. Ent.

Madag. p. 107, pl. 13. f. 3.

Noctua punctularis, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 364 (1808).

Remigia latipes, Guen. Noet. iii. p. 314 (1852); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am.,

Het. i. p. 888 (part.) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 363.

Ophiusa delinguens, Wk. xiv. 1423 (1858).

Remigia exscindens, Wlk. xiv. 1500 (1858).

Remigia subtilis, Wik. xiv. 1501 (1858).

Remigia conveniens, Wik. xiv. 1507 (1858).

Remigia collata, W1k. xxxiii. 1010 (1865).

Remigia detersa, W\k. xxxiii. 1012 (1865).

Remigia indentata, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. 11. p. 282 (1875).

Remigia diffluens, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 388 (part.), nec

Guen.

Head and thorax grey suffused with brown ; pectus and femora

with some ochreous hair; abdomen grey tinged with brown. Fore

MOCIS. 85

wing grey suffused and irrorated with brown; subbasal line slight,

brown, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line brown, slightly

excurved below costa and with black spot on it above inner margin ;

a whitish point defined by brown in middle of cell; reniform defined

by brown and with brown striga in centre; two indistinct sinuous

brown medial lines; a brown annulus below end of cell, sometimes

touching the postmedial line and traces of an oblique waved line

beyond the cell; postmedial line red-brown, excurved below the

costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous; the postmedial area

suffused with brown from costa to vein 2; traces of a pale waved

subterminal line with a series of black points beyond it on the

veins, the terminal area with some brown suffusion at middle ;

a fine waved dark terminal line. Hind wing grey suffused with

brown ; a rather diffused brown line from costa beyond middle to

above tornus; a dark subterminal shade, diffused to termen on

apical area ; a fine waved dark terminal line.

Ab. 1. 3. indentata. Fore wing with the postmedial line obso-

lescent at middle and connected with the annulus below end of

cell.

Ab. 2. 9. Fore wing redder, the medial lines with some fuscous

suffusion above inner margin, the postmedial area suffused with

fuscous.

Ab. 3. 9. Fore wing more purple-brown and without black

point before the antemedial line.

Ab. 4. 3. Fore wing with the point developed into a spot on or

before the antemedial line.

Ab. 5. 2. latipes. Fore wing more ochreous brown.

fab. Laprapor; Canapa, 1 ¢; U.S.A., Kast of Rocky Mts.,

Florida, Texas, 2 5, 1 2 type indentata; Mexico, Vera Cruz,

Cordova (Rimelz), 13,192, Mexico City (Hoege), 22 , Guerrero,

R. Papagaio (H. H. Smith), 1 9, Acapulco (H. H. Smith), 2 3,

Rincon (H. H. Smith), 1 8,19, Dos Arroyas (H. H. Smith),

2 2, Tierra Colorada (H. H. Smith), 1 3, Venta de Zopilote

(Hf. H. Smith), 1 3,3 2, Jalapa (Trujillo), 2 $,1 2, Tabasco,

Teapa (H. H. Smith), 2 2, Jalisco, Lake Chapala (Richardson),

2 5; Br. Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaur), 2 2; GUATEMALA,

San Geronimo (Champion), 1 3, 1 2, Vera Paz, Cubilguitz

(Champion), 1 3, Cerro Zunil (Champion), 1 6, Balhen

(Champion), 1 2, Cahabon (Champion), 1 2, Volcan de Atitlan

(Champion), 1 2, Guatemala City (Rodriguez), 1 2, Volcan de

Sta. Maria (Richardson), 1 3; Costa Rica, Rio Sucio (fogers),

1 3, Ivam (Rogers), 2 6,1 ¢, Candelaria Mts. (Underwood),

1 3, 29; Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson), 12; Panama

(Tylecote), 1 3, Chiriqui (Champion, Ribbe), 3 2, Bugaba

(Champion), 5 3,59, Godman-Salvin Coll., La Chorrera (Dolby-

Tyler), 1 2 ; Jamaica (Kaye), 1 3, Cinchona (Fawcett), 1 Q ;

Cusa, Santiago (Schaus), 1 6, Matanzas (Schaus), 2 2 ; Harri

(Tweedie), 4 3,42 type exscindens; Sra. Lucta (Cowie), 3 3,

6 9; Grenapa (H. H. Smith), 1 9; Dominica, il Ox Ae

Barpapos (Frampton), 1 2; Trintpap (Crowfoot, Kaye), 2 2;

86 NOCTUIDE.

Cotompia, Minca (H. H. Smith), 3 3, 2 2, Sierra del Libano

(H. H. Smith), 1 9; VenezvEta, 2 3, 4 9 type delinquens ;

Br. Guiana (Rodway, Roberts), 435; Surinam, 1 5,12;

Brazit, Para (Bates), 2 5,1 Q type collata, Santarem (Bates),

22 type subtilis, Bahia (O. Thomas), 1 3, Rio Janeiro, 1 6,

292, Sao0 Paulo (D. Jones), 2 9; Paracuay, Sapucay (Foster),

11g, 69; Areentina (Giacomelli, O. Thomas), 2 3, 2 9,

Goya (Perrins), 23; S.TRintpap (Meade-Waldo), 19; Srprra

Leone (Morgan, Foxcroft), 2 2 type detersa; Gotp Coasr,

Kumasi (Whiteside), 1 5, 1 9; 8S. Nie@eria, Old Calabar

(Crompton), 1 3, Sapele (Sampson), 1 2; N. Nigeria, Baro

(Macfie), 1 2; Coneo (Curror), 33, 1 2 type convenens,

Katanga, Kambove (Neave), 1 5; Supan, White Nile, Gabt el

Meghahid (Dunn), 1 5 ; Asyssrnta, Atbara (Gerrard), 1d ;

Br. E. Arrica, Eb Urru (Betton), 1 9, Rabai (Rogers), 1 9,

Nairobi (Crawshay), 1 6; Uganpa, Kampala (Scott-Elliot),

1 2, Entebbe (ANinchin), 1 9 ; GERM. H. Arrica, Magila, 1 9 ;

Br. C. Arrica, Mlanji Boma (Weave), 35, 19, Rukuru hk.

(Neave), 19, Zomba (Johnston), 1 3, Chinde (de Jersey),

13, Chiromo (de Jersey), 1 2, Shiré Valley (Weave), 1 Go ;

N.E. Ruopesia, Luangwa KR. (Neave), 2d, 32; GazaLann,

Beira (Sheppard), 1 3, Chirinda Forest (Marshall), 1 9 ;

Masnonanann, Salisbury (Marshall), 3 5, 32; TRansvaat,

Umplosi (Grant), 1 3 ; Zunutann (Angas), 1 3 ; Navat, Pine-

town (Leigh), 1 9, Durban (Gueinzius, Gooch, Leigh, Clark),

36,3 9; Mapagascar, Forét d Ambre (Meade-Waldo), 1 9,

Antananarivo (Toy), 1 9; Comoro Is., Mayotta (Meade-Waldo),

136,19; Roprievez (Gulliver, Manders), 2 3 ; SEYCHELLES,

Felicité (Meade-Waldo), 1 9, Mahé (Meade-Waldo), 1 @ ;

Aven (Yerbury, Swinhoe, J. J. Walker), 23, 39. Kap.

38-52 millim.

Larva. Whitish, with numerous fine brown lines; dark brown

subdorsal stripes interrupted between somites 4, 5 and 5, 6 by

dark bands defined by white points; the fine lines on lateral

area redder; a white stigmatal line with dark brown stripe below

it; two anterior pairs of prolegs absent.

7856. Mocis diffluens. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 21.)

Remigia diffuens, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 318 (1852); Druce, Biol. Centr.-

Am., Het. i. p. 388.

Remigia mensuralis, W\k. xiv. 1-499.

g. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with purple-grey ; pectus,

legs, and hair on hind tibize and tarsi ochreous tinged with rufous,

the fore and mid tibiz irrorated with brown, the tarsi dark brown ;

abdomen brown, the ventral surface ochreous irrorated with brown.

Fore wing purple-grey tinged with red-brown and with slight dark

irroration ; subbasal line red-brown defined on inner side by grey,

from costa to submedian fold ;- antemedial line rather diffused,

red-brown defined on inner side by grey, oblique, a black point

MOCIS. 87

before it above inner margin; a minute white spot defined by

brown in middle of cell; reniform defined by dark brown and

with curved dark striga in centre ; two brown medial lines curving

apart in the cell on each side of the orbicular, approximated below

the cell, then again curving apart; a brown annulus below end of

cell and two slight oblique waved lines beyond the cell; post-

medial line dark brown, excurved below costa, then oblique and

very slightly sinuous, a patch of red-brown suffusion beyond it

at middle; a patch of chocolate-brown suffusion on costal area

before the indistinct double dentate subterminal line with black

points on the outer line at the veins; a red-brown mark at

apex and a triangular patch at middle of terminal area; a fine

waved dark terminal line; cilia red-brown, paler towards tornus.

Hind wing reddish brown, the terminal half greyer; a slightly

sinuous brown postmedial line; a rather diffused double sub-

terminal line expanding into a diffused patch on apical area;

a fine waved dark terminal line; cilia rufous; the underside

erey tinged with rufous, a diffused dark postmedial line bent

inwards to costa and subterminal shade incurved below costa.

@. Head, thorax, and fore wing rather more rufous.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with small black spot above inner margin

before the antemedial line.

Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz, Atoyac (H. H. Smith), 13,1 9,

Morelos, Cuernavaca (/Z. H. Smith), 1 3, Guerrero, Sierra

Colorada (H. H. Smith), 1 2, Tabasco, Teapa (H. H. Smith),

13,19, Jalapa (Lrajillo), 13, Cordova, San Lorenzo (Zrujillo),

1 @;-GuaremMana, 8. Geronimo (Champion), 1 3, Zapote

(Champion), 1 3, El Tumbidor (Champion), 1 2, Las Mercedes

(Champion), 1 3, San Isidro (Champion), 1 3, Vera Paz,

Pancina (Champion), 1 3, Volean de Atitlan (Champion), 1 &,

Guatemala City (Rodriguez), 136; Honpuras (Dyson), 1 2

type mensuralis; Costa Rica, Rio Sucio (fogers), 1 ¢ ;

Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 1 3, Godman-Salvin Coll. ;

Hartt (Tweedie), 19; Trivtpan (Hart), 19; Cotomsta,

Sierra del Libano (H. H. Smith), 19; VeENnezvuEva, 1 Q ; Br.

Gurana (Roberts), 19, Demerara (odway), 13,1 9; Brazit,

Espiritu Santo, 1 d; Paraguay, Sapucay (Foster), 2d. Exp.

40-48 millim.

Larva. D. Jones, Py. Liverp. Soe. xxxvi. p. 376 (1882).

Food-plant, ‘‘ Capim” grass. 1.

7857. Mocis frugalis.

Noctua frugalis, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 601 (1775); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii.

p. 190, pl. 172. ff. 4, 4@; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 527.

Chalciope lycopodia, Geyer, Hiibner’s Zutr. v. p. 29, ff. 897, 898 (1832).

Remigia translata, Wk. xxxiii. 1015 (1865).

Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with some grey; pectus

and femora with ochreous hair; legs greyish brown; abdomen

ochreous suffused with brown. Fore wing greyish ochreous tinged

88 NOCTUID &.

with reddish brown and irrorated with brown; antemedial line

hardly traceable, oblique, sinuous, a black point before it above

inner margin; a black point in middle of cell; reniform faintly

defined by brown and with faint curved brown striga in centre ;

traces of an oblique sinuous brown line from lower angle of cell to

inner margin; postmedial line arising from vein 7 below apex and

oblique to inner margin, red-brown defined on inner side by pale

ochreous; a faint slightly waved oblique grey subterminal line

Fig. 23.—Mocis frugalis, $. }.

with a series of black points at the veins; a faint oblique dark

shade from apex; a fine waved dark terminal line; cilia with

brown line at middle except towards tornus. Hind wing greyish

suffused with brown; a brown postmedial line slightly excurved at

discal fold; a double diffused subterminal line expanding into

a diffused patch on apical area; a slight brown terminal line;

cilia with a brown line at middle except towards tornus; the

underside silky grey-brown with a fine dark terminal line.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with black suffusion above middle of vein 1

and beyond the postmedial line.

Hab. S. Nieerta, Lagos, Ebute Meta (Boaq),1 3,12, Old

Galabar (Cockburn, Crompton), 38 2, Sapele (Sampson), 2 ;

N. Nigerta, Zungeru (Simpson), 1 5 ; Conao (Curror), 1 3 ;

Ur. Eaypr; Supan, Port Sudan (Mrs. Waterfield), 1 3, 1 9;

Br. C. Arrica, Mlangi Boma (Neave), 1 2, Fort Maguire

(Neave), 25, Matope (de Jersey), 1 3, Ruo Valley (Neave),

2 9, Lr. Shiré Valley (Neave), 25, 1 2; N.E. Ruopesta,

Luangwa R. (Neave), 1 5; Navan, Durban (Gooch, Clark,

Leigh), 1 3, 2 2; Mapacascar, Ellongo (Bartlett), 1 9 ;

Comoro Is., Mayotta (Meade-Waldo), 2 2; Mavrrrius

(Manders), 19; Aven (Yerbury), 13, Shaik Othman (0.

MOCIS. 89

Grant), 13; Loo-cuoo Is. (Pryer), 23; Formosa (Dickson),

1 2, Takow (Hobson), 1 ¢ ; PunsgaB, Kulu, Sultanpur (G.

Young), 1 2, Dharmsila (Hocking), 23,19, Allahabad, 1 Q,

Durbunga (Maries), 1 3 ; Srkuim (Dudgeon, Méller), 2 9;

Assam, Silhet (Stainsforth), 1 3, Shillong (Parish), 23,29;

Beneat, Calcutta, 1d ; Sryp, Kardchi (Swinhoe), 23 ; Bompay,

1 2, Ratnagin (Jayaker), 1 3, 1 9, Poona (Swinhoe), 1 @,

Deccan, 1 3, Kanara (Ward), 1 9; Manpras, Cuddapah ( Camp-

bell), 1 3, Nilgiris (Hampson), 2 3, 1 2 ; Cuyton, Colombo

(Nietner, Meade-Waldo), 3 3, 3 9 type translata, Trincomali

(Yerbury), 22; Burma, Moulmein (Clerk), 2 9, Rangoon

(Noble), 1 5 ; ANDAMANS (Rogers), 2 6, 29; Nicopars

(Rogers), 1 2, Nancowrie, 19; Prrax (feidley), 1 2; SINGAPORE

(Ridley), 53, 49; Sumarra, 1 ¢ ; Borneo, 1 3, Sarawak

(Wallace), 2 9; Java (Horsfield), 1 3,1 9; Cocos-Krrring

I. (Wood-Jones), 1 3, 1 9 ; Br. N. Gunga, Dinawa (Pratt),

36, 19; N. Auvsrrania, Port Darwin (Buckland), 1 3,

Adelaide R. (J. J. Walker), 13,19; QUEENSLAND, Thursday 1.

(Mathew), 12, Brisbane (Turner), 13; Carorrne Is. (Holden),

1d ; Marswatt Is. (Mathew), 1 3,2 9; Girzerr Is. (W ood-

ford), 39, Apia (de la Garde), 1 9 ; Etsice Is. (Mathew),

eee eMathew), 1 35 lO? (Suva (de Ja Garde),

1 3,1 Q; Frienpry Is., Vavau (Eclipse Exp.), 1 3, Tutuila I.

(Nicholl), 1 9; Cooxs Is., Raratonga (de la Garde), 1 6,

1 2; Socimry Is., Kap-a (J. J. Walker), 1 3, Tahiti (de la

Garde), 1 2 ; Marquesas (J. J. Walker), 1 3, Paton-hiva I.

(J. J. Walker), 1 3, O-hiva-Oa I. (J. J. Walker), 1 9. Exp.

32-50 millim.

Larva. Semp. Reise Phil., Schmett. ii. p. 064) ples f 2

_ Ochreous with numerous fine waved red-brown lines, the sub-

dorsal, lateral, and sublateral stripes with black-brown lines;

maculate black dorsal bands between the 5th and 6th and 7th

and 8th somites ; a yellow stripe below the stigmata and ventral

stripe; first two pairs of claspers absent. Food-plant, Zinzi-

beracee.

7858. Mocis vitiensis, n. sp. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 22.)

3. Head and thorax greyish ochreous suffused with brown ;

pectus and legs ochreous slightly tinged with rufous, the fore

and mid tibiz and tarsi grey-brown; abdomen pale ochreous.

Fore wing pale ochreous sparsely irrorated with brown, the

terminal area somewhat greyer, the costa tinged with grey-brown ;

antemedial line slight, brown, somewhat excurved to median

nervure, then obliquely incurved, a black point before it above

Inner margin; a minute whitish spot defined by blackish in

middle of cell ; reniform faintly defined by red-brown and with faint

curved brown striga in centre; traces of an oblique sinuous brown

medial line ; a slight red-brown annulus below end of cell with a

minute black spot below it; postmedial line faint red-brown and

90 NOCTUID&.

excurved below costa, then strong, blackish, oblique, with red-

brown suffusion beyond it; traces of a slightly waved subterminal

line with a series of black points at the veins ; an oblique brown

shade from apex; a fine waved dark terminal line. Hind wing

pale ochreous ; a strong dark brown postmedial line; the terminal

area tinged with greyish brown and with fuscous suffusion at apex ;

a slight brown terminal line ; the underside pale yellow tinged with

rufous, the terminal area brownish grey.

Hab. F151 (Mathew), 1 3 type. Exp. 48 millim.

6’. Wings of male not clothed with silky hair on underside.

7859. Mocis paraguayica, n. sp.

3. Head and thorax grey-white faintly tinged with brown ;

palpi, pectus, and legs rather browner; abdomen brownish white.

Fore wing grey-white irrorated with dark brown ; a black point in

middle of cell; reniform faintly defined by red-brown ; postmedial

Fig. 24.—Mocis paraguayica, g. }.

line red-brown defined on inner side by whitish, obsolescent and

excurved below costa, then strong, oblique and almost straight, the

area beyond it faintly tinged with brown; a faint oblique sub-

terminal line with series of minute black spots at the veins; cilia

whitish with strong black-brown line at middle except towards

tornus. Hind wing white, the terminal area slightly irrorated

with brown except towards tornus; traces of an oblique post-

medial line between veins 5 and 2; a faint waved terminal line

from apex to vein 2; cilia with a dark line at middle between

discal and submedian folds; the underside with the costal area and

terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with brown.

Hab. Paraguay, Sapucay (Foster), 1d type. Hap. 48 millim.

MOCIS. 91

6. Hind tarsi of male not fringed with hair above.

a, (Mocis.) The femora, and mid and hind tibix of

male fringed with long hair; wings on underside

strongly clothed with silky hair to beyond middle.

@. Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique ...... undata.

&. Fore wing with the antemedial line erect ......... trifasciata.

7 860. Mocis undata.

Yoctua undata, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 600 (1775).

Phalena archesia, Stoll, Cram. Pap. Exot. iti, p. 145, pl. 273. ff. F, G

(1780) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p, 191, pl. 172. ff. 3, 8¢; Hmpsn. Moths

Ind. ii. p. 526. :

Phalena virbia, Stoll, Cram. Pap. Exot, iii. p. 146, pl. 278. f. H (1780).

Ophiusa mayeri, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Madag. p. 104 (1834).

Reimigia pellita, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 319 (1852).

Remagia gregalis, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 820 (1852).

Remigia mutuata, Wik. xiv. 1505 (1858),

Remigiu gugalis, Wik. xiv. 1505 (1858),

Ophisma velata, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soe., Zool. vii. p. 180 (1864).

Hypetra diffundens, Wik. xxxiii. 963 (1865).

Remigia associata, W\k. xxxiii. 1010 (1865).

Remigia inconcisa, Wik. xxxiii. 1013 (1865).

Remigia bifasciata, Wik. xxxiii. 1014 (1865).

Ophiusa subenescens, W1k. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 861, pl. vi.

f. 9 (1873).

3. Head and thorax grey suffused with brown ; palpi, pectus,

and legs reddish brown, the tarsi fuscous; abdomen ochreous grey

tinged with brown. Fore wing purplish grey tinged with reddish

brown and irrorated with dark brown; subbasal line red-brown,

from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line dark red-brown

with a narrow red-brown band with sinuous outer edge on its

outer side, oblique; a minute brown annulus in middle of cell;

reniform defined by brown and with curved brown striga in

centre, large; a sinuous brown medial line, angled outwards on

median nervure; the postmedial area with a red-brown shade

narrowing to inner margin; postmedial line dark brown, bent

outwards below costa, oblique to above vein 6, then bent inwards

to discal fold, shghtly excurved below vein 5, then slightly in-

curved to submedian fold where it is bent inwards, then curved

upwards to lower edge of reniform and oblique to submedian fold,

then again excurved; a very faint pale waved subterminal line

with some blackish suffusion before it on costal area and black

points beyond it on veins 6 to 1; the termen suffused with

red-brown from apex to vein 2; a fine waved brown terminal

line. Hind wing ochreous whitish, the basal half suffused with

brown; a rather diffused brown postmedial line from below costa

to inner margin, slightly excurved at submedian fold; a fuscous

subterminal patch from costa to vein 4, followed by two diffused

waved lines; some brown suffusion on middle of termen and a

brown terminal line. Underside ochreous tinged with rufous;

fore wing with fuscous discoidal lunule, slight waved postmedial

line from below costa to discal fold, and subterminal shade

expanding below vein 5 and ending at vein 1; hind wing with

92 NOCTUID &.

slight maculate dark postmedial line and maculate subterminal

shade forking towards costa.

Q@. Head, thorax, and fore wing bright rufous; abdomen pale

rufous ; hind wing ochreous tinged with rufous; underside bright

yellowish rufous, the hind wing with black discoidal lunule.

Fig, 25.—Mocis undata, g. 3.

Ab. 1. virbia, d. Fore wing with small black spot above inner

margin before the antemedial line.

Ab. 2. pellita, 3. Fore wing with black-brown suffusion beyond

the ante- and postmedial lines.—A frica.

Ab. 3. mayeri. Similar but smaller.—Malagasy subregion.

Ab. 4. 6. Fore wing with narrow black-brown bands beyond

the ante- and postmedial lines.— Philippines.

Ab. 5. gregalis. Fore wing nearly uniform grey-brown with the

markings obsolescent.—Formosa, Java.

Hab. Sterra Leone (Poxecroft, Morgan), 2 3, 4 2 types

mutuata, jugalis, diffundens, associata; GOLD Coast, Bibianaha

(Spurrell), 13, Ashanti, 1 d; 8. Nigeria, Lagos, Ebute Meta

(Boag), 1 2, Old Calabar (Crompton), 1 2; N. Nreerta,

Zungeru (Stimpson), 2 3, 2 9; CamERoons, 1 ¢; Conco

(Curror, Marsden), 1 3,1 2 type subenescens, Katanga, Kam-

bove (Neave), 1 5,12; Supan, White Nile, Gabt-el-Meghahid

(Dunn), 1 3; Uaanna, Wadelai (Hmin Pasha), 1 3, Ruwenzori

(Wollaston), 1 3,3 9; Br. E. Arrtca, Munisu (Ld. Delamere),

1 2, Mombasa (de la Garde), 1 2 ; Germ. H. Arrica, Moschi,

1g, Usagara (Neave), 1 2, Rusizi (Grogan), 1 9; Br. C.

Arrica, Mlanji Boma (Neave), 19, 2d, L. Nyasa, Florence

Bay (Weave), 1 9, Zomba (Johnston), 2 9, Blantyre (Neave),

13, Chinde (de Jersey), 2 5, Lr. Shire Valley (Weave), 13;

MOCTS. 93

N.E. Ruopesia, Up. Luangwa R. (Neave), 1 9 ; Mozambique,

1 3; Masnonaranp, Salisbury (Marshall), 2 3,29; Umtali

(Marshall), 1 2; Transvaan, Barberton (Snooke), 1 2; Narat,

Durban (Gueinzius, Gooch, Clark, Leigh), 28, 22; Manpa-

GascaR, Forét d’Ambre (Meade-Waldo), 1 3; Comoro lise

Mayotta (Meade-Waldo), 1 9 ; Maurrrtius, 1 2 type cnconcisa ;

SEYCHELLES, Mahé (MJeade-Waldo), 2 3,1 9, Felicité (Meade-

Waldo), 23,19; Japan, Yezo (Carpenter), 1 3, Yokohama

(Pryer), 1 3, 29; Corea, Gensan (ho), igs Cs Criasn,

Shanghai, 2 d, Chusan Is. (J. J. Walker), 1 3,1 2, Kiukiang

(Pratt), 1 9, Ship-y-shin (Pratt), 1 9; W. Cutna, Chia-kou-ho

(Pratt), 1 2; S. Cura, Hainan (Whitehead), 13, 19;

Formosa, 1 3, Takow (Hobson), 1 3,3 9; Punsas, Dharmsila

(Hocking), 2 3, 2 9, Wuzeerabad (Hearsey), 13,19, Kala

Pani (¥erbury), 1 9, Jubbulpur (F. Butler), 1 2, Durbunga

(Maries), 22, Allahabad, 19, Manpuri, 12 ; Assam (Badgley),

13, Shillong (Parish), 1 5, 1 9, Silhet (Stainsforth), 2 3,

29, Dibrugrah (Ward), 1 2; Brneat, Calcutta, 1d, 19;

Bompay, 2 2, Ratnagiri (Jayaker), 1 5,19, Thanna Distr.,

Wangni (Swinhoe), 1 2; Manpras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 2 3,

2 2; Travancore, Pirmad (Mrs. Imray), 1 3; Cxryion

(Green), 2 3,1 3 type bifasciata, Periyakulam (Yerbury), 1 9;

Burma, Moulmein (Clerk), 1 3, Pegu Yoma (Bingham), 1 6 ;

ANDAMANS (Hogers), 1 3,2 2 ; Nicopars (Rogers),1 3,1 9,

Nancowry, 8 d ; Senancore (Meade-Waldo), 1 9 ; StNGAPORE

(Ridley), 23, 19; Puritppines, Taytai (Betton), 1 3, San

Fernando (McGregor), 1 2; Nras I. (Schreiber), 1 2; Java

(Horsfield), 4 3,2 Q type gregalis. Exp. 40-56 millim.

Larva. Indian Museum Notes, v. p. 159 (1903).

Purplish brown speckled with black; lateral area yellowish with

red lines ; a sublateral series of small black dots; head with brown

and red lateral streak. Food-plant, Desmodium.

7861. Mocis trifasciata. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 23.)

Catephia trifasciata, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 128 (1829) ; Wood,

Ind. Ent. pl. 17. f. 487.

Remigia demonstrans, W1k. xiv. 1512 (1858).

Remigita discrepans, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 415.

6. Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown; pectus

and legs ochreous tinged with red-brown; abdomen ochreous grey

tinged with brown. Fore wing purplish grey tinged with brown

and irrorated with dark brown; a slight sinuous brown subbasal line

defined on outer side by grey, from costa to submedian fold ; ante-

medial line dark brown defined on inner side by grey, erect, straight,

with a band of chocolate-brown suffusion beyond it; reniform

defined by brown, large; postmedial area suffused with chocolate-

brown, narrowing to inner margin; postmedial line brown slightly

defined on outer side by grey, bent outwards below costa, slightly

angled inwards at vein 7, incurved at discal fold, then straight to

94, NOCTUID#.

submedian fold, then curved upwards to lower edge of reniform

and down to submedian fold, then again excurved, some pale

points beyond it on costa; a subterminal series of black points

on veins 6 to 1; the termen and cilia tinged with brown at middle ;

a fine waved brown terminal line. Hind wing grey-white suffused

with brown; a diffused brown postmedial line followed by a paler

band; a large fuscous brown subterminal patch on costal area

followed by two diffused waved lines from vein 5 to inner margin ;

the termen suffused with brown at middle; a fine waved brown

terminal line ; cilia ochreous white, brown at base at middle; the

underside ochreous white tinged with rufous, the apical area tinged

with fuscous.

Q. Fore wing with the area beyond the antemedial line and the

postmedial area redder brown; hind wing with the ground-colour

ochreous whitish ; underside yellow tinged with rufous and irrorated

with brown; fore wing with blackish discoidal spot, slight post-

medial line from below costa to vein 4, and subterminal patch

between veins 5 and 1; hind wing with black discoidal point,

minutely waved postmedial line and faint subterminal shade forking

towards costa.

Ab. 1. 3. Fore wing more uniform grey-brown, the markings

indistinct and without the ante- and postmedial diffused bands.

Ab. 2. Q discrepans. Fore wing more uniform reddish brown,

the markings indistinct except a narrow black-brown antemedial

band from below costa to inner margin, without the ante- and

postmedial diffused bands.

Hab. Ceram (Wallace), 13 ; Br. N. Guinea (Mathew),1 3,

Dimawa (Pratt), 3 36, 2 9, Mit. Kebea (Pratt), 1 5, 19;

D’EntrecasteEsvux Is. Fergusson I (Meek), 1 5,1 2 ; Sotomon

Is., Pentecost (Woodford), 1 9 ; N. Austratia, Port Darwin ;

Frist (Mathew), 3 3,2 2 type discrepans, Suva (de la Garde),

29; Navieators Is. (Duke of Northumberland), 2 3 type

demonstrans ; FRIENDLY Is., Vavau (Kelipse Exp.), 3 3, Tutuila

I. (Wicholl), 1 9, Tongatabu (Lister), 1 2 ; Tonea (Mathew),

1 3; Tanrri (J. J. Walker), 2 9 ; Marquusas (J. J. Walker),

136,29; Has.ten.,1 ¢ type. Hxp. 48-56 millim.

B. Mid tibize of male smoothly scaled, the hind tibiz fringed

with long hair above only ; underside of wings clothed

with silky hair to beyond middle.

a, Hind wing whitish suffused in parts with brown . ...... alterna.

6. Hind wing grey strongly suffused with brown.

a, Fore wing without prominent dark shades beyond

the antemedial and before the subterminal line.

a2, Fore wing with the antemedial line slightly oblique

arid simuOusn dees vedsusecheoeeececer men seeoeinetasemeaae dolosa.

b°?, Fore wing with the antemedial lineslightly excurved

below costa, then almost erect ..........20..00ceeeee mutuaria.

+. Fore wing with prominent dark shades beyond the

antemedial and before the subterminal line ......... inferna.

MOCTS. 95

7862. Mocis alterna. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 24.)

Kuclidia alterna, Wik. xv. 1833 (1858).

Pseudophia nebuligera, Butl. Trans, Ent. Soc, 1886, p. 413.

3. Head and thorax pale grey mixed with brown; pectus and

legs whitish tinged with rufous, the fore and mid tibie and tarsi

suffused with brown; abdomen whitish dorsally irrorated with —

brown. Fore wing whitish irrorated with brown; subbasal line

black-brown, slightly excurved. below costa and ending at submedian

fold; antemedial line strong, black-brown defined on inner side by

white, oblique and slightly smuous; an indistinct sinuous brown

medial line ; reniform defined by brown and with bifid black patch

beyond it before the postmedial line, which is dark brown defined on

outer side by white, bent outwards below costa, bent inwards at

vein 6 and angled inwards at discal fold, then slightly sinuous to

vein 2 where it is sharply curved upwards to lower edge of reniform

and down to submedian fold, then again excurved; two white points

on costa on the prominent reddish brown shade before the minutely

waved white subterminal line; the termen tinged with brown at

middle ; a fine waved dark terminal line ; cilia whitish tinged with

brown. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the terminal area

suffused with dark brown ; a rather diffused slightly sinuous dark

postmedial line; a whitish subterminal line; a blackish patch at

middle of termen with some whitish above and below it; a waved

blackish terminal line; cilia white tinged with brown at middle.

Underside of both wings white tinged with rufous on basal half,

slight black discoidal lunules, dark postmedial lines excurved below

costa, diffused subterminal lines excurved below costa and some dark

suffusion at apex and middle of terminal areas.

@. Much more uniformly suffused with brown; fore wing with

the ante- and postmedial lines slight but prominently defined by

white, no black patch beyond the reniform or dark shade before the

subterminal line.

Ab. 1. 2 nebuligera. Fore wing paler grey-brown.

Hab. Br. N. Guinna, Sogeri, 1 35, Port Moresby, 1 5; N.

Austrauia (Lisey),1 3 type, Port Darwin (Buckland), 3 3,

1 @; Alexandria (Stalker), 2 6,1 9 ; W. Ausrratia, Sherlock

R. (Clements), 2 3,1 2 ; QuEENSLAND, Peak Downs, 1 2 type

nebuligera, Brisbane (Turner), 1 5,1 2. Kap. 82-42 millim.

7863. Mocis dolosa.

Plecoptera dolosa, Butl. P. Z. 8. 1880, v. 678.

Remigia nigrisigna, Leech, P. Z.8. 1889, p. 553, pl. hi. f. 3.

3. Head and thorax pale grey mixed with brown; pectus, legs,

and abdomen whitish suffused with brown. Fore wing pale grey

tinged and thickly irrorated with reddish brown; a slight sinuous

black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line

red-brown defined on inner side by whitish, slightly excurved below

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costa, then oblique, a minute black spot before it above inner margin,

and a sinuous brown shade beyond it; reniform defined by brown,

with brown bar in centre and rather bifid black-brown mark beyond

it before the postmedial line, which is brown slightly defined on

outer side by whitish, bent outwards below costa, at vein 6 bent

inwards and angled inwards at discal fold, nearly straight to just

above vein 2, then curved upwards to lower edge of reniform and

down to submedian fold, then again excurved; an indistinct pale

dentate subterminal line slightly defined on each side by brown and

with some black-brown before it on costal area; the terminal area

with some brown suffusion except towards tornus; a fine waved

brown terminal line; cilia whitish tinged with brown. Hind wing

grey-white suffused with brown; a rather diffused slightly sinuous

dark postmedial lime; a brown subterminal shade with the slightly

waved whitish subterminal line on it; some dark brown at middle of

termen; cilia whitish tinged with red-brown; the underside with

the basal half whitish tinged with rufous, a dark discoidal lunule.

Q@. Fore wing without the blackish patch beyond the reniform,

the postmedial line less angled inwards at discal fold, then sinuous

to vein 2, a brown shade before the subterminal line but without

blackish towards costa.

Ab. 1. nigrisigna. Fore wing with the antemedial line slightly

sinuous.

Hab. Japan, Satsuma (Leech), 1 3 type nigrisigna, Kiushiu,

12; N. Cutna, Pekin (B. Fletcher), 1 9 ; CmntTR. CHINA,

Shanghai (Pryer), 1 2, Chekiang (Pryer), 1 2; Formosa,

Takow (Hobson), 1 5,8 2 type. Hxp. 32-40 millim.

7864. Mocis mutuaria.

Remigia mutuaria, Wik. xiv. 1506 (1858), 9.

Ophiusa judicans, Wik. xv. 1831 (1858) ¢.

Remigia torpida, W\k. xxxiii. 1013 (1865).

Grammnodes insulsa, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 173 (1860).

Ophiusa nigrimacula, Mab, Ann. Soe. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. p. 847 (1879).

3. Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown; abdomen

grey suffused with brown, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with

brown. Fore wing purplish grey tinged with brown and thickly

irrorated with dark brown; subbasal line slight, brown defined on

outer side by grey, curved, from costa to submedian fold; ante-

medial line chocolate-brown defined on inner side by grey, very

slightly excurved below costa, then slightly oblique, a black point

before it above inner margin; reniform large, defined at sides by

brown and with bifid black mark beyond it before the postmedial

line, which is brown, bent outwards below costa, bent inwards at

vein 6 and angled inwards at discal fold, then obliquely curved to

submedian fold, then curved upwards to lower edge of reniform and

down to submedian fold, then again excurved ; an indistinct dentate

grey subterminal line with black spots before it, above and below

vein 7, then defined on inner side by a slight dark shade; cilia

MOCIS. 97

whitish suffused with brown. Hind wing grey suffused with

brown ; an indistinct dark postmedial line and double diffused sub-

terminal line; cilia whitish suffused with brown ; the underside

with the basal half tinged with rufous, the terminal half grey

tinged and irrorated with brown.

Fig. 26.—Moeis mutuaria, 8. 1.

2. Fore wing without the antemedial black point above inner

margin, a sinuous medial line, the reniform wholly defined by brown

and without the bifid black mark beyond it, a prominent dark shade

before the subterminal line, but without the black spots above and

below vein 7; hind wing on underside wholly grey suffused and

irrorated with brown, a diffused sinuous postmedial line and faint

subterminal shade.

Ab. 1. 9. Fore wing with fuscous patch beyond the postmedial

line at discal fold.

Hab. N. Nigeria, Bauchi Prov., Panyam (Fox), 1 2 ; Conao,

Katanga, Kambove (Weave), 1 5 ; Br. EH. Arrica, Nairobi

(Crawshay), 2 3, 2 9, Machakos (Crawshay), 1 3,1 92;

Ueanpa, Entebbe (Jlinchin), 1 3,1 9, Mulema (Doggett), 19;

Br. C. Arrica, Mlanji Boma (Weave), 1 3, Fort Mangoche

(Weave), 1 2, Rukuru R. (Weave), 2 9, Zomba (Johnston), 2 3,

1 9; N.H. Ruopesia, L. Bangweolo (Neave),1 2 , Fort Jameson

(Weave), 1 2, Luangwa R. (Weave), 1 35 ,Serenje Distr. (Weave),

1 d, Kasama Distr. (Harger), 1 2 ; ANneontnann, Lilongwe

Distr. (Weave), 1 9; Gazananp, Chirinda Forest (Marshall),

192; MozamerauE (Muir), 1 6; Masnonarann, Salisbury

(Marshall),9 3,6 9; Transvaat, Masit Nek, 1 2, Kanuo

(Cooke), 1 5 ; Navat, Karkloof (Marshall),1 3,1 9, Estcourt

(Hutchinson), 1 9, Duffs Road (Thorne), 2 5, Durban ( Guezn-

zius, Gooch),7 &, 2 2 type judicans; Ponpotanp (Swinny),

VOL. XIII. H

98 NOCTUID®.

1 9; Carn Cotony (Drege, Sir A. Smith), 1 3,2 2 type and

type torpida; MapaGascar, type ¢ 3d nigrimacula in Coll. Mabille.

Hap. 40-44 millim. :

7865. Mocis inferna. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 25.)

Remigia inferna, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 565.

Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with chocolate-brown ;

abdomen purplish grey tinged with brown, the ventral surface

whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing purplish grey tinged and

irrorated with brown; subbasal line chocolate-brown, shghtly

excurved below costa and ending at submedian fold; antemedial

line strong, deep chocolate-brown slightly defined on inner side by

pale grey, oblique, slightly bent outwards to inner margin, a small

black spot before it above inner margin, a broad band of brown

suffusion beyond it; reniform defined by brown, elliptical, a rather

bifid chocolate-brown patch beyond it before the postmedial line,

which is chocolate-brown slightly defined on outer side by pale grey,

bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold, at vein 2 curved

upwards to lower edge of reniform and down to submedian fold,

then again excurved; the postmedial area suffused with chocolate-

brown to the indistinct oblique subterminal line, somewhat dentate

and produced to short dark streaks on veins 6 to 1; the termen

suffused with chocolate-brown from apex to vein 3; a fine waved

dark terminal line; cilia with a brownish line near base. Hind

wing greyish suffused with brown ; an oblique diffused dark post-

medial line, excurved below vein 2; the terminal area darker with

some grey before the waved dark terminal line except towards

tornus. Underside greyish suffused with brown; both wings with

diffused postmedial line excurved below costa of hind wing, and the

terminal area darker.

Hab. W. Curyna, Huang-mu-chang (Pratt), 1 d type, Wa-

shan (Pratt), 1 9, Pu-tsu-fang, 1 2, Chow-pin-sa, 1 9. Huap.

44-46 millim.

C. Tibiz of male smootlily scaled, wings on underside slightly

clothed with silky hair to beyond middle.

a. Palpi with the 3rd joint long.

a’. Fore wing with the postmedial line retracted to lower

angle of cell and to the antemedial line at vein] ... persinaosa.

61. Fore wing with the postmedial line reaching inner

TAOINSHIM ~ : eodcononcadeaenatgas cdocednopaHAonSEEcKoGOAs6Esda0000N06 inornata.

7866. Mocis persinuosa.

Remigia persinuosa, Hmpsn. P. Z. 8. 1910, p. 425, pl. xxxvii. f. 16.

¢. Head and thorax brownish grey with a few fuscous scales ;

palpi with the 2nd joint blackish at sides ; fore and mid tibie and

tarsi blackish, the tarsi with pale rmgs; abdomen brownish grey

shghtly irrorated with black and dorsally tinged with fuscous except

MOCTS. 99

at base. Fore wing brownish grey slightly irrorated with black; a

black discoidal point ; postmedial line slight, black, outwardly

oblique from below costa to vein 6, then inwardly oblique, slightly

excurved from vein 5 to below 3, then incurved to below middle of

cell, then stronger and angled outwards at vein 1, then bent up-

wards to submedian fold before middle where it terminates in a

minute angle ; an oblique rather diffused black streak from apex to

vein 4 just beyond postmedial line, with two small obscure black

spots on it below apex; a subterminal series of slight black marks

from below apex to submedian fold where the mark is further from

. 27.—Mocis persinuosa, 3. }.

termen; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing greyish tinged

with brown ; traces of an oblique fuscous postmedial line; a large

fuscous apical patch and faint subterminal shade; a terminal series

of black pomts except towards tornus. Underside of both wings

with small discoidal blackish spot, obliquely curved diffused post-

medial line except on inner area ; fore wing with subterminal shade

expanding into a patch below middle; hind wing with faint sub-

terminal shade.

@. Fore wing with the markings obsolescent.

Hab. Conco, Katanga, Kambove (Neave), 26 type; N.W.

Ruopesta, Kapopo (Neave). Hxp. 48 millim.

*7867. Mocis inornata. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 26.)

Trigonodes inornata, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 86, pl. ii. f. 19 (1894).

d. Grey tinged with reddish brown and with dark red-brown

patches on vertex of head and at middle of tegul ; palpi red-brown,

the 8rd joint greyish above ; fore and mid legs red-brown in front ;

pectus, hind legs and ventral surface of abdomen ochreous white.

Fore wing grey tinged with red-brown and irrorated vee dark

100 NOCTUID SH.

brown ; a blackish discoidal point and indistinct smuous brown line

from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line brown

with red-brown suffusion on its inner side, obliquely downcurved

from costa to vein 6 where it is met by an oblique red-brown shade

from apex, enclosing a whitish patch on costal area, then oblique,

waved; a subterminal series of diffused brown spots, the spot below

vein 4 nearer the postmedial line; a terminal series of blackish

lunules. Hind wing ochreous grey suffused with red-brown; a

diffused subterminal brown shade extending to termen from apex

to vein 4; a terminal series of small blackish spots; the underside

silky brownish ochreous with diffused curved medial line from costa

to vein 2 and brown shade on costa at apex.

Hab. Gazoon, Ogowé R., type+ ¢ in Coll. Holland. zp.

50 millim.

b, Palpi with the 3rd joint moderate.

a, Fore wing with the postmedial line not retracted at

submedian fold, or forming a sinus below end of

cell.

a>, Fore wing without annulus below end of cell.

a3, Fore wing with dark streaks on median nervure

Eyal LOAVES) OP ets ) 1 BZ onoocconsonoetisdonocnosece-coe ramiferd.

U3, Fore wing with indistinct double oblique line from

beyond upper angle of cell angled inwards to

origin of vein 2 and ending above an antemedial

black spot above inner margin ................0000 diplocyma.

c3, Fore wing with indistinct double oblique waved

line beyond the cell before a faint pale post-

medial shade: j4ccek ste ecerosceisaceceeies cmeeerstantnece ss undifera.

d3, Fore wing with oblique dark line beyond the cell

before the subterminal line ..............0...ceseeeees escondida.

62. Fore wing with annulus below end of cell.

a3, Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines

confluent above inner margin ..............600.00- propugnata.

63, Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines not

confluent above inner margin ................0eeeeene annetta,

b'. Fore wing with the postmedial line retracted at sub-

median fold and forming a sinus below end of cell.

a, Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique ......... laxa.

b?, Fore wing with the antemedial line almost erect ... discios.

7868. Mocis ramifera, n. sp. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 27.)

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous slightly tinged with

rufous ; palpi, pectus, and legs more strongly tinged with rufous,

the fore tibia in front and the tarsi red- brown. Fore wing

ochreous irrorated with brown; a brown streak on median nervure

forking on base of veins 2 to 5 and with some rufous suffusion

below it; a brown streak on vein 1 with some rufous suffusion

above and below it; postmedial line brown with some rufous

suffusion beyond it, arising at vein 6, oblique, bent inwards below

vein 1; a subterminal series of small black spots on the veins with

a whitish line before them; a slight waved brown terminal line.

Hind wing pale ochreous with a reddish brown subterminal shade,

MOCIS. 101

diffused to termen on apical area; a fine brown terminal line: the

underside pale ochreous with the costal area and terminal area to

vein 2 tinged with rufous.

2. Fore wing with the postmedial line angled inwards at vein 2:

hind wing tinged with brown.

Hab. Purv, Callao (J. J. Walker), 1 3,1 2 type. Exp.

44 millim. ;

7869. Mocis diplocyma, n. sp. (Plate CCX XIII. fig. 28.)

2. Head and thorax ochreous slightly tinged with brown ; palpi

and legs tinged with rufous; abdomen ochreous. Fore wine

ochreous sparsely irrorated with black seales; a small black spot

above inner margin before middle; an oblique reddish brown streak

from diseal fold beyond the cell along median nervure to origin of

vein 2; an ill-defined oblique waved red-brown line from vein 7

beyond the cell to submedian fold, then bent inwards as an oblique

streak to above the antemedial black spot; postmedial line red-

brown, arising at vein 7 below apex and oblique to vein 1, a

diffused brown shade beyond it extending to inner margin; an

indistinct pale subterminal line defined on outer side by reddish

brown with slight points of black scales at the veins; cilia reddish

brown at tips from apex to vein 2. Hind wing pale ochreous

faintly tinged with rufous and irrorated with blackish scales on

terminal half; a brown subterminal shade; the underside with the

costal area and terminal area to vein 2 faintly tinged with rufous

and irrorated with blackish scales.

Hab. Brazit, Amazons, Parantins (dusten), 1 2 type. Exp.

44 millim.

7870. Mocis undifera, n. sp. (Plate CCX XIII. fig. 29.)

@. Head and thorax grey suffused with reddish brown; abdomen

greyish ochreous. Fore wing grey suffused with reddish brown ;

traces of an oblique sinuous antemedial line with a black point

before it above inner margin; a very indistinct waved medial line ;

two very indistinct oblique slightly waved lines beyond the cell

followed by a faint pale postmedial shade with slight dark marks

on its outer edge at the veins; a subterminal series of black points

on the veins; a fine waved dark terminal line. Hind wing greyish

ochreous tinged with reddish brown; the underside with the costal

area and terminal area to vein 2 tinged with rufous.

Hab. Ecuapor, Guayaquil (Dolby-Tyler), 1 Q type. Exp.

42 millim.

*7871. Mocis escondida. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 30.)

Phurys escondida, Schaus, A. M.N. H. (7) viii. p. 84 (1901).

@. Head and thorax pale reddish brown mixed with grey ;

abdomen ochreous brown. Fore wing red-brown thickly irorated

with grey; an oblique red-brown postmedial line from below costa

102 NOOLUID®.

to middle of submedian fold; an oblique diffused subterminal red-

brown line from below apex to vein 1 with traces of another line

beyond it; a fine brown terminal line. Hind wing ochreous tinged

with brown ; a diffused subterminal brown shade somewhat oblique

below vein 5 and ending at vein 2; a fine brown terminal line ; the

underside whitish irrorated with brown.

Hab. Brazit, Castro Paratia (D. Jones), type T 2 im the U.S.

Nat. Mus. xp. 36 millim.

7872. Mocis propugnata. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 31.)

Remigia propugnata, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 566.

3. Head and thorax chocolate-brown mixed with grey-white ;

frons with curved white line above; tegule white at tips; patagia

with oblique white line near base; pectus and legs red-brown ;

abdomen grey suffused with reddish brown. Fore wing purplish

erey tinged with brown and irrorated with chocolate-brown, the

terminal area paler; subbasal line indistinct, pale defined on each

side by brown, curved, from costa to submedian fold; a round

black spot defined by whitish above inner margin before middle ;

antemedial line dark slightly defined on inner side by whitish and

with a chocolate-brown band on its outer side, excurved below

costa, strongly angled inwards above vein 1, the band forming a

conical patch in submedian interspace, above inner margin curved

outwards to joi the postmedial line; a brown medial line, oblique

to median nervure and angled outwards in submedian fold;

reniform defined by brown except above and with curved brown

striga in centre, elliptical; a brown annulus below end of cell;

postmedial line dark brown slightly defined on outer side by pale

grey and with chocolate-brown band before it except on costa area,

excurved below costa, incurved beyond lower angle of cell, strongly

excurved in submedian interspace then curving round to join the

antemedial line, the chocolate-brown band before it forming rather

triangular patches beyond the cell and in submedian interspace ;

subterminal line oblique and black-brown from costal to above

vein 6 where it is produced to a short point, then rather indistinct,

incurved below vein 5 and with short dark streaks beyond it on the

veins; a slight brown shade before termen from costa to vein 2; a

waved brown terminal line. Hind wing greyish suffused with red-

brown; a faint oblique diffused postmedial line and subterminal

shade; a waved dark terminal line; the underside pale greyish

tinged and irrorated with brown.

Hab, W. Cutna, Kwei-chow, 1 ¢ type, Pu-tsu-fang, 1 o.

Exp. 46 millin.

7873. Mocis annetta.

Remigia annetta, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 298 (1878); id. Ill. Het.

B.M. ii. p. 48, pl. 34. f.7; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 240.

3. Head and thorax red-brown, the patagia with slight oblique

white line near base; antenne dark brown; palpi, pectus, and the

MOCIS. 103

hair on femora rufous; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the

ventral surface pale irrorated with brown. Fore wing purplish

grey suffused with reddish brown; a slight whitish subbasal line

from costa to submedian fold, excurved at subcostal nervure ; ante-

medial line deep chocolate-brown defined on inner side by pale grey

and with chocolate-brown suffusion beyond it, oblique; an indistinct

brown medial line, oblique to the reniform, then incurved, and ex-

curved below submedian fold; reniform defined by brown, elliptical,

a chocolate-brown patch beyond it; an elleptical brown annulus

below end of cell; postmedial line chocolate-brown slightly defined

on outer side by pale grey, bent outwards below costa and obliquely

incurved below vein 6; a quadrate chocolate-brown patch on post-

medial part of costa with the indistinct dentate brown subterminal

line arising from its outer angle, bent outwards to tornus and with

blackish points beyond it on veins 6 to 2; the termen and cilia

suffused with red-brown from apex to vein 2. Hind wing greyish

suffused with cupreous brown ; a faint oblique postmedial line and

subterminal shade. Underside of fore wing grey-brown, the costa

and terminal area ochreous irrorated with brown; hind wing

ochreous whitish irrorated with brown, a sinuous brown postmedial

line except on inner area and faint subterminal shade.

®. Head and thorax brighter rufous; fore wing with the brown

suffusion redder; hind wing rather greyer; underside of fore wing

whitish except the costal and terminal areas, a dark postmedial line

and subterminal shade; hind wing with the inner area whiter.

Hab. E. Srgerta, Ussuri, 1 d, 1 9, Viadivostock (Christoph),

1 @; Japan, Hakodaté, 1 ¢d, Nagasaki (Lewis, Leech), 3 9,

Fusiki (Leech), 1 9, Nikko (Lewis), 1 ¢, Tokio (Maries), 1 3,

1 2, Yokohama (Jonas), 13,1 2 type; Corna, Gensan (Ito),

1 9; W. Cuina, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 2, Omei-shan, 1 d,

Washan (Pratt), 1 2, Kia-ting-fu, 1 ¢, Kwei-chow, 1 d,

Chow-pin-sa, 1 2, Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1 5, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt),

1 2, Moupin (Kricheldorf), 12. Hap. 44-50 millim.

7874. Mocis laxa.

Phurys laxa, Wik. xiv. 1486 (1858) ; Hampsn. Moths Ind. it. p. 525.

Drasteria pavona, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 117. f. 9 (1874).

Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey suffused with brown ;

antennz whitish with dark rings. Fore wing purplish grey

suffused with brown; a faint curved brown subbasal line from

costa to submedian fold; antemedial line brown slightly defined on

inner side by grey, inwardly oblique and slightly incurved, a broad

chocolate-brown band beyond it except on costal area extending to

beyond upper part of reniform and below the cell to the postmedial

line; reniform defined by brown and with slight brown striga in

centre; postmedial line dark brown, oblique from costa to submedian

fold, then curved upwards to lower edge of reniform and down to

submedian fold, then oblique to inner margin, a chocolate-brown

. . © Nes A “an a, 7

band beyond it extending to inner margin and followed by brown

104 NOCTUID &.

suffusion to the very indistinct waved brown subterminal line with

slight dark points on the veins; the termen narrowly tinged with

brown from apex to below vein 3; a slight waved brown terminal

line and faint line at middle of cilia. Hind wing grey suffused

with brown, the terminal area darker; an indistinct brown post-

medial line with slightly paler band beyond it; a shght brown

Fig. 28.—Mocis lava, 3. }-

terminal line; cilia whitish at tips; the underside with faint

diffused postmedial line and subterminal shade.

Hab. Centr. Cutna, Ichang (Urs. Pratt), 1 9; W. Cura,

Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 6, Moupin (Kricheldorf), 2 3; StKHIM,

3 2 type; Assam (Badgley), 1 5, 1 2, Cherra Punji, 1 ¢o.

Hap. 48-52 millim.

7875. Mocis discios. (Plate CCX XIII. fig. 32.)

Ophiusa discios, Koll. Higel’s Kaschmir, iv. p. 477 (1848); Hampsn.

Moths Ind. ii. p. 525.

Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown; abdomen

erey tinged with brown. Fore wing purplish grey tinged and

wrorated with brown; a faint diffused brown postmedial line,

excurved below costa and ending at submedian fold; antemedial

line black-brown defined on inner side by pale grey, erect, straight,

a band of blackish brown suffusion beyond it expanding below the

celi to the postmedial line; reniform defined at sides by brown and

with triangular black-brown spot beyond it; postmedial line dark

brown; slightly excurved below costa, then oblique to sub-

median fold, then curved upwards to lower edge of reniform and

down to submedian fold where it is again excurved; a band of

MOCIS.—PHURYS. 105

blackish-brown suffusion beyond it extending to inner margin and

to the very indistinct dentate subterminal line with a series of

blackish points on the veins; the termen tinged with brown from

apex to below vein 8; a fine waved brown terminal line. Hind

wing grey suffused with brown; an indistinct brown postmedial

line and diffused subterminal shade; a fine brown terminal line;

the underside with the postmedial line more diffused and curved.

Hab. Punsa (Read, Magee), 2 3, Kulu, Sultanpur (G4. Young),

13,1 Q, Simla (Harford), 3 2, Masuri (Lang), 1 9, Dharmsila

(Hocking),5 6,29. Exp. 44-50 millim.

Genus PHURYS.

Crochiphora, Hibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. iii. p.35 (1825), Type.

non. descr. .......... ddons0cbonc9bos0SondeauoNd sedge qaDbaoucoebeaaDbEBOoG flavistriaria.

Phurys, Guen. Noct. iil. p. 8038 (1852) .........c...0.ceceesescesceee vinculum.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long; frons smooth, without tuft of

hair; eyes large, round; antennze of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost

entirely with scales and without crests; femora and tibie of male typically

fringed with long hair, in female smoothly scaled; the fore tibize not spined,

the hind tibize spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore

wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved

and slightly crenulate; veins 3 and 4 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 cell about about one-third length of wing; veins 3, 4 from

angle; 5 fully developed from above angle; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anasto-

mosing with the cell near base only.

Sect. I. (Phurys.) Femora and tibiz of male fringed with long hair.

A. Fore wing with the ground-colour leaden grey.................- vinculun.

B. Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous ................2.+6- immunis.

7876. Phurys vinculum.

Phurys vinculum, Guen. Noct. ili. p. 304 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 357.

Head and thorax glossy leaden grey tinged with brown ; antennze

with the shaft white above towards base; pectus and legs red-

brown tinged with grey, the tarsi grey; abdomen ochreous brown.

Fore wing glossy leaden grey irrorated with blackish; an inwardly

oblique yellow antemedial line defined on outer side by dark red-

brown; reniform with whitish annulus; postmedial line yellow

defined on inner side by a fine red-brown line and on outer by a

red-brown band, arising from costa towards apex, oblique to vein 2,

then erect; a subterminal series of black points on the veins just

beyond the brown band; a chocolate-brown apical spot; a terminal

series of minute black points. Hind wing greyish ochreous

suffused with brown, the terminal area broadly grey-brown, defined

on inner side by the faint whitish postmedial line bent outwards to

1068 NOCTUID®.

inner margin; cilia brownish grey; the underside ochreous brown,

the apical area browner.

Fig. 29.—Phurys vinculum, S. }.

Hab. U.S,A., Southern States, Florida (Doubleday), 2 3, Miami

(Schaus), 1 3, N. Smyrna, 1 3, Tampa, 1 ¢ ; Banamas, Nassau

(Sir G. Carter, Bonhote),3 3,19. Exp. 86-40 millim.

7877. Phurys immunis. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 1.)

Phurys immunis, Guen, Noct. iii. p. 305 (1852); Druce, Biol. Cent.-Am.,

Het. i. p. 385.

3S. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with red-brown; antenn

brown at tips; pectus and legs red-brown, the tarsi and hind legs

pale ochreous ; abdomen pale ochreous. Fore wing pale ochreous

tinged and irrorated with red-brown; antemedial line obliquely

incurved, yellow defined on outer side by red-brown and with some

red-brown suffusion beyond it; reniform with faint whitish annulus,

narrow ; two rather faint obliquely ineurved and slightly sinuous

red-brown lines just beyond the cell ; postmedial line yellow defined

on outer side by a red-brown band, arising from costa towards apex

and obliquely incurved ; a subterminal series of black points on the

veins just beyond the brown band; the termen suffused with

brown; a terminal series of minute black points. Hind wing

ochreous, the terminal area suffused with reddish brown defined on

inner side by the faint pale postmedial line; a terminal series of

minute black points; cilia ochreous at base, whitish at tips; the

underside ochreous, the costal area and terminal area to vein 4

tinged with red-brown, a faint brown postmedial line and sub-

terminal shade from costa to vein 5.

@. Fore wing more evenly suffused with red-brown.

PHURYS. 107

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the reniform filled in with dark brown.

Hab. Merxtco, Presidio (Forrer), 1 3, Guerrero, Dos Arroyas

CHEERS), b 9 Acapulco: (Hi EE Smith), 1 $, Tierra

Colorada (H. H. Smith), 13,19, Yucatan, Temax (Gaumer),

2,19; GuarpMata, San Geronimo (Champion), 25,1 9,

Zapote (Champion), 13,19, Irazu (Rogers), 1 3; Honpuras

(Dyson), 1 9; Panama (J. J. Walker), 13 , Chiriqui (Champion),

13, Taboga I. (J. J. Walker), 1 3, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Jamaica

(Goss), 1 2, Gordon Town (Kaye), 1 3; Cua, Santiago (Schaus),

2 2, Matanzas (Schaus), 1 9; Harri (Tweedie), 3 5, 2 9;

St. THomas; Antigua (Gregory), 1 9; GuapaLourE; Martin-

IQUE; Sta. Lucta (Cowie), 1 5,1 9; Sr. Vincent (H. H. Smith),

1 3; Barzavos (Hrampton),1 3,1 9; Grenava (H. H. Smith),

23,19; Venezunta, 25,22; Br. Guiana (Roberts), 1 3,

1 @, Demerara (Rodway), 1 3, Bartica (Kaye), 1 9; Fr. Guana

St. Laurent Maroni, 2d. Hp. 30-38 millim.

Seer. Il. (Crochiphora.) Femora and tibiz of male smoothly scaled.

A. Fore wing with the ground-colour pale ochreous.

a. Fore wing with oblique black band or line from below

angle of cell to inner margin before middle ............ basilans.

b. Fore wing without oblique black band or line from

below angle of cell to inner margin.................000080 agrapta.

B. Fore wing with the ground-colour purple-grey.

a. Fore wing with two indistinct lines just beyond the cell,

the veins beyond the cell streaked with white.

a. Fore wing with brown suffusion beyond the reni-

AO NGM ee eto fails le eicie(aeniciis ale seieiovn Saerreisrciamabiatnsanine dene infecta.

b1, Fore wing without brown suffusion beyond the

ISCO LIM Mena ese nee ae teicact ine Saccce ms selaanainsiausueriiee dee bistriga.

b, Fore wing without indistinct lines just beyond the cell,

the veins not streaked with white.

a‘, Kore wing with the antemedial line defined on inner

side by white and almost straight.

a*. Fore wing with the antemedial line black and

Guitusedsoniimmneriarearecenaseseeecaseecee eeeceerene lima.

b?. Fore wing with the antemedial line brown and nct.

GliiTB eG! Om IMME BIR, soconbaondvoodboosonoacsonsnodoss herbarun.

b'. Fore wing with the antemedial line defined on inner

side by yellow.

@, Fore wing with the antemedial line almost straight.

a, Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique...... bistrigata.

v8. Fore wing with the postmedial line erect ......... ovalis.

b?, Fore wing with the antemedial line minutely

Gentatevonmthenvernsraceeneeeeeeecsacescceercncec ects campanilis.

c'. Fore wing with the antemedial line indistinct and

not defined on inner side by white or yellow.

a*, Fore wing with the antemedial line waved ......... flavistriaria.

l?, Fore wing with the antemedial line angled

outwards on median NerVUre .........c0seeseeee eres carolina.

108 NOCTUID SE.

7878. Phurys basilans. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 2.)

Phurys basilans, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 806 (1852).

Phurys asseverans, Wk. xy. 1844 (1858).

Hormisa abeluxalis, Wik. xix. 847 (1859).

Euclidia tephrina, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 117. f. 7 (1874).

Cenurgia purgata, Druce, Biol, Cent.-Am., Het. 1. p. 887 (part.).

Head and thorax ochreous white, the head, tegula, and prothorax

tinged with red-brown ; abdomen ochreous white; pectus, legs, and

ventral surface of abdomen ochreous. Fore wing pale ochreous,

the costal area slightly irrorated with red-brown ; an oblique rather

diffused black fascia from below lower angle of cell to inner margin

near base towards which it narrows; a black pomt in middle of

cell and discoidal point; postmedial line yellow defined on outer

side by a dark brown line followed by a red-brown band, some

reddish brown suffusion before it beyond the oblique fascia, arising

from costa close to apex, oblique and slightly imcurved; a faint

subterminal brown line just beyond the brown band with minute

black streaks at the veins; a fine brown terminal line; cilia brown

at middle, ochreous at base and tips. Hind wing ochreous white,

the termen more ochreous; cilia brownish from apex to vein 2; the

underside with the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 ochreous

yellow slightly irrorated with red-brown.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the oblique black fascia narrower and less

diffused.

@. Head, thorax, and fore wing more strongly suffused and

irrorated with reddish brown, the oblique fascia from below end of

cell slight, brownish, and obsolescent, the yellow postmedial line

more distinct.

Hab. Honnuras (Dyson), 1 3, Ruatan I. (Gauwmer),1 9,

Godman-Salvin Coll.; VenezuEta, 1 3; Braziz, Itaparica

(Meade-Waldo), 1 9, Pernambuco, 1 d, Hspiritu Santo, 1 d,

1 2, Rio Janeiro (Dohrn, Fry), 7 3, 4 9, Tijyuca (W agner),

1 9; Paracuay, Sapucay (Poster), 6 5,12. Hxp. 32-36

millim.

7879. Phurys agrapta, n. sp. (Plate CCX XIV. fig. 2.)

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous; palpi, antenne,

and pectus suffused with red-brown. Fore wing pale ochreous, the

costal area slightly irrorated with red-brown, the terminal area

tinged with grey; a black point in middle of cell and discoidal

point; two faint oblique brown lines just beyond the cell; post-

medial line red-brown defined on outer side by a greyish Worn

band, arising from costa close to apex, oblique and slightly incurved ;

a erey-brown subterminal line just beyond the brown band, with

minute black points at the veins; a grey-brown terminal line; cilia

PHURYS. 109

grey-brown, whitish at base and tips. Hind wing ochreous white ;

cilia brownish at base, whitish at tips; the underside tinged with

red-brown except on inner area.

Hab. Br. Grtana, Demerara (Rodway), 2 3 type. Exp. 32

miullim.

7880. Phurys infecta. (Plate COXXIV. fig. 4.)

Celiptera infecta, WIk. xiv. 1487 (1858).

Moceis refracta, W1\k. xiv. 1488 (1858).

3. Head and thorax pale purplish grey suffused with red-

brown ; abdomen pale grey suffused with red-brown. Fore wing

pale glossy purple-grey irrorated with red-brown; a slight curved

dark subbasal line defined on outer side by whitish; antemedial

line white defined on outer side by diffused chocolate-brown, slightly

excurved below costa, then erect; reniform with its centre defined

by brown and white annulus defined by chocolate-brown, a patch of

chocolate-brown suffusion beyond it traversed by faint whitish

streaks on the veins; a slight dark line from inner edge of reniform

to inner margin and two faint lines beyond the cell somewhat

incurved below vein 6; postmedial line white defined on inner side

by a fine brown line and on outer by a chocolate-brown band

diffused outwardly, slightly excurved below costa, then obliquely

incurved ; an indistinct dentate dark subterminal line with blackish

points at the veins; a deep chocolate-brown spot at apex and fine

rather punctiform blackish terminal line; cilia pale grey at base,

brown at tips. Hind wing greyish suffused with red-brown; a

slight whitish postmedial line from discal fold to tornus; cilia

whitish at base, brownish at tips; the underside whitish irrorated

with red-brown, the terminal area suffused with red-brown except

towards tornus, an indistinct curved brown postmedial line from

costa to vein 2.

Hab. Hartt (Tweedie), 2 3 type and type refracta; ? Brazin.

Exp. 36 millim.

7881. Phurys bistriga. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 5.)

Phurys bistriga, Herr.-Schaff. Corresp.-blatt. zool.-min. Ver. Regensb.

xxili. p. 155 (1869).

Head and thorax purplish grey irrorated with red-brown ; palpi

and fore legs suffused with brown; abdomen pale grey irrorated

with brown. Fore wing pale glossy grey with a slight cupreous

tinge and irrorated with brown; a slight white subbasal line from

costa to submedian fold; antemedial line white defined on outer

side by rather diffused dark red-brown, slightly outwardly oblique ;

reniform with its centre suffused by brown and whitish annulus

defined by brown, slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; a

faint oblique dark line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ;

two faint dark lines beyond the cell, oblique below vein 6; the

veins beyond the cell streaked with white and defined by fine

110 NOCTUID ©.

brown streaks; postmedial line white defined on inner side by a

fine brown line and on outer by a chocolate-brown band diffused

outwardly, slightly excurved below costa, then obliquely incurved ;

the terminal area deep purple-grey with traces of a waved dark

subterminal line excurved at middle; a deep chocolate-brown spot

at apex and a rather punctiform black terminal line; cilia grey at

base, fuscous at tips. Hind wing pale greyish suffused with red-

brown, the terminal area darker brown defined on inner side by the

slight whitish postmedial line from vein 6 to tornus; a fine dark

terminal line; cilia with a pale line at base; the underside whitish

tinged and irrorated with brown, a slight dark discoidal point and

traces of a postmedial line from costa to vein 5.

Hab. Cupa, Santiago (Schaus),33,89. Hap. 26-30 millim.

7882. Phurys lima. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 6.)

Phurys lima, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 805 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

p. 37.

Poaphila obversa, Wk. xiv. 1473 (1858).

Pouphila dissocians, W1k. xiv. 1477 (1858).

3. Head and thorax pale purplish grey suffused with red-brown ;

abdomen pale grey suffused with red-brown. Fore wing pale

purplish grey tinged with red-brown and irrorated with dark

brown; a slight dark subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ;

a small round black spot above inner margin before the antemedial

line, which is whitish defined on outer side by black-brown except

at costa, rather diffused especially on inner area, evenly incurved ;

reniform faintly defined at sides by brown ; postmedial line whitish

defined on inner side by a fine brown line and on outer by black-

brown suffusion, arising from costa towards apex and obliquely

incurved; a subterminal series of slight blackish points on the

veins; a terminal series of minute blackish points. Hind wing

greyish suffused with brown ; a slight whitish postmedial line from

below costa to inner margin towards tornus ; the underside whitish

thickly irrorated with brown.

Hab. U.S.A., New York, Southern States, 1 5, Georgia, 1 3

type obversa, Texas, Dallas (Boll), 13; Has. 1en., 1 3 type

dissocians. Exp. 38-40 millim. This may be the male of

P. bistrigata.

7883. Phurys herbarum. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 7.)

Poaphila herbarum, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 803 (1858); Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 357.

Celiptera bifasciata, Bates, Can. Ent. xviii. p. 94 (1886).

3g. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown.

Fore wing pale purplish grey suffused with red-brown and irrorated

with dark brown; a small round black spot above inner margin

before the antemedial line, which is pale yellow defined on outer

side by black-brown, arising at subcostal nervure and rather

PHURYS. LiL

inwardly oblique; reniform faintly defined at sides by brown;

postmedial line pale yellow defined on inner side by a slight red-

brown line and on outer by dark brown, arising from costa towards

apex and obliquely incurved; a subterminal series of minute black

points on the veins; a terminal series of minute black points.

Hind wing whitish suffused with red-brown and slightly irrorated

with dark brown ; a faint whitish postmedial line; the underside

white irrorated with brown, a faint diffused curved brown post-

medial line and traces of a subterminal line.

2. Fore wing without the black spot before the antemedial line.

Hab. U.S.A., Southern States, Georgia, 1 9, Texas, Dallas

(Boll),23,49. Hap. 38-42 millim.

7884. Phurys bistrigata. (Plate CCXXIV. fic. 8.)

Ptichodes bistrigata, Hibn. Zutr. exot. Schmett. i, 21. ff. 111-112 (1818) ;

Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am, p. 357.

@. Head and thorax purple-grey irrorated with brown; abdomen

pale grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing purple-grey irrorated

with brown; the costal edge brownish ochreous; antemedial line

ochreous yellow defined on outer side by red-brown, inwardly

oblique; a slight brown discoidal striga; postmedial line ochreous

yellow defined on inner side by red-brown, arising from costa

towards apex, inwardly oblique; traces of a brown subterminal

line ; a terminal series of black points; cilia with faint dark lines

near base and tips. Hind wing pale grey irrorated with red-brown,

the terminal area suffused with red-brown; a slight dark terminal

line from apex to vein 4; the underside pale grey irrorated with

red-brown.

Hab. U.S.A., Georgia, 1 9. xp. 38 millim.

7885. Phurys ovalis. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 9.)

Phurys ovalis, Grote, Papilio, iii. p. 75 (1883); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am,

p. 357.

Head and thorax purplish grey irrorated with brown ; abdomen

pale grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated

with brown ; antemedial line ochreous yellow defined on outer side

by red-brown, outwardly oblique; a dark discoidal striga ; post-

medial line ochreous yellow defined on inner side by red-brown,

inwardly oblique ; an indistinct pale dentate subterminal line with

black points at the veins; a fine waved brown terminal line ; cilia

brown with whitish lines at base and near tips. Hind wing pale

purplish grey suffused and irrorated with red-brown ; a shght dark

postmedial line defined on outer side by grey from vein 5 to inner

margin; a brown terminal line; cilia brownish grey with a pale

line at base; the underside whitish tinged and irrorated with red-

brown.

Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, Huachuca Mts.,1 2. Hap. 34 millim. ;

$ in Coll. Wolley-Dod.

112 NOCTUID ®.

*7886. Phurys campanilis.

Phurys campanilis, Smith, Can, Ent. xxxvii. p. 68 (1908).

3. Head and thorax deep bluish grey ; abdomen ochreous

suffused with fuscous. Fore wing deep bluish grey ; antemedial

line diffused, blackish defined on inner side by orange, oblique,

minutely dentate on the veins and incurved in the interspaces ;

reniform an oblique blackish bar; postmedial line double, diffused,

blackish filled in with orange, almost straight and erect, the inner

line interrupted and indistinct except at costa and inner margin,

the outer line expanding into oval spots at discal and submedian

folds ; subterminal line golden brown defined on inner side by faint

pale shades, angled outwards on the veins and incurved in the

interspaces; a terminal series of blackish points on the veins.

Hind wing dark ochreous suffused with fuscous; a faint yellowish

medial shade and traces of a dentate subterminal line. Underside

of both wings uniform tawny yellow, the cilia leaden grey.

Hab. U.S.A., Florida, Chokaloskee. Exp. 35 millim. This

species is unknown to me.

7887. Phurys flavistriaria.

Crochiphora flavistriaria, Hiibu. Zutr. exot. Schmett. iii. p. 35, ff. 555-556

(1825); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 359.

Poaphila perplexa, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 802 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 359.

Poaphila perspicua, Wk. xiv. 1477 (1858); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

p. 008.

Phurys glans, Grote, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 416 (1875).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale purplish grey tinged with

red-brown; palpi and fore tibie red-brown. Fore wing pale

Fig. 80.—Phurys flavistriaria, §. }.

purplish grey slightly tinged with red-brown and irrorated with

dark brown; a very indistinct waved dark antemedial line; a

PHURYS.—DORYODES. 113

strong obliqne slightly sinuous chocolate-brown line from apex to

inner margin beyond middle with a faint yellowish line on its

inner side defined by a very slight brown line on inner half; a

series of black points just before termen. Hind wing purplish

grey suffused with fuscous brown; a rather darker subterminal

shade extending to termen on apical area, the rest of termen

greyer; the underside whitish irrorated with dark brown, the costal

area tinged with red-brown, a slight black discoidal lunule and

terminal series of small black lunules.

Ab. 1. perplexa. Fore wing rather greyer.

Hab. U.S.A., Florida, 1 3 type glans; Han. 1en., 1 3 type

perspicua. Exp. 38 millim. °

*7888. Phurys carolina.

Phurys carolina, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxvii. p. 68 (1905).

36. Head and thorax fuscous brown suffused with violaceous

erey ; abdomen fuscous brown. Fore wing fuscous brown suffused

with violaceous grey; antemedial line indistinct, dark, diffused,

angled outwards on median nervure; reniform an indistinct elliptical

blackish spot; postmedial line double, dark brown filled in with

yellow, excurved below costa towards which it is reduced to a slight

line faintly defined on outer side by yellow scales, joined at vein 6

by a double oblique dark streak filled in with yellow from apex,

then continued as an inwardly oblique line to inner margin ;

subterminal line absent; a fine crenulate brown terminal line with

blackish points in the interspaces. Hind wing almost uniform

dark brown. Underside of both wings yellowish irrorated with

fuscous and with indistinct discoidal spots.

@. Fore wing with the markings almost obsolete.

Hab. U.S.A., N. Carolina. Ep. 34 millim. This species is

unknown to me.

Genus DORYODES.

Type.

Doryodes, Guen. Ur. & Phal. ii. p. 283 (1857).........--sseeeeeeeeeee bistrialis.

Themma, Wk. xxvii. 186 (1863) 20.0.2... ce ccecc ec ee eee ec ee ee een eer eee spadaria.

Tunza, Wk. xxvii. 196 (1863) 0.0.0... cece esses ec ner eect ec ec eee eeees spadaria.

Proboscis aborted and slender; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely

upturned, curved forward at extremity and moderately sealed, the 3rd

nioderate, porrect ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round ;

antenn of male bipectinate with moderate branches to apex ; thorax clothed

with hair and hair-like scales, and without crests; build slender; tibix

smoothly scaled, all the tibie spined; abdomen long, smoothly scaled and

without crests. Fore wing very long and narrow, the apex produced and

acute, the termen very oblique 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 the cell half the length of wing ;

veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from above angle 6, 7 from upper

angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base, then approximated to it to beyond

middle.

VOU. XIIt.

114 NOCTUID&.

A. Fore wing with silvery white streaks below subcostal nervure

and vein 7 to the postmedial line..............cseseseseceeeeer ees insularia,

B. Fore wing without silvery white streak below subcostal

neryure and vein 7,

a, Fore wing with the brown fascia below the cell well defined,

the postmedial line strong and extending to vein 2 ...... bistrialis.

b. Fore wing with rather diffused brown shade below the cell,

the postmedial line fine and ending at vein 3 ............... spadaria.

7889. Doryodes insularia. (Plate CCX XIV. fig. 10.)

Doryodes insularia, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xiv. p. 174 (1904).

3. Head and thorax white slightiy tinged with brown; antennz

with the branches brown; abdomen white. Fore wing white

tinged with ochreous ; a, black point in middle of cell and discoidal

point ; a silvery white streak below subcostal nervure and vein 7

to the postmedial line; a silvery white streak on median nervure

and base of vein 5 with a chocolate-brown fascia below it and beyond

it where it is curved upwards to apex on the inner side of an

obliquely curved silvery white fascia from apex to vein 2 below

middle of cell; a fine brown terminal line. Hind wing white

slightly tinged with ochreous.

Hab. Bawamas, Nassau (Sir G. Carter), 2 3 type. Hap.

30 millim.

7890. Doryodes bistrialis.

Agriphila bistrialis, Geyer, Hibn. Zutr. ex. Schmett. 4. jhe Gey wh TH)

776 (1832) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 192.

Ligia acutaria, Herv.-Schaff. Samml. eur. Schmett. vi. p. 74, Geom.

f. 477 (1856); Guen. Ur. & Phal. ii. p. 233, pl. 17. f. 6.

Head and thorax ochreous white tinged with brown; antennz

Fig. 31.—Doryodes bistrialis, $. 3

1°

with the branches brown; palpi and fore legs reddish brown ;

abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous white tinged and

DORYODES.—NYMBIS. . TALS.

slightly irrorated with brown; a black point in middle of cell

and discoidal point; a silvery white streak along median nervure

to vein 5 beyond the cell defined below by a slight dark streak and

with a chocolate-brown fascia below it and beyond it to the

postmedial line, which is silvery white, arising from apex and

obliquely downcurved to vein 2 below end of cell, defined on inner

side by a fine dark line and on outer side also from below apex to

vein 5; an indistinct brown subterminal line except towards inner

margin ; a fine dark terminal line and a slight brown line near

base of cilia. Hind wing pale ochreous, the cilia whitish.

fTab. U.S.A., Eastern, Middle, and Southern States, 2 5, 4 9,

Maine, Massachusetts (Packard), 135, Kansas. Hap. 34-40

millim.

7891. Doryodes spadaria. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 11.)

Doryodes spadaria, Guen. Ur. & Phal. ii. p. 234 (1857); Smith, Cat.

Woe, IN, Aim, yo, U2

Themma divisa, W\k. xxvii. 186 (1863).

Tunza promptella, Wik. xxvii. 196 (1863).

Head and thorax pale ochreous tinged with brown; antenne

with the branches brown; palpi and fore legs in front reddish

brown ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous tinged and

slightly irrorated with brown; a black point in middle of cell and

discoidal point ; a silvery white streak on median nervure and _ base

of vein 5 defined below by a slight dark streak and with a

chocolate-brown shade below it; postmedial line silvery white

defined by fine dark brown lines, arising from apex and oblique

to vein 3 just beyond end of cell; an indistinct brown subterminal

line except towards inner margin; a fine dark terminal line and

slight brown line near base of cilia. Hind wing white faintly

tinged with ochreous brown.

Ab. 1. promptella. Fore wing with the cell and the area beyond

it to the submarginal line clearer ochreous.

Hab. U.S.A. Florida, St. John’s Bluff (Doubleday), 43,19

type divisa; Hap. 1an., 1 do type promptella. Exp. 40-44

millim.

Genus NYMBIS.

Type.

INontelons, Enver, INCE, rhe on BAD) (ANSE) Gonsduboocenovececcos0s050uccus0eeKG inigqua.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth, with tuft of

hair above; eyes large, round; antennz of male with bristles and cilia ;

thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and without crests; fore tibize not

spined, the hind tibize spined between the mid and terminal spurs only; abdo-

men smoothly sealed and without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat

produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and slightly 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 the cell about one-

third length of wing; veins 3,4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just

above angle; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base

only.

116 NOCTUIDH.

Sxcr. I. Antenne of mile with the shaft thickened before middle; fomora

and tibize fringed with long hair; hind wing on underside with the

basal and inner areas clothed with woolly hair.

A. Fore wing of male with the postinedial line strongly

TERORIVEG — coaodansboooosconossonosSconsoasoncecNbaRDNOHDOGCDGOROD arcuata,

B. Fore wing of male with the postmedial line slightly

incurved.

a, Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique ............... helvina.

6. Fore wing with the antemedial line almost erect............ montana.

7892. Nymbis arcuata.

| Phurys arcuata, W1k. xxxiii. 996 (1865), ¢.

Remigia multilinea, W1k. xxxiii. 1020 (1865), 9.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white slightly tinged with

reddish brown, the hairs on legs rather redder brown. Fore wing

grey-white slightly tinged with red-brown and irrorated with dark

brown; a minute round black spot above inner margin before the

antemedial line, which is red-brown with a black bar from sub-

median fold to inner margin, expanding into a spot at vein 1,

Fig. 32.—Nymbis arcuata, G. }

arising at subcostal nervure and inwardly oblique ; a black discoidal

point; an indistinct oblique reddish brown line from just before

lower angle of cell to inner margin and two indistinct obliquely

incurved reddish brown lines beyond the cell; postmedial line

whitish defined on outer side by black-brown shading to reddish

brown, arising from below costa towards apex, obliquely and strongly

incurved ; a subterminal series of minute black points on the veins ;

the termen slightly suffused with brown at middle; a terminal

series of minute black points. Hind wing grey-white tinged with

reddish brown; traces of an oblique brown postmedial line defined

on outer side by whitish; an indistinct dark subterminal shade

NYMBIS. 117

diffused to termen at apex; a terminal series of black points ; the

underside whitish, the hair on basal and inner areas tinged ‘with

rufous, a dark subterminal shade on costal half.

2. Fore wing without the black spot above inner margin, the

antemedial line without black beyond it on inner area, the lines

beyond the cell not incurved, the postmedial line oblique and not

incurved, defined on outer side by red-brown instead of black-brown :

hind wing rather darker.

Hab. Venezuria, 2 9; Br. Guiana (Rodway), 2 3, 2 2,

Potaro R. (Kaye), 4 6,2 2; Has. ten, 1 CG type, 1 2 type

multilinea. Hap. 40-44 millim. ‘

7893. Nymbis helvina. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 12.)

Phurys helvina, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 807 (1852); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am,

Het. i. p. 384. i

Phurys helveola, Herr.-Schaff. Corresp.-blatt. zool.-min. Regensb, xxiii.

p. 155 (1869).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish ochreous suffused with

reddish brown‘ the hair on fore coxee dark red-brown. Fore wing

greyish ochreous tinged with red-brown and irrorated with black-

brown; a small round black spot above inner margin before the

inwardly oblique antemedial line, which is dark, black-brown below

submedian fold, slightly defined on inner side by grey and on outer

by a narrow brown band; a blackish discoidal point placed on an

oblique brownish line ; three slightly waved and somewhat oblique

brown lines beyond the cell; postmedial line arising from costa

towards apex, oblique and slightly incurved, ochreous defined on

inner side by a slight brown line and on outer by dark brown

followed by a reddish brown band with the subterminal series of

black points on the veins on its outer edge; the termen with a

slight brown shade except towards tornus, a series of blackish

points in the interspaces just before termen and a terminal series

on the veins. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown ; traces of a

brown postmedial line and a dark subterminal shade with dark

brown bar at tornus with a pale line before it; a series of slight

dark points in the interspaces just before termen and a terminal

series on the veins ; the underside with the hair on basal and inner

areas tinged with rufous, a dark subterminal shade.

9. Fore wing rather more strongly tinged with red-brown, no

black spot above inner margin ; the underside greyer suffused with

brown.

Hab. Mexico, Misantla (Trujillo), 1 9, Vera Cruz (Godman),

1S, Guerrero, Sierra Colorada (H. H. Smith), 12, Vera Paz,

Atoyac (H. H. Smith), 2 5, Tabasco, Teapa (H. H. Smith),

43, Vera Cruz, Cordova (Riimeli), 2 3, Durango (Forrer), 2 3;

Honpuras (Dyson), 1 5,1 2, R. Sarstoon (Blancaneaux),1 3,

Ruatan I. (Rodriguez), 1 5; Guaremaa, Zapote (Champion),

1 3, 8. Geronimo (Champion), 1 2, San Isidro ( Champion), 26,

Cerro Zunil (Champion), 1 , Volcan de Atitlan (Champion),

118 NOCTUIDE.

13,1 92, Vera Paz, Panzos (Champion), 1 9, San Juan (Cham-

pion), 2 3; Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers), 1 3, Caché (Rogers),

26, Sta Clara Valley (Zurcher), 1 5, 1 9; Panama, Chiriqui

(Champion), 3 3, 2 9, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Cuna; Conomsra,

Bogota (Stevens), 1 9, Minca (H. H. Smith), 2 9; VENEZUELA,

23,19; Brazit, Espiritu Santo, 1 ¢. Hap. 42-50 millim.

7894. Nymbis montana. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 13.)

Celiptera montana, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) viii. p. 211 (1911).

Poaphila amplissima, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 382 (part.),

nec W1k.

Phurys helvina, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 384 (part.), nec Guen.

3. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; abdomen grey

suffused with red-brown. Fore wing grey suffused with red-brown

and strongly irrorated with dark brown ; antemedial line ochreous

white defined on outer side by red-brown, shghtly inwardly oblique ; -

reniform with very ill-defined pale annulus, narrow, a dark point on

its inner side in discal fold; two indistinct oblique dark lines beyond

the cell; postmedial line dark red-brown, defined on inner side by

ochreous white and with a slight red-brown band beyond it, arising

from costa towards apex and inwardly oblique; a subterminal series

ot blackish points on the veins; a series of blackish pomts in the

interspaces just before termen and a terminal series on the veins.

Hind wing reddish brown; a dark subterminal shade with a slight

pale line before it from vein 2 to inner margin, the area beyond it

grey irrorated with brown; a terminal series of black points; the

underside grey irrorated and suffused with fuscous brown, the hair

on basal and inner areas tinged with reddish, a dark subterminal

shade.

@. Fore wing slightly redder; underside of hind wing wholly

grey irrorated with brown.

Hab. GuaTEMALA, 8. Geronimo (Champion), 1 3,2 2; Costa

Rica, Laguna (Schaus), 1 3, Tuis (Schaus), 1 9; Panama,

Chiriqui (227bb¢), 1 3, Godman-Salvin Coll. Kap. 46-48 miilim.

Sucr. II. Antenne of male normal.

A. Hind tarsi of mate fringed above with long hair, the fore

tarsi less strongly fringed with hair, the femora and fore

and mid tibie fringed with long hair; hind wing on

underside with the basal and inner areas clothed with

woolly bair.

a. Fore wing of male with the postmedial line strongly

incurved, of female slightly oblique ................eceeee0e Suscilineata.

b. Fore wing with the postinedial line oblique from apex to

middle of vein 1.

a. Fore wing with the area between the postmedial and

subterminal lines blackish brown ..............0..02-0008 teligera.

b}. Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly defined

on outer side by red: brOWN.........00c0+ css ecescseceescers inficita.

NYMBIS. ES

7895. Nymbis fuscilineata. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 14.)

Celiptera fuscilineata, Kaye, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1901, Do WAG alls We ti, Oy

3. Head and thorax pale red-brown slightly mixed with greyish ;

pectus, legs, and abdomen pale red-brown. Fore wing pale red-

brown slightly tinged with greyish and irrorated with dark brown ;

subbasal line greyish faintly defined by brown, sinuous, from costa

to submedian fold; a round black spot with pale annulus above

inner margin before the antemedial line, which is greyish defined on

outer side by rather diffused dark red-brown, somewhat oblique and

sinuous ; a minute white spot defined by brown in middle of cell ;

reniform with pale annulus slightly defined by brown, elliptical,

some deeper red-brown beyond it extending to the postmedial line ;

a slight sinuous brown medial line and two indistinct waved

obliquely incurved lines beyond the cell; postmedial line pale de-

fined on outer side by diffused dark red-brown, arising from costa

towards apex, oblique and slightly sinuous to vein 4, then obliquely

incurved to inner margin near tornus ; an indistinct pale minutely

waved subterminal line with series of blackish points on its outer

side at the veins; a slight waved dark terminal line; cilia with a

fine pale line at base. Hind wing dull red-brown, the cilia paler ;

the underside greyish brown clothed with silky hair to beyond

middle.

@. Rather paler; fore wing without the black spot above inner

margin, the antemedial line inwardly oblique, the reniform with a

slight rufous patch beyond it, the postmedial line oblique and not

incurved, defined on outer side by red-brown; hind wing grey-

brown with the terminal area darker, the underside with faint

postmedial line and subterminal shade.

Hab. Trintpap (Kaye), 1 3, 1 @ type; Braziy, Espintu

Santo, 1 2. Hxp. 36-48 millim.

7896. Nymbis teligera.

Phurys teligera, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. ix. pp. 181, 191 (1867) ;

Druce, Biol. Ceutr.-Am., Het. i. p. 586.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale red-brown. Fore wing grey

tinged with red-brown and with slight dark irroration except on

terminal area, the area below vein 1 greyer with more prominent

dark irroration; a broad blackish brown fascia above vein 1 from

near base to the postmedial line ; a minute antemedial black point

above inner margin; a minute blackish point in middle of cell; an

oblique wedge-shaped blackish brown band from apex to vein 1,

defined on inner side by the white postmedial line from vein 7 to

middle of vein 1 and on outer by the rather diffused whitish

subterminal line, defined on outer side by a faint brown line with

minute black streaks at the veins; a fine brown terminal line;

cilia greyish with a brown line through them. Hind wing greyish

suffused with glossy fuscous brown; a slight dark terminal line ;

120 NOCTUID &.

cilia greyer; the underside greyer, the costal area tinged with

reddish and slightly irrorated with brown.

Fig. 33.-— Nymbis teligera, $. 4.

Hab. GuatEMata, Vera Paz, Coban (Conradt), 1 9; Panama,

Chiriqui (#zbbe), 1 29, Godman-Salvin Coll., Cana Mines (Tyle-

cote), 1 6; Conompta, Sierra del Libano (H. H. Smith), 1 3;

Br. Guiana (Rodway), 135; Fr. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni

(Le Moult), 19; E. Perv, Pozuzo, 19. Hap. 38-44 millim.

Type + d in Coll. Druce.

7897. Nymbis inficita. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 15.)

Phurys inficita, Wik. xxxiii. 994 (1865).

@. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey tinged with reddish

brown. Fore wing pale grey tinged with brown and irrorated with

dark brown ; a slight black point above inner margin before middle ;

reniform faintly defined by brown; a whitish line defined on outer

side by dark brown, arising from apex and very oblique to vein 2

below end of cell, then bent inwards to middle of vein 1 where it

terminates ; traces of a pale subterminal line from below apex to

inner margin, with a series of minute black streaks on its outer

edge ; a brown terminal line; cilia ochreous at base. Hind wing

dull ochreous brown; a slight brown terminal line; cilia more

ochreous; the underside ochreous irrorated with brown.

Hab. Harri (Tweedie), 1 2 type. Hap. 44 millim.

B. Hind tarsi of male not fringed with hair above.

a. Hind wing of male on underside wholly clothed with

rough scales.

al, Fore wing of male with the postmedial line strongly

incurved between discal and submedian folds ......... inigua.

5‘. Fore wing of male evenly incuryed throughout......... prolixa.

NYMBIS. 121

7898. Nymbis iniqua.

Nymbis inigua, Guen. Noet. iii. p. 821 (1852): Dy i fe

Met. i. 7/380. p ( ); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am.,

Nymbis textilis, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 821 (1852): Druce. Bi Jentr.-

een 500. r ( ); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am.,

sees ene abilts, W1k. xiv. 1485 (1858) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i.

p- :

Poaphila basileuca, Wik. Undeser. Lep., Het. p. 54 (1869).

Phurys coactilis, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 117. f. 15 (1874).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown. Fore wing

chocolate-brown ; a pale curved subbasal line from costa to sub.

median fold; a round black spot with pale annulus above inner

margin before the outwardly oblique pale antemedial line defined on

outer side by dark chocolate-brown ; a slight pale streak on middle

of inner margin with deep chocolate-brown above it to vein ile

a white pomt defined by dark brown in middle of cell; reniform

Fig. 34..—Nymbis imgua, G. 3.

with pale annulus defined by chocolate-brown and with some deep

chocolate-brown beyond it, elliptical; an indistinct sinuous brown

line from just before lower angle of cell to inner margin and traces

of a waved obliquely incurved line beyond the cell ; postmedial line

pale, arising from costa well beyond middle and strongly incurved,

especially between discal and submedian folds, the area beyond it

deep chocolate-brown ; subterminal line straight, pale defined on

outer side by dark brown and slight blackish points at the veins ; a

pale terminal line ; cilia fuscous brown, whitish at tips. Hind wing

very dark red-brown ; cilia whitish at tips; the underside with the

rough scaling black-brown, greyish on terminal area.

122 ; NOCTUID &.

2. Fore wing without the black spot above inner margin and

dark suffusion beyond the antemedial line and on middle of inner

margin, the postmedial line oblique and almost straight, with slight

dark suffusion beyond it, the subterminal line reduced to a series

of dark points; hind wing paler brown, with faint oblique pale line

from vein 4 to tornus, the underside nearly uniform reddish brown.

Hab. Mexico, 1 2, Jalapa (Lrajillo), 4 3, Vera Cruz, Atoyac

(Schumann), 1 3; Honpuras (Dyson), 1 3 type optabilis, Limas

(Brockholes), 1 9 type basileuca; GUATEMALA, Zapote (Cham-

pion), 1 3; Panama, Chiriqui (A7bbé), 1 ¢, Godman-Salvin

Coll., La Chorrera (Dolby-Tyler), 1 3; Fr. Guiana, type + d

coactilis in Coll. Rothschild ; Brazin, Itaparica (Aeade-Waldo),

I OQ, Iwigonaum Semis, Ile, Ib Os Paraguay, Sapucay (foster),

1 $; Prrvu, Huancabamba, 1 2, Rio Chliceade (Watkins § Tom-

linson), 13. Hap 44-54 millim.

7899. Nymbis prolixa. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 16.)

Phurys prolixa, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 117. f. 6 (1874).

3. Head, tegule, and prothorax deep red-brown, the rest of

thorax red-brown tinged with grey ; abdomen red-brown slightly

mixed with greyish. Fore wing bright red-brown ; a slight curved

pale subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line

pale defined on outer side by chocolate-brown, oblique, a small

black spot before it above mner margin, the inner margin beyond

it chocolate-brown, with a slight pale streak on the margin; a

white point defined by dark brown in middle of cell; reniform with

whitish annulus, elliptical, some chocolate-brown suittston beyond

it; a slight sinuous brown medial line; postmedial line whitish,

smnermeved. ~ the area beyond it suffused with chocolate-brown ; sub-

terminal line whitish, defined on outer side by dark brown, straight ;

cilia with a fine w ibe line at base and whitish tips. TeGidl wing

dark reddish brown; cilia whitish at tips; the underside clothed

with rough blackish scales to beyond middle, the terminal area

with grey scales.

Q. Fore wing much greyer, two indistinct sinuous lines beyond

the cell, the postmedial line straight and oblique, the subterminal

line represented by a series of blackish points; hind wing greyish

brown, the terminal area darker; underside of both wings greyish

brown with the terminal area darker.

Hab. Br. Guiana (Rodway), 2 36, 1 9; Brazin, Amazons,

type + d in Coll. Rothschild. Hwp., 3d 50, 2 52 millim.

b. Hind wing of male on underside with the basal and inner

areas clothed with silky hair.

a, Fore wing of male with the antemedial line arising

from beyond upper angle of cell and not crossing

the cell.

&, Fore wing of male with triangular patch of black-

brown suffusion beyond the antemedial line below

(allies ll ear yactneeoadbocnaadceiscade coobecacouauecnnoepet sande garnoti.

NYMBIS. 12s

&. Fore wing of male with the antemedial line

_narrowly defined by black-brown below the cell.

a’, Fore wing of male with the antemedial line

oblique to inner margin near base and with no

DLAC: I NCKLSTORS 1G cocascougasoocspnbocioneseoo ean sane pugis.

23. Fore wing of male with the antemedial line

oblique to inner margin before middle, a small

black spot before it above inner margin ......... lineolaris.

61, Fore wing of male with the antemedial line arising

from upper angle of cell which it crosses ............... jaliscana,

cl, Fore wing with the antemedial line arising from costa

before middle.

a?, Fore wing with the basal and terminal halves con-

colorous.

a, Bore wing with the postmedial line bent inwards

at vein 6 to beyond the reniform .................. capiola,

68. Fore wing with the postmedial line not bent

inwards at vein 6.

a, Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique to

vein 3, then outwardly oblique .................. flexa.

4. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique or

slightly incurved.

a, Wore wing grey not suffused with red-brown.

a§, Fore wing purplish grey, the lines defined

DW? GOMIRSOWS Genomecracaianeconnadeducnen Aaccoae: MOXA,

b6. Fore wing brownish grey, the lines defined

byewibilGis nee cerm-uo-escneencrekatenneceecusceo . candida.

}5. Fore wing suffused with red-brown.

a’. Fore wing with the antemedial line

OVD Ts), beGnacaodeceanoncde Gakdasmeepeaacacccaassecr bigutta.

66. Fore wing with the antemedial line erect . navilla.

c4, Fore wing with the postmedial line erect ...... MONAXA.

42, Fore wing with the basal half grey, the terminal

Ina? OwUP lS pRO Wo cosoososeoo.anssnbcnadbodonosbonceca000d dimera,

7900. Nymbis garnoti.

Phurys garnoti, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 306, pl. 28. f. 3 (1852), J ; Druce,

Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 386.

Phurys obligata, Wik. xiv. 1483 (1858), 2.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale red-brown. Fore wing grey

tinged with red-brown and irrorated with fuscous; a small ante-

medial black spot above inner margin; reniform represented by an

oblique pale striga slightly defined by brown; an oblique black-

brown line from beyond upper angle of cell to imner margin just

before middle where it is slightly curved outwards, followed by a

triangular black-brown patch from lower angle of cell to inner

margin ; two obliquely incurved lines before the obliquely incurved

whitish postmedial line which arises from costa just before apex and

is followed by a black-brown band; traces of a subterminal line

from below apex to inner margin with a series of black points at the

veins; a fine dark terminal line with minute black points at the

veins; cilia brown at tips from apex to vein 2. Hind wing pale

reddish brown; a faint whitish postmedial line from discal fold to

tornus; the terminal area fuscous brown with a faint pale bar from

vein 3 to termen at vein 1 and some grey on termen except towards

124 NOCTUID &.

apex; a fine dark terminal line; cilia brown at tips from apex to

vein 2; the underside with the basal and inner areas pale rufous,

the rest of wing grey irrorated with fuscous and with a dark sub-

terminal shade.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the antemedial black spot confluent with

the triangular medial shade.

Ab. 2. Darker brown; fore wing with diffused dark streaks on

basal half below costa and in and below the cell.

2. Much browner: fore wing with the antemedial line more

curved arising from upper angle of cell and crossing the cell,

Fig. 35.—Nymbis garnoti, S. 4.

the postmedial area with three oblique brown lines, faint narrow

red-brown shades beyond the ante- and postmedial lines.

Hab. GuaTEMALA, 8. Geronimo (Champion), 2 3 ; Honpuras,

R. Sarstoon (Blancaneaux),1 3 ; Panama, Chiriqui (Champion),

1 ¢, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Jamatca (Gosse), 15, 1 Q type

obligata, Gordontown (Kaye), 2 3,2 2, Runaway Bay (Walsing-

ham), 1 9 ; Cua, Matanzas (Schaus), 2 3 ; Harri (Lweedie),

24; Sra. Lucta (Cowie), 1 35 ; Grenapa (A. H. Smith), 3 3,

29. Exp. 42-46 millim.

7901. Nymbis jugis. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 17.)

Phurys jugis, Wk. xiv. 1481 (1858); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i.

p. 385 (part.).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale red-brown. Fore wing

grey tinged with red-brown and irrorated with blackish; a very

oblique slightly downcurved black-brown line defined on inner side

by white from beyond upper angle of cell to inner margin well

NYMBIS. 125

before middle, slightly diffused on outer side below lower anele of

cell; postmedial line white with a narrow black-brown band on its

outer side, oblique and very slightly incurved from costa towards

apex to inner margin; a subterminal series of black points on the

veins and a terminal series; cilia brown at tips. Hind wing dull

reddish brown, a faint oblique pale line from vein 3 to tornus and

subterminal fuscous shade; a terminal series of black points ; cilia

pale at base; the underside grey-white irrorated with fuscous, the

hair on basal and inner areas pale rufous.

@. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines slightly

defined on outer side by dark brown.

Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca, 1 2 type, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 3,

Godman-Salvin Coll. Hap. 48-50 millim.

7902. Nymbis lineolaris. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 18.)

Noctua lineolaris, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 454 (1818); Druce, Biol.

Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 385.

Phurys helvina, Druce, Biol. Oentr.-Am., Het. i. p. 884 (part.), nec Guen.

Phurys jugis, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 385 (part.), nee WIk.

3d. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous tinged with brown.

Fore wing ochreous tinged with red-brown and slightly irrorated

with dark brown; a small round black spot above inner margin

before the very oblique black line from lower angle of cell to inner

margin before middle, rather diffused on outer side; a slight oblique

red-brown discoidal striga; two faint obliquely curved red-brown

lines beyond the cell; postmedial line arising from costa towards

apex, oblique and slightly incurved, pale yellow defined on inner

side by a fine red-brown line and on outer by blackish brown

followed by a red-brown band then a rather diffused blackish line;

a subterminal series of small black spots on veins 6 to 1; the

termen with a faint brown shade and a series of black points; cilia

with a dark line near base. Hind wing greyish suffused with

brown ; a faint oblique brown postmedial line and broad subterminal

_ fuscous shade ; a slight terminal line with a series of black points

on it; cilia with a fine pale line at base; the underside greyish

irrorated with brown, the hair on basal and inner areas tinged with

rufous, a dark subterminal shade.

2. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing greyish suffused with

red-brown, the last without the black spot above inner margin, the

oblique line arising from upper angle of cell which it crosses; three

distinct lines beyond the cell; hind wing reddish brown.

Hab. Mexico, Durango (fPorrer), 1 5 ; GuaTEemata, Zapote

(Champion), 1 2 ; Costa Rica, Candelaria Mts. (Underwood),

19; Panama, Chiniqui (Champion), 1 5,1 2, Godman-Salvin

Coll. Exp. 40-44 millim.

126 NOCTUID &.

7903. Nymbis jaliscana. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 19.)

Phurys jaliscana, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 83 (1901).

ve eEEe amplissina, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 382 (part.), nee

W1k.

Phurys dissocians, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 886 (nee WIk.).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown with a slight reddish

tinge. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and slightly irrorated

with dark brown; a small round black spot above inner margin

before the antemedial line, which is whitish, arising at upper angle

of cell and obliquely incurved to inner margin before middle,

defined on outer side by black-brown, broadly below the cell; two

dark discoidal points ; two indistinct obliquely incurved brown lines

beyond the cell ; postmedial line whitish, arising from costa towards

apex and obliquely ineurved ; a broad band of black-brown suffusion

beyond it; traces of a waved subterminal line with a series of

blackish poimts at the veins; the terminal area rather greyer with

slight brown suffusion at middle of termen and a terminal series of

minute black points. Hind wing grey suffused with brown; an

indistinct pale postmedial line and faint dark subterminal shade ;

a terminal series of minute black points; the underside with the

hair on basal and inner areas tinged with rufous.

2. Suffused with pale red-brown ; fore wing without the black

spot above inner margin, the antemedial line slightly defined on

outer side by red-brown, almost erect and slightly sinuous, white

points in middle of cell and on discocellulars, a sinuous medial line,

the two lines beyond the cell very indistinct, excurved below costa,

then waved and less oblique, the postmedial line ochreous, oblique

and slightly incurved, with deeper red-brown suffusion beyond it.

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 9, Presidio (forrer),1 3,

Jalisco, Guerrero, Dos Arroyas (H. H. Sinith), 1 3, Godman-

Salvin Coll. Hep., 3 50, 2 52 millim.

7904. Nymbis copiola. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 20.)

Mocis copiola, Guen. Noct. iti. p. 810 (1852).

Mocis notescens, Wik. xiv. 1490 (1858).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey-brown, the last with

the ventral surface brownish white. Fore wing whitish tinged and

irrorated with brown ; the costa suffused with brown towards base ;

faint dark subbasal bars from costa and cell; antemedial line

whitish defined on outer side by diffused black-brown, shghtly

incurved and somewhat angled outwards at the veins ; an indistinct

sinuous medial line; reniform whitish, very ill-defined, with black

on its inner and outer sides at discal fold and a diffused black fascia

from its outer edge to the postmedial line; a very indistinct waved

dark line just beyond the cell; postmedial line indistinct, blackish,

bent inwards at vein 6 to beyond the reniform, then oblique to

inner margin, some dark brown suffusion beyond it extending to

NYMBIS. WP)

apex and a blackish patch below vein 7; an incurved subterminal

series of slight blackish points on the veins with a diffused whitish

band beyond it; the termen suffused with brown at middle; a

slight waved dark terminal line with minute black points at the

veins. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown, the terminal area

tinged with fuscous; a faint whitish postmedial line from discal

fold to tornus; the underside whitish suffused with fuscous brown, ~

the hair on basal and inner areas tinged with rufous, a slight dark

subterminal shade. ; f

Hab. Br. Guiana (Rodway), 13; Fr. Guiana; Brazin,

Pernambuco (fidley), 1 3 ; Ecuanor, Quito (Bourcier), 1 3

aye notescens ; PARAaGuay, Sapucay (Foster),1 S$. Exp. 38-44

millim.

7905. Nymbis flexa. (Plate CCXXIV. fiez 21.)

Phurys flexa, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 306 (1852).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey suffused with reddish

brown ; palpi and legs darker brown. Fore wing grey tinged with

red-brown and slightly irrorated with dark brown ; a minute round

black spot above inner margin before the antemedial line, which is

whitish defined on outer side by diffused black-brown, arising at

subcostal nervure and inwardly oblique; a black discoidal point ;

an indistinct slightly sinuous brown line from just before lower

angle of cell to inner margin and two indistinct slightly waved

obliquely ineurved lines beyond the cell; postmedial line grey

defined on outer side by diffused black-brown, arising from costa

just before apex, oblique to vein 3, then slightly outwardly oblique ;

traces of a slightly waved subterminal line with a series of blackish

points on the veins; the termen slightly suffused with brown at

middle; a series of blackish points in the interspaces just before

termen anda terminal series on the veins. Hind wing grey suffused

with reddish brown ; an indistinct brown subterminal shade with

faint pale shade before it; a terminal series of minute blackish

points ; the underside grey tinged and irrorated with brown, the

hair on basal and inner areas tinged with rufous.

Hab. ? Warr1; Brazir, Nova Friburgo, 1 ¢. Hxp. 44

millim.

7906. Nymbis moxa. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 22.)

Phurys moxa, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent, Soc, xxi. p. 243 (1894), 3.

Phurys dentilinea, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 85 (1901), Q.

Remigia diffluens, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 388 (part.), nec Guen.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey tinged with

brown, the patagia with slight dark bar near extremities. Fore

wing purplish grey tinged and irrorated with brown ; a faint pale

subbasal line from costa to submedian fold slightly defined by

128 NOCTUID &.

brown; a small black spot above inner margin before the ante-

medial line, which is brown defined on inner side by grey, almost

erect ; a white point slightly defined by brown in middle of cell ;

reniform defined by brown, large, slightly angled inwards on median

nervure ; postmedial line ochreous defined on inner side by a fine

red-brown line and on outer by a faint brown shade and minute

dark streaks on the veins, slightly smuous to below vein 7, then

obliquely incurved ; a subterminal series of small blackish spots on

the veins ; a faint lunulate blackish line just before the termen and

a series of black points on the veins. Hind wing. grey suffused

with brown, the terminal area darker; an indistinct pale line from

costa beyond middle to tornus; a terminal series of minute black

points; the underside grey tinged with brown, traces of a post-

medial dark line except on inner area.

2. Fore wing without the antemedial black spot above imner

margin, the antemedial line slightly incurved, two dentate brown

lines beyond the cell, the postmedial line incurved from costa,

defined on outer side by a red-brown line instead of the brown

shade and streaks and without the red-brown line on inner side ;

underside of hind wing whitish thickly irrorated with brown.

Hab. Merxtco, Orizaba (Schaus), 1 35, 1 2.5 GuaTEMana

(Rodriguez), 1 2, Godman-Salvin Coll. - Hap. 44 millim.

*7907. Nymbis candida. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 23.)

Celiptera candida, Dogn. Het. Nouv. Am. Sud, vi. p. 26 (1912).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown mixed with whitish ;

the last with fine white segmental lines. Fore wing pale brown

mixed with whitish and slightly irrorated with darker brown;

antemedial line brown defined on inner side by whitish, excurved to

submedian fold, then oblique, a minute brown spot before it above

inner margin; a white point in middle of cell; reniform faintly

defined by dark scales, small and strongly constricted at middle; a

faint dark medial line, excurved to the reniform and below vein 2;

two very indistinct oblique waved brown lines beyond the cell;

postmedial line red-brown defined on inner side by whitish, oblique,

with series of slight black points on the veins and a series beyond

it, before the very faint waved subterminal line; a terminal series

of black points. Hind wing pale grey-brown with a faint reddish

tinge and some darker brown irroration; an indistinct oblique

whitish postmedial line and oblique pale subterminal line from

costa just beyond the postmedial line to near termen at vein 3;

a terminal series of minute blackish points; the underside pale

ochreous irrorated with brown except on basal and inner areas.

Hab. Wcuapor, Loja, type td in Coll. Dognin. Hap. 50

millim.

*7908. Nymbis bigutta. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 24.)

Phurys bigutta, Schaus, A. M.N.H. (7) viii. p 84 (1901).

2. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey suffused with pale brown,

NYMBIS. 129

the ventral surface of abdomen irrorated with brown. Fore wing

grey suffused with red-brown and slightly irrorated with fuscous:

antemedial line brown defined on inner side by whitish, oblique,

from subcostal nervure towards end of cell to inner marein: two

rather diffused black discoidal points; postmedial line brown

defined on outer side by whitish, oblique, from costa towards apex

to inner margin, a fuscous shade beyond it, its outer edge forming

the subterminal line, arising from apex and slightly excurved at

middle, a faint pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing grey tinged

and irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous :

postmedial line whitish, slightly sinuous, oblique and ending at

tornus; a pale line at base of cilia; the underside paler. ‘

Hab. Mextco, Jalapa (Schaus), type + @ in U.S. Nat. Mus.

Exp. 42 millim.

*7909. Nymbis navilla. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 25.)

Phurys navilla, Schaus, A.M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 84 (1901).

2. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish tinged with red-brown,

the legs fuscous brown, Fore wing greyish tinged with red-brown

and irrorated with blackish ; antemedial line reddish brown, diffused

on outer side, almost straight and erect; a white pointin middle of

cell and dark discoidal point; postmedial line whitish faintly defined

on outer side by rufous, straight and oblique from costa towards

apex to inner margin towards tornus, a series of black points just

beyond it; a series of minute black points just before termen and

a terminal series. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown and

faintly irrorated with fuscous; a diffused oblique fuscous sub-

terminal shade; a terminal series of minute black points; the

underside grey tinged and irrorated with red-brown, a faint diffused

curved postmedial line.

Hab. Mextco, Jalapa (Schaus), type + 9 in U.S. Nat. Mus.

Exp. 42 millim.

*7910. Nymbis monaxa. (Plate CCX XIV. fig. 26.)

Phurys monaxa, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 84 (1901).

2. Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown; abdomen

pale grey-brown. Fore wing purplish grey tinged with red-brown

and thickly irrorated with brown; a dark subbasal line from costa

to submedian fold; antemedial line dark defined on inner side by

whitish, almost straight and erect; a dark discoidal bar faintly

defined on inner side by whitish; postmedial line dark brown

defined on inner side by whitish, almost straight and erect; a brown

dentate subterminal line produced as slight streaks on each side of

the veins to the crenulate dark line just before termen. Hind wing

ochreous grey suffused with brown; a faint oblique postmedial line

and slightly waved dark terminal line; the underside ochreous

VOU. XITt. K

130 NOCTUID &.

suffused and irrorated with reddish brown, an indistinct diffused

obliquely curved postmedial line.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (Schaus), type + 9 in U.S. Nat. Mus.

Exp. 40 millim.

*7911. Nymbis dimera. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 27.)

Celiplera dimera, Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xlii. p. 77 (1912).

2. Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish white slightly irrorated

with black; palpi thickly irrorated with brown; sides of frons

and antenne brown; legs thickly irrorated with brown, the tarsi

blackish ringed with white. Fore wing with the basal half grey-

white irrorated with black, the terminal half purplish brown; sub-

basal line represented by a small black spot on costa; antemedial

line blackish with small black spot at costa, excurved below costa

and above inner margin; the pale area defined by a black line

rather diffused on outer side, excurved at lower angle of cell and

oblique towards inner margin; subterminal line grey, excurved

below vein 7, angled outwards at middle, then incurved ; a terminal

series of black points and a series of blackish striz at base of cilia.

Hind wing whitish, the terminal half suffused with rufous; cilia

white; the underside whitish faintly tinged with rufous and

irrorated with brown except the cell and inner area, a black discoidal

oint. aif

: Hab. Mexico, Tehuaéan (Afiller), type + 9 m U.S. Nat. Mus.

Exp. 30 millim. css

Genus CELIPTERA.

Type.

Celiptera, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 808 (1852)... 6.0.0... ceccee sen eene es Sfrustulum.

Litomitus, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soe, Phil. iii. p. 84 (1864) ......... Srustulum.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and moderately scaled, the 38rd Jong; frons smooth with tuft of hair

above; eyes large, round ; antenna of male with bristles and cilia; thorax

clothed with hair and scales mixed and with ridge-like dorsal crest; tibize

typically smoothly scaled, the fore tibiz not spined, the hind tibis spined

between the mid and terminal] spurs only ; abdomen with hairy crests on basal

segments. Fore wing with the apexsomewhat produced and acute; the termen

evenly curved and crenulate ; veins 38 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from

upper angie; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell.

Hind wing with the cell about one-third length of wing; veins 3,4 from

angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle ;

8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

Scr. I. Femora and mid and hind tibia of male clothed with long hair ; hind

wing on underside with the basal and inner areas clothed with woolly

hair. :

A. Hind wing pale yellow, suffused with brown above in

Hemmales (hac satsdv ener clece oactrae elo noe ease cectacerstnaaalaseelas renugtoides.

CELIPTERA. “ABT

B. Hind wing greyish brown.

a. Fore wing with the antemedial spot above inner

margin lunulate.

a. Fore wing grey-brown to purple-brown, the spot

above inner margim with its apex not produced

to beyond the antemedial line.............00ce.0000-. levina.

Wn Sinveneelnall WINS \esacos-pnescacesnnosasosLosdenAcaece cometephora.

b. Fore wing with the antemedial spot above inner

margin rounded ..... Pioeds soaneddnassceoboenooaeoeds0006 grisescens.

e. Fors wing with the antemedial spot above inner

MMATATIVOCE UGC cen ctssnceess-4ecenes Gooodacdosnudoseeodsac thericles.

7912. Celiptera remigioides. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 1.)

Ophiodes remigioides, Guen, Noct. iii. p. 280, pl. 21. f. 5 (1852).

Drasteria magnifica, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 18 (1884); Druce, Biol. Centr.-

Am., Het. i. p. 382.

Mocis levina, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 387 (part.), nec Cram.

¢. Head and thorax ochreous suffused with rufous, the tegule

with pale line at tips, the patagia with oblique pale line near base and

dark line near tips ; pectus, legs, and abdomen yellow tinged with

rufous. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous and with slight dark

irroration, the costal edge yellow ; an oblique pale subbasal striga from

costa on a patch of rufous suffusion ; a small round black spot with

pale annulus above inner margin before the antemedial line, which is

yellow, oblique and very slightly sinuous, a red-brown band beyond

it broad at costa and narrowing to inner margin, defined on outer

side by a slight double waved line; a white point at middle of

costa; reniform slightly defined by brown and with slight dark

striga in centre, its outer edge excurved, an oblique band of red-

brown suffusion from middle of costa to middle of postmedial line

including the reniform; a slight waved dark medial line; a large

brown annulus below end of cell, its inner edge indented and its

outer edge trifid and with two slight waved lines from it to inner

margin; postmedial line red-brown, oblique and sinuous to below

vein 7, then inwardly oblique and bent inwards to inner margin,

slight blackish streaks beyond it on the veins and a blackish patch

above and below vein 5; traces of a pale dentate subterminal line

with a red-brown bar before it from costa and a series of black

points at the veins; a slight dentate red-brown line just before

termen with rufous beyond it. Hind wing pale yellow, the inner

area faintly tinged with rufous; a slight postmedial line from

discal fold to above tornus, and reddish brown subterminal

shade; the underside pale yellow with faint sinuous red-brown

postmedial line from costa to vein 6.

2. Hind wing suffused with brown except the termen.

Hab. Muxtco, Jalapa (Zrujillo), 1 3; Guaremata, Las

Mercedes (Champion), 1 9; Costa Rica (Van Patten), 1 2,

Candelaria Mts. (Underwood), 1 2, Caché Cent Q, Irazu

132 NOCTUID X.

(Rogers), 15, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Peru, Uruhuasi (Watkins),

19. Hap. 60-70 millim.

The species is named parallelipipeda on Guenée’s plate in error

and the locality is given as Centr. India.

7913. Celiptera levina.

Phalena levina, Stoll, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 108, pl. 346, f. D (1781);

Stoll, Cram. Pap. Exot. y. p. 160, pl. 36. f. 2; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am.,

Het. i. p. 387.

Mocis aurinia, Geyer, Zutr. ex. Schmett. 4. p. 50. ff. 729, 730 (1832).

Mocis alvina, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 810 (1852).

Mocis pallidior, Guen. Noct. 11. p. 311 (1852).

Ophiusa variolosa, W1k. xiv. 1421 (1858).

Mocis pertusa, Feld. Reis. Nev. pl. 115. f. 7 (1874).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown ; tegule grey at tips ;

patagia with oblique grey line near base and black line near tips.

Fore wing red-brown with slight dark irroration; subbasal line

pale defined on inner side by blackish forming a spot below costa,

excurved below costa, then oblique and ending at submedian fold; a

lunulate black spot, defined by whitish above inner margin before the

Fig. 86.— Celipteralevina, g. }.

antemedial line, which is pale rufous defined by red-brown, somewhat

oblique and very slightly excurved to vein 1, then oblique, sinuous and

defined on outer side by black which forms a short streak beyond it

on inner margin, a dark brown band beyond it defined by a sinuous

blackish line ineurved below the cell and bent outwards to inner

margin ; a white point defined by black in middle of cell; reniform

defined by red-brown and with black points in upper and lower

parts, elliptical, a rather quadrate deep chocolate-brown patch

CELIPTERA. 133

beyond it; a sinuous brown medial line and two lines beyond the

cell oblique towards costa, then inwardly oblique and waved; traces

of an annulus below end of cell, excised at middle and with four

black points on its edges; postmedial line red-brown, bent out-

wards below costa, very slightly angled inwards at vein 7, then

oblique and defined on inner side by black points on the veins and

with a narrow grey band on its outer side defined by a narrow

black band arising from costa towards apex, with slightly dentate

outer edge and the subterminal series of black points on the veins

just beyond it; the termen suffused with red-brown except at apex

with slightly waved inner edge; a fine pale line at base of cilia.

Hind wing dull reddish brown, the terminal area paler, except

towards apex; a slightly waved pale line from vein 4 to tornus

defined on inner side by black points and a blackish line towards

tornus, a blackish band beyond it followed by subterminal black

points on the veins; cilia rufous; the underside uniform glossy

grey-brown.

2. Fore wing with the dark band beyond the antemedial line

obsolescent, no dark patch beyond the reniform and the blackish

band before the subterminal points slight; underside of hind wing

greyish suffused and irrorated with red-brown, traces of a discoidal

point and curved postmedial line, a dark subterminal shade.

Ab. 1. pallidior. Much greyer brown.

Ab. 2. alvina. Fore wing purplish red-brown, the costal area

between the postmedial and subterminal lines rufous, the reniform

pale grey with faint dark striga in centre, the terminal area of both

wings pale grey.

Hab. Mexico, Tabasco, Teapa (H. H. Smith), 1 3, 1 9;

GUATEMALA, Cerro Zunil (Champion), 1 35, 1 2, Pantaleon

(Champion), 13, Vera Paz, Cubilguitz (Champion), 1 9; Costa

Rica, Sta. Clara Valley (Zurcher), 135; Panama, Chiriqui (27bbé,

Champion), 1 3,1 2, Godman-Salvin Coll., La Chorrera (Dolby-

Tyler), 1 2; Jamatca, 1 d; Cupa, Baracoa (Schaus), 1 3, San-

tiago (Schaus), 1 9; Harrr (Tweedie), 1 3 type variolosa;

Trinipap, Cuparo (Kaye), 1 ¢; CotomeBta, Minea (H. ZF.

Smith), 1 &, Bogota (Stevens), 1 5; Br. Guiana, Demerara

(Rodway), 19; Brazin, Amazons, Para (Goeldi), 13, Thereso-

polis (Michaelis), 13, Espiritu Santo, 1 g. Hap. 50-62 millim.

7914. Celiptera cometephora, n. sp. (Plate CCX XV. fig. 2.)

2. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous brown; tegule

with slight brown line near tips; patagia with oblique whitish line

near base and dark line near tips. Fore wing pale ochreous brown

with slight dark irroration; an indistinct pale subbasal line

faintly defined by brown from costa to submedian fold; a rather

triangular black spot defined by whitish and with its apex produced

and curved outwards above inner margin before the antemedial

line, which is very indistinct, pale, oblique, sinuous, with traces of

a sinuous dark line beyond it, the produced part of the spot

134 NOCTUIDA.

extending to beyond the line; a whitish point in middle of cell ; reni-

form hardly traceable; a very indistinct sinuous brown medial line

with black points on and beyond it at vein 2; traces of two waved

lines beyond the cell; postmedial line whitish, defined on inner side

by a series of black points on the veins, slightly excurved and sinuous

below costa, below vein 6 oblique and defined on outer side by a

black line followed by a brown line arising from costa towards apex

with the double subterminal series of black points on the veins on

its outer side; a terminal series of minute black points. Hind

wing grey suffused with brown; a faint whitish postmedial line

from discal fold to inner margin near tornus with slight black

points on its inner side and followed by an indistinct double

blackish line ; some dark suffusion on costal area towards apex and

a slight diffused subterminal line with two black points towards

tornus; a terminal series of minute black points; cilia red-brown

at tips except towards apex and tornus; the underside whitish

suffused with pale red-brown.

| Hab. Jamaica (Hyatt), 1 2 type. Hap. 60 millim.

7915. Celiptera grisescens. (Plate CCXXYV. fig. 3.)

Mocis grisescens, Schaus, A. M. N, H. (7) viii. p. 85 (1901).

Mocis levina, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 887 (part.), nee Stoll.

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown; patagia with shght

dark bars towards extremities; thorax with the dorsal crest pale at

tips; pectus with a slight rufous tinge. Fore wing grey-brown; a

faint brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, excurved

below the costa; a round black spot with pale annulus above inner

margin before the antemedial line, which is grey defined on outer

side by brown and towards inner margin by black-brown, slightly

angled outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly incurved ;

some brownish suffusion beyond it; a minute white spot in middle

of cell; reniform defined by brown, elliptical; an oblique brown

striga from middle of costa and black points on veins 2 and 1;

two slight brown marks on costa. above the reniform and two

faint oblique waved lines beyond the cell; postmedial line red-

brown, bent outwards below costa, very slightly angled inwards at

vein 7, then oblique, a series of black and whitish points beyond it

and an oblique brown shade arising from costa towards apex; a

faint double waved subterminal line with a series of black points

on the outer line at the veins; a fine crenulate brown terminal line.

Hind wing pale grey-brown; an oblique slightly sinuous brown

line from discal fold to tornus faintly defined on outer side by

whitish and two indistinct rather diffused subterminal lines; a

waved brown terminal line; the underside grey tinged with brown,

a faint curved slightly waved postmedial line and traces of a

subterminal line.

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo, Schaus), 1 ¢,1 2; Costa

Rica, Caché (Rogers), 1 6; Guaremata, Volean de Atitlan

(Champion), 1 3, 1 9; Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 1 2,

Godman-Salvin Coll. Kap. 48 millim.

CELIPTERA. 135

*7916. Celiptera thericles. (Plate CCXXYV. fig. 4.)

Thermesia thericles, Schaus, Insec. Inseit. Menstr. i. p. 25 (1913).

2. Head and tegule black-brown mixed with brownish white ;

thorax brownish grey with two minute black spots at base of

patagia and black bars at middle of patagia and on mesothorax ;

palpi and pectus in front tinged with rufous; abdomen grey tinged

with reddish and irrorated with a few black scales, the ventral

surface whiter. Fore wing grey with a reddish tinge and irrorated

with a few black scales on basal half; the costal edge black with a

fine pale streak below it on basal half; a black-brown subbasal

patch from costa to submedian fold with the pale waved subbasal

line on it; antemedial line white defined on inner side by black-

brown and on outer by a black-brown band interrupted at the veins

and submedian fold, oblique and slightly sinuous to vein 1, then

bent outwards, an incomplete black-brown ocellus with black-

brown centre before it above inner margin ; a minute black spot in

middle of cell and quadrate whitish discoidal patch defined on inner

side by a brown line and with brown striga in centre; a double

brown medial line from costa to the discoidal patch, oblique and

dentate below the cell; another indistinctly double medial line

brown filled in in parts with whitish, oblique to vein 7 beyond the

cell then waved; postmedial line fine, double, red-brown filled in

with white, bent outwards and bidentate below costa, angled

inwards and with black spot beyond it at discal fold, then oblique

and angled inwards at vein | ; an oblique red-brown subterminal line

arising from apex and closely approximated to the postmedial line

below vein 7, a series of black poimts beyond it on the veins and

a dentate whitish line before termen ; a yellow line at base of cilia.

Hind wing grey tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous except

on basal area; four indistinct dark lines on medial area ; postmedial

line slight, red-brown defined on outer side by white, shehtly waved

and oblique to submedian fold and bent inwards to inner margin; a

brownish subterminal line defined on outer side by grey, followed

by a series of black points on the veins with whitish marks beyond

tiem; a yellowish line at base of cilia. Underside of fore wing

red-brown with black discoidal bar and subterminal shade; hind

wing white irrorated with brown, a black discoidal point, traces of

postmedial line and subterminal shade.

Hab. Fr. Gutana, St. Jean Maroni (Schaus), type + 2 in U.S.

Nat. Mus. Hap. 48 millim.

Secr. II. Femora and tibix of male and underside of hind wing smoothly

scaled,

A. Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved .................. valind.

B. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique .................. Srustulum.

C. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved.................. codo.

*7917. Celiptera valina. (Plate CCXXYV. fig. 5.)

Mocis valina, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 86 (1901).

@. Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey, the pectus

136 NOCTUIDA.

and legs more ochreous; abdomen brown mixed with greyish.

Fore wing brownish grey irrorated with dark brown ; subbasa] line

blackish defined on outer side by grey, from costa to submedian

fold; antemedial line whitish with a dark brown band on its outer

side, oblique and slightly sinuous, confluent on inner side with a

black spot defined by whitish above inner margin; a white point in

middle of cell; reniform slightly defined by blackish, elliptical, a

blackish discoidal striga near its inner edge, confluent with a

rounded spot slightly defined by blackish and with pale annulus

below angle of cell, its outer edge slightly imdented at vein 2;

postmedial line blackish and bent outwards below costa, then rufous

defined on each side by reddish ochreous and slightly incurved, an

incurved blackish shade beyond it arising from costa towards apex

followed by a series of black points in the interspaces from below

vein 7 to inner margin; a fine waved brown terminal line. Hind

wing reddish brown with shght dark irroration except towards

base; postmedial line pale, slightly incurved at middle, then

excurved to tornus and defined on inner side by a brown line; the

termen greyish except towards apex; a fine waved brown terminal

line; the underside reddish brown, a slight sinuous dark postmedial

line and subterminal shade.

Hab. Mexico, Guadalajara (Schaus), typet 2 in U.S. Nat.

Mus. Exp. 46 millim.

7918. Celiptera frustulum.

Celiptera frustulum, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 808 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 350.

Litomitus elongatus, Grote, Proce. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 85, pl. 2.

f. 6 (1864).

Remigia discissa, Wik. xxsiii. 1009 (1865).

do. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey-brown, the palpi,

frontal tuft, and legs tinged with fuscous. Fore wing pale grey-

brown with slight dark irroration; an oblique black subbasal bar

from costa with slight line from it to submedian fold ; an oblique

rather triangular black spot defined by whitish above inner margin

before the antemedial line which its apex quite or almost touches ;

antemedial line whitish incompletely defined on outer side by black,

oblique, slightly execurved below costa and incurved at vein 1; a

minute white point in middle of cell; reniform with slight pale

annulus defined by red-brown, elliptical, two oblique striz above it

from costa ; a faint annulus below end of cell with black points on

its inner and outer sides at vein 2 and a slight waved line from it

to inner margin ; an indistinct very oblique dark line beyond the

cell from costa to vein 7, then waved to inner margin and closely

approximated to the postmedial line, which is dark brown, bent

outwards below costa and very slightly angled inwards at vein 7,

then defined on inner side by whitish and on outer side by reddish

ochreous and oblique to inner margin, a dark shade beyond it

running obliquely to apex; traces of a pale dentate subterminal

line with a series of black points on the veins; a fine crenulate

CELIPTERA. 137

dark terminal line. Hind wing grey suffused with brown; a slight

sinuous brown postmedial line from discal fold to inner margin

near tornus, faintly defined on outer side by whitish and Rollkored

Fig. 37.—Celiptera frustulum, 3. }.

by a dark shade; a fine waved dark terminal line; the underside

whitish tinged with brown.

OF Fore wing with the postmedial line red-brown with slight

dark shade beyond it.

Hab. Canava; U.S.A., 1 5,1 2, Eastern, Middle, Central,

and Southern Svea New York, 1 oS type discissa, Distr. of

Columbia, Delaware, Alabama, 1 2, Missouri, Philadelphia, 1 9,

Kansas (Snow), 1¢,19. Hap. 40-46 millim,

*7919. Celiptera codo.

Celiptera codo, Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xlii. p. 79 (1912),

3. Brown irrorated with blackish. Fore wing with the subbasal

line deep black, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line

pale tinged with reddish, defined on outer side by black towards

costa, strongly excurved and dentate ; orbicular black, round; reni-

form black, diffused on outer side and angled inwards on median

nervure to below the orbicular ; postmedial line reddish brown on

outer side yellowish on inner, defined on inner side by a blackish line

and on outer by a fine yellowish line which is crenulate and

produced to points on the veins, the line slightly and evenly

curved and followed by a diffused blackish band ; the terminal

area less strongly irrorated with blackish; a crenulate black

terminal line. Hind wing paler at base ;_ a diffused blackish

discoidal lunule ; traces of a pale postmedial line defined on each

side by fuscous; a crenulate black terminal line.

Hab. Mexico, Tehuacan (Miller), Eap. 40 millim, This

species 1s unknown to me.

138 NOCTUID #.

Genus CALYPTIS.

CH ypoHis, (CWBiy INC si, 7s CL (AUSHY)) Gocassocoe sac ade sno vedaceancatones iter.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to middle

of frons and broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair

above, in male yery narrow, the large round eyes being closely approximated

in front ; antenna of male almost simple; thorax clothed with hair and hair-

like seales and without crests; tibise moderately fringed with hair, the fore

and hind tibize not spined; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments.

Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen typically evenly curved and

not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 frum near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ;

9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cel!. Hind wing

with the cell about half the length of wing; yeins 8, 4 from angle; 4 fully

developed from just above angie; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing

with the cell near base only.

Scr, I. Fore wing with the termen slightly angled at vein 4.

A. Fore wing with the postmedial line incuryed from below

vein 6 to vein 3, then excurved to vein 1 .................. idonea.

B. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique and waved

ron lyon TET GB tO TEM I ococoscoccocoacacstocosonnacse sence semicupred.-

7920. Calyptis idonea.

Noctua idonea, Stoll, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 48, pl. 311. f. A (1780); Feld.

Reis. Noy. pl. 110. f. 36.

Head, tegule, base of patagia obliquely, and prothorax red-brown,

the rest of thorax red-brown tinged with grey ; pectus, legs, and

Fig. 88.—Calyptis idonea, 3. 1.

abdomen greyish brown, the tarsi ringed with white. Fore wing

pale purplish grey, a conical patch of golden cupreous suffusion

CALYPTIS. 139

extending on costa from base to near middle and down-to vein 1,

the whole of the terminal area except small patches on termen

above and below middle suffused with golden copper, its inner edge

defined by the postmedial line and oblique to vein 6, then obliquely

incurved to lower angle of cell and middle of inner margin; sub-

basal line oblique and white, from costa to median nervure, the

area beyond it rather greyer to the antemedial line, which is oblique

and white from costa to the orbicular, then defining its outer edge

and slightly angled outwards on median nervure, then bent sharply

inwards and sinuous and indistinct to inner margin; the orbicular

with greyish centre defined by brown, indistinct, slightly angled

inwards on median nervure; medial line brown, defined on outer

side by white to vein 1, sinuous to middle of cell, then inwardly

oblique to vein 1 and double and erect to inner margin; the

area between it and the golden postmedial area pale purplish grey

irrorated with brown; reniform defined by brown and white at

sides, oblique, shghtly angled inwards on median nervure; post-

medial line oblique and white to vein 6, then brown, excurved at

discal fold, then incurved at vein 3, excurved to just above vein J,

then retracted to lower angle of cell, double, slightly smuous and

filled in by whitish to inner margin; subterminal line white,

incurved to above vein 6 on which it is angled inwards, with white

streak on vein 5, then very faintly double, brown, waved, with black

points beyond it above and below vein 4, and defined on outer side

by whitish from vein 2 to tornus; a curved white mark before

termen from vein 7 to above vein 5, and a series of blackish points

just before termen from above vein 6.to below vein 3; a fine white

line at base of cilia. Hind wing dark brown with a cupreous gloss;

cilia with a fine whitish line at base except towards apex, and

whitish patch at discal fold; the underside whitish suffused and

thickly irrorated with brown, a curved postmedial line from costa

to submedian fold defined on outer side by white, slight white

lunules before termen between veins 6 and 3.

Hab. GvatEMALA (Rodriguez), 1 3; Panama, Chiriqui

(Champion), 1 2, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Venezvunna, 4 5; Br.

Gurana (Kaye, Rodway), 13,19; Surinam. EHuxp. 42-56

millim.

7921. Calyptis semicuprea. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 28.)

Plusia semicuprea, Wik. xv. 1787 (1857).

@. Head and thorax brown mixed with grey; tarsi slightly

ringed with whitish; abdomen grey-brown. [ore wing pale

purplish grey suffused and irrorated with brown ; a golden cupreous

spot on costa near base with an oblique fascia from below it to

vein 1 where it is met by a golden cupreous band before the

medial line; antemedial line whitish, oblique to the orbicular,

which is elliptical and defined by whitish, then bent inwards to

submedian fold, and again excurved; antemedial line whitish,

sinuous to middle of cell, then inwardly oblique to vein 1 at the

antemedial line, then excurved; reniform defined by brown and

140 NOCTUIDS.

white, oblique, slightly angled inwards at median nervure; post-

medial line oblique and white to discal fold, then brown and

waved to just above vein 1, then retracted and waved to lower

angle of cell, then double and filled in with whitish to inner

margin, giving off a fork on its inner side at submedian fold ;

the postmedial area suffused with golden cupreous to vein 2,

extending to lower angle of cell and middle of termen; subterminal

line white and incurved to above vein 6 on which it is angled

inwards, with white streak on vein 5, then indistinct brown and

slightly waved, defined on outer side by whitish towards tornus ;

a minute white streak above extremity of vem 7 and oblique mark

below it preceded by some dark marks from below apex to vein 5 ;

cilia with fine white line at base. Hind wing dark brown with a

cupreous gloss; cilia with a white line at base; the underside

brown irrorated with whitish, traces of slightly waved whitish

postmedial and subterminal lines, slight white lunules before

termen between veins 6 and 3.

Hab. Brazit, Amazons, R. Jutahi (Tracl), 1 9; Has. ren.,

1 9 type. Hep. 42-50 millim.

Sucr. II. Fore wing with the termen evenly curyed.

7922. Calyptis iter.

Calyptis iter, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 324, pl. 12. f. 3 (1852).

Head, tegule, base of patagia obliquely, and prothorax red-brown,

the tegule tipped with white; the rest of thorax and abdomen

grey-brown, the patagia with slight rufous bars at middle. Fore

Fic, 89.— Calyptis iter, $. +

T°

wing purplish grey suffused with red-brown ; a wedge-shaped deep

cupreous patch from base of costa in the submedian interspace to

the medial band before which it emits an oblique bar to subcostal

CALYPTIS.—PLECOPTERODES. 141

nervure, defined above by a curved white streak and below by a

white streak on vein 1 extending to near termen ; two faint oblique

antemedial grey striz from costa; orbicular very indistinct and

oblique, defined on inner side by grey and on outer by the curved

white streak ; reniform very narrow and oblique, defined by white

and with whitish line in centre, asnarrow oblique white medial band

from it to vein 1; a large deep cupreous apical patch defined below

by an oblique white streak to near termen below vein 6, met at

vein 6 by a slight white streak from the reniform; another very

large oblong deep cupreous patch beyond the reniform and medial

band extending to near termen below vein 5 on which there is a

white streak defining its upper edge, its lower edge defined by the

white streak on vein 1; the postmedial line below vein 6 very

indistinct, dark, waved, excurved below vein 3 and just above vein i

retracted to lower angle of cell and the medial band; subterminal

line white, slightly excurved above vein 6 on the apical patch,

below vein 5 faint and forming the outer edge of the cupreous

patch ; a white line at base of cilia and line near tips. Hind wing

brown with a cupreous gloss; cilia with whitish line at base and

whitish tips; the underside irrorated with greyish, a curved post-

medial line and slight white lunules before termen above and below

vein 5.

Hab. Cups, Baracoa (Schaus), 1 2 ; Br. Guiana (Rodway),

1 6; Brazit, Amazons, Para (Bates), 1 9, Rio Janeiro, 1 Jo

Paracuay, Sapucay (Foster), 1 35. Hxp. 44-54 millim.

Genus PLECOPTERODES, nov.

Type, P. moderata.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about

vertex of head and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd long; frons smooth, with

tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antennz of mule minutely ciliated; thorax

clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibia smoothly scaled,

the fore tibize not spined, the mid and hind tibiz spined ; abdomen smoothly

scaled and without crests.. Fore wing short and broad, the apex rounded, the

termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of

cell; 6 from upperangle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ;

11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing; veins

3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper

angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

A. Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly excurved from

costa to vein 4, then incurved.

a. Fore wing with the postmedial line minutely waved.

am, Fore wing with the cilia brown.

a?, Fore wing with indistinct medial line excurved

beyond the cell ............ MSA aOnaee mance nan ccs owen reece S melliflua.

b?, Fore wing without medial line................:0...se080 heterochroa.

b1. Fore wing with the cilia grey-white with brown lines

ans Mme leliley arAVe! THOS) soso np oonoosoosne0an0 bopGODgoCoSDbonOneDDE griseicilia,

h. Fore wing with the postmedial line not waved.

a Hund wing erey- DOW .. 2.22... ...c.cs0scereecere sneer eceee synethes,

Ms Jabinngal Wine male AyOMONM eeecoscsesqoonscoo9s beouoecosbEE moderata.

B. Fore wing with the postmedial line very slightly excurved

from costa to vein 4, then slightly incuryed.................. molybdopasta.

€. Fore wing without postmedial line ................2....5000..05. pulchra.

142 NOCTUIDH.

7923. Plecopterodes mellifiua. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 29.)

Caradrina melliflua, Holl. Donaldson Smith’s Unknown Africa, p. 416

(1897).

Chalciope calida, Hmpsn. Ann. 8, Afr. Mus, ii. p. 331 (1902).

Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with grey ; pectus

grey ; palpiand legs grey-white mixed with black, the tarsi blackish

ringed with white; abdomen brown, the ventral surface white

irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey suffused with red-brown

and irrorated with brown, the terminal area red-brown ; a slight

dark subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, angled outwards

below costa; antemedial line brown defined on inner side by some

white scales, slightly angled outwards at the veins ; reniform black-

brown, narrow and oblique with shght whitish streaks beyond it on

the veins; a faint waved brown medial line excurved beyond the

cell, then incurved ; postmedial line brown slightly defined on outer

side by white, with oblique blackish bar from costa, then shght and

waved, with blackish points at the veins, excurved below the costa ;

an oblique pale subterminal line with minute white streaks on it at

the veins; cilia fuscous brown, white at tips at apex. Hind wing

grey-brown, the terminal area fuscous brown; an indistinct dark

postmedial line slightly excurved in submedian interspace ; an in-

distinct pale subterminal line from vein 4 to tornus; a fine waved

dark terminal line; cilia grey-brown, white at tips towards apex ;

the underside grey irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused

with fuscous, a diffused curved postmedial line.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the reniform not filled in with black.

Ab. 2. callida. Smaller; fore wing more uniform red-brown, the

reniform not filled in with black.

Ab. 8. Fore wing pale grey-brown tinged with rufous to the

subterminal line, the lines without white scales or points, the

renitorm filled in with black.

Hab. N. Nieerta, Zungeru (Macfie), 1 3; Anyssrnta, Atbara

(Gerrard), 1 3 , Sheik Hussein, type + in Coll. Holland; Ucanpa,

Wadelai (Emin Pasha), 1 ¢ type calida; N.H. Ruopesta,

Luangwa Valley (Weave), 1 ¢ ; Ruopesta, Bulawayo (Marshall),

1 $6; Transvaat, Johannesburg (Cooke), 1 ¢. Hap. 32-42

millim.

7924. Piecopterodes heterochroa.

Remigia heterochroa, Hmpsn. P. Z. 8. 1910, p. 426, pl. xxxvii. f. 1.

Head and thorax olive-grey mixed with brown; palpi blackish

irrorated with grey ; pectus and legs greyer, the tarsi fuscous with

pale rings; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing olive grey-brown ~

irrorated with fuscous; antemedial line blackish, shghtly angled

outwards below costa, then erect and almost straight; a slight

brown discoidal striga ; postmedial line indistinctly double, blackish,

with small black spot at costa, very minutely waved, excurved to

vein 4, then erect ; subterminal line brown, straight, bent outwards

PLECOPTERODES. 143

to apex and with three black points on it below apex; a crenulate

terminal line; cilia fuscous. Hind wing fuscous brown ; traces of

a nearly straight postmedial line; subterminal line greyish slightly

defined on each side by brown, from vein 4 to tornus ; a fine waved

dark terminal line; the underside grey thickly irrorated with brown

and with traces of a curved postmedial line.

Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing much more rufous and with-

out any olive-brown tinge or dark irroration, the outer postmedial

line with white points on it except towards costa.

Ab. 2. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing much darker and

tinged with purplish grey, the last with two small black discoidal

spots.

ney, N.W. Ruopesta, Alala Plateau (Neave), 2 3 type;

N.E. Ruopesta, EH. Luangwa Distr., Luangwa R., Chambezi

Valley, Chinsali Distr. (Weave), 1 9. Haxp., 3 34, o 38 millim.

7925. Plecopterodes griseicilia.

Remigia griseictlia, Ampsn. P. Z. 8. 1910, p. 427, pl. xxxvii. f, 2.

3. Head and thorax grey suffused with rufous; palpi blackish

irrorated with white; pectus and legs greyer, the tarsi fuscous

ringed with white; abdomen pale reddish brown irrorated with

fuscous, ventrally greyer. Fore wing pale greyish rufous slightly

irrorated with brown, the terminal area deeper rufous ; antemedial

line indistinct, brown, slightly sinuous; a slight brown discoidal

lanule ; postmedial line slight, brown with series of black points on

it, oblique to vein 6 and below vein 4; subterminal line very in-

distinct, greyish with slight dark streaks on its outer side, bent

outwards to apex, then almost straight; a waved brown terminal

line; cilia grey-white with dark lines at middle and tips. Hind

wing fuscous brown, the terminal area darker, a faint pale post-

medial shade ; a fine waved dark terminal line; cilia grey, tinged

with brown at base; the underside brownish ochreous irrorated with

fuscous, the terminal area suffused with fuscous.

2. Head, thorax, and fore wing cupreous red.

Hab. N.W. Ruopesta, Alala Plateau, Mkushi Distr. (Weave),

13,1 Q type. Hap. 42 millim.

7926. Plecopterodes synethes, n. sp. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 30.)

2. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-

brown irrorated with blackish and tinged with rufous especially on

postmedial area; antemedial line fine, dark brown, excurved below

costa, then nearly erect and somewhat sinuous, faintly defined on

outer side by whitish ; faint traces of a medial line excurved beyond

the cell, then incurved ; postmedial line brown defined on outer side

by whitish, exeurved below costa and slightly ineurved below vein 4;

subterminal line indistinct, pale, slightly defined on outer side by

fuscous, sinuous; a series of black points before termen; a fine

brown terminal line and whitish line at base of cilia: Hind wing

Ld, NOCTUID &.

with the basal half brownish grey, the terminal half fuscous; an

indistinct oblique whitish medial line; some white on termen at

discal fold; cilia white mixed with brown and with a brown line

through them. Underside blue-grey irrorated with blackish; fore

wing with blackish discoidal bar and slight postmedial curved line

with broad band of blackish suffusion beyond it; hind wing with

blackish discoidal striga and rather diffused postmedial and sub-

terminal lines.

Hab. Br. K. Arrica, Nairobi (Anderson), 1 2 type. Hap.

42 millim.

7927. Plecopterodes moderata.

Grammodes moderata, Wilgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 174 (1860).

Heliothis variabilis, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) x. p. 89 (1890).

Remigia alypophanes, Beth.-Baker, A. M. N. H. (8) viii. p. 5801911).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey suffused with reddish

brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish mixed

with brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white. Fore wing with

the basal area grey tinged with brown, the rest of wing red-brown ;

antemedial line dark brown defined on inner side by whitish, erect,

Fig. 40.—Plecopterodes moderata, Sd. +.

very slightly excurved at the veins; reniform a faint elliptical

brown mark with white points in upper and lower parts; medial

line very indistinct, brown, excurved beyond the cell, then incurved ;

postmedial line brown defined on outer side by white, oblique to

vein 6, then nearly erect ; subterminal line pale defined on each

side by brown and with whitish points at the veins, excurved at

vein 6 and incurved at middle, ending at tornus ; a fine waved dark

terminal line ; cilia grey-brown. Hind wing greyish suffused with

pale red-brown ; a diffused brown postmedial line and subterminal

shade diffused to termen on apical area and slightly incurved at

middle; a dark terminal line; cilia grey-brown; the underside

paler, the postmedial line eurved.

PLECOPTERODES. 145

Q. Fore wing wholly grey-brown, the medial line distinct, the

postmedial line reduced to dark and white points, the subterminal

line with some red-brown suffusion before and beyond it, the

terminal line with a series of white points.

Ab. 1. Hind wing with the ground-colour orange.

Ab. 2 2. alypophanes. Fore and hind wings ochreous brown.

Ab. 3 3. variabilis. Similar but fore wing with black mark on

costa at postmedial line.

Hab. SENEGAL; SteERRA Leone (Mitford), 1 2 ; S. NicErta,

Ito (Christy), 1 9 ; N. Nigurta, Zungeru (Macfie), 1 2, Borgu,

Yelwa Lake (dligeod), 1 9 ; GaBoon (Dobree), 1 9 ; Supan,

White Nile (Dunn), 1 9; Br. HE. Arrica (Ansorge), 1 @ ;

MasHonatLanD, Salisbury (Marshall), 13,19; Becuuananann,

Lake N’Gami (Lugard), 1 2 ; Damaratann, Ovampo L.,1 ¢ ;

Ruyopesia, Bulawayo (Marshall), 1 3 ; Lorenco Margvues,

Delagoa Bay (Monteiro), 1 3 ; Transvaat, Karino (Coole),

19, White R. (Cooke), 1 3, 2 9 ; CarE Cotony, Annshaw

(Miss F. Barrett),2 3. Hap. 34-42 millim. Type + 2 in Mus.

Stockholm.

7928. Plecopterodes molybdopasta.

Remigia molybdopasta, Hmpsn. P. Z. 8. 1910, p. 427, pl. xxxvii. f. 3.

@. Head and thorax brown suffused with fuscous ; palpi at base,

pectus and legs whitish, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen

red-brown, ventrally whitish. Fore wing fuscous brown suffused

with silvery blue especially on costal area to beyond middle, the

postmedial area pale reddish brown, whitish at costa; a sinuous

black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line

black, expanding into a bar at costa, obliquely excurved and slightly

sinuous; a faint blackish discoidal lunule ; postmedial line black,

expanding into a spot at costa, slightly incurved below vein 3; a

faint dark subterminal shade towards costa; cilia with some grey

at base. Hind wing pale rufous, the basal area tinged with brown,

the terminal area suffused with brown; an oblique brown medial

line; an oblique rufous subterminal bar from vein 4 to 1; the

underside ochreous yellow, a blackish discoidal point, faint oblique

postmedial line with some dark points.on it, the terminal area

suffused with fuscous narrowing to a point at vein 1.

Ab. 1. Fore wing wholly suffused with silvery blue, the post-

medial area hardly paler; hind wing darker.

Hab. N.W. Ruopesta, Alala Plateau, Ndola Distr. (Neave),

2 2 type. Hap. 40 millim.

7929. Plecopterodes pulchra.

Noctua pulera, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iti. (2) p. 35 (1794). k

Capnodes tetraspila, Wik. xxxiii. 1076 (1865) ; Hmpsn. Ill. Het. B.M. ix,

p- 116, pl. 166. f. 2; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 529.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow tinged with flesh-red ;

tegule velvety black except at base; antenne blackish except at

VOL. XIII. L

146 NOCTUIDAE.

base ; fore femora black above; tarsi fuscous brown. Fore wing

yellow tinged with flesh-colour; a small fuscous black triangular

spot on costa above end of cell connected with a curved deep black

discoidal striga somewhat dilated above; an oblique fuscous black

apical spot. Hind wing yellow faintly tinged with fiery red except

on costal area; a small fuscous patch at apex.

Q@. Fore wing very faintly striated with brown.

Hab. Mavras (Watson), 1 3 ; Ceyton, 1 9 type tetraspila.

Exp. 32 milim.

Genus GONODONTODES, nov.

Type, G. dispar.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd rather long; fronssmooth, with tuft of

hair above; eyes large, round; antennz of male pectinate with rather long

branches, the apex ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales and

without crests; tibiz moderately fringed with hair, the fore tibise not spined,

the hind tibiz spined ; abdomen dorsally clothed with woolly hair at base but

without crests. Fore wing short and broad, the apex not produced, the termen

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 the termen somewhat excurved at middle; thecell about one-third length

of wing; veins 8, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle;

6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

Secr. I. Fore wing with the termen excised below apex and excurved at yein 5.

7930. Gonodontodes chionosticta, n. sp.

Head and thorax bright red-brown ; antenne with the basal joint

white on outer side ; palpi, pectus, and legs grey-brown ; abdomen

grey-brown dorsally tinged with red-brown. Fore wing bright

Fig. 41.— Gonodontodes chionosticta, d. 1.

glossy red-brown, irrorated with a few white scales ; a small silvery

white spot at base; antemedial line very indistinct, double, brown,

GONODONTODES. 147

diffused, slightly exeurved below the costa ; two faint dark discoidal

points; medial line very indistinct, brown, diffused, excurved

beyond the cell; an indistinct double diffused slightly waved brown

subterminal line ; a series of black points before termen defined by

white scales; cilia white at tips. Hind wing black-brown, the

hair on inner margin whitish except towards base ; a broad orange-

yellow band from costa before middle to termen at submedian fold,

its outer edge excurved beyond the cell and slightly angled before

termen ; cilia red-brown, white at tips; the underside grey tinged

with red-brown, especially on terminal area from costa to vein De

and irrorated with dark brown, the inner area yellowish, an indis-

tinct dark postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 2, and series

of minute blackish points before termen.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with somewhat lunulate black discoidal spot

and oblique black line from below apex to vein 3.

Hab. Jamatca (Sturridge, Martin), 1 3,2 9 type. Haph id

42, 2 54 millim.

Secr. II. Fore wing with the termen evenly curved.

7931. Gonodontodes dispar.

| Noctua dispar, Herr.-Schaff. Corresp.-blatt. zool.-min. Ver. Regensb, xxii.

p- 181 (1868).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey-brown with a slight

reddish tinge ; palpi, pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen

Fig, 42.— Gonodontodes dispar, 5. 4.

grey mixed with brown, the tarsi blackish with pale rings. Fore

wing pale grey-brown with a slight reddish tinge and some black

irroration ; subbasal line represented by some blackish scales from

costa to submedian fold; antemedial line very indistinct, dark,

diffused, slightly excurved; two blackish discoidal points; medial

line very indistinct, dark, diffused, excurved beyond the cell; a

faint oblique dark postmedial bar from costa; an ey incurved

148 NOCTUID SE.

black-brown line from apex, indistinct and double from vein 8 to

inner margin ; traces of a pale waved subterminal line from vein 6

to inner margin with some blackish scales on its outer edge ; a series

of minute black points before termen. Hind wing with the basal

area reddish brown, its outer edge oblique to mner margin beyond

middle, followed by a broad orange-yellow band from costa before

middle to inner margin and termen near tornus where it encloses a

brown patch, its outer edge excurved beyond the cell and angled

before termen; the apical area black-brown; cilia greyish brown ;

the underside grey thickly irrorated with blackish except on inner

area, a series of slight black points before termen.

Hab. Cus, Santiago (Schaus),1 3. Exp. 38 millim.

Genus FOCILLIDIA, nov.

Type, F. texana.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to above

vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 8rd long and acuminate; frons

smooth; eyes large, round; antenne of male typically bipectinate with short

branches ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crest; fore

tibiz not spined, the hind tibiz spined between the mid and hind spurs only ;

abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex some-

what produced and acute, the termen excised below apex and excurved at

middle, slightly in male, strongly in female, and 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 the cell about half the

length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above

angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

Szcr. I. Antenne of male bipectinate with short branches.

7932. Focillidia texana, n. sp.

@. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white tinged with

rufous; antenne ringed with blackish; palpi with the 8rd joint

Fig. 43.—-Focillidia texana, 3. 1.

blackish except at tips; pectus and legs ochreous white irrorated

with brown, the fore legs tinged with fuscous in front. Fore wing

FOCILLIDIA. 149

ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated with pale brown; a sub-

basal dark striga from costa; antemedial line indistinct, dark,

waved, defined on inner side by whitish towards costa; two black

discoidal points ; medial line dark, waved, excurved beyond the cell,

ending at vein 2; postmedial line dark, defined on outer side by

white except towards inner margin, waved, oblique to vein 6, bent

inwards at submedian fold to below the medial line, the costa

beyond it with alternating white and blackish streaks; a slight

dark subterminal shade faintly defined on outer side by whitish; a

crenulate blackish terminal line with black points at the interspaces ;

cilia white, brownish at base and with dark patch at middle. Hind

wing ochreous white tinged with rufous and faintly irrorated with

brown ; a rather diffused curved dark medial line, minutely waved,

curved postmedial line, slight subterminal shade and crenulate

blackish terminal line with black points at the interspaces; cilia

white faintly tinged with brown at base; the underside creamy

white slightly irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule,

slightly waved medial line, minutely waved postmedial line, slight

subterminal shade and series of black points before termen.

Ab. 1. Much browner.

Hab. U.S.A., 1 Q type, Grote Coll., Texas, Brownsville, Esper

Ranch, 1 2, d in Coll. J. B. Smith. Hyxp. 28-36 millim.

Srer. II. Antenne of male with long bristles and cilia.

A. Fore wing with the termen strongly excurved, almost angled at vein 4.

7933. Focillidia bipunctata.

Thermesia bipunctata, W\k. xxxiii. 1048 (1865).

6. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale reddish brown; antennze

Fig. 44.—Vocillidia bipunciata, g. 1.

ringed whitish and fuscous ; palpi tinged with fuscous, whitish in

front; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish mixed

150 NOCTUID HE.

with brown. Fore wing pale reddish brown tinged with grey and

with shght dark irroration ; antemedial line slight, dark, obliquely

excurved from costa to submedian fold, then “erect aml slightly

incurved at vein 1; two black discoidal points; traces of a rather

diffused dark medial line, excurved to vein 3, then bent inwards to

below end of cell and sinuous to inner margin; postmedial line

dark, slightly defined on outer side by whitish towards costa and with

slight white points on its outer edge at veins 7 and 6, oblique to

vein 6, somewhat ineurved at discal fold and oblique to below vein 4,

some whitish points beyond it on costa ; traces of a pale subterminal

line with faint dark suffusion on its inner side, slightly waved.

Hind wing pale reddish brown tinged with grey; an indistinct

curved dark postmedial line; cilia white at tips. Underside of

fore wing with the postmedial line evenly curved and punctiform,

the terminal area whitish with a series of dark points before

termen ; hind wing whitish irrorated with brown, a black discoidal

point, indistinct sinuous medial line, curved punctiform postmedial

line, and series of points before termen.

2. Fore wing usually with small white spots on the outer edge

of the postmedial line at veins 6, 5, 4, 3; hind wing with traces of

white points on outer side of the postmedial line at “the veins.

Hab. Mexico, Coatepee (Schaus), 1 3, Vera Cruz, Paso San

Juan (Schaus), 1 9, Guerrero, Venta de Zopilote (CE ee Smith),

1 ¢; Costa Rica, Ivazu (Rogers), 2 5,1.2.; Panama, Chiniqui

(Ribbe), 1 3,1 9, Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Braztt, Acaaerome. Kea

(Bates), 1 3 ‘type. Hep. 32-88 millim.

BL. Fore wing with the termen slightly excurved at middle.

7934. Focillidia grenadensis, n. sp.

3S. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale reddish brown, the last

Fie. 45.—Pocillidia grenadensis, S. }.

? iF

greyer; antenne ringed fuscous and whitish; palpi tinged with

fuscous, the 2nd. joint i in front and tip of 3rd joint whitish ; pectus

FOCILLIDIA.—ARGYROSTROTIS. AS

and legs brown mixed with whitish. Fore wing pale reddish brown

tinged with grey and with slight dark irroration ; a very indistinct

dark antemedial line, oblique to median nervure, then inwardly

oblique; two slight dark discoidal points ; a very indistinct medial

line, slightly excurved beyond the cell; an indistinct dark postmedial

line, oblique to vein 6, then slightly waved, oblique below vein 4,

some white points beyond it on costa; a very indistinct pale waved

subterminal line slightly defined on inner side by fuscous; a series

of blackish points before termen. Hind wing pale reddish brown,

the terminal area grey-brown; faint traces of a subterminal line ;

cilia whitish at tips. Underside of fore wing grey irrorated with

fuscous brown, a dark subterminal shade diffused on inner side, the

area beyond it white; hind wing whitish irrorated with brown, a

black discoidal point, diffused curved medial line, faint curved

postmedial line, subterminal shade, and series of black points before

termen.

Hab. Grenava (H. H. Sinith), 1 3 type. Exp. 28 millim.

Genus ARGYROSTROTIS.*

Type.

Agnemonia, Hiibn. Zutr. iti. p. 10 (1825), non descr. ..............608. antlis.

Ag OTH ORONO, Jaltilon., VEZ, (9s 2S (INSPAT)) poneescoposcescaeoceaxt con cenc00 anilis,

Roatan Cue NOCt iN 429 Ol (ULS52)enenasdeceeceseeccceoseeeeen eee deleta.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about

vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth, with

tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round; antenne of male ciliated ; thorax clothed

with hair and scales mixed and without crests; tibize smoothly scaled, the fore

and hind tibiz not spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore

wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, 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 the cell half the length of wing; veins 3,4 from angle;

5 fully developed from above angle; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing

with the cell near base only. : 1a

A. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey.

a. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved to vein 4,

PHC MMCTIPVEC! -coacccoocaoccdcnoocoosbo000DcNt0G000000300004000 surrufula,

b. Fore wing with the postinedial line erect ...........2-..+6 bucetum.

c. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique.

a‘, Fore wing with the area beyond the postmedial line

not broadly suffused with red-brown.

a?, Fore wing with theantemedial line white and nearly

S{HEAIIETINE og 40cc0 00000 00bagd0ase oosnaBoDDAODGODDOLOGHEAdAGIISE pacalis.

2?, Fore wing with the antemedial line indistinct, dark,

waved.

a>, Fore wing with short black streaks beyond the

postmedial line above and below vein 5 ......... diffundens.

b?, Fore wing without black streaks beyond the

OstmedtalWlMS tens scecscsereeneccrser es neieozes sesseeeee herbicola.

b1, Fore wing with the area beyond the postmedial lirs

broadly suffused with red-brown ........-+2:seseee05 or» =sylvarum.

* This name was used Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. vii. p. 517 in error for

Argyrosticta.

152 NOCTUID ®.

B. Fore wing with the ground-colour red-brown.

a. Fore wing with the antemedial line not white.

a‘. Fore wing with the antemedial line indistinct, dark,

waved.

a?, Fore wing with the postmedial line dentate and

strongly excurved beyond the cell ... .............0008 erasa.

b?. Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly waved

and approximated to the cell.

a>, Fore wing with the cilia not white at tips......... contempta.

63. Fore wing with the cilia white at tips ............ deleta.

b'. Fore wing with the antemedial line indistinct, oblique,

SITING Sceasocestos cadaoonq boos gn9s00aconNDSaDsEscOUdaRDaRIHObAC obsolety,

b. Fore wing with the antemediai line white.

a’, Fore wing with the postmedial line white and straight

LI UVEOMLY AVON: Saconaskancotladass toda ntddoagasacosGoaocosouon banc guadrifilaris.

o'. Fore wing with the postmedial line white and oblique

to vein 6, then indistinct, dark, and incurved below

WWM GB) cocnasegausa oso agannndyasasbnandodconNbooccoaDSeoONOs00n anilis.

*7935. Argyrostrotis surrufula. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 31).

Celiptera surrufula, Dyar, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xliv. p. 299 (1913).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale violaceous grey. Fore wing

pale violaceous grey; antemedial line rather diffused, blackish,

angled outwards below costa and at median nervure ; reniform a small

blackish lunule ; postmedial line blackish, excurved below costa,

then waved and defined on outer side by white points, incurved

below vein 4, patches of fuscous suffusion beyond it at discal and

submedian interspaces ; a subterminal series of black points and a

terminal series of black strie. Hind wing grey tinged with red-

brown; a terminal series of black striz.

Hab. Mexico, San Luis Potosi, Cerritos (Miller). Exp. 34

millim. This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing

from type in U.S. Nat. Mus.

*7936. Argyrostrotis bucetum. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 31.)

Celiptera bhucetum, Grote, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. viii. p. 50 (1883);

Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 356.

@. Head and thorax purple-grey tinged with brown ; palpi dark

brown ; pectus grey tinged with brown; legs brown mixed with

grey; abdomen red-brown tinged with grey. Fore wing purple-

grey tinged with brown and irrorated with dark brown ; antemedial

line indistinct, brown, faintly defined on inner side by whitish scales,

oblique, sinuous; a slight dark discoidal lunule; postmedial line

reddish ochreous defined on each side by dark brown, erect and

nearly straight ; subterminal line indistinct, brown, defined on inner

side by grey, minutely waved ; a terminal series of slight dark striz ;

cilia with a faint brown line near base. Hind wing reddish brown

tinged with grey; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia paler; the under-

_side pale red-brown irrorated with dark brown.

Hab. U.S.A., New Mexico, Arizona (Poling) in Coll. W. Barnes.

Exp. 40 millim.

ARGYROSTROTIS. 153

7937. Argyrostrotis pacalis. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 32.)

oe Pen pacalis, W\k. xiv. 1475 (1858); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

p. 359.

Poaphila trrorata, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. Terr. iv. p. 185 (1878).

3S. Head and thorax pale grey irrorated with black; palpi and

frons browner ; fore and mid legs suffused with fuscous in front;

abdomen grey-white irrorated with brown, ventrally tinged with

brown. Fore wing pale grey irrorated with black-brown, the costal

edge white; antemedial line whitish defined on outer side by black,

slightly sinuous; two small black discoidal spots ; postmedial line

whitish, shghtly defined on inner side by blackish, on outer side by

black marks above and below vein 5 and at submedian fold, exeurved

below costa and oblique below vein 4; a subterminal series of small

black spots and a terminal series of black points. Hind wing grey-

white thickly irrorated with brown; a slight dark terminal line ;

the underside with slight dark discoidal spot and terminal series of

black striz.

@. Fore wing more thickly irrorated with black-brown, the lines

whiter and not defined by blackish.

Hab. U.S.A., Florida (Doubleday), 1 3 type, 1 Q type irrorata,

Grote Coll. Hap. 36 millim.

7938. Argyrostrotis diffundens. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 1.)

Mocis diffundens, Wik. xiv. 1491 (1858).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown; palpi, fore and

mid legs fuscous brown. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and

irrorated with black-brown; an indistinct sinuous curved ante-

medial line; a small black discoidal spot; postmedial line indis-

tinct, brown, excurved below costa, then obliquely incurved and

slightly waved, with short black streaks beyond it above and below

vein 5, a black spot on its outer side at inner margin; an oblique

blackish shade from apex; a series of black points just before

termen. Hind wing grey suffused with brown; a slight dark

terminal line; the underside grey thickly irrorated with brown, a

small blackish discoidal spot, indistinct curved postmedial line, and

terminal series of small black spots.

Hab. US.A., 1 6, Grote Coll.; Has. ten., 1 S type. , Hap.

40 millim.

7939. Argyrostrotis herbicola. (Plate CCX XVI. fig. 2.)

Poaphila herbicola, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 301 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 359. |

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey suffused with brown; palpi

and frons brown, the latter with a white bar above ; legs brown, the

tarsi ringed with white. Fore wing with the basal area grey

154 NOCTUID&.

irrorated with brown, the rest of wing grey suffused with brown ;

antemedial line indistinct, brown, excurved in submedian inter-

space ; reniform small, defined by dark brown ; postmedial line dark

brown, excurved below costa, then obliquely incurved; a slight

oblique dark shade from apex; a crenulate blackish terminal line

angled inwards to black points in the interspaces. Hind wing grey

suffused with cupreous brown; a waved dark terminal line; the

underside whitish irrorated with brown, the costal area tinged with

red-brown, a blackish discoidal point, minutely waved postmedial

brown line, and series of black points before termen.

Hab. U.S.A., Southern States, 1 ¢, Grote Coll. Huxp. 36

millim.

7940. Argyrostrotis sylvarum. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 3.)

Poaphila sylvarum, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 800, pl. xxiii, f. 2 (1852); Smith,

Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 358.

3. Head and thorax red-brown tinged with grey ; palpi, pectus,

and legs red-brown ; abdomen red-brown, the ventral surface

whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing purple-grey tinged with

red-brown and slightly irrorated with brown; antemedial line

whitish, defined on outer side by diffused red-brown, oblique; a

dark discoidal lunule with some brown on its outer side; post-

medial line red-brown, with a broad band of red-brown suffusion

eyond it, excurved below costa, then oblique; subterminal line

dark, closely approximated to the postmedial line and showing

faintly on the red-brown suffusion, incurved at discal fold and

angled outwards at veins 4, 3; a series of black points just betore

termen. Hind wing red-brown; a faint medial line incurved below

vein 4, dark postmedial shade, a terminal series of black points ;

cilia whitish at tips; the underside paler red-brown with some dark

irroration, the markings more distinct, a small blackish discoidal

lunule.

Hab. U.S.A., Southern States, 3 ¢. Hap. 36 millim.

7941. Argyrostrotis erasa. (Plate CCX XVI. fig. 4.)

Poaphila erasa, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 8301 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

p. 359.

3. Head and thorax red-brown tinged with grey ; palpi and legs

brown; abdomen grey suffused with red-brown. Fore wing red-

brown mixed with greyish, the terminal area cupreous red-brown ;

antemedial line indistinct, brown, waved; a slight brown discoidal

lunule ; postmedial line indistinct, brown, dentate, strongly incurved

below vein 4; subterminal line faintly indicated by the contrast

between the postmedial and terminal areas; cilia dark red-brown at

base, pure white at tips except at apex and tornus. Hind wing

red-brown, the terminal area cupreous brown ; cilia red-brown at

ARGYROSTROTIS. 155

base, white at tips; the underside whitish suffused and irrorated.

with red-brown, traces of diffused postmedial and subterminal

brown lines.

Hab. U.S.A., Southern States, 2 5. Exp. 36-40 millim.

7942. Argyrostrotis contempta. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 5.)

Poaphila contempta, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 802 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 358.

Poaphila placata, Grote, Bull. Geol. Geog. Sury. Terr. iv. p. 184 (1878) ;

Simith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 359.

Head, thorax, and abdomen bright red-brown ; antennz with the

shaft white above. Fore wing bright red-brown; antemedial line

very indistinct, brown, excurved and slightly waved; traces of a

brown discoidal bar; postmedial line indistinct, brown, oblique,

waved; traces of an oblique sinuous subterminal line ; a slight dark

terminal line. Hind wing bright red-brown, with a slight dark

terminal line ; the underside somewhat greyer with shght discoidal

striga and traces of diffused postmedial and subterminal lines.

Hab. U.S.A., Southern States, Georgia, 2 3, 2 2 type placata,

Florida (Doubleday), 19. Exp. 26-80 millim.

7943. Argyrostrotis deleta.

Poaphila deleia, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 800 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

p. 358.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen bright red-brown ; antennee with

the shaft white above. Fore wing bright red-brown, the terminal

area with faint greyish irroration ; antemedial line indistinct, brown,

SSS

Fig. 46.—Argyrostrotis deleta, S. }.

faintly defined on each side by rufous, excurved and slightly waved ;

a slight dark discoidal lunule; postmedial line just beyond the

156 NOCTUID®.

cell, very indistinct and slightly defined on outer side by rufous,

somewhat excurved to vein 3, then incurved; traces of an oblique

sinuous subterminal line; cilia white at tips. Hind wing bright

red-brown, the cilia whitish at tips; the underside greyish suffused

and irrorated with red-brown.

Hab. U.S.A., Southern States, 1 3, Florida (Doubleday), 1 3.

Exp. 30 millim.

7944. Argyrostrotis obsoleta. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 6.)

Poaphila obsoleta, Grote, Check-List, p. 42 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 358.

Head, thorax, and abdomen bright red-brown ; antennze with the

shaft white above. Fore wing bright red-brown, the costal edge

white except towards base; an indistinct oblique brown antemedial

line; postmedial line indistinct, brown, inwardly oblique ; cilia pure

white except at base. Hind wing bright red-brown ; cilia white at

tips at middle above only.

Hab. U.S.A., Southern States, Georgia, 1 3, Florida (Double-

day), 3 2, Enterprise, 1 2 type. Hxp. 34 millim.

7945, Argyrostrotis quadrifilaris. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 7.)

Agnomonia quadrifilaris, Hibn. Zutr. Ex. Schmett. iii. p. 37, ff. 569, 570

(1825); Sith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 358.

Head, thorax, and abdomen deep red-brown; antennze with the

shaft white above. Fore wing bright red-brown, the costal edge

white except towards base ; antemedial line pure white, oblique ;

postmedial line pure white, inwardly oblique ; cilia pure white at

tips except towards tornus. Hind wing deep red-brown, the ter-

minal area brighter red-brown except towards tornus; cilia paler ;

the underside deep red-brown, the terminal area pale red-brown.

Hab. U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, 3 d, 3 9, Pennsyl-

vania, 1 2, Florida (Doubleday), 13,29. Exp. 32-36 millim.

7946. Argyrostrotis anilis. (Plate CCX XVI. fig. 8.)

Noctua anilis, Drury, Il. Exot. Ins. ii. p. 21, pl. 12. f. 3 (1797); Smith,

Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 360.

Agnomonia sequistriaris, Hibn. Zutr. Ex. Schmett. iii. p. 10, ff. 419, 420

(1825).

Head, thorax, and abdomen bright red-brown ; antenne with the

shaft white above. Fore wing bright red-brown ; a narrow oblique

white band from costa before middle to inner margin towards

tornus ; postmedial line oblique and white to vein 6, then indis-

tinct and brown, incurved below vein 3 and reaching inner margin

just beyond the oblique band ; cilia white with a slight red-brown

line at middle. Hind wing pale red-brown with a greyish gloss ;

CUTINA. 157

cilia white with a slight red-brown line at middle; the underside

irrorated with white, with a curved postmedial line.

Hab. U.S.A., Middle and Southern States, 2 ¢, 1 9, Georgia,

2 3, Florida (Doubleday), 2 3, Kansas (Snow), 1 3,1 2, Texas,

23. Harp. 34-36 millim.

Genus CUTINA. Type

Cutina, Wik. xxxv. 1784 (866) ..1. 0.2... ..ccescseeccecosscseeeeess albopinctella,

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and broadly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate; frens

smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennz of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost

entirely with scales and without -crests; build slender; tibie slightly fringed

with hair, the mid tibiz spined, the fore and hind tibiz not spined ; abdomen

smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing narrow, the apex produced

and acute, the termen somewhat excised below apex and excuryed at middle,

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 the cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle: 5 fully developed

from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near

base only.

7947. Cutina albopunctella.

Cutina albopunctella, Wik. xxxv. 1735 (1866); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

p- 194.

Frastria strigulataria, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. viii. p. 173 (1900); Dyar,

Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 209.

3. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with some pale red-

brown ; abdomen grey-white tinged with red-brown. Fore wing

Fig. 47.— Cutina albopunctella, S. 3.

grey-wiite, the interspaces suffused and irrorated with red-brown,

leaving rather diffused white streaks on the veins ; antemedial line

very indistinctly marked by black scales, dentate, connected by a

158 NOCTUIDE.

slight streak with the postmedial line at vein 2; a slight black

streak in discal fold from end of cell to the postmedial line, which

is indistinctly marked by black scales, dentate, oblique to vein 5,

then inwardly oblique to the submedian fold and angled outwards

at vein 1, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line

white, oblique towards costa, then dentate; excurved at middle; a

terminal series of black and white points; cilia red-brown, inter-

sected by white streaks at base and chequered with white at tips.

Hind wing pale red-brown; a terminal series of black points ;

cilia whitish at tips; the underside violaceous white irrorated with

red-brown, a black discoidal spot and terminal series of black

points.

Hab. U.S.A. (Doubleday), 1 3 type, Florida. Hap. 32 millim.

Genus CYMOSAFTA, nov.

Type, C. daba.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to above

middle of frons with an oblique ridge of scales at middle, the 3rd moderate,

thickly scaled; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antennz of male ciliated ;

thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed; the metathorax with depressed

crest; fore tibie fringed with long hair, the mid and hind tibize moderately

fringed with hair, the mid tibix of male dilated with a groove containing a

tuft of hair, the fore and hind tibize not spined; abdomen smoothly scaled

and without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen crenulate,

produced at veins 6 and 4, then oblique; veins 3and 5 from near angle of

cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ;

11 from eell. Hind wing with the termen crenulate and somewhat produced

at veins 6 aud 4; the cell nearly half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from

angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6,7 from upper angle; 8

anastomosing with the cell near base only.

A. Fore wing on underside with the postmedial line incuryed

FLOM COStartO VEUNED oecees acter scmueeieeesnce eeelseie meee semenect pallida.

B. Fore wing on underside with the postmedial line excurved

and waved from costa to Vein 5 .........ccecescenseecne seers ees laba.

7948. Cymosafia pallida, n. sp. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 9.)

Head and thorax ochreous whitish tinged with red-brown ; palpi

with black band on Ist joint and red-brown bands on 2nd and 3rd

joints; pectus and legs ochreous white irrorated with brown ;

abdomen ochreous white tinged with red-brown and with dorsal

series of slight dark points, the ventral surface white. Fore wing

ochreous white tinged with red-brown and slightly irrorated with

dark brown; a curved whitish subbasal striga from costa defined

on inner side by brown; antemedial line indistinct, whitish,

incompletely defined on outer side by black-brown, angled out-

wards below costa and inwards on median nervure and vein 1;

orbicular a minute dark spot with whitish annulus; reniform with

incomplete whitish annulus and its centre incompletely defined by

dark brown, large, its edges sinuous, some whitish above it on

CYMOSAFTA. 159

costa, a wedge-shaped deep red-brown patch beyond it; postmedial

line whitish incompletely defined on outer side by dark brown,

slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved and

closely approximated to the reniform, oblique below vein 4; two

oblique white streaks defined above by blackish especially towards

extremities below postmedial part of costa which is whitish with

slight blackish points ; an oblique whitish streak from vein 7 below

apex to the postmedial line at vein 4; a dark line before termen,

arising at vein 7, slight and waved to vein 3, then oblique and

ending just above vein 1; a fine waved dark terminal line; cilia

whitish at base, red-brown at tips. Hind wing ochreous white

tinged with red-brown ; a large faint brownish discoidal annulus

with traces of two sinuous lines from it to inner margin; an

indistinct double sinuous brown postmedial line, angled inwards

beyond lower angle of cell and outwards at vein 2; an indistinct

minutely waved brown subterminal line with a patch of dark

suffusion before it at vein 2; the terminal part of vein 1 defined

by a dentate dark mark; a strong blackish line before termen,

slightly sinuous to discal fold and ending at submedian fold; a

fine dark terminal line; underside of both wings white striated

with brown except on inner area of fore wing on which all the

markings are obsolete; fore wing with black point in middle of

cell, reniform finely defined by black and constricted at middle,

postmedial line strong black and incurved to vein 5, then waved,

two oblique dentate blackish marks below postmedial part of costa

followed by a double waved brown line, apical area creamy white,

the medial part of terminal area suffused with red-brown, the dark

line before termen as above; hind wing with the terminal area

suffused with red-brown to submedian fold, the discoidal bar

defined by black at sides, the postmedial line black sinuous in-

curved below vein 3 and ending at submedian fold, traces of a

waved subterminal line and of a series of points and striz before

termen.

Hab. VENEZUELA, 1 S type; Brazit, at sea 1500 miles north

of Rio Janeiro (W. Browne), 1 2. Hap. 52 millim.

7949. Cymosafia laba.

Locitla laba, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 392, pl. 33. f. 3 (1890).

Head and thorax ochreous whitish suffused with red-brown ;

palpi with red-brown bands at middle and extremity of 2nd joint

and the 8rd joint red-brown; abdomen reddish brown, the ventral

surface ochreous suffused with red-brown. Fore wing ochreous

suffused with red-brown and with some dark irroration; a curved

ochreous subbasal striga from costa defined on inner side by red-

brown ; antemedial line ochreous defined on outer side by dark

brown, waved, angled outwards below costa and inwards at vein 1 ;

three oblique ochreous striz from medial part of costa and traces

of two sinuous brown medial lines; reniform with its centre defined.

160 NOCTUIDS.

by blackish and slight whitish annulus; postmedial line whitish

towards costa, then blackish and rather interrupted, minutely

waved, at vein 3 bent inwards to lower inner edge of reniform,

some whitish beyond it on costa; an oblique black streak below

postmedial part of costa; an oblique pale streak defined on inner

side by brown suffusion from vein 7 below apex to the postmedial

line at vein 5; traces of a double minutely waved brown sub-

terminal line with some dark points on it; a series of dark points

before termen from costa to discal fold, then dark striz to the

submedian fold; a slight waved dark terminal line with pale

points beyond it from apex to discal fold; cilia dark at tips.

Hind wing ochreous suffused with red-brown and with some dark

irroration ; traces of a pale discoidal annulus; an indistinct dit-

fused double sinuous brown medial line; postmedial line blackish,

Fig. 48.—Cymosafia laba, 3. }.

dentate at veins 5 to 2; subterminal line blackish, dentate, with

dark marks before it at discal and submedian folds; a strong

black line before termen slightly defined on inner side by whitish

and ending at submedian fold; a fine waved dark terminal line.

Underside ochreous whitish suffused with red-brown especially at

middle cf terminal area of fore wing and on hind wing and striated

with brown; fore wing with black point in middle of cell,

reniform finely defined by black and constricted at middle, post-

medial line with wedge-shaped black mark from costa, then waved,

incurved below vein 4 and obsolete on inner area, an oblique black

streak below postmedial part of costa, a double waved subterminal

line, the inner line formed of blackish marks the outer red-brown,

a black line before termen formed by oblique strie towards apex

then dentate to vein 3; hind wing with the discoidal bar defined

at sides by black, the postmedial line black, waved, the subterminal

RAMPHIA. 161

line red-brown, sinuous, defined on inner side by black below

vein 5.

Hab. GUATEMALA, Cerro Zunil (Champion), 1 3, Volcan de

Atitlan (Champion), 1 Q type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Hap.

48 millim.

Genus RAMPHIA. T

"pe.

Ramphia, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 142 (1852) ...........cccecevceveeceecees Aiea

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and broadly fringed with scales in front, the 3rd very long and dilated

into a knob at extremity; frons smooth, with slight lateral tufts of hair

above; eyes large, round; antennz of male with very short slender branches

ending in pairs of bristles, serrated towards extremity, of female with

bristles and cilia; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and without

crests, the patagia broadly dilated with scales at extremity; tibie smoothly

scaled, the fore and mid tibiz with slicht tufts of scales on outer side near

base, the fore tibix not spined, the hind tibiz spined between the mid and

hind spurs only; abdomen with dorsal series of large crests. Fore wing

with the costa highly arched towards apex which is rounded, the termen

evenly curved, crenulate; the cell short; veins 3, 4 from angle: 5 from just

above angle; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the

areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one-third length of

wing; vein 3 from before angle; 4,5 from angle; 6, 7 from upper angle;

8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

7950. Ramphia albizona.

Noctua albizona, Latr.in Humb. & Bonpl. Ree. ii. p. 186, pl. 43. ff. 5, 6

(1817), Q; Feld. Reise Nov. pl. 114. f.5; Druce, Biol. Ceutr.-Am., Het.

i. p. 367.

Bane evinga, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 143 (1852), ¢.

Ramphia amarygma, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 144 (1892), 9.

Brujas basicincta, Wik xiv. 1251 (1858), ¢.

Syrnia transacta, W\k. xiv. 1278 (1858), @.

Latebraria quadripluga, Wik. xiv. 1234 (1858), 3.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen deep red-brown with a few

minute white scales; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen

ochreous tinged with red-brown. Fore wing red-brown suffused

with dark greyish brown and irrorated with a few minute white

scales to the postmedial line; subbasal line black, excurved below

costa and ending at submedian fold; antemedial line black, forming

a small spot at costa, then sinuous, bent inwards in cell, strong

and oblique from median nervure to vein 1; traces of a small

orbicular defined by blackish; reniform a small blackish spot

defined at sides by pale reddish; an indistinctly treble diffused

blackish sinuous medial line strongly incurved below vein 4;

postmedial line very indistinct, double, minutely waved, incurved

below vein 4; a conical blackish patch on postmedial part of

costa with some pale points on costa; subterminal line very

indistinct, double, dark, sinuous, bent outwards to apex ; a series

of slight brown lunules before termen defined on outer side by

whitish to discal fold and at submedian fold. Hind wing red-

VOL. XITT. M

162 - NOCTUIDS.

brown, the basal area suffused with dark brown, the postmedial

area irrorated with blackish; an indistinct double sinuous dark

medial line; postmedial line indistinct, double, minutely waved ;

subterminal line indistinct, double, dark filled in with rufous and

with some dark suffusion before it on costal area, smuous ; a series

of slight brown lunules before termen defined on outer side by

whitish points. Underside grey-brown; fore wing with black

Fig. 49.—Ramphia albizona, 3. }.

discoidal point and indistinct double sinuous medial, postmedial,

and subterminal lines, a series of dark points before termen ; hind

wing with black discoidal point, double minutely waved medial

line, waved dark postmedial line defined on outer side by ochreous,

indistinct double subterminal line with dark patches on it at costa,

discal and submedian folds, and series of dark points before termen.

@. Fore wing with broad white band before the postmedial line

with some dark irroration on it, no black postmedial patch on

costa, an irregular white subapical spot; hind wing with broad

white band before the postmedial line with some dark irroration on

it and white patch beyond the subterminal line from below costa

to vein 6.

Ab. 1. 6. Wings more uniform dark brown irrorated with

white.

Ab. 2. amarygma 9. Wings with the white band reduced to

three more or less incomplete series of small white spots.

RAMPHIA.—SAFIDIA. 163

Ab. 3. transacta 2. Wings with the medial white band and

spots absent, the subapical white patch obsolescent on fore wing

absent on hind wing. ast

Hab. Muxico, Oaxaca (Sallé), 1 9, Yucatan (Becker), 1 3

type basvcincta, Temax (Gaumer), 2 3; GuatEmana, Pantaleon

(Champion), 1 3, R. Naranjo (Champion), 1 9; Nicaragua,

Chontales (Belt), 1 9; Costa Rrca, Sta. Clara Valley (Zurcher),

23; Panama, Chiriqui (2262), 1 $,2 2, Godman-Salvin Coll.,

Cana Mines (Zylecote), 1 9; W. Coast or Cenrr. Am. (Kellet J

Wood), 1 Q type transacta; Trintpap, Caparo (Kaye), 3 6,

1 9; Venezuena, 1 9; Brazin, Amazons, Pard (Bates), 3295

Theresopolis (Michaelis), 1 3; Paraguay, Sta. Cruz (Moor), 1 9.

Exp. 68-94 millim.

Genus SAFIDIA, noy.

Type, S. azteca.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long; frons smooth; eyes large

round; antenne of male laminate and with fasciculate cilia and bristles «

thorax clothed almost entively with scales, the pro- and metathorax witia

large spreading crests; tibixw slightly fringed with hair; all the tibix spined ;

abdomen with dorsal series of large cvests. Fore wing with the apex rounded

the termen evenly curved and strongly 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 cel]. Hind wing with the cell about half the leneth of

wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7

from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only,

7951, Safidia azteca.

Hadrecia azteca, Schaus, Trans. Am, Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 231 (1894); Druce,

Bio]. Centr.-Am. ii. p. 514, pl. 97. ff. 2, 3.

3. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some whitish; palpi

dark brown towards base; legs irrorated with dark brown, the

tarsi black-brown with pale rings; abdomen whitish suffused with

red-brown, the crests darker. Fore wing red-brown irrorated and

in parts suffused with dark brown, the medial area white irrorated

with brown except on cogtal area; subbasal line blackish defined

on inner side by white suffusion, sinuous, from costa to vein 1, the

terminal area tinged with purple ; antemedial line very indistinct,

double, dark filled in with white, angled outwards below costa and

oblique below vein 1; faint traces of two sinuous brown medial

lines ; orbicular a minute white spot incompletely defined by black ;

reniform an oblique white bar with some brown on it below and

defined at sides by blackish, connected with the costa by a white

bar with dark striga on it; postmedial line very indistinct, double,

dark filled in with whitish, arising below costa, excurved below

vein 7, angled outwards at veins 4, 3, then bent inwards to below

end of cell and erect and sinuous to inner margin, a diffused black

line defined on outer side by some blue-green scales beyond it and

some minute white points on costa; subterminal line dark brown

slightly defined on inner side by blue-green scales and some white

mM 2

164 NOCTUIDAE.

at costa, oblique towards costa, excurved below vein 7 and at

middle, then oblique and waved ; a series of black-brown lunules

before termen; a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing

pale red-brown, the costal area whitish to beyond middle, the

terminal area darker; traces of a dark subterminal line, more

distinct at tornus; a series of dark lunules before termen ; cilia

Fig. 50.—Safidia azteca, §, 1.

with a whitish line at base; the underside white tinged with red-

brown and irrorated with dark brown, a discoidal lunule defined at

sides by dark brown, postmedial line dark brown, slightly angled

outwards at discal fold and ending at submedian fold, a dark

subterminal shade and series of small spots before termen.

Ab. 1. Fore wing without white on medial area, the antemedial

line dark defined on each side by white, the postmedial line defined

on each side by white at costa and on outer side on inner area, the

subterminal line with more green before it.

Q@. Fore wing with the white on medial area replaced by pale

brown, the terminal area pale brown, the area before the sub-

terminal line mostly green.

Ab. 2. Similar to ab. 1, but fore wing tinged with purple and

suffused with green scales, the area before the subterminal line

pale purple tinged with white and with bright green scales beyond

the diffused black line and before the subterminal line.

Ab. 38. Similar but fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines

defined by yellowish white.

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 2 3, 2 9; Costa Rica,

Candelaria Mts. (Underwood), 1 9, Godman-Salvin Coll. Hap.

54-64 millim.

SAFTA. 165

Genus SAFIA.

4 Type.

(Sleiias, Ci, INOClE, wiht, Js AO) (SBA) ebsscanonododshoocsoconoseosnenes celia.

Campometra, Guen. Noct, iii. p. 25 (1852) oo... eee eeeee amella.

Livonia, Wik, Sirs WSO) (ASIN) cocsosnasenoosooceconoponsonsbasnoocoe irresoluta.

Placonia, Moéschl. Verh, zool.-bot. Ges, Wien, xxx. p. 410

(USSD) sobtcnscosdtocdgeabsocenoddeoadosdeb pesca rE eBeRcebEd De HaEaenoeened: selene.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long; frons smooth, with tuft of hair

above; ey2s large, round; antenne of male with fasciculate cilia; thorax

clothed almost entirely with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading

crests, the patagia dilated with scales at extremity; fore coxe and femora of

male fringed with long hair, the fore and mid tibiz moderately fringed with

hair, the mid tibize dilated with a groove containing a tuft of long hair, the

hind tibiz fringed with long hair, the fore and hind tibie not spined;

abdomen with dorsal series of crests, the crests on medial segments large,

formed of loose hair, the crest on 3rd segment somewhat divided. Fore wing

with the costa arched towards apex which is rounded, the termen evenly

curved and highly 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 the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4

from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle;

8 anastomosing with the cell near base only,

Szor. I. Hind wing of male on underside clothed with silky androconia.

A. Hind tarsi of male fringed with hair above.

a. Hind wing with the discal area tinged with crimson... rufipicta.

6. Hind wing with the discal area not tinged with

crimson.

a, Fore wing with the basal area suffused with

blackish.

a”, Fore wing with the outer edge of reniform not

connected with the costa by a whitish bar.

a’, Fore wing without black patch on inner medial

area.

a4, Fore wing with the postmedial area not

suffused with black.

a°, Fore wing with the basal area tinged with

Inllwe= eee iene tc seacetasttee sececeowseesenevend ie pascuala.

b°. Fore wing with the basal area not tinged

WHUD [MSIE Sooncoocosacacnodesanoansaconeoae obsolefacta.

64. Fore wing with the postmedial area suffused

swilblawlolackaimmemesnne ms atececgee vost scuoeew easier: simplicior.

03, Fore wing with black patch on inner medial

IRE povnss0codoosHeqcaocdcdodeadanoqaDosENDdaDoDsodo0eC endomelas.

62, Fore wing with the outer edge of reniform con-

nected with the costa by a whitish bar ............ demera.

61, Fore wing with the basal area concolorous.

a. Both wings with the terminal area concolorous... swbrosea.

62, Fore wing with the terminal area pale ............ guayaquilata,

e*, Both wings with the terminal area whitish......... separabilis.

166 NOCTUID EZ.

7952. Safia rufipicta. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 10.)

Campometra rujipicta, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 53 (1911).

g. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with some greyish ;

antenne blackish; palpi and legs blackish, the tarsi rmged with

white. Fore wing red-brown mixed with some greyish, the basal

half suffused with black; subbasal line black slightly defined on

outer side by whitish, waved, from costa to submedian fold; ante-

medial line double, black, filled in with white towards costa, waved ;

traces of a double waved dark medial line; reniform faintly defined

by blackish and by white points, a slight dark spot in centre ;

postmedial line indistinctly double, blackish, filled in with whitish

towards costa, at vein 3 retracted to lower angle of cell, then

somewhat oblique, a blackish mark defined on inner side by

whitish before it on costa; subterminal line very indistinct, pale,

waved, faintly defined on inner side by brown, some dark suffusion

before it on costal area and a dentate mark below vein 4; a series

of black strie before termen; a slight waved dark terminal line

and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing dark brown mixed

with some grey and tinged with crimson to the postmedial line

except on costal area, the inner margin grey; two indistinct waved

dark medial lines; postmedial line blackish, minutely waved ;

subterminal line blackish, rather diffused and slightly waved; a

series of blackish strize slightly defined on imner side by whitish

before termen; a slight waved dark terminal line, and fine pale

line at base of cilia; the underside clothed with leaden fuscous

scales.

Hab. Costa Rica, Sixola R. (Schaus), 1 6; Panama, Obispo

(Salvin), 1 3. Kap. 44 millim.

7953. Safia pascuala. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 11.)

Placonia pascualz, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 45 (1901).

3. Head and thorax red-brown, the thorax darker and slightly

mixed with grey; pectus grey tinged with red-brown; tarsi

blackish ringed with white; abdomen reddish brown, the crests

darker. Fore wing greyish suffused with red-brown, the basal

area blackish with a blue-grey gloss; subbasal line black defined

on outer side by some white scales, curved, from costa to vein 1 ;

antemedial line black, inwardly oblique and minutely waved ; two

indistinct oblique sinuous brown medial lines ; a minute dark spot

in middle of cell; reniform with faint whitish annulus slightly

defined by brown ; postmedial line blackish, oblique to below vein 7,

then waved, incurved between veins 4 and 8, then indistinct, at

vein 2 retracted to lower angle of cell and indistinctly double and

waved to inner margin, a dark brown patch beyond it on costal

area with some white points on costa and two faint waved blue-

white lines from costa; subterminal line indistinct, dark, oblique

from below vein 7 to discal fold, angled outwards below vein 4,

SAFTA. 167

then incurved and waved; a series of strong black striz before

termen and a fine waved blackish line just before termen. Hind

wing red-brown irrorated with dark brown ; postmedial line slight,

dark, dentate, angled inwards between veins 4 and 3 to near lower

angle of cell and obsolete in submedian interspace and on inner

area ; subterminal line blackish, arising at vein 6, angled outwards

in discal fold, then sinuous; a line formed of black strix before

termen and a fine waved blackish line just before termen; the

underside fuscous grey with indistinct curved postmedial line.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (Schaus), type + in U.S. Nat. Mus. ;

Brazi, Amazons (Pearce), 1 ¢. Exp. 42 millim.

7954. Safia obsolefacta. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 12 3,18 9.)

Campometra odsolefacta, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) x. p. 512 (1912).

6. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with erey,

the last with the crests blackish ; antenne blackish ; palpi blackish ;

tarsi black ringed with white, the fringe of hair on hind tibie and

tarsi leaden grey. Fore wing grey suffused with reddish brown

and irrorated with dark brown, the basal area suffused with

blackish; a faint sinuous blackish subbasal line from costa to

submedian fold; antemedial line blackish, sinuous, somewhat

inwardly oblique; traces of two waved medial lines; a minute

blackish spot im middle of cell; reniform hardly traceable, with

faint oblique dark bar on its outer edge above; postmedial line

blackish, rather diffused and faintly defined on outer side by

whitish towards costa, waved, oblique to below vein 7, at vein 3

retracted to lower angle of cell, then erect and somewhat dentate ;

subterminal line very indistinct, pale, oblique, waved, with diffused

blackish spots before it above and below vein 7 and a dentate mark

below vein 4; a series of black striae before termen; a slight

waved dark terminal line and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind

wing brown mixed with greyish and with slight dark irroration ;

postmedial line indistinct, blackish, waved; subterminal line in-

distinct, blackish, slightly angled outwards at discal fold, then

somewhat sinuous; a series of black striw before termen; a slight

waved blackish terminal line and fine pale line at base of cilia; the

underside clothed with leaden fuscous scales.

@. Much darker; fore wing with the basal, postmedial, and

terminal areas largely suffused with dark leaden blue-grey and

irrorated with some white scales.

Hab. Costa Rica, Sixola R. (Schaus),1 $. Exp. 42 millim.

7955. Safia simplicior. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 14.)

Homoptera simplicior, Wlk. xiii. 1065 (1857); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am.,

Het. i. p. 344.

6. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some darker brown ;

antennz blackish; palpi, pectus, and legs dark brown mixed with

grey, the tarsi rmged with white; abdomen grey-brown the crests

168 NOCTUID®H.

blackish. Fore wing greyish suffused with red-brown and irrorated

with dark brown, the basal area suffused with black; subbasal line

blackish, curved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line

black, minutely waved, somewhat inwardly oblique ; traces of a

double medial line ; reniform faintly defined by diffused dark brown ;

a dark brown patch on costa before the postmedial line, which is

blackish, minutely waved, at vein 3 retracted to lower angle of

cell, then excurved ; the area before the subterminal line surged

with black and ith) two whitish points on costa; subterminal

line defining the outer edge of the black area, angled outwards

below veins 7 and 4, Anes ineurved and slightly angled outwards

below vein 3: a series of black strize before termen connected by

streaks with the termen; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind

wing red-brown with slight dark irroration ; subterminal line black

aml with a band of black suffusion petore it, arising at vein 6,

angled outwards at discal fold and slightly at vein 5, then incurved

anil excurved below vein 2; a series ae black strize before termen ;

a slight waved dark terminal line and pale line at base of cilia :

the underside clothed with leaden fuscous scales.

@. Fore wing with the black area before the subterminal line

running inwards below vein 3 to lower angle of cell; under-

side of hind wing grey suffused with brown; traces of diffused

medial and postmedial lines from costa to lower angle of cell and

vein 4 and a diffused subterminal shade.

Hab. Honpuras (Dyson), 13 type; Trrxipap, Caparo, 1 2.

Hap. 46 millim.

7956. Safia endomelas, n. sp. (Plate CCXXYV. fig. 15.)

Homoptera simplicior, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 344 (part.)

nec W1k.

¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with some

blackish and grey ; ‘palpi, pectus, and legs black-brown, the tarsi

ringed with white. Fore wing greyish suffused with ‘red-brown

anil irrorated with dark brown, Ane base suffused with black; a

sinuous blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; ante-

medial line black, expanding into a small spot at costa, waved,

somewhat inwardly oblique; a rather diffused double sinuous

blackish medial line with a black patch from submedian fold to

inner margin extending from the inner line to near the postmedial

line ; renitorm faintly defined by blackish, and with some blackish

suffusion beyond it; a blackish patch on costa before the blackish

postmedial line, aihieln § is waved to vein 3, then retracted to lower

angle of cell, then dentate to below vem 2 and sinuous to inner

margin, some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line

slight, black, oblique, waved, with black suffusion before it from

costa to discal fold; a series of small dentate black spots before

termen; a slight waved dark terminal line and fine pale line at

base of cilia. Hind wing red-brown irrorated with dark brown ;

traces of a double sinuous dark medial line ; postmedial line slight,

SAFIA. 169

black, minutely waved ; subterminal line black, obsolescent towards

costa, angled outwards at discal fold, then sinuous; a series of

slight dentate dark marks before termen; a slight waved dark

terminal line; the underside clothed with leaden fuscous scales.

Hab. Mrxico Jalisco (Schumann), 1 3 type, Godman-Salvin

Coll. Hap. 52 millim.

7957. Safia demera. (Plate CCX XV. fig. 16.)

Placonia demera, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 45 (1901).

3. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown ; palpi

blackish ; pectus and legs dark brown, the tarsi rmged with white ;

abdomen dark brown, the crests with some red-brown, the second

segment with whitish dorsal band. Fore wing whitish suffused

and irrorated with red-brown, the basal area suffused with black-

brown ; a faint sinuous blackish subbasal line from costa to sub-

median fold; antemedial line black faintly defined on inner side

by whitish, waved, inwardly oblique below submedian fold; medial

line double, blackish, rather diffused, excurved at median nervure,

then incurved, a black spot on the inner line in the cell; reniform

defined at sides by whitish bars, its outer edge connected by a

whitish bar with the costa, some blackish beyond it and beyond

the whitish bar on costal area; postmedial line slight, blackish,

faintly defined on outer side by whitish towards costa, waved, at

vein 4 retracted to lower angle of cell, then erect and slightly

defined on outer side by whitish; subterminal line blackish with

blackish suffusion before it from costa to discal fold, oblique from

below vein 7 to discal fold, forming a dentate mark below vein 4,

oblique to vein 2 and slightly angled outwards below vein 3, then

somewhat oblique and diffused on inner side to inner margin near

tornus ; a series of black striz before termen connected by streaks

with the termen. Hind wing red-brown; faint traces of a double

medial line; postmedial line slight, blackish, minutely dentate ;

subterminal line blackish faintly defined on outer side by grey,

slightly sinuous, some grey suffusion beyond it at middle; a series

of black striz before termen faintly defined on inner side by whitish ;

a waved blackish terminal line; the underside clothed with leaden

fuscous scales and with traces of curved medial and postmedial lines.

Hab. Panama; Trinipap, Caparo, 1 g. Hap. 46 millim.

7958. Safia subrosea.

Homoptera subrosea, Wik. xiii..1070 (1857); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am.,

Het. 1, p. 340.

6. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with greyish; palpi,

pectus, and legs dark brown, the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen

dark brown with a paler dorsal band on 2nd segment. Fore wing

grey suffused and irrorated with red-brown ; subbasal line slight,

curved, minutely waved, from costa to vein 1, a small blackish spot

above inner margin; a triangular dark brown shade on inner medial

170 NOCTUIDE.

area extending on inner margin to just before the antemedial line,

which is slight, blackish, minutely dentate to median nervure, below

which it is excurved, incurved at vein 1 and angled outwards above

inner margin; two indistinct sinuous dark medial lines; reniform

defined by whitish except below ; an obliquely curved black-brown

fascia from costa at the subterminal line to outer edge of reniform,

defined above by whitish; postmedial line slight, blackish, waved,

obsolescent on costal area, at vein 3 retracted to lower angle of cell,

then erect ; some small whitish spots on postmedial part of costa ;

subterminal line black-brown, slightly angled outwards below vein

7, then oblique to discal fold, angled outwards below vein 4, then

Fig. 51.—Safia subrosea, dg. }-

ineurved and with a black-brown band on its inner side below

vein 2; a series of black striz before termen; a fine waved dark

terminal line. Hind wing red-brown slightly mixed with greyish,

the terminal area grey mixed with red-brown; traces of a double

sinuous dark medial line; postmedial line slight, dark, minutely

waved ; subterminal line black, obsolescent on costal area, angled

outwards at discal fold and excurved at submedian fold; a series of

black striz before termen and a fine waved dark terminal line.

Underside of both wings uniform fuscous brown.

@. Fore wing without the triangular black-brown shade on

inner medial area, the dark band on inner area separated from the

subterminal line, the black striz before termen defined on inner

side by whitish; hind wing less strongly suffused with brown, the

medial and postmedial lines more indistinct; the underside irrorated

with grey, a dark discoidal lunule with pale centre placed on a

diffused medial line, a diffused postmedial line, and subterminal

shade.

SAFTA, 171

Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (2762), 1 9, Godman-Salvin Coll.,

La Chorrera (Dolby-Tyler), 1 9; Trixtpap, Caparo, (Kaye),

13g, 22; Cotompra, Minca (2. H. Smith), 136,12; Has.

ten., 1 9 type. Hep. 46-52 millim.

*7959. Safia guayaquilata. (Plate CCXXV. fig. ik.)

Safia guayaquilata, Dogn. Het. Nouv. Am. Sud, vi. p. 19 (1912).

6. Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with dark

brown and some grey; tarsi black-brown ringed with whitish.

Fore wing grey-brown suffused with dark brown to the subterminal

line, the terminal area pale grey-brown; double subbasal blackish

strie from costa and cell; antemedial line blackish, waved, double

at costa ; a sinuous blackish medial line ; a blackish discoidal striga ;

a blackish postmedial patch defined by grey on costa, the indistinct

dentate blackish postmedial line arising from it, incurved below

vein 4; some white points on postmedial part of costa; subterminal

line black, rather diffused on inner side towards costa, slightly angled

outwards below vein 7, then strongly incurved and somewhat sinuous,

ending at tornus; a series of black striae before termen ; a fine pale

line at base of cilia. Hind wing dark brown slightly irrorated with

greyish to the subterminal line, the terminal area pale grey-brown ;

an indistinct waved blackish postmedial line; subterminal line

black, angled outwards at discal fold, then incurved, excurved

below vein 2, and ending at tornus, a rounded white patch beyond

it between veins 4 and 2; a series of blackish strie before termen ;

the underside uniformly clothed with silky grey-brown scales.

_ Hab. Brazit, Guayaquil, type ¢ d in Coll. Dognin. Hyp. 48

millim.

*7960. Safia separabilis. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 18.)

Homoptera separabilis, Wik. xv. 1799 (1858).

@. Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with reddish brown ;

antenne, palpi, and sides of frons dark brown; tarsi brown with

pale rmgs; abdomen ochreous white suffused with reddish brown,

the base and ventral surface paler. Fore wing ochreous white

suffused with red-brown, the terminal area paler; subbasal line

indistinct, brown, minutely waved, from costa to inner margin,

with two whitish pomts at costa; antemedial line indistinctly

double, brown, minutely waved; a double waved brown medial line

with a diffused chocolate-brown patch before and beyond it from cell

to inner margin; reniform indistinct, pale, defined on outer side

by an oblique white bar extending to costa and with some black-

brown beyond it beyond the cell; an obliquely curved and slightly

waved pale band from lower angle of cell to inner margin, defined

on outer side by the shght dark postmedial line, which is somewhat

dentate from costa to vein 3, then bent inwards to the pale band,

some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line pale, defined

172 NOCTUID &.

on inner side by black-brown suffusion from costa to discal fold and

from vein 2 to inner margin and by a small black spot below vein

4, angled outwards below veins 7 and 4, incurved at discal fold and

strongly below vein 3, a diffused waved red-brown shade beyond

it; a series of minute black lunules connected by short streaks

with the fine waved dark line just before termen; cilia red-brown

mixed with whitish. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with red-

brown except on terminal area and at inner margin ; a double oblique

slightly sinuous dark brown medial line; an indistinct minutely

waved dark postmedial line; subterminal line blackish, slightly

waved, somewhat angled outwards at discal fold, and ending at

tornus; the terminal area slightly tinged in parts with red-brown ;

a fine interrupted minutely dentate blackish line before termen; a

fine waved dark line just before termen; cilia red-brown mixed

with whitish. Underside of both wings ochreous white suffused

with red-brown except at termen; fore wing with some dark

marks on costa and series of lunules before termen; hind wing

with discoidal lunule filled in with whitish, diffused sinuous medial

and postmedial lines, diffused subterminal shade, and series of dark

lunules before termen.

Hab. Braztu, Rio Janeiro, type ¢ 2 in Mus. Oxon. Huxp. 50

millim.

B. Hind tarsi of male not fringed with hair above.

a. Fore wing with the antemedial line strongly waved

throuloirouibh) Matiaseseccebssee ce eretusescuincseeeacenasecscie pheochroa.

b. Fore wing with the antemedial line minutely waved,

oblique below the cell.

a. Hind wing with the subterminal line black ............ canochroa.

61. Hind wing with the subterminal line red-brown ...... brunca,

7961. Safia pheochroa, n. sp. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 19.)

3. Head and thorax black-brown with a slight reddish tinge ;

palpi, pectus, and legs black-brown, the tarsi ringed with white ;

abdomen black-brown with a greyish tinge. Fore wing red-brown

almost wholly suffused with black-brown; subbasal line black

faintly defined on outer side by reddish, sinuous, from costa to

submedian fold ; antemedial line black faintly defined on each side

by reddish, waved; a double waved black medial line; reniform

reddish faintly defined by black and its centre defined by blackish,

a reddish spot above it on costa ; postmedial line black, waved, at

vein 3 retracted to lower angle of cell, then somewhat oblique ;

subterminal line blackish, sinuous, angled outwards below vein 7

where there is a black mark on its inner side, incurved below vein 3

and ending at tornus; a series of blackish striz before termen.

Hind wing red-brown almost wholly suffused with black-brown ;

traces of a double sinuous dark medial line; postmedial line

indistinct, black, excurved between veins 5 and 3, then rather

oblique and with small black spots on it; subterminal line black,

SAFTA. 173

obsolescent towards costa, then sinuous; a series of black striz

before termen ; the underside clothed with leaden fuscous scales.

Hab. Brazin, Amazons, Para (Trumbill), 1 3 type. Exp.

44 millim.

7962. Safia ceenochroa, n. sp. (Plate CCX XVII. fig. 1.)

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown and

some grey ; antenne blackish ; palpi, pectus, and legs grey-brown,

the tarsi rmged with whitish; abdomen red-brown tinged with

grey, the crests blackish, the ventral surface paler. Fore wing

greyish suffused with red-brown and irrorated with dark brown, the

antemedial and medial areas with diffused dark bands; a waved

blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; antemedial

line double, blackish, minutely dentate to median nervure, then

inwardly oblique ; an indistinct double sinuous dark medial line ;

reniform with faint whitish annulus slightly defined by blackish, a

whitish bar above it from costa and blackish spot on its outer edge ;

a blackish patch on costa before the postmedial line, which is

indistinctly double, blackish, somewhat dentate, at vein 3 retracted

to lower angle of cell, then erect, some whitish points beyond it on

costa ; subterminal line blackish, defined on inner side by dark

suffusion from costa to discal fold, oblique, slightly angled outwards

below veins 8, 7, 4, then sinuous and with diffused blackish spot on

its inner side below vein 2; a series of small black spots before

termen, and a slight waved dark terminal line. Hind wing red-

brown with slight dark irroration; postmedial line indistinct,

brown, somewhat sinuous ; subterminal line brown, slightly waved,

excurved below vein 2; a series of blackish striz before termen and

a fine waved dark terminal line ; the underside clothed with leaden

grey scales, a faint dark discoidal lunule and curved postmedial

line.

Hab. Br. Guiana, Berbice (Aiken), 1 3 type, Rockstone

(Kaye),1 9. Hap. 44 millim.

7963. Safia brunca.

Yrias brunca, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 51 (1901).

6. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown, the last with the

dorsal crests blackish ; antennz blackish ; palpi, pectus, and legs

dark greyish brown, the tarsi ringed with whitish ; ventral surface

of abdomen brownish white. Fore wing red-brown with a greyish

tinge and slight red irroration; subbasal line slight, blackish,

minutely waved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line

blackish towards costa, then almost obsolete, inwardly oblique ; an

indistinet double sinuous brown medial line; reniform brownish

white faintly defined by brown ; a dark patch on costa before the

slight brown postmedial line which is waved, at vein 3 retracted to

174 NOCTUIDE

lower angle of cell, then erect, some whitish points alternating with

blackish streaks beyond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct,

double, brown, oblique, slightly excurved below veins 7 and 4; a

series of black striz before termen; a waved black terminal line

and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing red-brown with a

slight greyish tinge and some red irroration; faint traces of two

Fig. 52.—Safia brunca, 3. }.

sinuous medial lines; postmedial line slight, brown faintly defined

on outer side by grey, sinuous ; an indistinct double sightly waved

red-brown subterminal line ; a series of brown striz before termen,

and a waved brown terminal line ; the underside clothed with leaden

fuscous scales and with traces of diffused antemedial, postmedial,

and subterminal lines.

@. Fore wing with pale annulus to the reniform, its inner edge

with whitish bar, its outer edge with two white points at lower

extremity, some fuscous suffusion beyond the postmedial line and at

middle of terminal area ; underside of hind wing brown with some

pale irroration, two indistinct diffused medial lines, a postmedial

line, a subterminal shade, and series of dark striz before termen.

Hab. Br. Gutana, Demerara; Fr. Guiana, St. Laurent

Maroni (Schaus), 1 6; Brazit, Amazons (Pearce),1 2. Hap.

3 36, 2 44 millim.

Sect. II, Hind wing of male on underside not clothed with

silky androconia.

A. Fore wing with the postmedial line retracted to lower

angle of cell.

a. Hind wing with small terminal black spot with white

point on its inner side below vein 7.

a, Palpi with fine white streaks in front.

a?, Fore wing with the lines not defined by white at

costa.

a3, Hind wing with small round black spots before

termen between veins 9 and 2 ...........-.0...0ee sublimis.

SAFTA. 175

03, Hind wing with small black lunules before termen

between veins 6 and 2 ...............sssceceseees one pacifica,

&2, Fore wing with the lines defined by white at

(COSIEN. Koran cososodehusadonodoacoaucoaoucuasboscbeoaodapadcone metopts.

1. Palpi without fine white streaks infront ............ amazonica.

o. Hind wing without small terminal black spot below

vein 7.

a, Palpi with fine white streaks at sides ............0.-00. olearos,

61. Palpi without fine white streaks at sides.

a®?, Fore wing with the antemedial line not waved

below the cell.

a’, Fore wing with the antemedial line angled

outwards at median nervure, then oblique.

at, Fore wing with the whole medial area suffused

Wate WAWIK® cconsegosccsq0900000900 soonondGdooseodebeS meretricia.

64. Fore wing with the medial area not suffused

awrltlay Wilhtbehenr si: decstossesinrlancercarteaeetiocecadeeds leucopis.

&, Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique

throughout, not angled outwards at median

nervure.

a4, Hind wing not red-brown.

a, Hind wing without crimson tinge on disk,

the subterminal line not waved at middle.

a6, Wind wing without black patch beyond

the subterminal line below vein 6 ...... aperta,

6, Hind wing with black patch beyond the

subterminal line below vein 6............ permixta,

&’, Hind wing with slight crimson tinge on

disk, the subterminal line minutely waved

BUBATUNCICIIG) “conc pugdBbacongooBeAcnocbOAneeccORCHED celia.

bt Hind wing red-brown...............:secesseseeseee bruma,

c3, Fore wing with the antemedial line excuryed

(HATS NOE Connocacencdndoqneeaoeeacedoneonoanondeaanoe caminata.

02, Fore wing with the antemedial line waved below

the cell.

a3, Fore wing with white orbicular stigma ......... leucoplaqa.

63, Fore wing without white orbicular stigma.

a4, Fore wing with the ground-colour greenish

GMY _ coceraoceoncpenc0g9.oncg0pe0ec0000000000000000 amata.

4, Fore wing with the ground-colour pale grey.

a, Kore wing with the subterminal line

angled outwards below veins 7 and 4, but

NOlW WAVERE prmsimacecce scesivesescaccecsstin ante amella.

65, Fore wing with the subterminal line waved. mollis,

c*, Fore wing brown.

a®, Hind wing without black spot on sub-

terminal line above tornus.

a®, Kore wing with the outer edge of

reniform not connected with the costa

by a whitish bar.

a’, Kore wing with the subterminal line

not strongly incurved below vein 4.

a8. Fore wing with the dark postmedial

patch on costa not broadly defined

by pale suffusion.

a®, Fore wing with the basal area

suffused with blackish.

@0, Fore wing with the basal area

and hind wing with leaden

Dbliey G1 OBS esietueecisteitsnsescs chalybeate.

610, Fore wing with the basal area

and hind wing without leaden

blmevelOssinrineccwaasosteeseeceis minta,

176 NOCTUID &.

63, Fore wing with the basal area not

suffused with blackish.

a0, Fore wing with the subterminal

line angled outwards below

vein 4.

@1, Wings not irrorated with red

scales,

@2, Wings not suffused with

FUSCOUS HO lac Kee esterreeeee

612, Wings largely suffused

with fuscous black ......

64. Wings irrorated with red

Scales) weacsuseneesceseaeteee

610, Kore wing with the sub-

terminal line not angled out-

wards below vein 4............

o8, Fore wing with the dark post-

medial patch on costa broadly

defined by pale suffusion.

a. Hind wing with the sub-

terminal line minutely waved

between discal and submedian

10) Vd en rreoancnecmanpdnednseccnscstecds

69, Hind wing with the subterminal

line not waved between discal

and submedian folds...............

bi, Fore wing with the subterminal line

strongly incurved below vein 4.

a8. Fore wing with the basal area con-

colorous.

a9, Hind wing with the subterminal

line angled outwards at discal

fold.

a0, Fore wing strongly suffused

with blue-grey .........2. se.eee

619, Fore wing not suffused with

[DNNEHEIREAY Goocacacqnqnqsa04cc0ad

69. Hind wing with the subterminal

line not angled inwards at discal

fol Wiiccascie. ka teacbiiea-teseessenseeaae

68, Fore wing with the basal area

suffused with black ..................

66, Fore wing with the outer edge of the

reniform connected with the costa by a

whitish bar.

a’, Hind wing suffused with black-brown

to the subterminal line, the terminal

area pale.

as. Fore wing grey-brown, the sub-

terminal line moderately angled

outwards below vein 4; hind wing

with white patch at middle of

Cerminaltancagerrensseeess cease

68, Fore wing red-brown, the sub-

terminal line strongly angled out-

wards below vein 4; hind wing

without white patch at middle of

terminal aneaseermsccscereeeeeeccts

obscura.

albidiscata.

decessa.

acharia.

abscisa.

barata.

ceruleotincta.

guapila,

thermochroa.

Mascara.

diodonta.

bidens.

SAFIA. 17

o), Hind wing uniform brown.

@. Hind wing with distinct postmedial

and subterminal lines and series of

spots before termen .............0.-0- subvaria.

68, Hind wing with the postmedial and

subterminal lines almost obsolete

and without series of spots before

(USRADEM. ococcossoo0no00d0n90n00090000000 niyrescens.

05, Hind wing with black spot on subterminal

lineyabove) COrnls! s-4--easceseeesseeeceee) eeiee irresoluta.

B. Fore wing with the postmedial line not retracted to

lower angle of cell.

a. Fore wing with the basal area and costal area to the

Subtermumallalinenwlitterpererrecc-teceeteeeeecseercecece eect: meroleuca,

6. Fore wing with the basal area and costal area to the

subterminal line not white.

a. Fore wing with the basal area suffused with black... picturata.

1, Fore wing with the basal area concolorous.

a2. Fore wing with series of black strie before

termen defined on inner side by whitish.

a, Fore wing with the reniform very large and

angled inwards on median nervure to below

Grbicularme re eceteeec smc ees ce divaricata.

63, Fore wing with the reniform not angled inwards

on median nervure.

a‘, Fore wing with the postmedial line defined

on each side by white at inner margin, the

subterminal line whitish ..................50-0e- CMINeNS.

bt, Fore wing with the postmedial line not

defined on each side by white at inner

inargin, the subterminal line black.

a, Wings with narrow whitish band beyond

the subterminal line ....................0ceeeee cades.

&. Wings without whitish band beyond the

subtesmunallulin omarcacseesseoeeaaceece cece sees nyctichroa,

b2, Fore wing with series of white points on termen

defined on inner side by black points.

a®. Hind wing with traces of a double medial line,

the postmedial line with white points on it... noctar.

63. Hind wing without medial line, the postmedial

line without white points on it .................. MINAX,

7964. Safia sublimis. (Plate CCX XVII. fig. 2.)

Cenipeta sublimis, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) viii. p. 212 (1911).

Head and thorax dark red-brown slightly mixed with grey ; palpi

with fine white streaks in front; frons with lateral white lines ;

pectus and legs dark brown mixed with grey, the tarsi blackish

ringed with white; abdomen black-brown. Fore wing red-brown

mostly suffused with black-brown and irrorated with some blue-

white scales; subbasal line faint, blackish, sinuous, from costa to

submedian fold; antemedial line indistinctly double, blackish,

sinuous, excurved below the cell and with a blue-white striga on it

below submedian fold ; an indistinct double oblique blackish medial

line, angled outwards at median nervure and vein 1 ; reniform large,

with whitish annulus, its centre defined by dark brown, produced at

lower extremity, an ochreous bar above it from costa, and a black-

VOU. XIII. N

178 NOCTUIDE.

brown patch beyond it; postmedial line black defined on outer side

by pale red-brown, oblique to below vein 7, dentate at vein 3, then

retracted to lower angle of cell, then oblique and angled outwards

at vein 1, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line

double, blackish filled in with pale red-brown, slightly waved to vein

6, then incurved ; a series of black striz before termen ; a sinuous

blackish terminal line and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind

wing dark reddish brown; an indistinct sinuous dark postmedial

line defined on outer side by pale brown, a minute white striga on

it at vein 1 defined on each side by blackish; subterminal line

blackish, obsolescent towards costa, slightly angled outwards at

discal fold, then defined on outer side by pale brown and ending on

termen at vein 1; a terminal black spot below vein 7 with white

point on its inner side and minute white streak below it; the

terminal area cupreous reddish between veins 5 and 2 with round

black spots in the interspaces and black streaks on the veins, veins

5 and 2 with minute white streaks; a sinuous blackish terminal

line and fine pale line at base of cilia; the underside greyish brown,

the costal area irrorated with grey to beyond middle, a discoidal

lunule with dark outline, double medial line excurved beyond

the cell, waved postmedial line defined on outer side by whitish,

subterminal shade slightly defined on outer side by whitish, terminal

black spot with white pot in centre below vein 7, and dark strive

before termen below veins 4 and 38, the lower defined on inner side

by white.

Hab. Costa Rica, Juan Vinas (Schaus), 13,19. Hap.

58 millim.

7965. Safia pacifica. (Plate CCXXVII. fig. 3.)

Homoptera pacifica, W\k. xiii. 1065 (1857).

Cenipeta laurena, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 117 (1906).

Head and thorax dark reddish brown, the tips of tegule with

some white scales; palpi black-brown with two white streaks in

front; sides of frons with white lines; pectus and legs brown

mixed with grey, the tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen

fuscous brown, the ventral surface brownish white. Fore wing dark

red-brown with a faint purplish gloss and irrorated in parts with

some blue-white scales; subbasal line shght, pale, sinuous, from

costa to submedian fold; antemedial line dark brown, oblique,

waved, defined on each side by pale brown towards costa and with

some pure white on its outer edge in submedian interspace; an

oblique blackish medial line defined on outer side by pale brown,

angled outwards at median nervure and vein 1; reniform with

whitish annulus except below, its centre defined by dark brown, its

outer edge oblique and connected with the costa by a whitish bar ;

postmedial line blackish defined on outer side by pale brown, waved,

oblique to below vein 7, at vein 3 retracted to lower angle of cell,

then oblique and angled outwards at vein 1, the costa beyond it

blackish with some white points; a wedge-shaped dark brown patch

on costal area before the subterminal line, which is double, black-

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brown filled in with pale red-brown, somewhat dentate, angled

outwards below vein 7, then oblique; a series of small black lunules

before termen with a minute white spot before the lunule at discal

fold ; a sinuous dark terminal line and fine pale line at base of cilia.

Hind wing red-brown suffused with darker brown; traces of two

diffused sinuous dark medial lines; a sinuous dark postmedial line ;

subterminal line dark, diffused on inner side, very slightly angled

outwards at discal fold, and with another rather diffused dark line

beyond it; a small blackish spot on termen below vein 7 with

white points on its inner side and below, followed by a series of

small black lunules before termen; a sinuous blackish terminal line

and fine pale line at base of cilia; the underside greyish thickly

irrorated with brown, the terminal area suifused with brown, a

dark discoidal lunule with pale centre, sinuous medial line excurved

beyond the cell, and waved postmedial line, a small blackish spot on

termen below vein 7 with white spot on its inner side, a series

of dark striz faintly defined by whitish before termen, and some

white at middle of termen.

Hab. W. Coast oF Centr. America (Kellet ¢& Wood), 1 9

type; VENEZUELA, 29; Br. Guiana (foberts), 12 ; Fr. Guiana,

St. Laurent Maroni, type + Jaurena in U.S. Nat. Mus.; Brazin,

Amazons, Para (Goeld:), 13. Hap. 48-56 millim.

7966. Safia metopis, n. sp. (Plate CCX XVII. fig. 4.)

@. Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with grey-

white; the vertex of head defined by a triangular white line;

tegule tipped with white; palpi black, the 1st joint white at base

and extremity, the 2nd and 3rd with white streaks in front; frons

with lateral white lines, pectus whitish; legs whitish and brown,

the tibie and tarsi banded with black and white; the ventral

surface of abdomen whitish with some rufous at extremity. Fore

wing whitish suffused and irrorated with dark brown; subbasal line

white, oblique, from costa to median nervure; antemedial line

blackish, defined on each side by white towards costa, oblique to

submedian fold, incurved at vein 1; two oblique sinuous blackish

medial lines defined on outer side by white at costa, slightly angled

outwards at vein 1; a minute white annulus in middle of cell;

renitorm with white annulus, extending to well below the cell, its

centre defined by black-brown and constricted at middle, some

black-brown before it in the cell and a band beyond it from costa

where it is defined on inner side by white; postmedial line blackish

defined on outer side by white, slightly excurved and waved to vein

3 where it is retracted to lower angle of cell, then oblique and

strong in submedian interspace, a dark shade beyond it from vein 3

to inner margin and some white points on costa; subterminal line

double, dark, sinuous, a black-brown band before it from costa to

vein 8, angled outwards below vein 7, then oblique, a series of small —

black lunules before termen; a fine waved blackish terminal line ;

cilia with fine white lines at base and near tips. Hind wing grey-

brown ; a dark discoidal lunule ; traces of two sinuous dark medial

180 NOCTUID ©.

lines; postmedial line blackish slightly defined on outer side by

whitish, waved; subterminal line black, strong, angled outwards at

discal fold and ending on termen at vein 1; the terminal area with

slight reddish streaks on the veins; a quadrate terminal black spot

below vein 7 defined by ochreous white and with white streak below

it, followed by a series of black strize defined on inner side by

whitish before termen; a fine waved black terminal line; cilia with

fine white line at base, the tips whitish at discal fold. Underside

of fore wing variegated white and brown, the postmedial area red-

brown except on inner area, orbicular with black centre, the reniform

with small black spots above and below connected bya dark striga,

a double oblique sinuous medial line, waved postmedial line, oblique

to vein 4, then incurved, waved subterminal line, a series of black

lunules before termen, oblique towards apex; hind wing white

irrorated with brown, the postmedial area suffused with brown to

vein 2,a black spot in middle of cell and large discoidal lunule,

double waved medial line excurved beyond the cell, waved postmedial

line, strong black subterminal shade angled outwards at discal fold,

black spot on termen below vein 7, and series of black and white striz

before termen.

Hab. Br. Guiana, Demerara (Rodway), 12 type. Hap.

40 millim.

7967. Safia amazonica. (Plate CCX XVII. fig. 5.)

Lacera amazoniea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1879, p. 57.

2. Head and thorax red-brown; antennz fuscous; pectus and

legs whitish mixed with brown, the tarsi fuscous ringed with white ;

abdomen reddish brown with slight pale segmental lines, the ventral

surface whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing red-brown, the

basal area, inner half of medial area, and costal area to beyond the

postmedial line irrorated with whitish ; subbasal line double, brown

filled in with whitish, excurved below costa and ending at median

nervure ; antemedial line double, brown, the lines defined on outer

side by whitish, incurved in cell and excurved in submedian inter-

space; a slight dark double sinuous medial line excurved in the cell,

followed by a single line; reniform with white annulus, its centre

defined by dark brown and with small blackish annuli in upper and

lower parts, somewhat constricted at middle; postmedial line

‘blackish, oblique towards costa, then waved, at vein 3 retracted to

lower angle of cell, then oblique and slightly excurved at vein 2,

the area between it and the subterminal line pale red-brown below

vein 2; subterminal line indistinctly double, dark brown, angled

inwards at vein 7, then oblique to vein 2 where it is angled inwards,

then bent outwards to tornus ; a series of dark striz before termen

and a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing red-brown; an

obscure brown discoidal lunule; an indistinct double waved medial

hne filled in with whitish, arising at vein 6, incurved to lowerangle

of cell, then represented by whitish and dark striz on vein 1;

postmedial line double, dark brown filled in with whitish, waved,

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excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a dark subterminal line bent

outwards to tornus, the area beyond it redder except towards apex ;

a small black spot on termen below vein 7 defined on inner side by

white, followed by a series of dark strive defined on inner side by a

shght whitish line; a fine waved dark terminal line and whitish

line at base of cilia; the underside whitish irrorated with brown,

the terminal area suffused with red-brown, the discoidal lunule large

and distinct, the double medial line distinct on inner area.

Hab. Braztt, Amazons, R. Jutahi, Santarem (Zrail), 2 2

type. Hap. 48-52 millim.

*7968. Safia olearos. (Plate CCX XVII. fig. 6.)

Sajia olearos, Schaus, Insec. Inscit. Menstr. i. p. 26 (1918).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown ; palpi with fine

white line at side of 2nd joint. Fore wing reddish brown suffused

with black-brown; a waved black subbasal line from costa to

vein 1; antemedial line black, oblique to submedian fold, inwardly

oblique to vein 1 and bent outwards to inner margin; an elliptical

black discoidal annulus ; medial line black, excurved to the reniform,

strongly incurved below the cell, excurved below submedian fold

and joining the antemedial line at inner margin; an indistinct

double waved blackish line excurved beyond the cell, then incurved ;

postmedial line black, excurved below costa, incurved at discal fold,

angled outwards below vein 5, then strongly incurved, some white

points beyond it on costa; subterminal line faint, pale defined on

inner side by black-brown, strongly towards costa, waved, excurved

below vein 7 and at middle; a fine waved black terminal line.

Hind wing dark reddish brown; traces of a medial line and double

dentate postmedial line; subterminal line black, very slightly

excurved below vein 7 and at middle; an indistinctly double, fine

slightly waved line before termen; a waved black terminal line ;

the underside reddish brown tinged with grey, an indistinct sinuous

subterminal line.

Hab. Fr. Gutana, St. Jean Maroni (Schaus), type +d in U.S.

Nat. Mus. Hap. 38 millim.

7969. Safia meretricia. (Plate CCX XVII. fig. 7.)

Campometra meretricia, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 52 (1911).

3. Head and thorax white mixed with red-brown and dark

brown, the patagia with small blackish patches near base; palpi

dark brown with some white at the extremities of the joints; pectus

and legs pale reddish brown, the tarsi black ringed with white ;

abdomen whitish irrorated with brown, the ventral surface tinged

with red-brown. Fore wing white, the basal area suffused in parts

with blackish and with some ochreous below the costa, the terminal

area suffused with reddish brown; subbasal line slight, black defined

on outer side by white, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold ;

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antemedial line indistinctly double, blackish filled in with white,

sinuous to median nervure where it is bent outwards, then oblique ;

traces of a double waved medial line filled in with brownish suffusion ;

orbicular a faint minute blackish annulus ; reniform faintly detined

at sides by brown and with some ochreous beyond it; a dark patch

defined by white on postmedial part of costa; postmedial line

slight, blackish, defined on outer side by white at costa, minutely

waved and oblique to vein 3, then retracted to lower angle of cell,

then erect and minutely waved; subterminal line black, arising at

vein 7, forming slight rather dentate marks in the interspaces to

vein 3, then somwhat incurved; aseries of black strize before termen,

defined on inner side by whitish above and below vein 5 and below

vein 2; a slight waved dark terminal line and fine pale line at base of

cilia which are whitish at vein 5. Hind wing white tinged with brown

and with some dark irroration, the terminal area suffused with brown ;

traces of two sinuous dark medial lines and of a sinuous dark

postmedial line; subterminal line slight, blackish, minutely waved,

a brown shade before it; a series of black striz and points before

termen defined on inner side by whitish above and below vein 5

and towards tornus, a slight waved dark terminal line; cilia whitish

at vein 5; the underside whitish tinged with pale red-brown, a dark

discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, subterminal shade, and series

of striz before termen.

Hab. Costa Rica, Sixola R. (Schaus), 1 $6. Exp. 50 millim.

7970. Safia leucopis, n. sp. (Plate CCX XVII. fig. 8.)

@. Head and thorax pale red-brown mixed with some grey-

white; palpi dark brown with some white at the éxtremities of

the joints; tarsi banded with black; abdomen, pale red-brown

tinged with grey, the ventral surface brownish white. - Fore wing

greyish tinged with pale red-brown and with slight dark irroration,

the veins with slight dark streaks; subbasal line shght, blackish,

oblique, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line black with

a small dark mark before it on costa defined on inner side by a

whitish striga, shghtly sinuous to median nervure, then inwardly

oblique, a paler band beyond it followed by two sinuous dark

medial lines; reniform white irrorated with brown; a dark patch

on postmedial part of costa broadly defined by whitish confluent

with the reniform; postmedial line black, arising from the dark

patch, oblique to below vein 7, then oblique and sinuous to vein 3

where it is retracted to lower angle of eell, then erect and

dentate ; subterminal line brown slightly defined on each side by

whitish, oblique, slightly dentate; a series of black striz before

termen defined on inner side by whitish; a fine waved black

terminal line and pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing greyish

suffused with pale red-brown and with slight dark irroration ;

a white point at lower angle of cell; two indistinct waved dark

medial lines; postmedial line slight, indistinct and oblique below

SAFTA. 183

eosta, then blackish and slightly waved; subt rminal line black

faintly defined on each side by whitish, slightly sinuous; a series of

black striz faintly defined on inner side by whitish before termen ;

a fine waved black terminal line and whitish line at base of

cilia; the underside whitish irrorated with dark brown, a black

eect lunule, three strong waved black lines beyond the cell, a

broad red-brown subterminal shade, a series of black striz Tbaktone

termen.

Hab. VunezuEts, Merida (Neuburger), 1 2 type. Exp.

58 millim.

7971. Safia aperta. (Plate CCXXVII. fig. 9.)

Homoptera aperta, W1k. xiii. 1071 (1857).

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey tinged with red-brown and

mixed with blackish ; antennze ringed with black; palpi blackish;

frons with black lateral bars ; ; pectus rufous ; tarsi blackish ringed

with white; ventral surface of abdomen ironman white. Fore

wing grey tinged with brown and irrorated with black-brown, the

basal area suffused with black-brown; subbasal black striz from

eosta and cell; antemedial line black, inwardly oblique below sub-

median fold; traces of a double oblique dentate dark medial line ;

a dark point in middle of cell; reniform with whitish annulus, its

centre obscurely defined by blackish and with some dark suffusion

above it on costal area; postmedial line blackish, oblique to below

vein 7, then incurved and with small black spot on it at discal

fold, excurved and waved to vein 3, then bent inwards to the

renitorm and waved to inner margin, a blackish spot beyond it on

costa followed by alternating black and pale streaks; subterminal

line indistinct, blackish, diffused, oblique below costa, slightly

angled outwards below vein 7, then oblique and waved; a line

formed of black striz before termen; a slight dark terminal line

and fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing grey suffused

with brown, some blackish irroration along vein 1; postmedial line

faint, double, dark, excurved below costa, then slightly sinuous ;

subterminal line faint and excurved below costa, black, slightly

sinuous and with some whitish beyond it below vein 6; a fine

black line before termen and fine white line at base of cilia; the

underside whitish slightly irrorated with blackish, the terminal area

suffused with brown, a blackish discoidal lunule, two rather

diffused sinuous medial lines, and a waved postmedial line.

Hab. Argentina, Corrientes, Goya (Perrins), 16; Haz. 1en.,

2 9 type. Hap. 552, 258 millim.

7972. Safia permixta. (Plate CCXXVII. fig. 10.)

Safia permixta, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 55 (1911).

3. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey and some

white scales; tegule with blackish line near tips; antenn ringed

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with black ; palpi blackish ; frons with lateral black bars; pectus

clothed with rufous hair; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen

erey suffused and irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing pale

grey tinged in parts with brown and thickly irrorated with black-

brown, the basal area suffused with black-brown; subbasal line

black, minutely waved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial

line black, inwardly oblique and slightly sinuous; an indistinct

treble oblique sinuous medial line; reniform whitish with its

centre defined by blackish and some black before it; postmedial

line black, oblique to below vein 7, then inwardly oblique to discal

fold, then excurved, at vein 3 retracted to lower edge of reniform,

and excurved and waved to inner margin, a black-brown spot

beyond it on costa followed by an oblique striga ; subterminal line

double, blackish, oblique, waved below discal fold; a series of

black strize before termen and a waved black terminal line. Hind

wing grey suffused with brown and irrorated with black-brown ;

traces of two sinuous brown lines beyond the cell; postmedial

line slight, blackish, minutely waved, some blackish suffusion from

it to the subterminal line which is black, angled outwards at discal

fold where there is a diffused black spot beyond it, then incurved ;

a series of black strize before termen and a waved black terminal

line; the underside whitish irrorated with dark brown, a large

black discoidal lunule, two rather diffused waved medial lines

excurved beyond the cell, a waved postmedial line excurved below

costa, and a broad blackish subterminal band.

Hab. Costa Rica, Sitio (Sehaus), 1g. Exp. 54 millim.

7973. Safia celia. -

Phalena celia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 109, pl. 346. ff. E, F (1781);

Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 347.

3. Head and tegule rufous, the latter with black line near

base and black and white tips; thorax dark brown mixed with

grey; palpi blackish in front; frons with black lateral bars and

slight line above; pectus clothed with bright rufous hair; tarsi

black ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests blackish.

Fore wing grey suffused with brown and wrorated and striated

with blackish, the basal half darker; subbasal line black, excurved

below costa and ending at submedian fold; antemedial line black,

sinuous, defined on outer side by a greyish white band emitting

faint streaks outwards in cell and submedian fold and on inner

margin; an indistinct double smuous dark medial line; reniform

faintly defined by blackish; postmedial line very indistinct,

blackish, waved, oblique to discal fold, then inwardly oblique, a

wedge-shaped black mark beyond it on costa; subterminal line

indistinct, double, oblique, waved; a series of black strize before

termen, a slight waved blackish line just before termen, and fine

pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing brown mixed with grey and

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irrorated with blackish, the postmedial area tinged with crimson ;

traces of a double waved medial line and of a slight waved post-

medial line; subterminal line black, waved, faintly defined on

outer side by whitish, a patch of fuscous suffusion beyond it at

middle extending to termen; a series of black stria before termen,

a slight waved blackish line just before termen, a fine pale line at

base of cilia ; the underside whitish striated with black, two waved

blackish antemedial lines, the outer with the slight white discoidal

lunule on it, a waved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal

shade.

Fig. 53.—Sajia celia, 6. 3.

@. Fore wing with some blotches of fuscous brown on medial

area and a large patch at middle of terminal area; hind wing

sometimes with hardly any crimson tinge on medial area.

Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 1 9, Godman-Salvin

Coll., La Chorrera (Dolby-Tyler), 1 2; VeEnEzuELA, 1 C;

Br. Guiana (Kaye), 19; Braztt, Amazons, Rio Trombetus

(Trail), 1 9. Hap. 48-50 millim.

7974, Safia bruma. (Plate CCXXVII. fig. 11.)

Safia bruma, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 47 (1901).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark reddish brown slightly mixed

with ochreous; tarsi black ringed with whitish. Fore wing dark

red-brown slightly mixed with.ochreous, the basal area blackish

brown; bounded by the slight hardly waved dark antemedial line

faintly defined on outer side by ochreous; a faint pale waved

medial line; reniform faintly defined by blackish and ochreous

186 NOCTUID®.

on inner side and by some minute whitish spots on outer; a conical

black postmedial patch defined by ochreous on costa, the faint

waved blackish postmedial line arising from its outer edge, incurved

below vein 4, some alternating ochreous and blackish streaks

beyond it on costa; subterminal line very indistinct, oblique and

ochreous towards costa, then dark, waved; a series of slight

ochreous and dark strize before termen and a slight waved dark

terminal line. Hind wing dark reddish brown slightly mixed with

ochreous; minute ochreous spots in and beyond lower angle of

cell; an indistinct minutely waved dark postmedial line and

more distinct subterminal line; a series of ochreous and blackish

strie before termen and a fine blackish waved terminal line; the

underside fuscous brown slightly mixed with ochreous, a faint

blackish postmedial line and diffused subterminal shade.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (Schaus), type t d in U.S. Nat. Mus. ;

Costa Rroa, Juan Vinas (Schaus),1 3. Exp. 54 millin.

7975. Safia caminata. (Plate CCX XVII. fig. 12.)

Campometra caminata, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 48 (1901).

©. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous; tegule

with blackish band near tips, the patagia with whitish band at

base and curved blackish marks at middle; pectus and legs

ochreous tinged with brown; abdomen pale brown tinged with

fuscous, the two basal segments with reddish ochreous bands, the

extremity pale. Fore wing reddish ochreous suffused in parts

with black-brown; subbasal line ochreous defined on inner side

by black, slightly angled outwards below costa, then oblique to

inner margin; an oblique ochreous streak defined below by a black

patch below the cell before the strongly excurved ochreous ante-

medial line defined on each side by black; an indistinct greyish

medial line slightly defined on inner side by black; reniform white,

narrow above, its lower extremity produced to a point, its mner

edge oblique, a black point in its upper part and wedge-shaped

mark in lower part; postmedial line ochreous defined on inner

side by black, excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards at

veins 4, 3 to near subterminal band, then almost obsolete and

retracted to lower angle of cell and outwardly oblique to inner

margin, an oblique ochreous streak beyond it on costal area, some

blackish spots between veins 7 and 4, and an ochreous streak

defined above and below by black on vein 2; a curved ochreous

white subterminal band slightly defined on each side by blackish

and with slight blackish spots beyond it from below costa to vein 5

and at submedian fold; a series of black strie before termen and

a slight waved brown terminal line. Hind wing ochreous suffused

with reddish brown, the postmedial area browner; a minutely

dentate sinuous dark postmedial line defined on outer side by

ochreous; a curved ochreous subterminal band defined on each

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side by black ; a series of black strie before termen and slight

crenulate brown terminal line; the underside ochreous white, a

brown discoidal lunule, postmedial line excurved ‘below costa, and

brown suffusion on terminal area.

Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz (Riimeli), 19, Godman-Salvin

Coll.; VEnEzuELA, Aroa, typet 2 in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp.

54 millim.

7976. Safla leucoplaga. (Plate CCXXVII. fig. 13.)

Campometra leucoplaga, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 51 (1911).

Q. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with whitish, the patagia

with white patches edged with blackish in front; palpi blackish

with some white at the extremities of the joints; pectus and legs

pale grey-brown, the tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen

pale red-brown mixed with whitish, the 2nd seement with sub-

dorsal black patches. Fore wing pale red-brown; a minute white

spot at base; subbasal line black defined on each side by diffused

white, waved, from costa to vein 1, a small black spot below it on

inner margin; antemedial line black on a broad band of white

suffusion, waved ; an indistinct, double, waved, brown medial line ;

orbicular a small round white spot; reniform a large white patch

connected with the costa by a bar, its edges waved and its outer

edge produced at vein 6, its centre faintly defined by brown scales ;

postmedial line blackish, waved, defining the outer edge of the

reniform, oblique to below vein 7, at vein 3 retracted to just below

angle of cell, then erect and somewhat dentate, a wedge-shaped

white patch with waved edges beyond it from costa to discal fold,

with a minute brown spot on it at costa; subterminal line black,

arising at vein 7, oblique, forming small dentate marks below

- veins 7, 5, 4, then minutely waved; a series of minute black

lunules defined on inner side by white points before termen; a

slight waved dark terminal line; cilia white at veins 5 and 2.

Hind wing pale red-brown with some dark irroration along vein 1 ;

white points in and beyond lower angle of cell; traces of two

sinuous dark medial lines; postmedial line indistinct, blackish,

minutely waved; subterminal line black, arising at vein 7,

minutely waved, incurved and strong between vein 4 and sub-

median fold, some white beyond it at tornus; a series of minute

black lunules defined on inner side by white points before termen ;

a slight waved dark terminal line; cilia white at veins 5 and 2;

the underside whitish suffused with brown, diffused curved medial

and postmedial lines, a broad dark brown subterminal shade, and

series of blackish lunules before termen.

Hab. Costa Rica (Schaus), type + im U.S. Nat. Mus.;

Panama, La Chorrera (Dolby-Tyler), 1 9. Exp. 56 millim.

188 NOCTUID ©.

7977. Safia amata.

Homoptera amata, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 345, pl. 31. f. 4

(1890).

@. Head and thorax dark red-brown irrorated with white, the

vertex of head white tinged with rufous; palpi with white rings

at the extremities of the Joints; pectus and legs grey-brown, the

tarsi rmged with white ; abdomen grey-brown irrorated with white,

a small dorsal white spot on 2nd segment and ochreous spot on

3rd segment. Fore wing greenish grey irrorated with white and

some blackish scales; subbasal line black defined on each side by

white, sinuous, from costa to median nervure, a white and blackish

mark below the cell; antemedial line black shghtly defined on each

side by white, ante and somewhat inwardly oblique ; two

indistinct sinuous dark medial lines; a minute dark spot in middle

of cell; reniform defined by small white spots, rather produced at

lower extremity ; a dark patch followed by a slight bar and both

defined by white on postmedial part of costa; postmedial line

black arising at vein 7, waved, at vein 3 retracted to lower angle

of cell, then erect and dentate : subterminal line blackish slightly

defined on outer side by whitish, oblique, sinuous, forming a small

dentate black spot below vein 4; the terminal area with slight

brown and whitish streaks in the interspace with small black spots

defined on inner side by white on them before termen; a slight

waved dark terminal line with white points at the interspaces.

Hind wing brown suffused with greenish grey and with slight dark

irroration except on costal area, in submedian fold and on inner

margin; traces of a double sinuous medial line, minutely waved

postmedial and subterminal lines, the latter faintly defined on

outer side by whitish, all interrupted on the brown areas; a series

of minute black spots defined on inner side by white before termen ;

a fine waved dark terminal line and pale line at base of cilia; the

underside brown irrorated with whitish, diffused dark medial and

postmedial lines, and a subterminal shade.

Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 1 2 type, Godman-

Salvin Coll. Hxp. 50 millim.

7978. Safia amella. (Plate CCXXVII. fig. 14.)

Campometra amelia, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 25, pl. 18. f. 8 (1852); Smith,

Cat, Noct. N. Am. p. 372; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 507.

Homoptera integerrima, W1k. xiii. 1057 (1857) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

372

Homoptera stylobata, Harv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 155 (1876).

Homoptera amata, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 507 (part.).

Campometra distilla, Dyar, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xliv. p. 800 (1913).

Head, thorax, and abdomen dark reddish brown mixed with

grey-white; palpi black-brown, the 8rd joint white at base and

tip ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen dark brown

mixed with grey, the tarsi blackish ringed with white. Fore wing

erey suffused with reddish brown and irrorated with blackish ;

SATA. 189

subbasal line slight, blackish, maculate, from costa to vein 1;

the antemedial area with a blackish shade; antemedial line black,

inwardly oblique, minutely waved ; a double diffused sinuous black

medial line filled in with blackish ; reniform white slightly defined

by dark brown and slightly irrorated with brown, a white bar

above it from costa and white streak from its upper extremity to

the postmedial line; a dark postmedial spot defined by white

suffusion on costa, the slight black minutely waved postmedial line

arising from below it, at vein 3 retracted to lower angle of cell,

then erect; subterminal line blackish, sinuous, angled outwards

below veins 7 and 4, then incurved; a series of black strize before

termen ; a slight waved dark terminal line and fine pale line at

base of cilia. Hind wing grey-brown ; traces of a sinuous double

dark medial line; postmedial line slight, dark, faintly defined on

outer side by grey, minutely waved; a faint dark subterminal

shade with blackish striga at tornus; a series of blackish striga

before termen and faint waved dark terminal line; the underside

grey-brown irrorated with whitish, diffused dark medial and post-

medial lines and a faint subterminal shade.

Ab. 1. distilla. Blacker brown.— Mexico, Guatemala.

Hab. U.S.A., Georgia, Florida (Doubleday), 2 3, 2 @ type

integerrima, Texas (Belfrage), 1 3, 2 2 type stylobata,

Colorado; Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 22; GuaremMaLa

(Sadler), 12, Guatemala City (Rodriguez), 1 9, Godman-Salvin

Coll. Hap. 44-56 millim.

7979. Safia mollis. (Plate CCXXVII. fig. 15).

Yrias mollis, Moschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxx. p. 407, pl. viii. f. 3

(1880).

Q. Head and thorax black-brown mixed with white, the meta-

thoracic crest pale golden yellow above; palpi blackish with some

white at base and extremity of 3rd joint; pectus and legs black-

brown, the tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen blackish

irrorated with grey, the 2nd segment with whitish dorsal band, the

3rd with minute white spot, the ventral surface greyer. Fore wing

pale brownish grey irrorated with black, the costal area with

alternating black and white marks to the postmedial line; a

minute white spot at base; subbasal line black, waved, from costa

to vein 1, followed by a black shade; antemedial line black, waved,

double below the cell; a double waved black medial line; a minute

black spot in middle of cell; reniform black, its annulus represented

by minute white spots and a larger spot at middle of outer edge;

postmedial line black, arismg from a triangular spot on costa,

waved to vein 3 where it is angled inwards to lower angle of cell,

then excurved and dentate, an oblique bar beyond it from costa and

a diffused waved black line from vein 7 to inner margin; sub-

terminal line double, black, waved, the outer line less distinct,

somewhat angled outwards below veins 7 and 4; a series of minute

190 NOCTUID &.

black lunules before termen connected by short streaks with a

waved black terminal line with whitish points at the interspaces.

Hind wing pale grey irrorated with black, the costal area, cell,

submedian fold, and inner margin suffused with brown; a white

point at lower angle of cell; double waved black medial and

postmedial lines; subterminal line double, black, the inner line

crenulate, the outer less distinct and sinuous; a series of minute

black lunules before termen connected by short streaks with the

waved black terminal line; the underside blue-grey suffused with

fuscous, a discoidal lunule defined by blackish, medial line exeurved

beyond the cell, curved postmedial line, and subterminal shade.

Hab. Surinam; Fr. Guiana, Cayenne (Schauws), 1 2 ; Puru,

Pozuzo,1 9. Hap. 42-46 millim.

7980. Safia chalybeata, n. sp. (Plate CCX XVII. fig. 16.)

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown; palpi irrorated

with white; frons with the lower part white and white lines at

sides; fore and mid tibie with the fringes of hair white; tarsi

black ringed with white; ventral surface of abdomen ochreous

whitish mixed with brown. Fore wing with the basal half black-

brown with a leaden blue gloss, the terminal half grey-brown tinged

with fuscous; a slight sinuous ochreous subbasal line from costa to

submedian fold ; antemedial line black, waved ; a small black spot

in middle of cell; yreniform with faint dark outline and white

points representing its annulus; medial line black, defining the

dark area, slightly excurved at vein 1; postmedial line blackish,

obliquely downcurved below costa, then minutely waved, at vein 3

retracted to lower angle of cell and excurved below submedian fold,

a black patch beyond it on costa ; subterminal line black to vein 6,

then obsolescent, waved; the terminal area with a slight leaden

blue gloss; a series of black and white points before termen

connected by slight black streaks with the fine waved black

terminal line. Hind wing black-brown with a leaden blue gloss, the

costal area paler; an indistinct waved blackish postmedial line ;

subterminal line black, almost obsolete towards costa, angled

outwards at discal fold, then incurved to submedian fold ; a series

of black striz before termen connected by short streaks with the

waved black terminal line; the underside ochreous grey irrorated

with brown, the terminal area dark brown, a small discoidal lunule

defined by blackish, medial line waved to lower angle of cell, and

waved postmedial line.

Hab. Fr. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni, 1 gd type. Hap.

36 millim.

7981. Safia minta. (Plate CCX XVII. fig. 17.)

Safia minta, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 46 (1901).

Sufia minor, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vu. p. 54 (1911).

3S. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with greyish ;

antenne blackish; palpi blackish, the 3rd joint whitish at base

SAFIA. 191

and tips ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen tinged with red-

brown. Fore wing grey suffused with brown and irrorated with

fuscous, the basal area suffused with fuscous; a slight subbasal

black striga from costa ; antemedial line double, blackish filled in

with grey, slightly sinuous and somewhat oblique below the cell;

medial line double, blackish filled in with grey, oblique and slightly

sinuous; reniform with faint whitish annulus slightly defined by

blackish, a pale mark above it on costa with blackish suffusion

before and beyond it; postmedial line indistinctly double, dark,

waved, at vein 3 retracted to lower angle of cell, then somewhat

excurved ; an oblique blackish mark from costa before the sub-

terminal line, which is indistinct, double, dark, waved, slightly

excurved below vein 7, then oblique; a series of blackish strize

before termen defined on inner side by whitish and with dark streaks

from them to termen. Hind wing grey suffused with brown and

slightly irrorated with fuseous ; an indistinct double waved blackish

medial line; postmedial line black, oblique, slightly waved; sub-

terminal line black, slightly waved towards costa, angled outwards

at discal fold, then oblique and almost straight; a series of black

striz before termen defined on inner side by whitish; a fine waved

black terminal line and pale line at base of cilia; the underside

whitish tinged and irrorated with brown, a slight blackish discoidal

lunule, waved medial line excurved beyond the cell, waved postmedial

line, and diffused subterminal line expanding on costal area.

Hab. Costa Rica, Sixola R., type + minor in U.S. Nat. Mus ;

VENEZUELA, Aroa, 1 ¢. Hap. 38 millim.

7982. Safia obscura. (Plate CCX XVII. fig. 18.)

Campometra obscura, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 44 (1901).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with blackish; antenne

blackish ; palpi blackish, the 3rd joint white at base and extremity ;

pectus and legs grey mixed with brown, the tarsi black ringed with

white; abdomen grey-brown, the crests blackish. Fore wing

reddish brown with slight dark irroration, the basal half and

postmedial costal area suffused with dark brown; a sinuous black

subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, defined on outer side by

reddish ; antemedial line black, inwardly oblique, sinuous, angled

outwards at median nervure; a double oblique sinuous blackish

medial line; reniform slightly defined by black and by white striz

and points, rather triangular, a pale bar above it from costa; a

blackish patch on costa before the postmedial line, which is black,

waved to vein 3, then retracted to origin of vein 2, then erect and

dentate, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal

line blackish with some black suffusion before it towards costa,

oblique, waved, slightly angled outwards below vein 7; a series of

minute black lunules before termen faintly defined on inner side by

whitish ; a fine waved dark terminal line and pale line at base of

cilia. Hind wing red-brown with some dark irroration; white

192 NOCTUID ©.

points in and beyond lower angle of cell; traces of a double

sinuous dark medial line; postmedial line slight, black, sinuous, a

slight blackish shade beyond it; subterminal line black, obsolescent

towards costa, slightly angled outwards at discal fold, then some-

what sinuous; a series of minute black lunules before termen

defined on inner side by whitish; a fine waved black terminal line

and pale line at base of cilia; the underside whitish irrorated with

brown, a discoidal lunule defined by blackish, double minutely

waved medial line, minutely waved postmedial line, subterminal

shade, and series of small black spots before termen.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with large black patch on inner half of medial

area.—Grenada.

Hab. Panama, La Chorrera (Dolby- Tyler), 13,29 ; GRENADA

(H. H. Smith), 12 ; Fr. Guiana, St. Jean Maroni (Schaus), 19.

Hep. 36-48 millim.

7983. Safia albidiscata. (Plate CCX XVII. fig. 19.)

Yrias albidiscata, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 49 (1901).

@. Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with dark

brown and grey, the last with the crests blackish; palpi with the 3rd

joint black, white at base and extremity ; pectus, legs, and ventral

surface of abdomen grey mixed with dark brown, the fore and mid

tibiz ringed with white, the tarsi black ringed with white. Fore wing

grey suffused and irrorated with dark brown and faintly tinged with

reddish ; subbasal line black slightly defined on each side by white,

sinuous, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line black

slightly defined on each side by white, minutely waved, excurved to

submedian fold; an indistinct double sinuous dark medial line ;

reniform with its centre defined by blackish, its inner side with white

points above and below, its outer with white bar and two points at

lower extremity, connected with the costa by a white bar; a

blackish patch on costa before the postmedial line, which is black,

defined on outer side by white towards costa, dentate to vein 3,

then angled inwards to below end of cell, then excurved and

sinuous, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line

blackish, defined on outer side by white towards costa, oblique,

sinuous, angled outwards below veins 7 and 4; a series of minute

black lunules with white points before them before termen; a

waved black terminal line and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind

wing reddish brown tinged with grey and with slight dark irroration ;

a minute white point at lower angle of cell; postmedial line faint,

blackish, minutely waved; subterminal line slight, black, waved,

obsolescent towards costa; a series of minute black lunules with

white points before them before termen; a fine waved black

terminal line ; the underside bluish grey irrorated with brown, a

slight dark discoidal lunule defined on outer side by whitish placed

on a faint diffused medial line, a diffused sinuous postmedial line,

subterminal shade, and series of dark striz before termen.

SAFTA. 193

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the reniform entirely filled in with pure

white.

Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz, Paso San Juan (Schaus),39Q. Eup.

40-44: millim.

7984. Safia decessa. (Plate CCX XVII. fig. 20.)

Homoptera decessa, W\k. xiii. 1072 (1857).

Homoptera traiwti, Butl. Trans. Ent. Suc. 1879, p. 40.

@. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark reddish brown mixed with

some grey; tibiz at extremities and the tarsi ringed with whitish.

Fore wing dark brown with some red and grey scales and suffused in

parts with violaceous grey; subbasal line black, minutely waved,

from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black, minutely waved,

ineurved below submedian fold; an indistinct double sinuous dark

medial line; a small blackish spot in middle of cell; reniform

defined by white points and striz; a dark patch on costa defined by

whitish before the postmedial line, which is black, defined on outer

side by whitish towards costa and inner margin, minutely dentate,

at vein 3 retracted to lower angle of cell, then erect, some whitish

points beyond it on costa; subterminal line black, slightly angled

outwards below veins 7 and 4, then incurved; a series of minute

black spots defined on inner side by whitish before termen; a fine

waved dark terminal line and pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing

reddish brown irrorated with some red and blackish scales except on

costal area; white points in and beyond lower angle of cell; traces

of a double sinuous dark medial line; postmedial line slight, black,

minutely waved, somewhat incurved beyond lower angle of cell;

subterminal line black, minutely waved, arising at vein 6, a leaden

grey shade with some white scales on it beyond it at middle ; a series

of minute black spots defined on inner side by whitish before

termen ; a fine waved dark terminal line and pale line at base of

cilia; the underside brown irrorated with grey, traces of diffused

dark medial and postmedial lines and subterminal shade.

Hab. St. Vincent, 1 9 type; Brazit, Amazons, R. Purus,

Paviti (Trail), 1 9 type traili. Hap. 48 millim.

7985. Safia acharia. (Plate CCXXVIII. fig. 1.)

yoctwa acharia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 103. pl. 346. f. C (1781).

d. Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with some

ochreous; palpi blackish with pale streaks in front; tarsi black

ringed with whitish; abdomen grey-brown, the crests darker, the

ventral surface ochreous tinged with brown. Fore wing pale reddish

brown irrorated and in parts suffused with dark brown; subbasal

line faint, pale, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial

line black, waved; two sinuous dark medial lines filled in. with

blackish; a minute black annulus in middle of cell; reniform

defined by blackish and with some white points on its outer edge;

a dark postmedial mark on costa defined at sides by pale striz ;

VOL. XIII. 6)

194. NOCTUID ®.

postmedial line black, arising at vein 7 where it is bent outwards,

then sinuous, oblique to vein 3, then bent inwards to lower angle of

eell, and erect to inner margin, some white points beyond it on

costa; subterminal line faint, dark, oblique, minutely dentate, a

diffused whitish line beyond it between veins 6 and 2; a series of

black striz defined on inner side by whitish before termen and a

fine waved dark terminal line. Hind wing pale red-brown suffused

and irrorated with dark brown; traces of a double sinuous medial

line; postmedial line faint, dark, sinuous, angled mwards beyond

lower angle of cell; subterminal line blackish, waved, arising at

vein 6 and slightly angled outwards at discal fold, a diffused

whitish line beyond it; a series of blackish striz before termen

detined on inner side by whitish ; a. slight waved blackish terminal

line; the underside whitish irorated with brown, the terminal area

black-brown, a dark discoidal lunule, waved medial line excurved

beyond the cell, postmedial line excurved and waved from below

costa to vein 4, then oblique, a series of mmute whitish lunules

before termen, and some whitish at middle of termen.

@. Fore wing without the pale line beyond the subterminal

line.

Hab. Surinam; Brazit, Amazons, Manaos (Trail), 1 3d,

R. Purus, Vistalinda (Lrai/),1 9. Hap. $ 38, 9 44 millim.

7986. Safia abscisa. (Plate CCXXVIII. fig. 2.)

Safia abscisa, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 54 (1911).

Hem pee decessa, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 507 (part.), nec

Wik.

Q. Head rufous with some blackish scales between antenne ;

thorax dark reddish brown; palpi blackish irrorated with grey ;

pectus and legs grey mixed with dark brown, the tarsi black rmged

with whitish; abdomen dark brown, the ventral surface whitish

tinged with brown. Fore wing black-brown with a purplish grey

Sloss and mixed with some red-brown; subbasal line slight, black,

sinuous, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line black,

waved, excurved below the cell; two indistinct sinuous dark

medial lines; reniform pale reddish brown defined by pale points ;

a dark patch defined by pale reddish brown on postmedial part of

costa ; postmedial line black, arising at vein 7, sinuous, oblique to

vein 3, then bent inwards to below end of cell, and erect to

inner margin; subterminal line black, oblique, sinuous, angled

outwards below veins 7 and 4; a series of black strize

defined on inner side by whitish before termen; a slight waved

black terminal line and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing

red-brown suffused with dark brown; traces of two sinuous medial

lines ; postmedial line slight, black, minutely waved ; subterminal

line black, minutely waved, arising at vein 6, slightly angled

outwards at discal fold, then incurved to submedian fold and

"SA PTA. 195

with a leaden grey patch beyond it with some whitish suffusion

on it; a series of minute black lunules defined on inner side by

whitish before termen; a fine waved black terminal line and pale

line at base of cilia; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with

brown, a dark discoidal lunule, two minutely waved medial lines

excurved beyond the cell, postmedial line excurved and minutely

waved from below costa to vein 4, then oblique, a dark subterminal

shade, and series of minute whitish lunules before termen.

3. Fore wing with the whitish points before the subterminal

points not so distinct.

Ab. 1. Hind wing without whitish on the leaden grey patch

beyond the subterminal line.

Hab. Costa Rica, Sta. Clara Valley (Zurcher), 1 9 , Esperanza,

(Schaus), type + 3 in U.S. Nat. Mus., Guapiles (Schaus), type + 2;

Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 12, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp.

42, millim.

7987. Safia barata. (Plate CCX XVIII. fig. 3.)

Yrias barata, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 48 (1901).

©. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous mixed with dark

brown ; palpi rather darker with ochreous rings at extremities of

the joints; tarsi black-brown ringed with ochreous. Fore wing

ochreous suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown; a slight

irregularly waved black subbasal line from costa to vein 1; ante-

medial line slight, black, exeurved below costa, angled outwards at

median nervure, then inwardly oblique and slightly sinuous; an

indistinct curved, waved medial line; reniform ochreous with

whitish points on its edges, slightly defined at sides by blackish,

rather triangular; postmedial line black with ochreous suffusion

before it towards costa and an oblique ochreous shade beyond it

from costa to vein 7 where it is angled outwards, excurved at veins

5, 4, at vein 3 bent inwards to below lower edge of reniform, then

dentate to inner margin; a faint waved dark subterminal line; a

series of blackish striae before termen defined on inner side by

ochreous; a waved blackish terminal line and fine ochreous line at

base of cilia. Hind: wing ochreous suffused with fuscous brown ;

traces of a waved medial line; a slight waved blackish postmedial

line almost obsolete on costal area and with the more distinct

black postmedial line just beyond it, angled outwards at discal .

fold, then incurved and slightly waved to tornus; a series of

blackish strize defined on inner side by ochreous before termen and

a waved black terminal line; the underside grey irrorated with

brown, a slight dark discoidal lunule, medial line excurved below

costa, diffused postmedial line, and subterminal shade.

Hab. Panama, La Chorrera (Dolby-Tyler), 2 9; Trrnrpap,

Caparo, 2 9; Vunezurena, Aroa, 1 9; Br. Gurana, Demerara.

(Rodway),1 9. Hap. 44 millim. Type + 2 in U.S. Nat. Mus,

196 NOCTUIDE.

*7988. Safia ceruleotincta. (Plate CCX XVIII. fig. 4.)

Safia ceruleotincta, Schaus, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. xiv. p. 213 (1912).

2. Head and thorax dark reddish brown slightly mixed with

grey; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown, the crests

darker. Fore wing reddish brown suffused with blue-grey; sub-

basal line black-brown, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial

line black-brown, minutely waved, slightly angled outwards at

submedian fold, expanding into a spot at costa; a slight sinuous

dark medial line, excurved in cell and with a black-brown patch

beyond it above inner margin; reniform pale rufous defined by

brown and with an obliquely curved pale rufous patch above

it from costa to the angle of the postmedial line, which is black-

brown, obliquely downeurved from costa to below vein 7, then

minutely dentate, at vein 3 bent inwards to origin of vein 2, then

erect’ and angled outwards below submedian fold; some whitish

points on costa towards apex ; subterminal line black-brown,

shghtly waved, rather diffused towards costa, somewhat angled

outwards below vein 7, angled outwards below vein 4, then

incurved and with small black-brown patch before it at submedian

fold; a series of small black-brown spots before termen with

slight streaks from them to termen. Hind wing red-brown, some

blackish irroration on vein 1; an indistinct irregularly waved dark

postmedial line; a black-brown subterminal line, almost obsolete

towards costa, angled outwards at discal fold and excurved at

submedian fold; a series of brown points before termen; a faint

waved brown terminal line and fine pale line at base of cilia; the

underside grey-brown, indistinct diffused curved medial and_ post-

medial lines, a dark subterminal shade, series of points before

termen, and waved terminal line.

Hab. Fr. Guiana, St. Jean Maroni (Schaus), type + Q in

U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 44 millim.

*7989. Safia guapila. (Plate CCX XVIII. fig. 5.)

Campometra guapila, &chaus, A. M. N. H. (8) x. p. 511 (1912).

o. Head and tegule crimson-red mixed with ochreous; palpi

dark chocolate-brown, pale at tips; antenne dark brown; thorax

red-brown mixed with grey; pectus and legs dark brown, the tarsi

ringed with ochreous; abdomen dark brown. Fore wing dark

chocolate-brown mixed with grey, an oblique shade from medial

and postmedial parts of costa narrowing to inner margin near base

and the terminal area greyer, some crimson irroration in and below

the cell ; two subbasal ochreous strize from costa; antemedial line

blackish, somewhat dentate to median nervure, then oblique and

angled inwards at vein 1; a very indistinct diffused blackish

medial line; reniform very. obscurely defined, with two whitish

striz on inner side and a black line defined on mner side by whitish

SAPTA. 197

on outer; a postmedial blackish mark defined by whitish suffusion

on costa; postmedial line very indistinct, blackish, minutely

dentate, at vein 4: bent inwards to below the reniform, then oblique ;

subterminal line defined on inner side by black-brown suffusion,

slightly angled outwards below veins 7, 6, 4, 3, incurved at discal

fold and below vein 3; a series of black striz before termen with

minute streaks from them to termen; a waved dark terminal line

and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing deep chocolate-

brown, the terminal area greyish suffused with red-brown ; post-

medial line very indistinct, dark, sinuous; subterminal line black-

brown, slightly angled inwards at vein 7 and outwards at discal

fold, excurved at submedian fold; a series of blackish strize before

termen slightly defined on inner side by whitish and with minute

streaks from them to the fine waved dark terminal line; cilia with

a fine pale line at base; the underside bluish grey suffused with

brown, an indistinct postmedial line excurved below costa, then

oblique to tornus, and a subterminal shade.

flab. Costa Rica, Guapiles (Schaus), type + ¢ in U.S. Nat

Mus. xp. 46 millim.

7990. Safia thermochroa, n. sp. (Plate CCX XVIII. fig. 6.)

@. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown slightly mixed with

greyish; palpi and legs dark brown irrorated with greyish, the

tarsi blackish ringed with white. Fore wing red-brown suffused

and irrorated with dark brown, the terminal area paler red-brown ;

subbasal line slight, black, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold ;

antemedial line black, waved; a rather diffused double sinuous

black medial line; reniform with indistinct pale annulus, its centre

defined by dark brown; a dark mark on costa before the post-

medial line, which is black, minutely waved, at vein 3 retracted to

lower angle of cell, then erect, some whitish points beyond it on

costa ; postmedial area suffused with dark brown, deeper towards

the subterminal line, which is black, angled outwards below veins 7

and 4 and slightly below vein 3, incurved at discal fold and

strongly below the angle at middle; the terminal area with some

brown suffusion towards apex and at middle; a series of black

striz before termen, a fine waved dark terminal line, and pale line

at base of cilia. Hind wing dark red-brown, the terminal area

pale red-brown with some brown suffusion at middle; traces of two

sinuous dark medial lines; postmedial line shght, blackish,

minutely waved; subterminal line black, diffused on inner side,

somewhat excurved at middle; a series of black strie before

termen; a fine waved dark terminal line, and pale line at base of

cilia ; the underside greyish suffused and irrorated with brown,

diffused dark medial and postmedial lines and a broad subterminal

shade.

Hab. Br. Gutana, Demerara (Rodway), 2 2 type. Hap. 48

millim.

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*7991. Safia mascara. (Plate CCXXVIII. fig. 7.)

Campometra mascara, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 42 (1901).

@. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with fuscous ; abdomen

red-brown tinged with grey, the crests on 8rd and 4th segments

black; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen ochreous whitish,

the tarsi fuscous ringed with white. Fore wing red-brown mixed

with ochreous, the basal half suffused with fuscous black ; sub-

basal line black, minutely waved, from costa to submedian fold ;

antemedial line black, slightly angled outwards below costa, then

sinuous; a double waved medial line; reniform white irrorated

with brown, its centre defined by blackish, some fuscous streaks

beyond it; postmedial line black, slightly bent outwards below

costa, then waved, at vein 3 bent inwards to lower edge of reni-

form, then oblique, some fuscous suffusion beyond it and some

white points on costa; subterminal line waved, white at costa, then

blackish; the terminal area fuscous at apex, with fuscous patch at

middle and band from vein 8 to tornus; a series of black striz

before termen, somewhat lunulate on costal half; a fine waved

black terminal line and a waved line at middle of cilia. Hind

wing ochreous suffused with fuscous brown, the terminal area

suffused with rufous except at apex which is fuscous; a slight

minutely dentate black postmedial line from vein 6 to inner

margin ; a minutely waved red-brown subterminal line from vein 6

to tornus with a fuscous band beyond it from vein 4 to tornus and

fuscous streaks on veins 4, 3, 2; a series of black striz before

termen and a fine waved black terminal line ; the underside ochreous

white irrorated with brown except on inner area, a brown discoidal

bar on a medial line obsolete towards inner margin, a minutely

waved postmedial line, diffused subterminal band, and series of striz

before termen.

Hab. VENEZUELA, Aroa, type ¢ 2 in U.S. Nat. Mus. Hap. 52

miullim.

7992. Safia diodonta, n. sp. (Plate CCXXVIIL. fig. 8.)

©. Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; tarsi black

ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown dorsally suffused with

fuscous. Fore wing grey suffused with brown and irrorated with

black; subbasal line slight, black, curved, from costa to vein 1, a

blackish mark below it on inner margin; antemedial line slight,

black, irregularly waved ; the inner medial area black-brown; a

small blackish annulus with white centre in middle of cell; an

indistinct double sinuous blackish medial line; reniform slightly

defined on inner side by blackish and on outer by white and black,

connected with the costa by a white bar; postmedial line black,

bent outwards below costa, then dentate, at vein 3 retracted to

lower angle of cell, and excurved below submedian fold, some

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whitish points beyond it on costa; postmedial area suffused with

black-brown except beyond lower angle of cell; subterminal line

black, rather diffused on inner side, angled outwards below veins 7

and 4, then incurved, a black spot in the angle below vein 4; a

series of minute U-shaped black marks defined on inner side by

white before termen, connected by short black streaks with the

waved black terminal line; a whitish patch on termen and cilia at

discal fold. Hind wing black-brown with the costal area and inner

margin rather paler to the subterminal line, the terminal area white,

tinged except at middle, with red-brown and irrorated with dark

brown ; traces of a dark postmedial line; subterminal line slightly

angled outwards at discal and submedian folds; a series of small

V-shaped black marks before termen connected by short streaks

with the fine waved black terminal line; the underside grey-white

irrorated with brown, a small discoidal lunule defined by brown

placed on a sinuous medial line, a postmedial line excurved below

costa, and broad subterminal shade.

Hab. Peru, Chanchamayo, 1 2 type. Hxp. 52 millim.

7993. Safia bidens.

Xylis bidens, Kaye, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1901, p. 124, pl. v. f. 1.

©. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown and

some grey; palpi blackish, the 8rd joint whitish at base and

extremity ; pectus and legs grey-brown, the tarsi black ringed with

white; abdomen grey mixed with blackish. Fore wing ochreous

white irrorated and suffused with red-brown; subbasal line blackish,

sinuous, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line black,

minutely waved to submedian fold, then incurved; median area

below the cell suffused with purple from just beyond the ante-

medial line; two indistinct sinuous dark medial lines; a small

dark spot in middle of cell; reniform faintly defined by blackish,

with whitish bar on outer edge and white points at lower

extremities; a dark patch on costa defined on inner side and below

by whitish before the postmedial line, which is blackish, minutely

dentate to vein 3, then retracted to origin of vein 2, then excurved

and very minutely dentate; postmedial area black-brown with

purple suffusion beyond the postmedial line, some white irroration

towards costa and some white points on costa; subterminal line

ochreous whitish, sinuous, angled outwards below veins 7 and 4

and slightly below vein 3, angled inwards at veins 5 and 2; a

series of minute black lunules with ochreous white spots on their

inner sides before termen; a waved dark terminal line and fine

pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing ochreous white irrorated

with red-brown and suffused with dark brown to the subterminal

line; traces of a double sinuous dark medial line and of a single

postmedial line; subterminal line dark defined on outer side by

chreous white, slightly waved ; a series of black striz defined on

inner side by whitish before termen with which they are connected

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by short black streaks; a waved dark terminal line and whitish

line at base of cilia; the underside grey suffused with brown, a

slight discoidal lunule, rather diffused medial and postmedial lines,

and broad subterminal shade with minute white and blackish lunules

on its outer edge.

Hab. 'Trintpap (Kaye), 1 2 type. Hap. 48 millim.

*7994. Safia subvaria. (Plate CCX XVIII. fig. 9.)

Cenipeta subvaria, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 119 (1906).

3. Head and tegule fuscous brown, frons with white lines at

sides; vertex of head defined in front and at sides by a fine white

line; thorax red-brown, the outer edge of patagia and metathorax

blackish ; pectus and legs blackish, the tibiz and tarsi ringed with

ochreous; abdomen black-brown with slight whitish segmental

lines and ochreous spot on anal tuft above. Fore wing rufous, the

base of inner area, the antemedial area except just below the cell,

the outer half of medial area below the cell, the postmedial area

and middle of terminal area suffused with black-brown ; subbasal

line blackish defined on outer side by whitish, waved, from costa to

submedian fold; antemedial line blackish, defined on inner side by

whitish and minutely waved from costa to median nervure, then

defined on outer side by whitish and slightly angled inwards at

vein 1; medial line blackish, almost obsolete except below the cell

and with whitish point at costa with blackish before and beyond

it, oblique, sinuous; a whitish discoidal patch with two slight

Thiel spots on it connected with the costa by a whitish Te

postmedial line black with white striga at costa, obliquely penned

to vein 6, incurved at discal fold, below vein 3 bent inwards to

lower angle of cell, then oblique and sinuous; some white points

with black streaks between them beyond it on costa; subterminal

line pale defined on inner side by black below em 6, dentate,

ineurved at discal fold and below vein 3, a series of black strize

beyond it and a fine waved line just before termen; cilia black

with some rufous above middle and tornus and a fine whitish line

at base. Hind wing fuscous brown; traces of an oblique line

from lower angle of cell to inner margin, a waved postmedial line

defined on outer side by whitish and ending on termen at vein 1;

a similar subterminal line; a series of black spots just before

termen defined on inner side by whitish striz; the underside with

the basal area irrorated with grey, a blackish discoidal lunule with

pure white spots before and beyond it, the double waved medial

line arising beyond it at vein 6, the postmedial and subterminal

lines more distinctly defined, the blackish marks before termen

indistinct with a triangular pure white spot before the mark below

vein 7 and lunules before the marks below veins 6, 5, 3.

Hab. Fr. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni (Schaus), type + d in

U.S. Nat. Mus. “2p. 40 millim.

SAFTA. 901

*7995. Safia nigrescens. (Plate CCXXVIIL. fig. 10.)

Barydia nigrescens, Schaus, Proc. Ent, Soc. Wash. xiy. p. 213 (1912).

3. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with whitish; tarsi

ringed with whitish ; abdomen grey suffused with reddish brown

eee wing white suffused with red-brown and irrorated with dark

brown, the terminal area dark brown with a greyish tinge; a dark

subbasal line, angled outwards below costa and ending as sub-

median fold ; antemedial line ver y indistinct, dark brown, dentate ;

a small black spot in middle of cell; reniform brown with

indistinct dark outline, narrowing above, some white on its outer

edge, and a point before it on median nervure, two brown bars

above it from costa; a postmedial brown spot on costa detined by

white, the indistinct postmedial brown line obscurely defined on

each side by white arising from it, minutely waved, somewhat

ineurved at discal fold, at vein 3 retracted to below end of cell,

then oblique to imner margin; subterminal line slight, Dlack,

faintly detined_ on each side by reddish brown, oblique and sinuous

to below vein 7 where it is strongly angled ontrack, incurved at

discal fold, See at middle, then incurved and sinuous; a

series of black striz before termen defined on outer side by white:

Hind wing grey-brown, the terminal area fuscous brown; some

black-brown and white bars across terminal half of vein 1; traces

of an oblique waved postimedial line with slight whitish marks on

its inner side on the veins of inner half, ending at tornus; traces

of a waved subterminal line, ending on termen at submedian fold

towards which it is faintly defined on outer side by whitish; a

crenulate dark terminal line with shght whitish marks beyond it

on termen; cilia chequered brown and whitish; the underside

irorated with whitish, two curved brown postmedial lines and a

dark subterminal shade.

Hab. Fr. Guiana, St. Jean Maroni (Schaus), type + ¢ in

U.S. Nat. Mus. Hap. 56 millim.

7996. Safia irresoluta. (Plate CCX XVIII. fig. 11.)

Rhubuna irresoluta, Wik. xv. 1821 (1858).

6. Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous mixed with dark brown

and some grey; palpi black-brown irrorated with white; pectus,

legs, and ventral surface of abdomen dark brown mixed with grey,

the tarsi black ringed with white. Fore wing red-brown suffused

and irrorated with dark brown, the outer half of medial area, the

postmedial area except towards costa and the terminal area paler ;

subbasal line slight, blackish, smuous, from costa to submedian

fold; antemedial line blackish, sinuous, excurved at submedian

fold; a double sinuous blackish medial line; reniform brownish

white faintly defined by blackish, its centre defined by some dark

scales, two ochreous bars above it from costa ; postmedial line with

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ochreous bar from costa, then black, waved, at vein 3 retracted to

lower angle of cell, then again excurved, some whitish points

beyond it on costa; subterminal line blackish, icurved below

costa, incurved and sinuous below vein 6, and with a dark shade

beyond it below vein 4; a series of minute blackish strize faintly

defined on inner side by ochreous before termen, with slight dark

streaks from them towards termen. Hind wing red-brown suffused

with darker brown except on apical area; a slight sinuous dark

postmedial line, obsolescent on costal area; subterminal line

blackish, obsolescent on costal area, somewhat incurved between

discal and submedian folds, excurved at vein 1 where there is a

prominent black spot on it with minute white streak towards its

outer edge; a series of slight brown striz faintly defined on inner

side by ochreous before termen with slight dark streaks from them

towards termen ; the underside brown irrorated with white.

@. Fore wing suffused with dark brown to the subterminal line,

the reniform pure white.

Hab. Jamaica (Martin), 12; Hartt (Lweedie), 2 6,

1 2 type. Hxp. 48-52 millim.

7997. Safia meroleuca, n. sp. (Plate CCX XVIII. fig. 12.)

Q. Head and thorax white mixed with some reddish brown;

antenne brown ; palpi blackish irrorated with white; sides of frons

blackish; pectus and legs white mixed with brown, the tarsi

fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, the base white.

Fore wing white slightly irrorated with brown, the terminal area

suffused with pale brown from costa at subterminal line to middle

of inner margin ; the basal part of costa blackish brown interrupted

by white marks at the lines; subbasal line slight, black, angled

outwards below costa and ending at submedian fold; antemedial

line very indistinct, dark, excurved below the cell, then sinuous ;

a triangular black-brown patch at middle of costa, the indistinctly

double dark medial line arising from it, oblique and slightly

sinuous below the cell; reniform with very indistinct white

annulus ; a triangular black-brown postmedial patch on costa, the

slight blackish postmedial line arising from it, excurved below

vein 7 and between veins 5 and 3, then oblique and somewhat

dentate, a greyish fuscous shade beyond it from vein 7 to inner

margin ; the costa towards apex with alternating black and white

streaks; subterminal line very indistinct, dark defined on outer

side by white, waved, angled outwards below vein 4; a series of

blackish striz defined on inner side by white before termen; a

slight waved dark terminal line; cilia white at veins 5 and 2.

Hind wing white suffused with pale reddish brown except at base ;

an indistinct double dark medial line; postmedial line slight,

brown, sinuous and minutely waved; subterminal line blackish,

sinuous and minutely waved, a greyish fuscous shade before it; a

series of blackish strize before termen defined on inner side by

SAFTA, 203

white above and below vein 5 and at submedian fold, a slight

waved dark terminal line; the underside grey suffused with brown,

sinuous dark medial and postmedial lines and a_black-brown

subterminal shade.

Hab. Perv, Chanchamayo, 1 2 type. Exp. 56 millim.

*7998. Safia picturata. (Plate CCX XVIII. fig. 13.)

Safia picturata, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 47 (1901).

3. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some greyish, the

tips of patagia and metathoracic crest fuscous; palpi irrorated

with dark brown; tarsi black ringed with ochreous; abdomen

red-brown with ridges of black and greyish hair on two basal

segments and the slight crests on 4th and 5th segments blackish.

Fore wing red-brown mixed with ochreous, the basal area deeper

red-brown irrorated with whitish; a curved whitish subbasal striga

from costa ; antemedial line whitish, sinuous, inwardly oblique with

a narrow oblique ochreous band beyond it; an indistinct ochreous

medial line, slightly angled outwards below costa, then sinuous ;

renitorm faintly defined by four brownish points; postmedial line

very indistinct, brown, faintly defined on outer side by whitish and

with some ochreous suffusion before it, oblique to below vein 7,

then inwardly oblique and minutely waved, a triangular chocolate-

brown patch beyond it on costa with some whitish on it; sub-

terminal line indistinct, pale, bent outwards at vein 7, then waved

and with crimson-red suffusion before it to vein 2, then ochreous

and straight ; some blackish points with ochreous between them on

costa towards apex; a series of slight blackish points just before

termen and a fine waved dark terminal line. Hind wing brown;

a faint oblique waved postmedial line; a slight pale waved

subterminal line with crimson-red suffusion before it and silvery

blue scales on it and on the veins beyond it from vein 5 to tornus ;

a series of slight dark striz just before termen, a fine waved dark

terminal line and fine ochreous line at base of cilia; the underside

ochreous striated with dark brown, a dark discoidal lunule on a

faint waved medial line, a postmedial line excurved and waved to

vein 5 then incurved to above tornus, and a diffused curved

subterminal shade.

Hab. Brazit, Petropolis, typet ¢ in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp.

44. millim.

*7999. Safia divaricata. (Plate CCX XVIII. fig. 14.)

Homoptera divaricata, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p- 41 (1901).

do. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some ochreous and

black, the tegulz tipped with ochreous, the patagia with sinuous

black line at middle and greyish tips; tarsi rmged with ochreous ;

abdomen red-brown mixed with ochreous and with blackish

204: NOCTUID #.

seomental lines, the crests tipped with blackish and grey. Fore

wing reddish brown mixed with ochreous and black, the sub-

terminal area suffused with purple except towards apex; subbasal

line black defined on each side by ochreous, slightly angled

outwards below costa and ending at submedian fold; antemedial

line black defined on each side by ochreous, the ochreous lines

diverging slightly at costa, bent inwards to inner margin;

claviform a blackish semicircular mark; orbicular a small black

spot with indistinct black annulus; reniform very large, defined

by ochreous, angled inwards on median nervure to below the

orbicular; medial line very indistinct, pale, bent outwards to the

reniform and angled imwards at vein 1; postmedial line black

defined on each side by ochreous, the ochreous lines diverging

widely at costa, bent outwards below costa, oblique and sinuous to

vein 3, then incurved to lower edge of reniform; some ochreous

points on costa towards apex and streaks on veins 8, 7; subterminal

line represented by an oblique ochreous streak from costa to

vein 7, then by a black line slightly angled outwards below vein 4,

then ineurved ; a series of black and ochreous strie before termen,

a fine crenulate black terminal line and ochreous line at base of

cilia. Hind wing grey-brown with some ochreous on postmedial

area and a purplish gloss on subterminal area except towards apex ;

some black and ochreous irroration along vein 1 except towards

base; postmedial line blackish defined on each side by ochreous,

sinuous, from vein 5 to termen at vein 1; a waved blackish

subterminal line defined by ochreous; a series of black and

ochreous striz before termen; a crenulate black terminal line

and ochreous line at base of cilia; the underside ochreous thickly

irrorated with red-brown and blackish, a black discoidal bar, traces

of two medial lines, postmedial line black, waved towards costa and

incurved from vein 5 to termen at vein 1, a subterminal ochreous

lunule defined by brownish in submedian interspace.

Hab. Braztt, Sao Paulo (D. Jones), type+ g in US. Nat.

Mus. xp. 54 millim.

*8000. Safia eminens. (Plate CCX XVIII. fig. 15.)

Safia eminens, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 46 (1901).

¢. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous; tarsi

fuscous ringed with whitish ; abdomen red-brown slightly mixed

with ochreous. Fore wing reddish brown mixed with ochreous ;

subbasal line defined on outer side by ochreous, minutely dentate,

from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line blackish defined on

each side by ochreous, angled inwards below costa and at vein 1

and outwards in submedium fold; an indistinct blackish spot in

middle of cell and two small discoidal spots; medial line blackish,

excurved in cell, then sinuous; an oblique somewhat dentate line

beyond the cell from costa to vein 5 below which there is a minute

whitish spot; a triangular whitish postmedial mark with dark centre

SUE 205

from costa to below vein 7, the blackish postmedial line defined

on outer side by ochreous and on both sides on inner area arisine

from its apex, waved, bent inwards below vein 4and angled outwards

in submedian fold ; subterminal line ochreous white with a blackish

patch on its inner side below vein 7 and small spots below veins 6 and

4, dentate ; a series of ochreous white and blackish strix just before

termen and a fine waved dark terminal line. Hind wing reddish

brown mixed with ochreous ; a slight oblique ochreous antemedial

line and discoidal lunule; postmedial line slight, dark defined on outer

side by ochreous, minutely waved ; subterminal line indistinct, dark

defined on outer side by ochreous and with blackish spot before it

below wein 4, waved; a series of black and ochreous strize just

before termen; a fine waved blackish terminal line; the underside

fuscous brown striated with ochreous; a faint ochreous antemedial

line and discoidal lunule, postmedial line brown, excurved below

costa, subterminal line diffused.

flab. VeNnezvuEta, Aroa, type + d in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 50

millim.

S001. Safia cades.

Selenis cades, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) ii. p. 226 (1898) ; id. Biol. Centr.-Am.,

Het. ii. p. 521, pl. 97. f. 18.

Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with some red-

brown and greyish; palpi pale in front; pectus, legs, and ventral

surface of abdomen whitish mixed with brown, the tarsi blackish

ringed with white. Fore wing dark brown tinged with grey and

slightly irrorated with blackish ; subbasal line slight, black, sinuous,

from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line black, waved, a

double sinuous blackish medial line ; a small blackish spot in middle

of cell; reniform slightly defined by blackish, its outer edge with

small white spot at middle, white point above and two at lower

extremity ; a dark spot on costa defined by whitish before the

postmedial line, which is black, waved, incurved below vein 4 and

excurved below submedian fold, some whitish points beyond it on

costa; subterminal line black, oblique, waved, defined on outer side

by a narrow whitish band; a series of black strize before termen

slightly defined on inner side by whitish ; a waved blackish terminal

line and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing brown irrorated

with grey and blackish ; traces of a double sinuous dark medial line ;

an indistinct double sinuous dark postmedial line; subterminal line

indistinct, double, dark, minutely waved, defined on outer side by a

narrow whitish band ; a series of minute black spots before termen,

a waved blackish terminal line, and fine pale line at base of cilia ; the

underside greyish thickly irrorated with brown, two sinuous dark

medial lines, a sinuous postmedial line, and a subterminal shade.

Hab. GuareMata, Volean de Atitlan (Champion), 1 3,1 2

type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 3 44, 9 50 millm,

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8002. Safia nyctichroa, n. sp. (Plate CCXXVIII. fig. 16.)

Homoptera decessa, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 345 (part.), nee W1k.

2. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with some grey,

the vertex of head whitish ; palpi, pectus, legs, and ventral surface

of abdomen grey mixed with dark brown, the tarsi blackish ringed

with white. Fore wing red-brown tinged with dark brown and’

slightly irrorated with blackish ; subbasal line black defined on outer

side by grey, curved from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line

black, waved; two waved black medial lines; reniform defined on

inner side by black, a small white spot on its outer edge, a white

point at upper extremity and two at lower extremity ; a dark patch

on postmedial part of costa defined by whitish tinged with red-brown ;

postmedial line black, arising at vein 7, oblique, sinuous, incurved

between vein 3 and submedian fold, some whitish points beyond it

on costa; subterminal line black, oblique, slightly waved ; a series

of black striz before termen connected by short streaks with the

waved black terminal line. Hind wing red-brown suffused with dark

brown ; a double sinuous dark medial line ; postmedial line double,

blackish, minutely waved; subterminal line black, slightly angled

outwards at discal fold, a slight pale line beyond it from vein 4 to

tornus ; a series of minute black spots before termen and a fine

waved black terminal line; the underside whitish thickly irrorated

with brown, a dark discoidal lunule, minutely waved medial line

excurved beyond the cell, minutely waved postmedial line ending at

tornus, and broad dark subterminal shade with series of dark points

beyond it.

Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 1 2 type, Godman-

Salvin Coll. Hap. 44 millim.

*8003. Safia noctar. (Plate CCX XVIII. fig. 17.)

Yrias noctar, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 49 (1901.)

@. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown with some grey

mixed; fore and mid tibie and the tarsi black-brown ringed with.

white. Fore wing fuscous brown irrorated with grey ; two whitish

subbasal points on costa; antemedial line with two whitish points

on costa, then very indistinct, double, dark, waved, excurved ; a

small whitish spot at upper angle of cell and more prominent spot

at lower angle ; postmedial line with double whitish strize from costa,

slightly bent outwards below costa, then represented by a series of

white points on the veins, incurved below vein 4, some small whitish

spots beyond it on costa; subterminal line represented by a series of

slight ochreous white spots, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at

middle ; a terminal series of white and black points ; cilia with fine

whitish lines at base and middle. Hind wing fuscous brown slightly

irrorated with grey ; traces of a double dark medial line ; traces of a

minutely dentate dark postmedial line from vein 6 to inner margin

with white points at the veins; traces of a waved subterminal line

with whitish marks on it below vein 5 and at submedian fold ;

SAFTA.—ZALE. 207

a terminal series of whitish points and fine waved line at base of

cilia; the underside grey tinged and thickly irrorated with brown,

an indistinct brown discoidal annulus with faint line from it to

Inner margin, an indistinct postmedial line, and faint diffused

subterminal line.

Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz, Paso San Juan (Schaus), type + @

in U.S. Nat. Mus. wp. 42 millim.

8004. Safia minax. (Plate CCX XVIII. fig. 18.)

Corina minax, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 298 (1852); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het.

i. p. 341.

2. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with grey, the

last with small white spot at middle of dorsum; palpi and legs

black-brown mixed with grey, the tarsi ringed with whitish. Fore

wing dark brown irrorated with grey and black and tinged in parts

with reddish; double black subbasal strize from costa ; antemedial

line double, blackish, diffused, waved; an indistinct waved dark

medial line; reniform defined on imner side by white points above

and below and on outer by a white striga expanding into a small

spot at its lower extremity ; postmedial line black, defined on each

side by whitish at costa, bent outwards below costa, then slightly

sinuous, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, an indistinct

maculate dark line beyond it and some white points on costa ;

subterminal line slight, whitish, somewhat sinuous, excurved below

vein 7; a series of slight black points before termen and a waved

blackish terminal line interrupted by white points at the inter-

spaces ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing brown; a faint

dark minutely waved postmedial line from vein 4 to tornus, slightly

defined on outer side by grey, and a similar subterminal line ending

on termen at vein 1; a waved blackish terminal line and whitish

line at base of cilia; the underside grey-white irrorated with brown,

a small dark discoidal spot with pale centre, traces of a sinuous

medial line, a minutely waved postmedial line, faint waved

subterminal line, and terminal series of black points.

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus), 1 2, Yucatan. Hap. 36

millim.

Genus ZALE.

Type.

Lee, etiilon, WOR, \D. LG (IS) -cancocccassasesoo0000Ds000000000000000 horrida.

Jnazneyaa, 1e0W on, WGI Ws 7(CKSVA7)) | consseuccunnbosoneaseenecoseod lunata.

Omopterus, Boisd. Guer. Icon. Rég. Anim. p. 522 (1829), non

ESC Tp vacete ene Taco asics Seciee sais selects onsypaledabitentoaaiseniasiveteina ag lunata.

AAMAS, (EnnGitls WOE siile Os 7 (CKEIBP4)) Sopa cnoaconssoncoesesneso6coeD {00000 setipes.

Homoptera, Guen. Noct. iti. p. 8 (1852)..........:ccccceseeeeeeee one lunata.

VprbG, EWE. NCGk Title Do WO CIES) aoncoeveesn9550506000000095080000 Eruginosa.

Anthracia, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 18 (1852); nec Hiibn. ............ coracias.

Pseudanthracia, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 46

(LS (A) Perera srancte eters cele tcl erotociseicleletole iorelatale leieesnicieiSelslssleisiecidiosie asia coracias,

Nephelina, Kirby, Allen’s Nat. Libr. v. p. 130 (1897) ........... edusa.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about

vertex of head and rather broadly scaled, the 8rd long; frons smooth, with

908 NOCTUID ®.

tuft of hair above; eyes large, round ; antenne of male with fasciculate cilia ;

thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, the pro- and metathorax with

spreading crests, the patagia very broadly dilated with scales at extremity ;

{ivix moderately fringed with hair, the fore and hind tibize not spined, the

latter rarely with one or two spines between the mid and terminal spurs ;

abdomen with very large dorsal crest at base followed by a series of small

crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and

highly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ;

9 from LO anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing

with the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully

developed from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the

cell near base only.

Sect, I. Femora of male fringed with long hair, the mid femora dilated with a

groove containing tufts of large scales and hair.

A. Hind tibie of male fringed with long hair; hind wing with the termen

somewhat excurved at middle, the costa lobed near base.

a. Fore wing of male with the termen somewhat excised from vein 4 to

tornus.

8005. Zale discisigna.

Homoptera discisigna, Wk. xiii. 1066 (1857); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am.,

Het. i. p. 845.

Aylis ustipennis, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 342 (part.), nec WIk.

Homoptera emona, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 344 (part.).

Head, thorax, and abdomen light red-brown mixed with some

dark brown ; palpi dark brown with pale band at base of 8rd joint ;

Fig. 54.—Zale discisigna, g. }.

pectus whitish tinged with rufous; tarsi fuscous ringed with white ;

ventral surface of abdomen ochreous white tinged with brown on

ZALE. 209

terminal half. Fore wing rufous suffused with red-brown and some

fuscous and slightly irrorated with blackish, the costal area darker,

the inner antemedial area and the terminal area above and below

middle reddish ochreous ; an indistinct double sinuous subbasal line

from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line indistinct, double,

sinuous, inwardly oblique; an indistinct treble oblique sinuous

medial line; a small black spot in middle of cell ; reniform faintly

defined by blackish and whitish striew, narrow; postmedial line

blackish, slightly bent outwards below costa, then waved, incurved

at discal fold and oblique below vein 4, a slight dark shade beyond

it; a faint pale waved subterminal line slightly defined by brown and

on outer side by whitish spots below veins 7, 4 and 2, a dark fascia

beyond it on vein 4; a series of small dark spots before termen

from apex to vein 4, then a series of strie. Hind wing rufous

suffused with red-brown and slightly irrorated with black; an

indistinct shghtly waved antemedial line and two lines beyond the

cell; postmedial line double, black, waved, arising at vein 6, a

leaden fuscous patch beyond it at middle with streak on vein 4 to

termen ; a series of small dark spots before termen; the underside

ochreous with discoidal lunule defined by brown, two sinuous

postmedial lines and subterminal shade.

Ab. 1. Hind wing with white patch instead of fuscous beyond

the postmedial line.

Hab. Mexico, Cuesta de Misantla (Trujillo), 1 9; Honpuras

(Dyson), 1 2 type; GuaTEMALA, Zapote (Champion), 13,1 9,

Volean de Atitlan (Champion), 1 2; Costa Rica, Candelaria Mts.

(Underwood), 1 9; Panama, Chiriqui (27bbé), 1 5, Godman-

Salvin Coll. wp. 52-58 millim.

b. (Xylis.) Fore wing of male with the termen evenly curved.

8006. Zale setipes.

Aylis setipes, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 7, pl. 15. f. 6 (1852); Druce, Biol. Centr.-

Am., Het. i. p. 341.

Homoptera peruncta, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 9 (1852).

Homoptera ustipennis, Wik. xiii. 1071 (1857); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am.,

Het. i. p. 342.

Letis incipiens, W\k. xiv. 1266 (1858).

Homoptera emona, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 344, pl. 31. f.3

(1889). :

3. Head and thorax fuscous brown with a slight greyish tinge ;

palpi with whitish rings at base and extremity of 8rd joint; pectus

and hind legs brownish grey, the tarsi black ringed with white ;

abdomen fuscous brown with an ochreous brown dorsal patch on 2nd

segment, the ventral surface greyer. Fore wing fuscous brown with

a greyish tinge, the inner antemedial and terminal areas ochreous

tinged with red-brown; subbasal line blackish, sinuous, from custa

to submedian fold; antemedial line blackish, double at costa,

sinuous to median nervure, then inwardly oblique; a black point in

middle of cell; reniform defined by blackish and with some white

VOL. XIII. P

210 NOCTUID HE.

points on its outer edge; an oblique double waved blackish medial

line ; postmedial line indistinctly double, blackish, waved, bent

inwards and forming a spot at discal fold, very oblique below vein 4,

some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct,

dark sinuous ; a series of black striz before termen defined on outer

side by ochreous white. Hind wing reddish ochreous suffused with

brown, the terminal area fuscous tinged with leaden grey from vein

4 to tornus; indistinct double waved antemedial and medial lines ;

Fig. 55.—Zale setipes, 3. }.

postmedial line double, black, waved ; a series of black strize defined

on outer side by ochreous white before termen ; a fine pale line at

base of cilia; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, the

terminal area suffused with brown, a discoidal spot defined by brown

with slight line from it to inner margin, curved minutely waved

medial and postmedial lines, a subterminal shade, and series of black

strive defined on outer side by white before termen.

. Hind wing browner, the postmedial line with sinuous bluish

white patch beyond it at middle with two small ochreous white spots

between it and tornus.

Ab. 1. @. Hind wing with the outer postmedial line much

stronger from vein 6 to mer margin, incurved between discal and

submedian folds, and with the bluish white patch beyond it reduced

to a few scales.

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 2 3,3 9; Panama, Chiriqui

(Champion), 1 3,2 2 type emona, Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Harrr

(Tweedie), 1 3 type incipiens; Sta. Lucta (Rotheram), 1 3;

Grenapa (H. H. Smith), 23, 29; Conompia, Sta. Marta

(Bouchard), 1 3; Braztu, Theresopolis (Wichaelis), 1 3 ; Para-

euay, Sapucay (Foster), 1 5 ; Has. ten., 1 3 type ustipennis,

type + Q peruncta in Mus. Paris. Hp. 44-52 millim.

ZALE. > inle

B. (Pheocyma.) Hind tibix of male not fringed with long

hair; hind wing with the termen evenly curved, the

costa not lobed at base.

a. Fore wing with the postmedial line single, dentato

above and below vein 4.

a, Hind wing with the subterminal line incurved at

middle.

a, Fore wing with the subterminal line not defined

on outer side by golden green.

a, Fore wing of male white with faint brown

striation, of female with prominent brown

BELIUDOM soar cote wants ceeds toe nc auae meee ec exhausta.

63, Fore wing of male prominently striated with

dark brown, of female suffused with dark

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2, Fore wing with the subterminal line defined on

outer side by golden! preem <.....2..2-2+.0-+2.--.020ee galactea.

}1, Hind wing with the subterminal line slightly bent

inwards and waved between discal and submedian

folds but not curved.

a2, Kore wing with the subterminal line defined on

Omlicie ENGlS oy BOllClein PAREN -cocsoooncosqso4onananoGN viridans.

v2, Fore wing with the subterminal line not defined

on outer side by golden green.

a3, Fore wing with the ground-colour red-brown , ictilis.

3, Kore wing with the ground-colour grey-brown. ¢errosa.

b. Fore wing with the postmedial line single, angled out-

THAUAGIS) GLB WSIS G2 GING GB) so0cascegodeondaadaosadooqdobcd000N008 grata.

c. Fore wing with the postmedial line indistinctly double,

excuryed above and below vein 4.

a, Fore wing with grey-green suffusion on ante- and

postmedial areas,

a, Wings grey thickly* irrorated and striated with

GEWAK [DROWN — soacoonsonsnesnpcdoosadooseqa60ns0b0n9b0008 .- sabena.

2, Wings red-brown not irrorated and striated with

GlaiPle INOW, coccaoavepopdabaendodoaboonbsscebooeadnoo0ds configurata,

1, Fore wing without grey-green sutfusion on ante- and

postmedial areas.

a2, Wings almost entirely suffused with leaden

TEGO coconeasoonscdoncs.dgaqngcLnb.ooo9SsG5coNdoqoRaDaRS Suliginosa.

22, Wings not almost entirely suffused with leaden

fuscous.

a, Wings with the ground-colour bright rufous.

a4, Fore wing with the tornal area mostly suffused

wall TheaKelera TWEORIE! Gosccodosossoqucnnanassanoaoss rufosa.

64, Fore wing with the tornal area not suffused

waithpleadem fTuSCOUS) .acesccesceeesasceeeeeeen ce: sexplagiata,

13, Wings with the ground-colour red-brown to

greyish brown.

a4, Fore wing with the inner postmedial line

black and distinctly sinuous below vein 4.

a5, Wings with the ground-colour pale with

prominent dark irroration and striation.

a6, Size smaller; wings paler and less

Ghighrm@eidly mmneVelkersl ccoopoasoonnsnobdnoososoons salicis.

8. Size rather larger; wings darker and

more distinctly variegated ............... lunata.

6’, Wings much more even dark red-brown

without prominent irroration or striation. rhigodora.

212 NOCTUID H.

64. Fore wiug with the inner postmedial line

brown and very slightly sinuous below

(obo. Be onseiabaoadendaaneidesooonabooonsebobuacadsKosone

c4, Fore wing with the postmedial line brown,

indistinct, and waved below vein 4.

a>. Hind wing with the subterminal line

[DENG at ese onncnocncorenndasdcnsdbactoanea basdaons

65, Hind wing with the subterminal line

pale, defined on each side by brown

°. Wings with the ground-colour white ............

d. alone e wing with the postmedial line excurved at vein 4.

a!, Fore wing with the antemedial line double and not

acutely angled outwards below costa.

a2, Wings grey-white with hardly any brown

suffusion

2. Wings grey suffused with fuscous brown............

c?, Wings black-brown suffused with leaden grey.

a’, Fore wing with grey-green irroration beyond

the‘antemediall line | io. .ccesn.-cscceosrss sees o snes

3, Fore wing without grey-green irroration beyond

the antemedial line.

a‘, Fore wing with more or less distinct pale

mark on subterminal line at discal fold......

4, Fore wing without pale mark on subterminal

_ line at discal fold.

ai, Wings without terminal series of white

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%®, Wings with terminal series of white

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d2, Wings red-brown or more or Jess suffused with

red-brown.

a3, Fore wing with white points on outer edge of

reniform.

a4, Wings red-brown without any grey

bs, Wings variegated with grey ............02-+-.++:

b%. Fore wing without white points on outer edge

of reniform.

a4, Both wings with the subterminal line double.

a5, Fore wing ochreous or red-brown more or

less suffused with blackish ................6

U5. Fore wing grey suffused with red-brown.

a’, Wings with green suffusion beyond the

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6, Wings without green suffusion beyond

thejsubtermimallilime ea seseeee ceases

64, Both wings with the subterminal line single,

strong) blacks ssi cctnesamces ce eacenecee semen:

b1, Fore wing with the antemedial line single, diffused

on outer side and not angled outwards below

GOW socooadcoovacossc0cad ovonnba9 900d 0c000sncHbaca0dsa0000

ce. Fore wing with the antemedial line single and

acutely angled outwards below costa.

a?, Fore wing with the subbasal and antemedial lines

strong and black.

a. Fore wing with the basal half of medial area

palevandicontrastino sees eceeeeeeereeeeeeeeeeee

v3, Fore wing with the basal half of medial area

concolorous.

a4. Fore wing nearly uniform red-brown.

a5, Hind wing with the subterminal line

defined on inner side by a rufous band...

pheograpta.

unilineata.

declarans.

albidula.

galbanata.

edusina.

@ruginosa.

wundularis.

corvuus.

coracias.

ganisca.

insuda.

minered.

excellens.

lunifera.

penna.

australis,

benesignata.

metata.

ZALE. 213

5, Hind wing with the subterminal line not

defined on inner side by a rufous band... curema.

bt. Fore wing grey suffused with red-brown.

a°, Fore wing of male with the terminal area

irrorated with white and with white spot

aboventonnusint savscneentomeeseere eee naen es duplicata.

65. Fore wing of male with the terminal area

not irrorated with white and without

white spot above tornus .........secee..e006 bethunet.

ct, Fore wing dark purplish grey with some red-

brown in submedian and discal folds only . sguamularis,

?, Fore wing with the subbasal and antemedial lines

slight and obsolescent.

a’, Fore wing with the medial shade distinct ...... largera.

68, Fore wing with the medial shade indistinct ... obliqua.

8007. Zale exhausta. (Plate CCX XVIII. fig. 19 3, 20 2.)

Homoptera exhausta, Guen, Noct. iii. p. 14 (1852).

Homoptera vernifera, Wik. xv. 1798 (1858).

Homoptera privata, W1k. xxxiii. 883 (1865).

Homoptera viridans, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 844 (part.), nec

Guen,

3. Head, tegule, and prothorax pale rufous, the rest of thorax

grey-white ; antenne brown; tegule with black line near base ;

palpi blackish at sides, the extremities of 2nd and 8rd joints

whitish; frons with slight lateral black bars; pectus and legs

white tinged with rufous, the tarsi black ringed with whitish ;

abdomen grey-white tinged with brown except at base, the 2nd

segment with small dorsal black spot. Fore wing grey-white

faintly striated with brown; the basal area suffused with red-

brown; traces of a double sinuous blackish subbasal line from

costal to submedian fold; antemedial line double, blackish,

inwardly oblique, sinuous ; reniform faintly defined by brown and

tinged with red-brown, a patch of red-brown suffusion above it on

costa ; postmedial line black, oblique and sinuous to above vein 6,

bent inwards at vein 6, angled outwards above and below vein 4,

then oblique and angled outwards in the interspaces, a conical patch

of red-brown suffusion beyond it on costal area with some white

points on costa ; subterminal line indistinctly double, brownish and

slightly waved, excurved at middle and with a rather dentate brown

mark beyond it on vein 4 extending to termen; a series of slight

blackish lunules before termen. Hind wing grey-white faintly

striated with brown; a double sinuous black postmedial line filled

in with red-brown and with some red-brown beyond it, the inner

line arising at vein 7, the outer at discal fold, imcurved between

vein 5 and submedian fold, a greenish grey patch beyond it between

veins 4 and 2; slight terminal blackish marks at submedian fold

and tornus; the underside mottled with brown, an indistinct

sinuous postmedial line, diffused subterminal line, and series of

black points before termen-

214 NOCTUID H.

@. Thorax and abdomen tinged with red-brown; wings tinged

with red-brown and prominently striated with dark brown ; fore

wing with the postmedial line filled in with blackish.

Hab. US.A., Florida; Mrxtco, Jalapa (Trujillo), 2 3;

Guaremata (Rodriguez), 1 3, Volcan de Atitlan (Champion),

1 2, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Ecuapor, 1 ¢; Brazrn, Amazons,

Para, 1 3 type vernifera; Rio Janeiro (Dohrn, Browne), 2 &,

Tijuca (Wagner), 1 3 ; Paraguay, Sapucay (Foster), 53,6 2.

Exp. 48-56 millim. Type + 3d privata in Mus. Oxon.

8008. Zale pachystrigata, n. sp. (Plate CCX XIX. fig. 13,29.)

Homoptera viridisquama, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 344 (part.),

nec WIk.

Homoptera edusa, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 342 (part.), nee Drury.

g. Head and thorax pale grey mixed with brown and some pale

rufous ; tegule with black line near base; pectus pale rufous ;

fore and mid tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen grey tinged

with rufous and irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey-white

tinged in parts with rufous and striated with brown ; antemedial

line double, blackish filled in with rufous, angled outwards below

costa, then oblique and sinuous to inner margin near base ; reni-

form very indistinctly defined, with some rufous before it and

above it on costa; postmedial line black, oblique and waved to

above vein 6, then bent inwards, angled outwards above and below

vein 4, then oblique and angled outwards in the interspaces, a small

brown spot on its outer side below vei 2; a conical red-brown

patch beyond it on costal area ; a narrow incurved dark brown band

from termen at vein 4 to inner margin before tornus with a faint

greenish grey tinge on its outer side; a series of small red-brown

spots before termen ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing

erey-white faintly tinged with rufous and striated with brown ;

the median nervure and vein 1 slightly streaked with grey-green

and irrorated with black scales ; the antemedial area with traces of

three double waved lines, the postmedial area with two similar

lines; postmedial line double, black, minutely waved, incurved

between discal and submedian folds, followed by a diffused sinuous

grey-green band; a series of slight red-brown spots before termen ;

cilia with a fine pale line at base. Underside grey tinged and

striated with brown, a slight postmedial line and subterminal

shade, r

@. Head, thorax, and abdomen with dark brown mixed; wings

almost entirely suffused with dark brown and striated with black,

the terminal area paler except towards costa.

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Zrujillo), 1 3g type, Mexico City

(Hoege), 1 2; Guaremana, Cerro Zunil (Champion), 1 9, God-

man-Salvin Coll. Hap. 48-58 millim.

isi

ZALE. 21

8009. Zala galactea, n. sp. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 3.)

pee viridans, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 344 (part.), nec

uen.

Homoptera viridisquama, Druce, B'ol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p- 344 (part.),

nec W1k.

_ Head, tegule, and prothorax rufous, the rest of thorax erey

tinged with rufous; antennze brown ; tegulz with black line near

base ; frons with black lateral bars; pectus and legs whitish tinged

with rufous, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen whitish

tinged with rufous, a small dorsal black spot on 2nd segment and

spot at base of anal segment. Fore wing white tinged with rufous

and striated with red-brown, the basal area suffused with red-brown

with slight greenish suffusion beyond it; traces of a double sinuous

subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double,

blackish, inwardly oblique and slightly sinuous; a brown point in

middle of cell; rentform faintly defined by brown and with some

red-brown suffusion above it on costa; postmedial line black,

oblique and sinuous to above vein 6, bent inwards at vein 6, angled

outwards above and below vein 4, then incurved, angled outwards

in the interspaces and with small brown spot on it below vein 2, a

conical red-brown patch beyond it on costal area with some whitish

points at costa; subterminal line slight, brown, dentate, defined on

outer side by grey-green; a faint waved red-brown line before

termen. Hind wing creamy whitish faintly striated with red-

brown; faint greenish streaks on median nervure and vein 1;

postmedial line double, black, sinuous, filled in with red-brown and

with some red-brown suffusion beyond it, followed by a diffused

greenish band from vein 6 to tornus where there is a small dark

spot; the underside mottled with brown, a sinuous postmedial

line, diffused subterminal line, and series of black points before

termen.

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 3 type, Atoyac, Vera Cruz

(Schumann), 1 9; Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 1 3, Godman-

Salvin Coll. Hap. 56-60 millim.

8010. Zale viridans. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 4.)

Phalena lunata, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 38, pl. 308. f. C (nee Drury).

Homoptera viridans, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 13 (1852).

Homoptera viridisquama, Wik. xv. 1797 (1858) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am.,

Het. i. p. 344.

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey; tegule with a

black line near base; palpi with the basal joint black, the 2nd

and 8rd irrorated with black ; frons with lateral black bars ; pectus

and legs brownish white, the latter irrorated with brown, the fore

and mid tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown with

slight blackish segmental lines, the 2nd segment with small dorsal

black spot, the ventral surface brownish white. Fore wing ochreous

tinged with red-brown and faintly striated with brown; a shght

216 NOCTUID®.

double oblique sinuous brown subbasal line from costa to submedian

fold with some greenish grey beyond it in cell and black striz on

costa ; antemedial line double, blackish filled in with red-brown,

inwardly oblique and slightly sinuous, some greenish grey suffusion

beyond it on inner area and as streaks on subcostal and median

nervures; a black point in middle of cell; reniform a diffused

ochreous spot defined on inner side by a slight curved black line ;

postmedial line black, oblique and sinuous to above vein 6, incurved

at discal fold, angled outwards above and below vein 4, then

oblique and angled outwards in the interspaces, a small brown

spot on its outer edge below vein 2; the terminal area more

ochreous with a conical red-brown patch on postmedial part of

costa with whitish points on the costa; subterminal line brownish

defined on outer side by grey-green, angled outwards at vein 4

where there is a small dentate blackish mark from it to termen; a

series of small red-brown spots before termen. Hind wing ochreous

tinged with red-brown and faintly striated with brown ; the median

nervure and vein 1 streaked with grey-green ; two indistinct waved

brown lines beyond the cell; postmedial line double, black filled in

with red-brown, the inner line sinuous, the outer slightly waved

towards costa and inner margin, incurved between discal and sub-

median folds, a grey-green band beyond it with some blackish

towards apex and tornus; a series of small red-brown spots before

termen. Underside of both wings grey mottled and striated with

dark brown, an indistinct dark postmedial line and rather diffused

subterminal line.

Hab, Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 g, Vera Cruz, Cordova

(Rimeli), 1 9; GuarEMaALa, Zapote (Champion), 1 9; Costa

Rica, Sta. Clara Valley (Zurcher), 1 ¢, Candelaria Mts. ( Under-

wood), 1 g; Panama, Chiriqui (Champion, Ribbé), 38 9, Godman-

Salvin Coll; VENEzvuELA, 15; Brazin, Amazons (Wallace), 1 9

type viridisquama, Sio Paulo (D. Jones), 2 $; Paraguay,

Sapucay (Foster), 19. Hap. 48-60 millim.

8011. Zale fictilis. (Plate CCX XIX. fig. 5.)

Homoptera fictilis, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 10 (1852).

Homoptera guadulpensis, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 10 (1852).

Homoptera strigimacula, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 11 (1852).

Homoptera gradata, W1k. xiii. 1060 (1857).

Homoptera exhausta, Druce, Biol, Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 343 (neo Guen).

Homoptera viridisquama, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 344 (part.),

nec WIE.

Head and thorax rufous; tegule with black line near base ;

antenne brown; fore and mid tarsi black, ringed with white;

abdomen pale rufous with slight fuscous bands on two terminal

segments, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing rufous striated

with brown; a slight obliquely curved dark subbasal line from

costa to vein 1 near base; antemedial line indistinctly double,

oblique from cell to inner margin near base; reniform very

obscurely defined by red-brown; postmedial line slight, black,

ZALN. 217

waved to vein 6, then bent inwards and with small dark spot

beyond it, angled outwards above and below vein 4, then oblique,

sinuous, angled outwards at submedial fold and with small dark

spot beyond it below vein 2; subterminal line indistinct, red-brown,

slightly waved, angled outwards at vein 4, then obliquely incurved

and with narrow brown band beyond it with some greenish scales

on it; a faint oblique dark shade from apex and series of small

brown spots before termen; cilia with a fine whitish line at base.

Hind wing rufous striated with brown; two indistinct waved

brown lines beyond the cell; postmedial line double, black filled

im with red-brown, arising at vein 6, slightly waved, incurved

between vein 5 and submedian fold, a faint incurved brown shade

beyond it arismg from apex and with white patch on it at

middle. Underside of both wings grey striated with dark brown,

a faint dark subterminal shade.

Ab. 1. gradata, 2. Fore wing with the costal area tinged with

fuscous obliquely from apex to inner margin before middle.

Hab. U.S.A., Florida, Texas; Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli),

4 3g, Cuesta de Misantla (Trujillo), 2 3, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 3;

GuarEMALA (fodriguez), 1 $; Panama, Chiriqui (Champion),

2 $, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Cupa, Santiago (Schaus), 2 ¢; Harrr

(Tweedie), 4 6, 2 Q type gradata; GUADELOUPE; GRENADA

(H. H. Smith), 13; Fr. Guiana; Brazit, type + 3 strigimacula

in Mus. Paris, Itaparica (MWeade-Waldo), 4 3,1 9; ARGENTINA

(O. Thomas), 2 3, 2 9, Mendoza (Baine), 1S. Exp. 54-62

millim.

8012. Zale terrosa. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 6.).

Homoptera terrosa, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 11 (1852) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am.,

Het. i. p. 343.

Homoptera posterior, W1k. xiii. 1060 (1857).

Homoptera gradata, Drace, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 343 (nec WI1k.).

poneriee exhausta, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 843 (part.), nec

uen,

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown, the last with slight

dark segmental lines; palpi irrorated with blackish; fore tarsi

blackish with pale rings. Fore wing grey-brown striated with

blackish; antemedial line indistinct, double, blackish, simuous and

inwardly oblique; a faint double waved medial line; a blackish

point in middle of cell; reniform a narrow lunule slightly defined

by brown, with white striz on its outer edge and white points at

lower extremities ; postmedial line black, sinuous to discal fold and

angled outwards above vein 6, angled outwards above and below

vein 4, then oblique and angled outwards below vein 3 and at

submedian fold, with a minute brown spot on its outer edge below

vein 2, a slight wedge-shaped brown shade beyond it on costal

area; subterminal line very indistinct, incurved and with slight

dark shade on its outer side below vein 4; a series of small black

spots before termen, and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing

grey-brown, the basal and terminal areas slightly striated with

218 NOCTUID M.

brown; three indistinct sinuous brown lines beyond the cell; post-

medial line double, black, arising at vein 7, the inner line sinuous,

the outer slightly angled outwards at discal fold, then incurved to

submedian fold; a series of minute black spots before termen and

fine pale line at base of cilia; the underside whitish striated with

brown, a slight dark subterminal shade.

Ab. 1. posterior. Wings suffused in parts with greyish fuscous.

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo, Hoege), 5 3, 2 9, Coatepec

(Brooke), 1 2, Tabasco, Teapa (H. H. Smith), 1 2, Tamaulipas,

Zampico (Richardson), 12;.GuATEMALA, Coatepee (Champion),

1S; Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson), 1 2 ; Costa Rica, Van

Patten, 1 ¢; Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 8 6,5 9, Godman-

Salvin Coll.; Jamatca (Gosse, Kaye), 1 3, 2 2, type posterior,

Hope (Kaye), 19; Sr. Vincent, 29; Dominica, 13; Grenapa

Gi JER Sauo)s i, 4 OS Asi, be, I Os Jemivaus,

Amazons, Bréves (Austen), 1 9, Itaparica (Aeade-Waldo), 1 2,

19; Paraguay, Sapucay (foster), 3 5, 4 2; ARGENTINA

(O. Thomas), 1 $. Hap. 40-56 millim.

*8013. Zale grata. (Plate CCX XIX. fig. 7.)

Zale grata, Dogu. Het, Nouv. Am. Sud, vi. p. 13 (1912).

©. Head and thorax rufous with some black-brown scales; 1st

and 2nd joints of palpi with some black at sides and whitish in

front ; tarsi with greyish rings; abdomen dorsally pale rufous

with fine blackish segmental lines. Fore wing rufous sparsely

irrorated with black-brown, the basal area rather darker, the ter-

minal half paler; subbasal line double, brown, sinuous, from costa

to submedian fold, some pale green scales beyond it on subcostal

and median nervures; antemedial line treble, brown, waved, rather

inwardly oblique; a yellow-green streak on inner margin from it to

the subterminal line; a minute black spot in middle of cell; reni-

form a narrow lunule, yellow-green slightly defined by brown; a

treble waved brown medial line, excurved to median nervure, then

oblique ; postmedial line black-brown shghtly defined on outer side

by ochreous, oblique to vein 6, incurved at discal fold, slightly

angled outwards at veins 4, 3, then incurved and slightly angled

outwards at vein 2; a red-brown patch on postmedial costal area

with some pale points with dark streaks between them at costa ; sub-

terminal line double, black-brown, with spots on its inner side above

and below vein 7 and below vein 4; a yellow-green band on its outer

edge from vein 7 to inner margin, incurved to vein 4 where it is angled

outwards, then again incurved, some yellow-green scales before the

spot above vein 7 ; a slight crenulate black-brown line before termen

angled inwards to minute spots defined on outer side by whitish in

the interspaces. Hind wing pale grey-brown with a reddish tinge

and slight dark irroration; three indistinct sinuous brown lines

beyond the cell; postmedial line slight, blackish, sinuous, arising at

vein 6; subterminal line double, brown, somewhat diffused, slightly

incuryed below vein 5 and defined on outer side by a narrow yellow-

ZALE. 219

green band from vein 5 to submedian fold; a slight crenulate

blackish line before termen angled inwards to minute black spots

in the interspaces ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a

dark discoidal lunule, indistinct double waved medial line, crenu-

late postmedial line, sinuous subterminal line with some dark

suffusion before it, and series of black points before termen.

Hab. CotomBta, Popayan, type + 2 in Coll. Dognin. Eup.

50 millim.

8014. Zale sabena. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 8.)

Homoptera sabena, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 42 (1901).

Homoptera amata, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 507 (nec i. p. 345).

Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey; tarsi blackish

ringed with white; abdomen grey mixed with reddish brown, the

ventral surface brownish white. Fore wing grey suffused with

red-brown and thickly irrorated and striated with dark brown, the

ante- and postmedial areas suffused with grey-green ; slight double

blackish subbasal strize from costa and cell; antemedial line indis-

tinct, double, blackish, waved ; an indistinct double waved medial

line; a minute black spot in middle of cell; reniform obscurely

defined by black and filled in with grey-green; postmedial line

indistinct, blackish, waved, bent inwards at discal fold and oblique

below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it at costa ; subterminal

line indistinct, blackish, waved, incurved below vein 4; a series of

small black spots before termen followed by minute white spots.

Hind wing grey suffused with red-brown and irrorated with dark

brown, the terminal area striated with dark brown; a small black

discoidal spot; an indistinct double sinuous brown medial line ; an

indistinct double sinuous blackish postmedial line obsolescent

towards costa, some grey-green suffusion beyond it on inner half;

a series of small black spots before termen with minute whitish

spots beyond them; the underside brownish white striated with

brown except on basal and inner areas, a small dark discoidal spot,

traces of double sinuous medial line, and a faint postmedial line.

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus, Trujillo), 1 5,42; GuatE-

MaALA, Guatemala City (fodriguez), 1 6, 1 Q Godman-Salvin

Coll. Hap. 48-58 millim.

*8015. Zale configurata. (Plate CCX XIX. fig. 9.)

Homoptera configurata, W1k. xiii. 1058 (1857).

©. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with some

grey, the patagia greyer towards tips; tegule with black line near

base; frons with lateral black bars; pectus and ventral surface of

abdomen whitish timged with red-brown. Fore wing red-brown

mixed with grey and irrorated with a few blackish scales, the

terminal area greyer striated with brown; subbasal line whitish,

oblique, slightly waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial

220 NOCTUID &.

line double, brown filled in with whitish scales on costal half,

inwardly oblique and slightly waved ; an indistinct oblique sinuous

medial line with a pale diffused band before it; reniform very

indistinct, defined on inner side by a white point at median nervure

and on outer side by some whitish scales; postmedial line double,

brown filled in with grey and at costa by white, minutely waved,

incurved at discal fold, excurved above and below vein 4, then

oblique; subterminal line diffused dark brown with patches of

erey-green scales on it, excurved at middle and incurved above and

below middle ; a series of brown points before termen. Hind wing

red-brown mixed with grey and irrorated with a few blackish

scales, the basal area paler, the terminal area rather greyer and

striated with brown; traces of three sinuous lines on medial area ;

postmedial line blackish slightly defined on outer side by grey,

oblique and very slightly waved ; subterminal line blackish, waved,

somewhat ineurved and with diffused greenish white scales beyond

it from discal fold to tornus ; the underside whitish, the costal area

striated and the terminal area suffused with red-brown, a slight

discoidal lunule, two indistinct waved medial lines, a waved

postmedial line, and series of dark points before termen.

Hab. Mexico, type + 2 in Mus. Oxon. -Hxp. 50 millim.

8016. Zale fuliginosa. (Plate CCX XIX. fig. 10.)

Homoptera fuliginosa, W1k. xiii. 1059 (1857).

@. Head and thorax brown mixed with grey and some black

scales ; tegule with black line near base; frons with lateral black

bars ; tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen brown mixed with

erey and suffused with fuscous, the ventral surface grey irrorated

with brown. Fore wing grey-brown suffused with leaden fuscous

except on costal area, striated and irrorated with black, a brownish

ochreous band beyond the postmedial line from vein 4 to inner

margin ; an indistinct double sinuous subbasal line from costa to

submedian fold; antemedial line indistinctly double, inwardly

oblique, sinuous; reniform only defined by a small white spot

beyond its upper extremity and white points at its lower ex-

tremities; postmedial line black, arising below costa, angled

inwards at discal fold, excurved above and below vein 4, then

oblique, sinuous; subterminal line indistinct, blackish, sinuous,

incurved at discal fold, angled outwards at vein 4, then obliquely

incurved ; a series of slight blackish points with white points on

their outer sides before termen ; cilia with fine pale lines at base

and middle. Hind wing grey-brown suffused with leaden fuscous

except on costal area, irrorated and striated with black; traces of

five double sinuous dark lines on antemedial and medial areas ;

postmedial line double, black, the inner line sinuous, the outer

produced to slight streaks above and below vein 6, incurved

between discal and submedian folds, and waved towards inner

margin ; a series of white points before termen ; cilia with a fine

ZALE. 221

pale line at base. Underside whitish striated with brown; fore

wing with blackish point in middle of cell, small discoidal spot,

and oblique postmedial line; hind wing with small black discoidal

lunule, sinuous postmedial line, and slight subterminal shade ;

both wings with series of black and white points before termen.

Hab. Harri (Tweedie), 1 9 type. Hap. 46 milli.

8017. Zale rufosa, n. sp. (Plate CCX XIX. fig. 11.)

@. Head and thorax bright rufous slightly mixed with brown,

pectus whitish tinged with rufous; tarsi blackish ringed with

white; abdomen rufous with slight dark segmental lines, the

ventral surface whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing bright

rufous, the basal area suffused with red-brown and slightly

irrorated with blackish; a curved reddish ochreous subbasal line

from costa to base below the cell; antemedial line indistinct,

double, reddish ochreous slightly defined by blackish, inwardly

oblique and sinuous below the cell, the inner line dentate below

costa and angled inwards in the cell; the medial area with three

indistinct double sinuous lines, oblique below the cell and vein 4;

a minute dark brown spot in middle of cell; reniform a narrow

lunule faintly defined by brown; postmedial line indistinctly

double, waved to vein 4, then oblique and sinuous, a fuscous brown

patch beyond it on costal area with some pale points on costa ;

subterminal line double, sinuous, very indistinct to vein 4, then

blackish and ineurved with leaden fuscous suffusion beyond it;

a series of slight blackish points before termen and a terminal

series ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing rufous, the

medial area suffused with brown, the basal inner area slightly

irrorated with black, the terminal area striated with blackish;

four indistinct sinuous dark lines beyond the cell; postmedial line

double, black, the inner line sinuous, the outer waved, a narrow

leaden fuscous band beyond it arising from apex; a fine pale line

at base of cilia ; the underside brownish white striated with brown

except on inner area, a small dark discoidal spot, faint medial line

excurved below costa, slightly waved postmedial and subterminal

lines, and a series of black points before termen.

Hab. Jamaica, Cinchona (Kaye), 1 2 type. Hap. 48 millim.

8018. Zale sexplagiata. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 12.)

Homoptera sexplagiata, Wk. xiii. 1064 (1857).

Homoptera marginalis, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 848 (nee WIk.).

Head and thorax rufous mixed with some whitish ; palpi brownish

erey irrorated with black; frons with blackish lateral bars ; pectus

and legs grey mixed with brown, the tarsi fuscous with pale rings ;

abdomen pale rufous with a small dorsal whitish spot on

2nd segment, the crests dark brown at tips, the ventral surface

brownish white. Fore wing bright rufous irrorated with a few

222 NOCTUID ai.

black scales, the costa with slight dark striz; subbasal line slight,

whitish, oblique, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial

line indistinct, brown defined on outer side by whitish, excurved

below median nervure, then inwardly oblique and slightly incurved

at vein 1; the medial area with three very indistinct double

sinuous lines, oblique below the cell and vein 4; a small white mark

at middle of costa; reniform a narrow lunule faintly defined by

brown; postmedial line slight, blackish, white on costal area,

minutely waved to vein 6, then bent inwards, excurved above and

below vein 4, then oblique and slightly sinuous, some white points

beyond it on costa; subterminal line double, very indistinct and

waved to vein 4, then incurved, violaceous white patches beyond it

from below apex to above vein 4 and from vein 8 to above tornus ;

a series of minute brown spots before termen. Hind wing bright

rufous, the inner margin whitish; three indistinct waved brown

lines beyond the cell; postmedial line slight, double, blackish,

minutely waved; the terminal area violaceous white from vein 6

to tornus; a series of minute brown spots before termen; cilia

with a fine pale line at base; the underside whitish irrorated with

brown, a small blackish discoidal spot, rather diffused postmedial

and subterminal lines, and a series of blackish points before

termen.

Ab. 1. Fore wing without white patches on terminal area.

Ab. 2. Both wings without white patches on terminal area.

Hab. U.S.A., Florida, Miami; Guarrmansa, las Mercedes

(Champion), 2 $, 1 2, Volean de Atitlan (Champion), 1 Q ;

Panama, Chiriqui, 3 ¢, 3 2, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Cusa,

(Schaus), 1 2 ; Brazit, Amazons, Para, 2 ¢ type. Hap. 40-52

millim.

8019. Zale salicis. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 13.)

Homoptera salicis, Beir, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe, iii. p. 28 (1870), 9; Smith,

Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 370.

Homoptera rose, Behr, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 28 (1870), @; Smith,

Cat. Noct. N..Am. p. 369.

¢$. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some grey; tegule

with black line near base; pectus and legs whitish tinged with

rufous, the fore and mid tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen

pale rufous, the ventral surface whitish tinged with rufous. Fore

wing rufous with some grey mixed and slightly irrorated with

black, the terminal area striated with brown; antemedial line

indistinctly double, blackish defined on outer side by grey, sinuous

and oblique from costa to inner margin near base; the medial area

with traces of double oblique sinuous lines; reniform a very

faintly defined narrow lunule, produced at upper extremity and

angled inwards on median nervure, a white point at its lower

extremity ; postmedial line black, waved to above vein 6, then

bent inwards, excurved above and below vein 4, then oblique and

ZALE. 223

sinuous, a rather darker conieal patch beyond it on costa; sub-

terminal line very indistinct, double, oblique, sinuous, with some

grey on the outer line, exeurved at middle where there is a slight

dark mark beyond it. Hind wing rufous slightly mixed with grey

and irrorated with black, the terminal area striated with brown ;

three faint double simuous lines beyond the cell; postmedial line

double, black, the inner line slightly sinuous, the outer minutely

waved and slightly bent inwards between discal and submedian

folds, a faint greenish grey line beyond it. Underside grey tinged

and striated with brown; fore wing with faint postmedial ‘line and

subterminal shade ; hind wing with slight postmedial line excurved

below costa, and double subterminal line. ,

Q. Fore wing whitish tinged with rufous and striated with

brown, the basal costal area, a medial patch from costa including

the reniform, and a postmedial patch on costal area dark red-brown,

a curved dark shade from termen at vein 4 to inner margin before

tornus.

Hab. U.S.A., California (D’ Urban), 2 3,1 9, San Francisco,

San Louis Obispo, Los Angeles Co., Sonoma Co. Hxp. 45-54

millim.

Larva. Brown with ventral series of black patches. Food-

plants: Willow and Rose.

8020. Zale lunata.

Noctua lunata, Drury, Ill. Exot. Ins. i. p. 40, pl. xx. f. 3 (1770);

Westw.-ed. Drury, i. p. 37, pl. 20. f. 3; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

». 368.

iNacee edusa, Drury, Il]. Exot. Ins. ii. p. 42, pl. xxiv. f. 4 (1778);

Westw.-ed. Drury, ii. p. 46, pl. xxiv. f. 4; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am.,

Het. i. p. 342.

Noctua fluctuaris, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 449 (1818).

Hrebus putrescens, Guérin, Icon. R. Anim. p. 522, pl. 89. f. 3 (18

Homoptera saundersii, Bethune, Proe. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 215 (1865).

Homoptera marginalis, Wik. xxxiii. 878 (1865),

Head and thorax red-brown with some grey and blackish scales ;

tegulz with black line near base; pectus and legs pale rufous, the

tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen red-brown with slight

dark segmental lines and the crests darker, the ventral surface

whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing red-brown the terminal

area striated with blackish ; a slight curved pale subbasal line from

costa to median nervure; antemedial line very indistinct, double,

blackish faintly defined on outer side by grey, sinuous, inwardly

oblique below the cell; medial area with two indistinct double

oblique sinuous dark lines; reniform a very indistinct oblique bar

with white point at its lower extremity; postmedial line black,

waved to vein 5, excurved above and below vein 4, then oblique

and sinuous; subterminal line double, dark, oblique, sinuous,

slightly defined on outer side by grey, a slight incurved dark shade

beyond it from termen at vein 4 to inner margin; a series of

brown striz before termen. Hind wing red-brown with slight

224 NOCTUID ®.

dark irroration, the terminal area striated with blackish; three

indistinct double sinuous lines beyond the cell; postmedial line

double, black, the inner line sinuous, the outer arising at vein 6,

minutely waved and slightly bent inwards at vein 5, an oblique dark

shade beyond it from apex followed by a slight sinuous greenish

Fig. 56.—Zale lunata, 3. }.

grey line. Underside grey tinged and striated with brown; fore

wing with minute blackish spots in middle of cell and on dis-

cocellulars and faint postmedial and subterminal lines; hind wing

with minute black discoidal spot and faint medial, postmedial,

and subterminal lines.

Ab. 1. saunders?. Wings variegated with reddish ochreous.

Ab. 2. Fore wing with diffused ochreous white band beyond the

postmedial line except on costal area.

Ab. 3. edusa. Fore wing with the terminal area suffused with

violaceous white except at apex and middle; hind wing with the

terminal area suffused with violaceous white except towards apex.

Hab. Canava, Ontario, Kingsville (Hills), 1 35,42; US.A.,

East of Rocky Mts., 7 $, 9 2, New York (Fuchs), 1 3, Evans

Center (Grote), 1 3, Pennsylvania, New Brighton (Merrick),

1 @, Texas; Mexico, Oaxaca (Sallé), 1 3 type marginalis,

Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 3,2 9, Mexico City (Hoege), 1 9, Vera

Cruz, Cordova (Rimeli), 1 3, 1 9, Atoyae (Schumann), 1 @ ;

GuATEMALA, Zapote (Champion), 1 9 ; Panama, Chiriqui

(Champion), 2 9, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Banamas, Abaco

(Bonhote), 1 2 ; Grenapa (H. H. Smith), 2 2 ; ARGENTINA

(O. Thomas), 3 2, Rioja (Giacomelli), 1 9. Kap. 48-60

millim.

ZALE. = OS

Larva. Guérin, Teon. R. Anim., Ins. pl. 89, f. 3; Guen. Noct. iii. p- 14;

French, Can. nt. xiv. p. 131.

Yellowish brown; dorsal and lateral areas each with three

alternating hght and dark stripes; ventral surface paler with an

elliptical red-brown spot on each somite; piliferous spots black,

each with a white spot on abdominal somites ; Ist and 2nd pair of

prolegs about half the length of the others. Food-plants: Willow

ete., forming a cocoon of leaves spun together by silk.

Egg. Pale green with vertical ridges.

*8021. Zale rhigodora. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 32.)

Zale rhigodora, Dyar, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xliv. p. 299 (1918).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown. Fore wing

nearly uniform dark red-brown without distinct irroration or

striation; the basal area with darker mottling and faint blackish

striation ; the antemedial line almost obsolete, defined on outer side

by bluish white, curved; reniform small, blackish, slightly defined

on outer side by white ; postmedial line indistinctly double, black,

slightly waved, incurved at discal fold, where there is a small black

spot before it, excurved above and below vein 4, then incurved,

defined on outer side by white at costa and with some white points

beyond it on costa; subterminal line blackish, distinct, excurved at

middle, then ineurved, a shght curved dark shade beyond it from

termen at vein 4 to inner margin defined on outer side by bluish

white and with white spot below vein 3. Hind wing dark red-

brown ; several indistinct waved lines beyond the cell; postmedial

line rather more distinct, double, waved; subterminal line double,

dark, somewhat bent inwards between discal and submedian folds

and defined on outer side by bluish white except towards costa.

2. Wings with the bluish white shadings replaced by blackish.

Hab. Mexico, Misantla (Miller). Exp. 50 millim. This

species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in

U.S. Nat. Mus.

8022. Zale phxograpta, n. sp. (Plate CCX XIX. fig. 14.)

@. Head pale red-brown mixed with some darker brown;

thorax fuscous brown slightly mixed with greyish; palpi with

some blackish at base; frons with lateral black bars; pectus and

legs ochreous tinged with red-brown, the tarsi blackish with pale

rings; abdomen pale ochreous brown, the base and terminal half

tinged with fuscous, the crests blackish, a blackish line at base of

anal tuft, the ventral surface ochreous white slightly irrorated with

brown. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous and _ slightly

irrorated with black, the costal area suffused with fuscous, the

basal area with red-brown; antemedial line indistinctly treble,

sinuous, very indistinct to median nervure, then inwardly oblique ;

the medial area with three indistirict double sinuous lines, oblique

MOL. XIII. Q

226 NOCTUID&.

below the cell and vein 4; a minute blackish spot in middle of

cell ; reniform a narrow oblique lunule defined by diffused blackish ;

postmedial line indistinct, double, with a white striga at costa,

waved to vein 4, then very oblique and slightly sinuous ; a minute

blackish spot on its inner side below vein 2; a wedge-shaped

blackish patch on costal area before the subterminal line, which is

double, indistinet, and waved to vein 4, then oblique and with

narrow blackish band beyond it arising from termen ; the terminal

area striated with brown and with a series of dark striz before

termen oblique on apical half. Hind wing ochreous suffused with

red-brown and slightly irrorated with black, the terminal area

striated with black; four slightly sinuous brown lines beyond the

cell; postmedial line double, black, the outer line shghtly waved,

a narrow blackish band beyond it arising from below apex and

with a slight whitish line on it at middle; the underside whitish

striated with brown, a small blackish discoidal spot and faint medial

postmedial and subterminal lines.

Hab. Paraguay, Sapucay (Moster), 2 2 type. Hap. 54

milli.

8023. Zale unilineata. (Plate CCX XIX. fig. 15.)

Homoptera unilineata, Grote, Can. Ent. viii. p. 108 (1876); Holland,

Moth Book, p. 278, pl. xxxvii. f. 14; Smith, Cat. Noct. N, Am. p. 371.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with some

ochreous ; palpi irrorated with blackish; tarsi blackish ringed with

white. Fore wing red-brown irrorated with black, the terminal

area tinged with grey; antemedial line indistinct, dark, inwardly

oblique below the cell; the medial area with traces of three sinuous

lines; a minute black spot in middle of cell; reniform a narrow

lunule defined by fuscous brown; postmedial line hardly traceable

except towards costa, double, oblique to below vein 7, incurved at

discal fold, excurved at vein 4, then incurved and slightly waved ;

subterminal line double, red-brown filled in with greyish, incurved

to discal fold, excurved at vein 4, then again incurved; the

terminal area with a few faint brown striz; a slight crenulate

red-brown terminal line. Hind wing greyish tinged with red-

brown and irrorated with brown, the terminal area with slight

dark striz; traces of a sinuous brown medial line; postmedial line

very indistinct, double, brown, sinuous; subterminal line black,

sinuous, closely approximated to the postmedial line; a slight

crenulate brown terminal line; the underside grey tinged with

rufous and irrorated with brown, traces of three sinuous lines on

medial area and of a double subterminal line.

Ab. 1. More purple-brown.

Hab. Canana, Ontario, London (Saunders), 1 3 type, Manitoba,

Winnipeg (Wallis), 1 3; US.A., New York, 1 3, Center

(Bailey), 3 3, Distr. of Columbia. Hap. 42-46 millim.

ZALE. ZL

8024. Zale declarans. (Plate CCX XIX. fig. 16.)

Homoptera declarans, Wik. xiii. 1057 (1857); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

p- 71.

Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous mixed with ochreous, the last

with the dorsal crests fuscous tipped with white ; palpi irrorated

with black, the 8rd jomt white at tips; frons with lateral black

bars; pectus and legs whitish mixed with brown, the fore tibize

eh white band, the tarsi blackish ringed with white; ventral

surface of ahdomen whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing pale

red-brown slightly irrorated with black, the basal area rather

darker; a faint double sinuous brown subbasal line from costa to

submedian fold; antemedial line indistinct, double, sinuous, in-

wardly oblique below the cell; two indistinct double sinuous

medial lines ; a minute blackish spot in middle of cell; reniform a

narrow dark brown lunule; postmedial line indistinct, double,

waved, oblique to below vein 7, slightly bent inwards to vein 6,

somewhat oblique below vein 4, and angled inwards at vein 2;

subterminal line double, brown filled in with ochreous, slightly

excurved below vein 7, excurved at middle; a series of blackish

points before termen. Hind wing greyish suffused with reddish

brown and irrorated with dark brown; two indistinct sinuous pale

lines beyond the cell; postmedial line indistinct, double, brown,

minutely waved; subterminal line pale grey defined on each side

by brown, slightly sinuous ; the terminal area striated with brown ;

the underside grey tinged with red-brown and irrorated with dark

brown, a slight blackish discoidal lunule, indistinct waved post-

medial line, traces of a subterminal line, and series of black points

before termen.

Hab. U.S.A., Florida (Doubleday), 1 3 type, Enterprise, 1 2.

Exp. 3 40, 2 44 millim.

8025. Zale albidula. (Plate CCXXIX. imers ILM)

Homoptera albidula, Wik. xxxiti. 880 (1865).

2. (Head wanting); thorax white mixed with pale red-brown

and some blackish scales; tegule with black line near base; tarsi

blackish ringed with white; abdomen white mixed with pale red-

brown, the basal crest blackish at tip; slight dorsal black segmental

lines, the terminal segment irrorated with black. Fore wing white

tinged in parts with pale red-brown, especially on basal area and

postmedial costal area, and sparsely irrorated with black scales ;

antemedial line indistinctly treble, brown, angled inwards in cell

and oblique below the cell to inner margin near base; the medial

area with three indistinct double oblique sinuous lines; reniform

very indistinctly defined by brown, narrow, oblique, and with

irregular outer edge; postmedial line blackish, waved to vein 6,

angled inwards at vein 5, excurved above and below vein 4, then

oblique and slightly sinuous, a faint rufous line beyond it; sub-

terminal line indistinctly double, dark, oblique from apex to vein 6,

228 NOCTUID %.

waved to vein 4, then incurved and with narrow dark ‘band beyond

it suffused with white scales; a series of oblique dark strive just

before termen and a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing

white tinged with pale red-brown except on basal area which is

irrorated with a few black scales; three slightly sinuous brown

lines beyond the cell; postmedial line double, black, slightly

excurved below costa, a narrow dark band beyond it suffused with

violaceous white and with a series of small black spots on its outer

edge; the terminal area striated with blackish; the underside

white irrorated with pale brown, three faint sinuous lines beyond

the cell, a waved postmedial line, two faint waved subterminal

lines, and a series of blackish points before termen.

Hab. Warr (Tweedie), 1 9 type. Kap. 40 millim.

8026. Zale galbanata. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 18 3,19 2.)

Homoptera galbanata, Morr. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. Phil. 1875, p. 435;

Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 370.

3. Head and thorax pale grey mixed with dark brown, the

tegule with blackish lines near base and tips; palpi blackish;

frons with lateral black bars; tarsi blackish ringed with white ;

abdomen pale grey irrorated with dark brown and with slight dark

segmental lines. Fore wing pale grey irrorated with dark brown

and suffused in parts with reddish brown, the terminal area striated

with blackish; a slight curved black subbasal striga from costa ;

antemedial line black, inwardly oblique, sinuous, a faint sinuous

whitish line before it and a paler band beyond it; an oblique

dentate black medial line with a diffused dentate brown line

beyond it; reniform a narrow lunule slightly defined by black;

postmedial line double, the inner line black, the outer brown,

excurved below costa, incurved at discal fold, exeurved at vein 4,

then oblique and slightly sinuous; subterminal line double, brown,

oblique from near apex to vein 6, then closely approximated to the

postmedial line, excurved at vein 4, then incurved and slightly

sinuous; terminal area bluish white except at apex and middle.

Hind wing pale grey tinged with brown and slightly irrorated

with black, the terminal area striated with brown; three sinuous

brown lines beyond the cell; postmedial line double, black, the

outer line somewhat incurved below vein 6, a faint brown line

beyond it, below discal fold defined on outer side by white followed

by blue-grey ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a

blackish diseoidal striga with faint bar above it from costa, a

sinuous postmedial line and faint subterminal line.

@. Wings more uniform grey with hardly any brown shades;

fore wing without the blue-white on terminal area.

Hab. Canapa, Manitoba, Winnipeg (Wallis), 4 3, 20 9;

U.S.A., Eastern and Southern States to Texas and West to Colorado,

Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico. Hap. 40-44 millim.

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8027. Zale edusina. (Plate CCX XIX. fig. OD) (6 5 PALO .)

Homoptera edusina, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 14 (1875), 3;

Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 370.

Homoptera atritincta, Hary. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 14 (1875), Q.

3. Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with some bluish

white; pectus and legs brown mixed with grey, the tarsi black

ringed with white; abdomen brown, the crests blackish, the

ventral surface ivrorated with grey. Fore wing fuscous brown

mixed with blue-grey and slightly irrorated with black, the inner

half of medial area tinged with red-brown; subbasal line black,

oblique, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double,

black, waved, inwardly oblique below the cell, a band of pale blue-

grey suffusion beyond it; the medial area with three indistinct

oblique waved brown lines; reniform a narrow lunule defined by

blackish and with small white spots on its outer edge; postmedial

line black, defined on each side by white at costa, oblique to below

vein 7, then minutely waved, excurved at vein 4, then oblique and

sinuous, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line

black, strong, oblique to vein 5, excurved at vein 4, then incurved

and sinuous; the terminal area with bluish white patches from

below apex to vein 5 and from below vein 4 to above tornus; a

fine crenulate dark terminal line with small white spots beyond it

in the interspaces. Hind wing fuscous brown mixed with grey and

faintly tinged with reddish; three indistinct minutely waved grey

lines beyond the cell; postmedial line double, black, the inner line

minutely waved,-the outer slightly sinuous, a band of bluish white

suffusion beyond it from discal fold to tornus; the terminal area

striated with black; a shght crenulate dark terminal line with

small whitish spots beyond it in the interspaces; the underside

brownish white thickly irrorated with brown, a black discoidal

striga, dark postmedial line waved on costal area, and faint sub-

terminal line.

2. Wings without the white on terminal areas.

Ab. 1. Fore wing without the minute white spots on outer edge

of reniform.

Hab. U.S.A., ? New York, ? Kentucky, Texas, 4 ¢, 4 2 type

and type atritincta. Hxp. 34-40 millim.

8028. Zale eruginosa. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 1.)

Ypsia eruginosa, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 17, pl. 18. f. 7 (1852); Smith, Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 373.

Homoptera plenipennis, W1k. xiii. 1055 (1857).

Head and thorax black-brown irrorated with a few white scales;

palpi with the 3rd joint white at tips; basal joint of antenne

white on outer side; pectus red-brown, the fore tibiz and tarsi

blackish ringed with white; abdomen fuscous mixed with some

grey and black, the ventral surface pale grey-brown. Fore wing

230 NOCTUID M.

fuscous brown suffused with blue-grey and tinged in parts with

red-brown; subbasal double white striz from costa; antemedial

line double, black, inwardly oblique, sinuous, a band of greenish

white irroration beyond it; two very indistinct oblique waved

medial lines with some greenish white scales on them; a minute

black spot in middle of cell; reniform an oblique bar defined on

inner side by black and by greenish white points above and below

and on outer side by diffused greenish white; postmedial line

black, oblique, aninutely waved and defined on each side by white

to below vein 7, bent inwards below vein 6, excurved at vein 4,

then indistinetly double, oblique and slightly sinuous, some minute

white spots beyond it on costa; subterminal line black, incurved

and obsolescent below vein 7, anemaredl at vein 4, then double, the

inner line strong, the outer slight, oblique and sinuous; the

terminal area striated with black and with a series of diffused

greenish white spots; a series of black and white points before

termen. Hind wing fuscous brown suffused with blue-grey, the

base, costal area, and inner margin with a red-brown tinge; some

black and white irroration on basal part of vein 1; three indistinct

slightly sinuous dark lines beyond the cell; postmedial line black,

arising at vein 7, slightly meurved and sinuous; terminal area

striated with black and with a series of diffused greenish white

spots; a series of black and white points before termen and a fine

pale line at base of cilia; the underside greyish suffused with red-

brown and irrorated with brown, a small blackish discoidal spot,

two indistinct sinuous medial lines, a postmedial line, and traces of

a subterminal line. :

Ab. 1. Blacker; fore wing with hardly any reddish tones and

much less greenish irroration.

Hab. Canapna; U.S.A., Eastern States to Florida and west to

the Mississippi and Rocky Mts., New York, Center (Bailey), 1 3,

1 2, Florida (Doubleday), 1 3 type plenipennis, Knterprise,

13,19. Hxp. 42-48 milim.

8029. Zale undularis. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 2.)

Nociua undularis, Drury, U1. Exot. Ins. i. p. 19, pl. ix. f.4 (1770) ; Smith,

Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 372.

Homoptera nigricans, Bethune, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 214 (1864)

Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 369.

Ypsia umbripennis, Grote, hin Ent. viii. p. 109 (1876).

Head and thorax black-brown irrorated with silvery blue scales ;

pectus and legs dark brown, the tarsi black ringed with white;

abdomen dark brown, the crests blackish. Fore wing black-brown

suffused with silvery blue, the terminal area striated with black;

subbasal line double, black, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold ;

antemedial line double, black, sinuous, inwardly oblique; medial

area with three oblique sinuous dark lines; reniform defined by

black, constricted at middle and produced at upper extremity ;

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postmedial line double, black, fine, oblique to below vein 7, in-

curved at discal fold, excurved at middle, then oblique and slightly

sinuous, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line

black, oblique, sinuous, excurved at middle, a rather diffused

ochreous spot on it at discal fold; a series of minute black spots

defined on outer side by ochreous before termen. Hind wine

black-brown suffused with silvery blue, the costal area to beyond

middle and the inner margin tinged with red-brown, the terminal

area striated with black; tour indistinct slightly sinuous dark lines

beyond the cell; postmedial line double, fine, black, sinuous, a

black line beyond it slightly defined on outer side by ochreous

and somewhat incurved between discal and submedian folds; a

series of minute pale points before termen; the underside dark

red-brown slightly irrorated with whitish, three indistinct lines on

medial area, postmedial line slight, dark, minutely waved, a faint

subterminal line, and series of black points before termen.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the ochreous spot on subterminal line

replaced by a few whitish scales.

Ab. 2. wmbripennis. Fore wing with the inner half of medial

area browner, the area from before the outer medial line to the

subterminal line suffused with grey-white except on costal area.

Hab. Canava, Ontario, London (Saunders), 1 9, Grimsby

(Pettit), 1 9; U.S.A., Hastern States to Florida and west to

Colorado, Massachusetts, Beverly (Burgess), 3 3,2 9, New York,

Center (Grote) 2c) Oe Wexas, Dallas (Boll), 13. Exp.

42-52 millim.

8030. Zale corvus. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 3.)

Pseudanthracia corvus, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 78 (1901).

Ypsia undularis, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 346 (nec Drury).

3. Head and thorax black-brown slightly irrorated with silvery

blue; pectus whitish tinged with red-brown; tarsi ringed with

whitish; abdomen black-brown slightly irrorated with grey, the

ventral surface pale red-brown. Fore wing black-brown tinged

with red-brown, especially in submedian interspace, and suffused

with silvery blue; subbasal line double, indistinct, black, oblique,

from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double, indistinct,

black, oblique, excurved in submedian interspace; an indistinct

double oblique waved medial line; reniform a narrow lunule defined

by black ; postmedial line double, black, oblique to below vein 7,

ineurved at discal fold, oblique and sinuous below vein 4; sub-

terminal line black, angled outwards below veins 7 and 4, then

incurved and sinuous; the terminal area slightly striated with

black. Hind wing black-brown suffused with silvery blue, the

costal area and inner margin reddish brown; three indistinct

sinuous dark lines on medial area; postmedial line indistinctly

double, black, sinuous ; subterminal line black, closely approximated

to the postmedial line, angled outwards at vein 3, then incurved ;

232 NOCTUID &.

the terminal area striated with black; the underside pale reddish

brown irrorated with silvery grey, traces of postmedial and sub-

terminal lines.

Hab. Mexico, Jalisco sin? 1 3, Godman-Salvin Coll.

Hep. 46 millin.

8031. Zale coracias. (Plate CCX XX. fig. 4.)

Anthracia coracias, Guen. Noet. iii. p. 19 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

p. 373.

Anthracia cornix, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 19, pl. 15. f. 8 (1852); Smith, Cat.

Noct. N, Am. p. 873.

Homoptera cinerea, Morr. Can. Ent. vii. p. 148 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 371.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown glossed with silvery

grey; pectus reddish brown; tarsi with pale rings. Fore wing

black-brown suffused with silvery blue and irromited with blacks

tinged in parts with red-brown especially on postmedial area ;

slight double subbasal black striz from costa; antemedial line

men double, black, waved; a double | blackish medial

line; a black point in middle of cell; reniform defined by black

and with a patch of brownish grey beyond it; postmedial line

indistinctly double, black, oblique to below vein 7, incurved at

diseal fold, excurved at vein 4, then oblique and sinuous; sub-

terminal line black, rather diffused, excurved at vein 4, then

incurved and sinuous; the terminal area striated with black; a

series of black and white points before termen. Hind wing

reddish brown suffused with silvery blue except on costal area, in

submedian fold and on inner margin; three very indistinct sinuous

dark lines beyond the cell; postmedial line black, sinuous, strong,

arising at vein 6; the terminal area striated with black and with a

series of black and white points just before termen; the underside

grey suffused with reddish brown.

2. Wings blacker with hardly any reddish tones.

Hab. Canana; U.S.A., Eastern and Central States, 1 6,3 9,

Georgia, 2 ¢, Florida (Doubleday), 2 5,1 2, Texas, New

Mexico. Fuxp. 38-42 millim.

8032. Zale janisca. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 5.)

Homoptera ganisca, Schaus, A. M. N. H. ee vili. p. 40 (1901).

Homoptera dukinfieldia, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 40 (1901).

@. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with some

greyish ; palpi, pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen

brownish white irrorated with brown, the fore and mid _ tarsi

black ringed with white. Fore wing red-brown irrorated with

blackish; an indistinct double sinuous subbasal line from costa to

submedian fold; antemedial line indistinctly double, sinuous,

inwardly oblique below the cell; a black point in middle of cell;

reniform defined on inner side by blackish suffusion and with white

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points on outer edge; an indistinct oblique sinuous medial line;

postmedial line double, blackish, sinuous, excurved below vein 5,

then oblique, a faint wedge-shaped blackish shade beyond it from

costa ; subterminal line double, sinuous, very indistinct to vein 4,

then oblique ; a series of small blackish spots before termen defined

on outer side by whitish. Hind wing red-brown, the terminal area

striated with blackish; an indistinct sinuous antemedial line and

two lines beyond the cell; postmedial line double, black, sinuous,

the inner line arising at vein 7, the outer at vein 6; a series of

small brown spots before termen; a fine pale line at base of cilia ;

the underside brownish white striated with brown except on inner

area, a small blackish discoidal spot, two curved lines beyond the

cell, and a postmedial line.

Hab. Brazit, Castro Parafa (D. Jones), 1 9. Eup. 62

millim.

8033. Zale insuda. (Plate CCXXX. fie.6 5,7 9 »)

Phaeocyma insuda, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus, xxxy. p, 284 (1209).

3. Head and thorax red-brown with some grey scales; palpi

blackish ; frons whitish below and with lateral black bars; tegulze

with blackish line near base ; pro- and mesothorax with indistinct

dark lines; pectus and legs whitish suffused with brown, the tarsi

blackish ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown with fine black

segmental lines. Fore wing bright red-brown mixed with some

whitish and irrorated with blackish ; subbasal line blackish, sinuous,

from costa to vein 1; antemedial line double, blackish, sinuous,

oblique below submedian fold, a paler band beyond it; the medial

area with three indistinct waved lines, the outer line excurved

beyond the cell; reniform a narrow bar faintly defined by black

and with some white points on its outer edge; postmedial line

double, black, waved, oblique towards costa, excurved at vein 4,

then oblique, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal

line double, the inner line black, the outer brown defined on outer

side by bluish white suffusion, arising from costa near apex,

oblique to vein 5, excurved at vein 4, then oblique and sinuous;

the terminal area striated with black. Hind wing red-brown

irrorated with blackish, the terminal area striated with black;

the medial area with three slightly smuous brown lines; postmedial

line fine, black slightly sinuous, closely approximated to the sinuous

black subterminal line, which is angled outwards at vein 6, then

slightly imeurved and with a rather diffused bluish white band

beyond it; the underside pale grey-brown, a slight dark discoidal

lunule and indistinct sinuous postmedial and subterminal lines.

2. Wings more uniform reddish brown without the bright

red-brown and bluish white shades; both wings with fuscous

brown shade beyond the subterminal line.

Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, cotypes + ¢ @ in Coll. W. Barnes,

Yavapai Co. Prescott (Kunze), 1 2, Sta. Rita Mts., Chiricahua

Mts. Hyxp. 46 millim.

234 NOCTUID 2.

8034. Zale minerea. (Plate CCXXX. fig.8 5,9 9.)

Homoptera minerea, Guen. Noct, ii. p. 15, pl. 18. f. 6 (1842); Smith, Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 369.

Homeptera involuta, Wik. xiii. 1055 (1857).

Homoptera albofasciata, Bethune, Canadian Journ. x. p. 256 (1865) ;

Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 370.

Pheocyma norda, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat, Mus. xxxv. p. 236 (1909).

3. Head and thorax bright red-brown mixed with some ochreous

white; tegule with black line near base; palpi irrorated with

black; frons with black lateral bars; tibiz irrorated with black,

the tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen rufous irrorated with

a few black scales and with slight black segmental lines, the 1st

segment darker, the ventral surface grey irrorated with brown.

Fore wing bright rufous variegated with some yellowish, the basal

area red-brown irrorated with blackish, the terminal area grey-

white tinged with rufous; subbasal line double, blackish defined by

some grey scales, obliquely curved from costa to submedian fold,

the lines well separated; antemedial line double, blackish defined

on each side by some grey, sinuous, inwardly oblique below the cell,

the lines well separated; a double oblique irregularly sinuous red-

brown medial line; a patch of red-brown suffusion from middle of

costa enclosing the reniform which is indistinctly defined; post-

medial line double, minutely waved and blackish to vein 5, then

rufous, excurved at vein 4, then oblique and sinuous, a red-brown

patch beyond it on costal area with some white points on costa ;

subterminal line double defined on outer side by white, the inner

line black towards costa and below vein 4, sinuous, oblique below

costa, excurved at middle, then incurved, an oblique brown bar

beyond it from apex and a patch at middle; a series of brown

points before termen; cilia red-brown mixed with dark brown.

Hind wing bright rufous, the basal area tinged with grey and

irrorated with some black scales, the terminal area striated with

blackish; three double sinuous brown lines beyond the cell; post-

medial line double, the inner line black, minutely waved and slightly

bent inwards between veins 5 and 2, defined on outer side by white

and followed by a diffused greenish grey band from vein 5 to

tornus; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Underside whitish tinged

with rufous and irrorated with brown; fore wing with discoidal

lunule defined by black, curved minutely waved postmedial line,

and slight subterminal line; hind wing with black discoidal lunule,

two sinuous lines beyond the cell, a sinuous minutely waved post-

medial line, and shght subterminal line.

Ab. 1. albofasciata. Wings with the terminal area concolorous,

the subterminal line defined on outer side by white.

Ab. 2. Similar but with the subterminal line not defined on

outer side by white.

2. Fore wing more uniform brown without the red-brown and

ochreous shades.

Ab. 8. Fore wing ochreous whitish prominently striated with

brown, the basal area obliquely from above end of cell and the

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postmedial costal area suffused with dark brown; an obliquely

incurved dark brown shade from middle of termen to inner margin

before tornus.

Ab. 4. Wings greyish nearly uniformly suffused with black-

brown.

Hab. Canava, Montreal (Caulfield), 1 2, Ontario, London

(feed), 1 2, Orilha (Bush), 1 9, Manitoba, Winnipeg (Wallis),

2 6,4 2, Cartwright, Br. Columbia, Kaslo, Rossland, Arrowhead

Lake, Vancouver I., cotypes + 5 2 norda in Coll. W. Barnes;

US.A., east of Rocky Mts. (Doubleday), 6 3,7 2 type involuta,

New York, Center (Barley), 1 3, Albany (Bailey), 1 9,

Florida, Arizona. Hap. 46-52 millim.

*8035. Zale excellens. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 10.)

Homoptera excellens, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) x. p. 510 (1912).

3. Head and thorax bright rufous; palpi black-brown at sides ;

antennz black-brown ; tarsi brown with slight pale rings ; abdomen

pale grey-brown with darker irroration, the ventral surface tinged

with rufous. Fore wing rufous mixed with violaceous grey and

slightly irrorated with black, the terminal area violaceous erey ;

subbasal line rather diffused, blackish, angled outwards below costa

and ending at submedian fold, some blackish suffusion below it on

imner area; antemedial line indistinctly double, minutely waved,

excurved below the costa and cell, some violaceous grey suffusion

beyond it; a black point im middle of cell and ill-defined brassy

green discoidal lunule irrorated with brown, a double sinuous red-

brown medial line, angled outwards at veins 2 and 1, and an indis-

tinct curved dentate red-brown line beyond the cell; postmedial

line blackish, oblique, sinuous and defined on outer side by whitish

to below vein 7, incurved at discal fold, angled outwards at vein 4,

then incurved, waved, and indistinctly double towards inner margin,

some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line red-brown

defined on outer side by diffused brassy green, incurved to below

vein 4 where it is angled outwards and has a small dentate black

spot before it, then again incurved; a series of black points before

termen with a larger point at submedian fold; cilia red-brown.

Hind wing greyish suffused with rufous, the basal area rather paler;

three indistinct minutely waved brown lines on medial area ; post-

medial line blackish, slightly sinuous, obsolescent towards costa ;

subterminal line indistinctly double, red-brown, sinuous, defined on

outer side by diffused brassy green with violaceous white suffusion

beyond it; a series of black points, except towards apex, before

termen and a striga towards tornus; a fine whitish line at base of

cilia; the underside paler irrorated with dark brown, a small black

discoidal spot, two waved medial lines, and a crenulate postmedial

line.

Hab. Costa Rica, Juan Vinas (Schaus), type + ¢ in U.S. Nat.

Mus. Lap. 48 millim.

236 NOCTUID HX.

8036. Zale lunifera. (Plate CCX XX. fig. 11.)

Pheocyma lunifera, Hiibn. Zutr. Ex. Schmett. p. 19, ff. 97, 98 (1818);

Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 368.

Homoptera lineosa, W1k. xiii. 1056 (1857).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous ; palpi, pectus,

and legs ochreous mixed with brown, the tarsi blackish with pale’

rings ; abdomen greyish tinged with red-brown. Fore wing greyish

suffused with rufous and with shght dark irroration, the basal area

deeper rufous; subbasal line double, blackish, slightly defined on

inner side by white, excurved below costa and ending at submedian

fold; antemedial line double, blackish, the inner line indistinct,

sinuous, inwardly oblique below submedian fold, a band of whitish

suffusion beyond it; two oblique somewhat dentate medial dark

lines; reniform a dark brown lunule ; postmedial line black, angled

outwards below vein 7, incurved at discal fold, exeurved at vein 4,

then oblique and sinuous, some whitish points beyond it on costa ;

subterminal line double, brown, incurved on costal half, excurved at

vein 4, then again incurved, some whitish suffusion beyond it, an

oblique dark shade from apex, and some dark suffusion at middle

of terminal area; a slight crenulate brown terminal line. Hind

wing greyish suffused with red-brown, the terminal area faintly

striated with brown; three indistinct waved brown lines beyond the

cell slightly defined on outer side by whitish; postmedial line

double, black, sinuous, the outer line shghtly defined on outer side

by whitish, somewhat incurved between discal and submedian folds

where there isa band of whitish suffusion beyond it; a slight

crenulate brown terminal line; the underside greyish tinged and

irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point, famt sinuous medial

line, dark postmedial line waved on costal area, and faint sub-

terminal line.

Ab. 1. lineosa. Wings less strongly tinged with red-brown,

the medial line more distinct.

Hab. Canapa, Ontario, Orillia (Bush), 1 ¢ ; U.S.A., Hastern

States to Texas and west to the Rocky Mts., 7 ¢, 4 @2 type

lineosa. Hap. 42-48 millim.

Larva. Packard, Bull. Dep. Agric. Ent. xii. p. 22 (1886).

Wood-brown sometimes tinged with reddish or greenish ; dorsal

line dark ; lateral line white defined below by the pale red spira-

cular line; a lateral series of black dots; ventral surface pale

glaucous green; 8th somite with a pair of small dorsal tubercles

represented on the other segments by oblique dashes, the penulti-

mate segment with a transverse ridge; head reddish with oval or

V-shaped white spots at sides. Food-plant, Pinus. Pupa with a

slight whitish bloom.

8037. Zale penna. (Plate CCX XX. fig. 12.)

Homoptera penna, Morr. Proce. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 241 (1875) ; Smith,

Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 371.

Head and thorax ochreous mixed with red-brown ; palpi irrorated

ZALE. DBT

with black, the 8rd joint black, white at tips; frons with lateral

black bars; pectus and legs whitish tinged with brown, the fore

and mid tarsi black ringed with white ; “abdomen greyish tinged

with brown and with slight black seemental lines. Fore wing pale

greyish tinged with rufous, the basal area suffused with brown and

irrorated with black ; subbasal line indistinct, double, dark, exeurved

below costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line double,

blackish, inwardly oblique and sinuous below the cell; two indis-

tinct oblique waved medial lines ; reniform a small lunule defined

by diffused blackish; postmedial line black, indistinctly double

towards costa, exeninredl below vein 7, ineurved at discal fold,

excurved at vein 4, then oblique and sinuous, a wedge-shaped patch

of brown suffusion beyond it on costal area with some whitish points

on costa ; subterminal line: strong, black, incurved on costal area,

excurved at vein 4, then oblique, sinuous and closely approximated

to the postmedial lines rather diffused whitish line beyond it; a

fine crenulate dark terminal line. Hind wing pale greyish suffused

with red-brown, the basal area slightly irrorated with black, the

terminal area striated with brown; three indistinct sinuous brown

lines beyond the cell faintly defined on outer side by whitish ;

postmedial line double, black, sinuous, the outer line strong arnt

rather diffused on inner side, somewhat incurved between discal and

submedian folds where there is a band of white suffusion beyond it;

a slight crenulate dark terminal line; the underside whitish slightly

irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point, traces of a sinuous

medial line, a dark postmedial line waved on costal area, and

indistinct sinuous subterminal line.

Hab. U.S.A., New York, Center (Grote), 2 ¢,3 9, Illinois,

Centr. States. Hap. 42—46 millim.

8038. Zale australis, n. sp. (Plate CCX XX. fig. 13.)

Q. Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with some erey ;

pectus whitish mixed with brown; tarsi black ringed with white ;

abdomen grey tinged with brown ‘and irrorated with blackish, the

ventral surface whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey

largely suffused with dark brown and irrorated with blackish ;

subbasal line black, shghtly angled outwards below costa, then

oblique and ending at submedian fold; antemedial line black,

diffused on outer side, obliquely curved; the medial area with three

oblique rather diffused blackish lines; reniform defined on inner

side by blackish, its lower part with obscure whitish annulus, narrow,

produced at upper extremity ; postmedial line black, rather diffused,

oblique to below vein 7, then incurved, angled outwards at vein 4,

then incurved and slightly sinuous, some white points beyond it on

costa ; subterminal line blackish, smuous towards costa, incurved at

discal fold, angled outwards below vein 4, then again incurved, a

diffused whitish band beyond it with some rufous at middle, the

whitish extending to before the subterminal line on inner half; a

series of black strize defined on outer side by whitish before termen.

238 NOCTUID MH.

Hind wine grey suffused with brown and irrorated with black, the

costal half of basal area and inner margin paler; three indistinct

diffused dark lines beyond the cell; postmedial line black, arising at

vein 6; subterminal line slight, dark, somewhat sinuous, a diffused

whitish band beyond it with some rufous at middle; a crenulate

dark terminal line; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a

dark discoidal lunule, and diffused postmedial line.

Hab. Urueuay, Monte Video (J. J. Walker), 1 9 type. Exp.

40 millim.

8039. Zale benesignata. (Plate CCX XX. fig. 14.)

Homoptera benesignata, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iti. p. 14 (1875) ;

Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 3871.

6. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown and

some white, the patagia with obscure white and dark bars ; palpi

with the 8rd joint blackish tipped with white; pectus whitish

tinged with red-brown ; legs whitish irrorated with brown, the tarsi

black ringed with white; abdomen red-brown, the crests darker,

the ventral surface rufous at base and extremity, the medial

segments whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey-white

mostly suffused with bright rufous and with slight dark irroration,

the terminal area striated with brown, the basal area, the areas

between the medial linesand between the postmedial and subterminal

lines often darker; a slight curved dark subbasal line from costa to

submedian fold ; antemedial line slight, dark, bent inwards in cell

and below vein 1, the area beyond it orey-white to the dark medial

line which is incurved in submedian interspace ; a blackish point in

middle of cell; reniform a narrow blackish lunule defined on outer

side by whitish; postmedial line brown, oblique to below vein 7,

incurved at discal fold, exeurved at vein 4, then imcurved and

slightly sinuous; subterminal line brown slightly defined on outer

see by white, somewhat angled outwards a vein 7, then incurved,

angled outwards at vein 4 rial slightly at vein 38, then again in-

curved ; a slight crenulate brown domme line. Hind wing , eveyish

suffused sari red-brown, some dark irroration along vein 1, the

terminal area with slight dark strize; traces of two sinuous lines

beyond the cell; postmedial line faint, brown, sinuous, excurved

and slightly defined on inner side by whitish on inner area; ; sub-

terminal line blackish slightly defined on outer side by whitish,

incurved below discal fold and excurved to tornus ; a slight crenulate

brown terminal line; the underside white tinged and irrorated with

brown, a small blackish discoidal lunule, traces of three sinuous lines

on medial area, a rather diffused subterminal line ending on termen

at vein 1, and a fine crenulate blackish terminal line.

Hab. Canapa, 1 S type, Montreal (Cowper), 1 3, Bath, 1 @ ;

U.S.A., New Hampshire, Florida, Indian R. xp. 44 millim.

ZALE. 239

*8040. Zale metata. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 15.)

Pheocyma metata, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxv. p. 248 (1909).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale red-brown ; tarsi slightly

ringed with white. Fore wing pale red-brown; the basal area

tinged with rufous; a curved subbasal black striga from costa;

antemedial line fine, blackish, angled outwards below costa, then

oblique, sinuous; reniform a narrow black lunule with rufous

suffusion beyond it; medial line very indistinct, double, oblique to

the reniform, incurved and waved below the cell; postmedial line

blackish, exeurved below costa, incurved at discal fold, exeurved at

vein 4, then strongly incurved, some rufous suffusion beyond it

below costa; subterminal line blackish, incurved and indistinct to

vein 4 where it is angled outwards, then stronger and again in-

curved; the terminal area with some black stria. Hind wing pale

red-brown, some black scales along vein 1; the medial area with

faint traces of three lines; subterminal line almost obsolete towards

costa, below vein 6 blackish slightly defined on outer side by whitish

and with a rufous band on its inner side, incurved; the terminal

area with a few slight black striz ; the underside with slight brown

discoidal spot and indistinct sinuous postmedial line.

Hab. U.S.A., New York, cotype in Coll. W. Barnes, Center,

Distr. of Columbia, Washington, Pennsylvania, N. Carolina, Tryon,

Virginia, Florida. Hap. 46 millim. Probably a variety of

Z. obliqua.

8041. Zale curema. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 16.)

Pheocyma curema, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxv. p. 250 (1909).

3S. Head, thorax, and abdomen dull reddish brown irrorated with

a few black scales; tarsi blackish with pale rings. Fore wing dull

reddish brown; subbasal line slight, black, curved, from costa to

vein 1; antemedial line slight, black, acutely angled outwards

below costa, then obliquely curved; reniform a slight blackish

lunule ; medial line very indistinct, double, oblique from costa to

the reniform and incurved below the cell; postmedial line slight,

black, excurved below costa, ineurved at discal fold, excurved at

vein 4, then incurved and slightly smuous ; subterminal line black,

obsolescent and waved to vein 4, then stronger and incurved, a white

spot beyond it in submedian interspace; a series of faint blackish

strie before termen. Hind wing dull reddish brown, the inner area

irrorated with a few black scales; traces of a waved medial line and

of an oblique sinuous postmedial line ; subterminal line black, almost

obsolete towards costa, incurved and slightly defined on outer side

by white below vein 6, some white beyond it in submedian inter-

space; the terminal area with a few black striz; the underside

grey-brown irrorated with red-brown, a sli¢ht dark discoidal lunule,

traces of a postmedial series of points on the veins and of a curved

subterminal line.

240 NOCTUID BH.

Hab. U.S.A., New York, Center (Bailey), 1 3, Pennsylvania,

Missouri, Kirkwood, N. Carolina, Tryon, Florida, Seven Oaks,

cotype + in Coll. W. Barnes, Palmbeach. Hap. 50 millim.

Probably a variety of Z. obliqua.

8042. Zale duplicata. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 17.)

Homoptera duplicata, Bethune, Can. Journal, x. p. 257 (1856) ; Smith,

Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 371.

Pheocyma helata, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxy. p. 252 (1909).

Head and thorax rufous mixed with some purplish grey and dark

brown; pectus whitish tinged with brown ; legs dark brown mixed

with grey, the tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen rufous,

the crests dark at tips. Fore wing grey suffused with red-brown

and irrorated with black, the terminal area striated with black;

subbasal line black, obliquely curved, from costa to submedian fold ;

antemedial line black defined on inner side by bright rufous, angled

outwards below costa, ineurved in cell, and oblique below vein 1;

an indistinct double smuous medial line; a minute black point in

middle of cell; reniform a narrow deep black lunule with some

whitish suffusion beyond it ; postmedial line black, oblique to below

vein 7, incurved at discal fold, strongly excurved at vein 4, then

ineurved and slightly sinuous, some whitish points beyond it on

costa; subterminal line black, shehtly angled outwards at vein 7,

then incurved, angled outwards at vein 4: and slightly at vein 3,

then incurved; a terminal series of slight whitish spots. Hind

wing greyish suffused with red-brown and irrorated with blackish,

the terminal area striated with blackish; faint traces of two lines

beyond the cell; postmedial line double, the inner line hardly

traceable, the outer black defined on outer side by white, obsolescent

towards costa and bent outwards to tornus, a terminal series of

faint whitish spots; the underside whitish tinged and thickly

irrorated with red-brown, traces of waved postmedial and

subterminal lines.

Hab. U.S.A., 1 9, Maine, New Hampshire, Webster, Mas-

sachusetts, Amherst, New York, Center (Bailey, Grote), 1 3,

2 9, Brooklyn, Pennsylvania. Hap. 38-46 miilim.

*8043. Zale bethunei. (Plate CCX XX. fig. 18.)

Pheocyma bethunei, Smith, Pr, U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxv. p. 260 (1909).

Head and thorax dull brown with a reddish tinge; tegulz with

black line at base, fuscous line at middle and blackish line at tips,

sometimes defined by white scales or almost obsolete ; thorax with

two more or less distinct grey lines; abdomen dull brown, the

terminal segments sometimes ochrecus, the crests distinct. Fore

wing dull reddish brown, rather roughly scaled, the basal area rather

darker; subbasal line very indistinct, from costa to vein 1; ante-

medial line blackish, shghtly angled outwards below costa and

ZALE. 241

incurved at vein 1; medial shade dark brown or blackish, erect,

sometimes formed by two lines and with some grey irroration before

it; reniform a dark lunule with a paler patch beyond it; postmedial

line brown or blackish, excurved below costa, incurved at discal fold,

excurved at vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line dark, obsolescent

on costal half, angled outwards at middle; a slight waved dark

terminal line. Hind wing rather paler reddish brown ; an indis-

tinct double medial line; postmedial and subterminal lines closely

approximated with deeper red-brown between them; a fine waved

brown terminal line with slight pale lunules before it. Underside

pale yellowish brown ; both wings with indistinct discoidal spots,

ante-, postmedial, and subterminal lines.

Hab. U.S.A., Maine, Distr. of Columbia, Washington, N.

Carolina, Tryon. Hap. 31-38 millim. This species is unknown to

me, figured from a drawing from type in U.S. Nat. Mus.

Larva. Food-plant, Pinus.

8044. Zale squamularis. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 19.)

Noctua squamularis, Drury, Tl. Exot. Ins, i, p. 18, pl. ix. f. 3 (1770);

Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 873.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous mixed with bluish grey ;

frons with lateral black bars; fore and mid tibize banded with

blackish, the tarsi black ringed with white. Fore wing fuscous

suffused with grey and irrorated with bluish white, some rufous in

basal half of submedian interspace and in and beyond end of cell;

subbasal line black, curved, from costa to vein 1, a slight oblique

blackish shade beyond it; antemedial line black, slightly angled

outwards below costa and excurved at median nervure, then oblique

and slightly sinuous; medial line rather indistinct, double, dark,

slightly angled eutwards at subcostal nervure and incurved below

the cell, the outer line interrupted by the discoidal lunule formed by

rough black and rufous scales, a pale rufous patch beyond it ; post-

medial line black, obliquely curved to vein 6, incurved at discal

fold, angled outwards at vein 4, then strongly incurved and slightly

excurved towards inner margin, some whitish points beyond it on

costa ; subterminal line black slightly defined on outer side by white

scales, somewhat excurved at vein 7, excurved at middle, then

ineurved ; a dark shade beyond it at middle and some white in sub-

median interspace. Hind wing grey-brown slightly irrorated with

blackish ; an indistinct double oblique medial line from discal fold

to inner margin; postmedial line indistinct, arising at vein 6, then

obliquely incurved and excurved above inner margin, closely followed

by the subterminal line, which is similar, but black defined on outer

side by white and ending at tornus; the underside whitish tinged

with brown and irrorated with blackish, a blackish discoidal lunule

and indistinct simuous postmedial and subterminal lines.

Hab. Canapsa, Manitoba, Winnipeg (Wallis), 1 3 ; U.S.A,

Distr. of Columbia, Washington, Pennsylvania, Maryland. xp.

40 millim.

ViOke Xe. R

24.2 NOCTUIDAE.

*8045. Zale largera.

Pheocyma largera, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxv. p. 257 (1909).

Head and thorax brown; tegule with darker lines at middle and

tips and edged with grey ; thorax with alternating grey and brown

lines ; abdomen brown. Fore wimg red-brown suffused with blue-

grey ; subbasal line brown, diffused on inner side, from costa to

vein 1; antemedial line single, brown, irregular asta, inwardly

oblique ; medial shade distinct, defined on inner side by a slightly

sinuous blackish line, diffused on outer; orbicular a black point,

reniform a very distinct narrow blackish Iunule, sometimes defined

on inner side by pale scales and followed by reddish shading ; post-

medial line single, brown, excurved below costa, incurved at discal

fold, exeurved a vein 4, then incurved ; sulin line brown,

diffused, defined on inner side by black scales, angled outwards at

veins 4,3; a fine brown terminal line. Hind wing fuscous brown,

paler at base; traces of a double oblique medial line arising at discal

fold ; postmedial and subterminal lines closely approximated and.

brown or blackish; a greyish mark at tornus and irregular terminal

line defining ereyish lunules. Underside ochreous brown; both

wings with dark discoidal lunules and postmedial and subterminal

lines.

Hab. Canapa, Manitoba, Winnipeg, Vancouver I. yp.

millim. This species is unknown to me; probably a variety of

Z. obliqua.

8046. Zale obliqua. (Plate CCX XX. fig. 20.)

Homoptera obliqua, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 16, pl. 15. f.'7 (1852) ; Smith, Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 371.

Head, thorax, and abdomen purple-grey mixed with reddish

brown; tarsi black ringed with white. Fore wing purple-grey

tinged in parts with red-brown and irrorated with black, the terminal

area striated with blackish; a slight oblique black subbasal line

from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line slight, blackish,

acutely angled outwards below costa and oblique owainlls inner

margin; a “aoalile rather diffused sinuous medial red-brown line,

sonnernart angled outwards at the veins; a minute red-brown spot

in middle of cell ; reniform a narrow red-brown lunule on the outer

medial line with a patch of rufous suffusion beyond it; postmedial

line brown, excurved below costa, incurved at discal fold, slightly

angled outwards at veins 4, 38, then incurved and sinuous; sub-

terminal line red-brown and incurved to vein 4, then black, angled

outwards at vein 4 and slightly at vein 3, then meurved. Hind

wing purple-grey tinged with red-brown, the inner area slightl

irrorated with black, the terminal area striated with blackish ;

traces of two sinuous lines beyond the cell; postmedial line double,

arising at vein 6, slightly sinuous, the omer line black below vein 2;

the underside purple- orey tinged and irrorated with red- brown,

faint traces of two medial lines and of postmedial and subterminal

lines.

ZALE. 243

Ab. 1. Fore wing with white subterminal spot in submedian

interspace.

Hab. Canava; U.S.A., Eastern States, 1 5,1 9, New York,

long I., Center (Bailey), 1 5, 1 @. Distr. of Columbia,

Pennsylvania, Florida, Missouri. xp. 46-50 millim.

Sor. II. (Zale.) Femora of male not fringed with long hair, the mid femora

normal,

A. Fore wing not black to the subterminal line.

a. Fore wing without dark strie.

a\. Fore wing with the subterminal line excurved at

WANG Cl Oe er aeerremetesfeoeh ssutewnaconecueek saves Uoosnsseanes rubiata.

b!. Fore wing with the subterminal line angled out-

wards at middle.

a’, Kore wing nearly uniform brown .................. rubi.

b?, Fore wing grey suffused with fuscous ............ yavapar.

b, Fore wing with slight brown striz ..................0es00s colorado.

¢, Fore wing with prominent blackish striz.

a, Fore wing not suffused with black from the medial

toy the subterminal limesy -essss-seeeceeeerereestecne cingulifera.

o!. Fore wing suffused with black from the medial to

ne suloiememimell ha@S — concosgaoanecendacaoacoecqoada0nc calycanthata.

B. Fore wing black to the subterminal line .................. horrida,

*8047. Zale rubiata. (Plate CCXXXI. fig. 1 ¢,2 9.)

Pheocyma rubiata, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxv. p. 265 (1909).

3. Head and thorax: whitish suffused with pale red-brown ;

tegule with black line near base; abdomen whitish tinged with

pale red-brown and with fine black segmental lines, the crests

darker. Fore wing whitish suffused with bright rufous, leaving a

band beyond the antemedial line and the terminal area except at

costa whitish ; subbasal line indistinct, double, sinuous, extending

to inner margin; antemedial line treble, sinuous, oblique below

submedian fold; some black striz on medial part of costa and an

indistinet oblique double sinuous medial line; reniform a narrow

lunule with whitish annulus, its centre ereyish defined by black ;

postmedial line slight, double, blackish, excurved below wogin,

incurved at discal fold, excurved at ein 4, then oblique and

slightly sinuous; subterminal line double, filled in with whitish,

the inner line black, the outer rufous, oblique and sinuous from

costa near apex to discal fold, excurved at vein 4, then incurved and

sinuous; a series of black points before termen and a fine waved

black terminal line. Hind wing whitish faintly tinged with red-

brown, the basal half irrorated with blackish; the medial area with

three sinuous brown lines; postmedial line fine, black, sinuous, in-

curved at vein 2, a narrow rufous band between it and the sub-

terminal line, which is black, sinuous, incurved at vein 2, followed

by a slight rufous line; some rufous renaidieg just before termen and

a fine crenulate black terminal line ; a whitish line at base of cilia ;

the underside white slightly imrorated with brown, a minute black

discoidal annulus, indistinct sinuous postmedial and subterminal

lines, and a series of black points before termen.

24.4 NOCTUID 2.

2. Grey-brown with a slight reddish tinge, and without the

rufous and whitish shades.

Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, cotypes + d 9 in Coll. W. Barnes,

Pheenix, Nogales. Hxp. 40 millim.

8048. Zale rubi. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 21.)

Homoptera rubi, H. Edw. Papilio, i. p. 28 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 369.

@. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with greyish; tegule

with black line near base; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen

red-brown tinged with grey, the crests whitish at base, fuscous at

tips. Fore wing red-brown tinged with grey ; a slight obliquely

curved blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; ante-

medial line slight, blackish, oblique, somewhat incurved in cell and

excurved just below it; the medial area with faint traces of sinuous

lines and slight blackish striz from costa; reniform hardly trace-

able ; postmedial line black, oblique to below vein 7, then incurved,

excurved at vein 4, then oblique and slightly smuous; subterminal

line strong, black, oblique to discal fold, slightly angled outwards

below vein 5 and strongly below vein 4, then incurved ; a series of

minute blackish points before termen ; a fine waved dark terminal

line and white line at base of cilia. Hind wing red-brown tinged

with grey, the basal half irrorated with dark brown; three indis-

tinct sinuous brown lines beyond the cell; postmedial line black,

sinuous; subterminal line rather stronger, black, oblique, sinuous,

closely approximated to the postmedial line below vein 6 and angled

outwards to tornus; a series of blackish points before termen ; a

fine waved dark terminal line, and white line at base of cilia; the

underside grey suffused with reddish brown and slightly irrorated

with dark brown, a small dark discoidal spot, shght minutely waved

postmedial line, and faint subterminal line.

Hab. U.S.A., California, Shasta Co., Cowsprings (Walsingham),

2 9, Siskiyou Co., Soda Springs, Yosemite Valley. Kup. 44

millim.

8049. Zale yavapai. (Plate CCXXXI. fig. 3.)

Pheocyma yavapai, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus, xxxv. p. 267 (1909).

©@. Head and thorax brown mixed with grey and fuscous; tegule

with black line near base; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen

grey suffused with brown, the crests blackish. Fore wing grey

suffused with fuscous brown and irrorated with blackish; subbasal

line black, sinuous, from costa to vein 1, a small black spot beyond

it on median nervure and another above inner margin; antemedial

line double, blackish, filled in with red-brown below the cell, in-

wardly oblique, waved, a faint sinuous line beyond it and a curved

medial shade; reniform a narrow lunule defined by blackish; post-

medial line black slightly defined on outer side by whitish, excurved

below costa, incurved at discal fold, excurved at vein 4, then oblique

ZALRE. 245

and sinuous; subterminal line black defined on outer side by

whitish, arising from costa near apex and obliquely incurved, angled

outwards at vein 4, then again obliquely incurved, a slight dark

shade beyond it; the terminal area with a few black striz; cilia

with a fine whitish lime at base followed by a dark line. Hind

wing grey suffused with brown and irrorated with blackish; the

medial area with three indistinct lines; postmedial line fine, black,

slightly sinuous, closely approximated to the stronger slightly

sinuous black subterminal lme which is followed by a slight dark

shade ; the terminal area with a few black strix; a fine whitish

line at base of cilia; the underside grey irrorated with brown, a

dark discoidal point, traces of a postmedial line and a waved black

terminal line.

flab. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, Arizona, Yavapai Co.,

cotype ¢ in Coll. W. Barnes, Prescott (Kunzé), 2 2. Exp. 88-40

millim.

*8050. Zale colorado. (Plate CCXXXI. fig. 4 3,5 ?.)

Pheocyma colorado, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxvy. p. 263 (1909).

6. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with blackish and some

white scales; tegule with black line near base; tarsi ringed with

white ; abdomen dark reddish brown mixed with whitish, the crests

tipped with whitish. Fore wing with the basal area dark brown

mixed with some grey; subbasal line black, sinuous, from costa to

vein 1, an oblique black striga beyond it below the cell; antemedial

line double, black, sinuous, oblique below submedian fold; medial

area striated with brown, its inner half bluish white, its outer half

bright red-brown; an indistinct treble sinuous brown medial line ;

renitorm a black-brown lunule defined by black; postmedial line

double, black, the outer line shght, excurved below costa, incurved

at discal fold, exeurved at vein 4, then strongly incurved ; sub-

terminal line double, the inner line black, the outer red-brown,

oblique from costa towards apex to vein 5, excurved at vein 4, then

inecurved ; the terminal area bluish white with some black striz

towards termen; a fine crenulate black terminal line; cilia reddish

brown with a fine whitish line at base and slight blackish spots at

middle. Hind wing greyish suffused with red-brown and slightly

irrorated with blackish, the terminal area striated with brown;

the medial area with three indistinct sinuous brown lines ; post-

medial line fine, black, shghtly sinuous, closely approximated to the

minutely waved black subterminal line, incurved below vein 6; a

crenulate black terminal line; cilia with a whitish line at base and

slight dark spots at middle; the underside grey suffused and

irrorated with red-brown, a brown discoidal spot, oblique medial

line, slightly waved postmedial line excurved below costa, and

indistinct subterminal line.

Q. Fore wing grey-brown with a slight reddish tinge, without

the red-brown and bluish white shades.

246 NOCTUID &.

Hab. Canava, Manitoba; U.S.A., Texas, Colorado, Glenwood

Springs, cotypes ¢ ¢ @ in Coll. W. Barnes, Denver, Arizona, Pal-

merlee, Williams. Hap. 44 millim.

8051. Zale cingulifera. (Plate CCXXXLI. fig. 6.)

Pheocyma lunifera, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 8, pl. 15. f. 9 (nec Hiibn.).

Homoptera cingulifera, W1k. xiii. 1056 (1857); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

p. 370.

Homoptera intenta, W1k. xiii. 1070 (1857).

Homoptera uwcodii, Grote, Can. Ent ix. p. 88 (1877).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey and some blackish ;

tegulz with black line near base and whitish tips; tarsi blackish

ringed with white; abdomen grey tinged with red-brown and

slightly irrorated with blackish, the crests fusecous tipped with

whitish. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and with numerous

striated black-brown lines; the basal area suffused with dark

brown ; a curved black subbasal striga from costa; antemedial line

rather diffused, black, incurved below submedian fold; the area

from middle of wing to the subterminal line suffused with dark

brown extending obliquely to apex; reniform a narrow lunule

defined by white; postmedial line black, oblique to below vein 7

where it is angled outwards, then incurved, excurved at vein 4,

then oblique and sinuous, some white points beyond it on costa ;

subterminal line indistinet, dark, excurved below costa, then in-

curved, excurved at middle, then again incurved. Hind wing grey

suffused with red-brown and irrorated with dark brown, the terminal

area striated with black-brown; an indistinct double brown medial

line; postmedial line indistinct, blackish, oblique; the underside

whitish tinged with red-brown and irrorated with dark brown, a

slight curved postmedial line.

Hab. U.S.A., 2 3 types intenta and woodii, Maine, New

Hampshire, New York, Center (Bazley), 1 5, Pennsylvania, Wis-

consin, Florida (Doubleday), 1 9 type. Hap. 40-48 muillim.

8052. Zale calycanthata. (Plate CCX XXI. fig. 7.)

Phalena calycanthata, Smith & Abb. Ins. Georgia, 11. p. 207, pl. 104

(1797); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 370.

Homoptera uniformis, Morr, Can. Ent. vii. p. 148 (1875); Smith, Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 371.

Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some red-brown and

whitish and slightly glossed with leaden grey ; tegulee with black

line near base; tarsi blackish rmged with white; abdomen dark

reddish brown slightly mixed with grey. Fore wing red-brown

suffused and striated with black-brown to the subterminal line, the

terminal area with more or less white faintly striated with red-

brown and suffused with red-brown at termen; a double curved

black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, filled in and

defined on inner side faintly by whitish, antemedial line black,

slightly sinuous, oblique below submedian fold, some whitish

ZALE. 247

suffusion beyond it; traces of a double sinuous dark medial line ;

reniform black-brown with a slight leaden grey gloss and faintly

defined on outer side by whitish; postmedial line very indistinct,

blackish, oblique to vein 7 where it is angled outwards, then in-

eurved, excurved at vein 4, then oblique and sinuous ; subterminal

line black, slightly angled outwards at vein 7, then incurved, angled

outwards below vein 4, then strongly incurved and slightly sinuous,

defined on outer side by red-brown before the white terminal area ;

a fine waved blackish terminal line. Hind wing red-brown tinged

with grey and irrorated with dark brown, the terminal area with

more or less white striated with brown and suffused with brown at

termen ; three indistinct sinuous brown lines beyond the cell; post-

medial line slight, blackish, sinuous ; subterminal line black slightly

defined on outer side by whitish, obsolescent towards costa, incurved

and slightly waved below vein 6, some brown beyond it before the

white terminal area; a crenulate black terminal line; the underside

whitish suffused and striated with red-brown, a black discoidal spot,

traces of two sinuous medial lines, a sinuous postmedial line, and

traces of a subterminal line.

Ab. 1. Wings without white beyond the subterminal line.

Hab. U.S.A., Virginia, N. Carolina, Georgia, 2 5, 2 2, Florida.

Exp. 48-54 millim.

Larva. Ash-grey shaded with white and blackish, the lines black ;

subdorsal line double, interrupted on the 4th and 5th somites;

stigmatal line defined above by waved black streaks; 4th and 5th

somites with some yellow in the incisures ; 2nd to 6th somites with

some blackish patches; ventral surface with some white; 11th

somite with pair of oblique dorsal prominences. Food-plants :

Calycanthus floridus and Oak. 4.

8053. Zale horrida.

Zale horrida, Hibn. Zutr. Ex. Schmett. i. p. 11, ff. 31, 32 (1818); Sinith,

Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 367.

Head and thorax fuscous black, the tips of patagia and meta-

thorax rufous; pectus with some grey; tarsi black ringed with

white; abdomen fuscous tinged with grey. Fore wing fuscous

black sparsely rrorated with black-tipped grey scales to the post-

medial line and on costal area to the subterminal line, the terminal

area rufous finely pencilled with black; a curved rufous subbasal

striga from costa; antemedial line double, black, filled in with

rufous at costa, slightly angled outwards below costa and incurved

below submedian fold ; traces of two waved medial lines; reniform

slightly defined by black ; postmedial line black, double and filled

in with rufous towards costa, oblique and sinuous to below vein 7,

incurved at discal, fold, excurved at vein 4, then strongly incurved

and slightly smuous, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; sub-

terminal line red-brown on a very narrow whitish band, bent inwards

from below vein 7 to close to the postmedial line, then defining its

248 NOCTUID ®.

outer edge and minutely dentate; a faint crenulate dark terminal

line. Hind wing fuscous slightly irrorated with black scales, the

terminal area rufous finely pencilled with black ; postmedial line

indistinct, black, slightly sinuous, obsolescent on costal area ; sub-

terminal line whitish slightly defined on inner side by black, dentate,

Fig. 57.—-Zale horrida, 3. }.

arising at vein6; the underside grey suffused with red-brown and

irrorated with dark brown, a slight blackish discoidal lunule, traces

of an antemedial and two medial lines, a slight waved postmedial

line.

Hab. Canapa (Norman), 1 2; U.S.A., Eastern States to Texas

and west to the Rocky Mts., 1 ¢,3 9, New York (Fuchs), 1 ¢.

Exp. 42-46 millim.

Genus SYPNOIDES, nov.

Type, 8. pannosa.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about

vertex of head and broadly scaled, the 3rd long and thickly scaled; frons

smooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antennee of male typically

with fasciculate cilia; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the pro-

and metathorax with large spreading crests; tibiz slightly fringed with hair,

the fore tibiz not spined, the hind tibiew spined; abdomen with dorsal

series of crests, Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved

and crenulate; veins 3 aud 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ;

9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to forin the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing

with the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully

developed from just above angle; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with

the cell near base only.

Sect. I. Antenne of male bipectinate, with long branches, the apex ciliated.

A. Fore wing with white suffusion on medial area, the basal

and terminal areas without blackish patches ............... equatorialis.

B. Fore wing without white suffusion on medial area, the

bagal and terminal areas with blackish patches ............ mandarina.

SYPNOIDES. 24.9

8054. Sypnoides equatorialis.

Sypna equatorialis, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 69 (1894).

3. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some whitish ; tarsi

blackish ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown, the crests dark

brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing reddish brown

slightly irrorated with black ; a reddish ochreous subbasal bar from

costa to median nervure and white bar in submedian interspace ;

medial area suffused with bluish white with a conical black-brown

patch on it from costa to middle of cell and an oblique band from

median nervure to inner margin towards which it expands; traces

of a curved waved antemedial brown line on the white area;

Fig. 58.—-Sypnoides equatorialis, G. }.

orbicular a minute incomplete black annulus; reniform with reddish

brown centre and bluish white annulus, oblique, its outer edge

irregular; postmedial line indistinctly double, obliquely down-

curved below costa, then slightly waved, somewhat incurved at

discal fold, incurved below vein 4, and obsolete on the white area,

a dark brown spot beyond it on costa followed by some pale and

dark striz ; subterminal line black-brown defined on inner side by

reddish ochreous, waved, oblique towards costa and excurved at

middle; a series of slight black lunules before termen, the lunule in

submedian interspace defined on outer side by white scales ; a fine

waved dark terminal line. Hind wing reddish brown; traces of a

double medial line filled in with whitish on inner area; an indistinct

diffused postmedial line with some dark points on its outer side on

inner area; an indistinct dark subterminal line, more distinct and

somewhat dentate on inner half; a series of dark points and lunules

before termen; a fine waved dark terminal line and pale line at

base of cilia; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with brown,

250 NOCTUID &.

a discoidal lunule filled in with whitish, dark medial lme waved to

vein 5 and oblique below vein 2, broad dark shade before the in-

distinct double postmedial line filled in with whitish, and series of

blackish points before termen.

Hab. Gown Coast, Ashanti, Obuassi (Bergman), 1d; S.

Nigeria, Ilesha (Humfrey), 1 ¢; GaBoon, Ogové R., type + in

Coll. Holland. Hap. 52-54 millim.

8055. Sypnoides mandarina. (Plate CCXXXI. fig. 8.)

Sypna mandarina, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 545.

3. Head and base of tegule red-brown; thorax black-brown

with some blue-grey scales; antennze and palpt dark brown; pectus

and legs greyish brown, the tibiz with blackish bands, the fore and

mid tarsi black ringed with whitish ; abdomen reddish brown with

slight dark irroration, the crests tipped with blackish, the anal tuft

dark brown. Fore wing pale red-brown, the medial area pencilled

with black scales except towards costa, the basal area black with a

leaden grey tinge; aslght black subbasal line defined on outer side

by red-brown from costa to vein 1; the black area defined by the

double inwardly oblique medial line, the inner line black, the outer

faint and red-brown, with a slight blackish spot at costa ; reniform

faint, pale, an oblique brown bar above it from costa ; postmedial

line very indistinct, double, brown, excurved to vein 4, then oblique

and sinuous; a conical blackish patch tinged with leaden grey from

costa before apex, its edges sinuous and defined by blackish, some

whitish points on it at costa; a large terminal blackish patch

tinged with leaden grey from above vein 3 to tornus, its inner edge

sinuous and defined by black, the cilia beyond it blackish; a series

ot black points before termen. Hind wing grey-brown with slight

dark irroration ; two diffused sinuous brown subterminal lines, the

outer line black and waved from vein 4 to inner margin with a

blackish patch tinged with leaden grey beyond it with a small

white spot on it at submedian fold, the cilia beyond it mixed with

blackish; a series of black points before termen. Underside whitish

tinged and irrorated with brown; fore wing with two diffused

rather oblique brown postmedial lines and a dark subterminal shade

broad towards costa; hind wing with two small black discoidal

junules, postmedial line slight, angled outwards at discal fold, then

oblique, a slight dark subterminal shade.

Hab. W. Curtna, Chou-pin-sa, 5 3d type, Kia-ting-fu, 1 3

Ta-chien-lu, 1 ¢. Hap. 48-58 millim.

Ssor, II. Antennse of male with fasciculate cilia.

8056. Sypnoides pannosa.

Sypna pannosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. ube pl. v. f. 12 (1882); Himpsn.

Moths Ind. ii. p. 451.

Head and thorax black-brown tinged with leaden grey ; palpi

SYPNOIDES. 251

with red-brown mixed; pectus and legs brown mixed with greyish,

the tarsi dark brown with pale rings ; abdomen pale red-brown, the

crests and extremity dark brown. Fore wing ochreous tinged with

red-brown and thickly pencilled with deep red-brown scales ; basal

area black-brown tinged with leaden grey; subbasal line slight,

double, dark filled in with reddish ochreous, from costa to sub-

median fold; antemedial line double, red-brown filled in with

reddish ochreous and defined on outer side by ochreous, inwardly

oblique and slightly angled inwards at vein 1; an oblique diffused

Fig. 59.—Sypnoides pannosa, G. 1.

sinuous brown medial line; postmedial line indistinct, red-brown

filled in with ochreous, oblique towards costa and ineurved below

vein 4; subterminal line diffused, ochreous, curved, a triangular

black-brown patch tinged with leaden grey beyond it on costal area

and the area beyond it from above vein 3 black-brown tinged with

leaden grey. Hind wing ochreous suffused with brown, the post-

~medial area irrorated with red-brown on inner half; indistinct

double postmedial and subterminal lines almost obsolete on costal

half, the area beyond the latter black-brown tinged with leaden

grey below vein 4; a series of small dark spots before termen ; the

underside ochreous white irrorated with brown, a diffused medial

line excurved beyond the cell and waved postmedial line both

obsolete below submedian fold, and series of dark points before

termen.

Hab. Punsas, Kulu, Sultanpur (G4. Young, Hocking), 3 3,

2 2, Dharmsila (Hocking),1 3, 192, Simla (Harford), 1 9;

AssaM, Khasis (Badgley), 1 3. Hap. 52-64 millim.

252 NOCTUIDE.

Genus TOLNAODKES, nov.

Type, 2. dasynota.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and rather slenderly scaled, the 3rd long; frons smooth; eyes large,

round; antenne of male with fasciculate cilia; termen clothed with hair aud

hair-like scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading

crest ; tibix fringed with rather long hair, the fore and hind tibix not spined ;

pectus with a tuft of long hair from below origin of fore wing ; abdomen with

dorsal series of crests. Kore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly

curved, crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ;

9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form tine areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing

with the cell about one-third length of wing; veins 3,4 from angle; 5 fully

developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with

the cell near base only.

8057. Tolnaodes dasynota.

Achea dasynota, Feld. Reis. Novy. pl. 112. f. 10 (1874).

$. Head and thorax red-brown, the metathorax dark brown ;

antenne blackish; palpi blackish with a white line in front; frons

blackish with a white patch below; pectus, legs, and abdomen

black-brown, the tarsi ringed with white, the tuft of hair from

Fig. 60.—Tvlnaodes dasynota, 3. +.

origin of fore wing rufous. Fore wing with the basal half grey-

brown irrorated with dark brown, the terminal half pale red-brown ;

subbasal line black slightly defined on each side by whitish, incurved

in cell and ending at submedian fold; antemedial line strong,

black, waved, excurved in submedian interspace; a small blackish

spot in middle of cell; reniform slightly defined by blackish,

TOLNAODES.—HYPOGRAMMODES. 253

narrowing above and with some whitish in outer part of centre ;

two strong waved blackish medial lines, followed by an oblique dark

bar from costa and slight line before the reniform ; postmedial line

with black-brown patch at costa defined on each side by whitish,

irregularly waved to vein 4, then bent inwards to lower angle of

cell and oblique and sinuous to inner margin; some whitish points

on postmedial part of costa ; a waved red-brown subterminal line ;

a series of black striz before termen and slight waved black

terminal line; cilia dark brown. Hind wing dark brown witha slight

greyish gloss ; some pale reddish marks on vein 1 towards tornus ;

a minutely waved blackish subterminal line defined on outer side by

slight whitish marks towards tornus; a series of black striz before

termen slightly defined by reddish; a waved black terminal line ;

cilia white from apex to vein 4 intersected by dark streaks at veins

7,6. Underside fuscous, the costal and terminal area of fore wing

and the hind wing irrorated with white; fore wing with diffused

oblique blackish medial line, discoidal spot, postmedial band in-

curved below discal fold and slightly defined on outer side by

whitish, subterminal white bar from costa and white patches on

termen and cilia at vein 5 and between vein 3 and submedian fold;

hind wing with sinuous medial black line, discoidal bar, postmedial

slightly sinuous band defined on outer side by whitish and some

white on termen at apex, middle, and between vein 3 and submedian

fold.

Hab. Cotomsta, Sierra del Libane, 1g; Fr. Guiana. LEvp.

62 millim.

Genus HYPOGRAMMODKES, nov.

Type, H. abscondens.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to well

above vertex of head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd long; frons smooth; eyes

large, round; antenne of male with fasciculate cilia; thorax clothed with

scales and hair mixed, the metathorax with spreading crest; fore tibize

broadly fringed with hair, the mid and hind tibiz moderately fringed with

hair, the mid tibize of male dilated with a groove containing a tuft of hair, the

fore and hind tibize not spined ; abdomen with dorsal ridges of hair on basal

segments but without crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex

somewhat produced, 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 the cell nearly half

the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above

angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base

only.

A. Hind wing with white apical pateh.

a. Fore wing with black spot on termen below apex ......... abscondens.

b. Fore wing with small black spot before termen below apex. confusa.

B. Hind wing withont white apical patch.

a. Hind wing with pale band beyond the postmedial line.

ai, Fore wing with blackish patches on medial area in sub-

median interspace and beycnd the cell .................. @olia.

b!. Fore wing without blackish patches on medial area in

submedian interspace and beyond the cell. ............. Seronia.

254: NOCTUID®.

», Hind wing without pale band beyond the postmedial line.

a'. Hind wing with dark spot with white point on its inner

edge on termen below apex .............ecceeeeee rene AGSROE micropis.

b'. Hind wing without dark spot with while point on its

inner edge on termen below apex.

a*, Fore wing with blackish spot defined above and below

by minute white streaks on termen below apex.

a>. Fore wing with white point on the inner edge of

the subapical blackish spot ; hind wing with series

of white points before termen .....................0+ subocellata.

68, Fore wing without white point on the inner edge of

the subapical blackish spot; hind wing without

series of white points before termen ............... glauca.

v2, Fore wing without blackish spot defined above and

below by minute white streaks on termen below apex glaucoides.

8058. Hypogrammodes abscondens.

Cenipeta abscondens, W1k. xiii. 1094 (1857).

Hypogramma sublucida, Wik. xiii. 1097 (1857).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some grey; tegul

whitish at tips; palpi black-brown with two fine white streaks in

front; sides of frons with white streaks; pectus, legs, and ventral

surface of abdomen white slightly mixed with brown, the tarsi

dark brown ringed with white. Fore wing red-brown, the basal

area slightly irrorated with white, the rest of wing thickly irrorated

with blue-white; subbasal line dark brown, excurved below costa

Fig. 61.—Hypogrammodes abscondens, S. }«

and ending at median nervure ; antemedial line dark brown, sinuous,

oblique from costa to submedian fold where it is angled outwards,

then erect; an indistinct oblique waved brown medial line; an

oblique white shade tinged with red-brown from costa above end of

cell to submedian fold at subterminal line, the reniform with its

centre indistinctly defined by red-brown being placed on it; post-

medial line dark brown, forming a spot at costa, oblique to below

HYPOGRAMMODES. 255

vein 7, then inwardly oblique with a dark patch on its inner side at

discal fold, at vein 3 bent inwards to lower angle of cell, then

oblique and sinuous ; the postmedial costal area mostly red-brown

with some white points on costa; subterminal line brown, slightly

waved, angled outwards below vein 7, then strong black-brown and

oblique to vein 5 , shghtly excurved at middle and incurved below

vein 4; a black spot on termen below apex and series of black strize

before termen ; a slight waved dark terminal line and fine whitish line

at base of cilia. Hind wing black-brown, the basal and inner areas

reddish brown; a pure white apical patch extending to vein 5 and

with its inner edge sinuous, followed by a faint blackish line before

termen and fine pale line at base of cilia. Underside of both wings

black-brown with the basal area blue-grey ; fore wing with oblique

white band from costa above end of cell to tornus towards which it

expands, and with some whitish marks on costa before and beyond

it, a white apical patch; hind wing with narrow dark discoidal

lunule with pale centre, double curved medial line except on inner

area, and oblique sinuous postmedial line.

Hab. Trrntpan, Caparo (Kaye), 1 9 ; Br. Guiana, Demerara

(Rodway), 1 2, Potaro R. (Roberts), 1 5 ; Braziz, 1 S type

sublucida, Amazons. Hxp. 50-60 milhm.

8059. Hypogrammodes confusa. (Plate CCX XXI. fig. 9.)

Peosina numeria, Wik. xiv. 1243 (ee nec Drury,

Hypogramma confusa, Butl. P. Z, 8. 1878, p. 487.

S$. Head and thorax bright red-brown, the tegulz slightly edged

with grey, the patagia with curved erey bars and erey tips; palpi

white at base, then black-brown in front with two fine white lines ;

frons and poeall joint of antennze with white lines at sides ; pectius

and femora white, the tibize whitish and red-brown, the tarsi blackish

ringed with white; abdomen greyish brown, Ane ventral surface

whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing bright red-brown mixed

with purple and irrorated with pale yellow-green scales; a shght

double sinuous grey subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ;

antemedial line indistinctly double from costa to median nervure,

oblique, sinuous, excurved below median nervure; an indistinct

double oblique sinuous medial line with a band of whitish suffusion

beyond it; postmedial line indistinct, double, waved and somewhat

oblique to vein 3, then retracted to lower angle of cell- and again

oblique and waved, some whitish points beyond it on costa; sub-

terminal line very indistinct, pale, defined on imner side by small

black spots between veins 7 and 4, excurved below vein 7, then

oblique to discal fold, excurved at middle, then again incurved; a

small black spot below apex, then a series of small lunules before

termen, a slight waved dark terminal line and fine pale line at base

of cilia. Hind wing black-brown with large WEIN apical patch

extending to discal fold; the cilia white to vein 5 on the extremity

of inn there is a mnie white streak, then a series of black

256 NOCTUIDE.

striz defined on outer side by pale brown to submedian fold; a

fine pale line at base of cilia. Underside of fore wing dark brown

with broad white band from middle of costa to tornus with slight

pale marks on each side of it on the costa, a white apical patch ex-

tending to below vein 5; hind wing grey-brown with slight dark

discoidal lunule and double curved postmedial line.

Hab. VENEZUELA (Dyson), 1 3 type. Hap. 64 millim.

8060. Hypogrammodes eolia.

Cenipeta eolia, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 350, pl. 31. f. 9

(1890).

Q@. Head and thorax brown mixed witb grey; palpi whitish at

base ; tibize banded with fuscous, the tarsi fuscous ringed with

whitish; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore

wing grey with a violaceous tinge suffused in parts with red-brown ;

subbasal line double, brown, curved, from costa to submedian fold ;

antemedial line black with a brown line before it, curved and some-

what dentate, expanding at costa, a black patch between it and the

postmedial line in submedian interspace ; medial area irrorated with

some red and a few pale blue-green scales; reniform red defined by

black and witha pale lunule in centre, a black patch beyond it

extending to the postmedial line; two oblique blackish striz from

middle of costa and an oblique waved line from lower angle of cell

to inner margin; postmedial line black defined on outer side by

whitish towards costa where it expands, waved, excurved to vein 4,

then incurved ; a waved red-brown.shade beyond it and some white

points on costa with blackish streaks between them; subterminal

line rather diffused, double, waved, brown filled in with whitish, a

black spot on its inner side below vein 7 and some black-brown

suffusion before and beyond it at middle; a small black subapical

spot and a slight waved blackish terminal line. Hind wing grey

suffused with brown; a sinuous blackish postmedial line with

brownish white band beyond it except towards costa; a sinuous

black-brown subterminal band, diffused to termen on apical area; a

waved dark terminal line; cilia ochreous white; the underside with

small discoidal lunule defined by blackish, two medial lines angled

outwards at discal and submedian folds, and a broad dark sub-

terminal shade.

Hab. Mexico, Tabasco, Teapa (H. H. Smith),1 2 type. Hap.

44 millim.

8061. Hypogrammodes feronia.

Cenipeta feronia, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 112. f. 7 (1874) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-

Am., Het. i. p. 350.

Head and thorax red-brown ; inner side and tips of palpi and

lower part of frons whitish; pectus and legs red-brown and whitish,

the tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown tinged

with red-brown and with slight pale segmental lines, the ventral

HYPOGRAMMODES. D7)

surface pale red-brown. Fore wing red-brown mixed with blue-

white; subbasal line double, dark brown filled in with whitish,

curved, from costa to vein 1; a curved dark reddish brown ante-

medial band with waved edges and a waved blue-grey line on it

from costa to median nervure; a waved red-brown medial line,

distinct and obscurely double towards costa; reniform a dark red-

brown spot with slight whitish lunule in centre; postmedial line

dark reddish brown, defined on outer side by white at costa, oblique

to below vein 7, then waved, bent inwards at vein 3, then oblique ;

some white points on costa towards apex; subterminal line formed

of small dentate dark reddish brown spots and a larger spot angled

outwards below vein 7, defined on each side by rather obscure

waved blue-white lines; a waved dark brown line before termen

forming lunules in the interspaces ; cilia chequered dark brown and

whitish. Hind wing dark red-brown; a diffused blackish post-

medial line angled outwards at discal and submedian folds defined

between those points and towards tornus by a narrow orange-yellow

band ; a slight waved yellow subterminal line from above vein 3 to

below 2; some yellow marks on termen between veins 6 and 2;

cilia chequered brown and whitish; the underside grey tinged with

red-brown, a dark discoidal lunule with pale centre, two dark medial

lines oblique to discal fold then sinuous, the terminal area suffused

with black-brown with small whitish patch at apex.

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 5 ; Panama, Bugaba

(Champion), 1 3, Godman-Salvin Coll., Cana Mines (Tylecote),

1 9, La Chorrera (Dolby-Tyler), 2 2 ; Br. Gutana, Demerara

(Rodway), 2 2, Bartica (Kaye), 1 2, Potaro R. (Kaye); Brazir,

Amazons. Hap. 40-50 millim.

8062. Hypogrammodes micropis, n.sp. (Plate CCX XXL. fig. 10.)

3. Head and thorax chocolate-brown mixed with some grey, the

tegule pale at tips; palpi black with two fine white streaks in

front; pectus and legs rufous, the tibie and tarsi banded with

chocolate-brown; abdomen red-brown. Fore wing greyish tinged

with red-brown and irrorated in parts with blue-white ; a red-brown

subbasal bar from costa to median nervure; antemedial line greyish

rather broadly defined on each side by bright red-brown, oblique,

sinuous; two sinuous bright red-brown medial lines, the area before

them in cell, beyond the cell and below end of cell suffused with

bright red-brown; reniform with bluish white centre defined by

red-brown and greyish annulus; postmedial line greyish defined on

each side by bright red-brown, waved, oblique from vein 6 to

below end of cell, then erect; subterminal line greyish defined on

inner side by a broad band of bright red-brown and on outer side

by red-brown, waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a round

black subapical spot followed by a series of red-brown lunulate

spots before termen ; a red-brown terminal line; cilia black-brown

with a pale reddish line at base. Hind wing deep red-brown; an

indistinct smuous brown postmedial line; subterminal line faint,

VOL. XII. 8

258 NOCTUID 4B.

pale defined on each side by brown, sinuous; a small black spot on

termen below apex with a white point on its inner side, followed by

a series of brown strie before termen and a brown terminal line ;

cilia with a greyish line at base; the underside paler, a discoidal

lunule defined by brown, sinuous medial and postmedial lines,

sinuous whitish subterminal line from costa to just below vein 2,

and black spot on termen below apex with white point in centre.

Hab. VENEZUELA, 1 3 type. Hep. 42 millim.

8063. Hypogrammodes subocellata. (Plate CCX XXI. fig. 11.)

Cenipeta subocellata, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 119 (1906).

Head and thorax chocolate-brown ; palpi black with two fine

white lines in front; sides of frons, upper part of frons, and vertex

of head defined by white lines ; tegulze slightly edged with whitish ;

patagia with a patch of grey scales at “middle ; pectus and legs

ochreous, the tibie and tarsi banded with red- bEgwrn abdomen

dark reddish brown, the ventral surface ochreous enlthinsed! with

reddish brown. Fore wing chocolate-brown irrorated with greenish

white ; a slight sinuous whitish subbasal line from costa to median

nervure ; antemedial line whitish defined on each side by chocolate-

brown, oblique, sinuous; two indistinct diffused sinuous chocolate-

brown medial lines; reniform defined by greenish grey, figure-of-

eight-shaped, its upper part indistinct; postmedial line chocolate-

brown forming a spot at costa, then oblique to below vein 7, then

waved, at vein 3 retracted to lower edge of reniform, and confluent

in submedian interspace with the medial lines; subterminal line

indistinct, greyish defined on inner side by chocolate- brown, in-

curved at discal and submedian folds and excurved at middle ;

some white points on apical part of costa; a subapical black spot

on termen defined above and below by ochreous strize and with

white point on its inner edge, followed by a series of small lunulate

chocolate-brown spots and a sinuous line just before termen; cilia

dark brown. Hind wing deep red-brown; two indistinct sinuous

medial lines and a postmedial line; a faint sinuous greyish sub-

terminal line defined on inner side by darker brown; a series of

white points before termen on veins 6 to 2, and a fine pale line at

base of cilia; the underside greyish suffused with brown, the base

of costal area and cell irrorated with grey ; a discoidal lunule defined

at sides by dark brown, the two medial and the postmedial lines

distinct, a broad deep Irown band before an ochreous whitish sub-

terminal line diffused to termen above and below a black subapical

spot with white point in centre.

Hab. VENEZUELA, 135,19; Br. Guiana (Roberts), 13,3 9.

Hep. 42 millim.

8064. Hypogrammodes glauca. (Plate CCXXXI. fig. 12.)

Noctua glauca, Cram, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 45, pl. 311. f. G (1780).

Head and thorax bright chocolate-brown, the tegule and patagia

edged with whitish, the latter with some whitish scales at middle ;

HYPOGRAMMODES. 259

palpi black with fine white streaks at sides; frons with white lines

at sides and the upper part defined by white; pectus and legs

ochreous tinged with red-brown, the tibiz and tarsi banded with

red-brown; abdomen red-brown, the ventral surface white tinged

with rufous. Fore wing bright chocolate-brown irrorated with

greenish white scales; a sinuous whitish subbasal line from costa to

submedian fold; antemedial line greenish white defined on each

side by chocolate-brown, sinuous; two indistinct sinuous chocolate-

brown medial lines; reniform incompletely defined by white,

narrow, constricted at middle; postmedial line greenish white

defined on inner side by chocolate-brown, minutely waved, at vein 3

bent inwards to below end of cell, some white points beyond it on

costa; subterminal line- greenish white defined on inner side by

chocolate-brown, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a series of

indistinct chocolate-brown spots before termen; a fine pale line at

base of cilia. Hind wing chocolate-brown with a pale line at base

of cilia; the underside greyish tinged with red-brown, the terminal

area darker, a slight discoidal lunule defined by brown, and indistinct

eurved postmedial line.

Hab. Surinam; Brazit, Amazons, R. Jutahi, Boaventura

(“rah ses Oe eps ao rmullima:

*8065. Hypogrammodes glaucoides. (Plate CCXXXI. fig. 13.)

Cenipeta glaucoides, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 116 (1906).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen bright red-brown ; palpi streaked

with yellow; sides of frons and head behind the eyes with yellow

lines; basal joint of antenne ringed with yellow; thorax with

some silvery purple scales; tibie and tarsi ringed with yellow.

Fore wing bright red-brown irrorated in parts with purplish white

scales; subbasal line represented by double whitish strize from

costa ; antemedial line double, waved, whitish towards costa, then

purplish white; reniform incompletely defined by purplish white,

narrow and constricted at middle; a sinuous purplish white medial

line from cell to inner margin, and a whitish striga from costa ; post-

medial line yellowish towards costa, then purplish white, minutely

waved, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line idistinct, pale,

ineurved and with some purplish white on it between veins 6 and 5

and 3, 2; a series of blackish spots before termen. Hind wing

bright red-brown; a faint pale sinuous subterminal line except

towards costa and tornus and a series of slight dark spots before

termen with pale strize before them between veins 7 and 2; the

underside with oblique dark postmedial line and sinuous sub-

terminal shade from costa to termen at submedian fold, with pale

marks beyond it at apex, discal fold and vein 2.

Hab. Peru, Amazons, Cavallo Cocho, type + ¢ in U.S. Nat.

Mus. yep. 66 millim.

260 NOCTUID®.

Genus ANISONEURA. Tyne

Anisonewra, Guen, Noct. iii. p. 160 (1852) ......seeeeeeeee seen ee salebrosa.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and broadly scaled, the 3rd long and thickly scaled; frons smooth ;

eyes large, round; antenne of male with bristles and cilia; thorax clothed

with scales and hair mixed and without crests; tibie slightly fringed with

hair, the fore and hind tibie not spined; abdomen with dorsal ridges of hair

on basal segments. Fore wing with the costa highly arched, the apex rounded,

the termen evenly curved, crenulate; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell, 5 from

above angle; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the

areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one-fourth length of

wing; in female veins 3, 4 from angle of cell, 5 fully developed from above

angle, 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only; in male vein 2 from close

to base of cell, 3 from before middle and with thinly scaled brands in the

interspaces on each side of veins 2 to 4.

Sxcr. I. Fore wing with the termen very oblique; hind wing of male with

veins 6, 7 strongly stalked, in female slightly stalked.

A. Hind wing with the postmedial line slightly sinuous; the

underside with the lines defined by whitish.................. hypocyanea.

B. Hind wing with the postmedial line slightly waved; the

underside with the lines not defined by whitish.

a, Fore wing with greyish patch and oblique black mark on

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8066. Anisoneura hypocyanea.

Anisoneura hypocyanea, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 162 (1852); Hmpsn. Moths

Ind. ii. p. 456.

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark greyish brown, the

tegule dark grey-brown with pale tips, the prothorax with slight

red-brown line, the patagia with oblique black bars at middle ;

palpi, pectus, and legs dark greyish brown, the fore tibizee with

white point above at middle and white ring at extremity, the spurs

and tarsi ringed with white; abdomen dark greyish brown, the

ventral surface reddish brown. Fore wing red-brown with a

diffused fuscous brown shade from costa towards apex to base of

inner margin; a slight blackish subbasal line, excurved below costa,

then oblique, sinuous and ending at submedian fold; antemedial

line black, forming a small spot on costa, angled inwards below

costa and outwards on median nervure and vein 2, then very oblique

and slightly sinuous to inner margin near base; orbicular with

faint dark annulus, small; reniform incompletely defined by black,

constricted at middle, with white point before its lower extremity

and patches of white or yellow and black scales below it and beyond

its lower extremity; a diffused dark mark at middle of costa and

traces of an oblique sinuous medial line; an elongate postmedial

blackish spot defined by ochreous white on costa, the postmedial line

arising well beyond it below the costa, very oblique and irregularly

waved, black to vein 4, then brown to middle of inner margin;

ANISONEURA. 261

some whitish points on postmedial part of costa; subterminal line

very indistinct and strongly dentate with oblique teeth from costa

to vein 4 and with an oblique black mark on it above vein 5, below

vein 4 double, blackish, oblique, slightly sinuous at submedian

fold; a black line before termen, slightly dentate at the veins and

oblique in the interspaces. Hind wing red-brown suffused with

erey-brown ; an indistinct double waved antemedial line ; an oblique

waved medial blackish line slightly defined on outer side by grey;

a double slightly sinuous oblique postmedial line, the inner line

Fig. 62.—Anisoneura hypocyanea, S. 1.

black, the outer red-brown; an oblique slightly sinuous blackish

subterminal line; traces of some dark strize before termen; the

underside brown tinged with purplish grey except on terminal area

which is suffused with purple, a minute blackish discoidal spot,

slightly waved blackish medial and postmedial lines excurved

beyond the cell and defined on outer side by purplish grey in-

terrupted in the interspaces; a diffused dark subterminal shade

broad towards costa and defined on outer side by grey except

towards apex.

262 NOCTUID A.

Hab. W. Curyna, Omei-shan, 1 9; PunsaB (Horne), 1 CG,

Kulu, Sultanpur (G. Young), 1 3, Dharmsila (Hocking), 2 3,

2 9, Simla (Harford), 1:3, Kasauli, 1 6; Stxuim (Boyle), 19;

Assam, Shillong (Parish), 2 3, Silhet, 2 6; Burma, Rangoon,

19; SrneaporE (fidley), 13,12; Bornexo, Sarawak (Bartlett),

19. Hap. 94-128 millim.

8067. Anisoneura papuana, n. sp. (Plate CCX XVI. fig. 11.)

Q. Head and thorax brown mixed with grey; pectus brownish

erey; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral

surface paler. Fore wing brown mixed with grey; subbasal line

blackish, exeurved below costa, then irregularly waved and ending

at vein 1; antemedial line blackish, strongly bent inwards below

costa, then sinuous, angled outwards at vein 2, then very oblique to

inner Margin near base ; ; reniform small, elliptical, with incomplete

white annulus and its centre obscurely defined by blackish, some

white and black scales below it and beyond its lower extremity ;

traces of a double sinuous medial line, very oblique below the cell;

a small blackish postmedial spot on costa, the postmedial line

arising well beyond it below the costa, oblique, waved, blackish to

vein 3, then indistinct and faintly defined on each side by whitish ;

~ an oblique greyish shade from apical part of costa to beyond end of

cell, with an oblique pale patch tinged with red-brown and irrorated

with some black scales beyond it from apex to vein 3; subterminal

line very indistinct, angled outwards at the veins and oblique in

the interspaces from costa to vein 38 with an oblique dark mark on

it above vein 5, then more distinct, double, oblique, and slightly

excurved at submedian fold; a slight blackish line before termen,

angled outwards at the veins and oblique in the interspaces. Hind

wing brown tinged with grey; three indistinct slightly waved lines

on medial area, followed by a diffused whitish-grey band between

veins 6 and 1; postmedial line double, oblique, slightly waved, the

inner line black, the outer red-brown; a fine waved black line

before termen defined on outer side by slight grey-white marks in

the interspaces; the underside pale grey-brown, rather diffused and

slightly sinuous brown medial and postmedial lines, a diffused

subterminal shade faintly defined on outer side by whitish.

Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Port Moresby, 1 9 type. Hap.

108 millim.

*8068. Anisoneura zeuzeroides.

Anisoneura zeuzeroides, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 162 (1852).

Anisoneura sphingoides, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 113. f. 1 (1874).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown ; palpi with the

3rd joint greyish. Fore wing dark red-brown tinged with purple ;

antemedial line black slightly defined on inner side by ochreous,

oblique and sinuous to median nervure, angled outwards at median

nervure, vein 2, and submedian fold, then ‘strongly angled inwards

ANISONEURA. 263

above vein 1 and outwards on vein 1; a waved blackish medial line,

oblique below submedian fold; reniform with its centre defined by

blackish and with incomplete ochreous annulus ; postmedial line

black, defined on outer side by ochreous below vein 2, oblique,

waved, angled inwards at vein 1; subterminal line ochreous defined

on inner side by blackish, oblique, waved; a sinuous black line

before termen. Hind wing dark red-brown faintly tinged with

purple; oblique waved black medial, postmedial, and subterminal

lines defined on outer side by ochreous, interrupted between veins

5 and 2 by the prominent depressed grooves in the interspaces ;

a sinuous black line before termen ; the underside dark red-brown

tinged with purple, indistinct rather diffused sinuous medial, post-

medial, and subterminal blackish lines interrupted between veins

5 and 2 by the greyish depressed grooves.

Hab. Amporna, type t do sphingoides in Coll. Rothschild;

Has. 1en., type + d in Mus. Paris. wp. 120 millim.

Sect. II, Fore wing with the termen less oblique; hind wing of male with

vein 6 from below angle of cell, of female with veins 6, 7 from

angle.

8069. Anisoneura salebrosa.

Anisoneura salebrosa, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 161 (1852); Hmpsn. Moths Ind.

li. p. 457,

Anisoneura obscurata, Pag. J.B. Nass. Verh. xlix. p. 160, pl. 3. f. 4

(1896).

Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown mixed with greyish,

the last with the ventral surface paler; fore tibiee with white point

above at middle; tarsi dark brown ringed with white. Fore wing

fuscous brown mixed with grey-brown, a deeper fuscous shade from

apical part of costa to inner margin near base defined on outer side

by a greyish shade with a slight reddish tinge; a curved subbasal

black striga from costa with a white point on its outer edge at

costa ; antemedial line slight, blackish defined on inner side by grey

and with white point at costa, minutely dentate to median nervure

where it is bent outwards, then very oblique and slightly sinuous ;

reniform defined by a few pale scales and with white point at lower

extremity ; postmedial line slight, blackish defined on outer side by

grey, indistinctly double at middle, strongly crenulate and dentate

inwards at the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa and very

oblique below vein 4; subterminal line very indistinct, dark, slightly

defined by greyish below costa, sinuous, with an oblique blackish

streak above vein 5 in which it is angled inwards to near the post-

medial line, then very oblique; a slight blackish line before termen

defined on outer side by greyish, angled outwards at the veins and

oblique in the interspaces; a faint waved dark terminal line with

slight greyish marks beyond it in the interspaces. Hind wing

fuscous brown mixed with grey-brown, the medial area somewhat

paler and faintly tinged with reddish; a minute whitish spot at

lower angle of cell; two indistinet oblique dark medial lines defined

264. NOCTUID&®.

on outer side by greyish; postmedial line indistinct, dark defined on

outer side by greyish, oblique, slightly waved; an oblique dark

subterminal line defined on outer side by grey and with another

faint line beyond it defined on outer side by grey below the discal

fold; a black line before termen somewhat angled outwards at the

veins and oblique in the interspaces; a faint waved dark terminal

line with slight greyish marks beyond it in the interspaces. Under-

side whitish tinged with brown, the terminal areas grey-brown ;

Fig. 63.—Anisoneura salebrosa, $. 1}.

fore wing with faint dark bar from costa to lower angle of cell,

sinuous dark postmedial line, and white subterminal line excurved

below costa; hind wing with curved dark antemedial line, dark

medial line excurved beyond the cell, and white subterminal line

excurved at vein 6.

Hab. Stxuim, 26, 19; Assam (Badgley), 1 3,1 9, Silhet

(Stainsforth), 1 35, 2 2; Borneo, Kuching (Shelford), 1 ¢;

SumsBa. .Hap. 66-72 millim.

Genus ANYDROPHILA. Type

Anydrophila, John, Rev. Russ. Ent. ix. p. 123 (1909) ............ mirifica.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about

vertex of head and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate, thickly sealed ;

frons smooth ; eyes large, round; antennz of male with long fasciculate cilia ;

thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, the metathorax with spreading

crest; fore tibie moderately fringed with hair, the mid and hind tibia with

tufts of hair above at middle and extremity, the fore tibiz not spined, the hind

tibie spined between the mid and terminal spurs only ; abdomen smoothly

ANYDROPHILA. 265

scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen

evenly curved, 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 the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle;

5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anasto-

mosing with the cell near base only.

A. Fore wing on underside with elliptical black discoidal patch. s¢mmiola.

B, Fore wing on underside with oblique brown band beyond

the cell.

a. Hind wing with apical black patch extending to vein 4

and spots on termen at middle and towards tornus.

a’, Fore wing with the postmedial line arising from apex,

obliquely curyed and slightly sinuous to near lower

ainelexoficelWas capauamersden asian cocwume Onsen ceca case e ti: vist merificd.

1, Fore wing with the postmedial line bent outwards

below costa and angled outwards at discal fold ...... imitatrex.

b. Hind wing with broad black terminal band interrupted at

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8070. Anydrophila simiola.

Palpangula simiola, Ping. Iris, xii. p. 295, pl. 9. f. 12 (1900) ; Staud. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 243.

Head and thorax white mixed with reddish brown; palpi white,

tinged with brown towards tips; pectus and legs white, the latter

Fig. 64.—Anydrophila simiola, $. 3}.

irrorated with brown, the tarsi banded black and white; abdomen

yellow, the anal tuft and ventral surface white suffused in parts

with red-brown and irrorated with blackish especially on the veins ;

a slight blackish subbasal mark on costa; traces of a sinuous brown

antemedial line with small black spot at costa; postmedial line

black defined on outer side by white, arismg from a minute black

spot at middle of costa, very oblique and slightly sinuous to vein 6

near termen, then obliquely curved and sinuous to below vein 3,

then retracted to origin of vein 2 where there is a small black mark,

266 NOCTUID EH.

very strongly angled outwards in submedian fold to towards termen,

then retracted to middle of vein 1 where it terminates; a waved

blackish terminal line; cilia whitish with a diffused brown line at

middle and chequered with brown at tips. Hind wing golden

yellow, the costal area tinged with brown; a slight dark mark

beyond lower angle of cell; a large blackish apical patch extending

to below vein 5, a rounded spot at middle of termen and small

brownish spot towards tornus; cilia white chequered with brown at

middle and brownish at tornus. Underside of fore wing white, the

costal and apical areas irrorated with brown, a large elliptical black

discoidal patch extending to vein 2 with small spot above it on

costa, and a subapical spot; hind wing yellow, the costal area

white irrorated with brown, a large round subterminal spot below

apex, a smaller spot at middle of termen, and small spot towards

tornus.

Hab. W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Bokhara (Hauser), 1 3,

8 ©, Imam-baba (Koshantschikoff), 2 5, Tekke, 1 d; HE.

Turkestan, lh, Kungess. xp. 30-34 millim.

8071. Anydrophila mirifica.

Euclidia mirifica, Ersch. Fedtsch. Reis. p. 54, pl. 4 f. 56 (1874); Staud.

Cat. Lep. pal. p. 243.

@. Head and thorax white mixed with reddish brown; palpi

white slightly irrorated with brown towards tips; pectus and legs

white, the fore and mid legs with the tibiz irrorated with brown,

the tarsi banded black and white; abdomen yellow, the extremity

and ventral surface creamy white. Fore wing grey-white suffused

in parts with red-brown and irrorated with black-brown especially

on the veins; an indistinct diffused dentate red-brown medial line

from cell to inner margin; a slight dark postmedial mark on costa ;

a diffused obliquely curved and slightly sinuous red-brown line from

apex to just below vein 3 near lower angle of cell, with a faint

shade from its lower extremity to inner margin ; a slight waved

blackish terminal line; cilia white with diffused brown line at

middle and the tips chequered with brown. Hind wing golden

yellow; minute black postmedial streaks on veins 4, 3, 2; a large

black apical patch extending to vein 4, a large rounded spot at

middle of termen and smaller spot towards tornus; cilia white

faintly chequered with brown. Underside of fore wing white, the

disk tinged with yellowish, the costa and termen irrorated with

brown, a brownish spot at middle of costa and diffused band from

beyond lower angle of cell to inner margin, an oblique black

subapical spot from vein 7 to below 5 and black subterminal bar on

inner area; hind wing with the costal area and terminal area to

vein 3 white irrorated with brown, the rest of wing yellow, a large

black subterminal spot below apex and smaller spots at middle of

termen and towards tornus.

Hab. W. Turkestan (Erschoff), 1 9, Turcomania, Bokhara

( Hauser), 1 9, Imam-baba (Koshantschihof’), 2 9; EH. TuRKE-

‘sray, Ih. Hxp. 38 millim.

ANYDROPILULA. 267

8072. Anydrophila imitatrix.

Palpungula imitatrix, Christ. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 165; id. Rom,

Mém. vy. p. 42, pl. 3. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 243.

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with whitish and some

blackish; palpi blackish, the extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints

white ; pectus and legs white, the latter irrorated with brown, the

fore and hind tarsi banded black and white; abdomen yellow

faintly irrorated with brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface

white irrorated with brown. Fore wing pale grey thickly irrorated

and in parts suffused with red-brown; a black subbasal bar from

costa ; antemedial line black, arising from a small spot on costa,

slightly bent outwards below costa, then somewhat oblique and

waved; a dark mark at middle of costa and curved black discoidal

striga; postmedial line blackish, bent outwards below costa, then

obliquely downeurved and acutely angled outwards at discal fold,

curved downwards and inwards from vein 5 to below end of cell,

then strongly angled outwards in submedian fold and angled

inwards at vein 1; a diffused pale shade on postmedial area ;

a slight waved dark terminal line with black points at the inter-

spaces; cilia brownish at base, chequered brown and whitish at tips,

Hind wing golden-yellow ; a large apical black patch extending to

vein 4, a rounded spot at middle of termen and small spot towards

tornus; cilia white with a brownish line at middle except towards

apex, the tips chequered with brown at middle. Underside of fore

wing white, the disk tinged with yellowish, the costal and apical

areas irrorated with brown, a diffused oblique brown band from

beyond upper angle of cell to submedian fold, a black subapical

patch from vein 7 to below 5 and some brown with slight black

marks on it towards tornus. Hind wing yellow, the costal area

white irrorated with brown, a large round black patch on termen

below apex, a smaller spot at middle of termen, and small spot

towards tornus.

Hab. W. Turkestan, Turcomania; AFGHANISTAN, Kuschk,

136,19. Hap. 32 millim.

*8073. Anydrophila sabouraudi. (Plate CCX XVI. fig. 9.)

Palpangula sabouraudi, D. Lucas, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1907, p. 180; id.

Ann. Soe, Ent. Fr, lxxix. p, 484, pl. xviii. f. 6 (1911).

3. Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous; palpi white in

front; tarsi banded with black; abdomen grey-white tinged with

brown. Fore wing grey suffused with brown and irrorated with

black; subbasal line represented by a slight oblique black striga

from costa; a rather diffused black streak below base of cell;

antemedial line, orbicular, and reniform absent; a diffused black

streak in discal fold in terminal half of cell and slight streaks on

the bases of veins arising from cell; postmedial line hardly

traceable, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 5,

268 NOCTUIDA.

met at vein 5 by a slight dark shade from termen below apex; the

veins and interspaces of terminal area with slight dark streaks, a

stronger streak above middle of vein 5, not reaching termen ; cilia

intersected by dark streaks. Hind wing orange-yellow with broad

black terminal band slightly interrupted at submedian fold; cilia

white intersected with black from below apex to vein 2. Underside

white ; fore wing with oblique fuscous band from upper angle of

cell to above inner margin and fuscous terminal band narrowing to

tornus and suffused with grey at costa and termen; hind wing with

the inner area tinged with yellow, the terminal band _ partially

interrupted at submedian fold and with some white on it at apex.

Hab. Tunis, Zarcine, type + in Coll. D. Lucas. Huxp. 35

millim.

Genus CEROCALA.

Type.

Cerocala, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 171 (1840)

dapedugoonosnde teseeseee Scapulosa.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint oblique, reaching

to well above vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd very long and

somewhat dilated at extremity; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes

large, round; antennz of male bipectinate with inoderate branches to apex ;

thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales and without crests ; tibize smoothly

scaled, all the tibix strongly spined, the fore tibiee short and with claw-like

spines at extremity ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing

with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, crenulate; veins 3 and 5

from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8

to fourm the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one-third

length of wing; veins 3 and 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from above angle ;

6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

Sucr. I, Antenne bipectinate in both sexes.

8074. Cerocala czlata.

Cerocala celata, Karsch, Ent. Nachr. xxii. p. 235 (1896).

Head whitish, the palpi, frons, and branches of antennz brown ;

thorax dark brown, the tegule whitish except at sides; pectus and

Fig. 65.—Cerocala celata, Q. 4.

legs white and fuscous, the tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen

. grey-brown with segmental white lines. Fore wing purplish grey

CEROCALA. 269

irrorated with blackish; the costal half of basal area fuscous with

some silvery scales on “it: a faint pale sinuous antemedial line ;

orbicular a round black spot with tuft of raised silver scales on it, the

reniform represented by two similar spots ; postmedial line whitish,

excurved from discal fold to below vein 3, then retracted to lower angle

of cell and sinuous to inner margin, some purplish red defined by some

silvery scales on its outer side, its sinus and the whole of the area

beyond it fuscous ; subterminal line represented by whitish marks

towards costa. Hind wing grey-white suffused with fuscous

brown; a diffused fuscous postmedial band broad towards costa,

narrowing to inner margin; indistinct diffused subterminal and

terminal ‘fines. Cndenstils whitieh ; both wings with the basal half

and termen suffused with brown; fore wing with blackish spot in

middle of cell, broad discoidal bar and postmedial band narrowing to

inner margin; hind wing with broad black discoidal bar with

diffused curved band from it to above inner margin, and postmedial

band broad towards costa, narrowing to inner margin.

Hab. Togouann, Misahohe; N. Nraerta, Bauchi Prov., Kabwir

(For), 12, Ilorin (Macfie), 22, Zungeru (Macfie), 135,12,

Minna (Macfie), 19, Bida (Macfie), 19, Baro (Macfie), 19,

Badegei (Macfie), 12. Kap. 28 millim.

Sect. IT. Antennz of female ciliated.

A. Fore wing with the postmedial line retracted to base in

Sulome cianbinterspaceeseees sina ceesaeceeer een eeeeeeceee illustrata.

B. Fore wing with the postmedial line running to inner

margin and not retracted to base.

a. mn wing with the ground-colour white or ochreous

white.

Cane wing without oblique diffused eatemedell dark

and.

@. Hind wing not tinged with rufous.

a>, Hind wing with a bifid black spot below apex

and black patch at middle of termen.

a‘, Fore wing with the postmedial line not curved

inwards below costa ..........esecseeeeeceeeeeenes INSANG

b*, Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly

curved inwards below costa ............seeses00s sana,

o®, Hind wing with the whole terminal area

blacks lies Seeecuenaneaussaes suech ne seceaueseneiuenaeenese oppia.

b°, Hind wing tinged with rufous, a conjoined ter-

minal series of fuscous brown spots from apex to

vein 2.

a®. Hind wing without blackish subterminal band. munda.

6°. Hind wing with broad blackish subterminal

bebe esc ctetierean eau auaciomemenaut chances tdtiooeeecines acct scapulosa.

b, me wing with an oblique diffused antemedial dark

and.

a?, Fore wing with the antemedial line bent inwards

UO THONG? Waits) bo0. 556 Gnqsosadqooo don bokb soccoansanuseuoee vermiculosa.

62, Fore wing with the antemedial line bent outwards

COMMER MATIN. a ceneamebcos casa ieee <aedauscnsacise socotrensis.

c?, Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique,

that ohhtMuernsecase aacoccseneacesenereereccoes Siosisente orientalis,

270 NOCTUID &.

b. Hind wing with the ground-colour grey-brown.

a, Fore wing with white before the costal half of the

postmedial line, the ante- and postmedial lines more

or less clusely approximated below the cell ......... Masica,

b', Fore wing without white before the costal half of the

postmedial line, the ante- and postmedial lines well

separated below the cell ................scssceerverse seers contraria,

8075. Cerocala illustrata. (Plate CCX XVI. fig. 10.)

Cerocala illustrata, Holl. Don.-Smith’s ‘ Through Unknown African

Countries, p. 417, pl. f. 1 (1897).

Pseudophia lineata, Druce, P. Z. 8. 1900, p. 19, pl. i. f.7.

Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with whitish ; palpi white ;

pectus, legs, and abdomen white faintly tinged with rufous. Fore

wing grey-brown; a rather diffused wedge-shaped whitish patch in

and below the cell, defined below by a black streak in submedian fold

bent upwards to lower angle of cell ; a diffused blackish discoidal bar ;

postmedial line blackish defined on inner side by an oblique whitish

band, oblique from just beyond upper angle of cell to vein 3 below

which it is retracted to join the black streak at lower angle of cell;

subterminal line white defined on inner side by dark brown suffu-

sion, strongly angled inwards at discal fold, excurved at middle, then

acutely angled inwards just above vein 1, and with slight blackish

streaks before and beyond it in the interspaces; some dark points

on termen. Hind wing white tinged with brown, the terminal area

broadly fuscous brown except at tornus ; cilia white except at middle

and tornus. Underside of fore wing white with dark discoidal bar,

the terminal area brown expanding on inner area and emitting a

tooth to the discoidal bar, the cilia white at apex; hind wing white,

the terminal area brown narrowing to a point at tornus and leaving

a diffused whitish patch at middle of termen.

Ab. 1. Fore wing darker with the white markings narrow.

Ab. 2. g. Hind wing with the basal area pure white.

Hab. Asyssrnta, Argeesa (Donaldson-Smith), type + 2 in Coll.

Holland; Somarimanp, Bulhar (Drake-Brockman), 35,49.

Exp. 30-40 millim.

8076. Cerocala insana.

Grammodes insana. Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Sckmett. f. 895 (1850).

Cerocala scapulosa, Lucas, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1850, p. 103, pl. 2. f. 3

(nee Hibn.).

Cerocala algirie, Oberth. Et. Ent. i. p. 55, pl. iv. f. 7 (1876) ; Staud. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 241.

Head and thorax grey mixed with red-brown and some black

scales; vertex of head and base of tegule white, the latter with

black medial line; antenne black, the shaft white above; palpi

white, the 2nd joint brown at extremity, the 3rd blackish mixed

with white; pectus and legs white irrorated with black, the tarsi

black ringed with white; abdomen white dorsally tinged with

CEROCALA. 271

rufous and slightly irrorated with black. Fore wing rufous with

a silvery gloss, the costal area, the inner margin except towards

base and the terminal area grey-white irrorated with black ; a white

streak on base of subcostal nervure, a black point in base of cell

and sheht streak in base of submedian fold; antemedial line black

defined on outer side by white, from subcostal nervure to inner

margin, strongly excurved ; an oblique reddish white discoidal bar

defined at sides by black scales, its inner side sinuous; an oblique

reddish white postmedial band from subcostal nervure to vein 2,

defined on outer side by the black postmedial line, which at vein 2

is retracted to lower angle of cell, then obliquely incurved to inner

margin, defined on inner side by white and with some reddish white

between it and the antemedial line in submedian interspace ;

subterminal line white, oblique, angled inwards at discal and sub-

median folds, narrowly defined on outer side by the rufous ground-

colour which runs obliquely to apex ; a slight waved black terminal

line; cilia rufous at base with brown line at middle and whitish

tips. Hind wing white, the basal and inner areas suffused with

rufous to the rufous postmedial band with sinuous outer edge; a

somewhat bidentate black spot at apex and a terminal patch between

veins 4 and 2 with the cilia beyond it brown at base; the underside

white, a small black discoidal spot, indistinct obliquely curved rufous

band from costa beyond middle to tornus, and the black spots on

termen as above.

Ab. 1. Fore wing more uniformly suffused with rufous, the

markings obscured; hind wing with the postmedial band and

terminal black patches obsolescent.

Hab. Aucerta, Biskra (Walsingham, Eaton), 23, Hammam-

el-Salahin (Walsingham), 23, 29. Exp. 34-38 millim. The

locality “‘ Cape ” is an error.

8077. Cerocala sana. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 12.)

Cerocala insana, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur. ed. ii. p. 135 (nee Herr.-Schaff.).

Cerocala sana, Stavd. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 241 (1901).

Head and thorax creamy white mixed with brown, the vertex of

head and base of tegulz creamy white; antennz white, the branches

blackish ; palpi white, the extremity of 2nd joint red-brown, the

3rd joint irrorated with brown; tarsi brown ringed with white ;

abdomen creamy white dorsally irrorated with brown and with some

blackish scales at sides. Fore wing creamy white suffused with

dark red-brown and rufous, a white streak on subcostal nervure ;

antemedial line arising at subcostal nervure, blackish with a broad

dark red-brown band on its inner side and defined on outer side by

creamy white, strongly excurved; medial area rufous except towards

costa; orbicular reddish brown defined by blackish, round ; reniform

reddish brown defined by blackish except below, an oblique whitish

band from below costa at end of cell to the subterminal line above

vein 2, with slightly sinuous edges, defined on outer side by the

Mi Ds NOCTUID &.

slight blackish postmedial line, which at vein 2 is retracted to lower

end of cell, then sinuous and bent outwards to inner margin ;

postmedial area deep red-brown with blackish streaks in the inter-

spaces before the white subterminal line, which is waved towards

costa and strongly angled inwards at discal and submedian folds ;

terminal area suffused with rufous with an oblique whitish line

beyond the subterminal line arising from apex; a terminal series

of slight blackish lunules. Hind wing creamy white, the inner area

tinged with rufous; a rather diffused rufous postmedial band

ending at tornus, excurved at middle and incurved above vein 2 ;

a rather trifid dark red-brown apical patch and a terminal patch

between veins 4: and 2 with the cilia beyond it brown. Underside

white ; fore wing with black discoidal spot with oblique brown band

from it to inner margin, two blackish spots on apical part of

termen and a patch at middle of termen; hind wing with minute

discoidal spot, the postmedial band obsolescent, the terminal patches

as above.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the postmedial white band narrower and

not extending to the subterminal line.

Ab. 2. Hind wing with the postmedial band more diffused on

terminal area.

Hab. Asta Minor, Mersina (Lederer), 13, Taurus (Lederer),

5 6, 19; Syria, 2 5, Leech Coll, Antioch; Pers1an GULF,

Bander Abbas (James), 19. Hxp. 32-38 millim.

8078. Cerocala oppia. (Plate CCX XVI. fig. 13.)

Pseudophia oppia, Druce, P. Z. S. 1900, p. 18, pl. i. f. 1.

©. Head and thorax bright rufous, the back of head and base of

tegule whitish; palpi except at tips, pectus, and legs white, the fore

tibiee and tarsi tinged with brown in front; abdomen white dorsally

banded with glossy grey-brown. Fore wing deep rufous, the costal

area brown irrorated with grey and silvery scales, the base of inner

margin whitish, the terminal area grey-white irrorated with brown ;

an interrupted sinuous silver subbasal line, incurved in submedian

interspace ; antemedial line black, defined on outer side by white,

arising at subcostal nervure and almost erect; medial area paler

rufous ; orbicular a small round silver spot incompletely defined by

black; reniform with silver and rufous centre incompletely defined

by black ; an obliquely curved whitish band beyond the cell from

just below costa to vein 2 at the subterminal line, its lower part

tinged with rufous, defined on outer side by the slight black

postmedial line, which at vein 2 is retracted to lower edge of

reniform, then oblique to inner margin and defined on inner side by

white, an oblique silver band beyond it from below costa to vein 3

and an incurved band from vein 2 to inner margin; subterminal

line yellowish white defined on outer side by rufous, angled inwards

at discal fold and oblique below vein 3; a slight waved dark

terminal line ; cilia whitish tinged with rufous. Hind wing white,

the terminal area black-brown, broadly at costa and narrowing

CEROCALA. 973

to tornus; cilia white with black-brown patches at middle and

tornus. Underside white with the terminal areas black ; fore wing

with oblique black band from discocellulars to the terminal black

area at inner margin, a white patch before middle of termen ; hind

wing with some white on apical part of termen and an oblique bar

at vein 2.

Hab. Somauimann, Haweea (Peel), 19. Hap. 28 millim.

Type + in Mus. Oxon.

*8079. Cerocala munda. (Plate CCX XVI. fig. 14.)

Cerocala munda, Druce, P. Z. S. 1900, p. 19, pl. i. f. 3.

@. Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with some rufous;

tegulz with some brown scales ; tibiz and tarsi brownish, the latter

ringed with white; abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface whitish.

Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous, the costal area, inner medial

area, and the terminal area white irrorated with brown ; antemedial

line blackish defined on outer side by white, strongly excurved from

subcostal nervure to inner margin, some black suffusion before it

with silvery striz in and below the cell; a small blackish and silvery

spot in upper part of middle of cell; reniform defined by blackish,

with some silvery scales on upper and lower part and terminal part of

median nervure ; an obliquely incurved white band beyond the cell

from below the costa to vein 3, defined on outer side by the black

postmedial line, which at vein 3 is retracted to lower angle of cell,

then inwardly oblique to above vein 1, bent outwards to inner margin

and slightly defined on inner side by white, a silvery line beyond it

from below costa to vein 3, and a blackish and silvery patch in

submedian interspace; subterminal line slight, pale, defined on

inner side by brown suffusion and on outer side by rufous, angled

inwards at discal fold to the silvery line and oblique below vein 4;

a terminal series of blackish points; cilia brown with a white patch

at apex. Hind wing whitish suffused with rufous; a brown

discoidal spot, faint subterminal shade, and terminal series of

conjoined blackish spots from apex to vein 2, underside white

mostly suffused with rufous; both wings with large black discoidal

spot; fore wing with quadrate black patch at apex.

Hab. SOMALILAND, Haud, Odeweni (Peel), type + 2 in Mus.

Oxon. Hap. 32 millim.

8080. Cerocala scapulosa.

Noctua scapulosa, Hibn. Kur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 360-561 ae a

Lép. Fr. vii. p. 3538, pl. 121. ff. 5-6; Mill. Icones, ii. pl. 89. ff. ;

Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 241.

Head and thorax dark brown mixed with greyish, the vertex of

head and base of tegule creamy white; antennze with the shaft

whitish above; palpi white, the 2nd joint dark brown above, the

8rd joint blackish irrorated with white; pectus white mixed with

VOL. XIil. an

Q74 NOCTUID A.

brown; legs grey irrorated with brown; abdomen creamy white

suffused with brown, the ventral surface white. Fore wing grey

tinged with brown, the costal area irrorated with dark brown; sub-

basal black strize from costa and cell and a black streak in base of

submedian fold ; antemedial line black faintly defined on outer side

by whitish, arising at subcostal nervure and bent inwards to inner

margin, a grey-brown band suffused with silvery scales before it,

on inner area extending to base; orbicular grey-brown with a

silvery gloss, defined by black, small, round; reniform grey-brown

with a silvery gloss, defined at sides by black, somewhat produced

at upper extremity; postmedial line black, arising below costa,

oblique to vein 4, then excurved to the subterminal line, at vein 2

retracted to lower edge of reniform, then obliquely incurved to

inner margin, the area between it and the subterminal line erey-

brown with a silvery gloss and slight blackish marks before the

Fig. 66.—Cerocala scapulosa, §. 1}.

creamy white subterminal line, which is oblique and slightly

sinuous, angled inwards at discal and submedian folds and excurved

at middle, defined on outer side by a red-brown line bent outwards

to apex; a crenulate black line just before termen except towards

apex and tornus ; cilia reddish brown, white at tips towards apex.

Hind wing creamy white tinged with rufous especially on inner

area; a red-brown band from costa beyond middle to tornus,

slightly angled inwards above vein 2; a series of dentate black-

brown spots on the extremities of the veins from apex to vein 2 ;

cilia chequered with reddish brown from apex to vein 2. Underside

creamy white; fore wing with oblique irregular reddish brown

band from the discocellulars to above inner margin, diffused below

the cell, a conical subterminal black-brown patch from costa to

vein 6, a terminal series of black-brown spots except towards

CEROCALA. 275

tornus ; hind wing with oblique brown bar from vein 2 to termen

above tornus and terminal series of black-brown spots from apex

to vein 2, confluent towards apex and at middle.

Hab. Sp Arn, Andalusia, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls., Gibraltar

(Meade- Waldo). Exp. 40-42 millim.

rcs Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 278, pl. 53. ff. 3@-b; Hoffm. Raup.

p. 145.

; Long, slender, cylindrical, livid grey ; head yellow, the two anterior

pairs of prolegs absent. Food-plant, Helianthemum halimifolium.

4—6 and 9-10.

8081. Cerocala vermiculosa. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 15.)

Cerocala vermiculosa, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. ff. 184-135 (1850).

Head and thorax grey-brown, the vertex of head and base of

tegule creamy white with some rufous hair above; patagia with

black streaks above; antennz with the shaft whitish above ; palpi,

pectus, and legs creamy white, the fore and mid tibize black-brown

above ; abdomen creamy white, dorsally tinged with rufous. Fore

wing creamy white suffused with rufous, the costal area white’

irrorated with brown to the postmedial line, the terminal area

white irrorated with brown, the termen brown except towards apex ;

subbasal black striee from costa and cell with a slight black streak

beyond them in submedian fold; an antemedial black point on

costa; the antemedial line black defined on outer side by white,

strongly excurved, a broad grey-brown band before it with black

and silvery markings on its inner edge; medial area strongly

suffused with rufous except towards costa; orbicular grey-brown

suffused with silvery scales and defined by black, round; reniform

grey-brown suffused with silvery scales, defined by black except

below, a red-brown patch beyond it with a black line on its outer

edge; an oblique creamy white band tinged with rufous below

from costa beyond the cell to the subterminal line at vein 2,

defined on outer side by the black postmedial line, which at vein 2

is retracted to lower edge of reniform, then obliquely incurved to

inner margin and slightly defined on inner side by white, the area

between it and the subterminal line grey-brown with a silvery

gloss and some black streaks and marks before the subterminal line

and below end of cell; subterminal line whitish, oblique, strongly

angled inwards at discal fold and very acutely angled inwards

in * en machen fold to below end of cell, defined on outer side

by a brown line arising from apex; a crenulate black terminal

line; cilia reddish brown, whitish towards apex. Hind wing

creamy white, the basal and inner areas suffused with rufous ;

a curved black-brown postmedial band from costa to vein 2

where it is conjoined to an oblique patch from tornus, extending

to termen from below apex to vein 5, the black- brown extending

on termen to vein 2; cilia white, black- brown at middle and

tornus. Underside creamy white; fore wing with black-brown

discoidal patch with oblique brown band from it to above inner

m 2

cA]

276 NOCTUID &.

margin, where it is conjoined to a curved black-brown postmedial

band expanding into a large patch on costal area and diffused to

termen from below apex to vein 8; hind wing with black discoidal

spot, broad oblique sinuous band from costa to beyond middle to

tornus, and diffused maculate terminal band from below apex to

vein 2.

Hab. Lourrmngo Marquss, Delagoa Bay (Distant), 1 2 ;

BECHUANALAND, Lake N’Gami (Lugard), 2 2 ; TRANSVAAL,

Pretoria (Distant), 1 6 ; Oranen R. Cotony, Bloemfontein

(Eckersley), 1 2, Leewspruit (Hamilton), 1 3; Care Conony

(Sir A. Smith), 13, Grahamstown, 1 ¢, Knysna (T7rimen),1¢,

19, Eerste R. (Trimen), 135,19, Simons Town (de la Garde),

19. Hap. 42-50 millim.

8082. Cerocala socotrensis. (Plate CCX XVI. fig. 16.)

Cerocala sokotrensis, Hmpsn. Bull. Liverp. Mus. ii. p. 86 (1899); id. Nat.

Hist. Sokotra, p. 326, pl. xx. f. 27.

Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey, the vertex of

head and base of tegule creamy white, the latter with black

medial line; antenne with the shaft white above; palpi white,

the extremity of 2nd joint and the 3rd joint irrorated with brown ;

pectus and legs white ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with rufous.

Fore wing whitish suffused with rufous, the costal area grey-white

thickly irrorated with dark brown, the terminal area grey irrorated

with blackish, the termen suffused with reddish brown except at

apex ; antemedial line black defined on outer side by creamy white,

oblique, slightly sinuous, a broad grey-brown band before it from

below costa to above inner margin, its inner edge angled inwards

at submedian fold and vein 1; medial area rufous except towards

costa; orbicular and reniform grey-brown with a silvery gloss

defined by black, the former round, the latter slightly produced at

upper extremity; an oblique creamy white band beyond the cell

from below costa to vein 2, defined on outer side by the black

postmedial line, which at vein 2 is retracted to lower angle of cell,

then obliquely incurved to inner margin and defined on inner side

by white; postmedial area grey-brown with a silvery gloss and

some blackish before the subterminal line, which is whitish,

angled inwards at discal fold, excurved at middle and angled

inwards at submedian fold, defined on outer side by a brown line

bent outwards to apex; a terminal series of black lunules ;

cilia fusecous brown, white at apex. Hind wing creamy white

suffused with rufous to the postmedial band except a patch beyond

the cell; a blackish streak near base of inner area; a blackish

streak on extremity of median nervure and a diffused oblique fascia

on discocellulars and thence to the postmedial band at submedian

fold; postmedial band dark red-brown, its inner edge oblique to

tornus, its outer edge extending almost to termen but leaving

some white on termen above and below two black spots on apical

part of termen and a large spot at middle of termeén with small

CEROCALA. O77

spot below it; cilia with some black-brown beyond the two spots

at middle of termen and at tornus. Underside white; fore wing

with oblique black fascia from discocellulars to submedian fold,

large black apical patch with oblique band from it to inner margin,

the terminal area grey-brown; hind wing with small black spots

on discocellulars and beyond lower angle of cell, a reddish brown

postmedial band from costa to termen at vein 1 where it becomes

a blackish patch, its outer edge excurved on costal half, black

patches on termen below apex and at middle.

Hab. Soxotra, Jena-agahan (O.-Grant), 1 9, Hadibu Plains

(0.-Grant),5 3, 5 9 type. Hap. 38-46 millim.

*8083. Cerocala orientalis. (Plate CCX XVI. fig. 17.)

Cerocala orientalis, de Joan. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1912, p. 287.

@. Head and thorax brown mixed with some greyish; palpi

white with a slight brown streak on 2nd joint and the 8rd joint

brown ; antennz whitish ; pectus white with black spots below the

eyes; legs white, the tibiz and tarsi tinged with brown; abdomen

white dorsally irrorated with brown. Fore wing whitish thickly

irrorated and in parts suffused with brown; some bluish white on

costal area to beyond middle and on terminal area below apex; a

rather oblique black antemedial line with brown suffusion before

it with a sinuous series of silvery points on it except towards costa,

some whitish beyond it except towards costa; orbicular a small

black spot with some silvery scales on it; reniform brown defined

by blackish, a silvery point at its upper extremity and some silver

near its inner and lower edges, a whiter patch beyond it; post-

medial line black, oblique to vein 2, then retracted to below angle

of cell and obliquely incurved to inner margin, some brown suffusion

beyond it with an oblique silver line on it from below costa to

vein 3 and some silver in submedian interspace; a whitish sub-

terminal line angled inwards below costa and at discal fold and

oblique below vein 4, the area before it dark brown to vein 3 and

beyond it obliquely to apex; a waved black terminal line; cilia

brownish. Hind wing fuscous brown; an oblique white medial

band from costa to vein 2 where it ends in a point; an oblique

white bar from vein 2 to termen at submedian fold; cilia white,

black-brown between vein 4 and submedian fold. Underside of

fore wing white tinged with rufous towards base, an oblique

blackish discal band from below costa to submedian fold where it

joins the blackish terminal area with curved inner edge and some

whitish on it between vein 4 and submedian fold; hind wing

white with black discoidal lunule and spot above it on costa, the

terminal area black with wedge-shaped white marks from apex

and towards tornus.

Hab. Cocutn-Cuina, Cap. St. Jacques (Fouquet), type t 2 in

Coll. de Joannis. Hap. 44 millim.

278 NOCTUID®.

8084. Cerocala masaica, n. sp. (Plate CCX XVI. fig. 18.)

Head and base of tegule creamy white tinged with rufous;

palpi slightly irrorated with brown above; frons rufous above ;

antenne with the shaft white ringed with brown, the branches

blackish ; thorax grey-brown with a silvery gloss; pectus and legs

white tinged with rufous, the fore tibiz in front and the tarsi

dark brown, the latter ringed with white; abdomen whitish

suffused with rufous. Fore wing red-brown, the area below the

costa white irrorated with red-brown, the medial area and band

beyond the cell whitish suffused with rufous, the terminal area

ale grey irrorated with brown; a V-shaped silver mark from

middle of cell to above inner margin before the antemedial line,

angled inwards in submedian fold where there is some black before

and beyond it; antemedial line black, oblique, obsolescent on

costal area and slightly defined on outer side by white; orbicular

and reniform silvery defined by black, the former small, round, the

latter narrow and open above and below; the band beyond the

cell oblique from costa to the subterminal line at vein 2, defined

on outer side by the black postmedial line, which is slightly

incurved to vein 2, then retracted to lower edge of reniform,

obliquely incurved to inner margin, more or less approximated to

the antemedial line and slightly defined on inner side by white; a

slightly incurved silver line on the red-brown postmedial area from

below costa to vein 3, then interrupted and obliquely curved from

below the sinus of the postmedial line to inner margin, some short

black streaks beyond it before the subterminal line, which is slight

and whitish, incurved at discal fold and almost obsolete below

vein 3; a brown terminal line; cilia pale red-brown at base,

whitish at tips. Hind wing whitish, the basal and inner areas

suffused with reddish brown; a diffused dark discoidal bar with

whitish patch beyond it; a broad diffused fuscous shade from costa

to vein 2, defined on outer side by whitish; the terminal area

fuscous; cilia white tinged with red-brown. Underside white;

fore wing with the discal-area tinged with brown, the orbicular

and reniform fuscous, an oblique fuscous postmedial band

expanding towards costa, the termen suffused with fuscous; hind

wing with some dark brown on costa near base, a streak in middle

of cell and large discoidal patch, a sinuous band from costa beyond

middle to tornus, broad at costa and narrowing to tornus, the

termen dark from apex to vein 2.

Hab. Br. EK. Arrica, Kilimakiu (Crawshay), 1 3 type,

Machakos (Crawshay), 12, Kiu (Crawshay), 1 2, Nairobi

(Betton, Anderson), 3 3, Muani (Betton), 19. Hap. 30-

34 millim.

8085. Cerocala contraria. (Plate CCX XVI. fig. 19.)

Poaphila contraria, W\k. xxxiy. 990 (1865).

Bolina revulsa, Wilgrn. Ofv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1875, p. 116.

Head creamy white with a brown band above frons; antenne

CEROCALA.—LEUCANITIS. 279

with the branches blackish; thorax grey-brown with a silvery

gloss, the base of tegule creamy white; pectus and legs pale

brown, the mid tibiz with fine brown streaks; abdomen grey-

brown. Fore wing grey-brown; some silvery scales at base;

minute subbasal black striz from costa and cell; antemedial line

black, oblique, strong except at costa, slightly angled outwards

below costa, defined on inner side: by silvery scales; orbicular and

reniform with silvery centres strongly defined by black, the former

small, round; postmedial line black, oblique to below vein 3, then

retracted to lower edge of reniform and oblique to inner margin,

the area beyond it suffused with black to the subterminal line,

with an oblique silvery line beyond the postmedial line from costa

to vein 8, then interrupted and incurved from the sinus of the

postmedial line to inner margin; subterminal line only defined by

the contrast between the postmedial and terminal areas, angled

inwards at discal fold, excurved at middle, and incurved below

vein 3; a slight waved dark terminal line. Hind wing whitish

strongly suffused with grey-brown; a fuscous brown sinuous band

from costa beyond middle to tornus, diffused on inner side and

defined on outer side by whitish; a slight dark terminal line.

Underside of fore wing brownish grey, a dark discoidal patch with

whitish patches before and beyond it, an oblique dark postmedial

band expanding at costa; hind wing whitish tinged with brown,

the costa brown, a blackish discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial

brown band, and terminal band from apex to vein 2.

Hab. Masnonatanp, Umtali (Marshall), 19; Ruopestia,

Bulawayo (Hyles), 19; TRansvaat, Piet Retief (Crawshay), 43,

292, White R. (Cooke), 1 3S, Rietfonten (Janse), 13, Herstel

(Janse), 192, Johannesburg, (Cregoe), 13d, Pretoria (Distant),

13,19; Navat, Malvern (Marshall), 1 2, Durban (Bowker),

19; Care Cotony, Annshaw (Miss & Barrett), 1 5, 29.

EKxp. 32-40 millim.

Genus LEUCANITIS.

Leucanitis, Guen. Noct. iti. p. 58 (1852) ......... 1.1... eenee cee eeneeeeen ens roda,

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to

vertex of head and moderately sealed, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth; eyes

large, round; antennse of inale ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and scales

mixed, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibiae smoothly scaled, the fore

tibize with more or less developed claws on iuner and outer sides at extremity,

the hind tibiae not spined; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests.

Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, 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 the cell half the

length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from above angle ;

6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

Secor. I. Fore tibize with the claws well developed.

A. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines conjoined

at subinedian fold and not extending to inner margin ... eabylaria.

280 NOCTUIDZ.

B, Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines not

conjoined at submedian fold and extending to inner

margin.

a. Hind wing without oblique dark discoidal band............ sesquistria.

6. Hind wing with oblique dark discoidal band ............... picta.

8086. Leucanitis cabylaria. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 20.)

Leucanitis kabylaria, Bang-Haas, Iris, xix. p. 136, pl. v. f. 7 (1906);

John, Hor. Soc, Ent. Ross. xxxix. p. 613, pl. xvi. f. 7¢ & pl. xix. f. 7.

Head white irrorated with brown, the antenne fuscous; thorax

red-brown mixed with some ochreous white and dark brown ; pectus

and legs white irrorated with brown; abdomen ochreous white

irrorated with brown, the ventral surface whiter. Fore wing

red-brown, the costal and inner areas fuscous mixed with grey-

white, the terminal area grey-white irrorated with brown ; subbasal

line indistinct, black, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold,

shghtly defined by ochreous and with some ochreous beyond it in

submedian fold; antemedial line black-brown, oblique from costa

to submedian fold where it is met by the postmedial line, which is

oblique to vein 6, incurved at discal fold, angled outwards at veins

4, 3, then retracted to median nervure at origin of vein 2 and

curved downwards to the antemedial line at submedian fold, the

antemedial line on outer side and the postmedial line on inner side

defined by ochreous white; lower part of reniform indistinctly

defined by black; subterminal line ochreous white defined on inner

side by shght black streaks and on outer by a narrow rufous band,

slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle; an oblique blackish

mark from apex; a fine waved blackish terminal line ; cilia whitish

mixed with fuscous and with two dark lines through them. Hind

wing with the basal half white with some brown suffusion on inner

area; the terminal half fuscous brown with sinuous inner edge ;

white patches on termen at apex, below veins 7 and 6, and an

oblique patch at vein 2; cilia white with a dark patch at middle.

Underside of fore wing white, an oblique dark discoidal bar

confluent at submedian fold with a dark postmedial band terminating

at the fold, terminal dark patches at apex and middle ; hind wing

with dark discoidal spot.

Hab. Tunts,1 9. Hap. 34 millim.

8087. Leucanitis sesquistria.

Leucanitis sesquistria, Ky. Bull. Mose. 1854, iii. p. 191, pl. 1. f. 6; John,

Hor, Soc. Ent. Ross. xxxix. p. 613, pl. xvii. ff. 7 6, ¢, 8a, pl. xx. f. 17

& pl. xxiii. f. 4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 244.

Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with some reddish brown

and dark brown; antennz blackish; palpi white with some brown

irroration exceptat base ; pectus and legs white, the latter irrorated

with brown; abdomen grey-brown with some white at base, the

LEUCANITIS. 281

ventral surface white. Fore wing fuscous brown with a leaden

grey gloss mixed with some reddish brown and ochreous white ;

antemedial line black, slightly bent outwards below costa, then

obliquely curved, defined on outer side by a narrow white band ;

reniform incompletely defined by black, rather triangular, an

oblique whitish band beyond it from costa to vein 3 before the

postmedial line, which is black defined on outer side at costa by

ochreous white, slightly bent outwards below costa, incurved at

discal fold, slightly excurved at veins 4, 3, then retracted to lower

edge of reniform, then sinuous and slightly defined on inner side

by white to inner margin; some slight white streaks on postmedial

part of costa; subterminal line ochreous white defined on inner

side by small somewhat dentate black marks ; a terminal series of

small black lunules; cilia white with some dark brown at tips

—<—

Fig. 67.—Leucanitis sesquistria, §. 21.

below middle and at base at tornus. Hind wing with the basal

half pure white, the terminal half black-brown, its inner edge

somewhat sinuous and oblique to inner margin towards tornus ;

the termen white from apex to vein 5 and with an oblique bar at

vein 2; cila white with dark patches at middle and tornus.

Underside of fore wing white, an oblique dark discoidal band

connected below with the broad postmedial band which is connected

with termen by dark patches at apex, middle, and tornus, the rest

of termen with dark irroration except a white subterminal bar from

costa; hind wing with dark discoidal point.

Hab. ARMENIA; Kirenistan; W. TurKESTAN, Turcomania,

Merv, 1 3, Tedschen Oasis (Hauser), 2 9, Syr Daria, Baigacum

(Koshantschikof’), 13,29 ; HE. TurKxesray, Korla. Hxp. 28-32

millim.

282 -NOCTUIDE.

8088. Leucanitis picta. (Plate CCX XVI. fig. 21.)

Leucanitis picta, Christ. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xii. p. 257, pl. 7. f. 28

(1877) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 243.

Leucanitis radapicta, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 243 (1901).

Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with white and some

blackish ; antennze fuscous ; palpi, pectus, and legs white, the palpi

and legs irrorated with fuscous ; abdomen ochreous white irrorated

with brown, the ventral surface white. Fore wing reddish brown

mixed with white and suffused in parts with fuscous brown, the

medial area white tinged with ochreous and with fuscous brown

towards costa; double subbasal black striz from costa and cell ;

antemedial line black defined on outer side by white, an indistinct

sinuous line before it with some dark streaks before it on the veins ;

reniform with white annulus and its centre defined by blackish,

a diffused white patch beyond it before the postmedial line, which

is black, shghtly bent outwards below costa, obliquely downcurved

to vein 6, angled outwards at veins 4, 3, then bent inwards to

lower edge of reniform and sinuous to inner margin, another faint

line beyond it defined on outer side by whitish ; subterminal line

white defined on inner side by small somewhat dentate black marks

and on outer side by rufous with minute black streaks at the veins,

shghtly excurved below vein 7 and at middle; the terminal area

suffused with white, with an oblique black mark from apex and

some black suffusion at middle of termen ; a waved black terminal

line; cilia white mixed with red-brown and with a brown line

through them except towards apex. Hind wing white, the cell

and inner area suffused with fuscous brown, the terminal half

fuscous brown, its inner edge joined at vein 2 by an oblique

discoidal bar; a blackish spot at middle of termen defined above by

some white in discal fold and below by an oblique white bar; cilia

white with some brown at base at middle. Underside white, both

wings with oblique discoidal band connected below with a post-

medial band confluent with patches on terminal areas at apex and

middle, the band curved on fore wing, sinuous on hind wing.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial area browner and with less

ochreous.

Ab. 2. radapicta. Rather larger; fore wing more uniform

brown.—Kirghistan. :

Hab. Kirentstan, 1 5, 19; ?Syrta; W. TuRKESTAN;

TRANSCASPIA, Krasnowvodsk (Christoph), 13,2 9, Tedschen Oasis

(Hauser), 2 6,1 2, Imam-baba (Koshantschikoff), 2 3, Turco-

mania, Issyk-Kul; E. Turkestan, Ili, Kuldja,3 5,1 9. Hap.

36—42 millim.

Sxcr. II. Fore tibie with the claws minute.

A. Hind wing with white spots on termen at apex and discal

HOM enc jah seeing entice once cam csemtiens eatcnemnee Guia mt wensemacemaemetees christophi.

B. Hind wing without white spots on termen at apex and discal

HO) onoonsoscooqtoodess=an.cbebHAGandoHaKe CdoeoGadHRooBOCOnSONoBSaGMaSOCN roda,

LEUCANITIS. 285:

8089. Leucanitis christophi. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 22.)

Leucanitis christophi, Alph. Iris, viii. p. 200 (1895); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal.

p. 243.

3. Head and thorax pale rufous; antenne blackish; palpi

white slightly tinged with brown ; pectus and legs white, the tibize

tinged with brown, the tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen

white tinged with brown. Fore wing pale grey suffused and

irrorated with fuscous; the basal area with some rufous on inner

half; subbasal black strize from costa and cell; antemedial line

strong, black, excurved and slightly waved, followed by a broad

pale grey band; a faint dark medial line, excurved in the cell;

renitorm with brown centre and whitish annulus, narrow and

constricted at middle; postmedial line black, slightly bent out-

wards below costa, slightly angled outwards at veins 6 and 4 and

incurved between those points, at vein 3 retracted upwards to lower

angle of cell, then somewhat oblique and sinuous to inner margin,

the area beyond the cell and in the sinus of postmedial line with

faint rufous tinge; postmedial area darker; subterminal line

slight, whitish, minutely waved, angled outwards below vein 7,

and incurved below vein 3; a slight waved blackish terminal line ;

cilia fuscous at base, brownish grey at tips. Hind wing white,

the basal and inner areas tinged with brown; an oblique black

discoidal lunule, its lower extremity confluent with the black

terminal area ; the termen with white spots at apex and discal fold

and an oblique spot below vein 2; cilia white, blackish at middle

and tinged with brown towards tornus. Underside of fore wing

white, a black medial band confluent below vein 2 with the curved ~

postmedial band expanding and with irregular outer edge on costal

area, a black spot at apex and a patch at middle of terminal area

confluent with the postmedial band; cilia white at base, blackish at

tips.

"9 . Fore wing with the basal area more tinged with rufous, the

basal half of medial area darker and faintly tinged with rufous,

the postmedial line more incurved at discal fold and produced at

vein 4.

Ab. 1. ¢. Fore wing with the postmedial line obsolescent

brownish.

2. Thorax pale brown; fore wing with less blue-grey on medial

and terminal areas.—Korla, Coll. Piingeler.

Hab. Russta, Urals, Eurba, 1 ¢, 1 2 ; Krrenisran, Sudersk ;

Mowneorta, Korla, Saichin-Kette. xp. 3 32, 2 36 millim.

8090. Leucanitis roda.

Huclidia roda, Herr.-Schaff, Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 422, Noct. ff. 561-2

(1845); John, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross, xxxix. p. 602, pl. xvi. ff. la-c &

2a-6, pl. xix. f. 6, & pl. xxii. f. 28.

Microphisa rada, Boisd. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1848, p. xxx; Frr. Neue

Beitr. pl. 576. f. 4 (1852); Guen. Noct. ii. p. 58, pl. 13. f. 12 (1852) 5

Ey. Bull. Mose. 1857, iv. p. 401; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 243.

284 NOCTUIDE.

Leucanitis schlumbergeri, Fuchs, Soc. Ent. xviii. p. 50 (1903).

Leucanitis beta, Kusnezov, Taskent, Izv. Turk. Otd. Russ, geogr. Obse. iv.

8, p. 173 (1908).

Head and thorax rufous ; antenne blackish; palpi white irrorated

with brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white,

the legs irrorated with brown, the dorsal surface of abdomen tinged

and irrorated with brown. Fore wing fuscous brown with a leaden

grey tinge and some whitish irroration ; the base pale rufous with

some whitish at inner margin; antemedial line double, curved,

waved, the inner line indistinct, the outer line black, followed by a

broad grey-white band; reniform with ochreous annulus and its

centre defined by brown, very narrow and slightly angled inwards

on median nervure; a grey-white band beyond it from costa to

vein 3 before the slight blackish postmedial line, which is oblique

and sinuous from costa to vein 8, then retracted to lower edge of

reniform and erect and sinuous to inner margin ; subterminal line

slight, whitish defined on inner side by blackish, minutely waved,

slightly angled outwards below vein 7 and excurved at middle; a

slight waved blackish terminal line with black points at the inter-

spaces. Hind wing with the basal half white, the cell and inner

SS ~—

Fig. 68.—Leucanitis roda, 3. }.

area suffused with brown, the terminal half fuscous brown, its

inner edge joined at lower angle of cell by an oblique fuscous

discoidal bar; slight white marks on termen at apex and discal

fold and an oblique bar at vein 2; cilia white with a brown patch

at middle and tinged with brown towards tornus. Underside

white; fore wing with oblique fuscous band from middle of costa

to submedian fold where it is confluent with a curved fuscous

postmedial band connected with termen by fuscous patches at apex

and middle; hind wing as above but without the brown suffusion

in cell and on inner area.

Ab. 1. schlumbergert. Larger ; fore wing more uniform blue-

rey.

: ub 2. beta. Fore wing blackish tinged with blue-grey, the basal

area blacker.

Hab. ? Russta, Crimea; ArmeEnta, Helenendorf (Lederer),

1°; W. Turxesran, 1 5,1 2, Turcomania, Saisan, Issyk-Kul ;

E. Turkestan, Ili, Korla. Exp. 34-86 millim.

SCODIONYX. 285

Genus SCODIONYX, alae

Scodionyx, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 897 (1899) .........sscesecseeeserens wa. mystica,

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, the 2nd joint fringed with hair

in front, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded ; antenne of

male bipectinate with long branches to apex; head and thorax clothed with

hair only and without crests; fore tibiz short with strong curved claw on

inner side; mid tibize spined; hind tibia with a few spines between medial

and terminal spurs; abdomen with some rough hair at base but without

crests. Fore wing broad, the termen evenly 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 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell;

5 trom above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell

near base only.

*8091. Scodionyx mystica.

Scodionyx mysticus, Staud, Iris, xii. p. 897, pl. 5. f. 2 (1899); id. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 355.

3. Head and thorax ochreous slightly tinged with rufous;

_ pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous

slightly tinged with rufous; subbasal line represented by a slight

brown striga from costa; antemedial line represented by a brown

striga from costa, then almost obsolete, curved and slightly waved ;

Fig. €9.—Scodionyx mystica, S. }.

elaviform and orbicular absent; reniform pale brownish, rather

quadrate and with its lower extremity produced; postmedial line

indistinct, brownish, very minutely waved, excurved from costa to

vein 4, then slightly incurved; subterminal line pale slightly

defined by brown on each side, minutely waved, excurved from

costa to vein 4, then oblique, the costal area beyond it with a slight

brownish tinge; a slight waved red-brown terminal line. Hind

wing ochreous white, the terminal area very faintly tinged with

286 NOCTUID MH.

rufous; the underside white, the costal area faintly tinged with

rufous.

_ Hab. Pauesttne, Ain-Dschidi in Coll. Piingeler. Hap. 40

millim.

Genus GNAMPTONYX.

Gnamptonyx, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 480 (1894) oo... eee eeeeee eee vilis.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint upturned, reaching to

middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate, porrect and thickly

scaled; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antennze of male with fasciculate

cilia; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibice

slightly fringed with hair, the fore tibize short with long curved claw on inner

side and short claw on outer, the mid tibiz of male dilated with a groove

containing a fringe of scales, the hind tibia not spined; abdomen smoothly

scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen

evenly curved, 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 the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from

angle; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anasto-

mosing With the cell near base only.

A. Wings with the lines distinct .......0......cceeseesececeneeceenees vilis.

B. Wings with the lines almost obsolete ..............-.csceseeceeeeee obsoleta.

8092. Gnamptonyx vilis.

Homoptera vilis, Wik. xxxiii. 889 (1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 480.

Head and thorax white mixed with brown; antennz ringed with

black; palpi white with some black towards extremity of 2nd and

on 3rd joints ; pectus, legs, and abdomen white tinged with ochreous.

Fore wing white mixed with ochreous brown and black-brown ;

subbasal line represented by black strize from costa and cell; ante-

medial line black, waved, excurved in submedian interspace, a

Fig. 70.—Gnamptonyx vilis, 3. }.

white band beyond it; reniform indistinctly defined by blackish

and with some blackish above it on costa; a white patch beyond

the cell from costa to vein 2, defined by the black postmedial line

which is slightly excurved below costa and at middle and incurved

at discal fold, incurved and slightly sinuous below vein 4; the

postmedial area darker with two white points on costa; subterminal

line ochreous white, rather diffused, excurved below vein 7 and at

middle, ineurved below the costa and at discal and submedian folds ;

GNAMPTONYX.—HYPOGLAUCITIS. 287

a waved blackish line just before termen with whitish points

beyond it at the interspaces; a fine white line at base of cilia.

Hind wing white tinged and irrorated with brown, the terminal

area suffused with brown; a slight oblique dark discoidal striga ;

two diffused sinuous dark medial lines from vein 5 to inner margin ;

a white band before the sinuous blackish postmedial line; sub-

terminal line ochreous white, diffused, sinuous; a waved blackish

terminal line; cilia white with a dark line through them. Under-

side of both wings creamy white, the costal and terminal areas

slightly tinged and irrorated with brown; hind wing with a slight

curved postmedial line. i

Ab. 1. More uniform greyish brown; fore wing without the

white band beyond. the antemedial line and patch beyond the cell ;

hind wing without the white band before the postmedial line.

Hab. “Off W. Coast or Arrica” (s.s. ‘ Discovery’), 1 @ ;

Supan, Port Sudan (I/rs. Waterfield), 2 $ ; SomatitanD, Bulhar

(Drake-Brockman), 2 8, 19%; Aven (Yerbury), 2 3, 19;

Arasta, Muscat (Jayaker), 2 ¢, 2 2; Punsas, Campbellpur

(Yerbury), 26; 22, Hassan Abdal. (Verbury), 2 3, 2°29,

Rawal Pindi, 1 6, 1 2, Wuzeerabad (Hearsey), 1 3 type,

Khairabad (Yerbury), 1 6,192. Hap. 26-38 millim.

8093. Gnamptonyx obsoleta, n. sp. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 7.)

@. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale red-brown; palpi white,

black towards tips; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen

whitish, the legs tinged with ochreous, the fore tibiz and tarsi

banded black and white. Fore wing pale red-brown irrorated with

dark brown and some grey; traces of a sinuous brown antemedial

line; a faint dark-discoidal patch with slight white marks on its

outer edge and some whitish above it on costa; a faint sinuous

dark medial line from the cell to inner margin ; some white points

on postmedial part of costa; traces of a sinuous subterminal line

with whitish striga from costa; a waved blackish terminal line; a

fine whitish line at base of cilia followed by a dark line. Hind

wing pale reddish brown slightly irrorated with dark brown ; traces

of a pale sinuous subterminal line; a rather diffused dark terminal

line ; cilia whitish with a dark line near base. Underside of both

wings brownish white, the costal areas and terminal areas except

towards tornus irrorated with brown, slight dark discoidal marks.

Hab. Perim I. (J. J. Walker), 1 2 type. Exp. 28 millim.

Genus HYPOGLAUCITIS. eae

Hypoglaucités, Staud. Iris, vii. p. 284 (1894)..............0 scares benenotata.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi with the 2nd joint upturned, reaching to

about middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd porrect, moderate ;

frons smooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antennz of male

ciliated; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and without crests; tibis

smoothly scaled, the fore tibix not spined, the hind tibiz spined ; abdomen

288 NOCTUID®.

smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the

termen evenly curved, 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 the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4

from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle ;

8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

A. Fore wing with dark ante- and postmedial lines ............ benenotata.

Bb. Fore wing without ante- and postinedial lines ............... infrequens.

8094. Hypoglaucitis benenotata.

Pandesma benenotata, Warr. P.Z.8. 1888, p. 313; Hmpsn. Moths Ind.

ii. p. 480; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 245.

HAypoglaucitis moses, Staud. Iris, vii. p. 284, pl. 9. f. 17 (1894).

3. Head and thorax grey-white tinged with brown ; pectus and

legs white ; the palpi and fore legs irrorated with brown ; abdomen

white dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing whitish tinged with

brown and slightly irrorated with blackish ; an oblique blackish

subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line

blackish, oblique to subcostal nervure then erect and _ slightly

Fig. 71.—Hypoglaucitis benenotata, 3. {.

sinuous, forming black spots at costa and im and below the cell;

reniform defined by rather diffused black, small and narrow; post-

medial line diffused, blackish, ineurved at discal fold, oblique from

vein 4 to submedian fold where it forms a small spot, a slight dark

shade beyond it except towards costa; subterminal line whitish

defined on inner side by a dark shade and by small dentate black

marks above and below vein 6, slightly excurved below vein 7 and

at middle and incurved at discal fold, the area beyond it more

strongly tinged with brown and with a slight oblique blackish

mark from apex; a slight waved dark terminal line. Hind wing

white tinged with reddish brown, the terminal area suffused with

brown; cilia white. Underside of both wings white, the terminal

area suffused with brown except towards tornus.

@. Fore wing with the black markings on the lines less

distinct.

Hab. Syria, 1 Q ; Auaerta, C. Sahara, S. Ouedmya (Harter) ;

Eeyet, Suez (Meade- Waldo), 1 3; Aven, Sheik Othman

(Nurse), 1 $ ; Punsas, Rawal Pindi (VYerbury), 1 3 type.

Hep. 30-32 millim.

WYPOGLAUCISTIS.—CLYTIE. 289

8095. Hypoglaucistis infrequens. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 29.)

Orthosia infrequens, Swinh. P. ZS. 1884, p. 517, pl. 47. f. 11; Hmpsn.

Moths Ind. ii. p. 481.

Q. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey-brown; palpi, legs,

and ventral surface of abdomen whitish slightly irrorated with

fuscous. Fore wing pale grey-brown with very slight dark irrora-

tion; reniform very faintly defined by brown; faint traces of a

sinuous subterminal line. Hind wing whitish tinged with red-

brown ; an indistinet dark subterminal shade. Underside of both

wings whitish tinged with brown and with taint brown subterminal

shade.

Hab. Sixp, Karachi (Swinhoe), 1 9 type. Exp. 20 millim.

Genus CLYTIE.

Type.

Clhyjiag, Valitlom, Wer D> AB (S27). coo ocoancovnagascocacsencadecueasoon0e illunaris.

Pseudophia, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 234 (1852) .......... cee cee eee eec eee llunaris.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to

vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate, oblique; frons smooth,

with tuft of hair above; eyes-large, round; antennz of male ciliated; thorax

clothed with hair only and without crests; tibie moderately fringed with

hair, the fore tibiz not spined, the hind tibie spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled

and without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly

curved, 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 the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from

angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle;

8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

A. Fore wing with the subterminal line excurved above and

below vein 4.

a. Fore wing with the claviform defined by blackish ......... devia.

b. Fore wing with the claviform not defined by blackish.

ai, Fore wing with sinuous black streak below base of cell scotorrhiza.

61. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell.

a?, Hind wing of male with the basal half white, not

tinged with brown, of female yellow ...............06. sancta.

62, Hind wing with the basal half tinged with brown.

a’, Fore wing with dentate black marks before sub-

GermunallMlin emeceaascaaccthce aeeciche econ one ee sees scnines elunaris.

6°. Fore wing without dentate black marks before

SUOMI INNS, GoocosdoossocoosaboobpuesbunoonsAbosees hatfe.

B. Fore wing with the subterminal line excurved at vein 4.

a. Fore wing with the subterminal line ochreous.

a, Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines not

defined by whitish.

a”, Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines con-

joined at inner margin..............0.--secececeeececeeees distincta.

6. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines not

conjoined at inner margin.

a*, Hind wing whitish tinged with brown ............ syrdaja.

6°. Hind wing fulvous yellow.......0.....2..0cececesseeeee arenosa,

b', Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines defined

LOK) AAONIGIE)D. Coon sdopopodechnes abedeqnegnace s6 eve uReoMOn Sen COen syriaca.

b. Fore wing with the subterminal line not ochreous.

a‘, Fore wing with the ground-colour whitish.

VOL. XIII. U

290 NOCTUID£.

>, Fore wing suffused with brown; hind wing with the

basal area tinged with red-brown ...............00+0+- sublunaris.

b?, Fore wing thickly irrorated with fuscous ; hind wing

with the basal area tinged with yellow righ eee nabated.

b!, Fore wing pale grey-brown tinged with reddish brown ;

hind wing with the basal area tinged with red-brown.

a’, Fore wing with the subterminal line defined on inner

side by black towards costa ..........c.ssessseneeeeees delunaris.

b?. Fore wing with the subterminal line not defined on

inner side by black towards costa .............0sse00+ terrulenta.

8096. Clytie devia. (Plate CCX XXI. fig. 14.)

Pandesina devia, Swinh. P. Z.8. 1884, p. 520, pl. 48. f. 3; Hmpsn. Moths

Ind. ii. p. 481.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white suffused with brown ;

tarsi blackish ringed with white. Fore wing grey-white tinged

and slightly irrorated with brown; obliquely placed subbasal

blackish points below costa and in cell; antemedial line blackish,

obsolescent in cell and towards inner margin, oblique, slightly

angled inwards in submedian fold; claviform defined by diffused

blackish ; orbicular a minute blackish annulus with whitish centre ;

reniform whitish defined by blackish, small; postmedial line

blackish, slightly excurved below costa, then oblique and slightly

sinuous ; postmedial area with slight diffused dark streaks in the

interspaces; subterminal line whitish, slightly waved, excurved

below vein 7 and at middle, defined on inner side by a black spot

below vein 7, then by slight somewhat dentate blackish marks; a

waved dark terminal line with some slight diffused dark marks

before it; cilia with two faint diffused dark lines through them.

Hind wing ochreous white, the terminal area fuscous brown with

a rather diffused whitish subterminal line from apex to termen at

submedian fold; cilia white. Underside of both wings white with

fuscous brown subterminal shade and the terminal area tinged

with brown.

2. Fore wing slightly paler and more ochreous; hind wing

with the terminal area paler and the subterminal line less well

defined.

Hab. Brtucuistan, Ormara (Cumming), 1 3 ; Sunp, Karachi

(Swinhoe), 1 3, 19 ‘ype Sonda (Swinhoe), ie Oe hap Ao

46 millim.

*8097. Clytie scotorrhiza. (Plate CCXXXI. fig. 15.)

Pseudophia scotorrhiza, Ping. ined.

2. Head and thorax pale reddish brown mixed with whitish ;

tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen grey-white irrorated

with brown and with slight dark segmental lines. Fore wing

whitish tinged with red-brown and irrorated with dark brown ;

subbasal line represented by black strie from costa and cell; a

diffused black streak in submedian fold before the antemedial line,

PROM MIE: 291

which is black, angled outwards in upper part of cell and inwards

at median nervure, then oblique, sinuous; orbicular a small whitish

spot defined by blackish; reniform whitish defined by blackish,

moderate ; postmedial line black defined on inner side by whitish,

excurved slightly below costa, then oblique and very slightly waved ;

subterminal line white defined on inner side by small dentate black

marks, excurved below vein 7, angled and waved above and below

vein 5, excurved and waved at middle, and angled inwards below

vein 3; a terminal series of small whitish spots defined by slight

black lunules. Hind wing white, the terminal area broadly fuscous

brown ; cilia white; the underside white, the terminal area irrorated

with brown, a terminal series of small dark lunules.

Hab. PauestiIne, Dead Sea, type ¢ 2 in Coll. Piingeler. Hyp.

4.2 millim. /

8098. Clytie sancta, (Plate CCXXXI. fig. 16 g, 17 2.)

Pseudophia sancta, Staud. Iris, x. p. 301 (1897); id. Cat, Lep. pal. p. 245.

3S. Head and thorax pale grey tinged with brown; antenne

brown, the shaft ringed with white towards base; tarsi blackish

ringed with white; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown.

Fore wing grey-white faintly tinged with brown and thickly irrorated

with dark brown ; slight subbasal blackish points below the costa

and cell; antemedial line blackish, rather diffused, oblique to sub-

median fold, then erect ; a minute black point in middle of cell;

reniform small, white defined by blackish, constricted at middle ;

postmedial line blackish, rather diffused, slightly excurved below

costa, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line whitish, waved,

excurved below vein 7 and at middle, defined on inner side by a’

black spot below vein 7, then by slight black lunules; a fine waved

blackish terminal line. Hind wing white with a broad diffused

fuscous subterminal shade, the area beyond it tinged with grey- ’

brown. Underside of both wings white with a dark subterminal

shade except towards inner margins.

Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing more ochreous, the last with

slight dark irroration and the markings obsolescent. :

Q. Fore wing much more strongly suffused and irrorated with -

brown; hind wing with the basal half yellow, the postmedial area

black, the terminal area grey-brown.

Hab. Auceria; Eaypr, Suez (J. J. Walker), 1 3, Libyan

Desert, Gronah (King), 2 5 ; Supan, Port Sudan (Mrs. Water-

field), 1 3, 29; Aven (Yerbury), 1 3d ; Syria; Pavestine.

Exp. 40-52 millim.

8099. Clytie illunaris,

Noctua illunaris, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 565, 574 (1818); Godt.

Lép. Fr. v. p. 126, pl. 55. ff. 3-4; Geyer, Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 868;

Mill. Icones, ii. p. 162, pl. 68. f. 9. & iii. p. 239, pl. 126. ff. &, 9; Staud.

Cat. Lep. pal. p. 245.

Pseudophia gracilis, Bang-Haas, Iris, xx. p. 74, pl. iii. f. 10 (1907),

292 NOCTUIDE.

Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white slightly tinged with

brown; antennz fuscous; palpi at sides and fore and mid legs

tinged with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous white tinged with brown

and slightly irrorated with fuscous; a faint dentate dark subbasal

line from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line indistinct, dark,

oblique, dentate towards costa, then waved ; a minute whitish spot

defined by some fuscous scales in middle of cell; remiform very

small, whitish defined by fuscous scales ; postmedial line indistinct,

dark, slightly bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards

at discal fold and incurved below vein 4; subterminal line faint,

whitish, angled outwards below vein 7, then waved, defined on inner

side by a black spot below vein 7, then by a series of smal]! dentate

black marks; a fine waved dark terminal line and slight dark lne

near base of cilia. Hind wing white suffused with ochreous brown ;

Fig. 72.—Clytie wlunaris, 5. }-

a diffused dark subterminal shade; a waved dark terminal line and

faint line near base of cilia. Underside of both wings white with

a diffused dark subterminal shade except towards inner margins.

Ab. 1. Browner; fore wing with the markings obsolescent.

Ab. 2. Much more ochreous; fore wing with the markings

obsolescent.

Ab. 3. Fore wing suffused with dark red-brown except the basal

inner area, the markings obsolescent except the subterminal line.

Hab. S. France, Zeller, Frey, & Leech Colls. ; Sparn, Catalonia,

Andalusia, Leech Coll.; Ivatny, Leghorn, Zeller Coll.; Srcrny ;

Darmaria. Hap. 38-46 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 281; Hffm. Raup. p. 147.

- oe when young, then reddish. Food-plant, Tamarix gallica.

0 9.

8100. Clytie haife., (Plate CCXXXI. fig. 18.)

Pseudophia haife, Habich, Verb. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, lv, p. 21 (1905).

@. Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; antennz blackish ;

palpi with some black mixed; pectus and legs pale ochreous, the

fore and mid legs suffused with brown in front, the tarsi black with

pale rings; abdomen pale ochreous, dorsally tinged with brown.

Fore wing brown. mixed with grey; a curved blackish subbasal

line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line blackish, oblique,

CLYTIE. 293

sinuous ; a whitish point slightly defined by black in middle of cell;

reniform indistinctly defined by blackish, small; postmedial line

black, excurved below costa, then rather oblique and slightly

sinuous, a faint dark shade beyond it; subterminal line ochreous

white faintly defined on each side by fuscous brown, excurved below

vein 7, then shghtly waved; a slight waved dark terminal line with

ochreous points beyond it at the veins. Hind wing ochreous white,

the inner area tinged with red-brown; a broad diffused dark sub-

terminal shade, the area beyond it suffused with grey-brown leaving

a pale mark towards tornus; cilia ochreous white. Underside of

both wings ochreous white ; fore wing with the costal and terminal

areas irrorated with brown; hind wing with some brown irroration

on costal area towards apex.

3S. Head, thorax, and fore wing rather paler, the last with the

ante- and postmedial lines less distinct, the reniform with white

marks in its upper and lower parts, the subterminal line with more

distinct black marks before it; hind wing we the subterminal

shade less distinct.

Hab. Aucerta, El Kantara; Eayrr, Meer (Mathew), 12;

Syria. Hap. 46 millim. Type + in Coll. Habich.

Larva. Food-plant, Nettle.

*8101. Clytie distincta.

Pseudophia distinxcta, Bang-Haas, Iris, xx. p. 75, pl. 3. f. 11 (1907).

3. Head and thorax pale grey irrorated with fuscous ; abdomen

whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing pale grey irrorated with

fuscous; antemedial line blackish, excurved below costa, then

oblique; reniform defined by blackish, small; postmedial line

blackish, obsolescent to vein 2, then distinct, excurved to vein 4,

then incurved and touching the antemedial line at inner margin ;

subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by blackish suffusion,

excurved below vein 7 and incurved at discal fold, a blackish patch

beyond it at apex; a terminal series of small black lunules ; a fine

pale line at base of cilia followed by a blackish line. Hind wing

whitish tinged with brown; the terminal area suffused with fuscous

narrowing to tornus; cilia white. Underside of both wings white,

the terminal area suffused with fuscous.

Hab. S.H. Transcaspia. Hap. 34 millim. This species is

unknown to me.

8102. Clytie syrdaja. (Plate CCXXXI. fig. 19 5, 20 9.)

Psceudophia syrdaja, Bang-Haas, ined.

3. Head and thorax grey mixed with fuseous; abdomen grey

irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey faintly tinged with brown

and thickly nrorated with fuscous; a faint dark sinuous ante-

medial line; a dark point in middle of cell and slight discoidal

lunule ; postmedial line faint, dark, exeurved below costa and in-

eurved below vein 4; subterminal line pale brownish defined-on

E94. NOCTUID #.

each side by fuscous, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a waved

dark terminal line with black points at the interspaces. Hind wing

whitish tinged with brown and with slight dark irroration ; a broad

diffused fuscous subterminal shade. Underside of both wings

whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown.

@. Thorax and fore wing paler, the latter with the ante- and

postmedial lines more distinct, reniform with pale centre, constricted

at middle, subterminal line whitish distinctly defined on each side

by fuscous and with small black spot on its inner side below vein 7 ;

hind wing with the basal area tinged with rufous, the terminal half

black with some grey on termen.

Hab. W. Tourxestan, Aulic Ata, 15,19. Huxp. 42 millim.

*8103. Clytie arenosa. (Plate CCX XXII. figs. 1 5,2 2.)

Clytie arenosa, Roths. Noy. Zool. xx. p. 128 (1918).

@. Head and thorax fulvous ochreous; pectus whitish; legs

ochreous white irrorated with brown ; abdomen pale ochreous

slightly irrorated with brown. Fore wing fulvous ochreous irro-

rated with brown; antemedial line indistinct, fuscous, oblique,

angled inwards at vein 1; a fuscous point in middle of cell; reni-—

form slightly defined by fuscous, small, constricted at middle ;

postmedial line indistinct, fuscous slightly defined on inner side by

ochreous, slightly excurved below costa and incurved at discal fold,

incurved below vein 4; subterminal line ochreous defined on inner

side by black, angled outwards at vein 7 where there is a dentate

black spot on its inner side, slightly angled inwards above and

below vein 5, angled outwards at vein 4, then incurved; a waved

fuscous terminal line. Hind wing fulvous ochreous; a broad

fuscous postmedial band, its outer edge slightly waved; a fuscous

terminal line ; cilia ochreous white ; the underside ochreous white,

the terminal area slightly irrorated with brown.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines more

distinct, the subterminal line less strongly defined by black.

3. Fore wing paler, the ante- and postmedial lines less distinct;

hind wing yellowish white, the postmedial band replaced by a

shade.

Hab. Aucerta, C. Sahara, 8. Oued Mya (Hartert), type + 3s,

2 in Coll. Rothschild. Hap. 38-46 millim.

8104. Clytie syriaca. (Plate CCXXXI. fig. 21.)

Cphiusa syriaca, Bugnion, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr, vi. p. 442, pl. 16. f, 2 (1837) ;

Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 240. .

Ophiusa gentilitia, Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii, p. 278 (1845), Noct.

f. 273; Frr. Neue Beitr. pl. 505. f. 4.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white slightly tinged with

brown; antenne brown except the shaft above towards base; palpi

and sides of frons and the fore and mid legs tinged with fuscous.

Fore wing grey-white tinged and faintly irrorated with brown ;

CLYTIE. 295

antemedial line whitish, oblique, excurved in submedian interspace ;

a dark point in middle of cell; reniform small, whitish slightly

defined by brown, constricted at middle; postmedial line whitish

faintly defined on outer side by brown, excurved below costa, slightly

incurved at discal fold, oblique and slightly sinuous below vein 4;

subterminal line ochreous defined on inner side by red-brown and

on outer by fuscous, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at

middle; a terminal series of blackish points; cilia with a fine white

line at middle and white tips. Hind wing whitish tinged with

ochreous brown, the terminal area grey with a broad fuscous sub-

terminal shade except towards costa; cilia white tinged with brown

at base. Underside of both wings white, the terminal areas suffused

with grey-brown.

Ab. 1. Hind wing tinged with pale brown.

Ab. 2. Fore wing ; with dentate black spot before the subterminal

line below vein 7.

Ab. 3. Fore wing thickly irrorated with fuscous.

Hab. 8. Russta, Urals; ARMENTA; Asta Minor, Pontus, Lydia,

Amanus Mts., 1 6 ; Syrta; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Fer-

ghana; E. Turkestan, Kashgar, Il. Hxp. 36-44 millim.

*8105. Clytie sublunaris. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 3.)

Pseudophia sublunaris, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 56; id. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 245.

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with whitish; tarsi fuscous

with pale rings; abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous brown.

Fore wing whitish suffused with red-brown and slightly irrorated

with blackish ; subbasal line represented by slight black spots below

costa and cell; antemedial line blackish slightly defined on each

side by whitish, oblique, sinuous ; a minute whitish spot defined by

black in middle of cell; reniform whitish defined by blackish and

with some red-brown suffusion round it, very small and constricted

at middle; postmedial line blackish defined on inner side by whitish,

oblique, slightly excurved below costa and at middle ; subterminal

line white defined on inner side by small black marks and with red-

brown suffusion before it, strongly excurved below vein 7 and at

middle where there are more prominent black marks before it,

strongly incurved at discal fold and below vein 3, a diffused brown

shade beyond it running obliquely to apex ; a slight waved brown

terminal line with dark points at the interspaces; cilia with a

brown line through them. Hind wing whitish suffused with rufous

and with a broad blackish subterminal shade with some whitish

beyond it at submedian fold; cilia white; the underside white

irrorated with brown, an indistinct brownish discoidal lunule and

sinuous subterminal shade. :

Hab. W. Turxestan, Issyk-Kul; Moneonta, Aksu in Coll.

Piingeler. Exp, 42 millim.

296 NOCTUIDE.

8106. Clytie nabatea. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 4.)

Pseudophia nabatea, Ping. ined.

@. Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with ochreous ; pectus,

legs, and abdomen ochreous irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing

greyish ochreous suffused with reddish brown and thickly irrorated

with dark brown; antemedial line ochreous faintly defined on inner

side by blackish, oblique, sinuous; a whitish point faintly defined

by blackish in middle of cell; reniform very small and narrow,

faintly defined by blackish and with shght pale marks in its upper

and lower parts; postmedial line ochreous defined on outer side by

black, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and shghtly sinuous; sub-

terminal line ochreous, acutely angled outwards below vein 7 to

near termen and with a dentate black spot before it, then slightly

waved; a slight waved black terminal line. Hind wing white

tinged with ochreous yellow, the terminal area broadly suffused

with fuscous brown; a waved black terminal line with some whitish

before it towards tornus; cilia white. Underside of both wings

whitish irrorated with brown except the cell and inner area; fore

wing with brown subterminal shade angled outwards below vein 7 ;

hind wing with brown subterminal shade interrupted at middle.

Hab. PaLestrnE, 1 2. Hap. 34 millim. Type + 2 in Coll.

Piingeler.

8107. Clytie delunaris. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 5.)

Pseudophia delunaris, Stand. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 56; id. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 245.

36. Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with some greyish ;

pectus ochreous white; abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with

reddish brown, ventrally slightly irrorated with brown. Fore wing

reddish ochreous thickly irrorated with dark brown; a slight curved

blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a diffused

somewhat oblique reddish ochreous antemedial line, slightly sinuous

and defined on inner side by blackish towards costa; reniform in-

distinctly defined by blackish, very small and constricted at middle ;

a postmedial black striga from costa, then a diffused somewhat

sinuous and oblique reddish ochreous line to inner margin; sub-

terminal line ochreous, defined on inner side by black towards costa

and inner margin, acutely angled outwards to near termen below

vein 7 where there is a dentate black mark before it, slightly ex-

curved at middle; a waved black terminal line with ochreous points

beyond it at the veins. Hind wing ochreous whitish tinged with

red-brown ; a blackish subterminal shade diffused on inner side, the

area beyond it rather greyer; a waved black terminal line; cilia

white tinged with ochreous brown except at tips. Underside of

both wings white irrorated with brown except the cell and inner

area, slight dark discoidal marks, the terminal areas suffused with

fuscous brown.

Hab. W. TurKxestan, Turcomania, Tekke, 13; E. TurkEstTan,

Thi; AreHanistan, Kuschk, 1 ¢. Hap. 38 milli.

CLYTIE.—PERICYMA. : 297

*8108. Clytie terrulenta. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 6.)

Pseudophia terrulenta, Christ. Iris, vi. p. 93 (1893); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal.

p. 245.

Pscudophia gentilis, Staud. Iris, x. p. 600, pl. 9. f. 21 (1897); id. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 245.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with brown and

slightly tinged with reddish; tarsi fuscous with pale rings. Fore

wing grey irrorated and striated with fuscous brown and slightly

tinged with reddish ; subbasal line represented by slight black striz

from costa and cell; antemedial line slight, black, oblique, sinuous ;

a whitish point defined by black in middle of cell; reniform whitish

defined by black, very small and constricted at middle; postmedial

line black, excurved below costa, very slightly incurved at discal

fold, incurved below vein 4; the postmedial area strongly irrorated

with black and with a diffused black line beyond the postmedial

line; subterminal line whitish, obsolescent towards costa, angled

outwards below vein 7 to near termen where there is a dentate

black mark before it, then defined on inner side by black marks,

oblique to below vein 5, then slightly sinuous; a slight waved black

terminal line with black points at the interspaces. Hind wing

greyish suffused with brown, the terminal area darker; a slight

waved dark terminal line; cilia white; the underside whitish

irorated with brown, a slight dark discoidal lunule and sinuous

subterminal shade.

@. Redder brown, the abdomen and hind wing rufous.

Hab. Armenta, Lagodechi, Eldar; Patestine, Jordan Valley

in Coll. Piingeler; W. 'TurKEstTAN, Turcomania, Merv; E. Turk-

ESTAN, Ili. Hap. 32 millim.

Genus PERICYMA.

Type.

Pericyma, Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 429 (1845)...... niece een

AUTOS, ERIE, NOE, Wile Do @ (UEP) coocoossoocosocsbonoaa09000000 umbrina.

Dugaria, Wk. xiii. 1075 (1857) .............0eeeceeeeee gdosandndode glaucinans.

Ailegoa, \NMs, seat, BIS (EXD) socaeadocoacqgaqac :000c000c000c00800¢ albidens. .

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd rather long ; frons smooth, with slight

tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antenne of mule typically with fasciculate

cilia; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, the pro- and metathorax

with spreading crests ; fore tibize of female broadly fringed with hair, the mid

and hind tibie moderately fringed with hair, the fore and hind tibize not

spined ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests, the crests on 3rd and 4th seg-

ments large. 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 the cell about half the length of wing; veins 8, 4 from angle; 5 fully

developed from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the

cell near base only.

298 NOCTUIDE.

Sect. I. (Mepa.) Antenne of male bipectinate with short branches ending in

fasciculate cilia, the branches shorter on lower side, the apex simple ;

the fore tibiz fringed with long hair on outer side, the mid tibiz

with tuft of long hair above from base, the hind tibiz with slight.

tufts of hair at middle and extremity; underside of hind wing

without androconia or woolly hair.

8109. Pericyma albidens.

Mepa albidens, W1k. xxxiii. 916 (1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 476.

6. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown and

some grey, the tegule with black medial line; palpi white in front ;

pectus white ; legs whitish mixed with black-brown, the tarsi black

ringed with white; abdomen red-brown, the crests blackish, the

ventral surface white. Fore wing reddish brown suffused in parts

with fuscous, the antemedial area darker; subbasal line black,

waved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double,

black, sinuous ; the medial area with traces of three double sinuous

Fig. 73.—Pericyma albidens, $. 4.

lines, the third excurved beyond the cell; reniform slightly defined

by black and with some white scales on its outer edge, somewhat

constricted at middle ; a black patch in submedian interspace before

the postmedial line, which is black, oblique, and sinuous to vein 6,

angled inwards at discal fold and outwards at vein 4, then oblique

and dentate, some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line

whitish, slightly defined on each side by brown and with a series of

black points on it forming slight dentate marks below costa,

oblique, sinuous, a dark patch beyond it at middle; a dentate black

line before termen and a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind

wing ochreous tinged with red-brown, the terminal area suffused

with red-brown except at apex; traces of a double slightly sinuous

antemedial line and of three lines beyond the cell from discal fold

to inner margin; a treble blackish subterminal line obsolescent

towards costa and followed by a faint rufous line; a waved black

line before termen; a white line at base of cilia followed by a

blackish line; the underside ochreous white, the costal and terminal

PERICYMA. 299

areas slightly irrorated with brown, a slight blackish discoidal

lunule, double minutely waved brown subterminal line, a series of

minute black lunules before termen.

Q. Fore wing tinged with grey ; the medial area with the double

black lines distinct, some black suffusion before and beyond the

reniform, the patch in submedian interspace indistinct; hind wing

with the antemedial line and the lines beyond the cell more distinct.

Ab. 1. The type ; rather redder brown ; fore wing with the lines

of medial area indistinct, the postmedial line whiter; hind wing

with the lines of medial area indistinct.

Hab. Sturm (Dudgeon), 1 9; Mapras, Gooty (Campbell),

13, 19, Coimbatore (Walhouse), 1 2 type. Hup. 28-30

millim,

Secr. II. Antennz of male with fasciculate cilia.

A. Antenne of male strongly dilated just beyond middle ; the femera and

tibiz tufted with long hair,

8110. Pericyma cruegeri.

Homoptera cruegeri, But]. Trans, Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 411.

3. Head, tegul, and prothorax pale rufous, the rest of thorax

deep red-brown, the tegule with two red-brown lines ; palpi reddish

Fig. 74.—Pericyma cruegert, S. }.

white, brown at side; pectus ochreous white ; tarsi blackish with

pale rings; abdomen pale rufous, the crests darker, the ventral

surface ochreous white. Fore wing whitish suffused with rufous ;

300 NOCTUID &.

a deep red-brown band from just beyond the subbasal to just beyond

the antemedial line ; subbasal line dark, oblique, waved, from costa

to vein 1; antemedial line black, inwardly oblique, sinuous ; medial

area with four slight double waved red-brown lines filled in with

whitish, the first three inwardly oblique, the fourth excurved beyond

the cell, then oblique, the costal area between them suffused with

red-brown; a slight dark point in middle of cell; reniform with

slight incomplete waved whitish annulus, constricted at middle ;

postmedial line black, arising below costa, simuous, angled inwards

at discal fold, oblique below vein 4, an indistinct brown line beyond

it; a dark red-brown patch on postmedial part of costal area

with two white points on costa; subterminal line indistinct, pale,

slightly defined on each side by red-brown; a waved black line

before termen; cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing

greyish suffused with rufous; two indistinctly double sinuous

medial lines filled in with whitish and two similar minutely waved

postmedial lines; a slightly sinuous black subterminal line with a

finer sinuous black line before it from vein 6 to inner margin ;

a waved black line before termen and a fine pale line at base of

cilia; the underside ochreous white irrorated with red-brown except

on basal and inner areas, a red-brown discoidal spot with two oblique

striz above it from costa, three slightly waved lines beyond the

cell, a waved postmedial line, a subterminal line, and series of

black points before termen.

@. Fore wing suffused with red-brown from near base to beyond

the postmedial line.

Ab. 1. d. Fore wing with the dark subbasal area and postmedial

costal patch edged by white on outer side.

Ab. 2. 9. Fore wing suffused with greenish fuscous from beyond

the antemedial to beyond the postmedial line.

Hab. Borneo, Sandakan (Pryer), 1 9; N. Avsrraria, Port

Darwin (Lyell), 1 29; QuEENsLAND, 1 5, 1 9, Gayndah, 1 2

type, Brisbane (Turner), 2 5,2 9. Hap. 46-50 millim.

B. Antennz of male normal.

a. Legs of male, pectus, and ventral surface of abdomen tufted

with long hair.

@, (Alamis.) Underside of male with the basal half of fore

wing and whole of hind wing clothed with silky andro-

conia.

a’, Hind wing with double slightly sinuous black sub-

Cermiinalllineseaasceccrecteaceeecansescrademeciceremeasenacte eae turbida.

6?, Hind wing with double dentate subterminal line ...... wnebrind.

8111. Pericyma turbida. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 8.)

Homoptera turbida, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xvii. p. 408 (1876).

3. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some grey, the

patagia with dark line near base and some dark scales at tips, the

prothorax with dark line; palpi with some black-brown at sides;

tarsi black ringed with whitish ; abdomen ochreous suffused with

PERICYMA. 301

red-brown, the crests dark tipped with white, the two terminal

segments with brown bands, the ventral surface pale ochreous.

Fore wing violaceous grey tinged and slightly irrorated with pale

red-brown ; a slight oblique waved black subbasal line from costa

to vein 1, the area from just beyond it to just beyond the ante-

medial line suffused with red-brown and some black-brown and

grey ; the antemedial line shght black, inwardly oblique, sinuous ;

orbicular a minute yellowish spot defined by red-brown ; reniform

indistinetly defined by brown and with red-brown in centre, oblique,

its upper extremity somewhat produced ; the medial area with two

faint oblique waved red-brown lines defined on outer side by whitish,

and a similar line excurved beyond the cell then ineurved, the area

between these lines filled in with red-brown suffusion on costal

area; postmedial line black, dentate, rather oblique to vein 6,

angled inwards at discal fold and oblique below vein 4, the costal

“area beyond it suffused with red-brown narrowing toa point at

apex and with some pale points on costa ; subterminal line indis-

tinct, diffused, rufous, oblique and waved, defined on inner side by

white from costa to vein 5; a waved black line before termen and

fine waved red-brown terminal line; cilia with a red-brown line

through them and whitish tips. Hind wing violaceous grey tinged

and slightly irrorated with pale red-brown ; two indistinctly double

minutely waved medial lines filled in with whitish and two similar

postmedial lines except on costal area; a slightly sinuous black

subterminal line with a fine line before it, obsolescent towards

costa, with an indistinct rather diffused rufous line beyond it; a

fine sinuous blackish line before termen ; cilia with a fine pale line

at base; the underside clothed with ochreous white woolly hair, a

shght crenulate blackish terminal line.

Hab. Ropricuez (Gulliver), 1 3 type. Kap. 50 millim.

8112. Pericyma umbrina.

Alamis wnbrina, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 4 (1852), 9 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii,

p. 474.

Alumis albicincta, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 4 (1852).

Alamis hypophea, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 4 (1852), g.

Alamis continua, Wik. xxxiii. 877 (1865).

Homoptera plumipes, Wik. xxxiii. 888 (1865).

3. Head and thorax deep red-brown slightly irrorated with

grey, the tegule with blackish medial line; antennz with the basal

joint white at outer side; palpi black-brown; pectus ochreous

white ; legs brown, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen

greyish suffused with red-brown, the dorsal crests darker, the

ventral surface ochreous white. Fore wing red-brown mixed with

greyish; a waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold;

antemedial line indistinctly double, black, waved, rather inwardly

oblique ; the medial area with three indistinct double waved lines,

the two first outwardly oblique, the third excurved beyond the cell,

then oblique ; a minute pale point defined by black in middle of

302 -NOCTUID &.

cell; reniform indistinctly defined by black and with a whitish

point at lower extremity; postmedial line black, oblique and

sinuous to vein 6, incurved at discal fold, slightly angled outwards

at veins 4, 3, then incurved, an obscure dark line beyond it and

some whitish points on costa; subterminal line indistinct, pale,

minutely waved, faintly defined by brown ; a fine waved black line

before termen and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing red-

brown mixed with some greyish; two very indistinct double dark

sinuous medial lines; a slight sinuous black postmedial line from

SS “NX

SS.

Zev WD SS

Fig. 75.—Pericyma wmbrina, S. ++

vein 6 to inner margin ; an indistinct double minutely waved sub-

terminal line ; a fine waved black line before termen and fine whitish

line at base of cilia. Underside clothed with leaden-grey andro-

conia except the terminal area of fore wing.

©. Underside of wings whitish tinged and irrorated with brown ;

both wings with indistinct waved brown lines beyond the cell,

similar postmedial and subterminal lines, and series of minute black

lunules before termen.

Ab. 1. Fore wing darker brown except the terminal area.

Ab. 2. Both wings dark brown.

Ab. 3. Fore wing with the basal area suffused with fuscous

black.

Ab. 4. albicineta. Fore wing with diffused white beyond the

antemedial line, the reniform irrorated with white; both wings

with the subterminal line defined on inner side by white, the

terminal area suffused with white except at apex and middle.

Hab. Kasumir, Kuijar (McArthur), 1 5,2 2; Punsas, 2 2,

Kulu, Sultanpur (G. Young), 1 5,1 2, Dharmsila (Hocking),

43, 29,Simla (Harford), 13, 29, Cambellpur (Yerbury),

4.6, 19, Dehra Dun, 1 9, Jubbulpur (/ Butler), 1 5, Wu-

zeerabad (Hearsey), 53, 19 type continua, Manpuri, 1 2,

PERICYMA. 303

Moghal Serai (Betton), 1 5, Almorah (Boys), 1 ¢ type plumipes;

Stxuim (Lidderdale, Moller), 23,39; Assam, Silhet; BomBay,

Mhow (Forsayeth), 13,192. Hap. 80-46 millim.

Larva. Forsayeth, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 412, pl. 15. f. 9.

Green, the dorsal area whitish, a yellow lateral line with blue

specks on it; head with yellow line between the eyes; the 1st pair

of prolegs aborted, the 2nd pair rudimentary. Food-plant, a small

thorny shrub.

Pupa covered with white efflorescence, in a leafy case spun

together with silk.

b', (Dugaria.) Underside of hind wing of male with a patch of silky

brown downturned hair beyond the cell.

8113. Pericyma glaucinans.

Alamis glaucinans, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 6 (1852); Hmpsn. Ill, Het. B.M.

ix. p. 109, pl. 165. ff. 1, 7, 15; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 475.

Alamis ligilla, Guen. Noct. iti. p. 6 (1852).

Homoptera infligens, W\k. xiii. 1068 (1857).

Homoptera solita, Wk. xiii. 1068 (1857).

Homoptera antica, Wik. xxxiii. 887 (1865).

Hypogramma validula, Wk. xxxiii. 893 (1865).

6. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with ochreous,

the tegule with three fine brown lines; palpi pale in front, dark

Hiv. 76.— Pericyma glaucinans, §. +.

brown at sides; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen

white tinged with red-brown, the tarsi blackish ringed with white.

Fore wing red-brown; a faint waved brown subbasal line from

costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinctly double, brown,

BOA NOCTUID &.

minutely waved and inwardly oblique; the medial area with three

indistinct double sinuous brown lines, the two first inwardly oblique,

the third excurved beyond the cell, then oblique; a minute dark

point in middle of cell; reniform indistinctly defined by brown; °

postmedial line indistinctly double, bent outwards below costa, then

sinuous, incurved at discal fold and oblique below vein 4, some pale

points beyond it on costa; subterminal line very indistinct, pale,

waved, faintly defined by brown; a fine crenulate blackish line

before termen and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing red-

brown, the inner margin white; a very indistinct double sinuous

antemedial line and two very indistinct treble sinuous lines beyond

the cell; a slight treble sinuous subterminal line with indistinct

rather diffused rufous line: beyond it; a fine waved blackish line

before termen ; cilia with a white line at base followed by a dark

line; the underside white, the patch of silky hair beyond the cell

brownish, the costal area with brown bars, a slightly sinuous dark

subterminal line from the patch of hair to inner margin and a

series of black points before termen.

Q@. Hind wing on underside without the patch of silky brown

hair beyond the cell.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the reniform defined by diffused fuscous,

the postmedial line with fuscous band beyond it from costa to

discal fold, then a series of spots.

Ab. 2. validula. Wings pale ochreous brown.

Ab. 8. Fore wing suffused with fuscous black from beyond the

antemedial to beyond the postmedial line.

Ab. 4. antica. Fore wing with the medial area suffused with

white except the costal area and a patch in end of cell.

Hab. Formosa, 1 9 ; Punsas, Wuzeerabad (Hearsey), 1 9

type validula, Almorah (Boys), 1 2 type infligens; ASSAM,

Silhet ; Bompay, Mhow (forsayeth), 1 2, Kanara (Ward), 1 9 ;

Manpras, Nilgiris (Lindsay, Hampson), 2 3, 5 2, Coimbatore

(Wathouse), 1 & type antica; CEYLON, Pundaloya (Green), 1 3 ;

Burma, Moulmein (Clerk), 1 2 type solita; Java (Horsfield),

2 2 type ligilla. Hap. 34-42 milli.

Larva. Forsayeth, Trans. Ent. Soe. 1884, p. 411, pl. 14. ff. 9, 9a.

Pale green with a broad yellow lateral stripe; the two anterior

pairs of prolegs wanting. Food-plant, a leguminous tree. :

Pupa in a leafy cell spun together by a loose silky web to which

it is attached by the anal spines.

co, Underside of wings of male with more or less down-

turned woolly hair on basal half.

a?, Hind wing with indistinct double Jines on medial

area.

a®, Hind wing with double dentate subterminal line. atrifusa.

3, Hind wing with treble sinuous subterminal line.

a‘. Fore wing with the postmedial line angled in-

wards at discal fold and oblique below vein 4. mendaz.

b4, Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved at

diseal fold and below vein 4 .................006+ detersa.

62, Hind wing without double lines on medial area...... metaleuca,

PERICYMA. 3805

8114. Pericyma atrifusa. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 9.)

Homoptera atrifusa, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 324 (1902).

Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some grey; palpi white

in front; pectus white tinged with rufous in front; legs white

urorated with blackish, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen

grey tinged with red-brown, the crests blackish, the ventral surface

white. Fore wing grey suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; sub-

basal line double, black filled in with grey, sinuous, from costa to

vein 1; antemedial line double, the inner line indistinct, the outer

black, slightly curved and somewhat incurved at vein 1 ; the medial

area with four indistinct double waved lines, the fourth excurved

beyond the cell; reniform defined by black and with some white

points on its outer edge; postmedial line double, the inner line

black, the outer indistinct, oblique and sinuous to vein 6, incurved

at discal fold, angled outwards at vein 4, then incurved and slightly

sinuous, some minute white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal

line whitish defined on each side by blackish, dentate, incurved at

discal fold and below vein 4; a crenulate black line before termen

with blackish patches before it at apex and middle and a fine white

line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown and

slightly irrorated with blackish; the medial area with traces of

three double slightly simuous lines from discal fold to vein 1; a

black postmedial line from vein 6 to inner margin, followed by a

double dentate subterminal line connected by streaks with a sinuous

black line before termen; a fine white line at base of cilia; the

underside white, the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated

with brown, a small black discoidal spot, and series of minute black

lunules before termen.

Ab. 1. Fore wing red-brown from the aritemedial to beyond the

postmedial line, the terminal area white with brown patches at apex

and middle of termen; hind wing tinged with red-brown, the

terminal area white. 4

Hab. Becuuanatann, Lake N’Gami (Lugard), 1 2 type;

TransvaaL, White R. (Cooke), 1 3, Rietfontein (Janse), 1 3.

Exp, 32-40 millim.

8115. Pericyma mendax.

Alamis mendax, Wik. xtii. 1047 (1857).

Dugaria cilipes, Wik. xiii. 1076 (1857).

Homoptera delineosa, Wik. xv. 1798 (1858).

Homoptera disjuncta, Wik. xxxiii. 885 (1865).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous and some dark

scales, the tegule with two black lines; pectus and legs white

tinged with rufous, the tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen

rufous with the crests darker, the ventral surface white. Fore

wing rufous suffused with red-brown, the base and terminal area

VOL. XIit. x

306 NOCTUID®.

paler; a slight sinuous brown subbasal line from costa to sub-

median fold ; antemedial line indistinctly double, sinuous, inwardly

oblique below the submedian fold ; the medial area with three shght

double sinuous brown lines, oblique below the cell and vein 4; a

minute dark point in middle of cell; reniform obscurely defined by

fuscous and with curved fuscous striga in centre; postmedial line

black, arising below costa, sinuous, incurved at discal fold and

oblique below vein 4, an obscure dark line beyond it forming a

patch on costal area with pale points on costa and its outer edge

angled outwards at vein 7 and followed below vein 6 by a series of

dark spots; subterminal line faintly defined on outer side by red-

brown, sinuous, incurved at discal fold, angled outwards below

vein 4, then oblique; a fine crenulate black line before termen and

fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing red-brown with some

Fig. 77.— Pericyma mendax, 3. }.

blackish irroration except on terminal area; traces of a double

sinuous antemedial line and of two similar lines beyond the cell;

a double slightly sinuous black subterminal line, the outer line

arising at vein 6 and followed by an indistinct brown line; a fine

slightly sinuous black line before termen and whitish line at base

of cilia; the underside white irrorated with brown except on basal

and inner areas, traces of three sinuous lines beyond the cell, an

indistinct double minutely waved subterminal line followed by a

series of dark points, and a series of black points before termen.

Ab. 1. delineosa. Fore wing with the medial area variegated

with fuscous black.

Ab. 2. Fore wing suffused with fuscous black from beyond the

antemedial to beyond the postmedial line.

Ab. 8. disjuncta. Fore wing with the medial area variegated

with white except the costal area and a patch at end of cell.

PERICYMA. 307

Ab 4. Similar, but fore wing with the medial area suffused

with violaceous white.

Hab. Goup Coast, Kumasi (Whiteside), 1 9; S. Nieerta,

Lagos, Ibadau (Dudgeon), 1 2, Old Calabar (Crompton), 1 3,

Olokemeji (Dudgeon), 1 9; Conco (Curror), 1 2 type cilipes ;

Supan, White Nile (Dunn), 13, Blue Nile (Flower), 1 @ ;

Br. HE. Arrica, Athi-ya-Mawe (Betton), 1 9; Navat, Durban

(Plant, Gueinzius, Burrows, Bowker, Rose, Leigh), 1 3,6 @,

type and types disjuncta and delineosa. Hap. 3444 millim.

Larva. Pale yellow; the dorsal area with three slight white lines

interrupted by pale red bars at end of somites 4, 5, 6; subdorsal

stripe white partly defined by red below and interrupted at the

Incisures, some white and red streaks below it on thoracic somites

and small white spots on somites 8, 9, 10,11; lateral white streaks

defined by black above and red below on thoracic somites, then a

sinuous white stripe to somite 8, oblique stripes on somites 9, 10

and streaks on terminal somites similarly defined by black and red;

sublateral and interrupted ventral red streaks; claspers pale red ;

head pale red with pale yellow lines above the eyes and oblique

lines across and below them.

8116. Pericyma detersa. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 10.)

Homoptera detersa, Wk. xxxili. 888 (1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. i.

p- 474.

Alamis yendola, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 150.

Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; pectus and legs

whitish tinged with brown, the fringe of hair on fore tibiz of male

darker, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen brown mixed

with grey, the crests darker, the ventral surface whitish irrorated

with brown. Fore wing grey suffused with red-brown and in parts

with fuscous brown; the basal area suffused with brown, with

indistinct sinuous grey lines and two slight subbasal dark striz

from costa ; antemedial line dark, inwardly oblique, sinuous, a pale

band beyond it, then the rest of medial area dark; the medial area

with two indistinct double waved dark lines, oblique below the cell ;

a minute brown spot in middle of cell; reniform very faintly

defined by blackish; postmedial line double, black, filled in with

greyish and defined on each side slightly by greyish, waved, ex-

curved to vein 4, then oblique, a dark patch beyond it on costal

area with some white points on costa; subterminal line indistinct,

pale, incurved at discal fold and below vein 3; a fine waved black

line before termen and a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind

wing greyish suffused with red-brown and slightly irrorated with

black except on terminal area; traces of a double sinuous dark

antemedial waved line and of two similar lines beyond the cell;

a treble sinuous blackish subterminal line from vein 6 to inner

margin; a fine waved black line before termen and fine whitish

line at base of cilia; the underside whitish tinged and irrorated

xX 2

3808 NOCTUID®.

with brown, a blackish discoidal point, an indistinct curved slightly

waved antemedial line, three lines beyond the cell, double sub-

terminal line, and series of black points before termen.

Hab. Punsas, Almorah (Boys), 1 5 type; Srp, Karachi

(Swinhoe), 1 9 type yendola. Hap. 30 millim.

8117. Pericyma metaleuca, n. sp. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 11.)

6. Head and thorax whitish suffused with brown, a blackish

bar between antennz, the tegulz with strong black line near tips,

the metathoracic crest dark ; palpi white with blackish spot at side

of 2nd joint; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen white tinged

with brown and with black segmental lines on terminal segments,

the ventral surface white. Fore wing whitish tinged with pale

red-brown; subbasal line double, blackish, from costa to vein 1;

antemedial line double filled in with red-brown, the outer line

strong, black, and shghtly sinuous; the medial area with four

indistinct sinuous brown lines, the fourth exeurved beyond the cell;

a minute black point in middle of cell; reniform incompletely

defined by black, small; postmedial line black, oblique to vein 6,

angled inwards at discal fold and outwards at veins 4, 3, then

incurved and sinuous, a faint red-brown line beyond it; a blackish

patch on costal area with some whitish on it before the whitish

subterminal line faintly defined on each side by red-brown, in-

curved at discal fold, excurved at middle, then somewhat dentate

and with blackish mark at inner margin ; a fine crenulate black line

before termen, and fine white line at base of cilia. Hind wing white,

the termen faintly tinged with red-brown at middle; a slight some-

what waved treble blackish subterminal line from vein 4 to tornus,

interrupted at submedian fold; a sinuous black line before termen,

obsolescent towards apex; cilia brown at tips at middle; the under-

side white, the costal area irrorated with a few black scales, a series

of black points before termen.

Hab. Br. E. Arrica, Taveta (Hogers), 1 3 type. Exp.

24 millim.

b. (Pericyina.) Legs of male moderately fringed with hair;

pectus and ventral surface of abdomen not clothed

with long hair; underside of wings without silky

androconia or downturned hair.

a’. Fore wing with the postmedial line dentate at

veins 4, 3 and bent inwards to below end of cell... sqwadlens.

b'. Fore wing with the postmedial line ineurved and

SHAUOMS lO, WENN 43. scondanondoonsa0o0caannog0oDeboaenes albidentaria.

cl, Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved and

WANES! loallony (awa 48 crncosoosodaaoscaqsans6dpcq904090N09006 scandulata,

8118. Pericyma squalens. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 12.)

Pericyma squalens, Led. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, v. pl. v. f. 12 (1855);

Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 241.

2. Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with brown, the

last with the dorsal crests blackish; pectus, legs, and ventral

PERICYMA. 309

surface of abdomen brownish white, the tarsi black ringed with

white. Fore wing white tinged with brown and slightly irrorated

with blackish; subbasal line fine, black, excurved below costa, then

oblique and ending at vein 1; a brown shade before the antemedial

line, which is black, excurved, and waved ; the medial area with three

indistinct double waved brown lines, the third excurved beyond the

cell; a whitish discoidal patch ; postmedial line strong, black, angled

outwards below costa, then sinuous, acutely angled outwards at veins

4, 3, then bent inwards to below end of cell, and erect and sinuous to

inner margin, followed by a brown shade before the diffused whitish

subterminal line which is excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards

below vein 4; some brown suffusion at apex and a waved black

line before termen ; cilia with a waved brown line through them.

Hind wing whitish suffused with brown and slightly irrorated with

fuscous ; the medial area with traces of four double slightly waved

lines ; postmedial line black, slightly waved, obsolescent towards

costa, followed by a brown shade before the slightly sinuous

diffused whitish subterminal line; a waved black line before termen,

and fine white line at base of cilia; the underside white slightly

urorated with brown, a blackish discoidal point, traces of three

minutely waved lines on medial area, curved minutely waved post-

medial line, slight subterminal shade, and series of black points

before termen.

Hab. AnmMEntA; Cyprus, Larnaka (B. Fletcher), 1 9; Syrta,

Mardin; Patestine. Herp. 36 millim.

8119. Pericyma albidentaria.

Acidalia alidentaria, Fry. Neue Beitr. Schmett. iv. p. 115, pl. 354.

f. 1 (1841); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 241.

Pericyma albidens, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 295 (1845);

Mill, Icones, ii. p. 468, pl. 98. ff. 9, 10.

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with whitish; abdomen

whitish mixed with brown, the crests blackish. Fore wing grey

suffused with pale red-brown ; subbasal line black, sinuous, from

costa to vein 1; antemedial line black, inwardly oblique, waved ;

the medial area with four indistinct double inwardly oblique sinuous

brown lines; a white discoidal bar with curved brown striga on it ;

postmedial line black, slightly excurved below costa and incurved

at discal fold, angled outwards at vein 4, then incurved and slightly

sinuous; a fuscous shade with a fine whitish line on it before the

faint pale subterminal line slightly defined on outer side by brown,

excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved ; a sinuous

black line before termen and fine white line at base of cilia. Hind

wing grey suffused with pale ed-brown and slightly irrorated with

blackish; the medial area w.th traces of five waved lines from

discal fold to imner margin; a sinuous blackish postmedial line from

vein 6 to inner margin; a slightly sinuous whitish subterminal line

faintly defined on each side by brown; a waved black line before

termen and fine white line at base of cilia; the underside white

irrorated with pale brown, the medial area with three minutely

3 LO NOCLUIDH.

waved brown lines, a curved minutely waved postmedial line, sub-

terminal series of brownish spots on the veins, and a series of black

points before termen. cen

Ab. 1. Paler; wings with the lines less distinct.

Fig. 78.—Pericyma albidentaria, G. }.

Hab. Eayer; 8. Russta, Sarepta (Christoph), Zeller, Frey,

Leech, and Crowley Colls.; ArmmEnta, Caucasus; Cyprus, Larnaka

(B. Fletcher), 1.3; Syria, Mardin; W. Turxestan, Turco-

mania, 1 ¢,1 9, Ferghana, Issyk-Kul; EH. Turkestan, Kashgar,

Ih. Hap. 28-34 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 279, pl. 53. f.4; Hffm. Raup.

. 145.

2 Long and slender; greenish yellow; Ist pair of prolegs rudi-

mentary. Food-plant, Alhagi camellorum.

8120. Pericyma scandulata. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 13.)

Homoptera scandulata, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 111. f. 22 (1874).

Polydesma exarata, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 42.

Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with fuscous and some

ervey; pectus and legs whitish tinged with brown, the tarsi black

ringed with white; abdomen reddish brown, the crests darker, the

ventral surface white. Fore wing reddish brown suffused and

irrorated with fuscous and some grey; a faint sinuous subbasal line

from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, double,

minutely waved ; medial area with two indistinct double waved

dark lines, the outer excurved beyond the cell; a minute dark spot

in middle of cell; reniform with its centre and outer edge indis-

tinctly defined by brown; postmedial line double, blackish, waved,

incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; sub-

terminal line double, dark filled in by reddish, excurved below vein 7

and at middle and incurved at discal and submedian folds; a waved

PERICYMA. olla

black line before termen. Hind wing grey suffused with reddish

brown and irrorated with blackish; a faint brown discoidal bar ;

a double minutely waved blackish postmedial line obsolescent on

costal area ; an indistinct waved reddish subterminal line defined on

each side by blackish points ; a crenulate black line before termen ;

the underside white irrorated with brown except on inner area, a

black discoidal point and faint curved brown postmedial line.

Ab. 1. Fuscous and grey with hardly any brown tinge.—Uganda ;

Rhodesia.

flab. Fr. Guinwa, Assinie, type + dS exarata in Coll. Mabille;

Ueanpa, Ruwenzori (Wollaston), 1 9 ; Ruopzsta, Bulawayo

(Marshall), 1 3; Transvaat, Pretoria (Breyer), 1 9; Naat,

Estcourt (Hutchinson), 3 3, Durban, 1 3. Hep. 386-42 millim.

Sucr. III. Antennz of male simple and somewhat laminate ; tibize tufted with

long hair; wings on underside slightly clothed with downturned

hair on basal half,

8121. Pericyma polygramma, n. sp.

3. Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with black-brown and

some grey; antenn blackish; pectus pale red-brown; tarsi black

ringed with white; abdomen dark brown, the crests blackish, the

Fig. 79.—Pericyma polygramma, 3. }.

two terminal segments with grey bands. Fore wing reddish brown,

the basal area tinged with fuscous to the postmedial line at costa

and middle of inner margin; an indistinct sinuous subbasal line

from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line indistinct, double,

angled inwards in cell and oblique below the cell; the medial area

with four indistinct double dark lines, sinuous to median nervure

and vein 4, then oblique; a black point in middle of cell ; reniform

with indistinct whitish annulus defined by blackish ; postmedial

312 NOCTUID&®

line double, the mner line black, the outer indistinct, arising below

costa and slightly sinuous, angled inwards at discal fold and oblique

below vein 4, some fuscous beyond it on costal area and two small

spots above inner margin; subterminal line indistinct, double,

sinuous, oblique below vein 4; a fine waved black line before

termen and fine white line at base of cilia. Hind wing reddish

brown slightly irrorated with black except on terminal area; an

indistinct double slightly sinuous antemedial line and three similar

lines beyond the cell; an oblique slightly sinuous treble black sub-

terminal line with a red-brown line beyond it; a fine sinuous black

line before termen and white line followed by blackish at base of

cilia ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a black discoidal

point, indistinct slightly sinuous antemedial line and three lines

beyond the cell, a minutely waved subterminal line and series of

black points before termen.

Ab. 1. Pale ochreous brown.—N. Nigeria.

Hab. N. Niagra, Zungeru (Macfie), 1 ¢; Transvaau, White

R. (Cooke), 1 5 type. Hxp. 32-88 millim.

Genus CORTYTA. ithe

Coping, ‘Ws, sath, LOS (USB). caccocscacaonnosesnongcoosonocduenscadcone canescens.

Preboscis fully developed; palpi with the 2nd joint upturned, reaching to

about vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 5rd porrect, moderate; frons

smooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round ; antenne of male typically

ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the metathorax with

depressed crest; fore tibis moderately fringed with hair, the mid tibie of

male typically dilated with a groove containing a fringe of scales, the fore and

hind tibie not spined; abdomen smoothly sealed and without erests. Fore

wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, 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 the cell about haif

the roe of wing; veins 3,4 from angle; 5 fully developed from above

angle; 6,7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

Secr. I. Antennee of male with serrations ending in bristles ; mid tibie without

groove and fringe of scales.

8122. Cortyta remigiana, n. sp.

3S. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous tinged with red-

brown; antennz red-brown; palpi red-brown at sides except at

tips; fore and mid legs and the hind tarsi suffused with brown.

Fore wing pale ochreous suffused with red-brown and slightly

irrorated with dark brown, the terminal area somewhat paler; a

faint brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; ante-

medial line slight, brown with small brown spot at costa, then

excurved and waved to just above inner margin, then bent upwards

to just above vein 1 and down to inner margin at the postmedial

line, its sinus below the cell filled in with deep chocolate-brown ;

an oblique brown bar trom middle of costa followed by a dark spot;

reniform famtly defined by brown except above, expanding below,

CORTYTA. 3813

some chocolate-brown beyond it; postmedial line shght, red-brown

defined on outer side by ochreous, minutely waved, oblique to below

vein 7, somewhat inwardly oblique to submedian fold, then retracted

to lower edge of reniform and again excurved to inner margin,

followed by slight blackish marks on veins 6 to 3; some ochreous

a 7

Fig. 80.—Cortyta remigiana, 3. }-

points on postmedial part of costa; subterminal line indistinct,

pale, dentate, faintly defined on each side by red-brown; a fine

waved red-brown terminal line; cilia ochreous at base, siadle brown

at tips. Hind wing pale ochreous tinged with red-brown especially

on terminal area; a : faint sinuous brown line from lower angle of

cell to inner margin ; ; the underside creamy white.

Hab. Br. EH. Arrica, Taveta (Rogers), 1 ¢ type. Kap.

34 millim.

Secr. IL. Antenne of male ciliated.

A. Mid tibiz of male dilated with a groove containing a

fringe of large scales.

a. Fore wing with the antemedial line excuryed in sub-

median interspace.

a'. Fore wing with oblique dark shade from apex ...... diapera.

61, Fore wing without oblique dark shade from apex.

a2, Hind wing fulvous yellow ..............:ececsssersseees metaxantha.

o2, Hind wing ochreous white.

a, Fore wing with the outer half of medial area not

suffused with giey-brOWn ....2.1..6...s.ececeeeee ens lewcoptera.

b3, Fore wing with the outer half of medial area

suffused with grey brown.

a‘, Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines

widely separated, the latter not angled out-

WEIRGIS G15 (EIU 2)? pascosoocapondsucenacdacsooreanoobee dispar.

bt. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines

closer together, the latter slightly angled out-

Warde acon ee a ee Un Jascioluta.

6. Fore wing with the antemedial line not exeurved in

submedian interspace,

a’, Fore wing with the medial area suffused with red-

brown.

a?, Kore wing with three double lines on medial area. balnearia.

62, Fore wing with one double line on medial area ... dmpar,

v1. Fore wing with the medial area not suffused with

red-brown.

a’, Kore wing with the postmedial line bent outwards

below costa.

bl NOCLUID &.

a3, Fore wing with the postmedial line bent inwards

below vein 3 to below end of cell .................. eremochrea.

68, Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly

incurved and somewhat dentate below vein 4.

a‘, Hind wing with double medial line.

a, Wings with the ground-colour whitish...... vetusta.

6°, Wings with the ground-colour rufous ...... rosacea.

6+, Hind wing without double medial line ......... polycyma.

c’, Fore wing with the postmedial line very slightly

incurved and not dentate below vein4 ......... pheocyma.

U?. Fore wing with the postmedial line arising from

the costa towards apex, oblique, excurved at

MUNG Melee. sccienewaccectneenene aarceaet scene eesti s canescens.

8123. Cortyta diapera, n. sp. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 14.)

3. Head and thorax white shghtly mixed with brown; palpi

white, the extremity of 2nd joint and the 3rd joint black ; frons at

sides and antenne black; tibize suffused with brown, the tarsi brown

with whitish rings; abdomen ochreous white, the base of ventral

surface whiter. Fore wing white slightly irrorated with brown; a

curved subbasal brown striga from costa; antemedial line slight,

brown, oblique to submedian fold where it is produced to a minute

black streak, then inwardly oblique; a very indistinct double waved

brownish medial line; reniform defined at sides by brown striz ;

postmedial line indistinctly double, the inner line blackish, oblique

to vein 6, incurved at discal fold, exeurved at vein 4, then incurved,

and again slightly excurved above inner margin, met at vein 6 by

an oblique rather diffused black fascia from apex, its outer edge

then defined by a blackish shade, some slight blackish marks beyond

it on costa and slight blackish streaks on the veins ; an indistinct

oblique brownish subterminal line, slightly incurved at submedian

fold ; a slight waved blackish line just before termen. Hind wing

white tinged with ochreous brown, the termen ochreous brown

except towards tornus; a terminal series of blackish points from

apex to vein 2; cilia white faintly chequered with brown to

vein 2; the underside white, the costal area slightly irrorated with

brown.

Hab. Transvaat, Waterberg (Wilde, Zutrencka), 2 3 type.

Exp. 32 millim.

8124. Cortyta metaxantha. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 15.)

Chalciope metaxantha, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 334 (1902).

3. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with reddish and mixed

with dark brown; tarsi blackish ringed with whitish; abdomen

ochreous tinged with fulvous, the ventral surface ochreous white.

Fore wing greyish ochreous tinged with brown, the basal area

thickly irrorated with blackish; subbasal line black, sinuous, from

costa to submedian fold; antemedial line strong, black, excurved

and waved, a faint diffused line before it; traces of a double medial

line exeurved from below costa to median nervure, then oblique, a

CORTYTA. 3815

brown shade beyond it, constricted at middle; postmedial line

strong, black, sinuous, strongly incurved below vein 4, a rather

diffused brown line beyond it followed by a pale grey band; traces

of a waved dark subterminal line; a highly waved dark terminal

line; cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hing wing fulvous yellow,

the inner area irrorated with a few black scales, the termen tinged

with brown from apex to vein 2; postmedial line black, from vein 3

to inner margin ; a waved black terminal line. Underside of both

wings fulvous yellow, the apical areas with patches of brown

suffusion.

Hab. Damaratanp; Care Conony, 1 3S type. Hap.

38 millim.

8125. Cortyta leucoptera. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 16.)

Hypetra leucoptera, Hmpsn. P. Z.8. 1896, p. 264, pl. x. f. 1.

3. Head and thorax ochreous white with a slight reddish tinge ;

antenn ringed with blackish ; palpi white, blackish at tips; pectus

white; tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen ochreous white.

Fore wing ochreous white, the terminal area grey-white ; a slight

black subbasal line excurved below costa, then oblique to vein 1

where it terminates; some grey suffusion before the strong black

antemedial line, which is oblique to submedian fold, then erect and

slightly sinuous ; medial area faintly tinged with red-brown; an

indistinct double waved brownish medial line ; reniform defined by

blackish, small and elliptical; some grey suffusion on costal area

before the black postmedial line, which is shghtly excurved below

costa and at middle and incurved at discal fold, strongly incurved

and slightly sinuous below vein 4, a grey-brown shade and faint

dark line beyond it; some pale points on costa towards apex;

traces of a pale waved subterminal line, the area beyond it ereyer

with a blackish patch at apex ; a slight crenulate blackish line just

before termen which is ochreous. Hind wing ochreous white, the

terminal half with dark striz on veins 2 and 1; a fine waved

blackish line just before termen with some brown suffusion before

it except towards tornus; cilia with a dark line through them.

Underside of both wings creamy white; fore wing with fuscous

terminal patch from apex to vein 3.

Hab. W. AuGERIA; Somanimand, Beichen (Gillett), 1 3;

ApEN (Nurse, Meade-Waldo), 2 3 type. Exp. 30 millim.

8126. Cortyta dispar. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 17 ¢,18 @.)

Pericyma dispar, Ping. Iris, xvi. p. 290, pl. vi. ff. 7, 7 a (1908).

3. Head and thorax ochreous white, the latter tinged with

brown on vertex; antenne ringed with black; palpi white, the

3rd joint blackish ; tarsi black, ringed with white; abdomen

ochreous white dorsally slightly tinged with brown. Fore wing

creamy ochreous, the terminal area grey suffused with fuscous

brown ; subbasal line represented by a curved black striga from

316 NOCTUID&.

costa and striga at vein 1; some brown suffusion before the dark

brown antemedial line, which is slightly angled outwards below

costa and at submedian fold and incurved at vein 1; the outer

half of medial area suffused with brown; an indistinct double

waved brownish medial line; reniform indistinctly defined by dark

brown, elliptical, a faint oblique sinuous line from it to inner

margin; postmedial line dark brown, shghtly excurved below costa

and ‘at middle and incurved at discal fold, strongly incurved and

shghtly sinuous below vein 4, a dark line beyond it incurved below

vein 4 ; some pale points on postmedial part of costa; subterminal

line whitish, waved, excurved at middle, the area beyond it rather

darker ; a fine crenulate black line just before termen with small

whitish spots beyond it in the interspaces; a fine whitish line at

base of cilia. Hind wing ochreous white, the terminal half with

diffused brown striz between veins 4 and 2 and on vein 1; a

crenulate dark line just before termen with some brown suffusion

before it. Underside of both wings creamy white; fore wing with

fuscous terminal patch from apex to vein 3.

@. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey tinged with brick-red ;

fore wing with the ground-colour pale grey tinged with brick-red ;

hind wing tinged with red-brown.

Ab. 1. Fore wing more uniform pale reddish brown; hind wing

tinged with red-brown.

Ab. 2. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial areas suffused

with fuscous.

Hab. PALESTINE, Engeddi, 1 9; E. Turkestan, Altyn Tag,

1 3. Hyp. 30 milli.

8127. Cortyta fasciolata. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 19.)

Pericyma fasciolata, Warr. Nov. Zool. xii. p. 24, pl. iv. ff. 11, 21 (1905).

3S. Head and thorax ochreous white pencilled with red-brown ;

pectus and legs whitish, the tarsi brown ringed with white; abdo-

men ochreous white tinged with red-brown. Fore wing ochreous

white tinged with rufous, the basal area, outer half of medial area

and the area just beyond the postmedial line suffused with brown ;

subbasal line blackish, sinuous, from costa to vein 1; antemedial

line double, blackish, the inner line indistinct, slightly angled

outwards below costa, excurved below the cell and angled inwards

at vein 1; the medial area with two indistinct double sinuous

lines; reniform defined by black, small; postmedial line black,

excurved below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, excurved

beyond lower angle of cell, bent inwards below vein 3, slightly

angled outwards at vein 2 and excurved below submedian fold; sub-

terminal line indistinct, whitish shghtly defined on outer side by

brown, minutely waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a

fine waved blackish line just before termen and a fine white line at

base of cilia. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with rufous ;

traces of double slightly waved medial and postmedial lines with

CORTYTA. 317

double black stria at inner margin and of a shehtly waved sub-

terminal line; a fine waved blackish line just before termen ; cilia

with a brown line near base; the underside ochreous whitish

slightly irrorated with brown.

2. Fore wing much more evenly and strongly suffused with

red-brown.

Hab. AueEerta, C. Sahara, S. Oued Mya, Ain, Guettara

(Hartert); Supan, R. Atbara, Nakheila (VV. C. Rothschild),

2 9 and type + 5, 2 in Coll. Rothschild. Hxp. 22-28 millim.

8128. Cortyta balnearia. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 20.)

Polydesma balnearia, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 228 (1898).

3S. Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown; antenne

black ; palpi ochreous white, black towards tips; pectus whitish ;

fore and mid tibiz with some black; tarsi black ringed with

white ; abdomen grey, dorsally suffused with brown. Fore wing

with the basal area grey suffused with blackish especially towards

the antemedial line; a waved black subbasal line from costa to

submedian fold; antemedial line strong, black defined on outer

side by ochreous, waved, slightly excurved; medial area bright

red-brown with three indistinct double brown lines, waved towards

costa; reniform defined by blackish, small and narrow; postmedial

line black, excurved below costa and at middle, incurved at discal

fold and below vein 4, slightly angled outwards at vein 1, defined

on outer side by a narrow fuscous brown band with slightly dentate

outer edge; terminal area pale grey ; traces of a pale waved sub-

terminal line defined on inner side by fuscous and on outer side by

rufous towards costa ; a fine dentate black line just before termen.

Hind wing whitish tinged with reddish brown; some faint dark

striz on veins 2 and 1 towards termen; a fine dentate black line

just before termen slightly defined on inner side by fuscous

suffusion except towards tornus. Underside of both wings

brownish white with fuscous brown terminal band except towards

tornus.

Hab. Masnonatann, Umtali (Marshall), 1 3; Transvaat,

Waterberg (Distant), 1 3 type. Hep. 36 millim.

8129. Cortyta impar, n. sp. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 21.)

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous slightly tinged with

brown; palpi white, brown towards tips; fore and mid tarsi

blackish ringed with white. Fore wing ochreous, the basal area

and outer half of medial area suffused with red-brown, the terminal

area with a greyish tinge; a blackish point at base and obliquely

placed subbasal blackish points on costa and median nervure ; ante-

medial line double, the inner line indistinct, the outer black, shghtly

angled outwards below costa and inwards at vein 1; medial line

double, indistinct, brownish, excurved in cell; reniform indistinctly

defined by brown, small and narrow, a blackish striga above it from

318 NOCTUID®.

costa and line from it to inner margin angled outwards at vein 1 ;

postmedial line double, the inner line blackish, the outer less dis-

tinet, bent outwards below costa, ineurved at discal fold and below

vein 4; a very indistinct pale subterminal line excurved below

vein 7 and at middle and incurved at discal and submedian folds ;

a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous white

slightly tinged with reddish brown; some dark striz on medial

parts of veins 2 and 1; a terminal series of slight black lunules.

Underside ochreous white, the apex of fore wing tinged with

brown.

Hab. Punsap, Jubbulpur, 1 ¢ type. Hep. 24 millim.

8130. Cortyta eremochroa. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 22.)

Homoptera eremochroa, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xxi. p. 1222

(1912).

@. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white mixed with brown ;

pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white, the fore and

mid tibiz irrorated with brown, the tarsi black ringed with white.

Fore wing grey tinged with red-brown and irrorated with fuscous ;

the costa with series of small blackish spots; a slight curved

blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line

blackish, curved and slightly waved; reniform defined by black,

very small; postmedial line blackish, shghtly bent outwards below

costa, ineurved at discal fold, bent inwards below vein 4 to below

end of cell and sinuous to inner margin, some white points alter-

nating with the black spots beyond it on costa; a faint pale sub-

terminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a

slight waved black line with points at the interspaces before

termen. Hind wing grey tinged with red-brown and irrorated

with blackish; traces of double minutely waved medial, postmedial,

and subterminal blackish lines except en costal area; a waved black

line before termen; cilia whitish with two brown lines through

them; the underside whitish tinged and irrorated with brown, a

black discoidal point.

Hab. Bompay, Deesa (Nurse), 1 2 type. Ewp. 26 millim.

8131. Cortyta vetusta.

Polydesma vetusta, Wik. xxxiii. 875 (1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 11.

p. 467.

Pericyma acrosticta, Ping. Iris, xvi. p. 290, pl. vi. f. 6 (1903).

Head and thorax brown mixed with blackish and white ; pectus

and legs white tinged with brown, the fore tibiz and the fore and

mid tarsi black rmged with white ; abdomen ochreous brown mixed

with white, the ventral surface white. Fore wing white tinged

with ochreous brown and thickly irrorated with fuscous; subbasal

line black defined on outer side by white, waved, from costa to sub-

median fold, with blackish spots beyond it at costa, below the cell,

and above vein 1; antemedial line double, blackish, waved, and

CORTYTA. 319

rather diffused; a double rather diffused waved blackish medial

line, with a black discoidal striga on its outer edge ; postmedial

line black, bent outwards below costa, then sinuous, below vein 3

obliquely bent inwards to submedian fold where it forms a spot,

then erect to inner margin, a diffused smuous dark line beyond it

and some white points on costa; a double waved fuscous ’ sub-

terminal line excurved below vein 7 and at middle, some blackish

beyond it at apex; a fine waved black line before termen with black

points at the interspaces followed by whitish points; cilia with a

Fig. 81.—Cortyta vetusta, S. 3.

fine white line at base. Hind wing grey tinged with brown and

irrorated with blackish ; a double rather diffused oblique blackish

line from discal fold to inner margin; a rather diffused double

slightly waved postmedial blackish line, obsolescent towards costa ;

an indistinctly double waved dark subterminal line; a fine waved

black line before termen with black points at the interspaces ; cilia

with a fine white line at base; the underside white irrorated with

brown except on inner area, two dark discoidal striz, an indistinct

curved postmedial line, double subterminal line, and series of black

points before termen.

Ab. 1. Paler.

Ab. 2. acrosticta. Fore wing with distinct black spot at

apex.

Hab. Patestine, Engeddi, Ain-Dchidi; Supan, White Nile,

Gabt el Meghahid (Dunn), 1 9, Blue Nile (Flower), 1 3, Port

Sudan (Mrs. Waterfield), 2 3, 1 9; Somatmanp, Bulhar

(Drake-Brockman), 1 3 ; Brcnuuanatann, Lake N’Gami

(Lugard), 1 2 ; PunsaB,.1 S type, Manpuri, 1 ¢; Brtw-

CHISTAN, Ormara (Cumming), 1 3 ; Srp, Karachi (Swinhoe),

3.6; Bompay, 1 d ; Mapras, Gooty (Campbell), 1 3. Exp.

34—40 millim.

3820 NOCTUID®.

8132. Cortyta rosacea. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 23.)

Pericyma rosacea, Rebel, Denks. Math.-Nat. Akad. Wissensch. lxxi. p. 60

(1907).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous mixed with some grey

and dark brown; antennze blackish ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ;

abdomen ochreous white below. Fore wing rufous irrorated with

ereyish and dark brown; subbasal and antemedial lines indistinct,

double, waved, with blackish spots at costa, the former from costa

to vein 1, the latter erect; orbicular a blackish point, the reniform

a small elliptical blackish spot with pale mark beyond it; medial

line double, waved, erect ; postmedial line double, minutely waved,

incurved below vein 4; subterminal line indistinct, reddish, minutely

waved, somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a blackish

patch at apex ; a terminal series of minute black points; cilia pale

rufous and grey-brown, with pale waved lines at base and middle.

Hind wing pale rufous irrorated with grey and fuscous; double

minutely waved medial and postmedial lines; the terminal area

thickly irrorated with fuscous ; a terminal series of black points;

cilia pale rufous at base, whitish at tips, with a waved brown line

at middle; the underside yellowish white, the terminal area suffused

with fuscous from apex to submedian fold.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with distinct black spot at apex.

Hab. Supan, Port Sudan (Mrs. Waterfield), 1 3, 1 @;

Socotra, Makdalla, type + ¢ in Mus. Vienna. vp. 36 millim.

Probably a rufous aberration of O. vetusta.

8133. Cortyta polycyma. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 24.)

Hypoglaucitis polycyma, Hmpsn. Tr. Zool. Soe. xix. p. 111, pl. iv. f. 18

(1909).

@. Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous brown ; antennz

ringed with black; palpi white, black towards tips; fore and mid

tibize with some blackish; tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen

ochreous white, dorsally suffused with brown. Fore wing grey

suffused with fuscous brown; a sinuous black subbasal line from

costa to submedian fold; antemedial line black, angled outwards

below costa, then sinuous; medial area with two indistinct double

slightly sinuous lines bent inwards to costa; reniform defined by

blackish, narrow and elliptical, a slight blackish line from :t to

inner margin; postmedial line black, slightly excurved below costa

and incurved at discal fold, incurved and somewhat dentate below

vein 4, an indistinct dentate line beyond it followed by some white

suffusion below the costa; two white points on postmedial part of

costa ; subterminal line whitish, waved, with some blackish suffusion

before it on costal area; a fine dentate black line just before termen ;

a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish tinged and

irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown. Under-

side brownish white; both wings with the terminal area suffused

with brown except towards tornus.

-CORTYTA. SIL

Hab. UGanna, Ruwenzori (Wollaston), 1 2 type; N.E.

Ruopesia, Up. Luangwa R. (Weave), 1 9. LHxp. 34-38 millim.

‘8134. Cortyta pheocyma, n. sp. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 25.)

2. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey suffused with fuscous

brown; palpi at base, pectus, and ventral surface of abdomen

whitish ; tarsi black with pale rings. Fore wing grey suffused

with fuseous brown; subbasal line black, sinuous, from costa to

submedian fold; antemedial line black, exeurved and slightly

waved, a small triangular dark mark beyond it representing the

claviform ; an indistinct double sinuous medial line ; reniform with

whitish centre defined by black, elliptical, a sinuous blackish line

from it to inner margin; postmedial line black, bent outwards

below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4,

with faint lines before and beyond it; an oblique white mark from

postmedial part of costa; subterminal line pale grey, excurved

below vein 7 and at middle, with slight black streaks beyond it

below vein 7 and at submedian fold; a crenulate black line just

before termen. Hind wing whitish tinged with reddish brown,

the termen suffused with fuscous brown except towards tornus, a

dark patch on vein 1 towards tornus, a waved blackish terminal

line ; cilia with a fine pale line at base; the underside with the

costal area and terminal area to vein 2 tinged and irrorated with

brown.

Hab. Transvaat, Warmbad (Cooke), 1 2 type. Hap.

36 millim.

8135. Cortyta canescens. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 26 3, 27 9.)

Cortyta canescens,-W1k. xiii. 1077 (1857).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey mixed with blackish ;

palpi black at sides; frons blackish; tegule with three faint

blackish lines; legs irrorated with blackish, the tarsi blackish

ringed with white ; abdomen with slight blackish segmental lines,

the ventral surface brownish white irrorated with black. Fore

wing pale grey slightly tinged with brown and irrorated with

blackish; traces of a double sinuous dark subbasal line from costa

to vein 1; antemedial line indistinct, double, inwardly oblique

below the cell; the medial area with four slight double oblique

sinuous brown lines; reniform very faintly defined by brown,

irregular; postmedial line blackish, arising from costa towards

apex, very oblique, slightly sinuous, and excurved at middle; an

indistinct dark line beyond it arising from apex; an indistinct

double sinuous brown subterminal line; a slight waved black line

before termen, and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing grey-

white tinged and irrorated with brown; a faint oblique blackish

antemedial line and three faint oblique slightly sinuous double lines

beyond the cell; an oblique slightly sinuous blackish postmedial

line with faint diffused line beyond it; an indistinct double sinuous

VOL. XIII. Y

3822 NOCTUID ®.

subterminal line; a series of minute black lunules before termen,

and a fine white line at base of cilia; the underside white irrorated

with brown, a series of black points before termen.

Q. Usually darker.

Hab. Br. HE. Arrica, Taveta (Rogers), 1 2 ; TRANSVAAL,

Pretoria, 1 9; Navan (Marshall), 1 9, Estcourt (Hutchinson),

26, 2 2, Durban, 1 ¢ type; Apen (J. J. Walker), 1 oS.

Exp. 36—44 millim.

B. Mid tibix of male not dilated and without fringe of scales.

a. Hind tibiz of male fringed with long hair.

8136. Cortyta grisea.

Polydesma grisea, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 552.

Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and blackish; tibiz

with blackish bands, the tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen

grey tinged with brown, the ventral surface white. Fore wing

pale grey slightly tinged with brown and thickly irrorated with

blackish; a rather diffused sinuous blackish subbasal line from

costa to submedian fold, defined on outer side by whitish at costa ;

Fig. 82.—Cortyta grisea, 3. 4.

antemedial line indistinct, blackish defined on inner side by white,

waved ; orbicular and reniform defined by blackish, the former round,

the latter large and rather quadrate with a slight curved blackish

striga in centre, a white spot between them in the cell; a double

brown medial line from costa to reniform and incurved below the

cell; a diffused white postmedial band with dark spot at costa, then

a series of black points on the veins, excurved at middle ; subterminal

line whitish defined on each side by rather diffused brown, excurved at

CORTYTA. 323

middle and ineurved at discal fold and below vein 3; a lunulate

black line before termen and a crenulate black terminal line; cilia

chequered whitish and fuscous at tips. Hind wing whitish, the

basal half suffused with brown, the terminal half slightly irrorated

with fuscous; an oblique minutely waved dark postmedial line; a

double subterminal line, the inner line minutely waved, the outer

rather diffused; a series of black lunules before termen and a

crenulate blackish terminal line; cilia with brownish spots at the

veins. Underside brownish white; fore wing with black spot in

cell and large discoidal spot, curved waved postmedial line with

spot at costa, subterminal patches of fuscous at costa and middle

and series of blackish lunules before termen ; hind wing with small

black discoidal spot, sight sinuous medial line, curved waved post-

medial line, and series of blackish lunules before termen.

Ab. 1. Wings with a yellowish tinge.

Hab. ? Japan, 1 6; C. Cuina, Shanghai, 1 2, Chekiang

(Pryer), 13,1 2, Ichang (Hobson), 3 5 ; W. Cuina, Chia-

kou-ho (Pratt), 1 3, Kwei-chou, 1 2, Moupin (Avicheldorf),

3 ¢ type. Hap. 46-58 millim.

b. Hind tibize of male smoothly scaled.

a‘. Wings grey suffused with brown ...........2...seeseeeee profesta.

Oke \iVnivgs jour OS, TEC! acccoopodosad9oecnescadondobsec0ndas000400 ruficolora.

8137. Cortyta profesta.

Pericyma profesta, Christ. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 165; id. Rom. Mém.

ix. p. 39, pl. 2. f. 10; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 241.

Pericyma sacra, Staud. Iris, x. p. 298, pl. 9. f, 20 (1897).

Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with whitish; antenne

blackish ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish, the

Fig. 83.—Cortyla profesta, S$. }.

fore tibiz and the tarsi black ringed with white. Fore wing,

whitish suffused with brown and irrorated with fuscous ; a slight

¥ 2

324 NOCTUIDS.

sinuous blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold;

antemedial line blackish, minutely waved ; an indistinctly double

waved medial line with the blackish discoidal striga on its outer

edge; postmedial line double, the inner line black, the outer

diffused and followed by a whitish shade, bent outwards below

costa, then sinuous, angled inwards below vein 3 to below end of

cell; subterminal line indistinct, double, excurved below vein 7 and

at middle ; a slight dentate blackish line before termen with black

points at the interspaces. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown

and irrorated with fuscous; traces of a double medial line from

lower angle of cell to inner margin ; a double slightly waved post-

medial line from vein 6 to inner margin; an indistinct double

waved subterminal line ; a slight waved blackish line before termen,

with black points at the interspaces; a fine whitish line at base of

cilia ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a small black dis-

_coidal spot and waved black line before termen.

Ab. 1. Wings with the markings more distinct.

Hab. ARMENIA; Cyprus, Nicosia (Miss Bate, Bucknill), 2 9;

SyrtA, Mardin; PanestineE, 15, 19; W. TurKxestan, Turco-

mania, Ferghana. Hap. 30-34 millim.

8138. Cortyta ruficolora. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 28.)

Homoptera ruficolora, Hmpsn. J. Bomb, Nat. Hist. Soe. xxi. p. 1222

(1912).

3S. Head and thorax purplish red mixed with some violaceous

white; tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen purplish red with

whitish segmental lines, the ventral surface tinged with white.

Fore wing violaceous red with a faint grey gloss ; a slight double

waved red subbasal line from costa to median nervure ; antemedial

line deep red, inwardly oblique and minutely waved; reniform deep

red, small, elliptical, a red bar above it from costa; postmedial line

red, indistinctly double, excurved below costa, then minutely waved

and slightly incurved at submedian fold; a faint pale subterminal

line slightly defined on outer side by deep red, excurved below

vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of slight deep red points.

Hind wing whitish tinged with red, the terminal area suffused with

purplish red; a faint medial series of deep red points on the veins ;

a faint sinuous postmedial line with deep red points on the veins

from vein 6 to inner margin; a terminal series.of deep red points ;

the underside white faintly tinged with reddish.

Hab. Mapras, Gooty (Campbell), 1 3 type. Hap. 30 millim.

Genus EUBOLINA. Tea

Eubolina, Hary. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 280 (1875)...... impartialis,

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about

middle of frons and breadly sealed, the 8rd long and oblique; frons with

large tuft of scales; eyes large, round; antennx of male with fasciculate cilia ;

thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the metathorax with depressed

EUBOLINA. 325

crest ; tibixe smoothly scaled, the fore tibiz not spined, the mid tibiz strongly

spined, the hind tibiz spined between the mid and terminal spurs only; abdo-

men smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded,

the termen evenly curved, 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 the cell half the length of wing; veins 3, 4

from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle ;

8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

8139. Eubolina impartialis.

Eubolina impartialis, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 281 (1875) ;

Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 372.

3. Head and thorax grey-white pencilled with brown; palpi

suffused with brown, the extremity of third joint white; pectus

white; legs white irrorated with brown, the tarsi fuscous tinged

with white; abdomen white dorsally tinged with ochreous brown.

Fore wing white irrorated with brown and faintly glossed in parts

with blue-green and purple, the terminal area suffused with red-

brown ; subbasal line slight, blackish, sinuous, from costa to sub-

median fold; antemedial line black, waved, with a faint dark shade

Fig. 84..—Hubolina impartialis, 8. 1.

before it; traces of a sinuous dark medial line from costa to median

nervure ; reniform obscurely defined by blackish ; postmedial line

slight, blackish, waved to vein 3, then angled inwards to lower

angle of cell and again excurved and waved, some white points

beyond it on costa; a diffused blackish shade before the red-brown

terminal area; a waved black terminal line. Hind wing white

suffused with ochreous brown; traces of a minutely dentate dark

postmedial line except on costal area ; traces of a pale subterminal

line with minute dark streak before it on veins 4 to 2; a waved

blackish terminal line; cilia white mixed with brown; the under-

side white irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point and curved

postmedial line.

Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 ¢ type. Hap. 38 millim.

326 NOCTUID..

Genus MATIGRAMMA. Type

Matigramma, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 22 (1872) ... pudverilinea.

Proboscis fully developed ; pa!pi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large,

round; antennse of male with fasciculate cilia ; thorax clothed almost entirely

with scales, the metathorax with depressed crest ; tibie slightly fringed with

hair, the mid tibize str ‘ongly spined, in male dilated with a groove containing

a tuft of hair, fhe mid and hind tibiz not spined; abdomen without crests.

Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly

erenulate; veins 3 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 the

cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully devel oped

from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell

near base only.

A. Hind wing with indistinct sinuous dark medial line.

a. Fore wing with the ground-colour brown.

a}, Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly waved,

oblique below vein 4

BORO RDUOH RanoaUdouNBaAGHondonooboepAeS nitida.

b), Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly waved,

incurved below Vell 4 ...........cccceecesseeescere: cecese pulverilined.

b. Fore wing with the eround-colour grey.

a, Fore wing tinged with rufous ............ donsesedsoacooe rubrosuffusa,

1. Fore wing not tinged with rufous ....................- lena.

LB. Hind wing without medial line.

a. Fore wing without white centre to the reniform ...... metaleuca.

». Fore wing with white centre to the reniform ............ perigeana.

8140. Matigramma nitida, n. sp. (Plate CCX XVI. fig. 28.)

9. Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with grey; pectus

and ventral purface of abdomen whiter; tarsi brown ringed with

white. Fore wing reddish brown with shght dark irroration; a

slight curved dente subbasal line defined on ones side by grey, from

costa to submedian fold; antemedial line black defined on inner

side by whitish, incurved in cell and at vein 1; a blackish point in

middle of cell and slight discoidal lunule; an irregularly waved

blackish medial line, double and rather diffused at costa; post-

medial line fine, black slightly defined on outer side by grey, oblique

to below vein 7, then waved oblique below vein 4, some whitish

points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish slightly defined

on each side by blackish, waved, oblique below vein 3; a series of

black points defined on outer side by whitish just before termen,

and a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing reddish brown

tinged with grey and with slight dark irroration ; an indistinct

double sinuous dark medial line; postmedial line blackish, minutely

waved; subterminal line blackish slightly defined on outer side by

whitish, minutely waved; a fine crenulate blackish terminal line

with black points at the interspaces, and a fine whitish line at base

of cilia; the underside grey-white irrorated with brown, a dark

discoidal bar with shade above it from costa, indistinct rather

diffused waved postmedial and subterminal lines.

Hab. ARGENTINA, Tapia, 1 9 type. Exp. 30 millim.

MATIGRAMMA. BW

8141. Matigramma pulverilinea.

Matigramma pulverilinea, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. iv. p. 22 (1872);

Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 375.

Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with ereyish, the

ventral surface of abdomen paler. Fore wing erey suffused with

brown and irrorated with whitish, the postmedial area rather

darker; subbasal line dark brown slightly defined on outer side by

whitish, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line

dark brown slightly defined on inner side by whitish, excurved

below costa, then sinuous ; a dark medial line excurved in the cell

Fig. 85.—Matigramma pulverilinea, 3. }.

and below submedian fold; reniform faintly defined by whitish,

very narrow and constricted at middle; postmedial line dark brown

defined on outer side by whitish, bent outwards below costa, then

slightly waved, excurved to vein A, then incurved, some pale points

beyond it on costa; subterminal lne whitish, slightly angled in-

wards at discal and submedian folds; a series of dark strize before

termen defined on outer side by whitish. Hind wing grey suffused

with brown; an indistinct simuous dark medial line; postmedial

and subterminal lines dark defined- on outer side by whitish,

minutely waved ; a series of dark strize before termen; the under-

side grey suffused with brown and irrorated with dark brown, a

curved dark postmedial line.

Hab. U.S.A., 8. States, Texas, 25, 2 2 type. Exp. 32-

36 millim.

8142. Matigramma rubrosuffusa. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 24.)

Matigramma rubrosuffusa, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 172 (1882); Smith,

Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 375.

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white irrorated with dark brown ;

antenne ringed with black; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of

abdomen brownish white, the fore and mid tibie banded with

blackish, the tarsi black ringed with white. Fore wing grey-white

tinged with red-brown and thickly irrorated with blackish; sub-

328 NOCTUID&.

basal line double, blackish, waved, from costa to vein 1; antemedial

line double, blackish, waved; a double waved blackish medial line ;

a small blackish spot in middle of cell; reniform defined by

blackish, small, a whitish spot beyond its lower extremity ; post-

medial line black, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and

produced to black and white points on the veins, at vein 3 retracted

to lower angle of cell, then erect, a slight dark shade beyond it and

some minute whitish points on costa; subterminal line slight, dark,

waved, incurved at discal fold and below vein 3; a slight waved

dark terminal line with black points at the interspaces, a fine pale

line at base of cilia. Hind wing grey-white tinged with red-brown

and irrorated with blackish; a sinuous blackish medial line; post-

medial line black, waved; subterminal line faint, diffused, defined

on outer side by whitish ; a slight waved dark terminal line with

black points at the interspaces, and a fine pale line at base of cilia ;

the underside white, the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated

with brown, a small blackish discoidal spot, slight curved post-

medial line with small black spots at discal and submedian folds,

and traces of a subterminal line.

Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, 1 5, Nogales (Oslar), 2 3,2 9, Gila

Co., Pinal Mts. (Kunzé),1 9. Hxp. 36-40 millim.

8143. Matigramma lena. (Plate CCX XVI. fig. 25.)

* Matigramma lena, Grote, Can, Ent. xiv. p. 172 (1882); Smith, Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 375.

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white mixed with brown ;

pectus and ventral surface of abdomen white, the tarsi blackish

ringed with white. Fore wing whitish grey tinged with brown

and irrorated with dark brown; subbasal line sight, dark defined

on inner side by whitish, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold;

antemedial line brown, double at costa, waved; an indistinct

sinuous brown medial line, double at costa; reniform obscurely

defined by brown and with faint whitish points on its outer edge,

very narrow and rather sinuous, a dark striga above it from costa ;

postmedial line blackish, minutely dentate and produced to whitish

points on the veins, oblique below vein 3, a slight dark shade

beyond it from costa to vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on

costa; subterminal line diffused, dark, waved, excurved below

vein 7 and at middle; a series of dark striz before termen defined

on outer side by whitish; a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind

wing whitish tinged with brown and with slight dark irroration ;

traces of two sinuous brown medial lines; postmedial line slight,

brown, dentate, produced to white and dark points on the veins ;

subterminal line rather diffused, brown, somewhat excurved at

middle ; a series of dark strize before termen and fine whitish line

at base of cilia; the underside white tinged and irrorated with

brown, a shght dark discoidal point, curved postmedial line, traces

of subterminal line, and slight waved dark line before termen.

Ab. 1. Darker and more suffused with fuscous brown.

Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 3,2 2 type. Hap. 38-40 millim.

* Poaphila pulverosa, Wik. is a synonym of Bendis hinna, Hiibn.

MATIGRAMMA. 329

8144. Matigramma metaleuca, n. sp.

(Plate COX XVI. fig. 26.)

3. Head and thorax blackish mixed with white ; palpi white at

base and with white ring at extremity of 2nd joint; pectus and

femora white, the tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen whitish

irrorated with black-brown, the ventral surface white. Fore wing

suffused and thickly irrorated with black-brown; subbasal line

slight, black, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indis-

tinctly double, black, waved, rather obliquely curved ; an indistinct

double waved dark medial line; a black point in middle of cell;

reniform defined by blackish; postmedial line double, black, bent

outwards below costa, then sinuous, strongly incurved below vein 4,

some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct,

dark, waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a series of black

points defined on outer side by white before termen; a fine white

line at base of cilia. Hind wing white irrorated with brown ; a

slight dark discoidal striga; traces of a slightly sinuous dark post-

medial line and of a subterminal line with blackish points at the

veins and small spots at vein 2 and tornus ; a series of small black

lunules just before termen; cilia white chequered with blackish at

tips; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas slightly

irrorated with brown, a black discoidal point and series of black

points and striz before termen.

Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, Phenix (Kunzé), 1 3 type. Exp. 28

millim.

8145. Matigramma perigeana, n. sp.

(Plate CCXXVI. fig. 27.)

@. Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey; tegule

greyer with a small dorsal black spot; palpi, pectus, and legs grey

irrorated with blackish ; abdomen pale brown irrorated with black,

the ventral surface brownish white. Fore wing fuscous brown

mixed with grey and thickly irrorated with black; subbasal line

slight, black, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line rather

diffused, blackish, somewhat oblique to submedian fold; the medial

area with two indistinct double sinuous blackish lines; reniform

small, whitish defined by black and placed on a whitish patch ;

postmedial line indistinct, blackish, bent outwards below costa,

incurved at discal fold, bent inwards from below vein 4 to vein 2,

then sinuous, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal

line indistinct, blackish, slightly angled outwards below veins 7

and 4, then incurved ; a series of slight black striz faintly defined

on outer side by whitish before termen ; a fine pale line at base of

cilia. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown and with slight dark

irroration ; a double diffused dark subterminal line ; a rather diffused

dark line before termen ; cilia whitish with a dark line at middle ;

the underside white irrorated with brown, a slight dark discoidal

lunule, and traces of postmedial and subterminal lines.

Hab. Arncunttya, Mendoza, La Paz (Baine), 1 2 type. Kuxp.

54 millim.

3830 NOCTUID.E.

Subfamily CATOCALIN A.

ADDENDA anp CORRIGENDA.

Vou. XII.

Page 66. 7179. Catocala fraxini insert :—

Ab. sternecki, Hirschke, Jahr. Ber. Entom. Ver. Wien, xxi. p. 94 (1911).

Hind wing with the blue band more than double as broad,

extending on outer side to near termen.

Page 222. 7342 a. Ulothrichopus maccvoodi, n. sp.

(Plate CCXXIL. fig. 12.)

g- Head and thorax white mixed with red-brown, the tegule

and prothorax mostly rufous; palpi red-brown; antenne brown

with a brown bar between their bases; pectus ochreous white ; fore

tibie with a black bar near tips, the tarsi blackish ringed with

white; abdomen bright pink, the hair at base and anal segment

brown and white, the ventral surface ochreous white. Fore wing

white mostly suffused with rufous and slightly irrorated with dark

brown ; subbasal line black, curved, from costa to median nervure,

some brown beyond it on costa; antemedial line black and oblique

to submedian fold, then indistinct and whitish, shghtly angled

outwards below costa and incurved at vein 1; reniform rufous and

white with slight whitish annulus defined on inner side by blackish,

its outer edge somewhat dentate, an oblique black bar above it

from costa; postmedial line black, indistinct and defined on outer

side by whitish on inner half, angled outwards below costa, then

oblique and produced to long teeth below veins 6 and 5, then

retracted and waved, at vein 2 forming a sinus running inwards and

upwards to lower edge of reniform, angled inwards below sub-

median fold; subterminal line whitish slightly defined on outer

side by brown, rather diffused towards costa, bent outwards at

vein 7, then dentate, the veins beyond it shghtly streaked with

black ; a faint oblique dark shade from termen below apex. Hind

wing bright pink ; a narrow black medial band from costa to sub-

median fold, forming spots below costa and above submedian fold,

strongly excurved below vein 5; a blackish subterminal band from

costa to vein 2, dentate to termen and cilia between veins 6 and 2 ;

a small terminal spot at vein 1; cilia white towards apex. Under-

side of fore wing white, an oblique black-brown antemedial shade

from below costa to inner margin at the black medial band which

is excurved below vein 5, the terminal area black-brown, broad

towards costa; hind wing with the costal area white extending

beyond the cell to the discal fold, the subterminal band extending

to near tornus and becoming terminal below vein 5.

Hab. Burma, Maymyo (dlackwood),1 3 type. Exp. 82 milli.

Page 271.

7394. Agonista rveducens insert Noctua vampyrus, Fabr. Ent.

Syst. in. 2. p. 14 (1794), which has priority.

ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. 331

Page 273. Under Nyctipao insert :—

2 Type.

Erebus, Latr. Ord. Nat. Crust. & Ins. p. 865 (1810)......... crepuscularis

which has priority.

Page 360. 7472. Speiredonia triloba insert (syn.) :—

Spirama rosacea, Butl. Ill. Het. B.M. vii. p. 78, pl. 132. ff. 9, 10 (1889).

Page 452

ge 452.

7576 a. Anua rufescens, n. sp. (Plate CCX XII. fig. 11.)

S. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous; antennze

brownish; palpi fuscous mixed with grey ; abdomen whitish tinged

with brown. Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous, the costal

area more ochreous, the inner half of medial area irrorated with

a few black scales; antemedial line indistinct, blackish, almost

obsolete towards costa, oblique to submedian fold, then inwardly

oblique ; a black point in middle of cell; reniform faintly defined

by blackish; postmedial line indistinct, blackish, excurved below

costa, incurved at discal fold and ineurved below vein 4; sub-

terminal line grey defined on inner side by blackish, with two black

spots before it below costa where it is slightly exomnell below vein 8

and angled outwards below vein 7, reduced to erey and black points

beaween veins 5 and 3, incurved Ibellowe vein 3, and forming a grey

patch defined on outer side by blackish in submedian interspace ;

some brownish suffusion at apex and a series of minute dark streaks

in the interspaces of terminal area. Hind wing whitish suffused

with brown ; a fuscous subterminal shade, broad towards costa and

ending on termen at ven 1; the termen narrowly whitish towards

apex; the underside ochreous, the terminal area tinged with

fuscous.

Hab. Sterrs Leone, Kondita (Simpson), 1 3 type. Exp. 62

millim.

Page 479.

7604a. Tolna macrosema, n. sp. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 8.)

2. Head and tegule pale rufous; antennz fuscous; thorax

grey mixed with fuscous brown; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen

grey tinged with brown, the basal crests blackish at tips. Fore

wing with the basal area dark greyish brown mixed with some

rufous; subbasal line black defined on each side by rufous, sinuous,

from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line black, obliquely

incurved to middle of inner margin ; medial area yellowish white

suffused with rufous; reniform with faint grey annulus and greyish

striga in centre, placed on a black-brown patch from costa defined

by black, extending to below the cell where it is pointed, its inner

edge oblique and slightly sinuous and its outer edge angled out-

words at vein 5; medial line reddish brown, oblique and sinuous

from the outer edge of the patch to vein 4, then incurved, the area

between it and the] patch clear yellowish white ; ; postmedial line black,

3382 NOCTUID&.

waved, obliquely incurved from costa to vein 6 where it is angled

outwards, angled outwards at vein 4, then oblique, the area beyond

it rufous to vein 6 with some whitish points on costa, then grey-

brown slightly irrorated with white, the grey-brown extending at

termen to vein 7; subterminal line faint and whitish on the rufous

area, then formed by rather diffused black spots to vein 4, then by

smaller spots to inner margin, excurved below vein 7 and angled

outwards at vein 4, then ineurved, a waved blackish line between it

and the postmedial line on inner area; a waved dark terminal line

with white points at the interspaces. Hind wing fuscous brown,

the termen and cilia creamy white from apex to vein 5, the cilia

thence with fine pale line at base. Underside of fore wing grey-

brown, a diffused dark discoidal spot with yellowish white band

beyond it from costa to vein 2, postmedial line oblique to vein 4

then inwardly oblique, a band of dark suffusion before the sub-

terminal line which is bent outwards at vein 7, the apex yellowish

white ; hind wing grey suffused with brown, a dark discoidal spot,

postmedial line indistinct double, curved, filled in with whitish to

vein 5, a band of blackish suffusion before the waved subterminal

line, a waved dark terminal line.

Hab. Gotp Coast, Kumasi (Sanders), 1 2 type. Exp.

56 millim.

Page 481. Genus Catephiodes rename ANOPHIODES, n. n.

Catephiodes, Beth.-Baker, 1908, nee Hmpsn. Lep. 1905.

Page 482. Under Ercheia insert :— ‘i

ype.

Melipotis, Hubn. Verz. p. 260 (1827) ...........5.0 20s cse eee eeees cyllaria

which has precedence.

Page 536.

7669. Achza melicerta insert Geometra janata, Linn. Syst.

Nat. ed. x. p. 527, which has priority.

Page 598.

7748 a. Parallelia rectivia, n. sp. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 7.)

3. Head and thorax red-brown; antenne dark brown; pectus

and legs grey mixed with brown, the tarsi banded brown and

white; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface white tinged

with red-brown except at extremity. Fore wing red-brown, a

dark sinuous subbasal line slightly defined on outer side by white,

from costa to submedian fold; a rather narrow straight white band

from middle of costa to tornus, edged by black lines, the outer line

slightly defined on outer side by whitish also the inner line on inner

side at costa, some red-brown suffusion near the inner edge of the

band and two black discoidal points on it; some white points on

apical part of costa ; traces of a waved dark subterminal line; cilia

grey-brown with a white line at base. Hind wing fuscous brown

ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. 333

with a slight reddish gloss; a pale rufous patch on termen between

vein 2 and submedian fold; a fine dark terminal line; cilia white

towards apex with a brownish line through them, the grey-brown

with a whitish line near base. Underside of fore wing fuscous

brown, the costa white irrorated with fuscous to beyond middle, the

band white with diffused edges and not reaching costa, the terminal

area white irrorated with fuscous from apex to below vein 5 with

black points before termen; hind wing grey thickly irrorated with

brown, a brownish discoidal spot, postmedial line dark and rather

diffused oblique from costa to submedian fold, subterminal line

excurved below vein 6, the area before it broadly suffused with

brown, a series of black points before termen.

Hab. Gown Coast, Kumasi (Sanders), 2 $ type. Exp.

46 millim.

Vor. XIII.

Page 137. 7919. Celiptera codo. (Plate CCX XXII. fig. 30.)

Figured from drawing from type in U.S. Nat. Mus.

SPECIES OMITTED.

Achea durfa, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xli. p. 299 (1880). W. Africa.

Agnomonia orontes, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xli. p. 298 (1880).

Cameroons.

Agonista morio, Semp. Reis. Phil., Het. u. p. 547 (1900).

Philippines.

Chalciope angolensis, Weym. Deutsch. Ent. Zeit. 1908, p. 734.

Angola.

a lutosa, Griinberg, Denkschr. Med. Ges. Jena, xvi. p. 130

(GUSTO eee are ee ote Germ. 8.W. Africa.

Entomogramma postistrigaria, Wik. xxxii. 949 (1865). Type

OSG parecer lees: Bisiut ee tercc/tian cee cecen ane Ceylon.

Euclidia limbosa, Guen. Noct. iu. p. 294 (1852)......... Senegal.

- tarsalis, Wlk. xxxiii. 986 (1865). Type lost. Ceylon.

Grammodes latifera, W\k. Entom. v. p. 182 (1870). Type lost.

Mt. Sinai.

Homoptera albiflos, Wik. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 46 (1869).

Mv pedlostigan saben tone ti curktonsccene es ws Honduras.

A brevipennis, Wik. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 47 (1869).

Hy DCMLOS Ue aa tere haa Mat erterciy Ceara ms Honduras.

- cinerea, Morr. Can. Ent. vii. p. 148 (1875); Smith,

Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 371. ? = Zale undularis.

Massachusetts.

As costifera, Wlk. xxxii. 886 (1865). Type lost. Ceylon.

‘. focillatrix, Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxx.

es OZNGUSSO) ye maseyme on wurde Aan ee Surinam.

is gratiosa, Wik. Trans. Ent. Soc. (8) i. p. 98 (1862).

Moe laste, Y JélomCponnGOS scosc0osecusconengoce Brazil.

334 NOCTUID ©.

Homoptera lucimargo, Wik. Chay. Undeser. Het. p. 45 (1869).

Dyipe lost tabs feces ot S scaucnn eae eeeens Honduras.

- lydia, Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxx. p. 400,

plea. £549 ICUS8O)i sc ceane ceentosererueee Surinam.

56 niveplaga, Wik. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 46 (1869).

Type: Lostl si. beuten Sone. nate ney ee ee Honduras.

3 obsita, Guen. Noct. i. p. 12 (1852). ? = Zale

DWUBUUGIUS . Seseenasclirhis Await MEET peo aa sence Brazil.

- pheoleuca, Wik. xxxiil. 883 (1865). Type lost.

Brazil.

a procumbens, Wk. xxxiii. 886 (1865). Type lost.

Ceylon.

a retrahens, Wik. xxxiil. 887 (1865). Type lost.

Ceylon.

- terrena, Mab. Le Naturaliste, 1. p. 100 (1882).

Madagascar.

Hypetra divisa, Wik. xxxiil. 963 (1865). ‘Type lost... Ceylon.

5 griseomaculata, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxii. p. 102 (1880).

Java.

Hypopyra inconspicua, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. p. 68,

ff. 123-4 (1850). ? Hnmonodia near endoxantha.

Cape Colony.

Noctua novita, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 560 (1869).

PSE O stance SGM sto ocrsah eee nce EET ee Venezuela.

Ophisma amabilis, Wik. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 91 (1869). Type

ROIS ty cee tere urea eave opto itary aera, SS oeten Bengal.

i esculeata, Moschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxiil.

jOe OG, Jol sere ts AIL (AUSISS))) pea aboses Cape Colony.

3 ibona, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xl. p. 300 (1880).

W. Africa.

- lunulifera, Wik. xxxiil. 956 (1865). Type lost.

S. Africa.

x minna, Guen. Noet. 11. p. 243 (1852) ............. Brazal.

re ning, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xli. p. 8300 (1880).

W. Africa.

es opulenta, Méschl. Abh. Senck. Ges. xv. p. 86, pl. £. 15

CUES), 2 NOCH MG osc soasoosst hoa .... Gold Coast.

Fe perfinita, Moschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxx. p. 430

CESS) ei ao) eset ween aula sell varie Surinam.

Ophiusa diagramma, Lower, Ue, 1s, Sees Sh Aung soar, je BL

(1903). ? Parallelia. Queensland, W. Australia.

ne digona, Mab. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) i. p. 141 (1879).

PGR OUL CUI aun ican Recenter near creme Madagascar.

Ss salmus, Guen. Noct. iti. p. 267 (1852). ? Acronyctine,

(ox ag O10) Ue Aon NAR SD Se cel AONE OAK DER Ann Sein = auc Haiti.

5 swinhoei, Semper, Reis. Phil., Het. i. p. 557 (1900).

GT OLVCVUC, Valk, Supieeh Goons ance aoe Philippines.

Phalena pritanis, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 28, pl. 115. f.D (1779).

PAO DICUS (Car a oR Aiiees she ale onc Secion to acu be Surinam,

ADDENDA AND CORRIGEND A. 33D

Pheocyma termina, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. 129 (1883); Smith,

Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 3868. ? Noctuine. ‘Arizona.

Phurys continua, Wik. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) 1. p. 100 (1862).

Ey per lost toate te camer eea, cnc ee omc Hab. ign.

» mensurata, Wik. Trans. Ent. Soc. (8) 1. p. 261 (1862).

Type lost... jo Sh deseavall,

» teretilinea, Guen. Noct. iii. 4. “308. (1852). Celiptera

@ =i (oo, Orehit, ooo03 Po etazile

Placonia selene, Moschl. Verh. zool. “bot. Ges. “Wien, xxx. p. 410,

jolle Syotite. 28, UL (CIUSID))5 Sas cages od cos Surinam.

Poaphila dividua, Moschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxx. p. 484:

CLSSO) eek caiietaudeasch. uth sacts ams Ayene as Surinam.

a erubescens, Maassen, Stiibel’s Reise, p. 150, pl. vii. f. 12

(RSIS IO) Reacts SOnc as Oh nate AED cater mn satan mE EKeuador.

» jfigurata, Wik. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) 1. P 260 (1862).

Type lost... coco teh LBvevalll,

» jfuscipadpis, Wik. Char. Undeser. Het. p. “92 (1869).

Punjab.

» plagiata, Wik. Trans. Hnt. Soc. (8) i. p. 260 (1862).

ASS DER LOSI salg amtenteNen oa cheaiect acreerial ialetteon sl aes S. Brazil.

AS revoluta, Wik. xv. 1835 (1858); Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p: 3005) ‘ype lost, 222s... Tae URS SAG

Remigia guenei, Moschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxx. p. 437,

yellsenmublgiate, 1 (USISO)) ado anvcco chose sts ontene Surinam.

S. sobria, Moschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxx. p. 486,

qo ince tes AO CUS SON a hctiks Bie Se cakaua coe Surinam.

» «ylomiges, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. D- OG, jo Ga, 7

(1880) . a Celebes:

Safia enea, Druce, Biol. Centr. -Am., ‘Het. i. oe 347, [Ob Bills ate

(UES) casceonanooveneda ace qoassad9neasdorandent Panama.

», tnconspicua, Moschl. Verh. zool. -bot. Ges. Wien, xxx. p. 406

GISSO)RCEE: GB ct Je MER Se ef Surinam.

» lucilia, Moschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxx. p: 404

GES SO) REE net ne a dee treba aa Surinam.

», placida, Moschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxx. p. 405

GUESS On) RerRe rae aR al, ciemenall ters Surinam.

» preusta, Moschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. ee xxx. p. 402,

pl. viii. f. 2 1880).. ooo SUTAME eM.

Thyas novenaria, Lucas, Pr. R. Soe. “Queensl. xill. p. 73 (1898).

Anua, near amideta ........ .... Queensland.

Yrias crespula, Moschl. Verh. zool. -bot. Ges. ibe xxx. p. 406

(1880). oe a Oe spoon SMOUADIRNTET

€

336 NOCTUID ®.

Subfamily MOMIN A.

Proboscis fully developed or aborted ; palpi short, upturned or

porrect ; frons smooth; eyes large, round, clothed with hair; an-

tenn pectinate, ciliated, or laminate; thorax clothed with scales

and hair or hair only, the pro- meso- and metathorax sometimes

crested ; legs usually clothed with rather long hair and the tarsi

with small tufts at the joints, the tibie not spined ; abdomen

usually with hairy crests, in Mpicausis entirely clothed with woolly

hair and with immense anal tuft, in Hlydnodes without crests.

Fore wing usually triangular, in E/ydnodes with the termen angled

at middle; vein 1a weak, not anastomosing with 16; 1c absent;

Fig. 86.—Larva of Moma ludifica. 1.

veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from

10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, in Calocasia vein 10

arising from 7, 8,9; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 1@ and 1 6

present ; 1c absent; the cell about half the length of wing; veins

3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from above angle; 6, 7 from

upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

The Momine form a very natural and well-characterized sub-

family, very homologous in appearance except for Hpicausis and

Elydnodes.

The Larve have all the pro-legs fully developed, the warts with

loose tufts of hairs; in Moma, Diphthera, and Calocasia there are

dorsal pencils of hair, but in Charadra and Eleodes there are no

hair pencils.

Key to the Genera.

A. Abdomen entirely clothed with long woolly hair and

WithEimnMensesvanalytUiit ssreaeeen sees eeeeeseeeeeeeeetece Errcavsts, p. 337. OL

B. Abdomen not entirely clethed with long woolly hair

and with the anal tuft normal.

a. Abdomen with dorsal series of crests.

a. Pro-, meso-, and metathorax with divided crests. Batuyra, p. 882.) © +

)}, Pro- and metathorax without crests, the meta-

thorax with divided crest .........cccccceeeenceecees TRISULOIDES, p. 339. Ae a

ay ae

EPICAUSIS. B37

cl. Thorax without distinet crests.

a>. Proboscis aborted, minute.

a°. Fore wing with vein 10 from 7, 8, 9 ......... CaLOCAstA, p. 360.HY

b?, Fore wing with vein 10 from the cell.

a‘, Palpi porrect, clothed with long loose

HatnsSeakee cassie meee ene stir eae sce Diruriera, p. 865, 6

6'. Palpi obliquely upturned, more thickly

lowing! witlin Ine. acooacceonesnvaacnasecseene Euxopzs, p. 356.

6°. Proboscis fully developed.

a®. Fore wing short and broad, the apex not

produced.

a‘, Abdomen with the crests on medial seg-

ments large; hind wing with vein 5

from well above angle of cell............... Cuaranra, p. 371. N (N

b4. Abdomen with the crests on medial seg-

ments small; hind wing with vein 5

fromymesrane le) olncelll eee rene rerrassen ee: Moma, p. 376. Yt.

63, Fore wing longer and narrower, the apex

produced, the termen obliquely curved.

a‘, Thorax clothed with haironly ............ GavJontA, p. 385. }

6*, Thorax clothed with hair and hair-like

ava}

SCHIIES — sooocoonseavcosvsevancovce9aGooosonuNeeS LicuworrTara,p. 388. vn

Oy INGlowagin WHNOLe CEERI) poceecassceusbboesdoncancéoonsene ExypyopEs, p. 399. Glo «

PHYLOGENY OF THE Momina.

Trisuloides. Eleodes. Calocasia. Diphthera,

Charadra.

Moma. Bathyra. Gaujonia.

Epicausis. Lichnoptera. Elydnodes.

Genus EPICAUSIS. Type

Epicausis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) v. p. 841 (1880) «2.00... eee eens smithi.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint hardly

reaching to middle of frons and slightly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd

short; frons smooth; eyes rather small, round, clothed with long hair;

antennx of male serrate and fasciculate; thorax clothed with long rough hair

only and without crests ; tibiz moderately fringed with hair; abdomen clothed

with long rough hair, with lateral tufts of hair and immense anal tuft, dor-

sally flattened. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, the

termen evenly curved and not crenulate; vein 3 from before angle of cell;

5 from just above angle; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with

8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell more than half

the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from well above

angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell'near base only.

VOL. XIII. Z

338 _ NOCTUIDS.

8146. Epicausis smithi.

Daphneura smithii, Mab. Bull. Soe. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. p. elxxiv (March 1880) ;

Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 152, pl. v. ff. 53, 53a; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het.

p. 208.

Epicausis lanigera, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) v. p. 342 (Apr. 1880).

Head and thorax crimson mixed with some yellow; antenne,

palpi, lower part of frons except at middle, pectus and legs black ;

abdomen black, the terminal segments and large anal tuft aaiingom.

the ventral surface with black patch on anal segment, the claspers

fringed with some yellow hair. Fore wing fulvous orange; sub-

basal line double, black, strong, from costa to submedian fold; two

antemedial black bars from costa and two lines from submedian

fold to inner margin ; two postmedial black bars from costa, and

two lines from submedian fold to inner margin ; a terminal oreyish

fuscous band indented by wedge-shaped or ange marks on the veins

Fig. 87.—Lpicausis smithi, $. }.

defined by black scales and extending almost to termen. Hind

wing with the basal area and inner margin fuscous black with some

yellow hair at base ana along inner margin ; an orange postmedial

band, broad at costa, narrowing somewhat to above imner margin

near tornus, where it terminates ; a terminal black band narrowing

to tornus ; cilia tinged with grey. Underside of fore wing orange,

the basal area black, the terminal area fuscous black, broad at costa

and narrowing towards tor nus, an orange wedge- shaped mark near

its inner edge from costa to vein 5.

Hab. Mapaaascar, Betsileo (Cowan), 1 $, 1 2, Fianarantsoa

(Coman), 1 3,1 9 type lanigera. Exp. 60-70 millim.

TRISULOLDES. 339

Genus TRISULOIDES.

Type.

Trisuloides, Butl. A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 86 (1881) ............ 0. sericea.

Tambana, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 155 (188%) ........ 2 cceeeee eee een ees variegata.

Anacronicta, Warr., Seitz, Gross-Schmett. pal. iii. p. 18 (1909) . caliginea.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint hardly

reaching to middle of frons and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd short; frons

smooth; eyes large, round; antenne of male typically bipectinate with

moderate branches, the apex serrate, of female minutely serrate; thorax

clothed with rough hair and hair-like scales, the prothorax without crest, the

metathorax with divided crest ; tibixe fringed with long hair; abdomen with

dorsal series of crests, the crests on medial segments large. Fore wing with

the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate; veins 3

and 5 from near augle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing

with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell half the

length of wing; veins 3,4 from angle of cell or shortly stalked; 5 fully

developed from well above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing

with the cell near base only.

Srcr. I. Antenne of male bipectinate with moderate branches, the apex

ciliated, of female with short branches.

A. Hind wing yellow, the terminal area brown..................... pygaria.

B. Hind wing yellow, the basal area tinged with brown, the

(Arn AReD IOLA coonecanccosoagoaeodododobndanandobsdosdoe 565065 papuensis.

C. Hind wing black-brown with broad yellow postmedial band lutetfascia,

*8147. Trisuloides pygaria. (Plate CCX XXIII. fig. 1.)

Trisuloides pygaria, Warr. Noy. Zool. xix. p. 2 (1912).

2. Head white, the frons tinged with yellow; palpi and an-

tennz black-brown, the former with the 2nd joint white in front ;

tegulz and patagia white tinged with fulvous; thorax pale red-brown ;

pectus white tinged with fulvous yellow; tibiz and tarsi black-

brown ringed with white; abdomen red-brown, the ventral surface

whitish at base. Fore wing yellow suffused with red-brown and

slightly irrorated with white; a curved white subbasal striga from

costa; antemedial line brown defined on inner side by whitish,

waved, excurved to median nervure, incurved in submedian inter-

space and excurved above inner margin; a dark brown spot in

middle of cell; medial line rather diffused, brown, slightly sinuous,

oblique to just below lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; a

large white patch beyond the cell from costa to vein 3; postmedial

line brown defined on outer side by white, slightly sinuous, ex-

curved from below costa to vein 4, then oblique, some small white

spots beyond it on costa and a slight brown shade beyond the white

angled inwards below vein 3; subterminal line rather diffused.

whitish, slightly sinuous, defined on inner side by a dark brown

shade to below vein 6, angled outwards below vein 7 ; a terminal

series of red-brown lunules defined on inner side by white; cilia

rufous. Hind wing orange-yellow; the terminal area fuscous

brown to vein 3, then with brown bar from its inner edge to tornus;

340 NOCTUID®.

a terminal series of slight rufous lunules defined on inner side by

yellow; cilia rufous, yellow towards tornus. Underside of fore

wing red-brown, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with white,

the cell and area just below it orange-yellow to origin of vein 2,

the inner area yellowish white, a yellow spot beyond the cell, a

curved yellowish postmedial line with white spot at costa, a yellowish

white subterminal shade and crenulate line before termen; hind

wing orange-yellow, the costal and terminal areas suffused with

brown and irrorated with white, an oblique brown bar from costa

to lower angle of cell and postmedial line from costa to vein 2, a

faint sinuous subterminal line.

Hab. W. Sumatra, Bencoelen (Hricsson), typet 2 in Coll.

Rothschild. Exp. 66 milhm.

*8148. Trisuloides papuensis. (Plate CCX XXIII. fig. 2.)

Trisuloides papuensis, Warr. Noy. Zool. xix. p. 3 (1912); Seitz, Gross-

Schmett. Indo-Austr. xi. pl. 4.

3S. Head and thorax yellow mixed with red-brown ; antennz

brown ; palpi, frons, pectus, and legs red-brown, the tibie at ex-

tremities and the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen reddish brown

tinged with grey, the crests darker. Fore wing yellow suffused

with red-brown and irrorated with white, the basal half of costal

area red-brown, the postmedial area red-brown irrorated and suffused

with white ; antemedial line rather diffused, brown defined on inner

side by yellowish, inwardly oblique and shghtly sinuous; a large

whitish patch in and beyond end of cell; postmedial line double,

red-brown filled in with white, mmutely waved, excurved to vein 4,

then oblique and incurved at submedian fold; subterminal line

whitish defining the dark area, excurved below vein 7, angled in-

wards at discal fold, excurved and waved at middle, angled outwards

at vein 2 and inwards at submedian fold, then oblique to tornus; a

terminal series of obscure brown spots. Hind wing orange-yellow ;

the basal area suffused with red-brown; the terminal area red-

brown, its inner edge slightly angled inwards at vein 2, then oblique

to tornus; a white mark on termen below vein 2; cilia chequered

yellow and brown. Underside of fore wing yellow tinged with red-

brown, a diffused brown discoidal patch, a rather diffused red-brown

postmedial band, its outer edge angled outwards at vein 7; hind

wing yellow tinged with red-brown, a diffused oblique red-brown

antemedial shade and a subterminal shade.

Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Mambare R., Biagi (eek), type tT ¢ in

Coll. Rothschild. Hxp. 54 millim.

8149. Trisuloides luteifascia.

Trisuloides lutetfascia, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 487 (1894); Seitz,

Gross-Schmett. Indo-Austr. xi. pl. 5.

&. Head and thorax chocolate-brown mixed with grey-white ;

tarsi slightly ringed with white; abdomen dark brown slightly

TRISULOIDES. B41

mixed with grey. Fore wing chocolate-brown slightly irrorated

with white scales, the inner half of medial area darker, the post-

medial area darker and strongly irrorated with grey-white except

towards inner margin ; slight subbasal blackish marks below costa

and cell; antemedial line ‘indistinct, blackish, somewhat oblique to

submedian fold where it is angled outwards, then incurved ; orbicular

and reniform defined by blackish, the former small and somewhat

elliptical, the latter slightly angled inwards at median nervure ;

postmedial line indistinct, blackish defined on outer side by dchreous

white, obliquely excurved to vein 4, then oblique and slightly

waved, some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line

whitish defined on inner side by diffused black, excurved below

vein 7, excurved and waved at middle ; a terminal series of blackish

lunules defined on inner side by whitish; cilia chequered red-brown

aN,

2 ye a = SN Ys

Fig. 88.— Triswloides luteifascia, 9. 1.

and black-brown. Hind wing black-brown ; a broad yellow band

just beyond middle, its inner edge angled outwards at discal fold,

then obliquely incurved, its outer edge excurved at vein 4, ending

at vein 1 and connected with the tornus by a whitish striga ; a

terminal series of slight black lunules defined on inner side by

white from vein 6 to tornus; cilia chequered red-brown and black-

brown. Underside of fore wing yellow, the costal area and terminal

area except towards tornus red-brown irrorated with whitish, a

brown discoidal patch conjoined to the costal area; hind wing

brown, the terminal half irrorated with white, a diffused oblique

sinuous blackish medial shade with an orange- yellow patch beyond

it from lower angle of cell to vein 1, extending in submedian inter-

342 NOCTUID&E.

space to beyond the blackish postmedial line, which is excurved at

middle and ends at tornus, a white bar on termen in submedian

interspace with a blackish shade before it.

Hab. Stxni, 292; Assam, Khisis, 19 type. Hap. 74 millim.

Srcr. II. (Trisuloides.) Antenne of male bipectinate, of female minutely serrate.

A. Hind wing dark brown with broad yellow band just beyond

NGUSIN® Goadoonqnonssascooosannoconanobedaoaq0sboCCDNNSODe0NBG0NINe00: DOC sericea.

B. Hind wing dark brown suffused with blue.....................06 cerulea,

C. Hind wing yellow.

a. Hind wing with broad dark terminal band ; fore wing with

the postmedial line defined by white on outer side and

with white patch before it beyond the cell ................+ albiplaga.

b. Hind wing without dark terminal band; fore wing without

white before and beyond the postmedial line ............... cornelia.

D. Hind wing brown with a faint yellowish postmedial shade... plumbea.

8150. Trisuloides sericea. (Plate CCX XXIII. fig. 3.)

Trisuloides sericea, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) vii. p. 86 (1881); Hmpsn.

Moths Ind. ii. p. 486; Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Indo-Austr. xi. pl. 5.

Trisuloides catocalina, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1883, p. 17.

Head and thorax dark brown mixed with whitish ; prothorax

with a black-brown band; patagia with a black-brown band towards

tips defined by whitish bars; tarsi rmged with white ; abdomen

brown mixed with grey, the crests blackish. Fore wing reddish

brown irrorated with white, the medial area brownish except beyond

the cell, the postmedial area thickly irrorated with blue-white except

on inner area; slight subbasal dark marks in and below the cell ;

some dark marks in and below the cell and above inner margin

before the antemedial line, which is blackish defined on inner side

by whitish, excurved below the costa and above inner margin and

incurved at vein 1; orbicular defined by black, rounded ; reniform

detined by black on inner side only; a blackish medial shade,

oblique to median nervure, then inwardly oblique ; an obscure oblique

waved dark line from vein 5 beyond the cell to inner margin;

postmedial line indistinctly double, dark brown filled in with

whitish, minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, a white

spot beyond it in submedian interspace ; subterminal line blackish

defined on outer side by white towards costa and below vein 3,

excurved below vein 7, bent inwards at discal fold, incurved and

slightly waved below vein 3; a terminal series of slight dark brown

Iunules; cilia chequered dark brown and whitish. Hind wing

dark brown ; a broad yellow medial band from costa to submedian

fold where its inner edge is somewhat angled inwards; the termen

with some white between veins 4 and 1; cilia chequered dark brown

and white. Underside of fore wing yellow, the costal and terminal

areas grey-brown, the inner area pale, a brown discoidal patch ;

hind wing brown irrorated with whitish, a diffused oblique dark

antemedial line followed by a yellow band except on costal area,

the postmedial line minutely waved, excurved at middle.

TRISULOIDES. 343

Hab. W. Cutna, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 9; Punsap, Simla

(Harford),1 3,19, Dharmsila (Hocking), 1 3,2 9; SikHim

(Lidderdale), 1 9 type; Assam, Shillong, 19. xp. 58-70

millim.

8151. Trisuloides cerulea.

Trisuloides cerulea, Butl. Ill. Het. B.M. vii. p. 35, pl. 128. f. 3 (1889) ;

Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 437; Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Indo-Austr. x1.

pl. 4.

Head and thorax chocolate-brown with some white scales; tarsi

slightly ringed with white ; abdomen dark greyish brown, the crests

and ventral surface chocolate-brown with some white scales. Fore

wing dark brown slightly irrorated with white, a broad diffused

band of white suffusion from costa beyond middle to termen above

tornus ; a very indistinct waved blackish subbasal line from costa

to submedian fold; antemedial line indistinctly double, blackish

Fig. 89.—Trisuloides cerulea, S$. t.

filled in with whitish, waved ; orbicular and reniform very indis-

tinetly defined by black-brown, the former round, the latter with

brownish lunule in centre ; some black suffusion in submedian fold

before the postmedial line, which is indistinct, double, brown,

waved and almost evenly curved, some pale points beyond it on

costa; postmedial area thickly irrorated with grey-white except

towards inner margin; subterminal line defined on inner side by

diffused black, excurved below vein 7, excurved and slightly waved

at middle ; a terminal series of faint dark spots defined on inner

side by a slight pale line; cilia chequered dark and reddish brown.

344 NOCT CIDR.

Hind wing black-brown suffused with purple-blue except on costal

area; the termen with white bar between vein 3 and submedial

fold ; cilia chequered white and brown, wholly white towards tornus.

Underside of fore wing with the basal half dark brown with a

yellow antemedial patch from below costa to median nervure,

followed by a broad yellow band not extending to costa, the apical

area red-brown irrorated with white; hind wing dark brown, the

terminal half irrorated with white, a rather diffused curved and

slightly waved blackish postmedial ikine.

Hab. Punsas, Simla (Harford), 1 2, Dharmsila (Hocking),

Ws 1 2 ys Why. Sosy Q 7 manilbama,

8152. Trisuloides albiplaga. (Plate CCX XXIII. fig. 4.)

Trisuloides albiplaga, Warr. Noy. Zool. xix. p. 4 (1912); Seitz, Gross-

Schmett. Indo-Austr. xi. pl. 4.

3. Head, tegule, and prothorax blackish, the rest of thorax

reddish brown with some of the hairs tipped with white ; palpi

black, white in front and with white ring at extremity of Ind joint;

sides of frons white; antenne red- om with the basal joint white;

back of head whitish ; tegulee with white band at middle and white

tips; pectus yellow ; legs black and white, the tarsi rmged with

white; abdomen black-brown with slight whitish seomental lines

and broad subdorsal yellow stripes to beyond middle, the ventral

surface banded black and white. Fore wing olive with a cupreous

gloss largely suffused with black and irrorated with a few white

scales ; a subbasal white striga from costa connected with the inner

edge of a black patch defined by white in and below the cell; ante-

medial line olive and white defined on each side by black, oblique

and slightly sinuous to the submedian fold, where it is angled out-

wards, angled inwards at vein 1, and excurved above inner margin ;

orbicular a round black spot defined by olive; a narrow black dis-

coidal lunule with oblique white striz beyond its upper and lower

parts; traces of an oblique blackish shade from beyond lower angle

of cell to inner margin; an irregular pure white patch beyond the

cell before the postmedial line, which is black defined on outer side

by pure white, shghtly waved, oblique to vein 4, then inwardly

oblique ; subterminal line white and oblique to vein 7, where it is

bent outwards, then formed by diffused dentate black marks, small

between veins 4 and 2; a terminal series of black lunules defined

on inner side by white, a more triangular mark below vein 2.

Hind wing orange-yellow with a terminal black-brown band, broad

at costa and narrowing to tornus, its inner edge oblique to vein 4;

cilia chequered brown and whitish. Underside of fore wing with

the basal half yellow, the terminal half blackish with oblique white

postmedial band from costa to below vein 38, its inner edge angled

inwards at vein 5, the terminal area irrorated with white and with

white mark above tornus ; hind wing with black spot at middle of

costa connected with a discoidal striga, the postmedial area white

from just below costa to vein 3.

TRISULOLDES. 345

Q@. Fore wing with the white markings more distinct, the ante-

medial line whiter with a short streak beyond it in submedian fold,

the white patch beyond the cell larger and extending to the costa.

Hab. Assam, Khisis, typet 3d, Q in Coll. Rothschild. zp.

68 muillim.

8153. Trisuloides cornelia.

Acronicta cornelia, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 246; id. Rom. Mém.

vi. p. 393, pl. 6. f. 2; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 183; Seitz, Gross-Schmett.

pal. iii. pl. 4.

Diphthera honrathi, Gres. Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 315.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown tinged with

purplish grey, a line behind the tegule, the tips of patagia and

metathoracie crest and the abdominal crests darker; tarsi banded

with blackish. Fore wing fuscous brown tinged with purplish

erey, slight blackish irroration on basal half of costal area and

submedian fold ; a subbasal black striga from costa, minute streak

above subcostal nervure and striga from cell; antemedial line

double, black, the inner line obsolescent, angled outwards below

costa, in submedian fold and above inner margin, connected with

the postmedial line by a small white spot in submedian fold ;

orbicular and reniform with blackish centres and whitish annuli

defined by black, the former small, round, the latter with whitish

striga in centre; a medial blackish bar from costa to the rentform

and ineurved sinuous line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ;

postmedial line with small blackish spot at costa, then almost

obsolete to vein 2, strongly incurved below vein 4 and slightly

angled outwards at vein 1, some pale points beyond it on costa ;

subterminal line blackish, incurved below costa, excurved below

vein 7, excurved and slightly sinuous at middle, bent inwards at

vein 2; cilia chequered brown and whitish. Hind wing orange-

yellow ; a small patch of brown suffusion at apex; a dark brown

terminal line ; cilia dark brown slightly intersected with whitish at

the veins. Underside of fore wing yellow to the postmedial line

except the costa, a black discoidal lunule, a yellow mark at tornus ;

hind wing with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, a

black discoidal spot, and traces of a sinuous subterminal line from

costa to vein 2.

Hab. EK. Siperta, Ussuri, 1 ¢. Hep. 48 millim.

8154. Trisuloides plumbea. (Plate CCXXXIII. fig. 5.)

Plataplecta plumbea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 184.

Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with fuscous brown;

antenne brown except at base; palpi with brown patch at side of

2nd joint; frons with brown line at middle; tegule with black

line at base; fore tibize and tarsi banded with blackish ; abdomen

with the dorsal crests black. Fore wing silvery white tinged with

346 NOCTUID®.

olive fuscous and irrorated with blackish, the terminal area pale

purplish brown; subbasal line black, produced to a short streak on

subcostal nervure and ending at submedian fold; the antemedial

area with a blackish shade from costa to vein 1; antemedial line

black, waved, slightly angled outwards below costa and cell;

orbicular and reniform incompletely defined by black, the former

small, round, the latter with some fuscous in centre; a medial

blackish shade from costa to median nervure, and indistinct waved

line from cell to imner margin; postmedial line black, bent out-

wards below costa, then dentate and produced to white and black

points on the veins, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line black,

dentate, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of

small black lunules defined on inner side by white. Hind wing

reddish brown with a faint yellowish postmedial shade and series of

white striz just before termen; cilia chequered white and brown ;

the underside brownish aelnneoe. the terminal area irrorated sortie

fuscous, a black discoidal lunule, waved postmedial line ending at

tornus, and terminal series of black strize.

Hab. Japan, Tokio (Maries), 1 9 type, d in Coll. Rothschild.

Hep. 46 millim.

Secr. III. (Zambana.) Antenne of male with fasciculate cilia.

A. Hind wing orange-yellow.

a. Fore wing with oblique wedge-shaped dark mark

beyond middle of the postmedial line .................. catocalina.

b. Fore wing without oblique dark mark beyond middle

of the postmedial line.

a. Fore wing without white spots above and below base

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1. Fore wing with white spots above and below base

of vein 6.

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b?. Hind wing with the terminal area not suffused

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B. Hind wing brown, the inner area orange-yellow ......... entoxantha.

©), Jelwacl waive joalle yelllOur ccossspsancceconndoosnonadncceqcesca00c ... flavala.

D. Hind wing not yellow.

a. Fore wing with pale patch beyond the cell.

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b'. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with brown...... caliginea.

b. Fore wing without pale patch beyond the cell.

_ a'. Hind wing yellowish white ................. .csceeeeeeee pallidipennis.

6}. Hind wing whitish tinged with red-brown............ infausta.

ce}, Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous brown ... obscura.

*8155. Trisuloides catocalina.

Tambana catocalina, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 156, pl. v. f. 3 (1882).

Trisuloides polyphenaria, Warr. Noy. Zool. xix. p. 3 (1912); Seitz, Gross-

Schmett. Indo-Austr. xi. pl. 4.

2. Head and thorax white tinged with fulvous yellow; antenne

brown ; palpi at sides, pectus and legs pale red-brown ; abdomen

yellow, the crests brown. Fore wing white tinged with red-brown ;

TRISULOIDES. 347

a brownish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a band of

brown suffusion on antemedial area ; antemedial line brown defined

on inner side by white, slightly curved; a diffused medial brown

line, obliquely curved from costa to median nervure, then inwardly

oblique, some greenish on it in the cell with some orange before

and beyond it; postmedial line brownish, arising at vem 7, ex-

curved to vein 4, then incurved ; the postmedial area suffused with

greyish brown, faintly below vein 4 and emitting an oblique wedge-

shaped mark to termen below vein 4; a rather diffused incurved

white subterminal line from costa to vein 6 with some red-brown

suffusion beyond it on apical area; a terminal series of small

triangular reddish brown spots; cilia white mixed with reddish

brown. Hind wing orange-yellow; the terminal area cupreous

brown from apex to vein 3; a terminal series of small brown

spots defined on inner side by whitish; cilia chequered white

and reddish brown. Underside of fore wing yellow, a large brown

discoidal spot and diffused curved postmedial band from costa to

vein 2; hind wing with diffused brown mark from costa to lower

angle of cell and slight subterminal shade from costa to vein 2 ;

the terminal area of both wings whitish.

Hab. Stxuim; Java, Palaboehan, Ratoe (Krihstorfer), type +

2 polyphenaria in Coll. Rothschild. Hap. 42-46 millim.

8156. Trisuloides variegata. (Plate CCX XXIII. fig. 6.)

Tambana variegata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 155 (1882) ; Hinpsn. Moths Ind.

ll. p. 436; Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Indo-Austr. x1. pl. 4.

3. Head and thorax brownish fulvous; palpi red-brown with

the extremity of Ist jomt white; a white ring round base of

antenne; the back of head and edges of tegule white, the patagia

and mesothorax with white bars; legs red-brown, the tibie and

tarsi ringed with white; abdomen fulvous brown irrorated with

white, the sides orange towards base. Fore wing fulvous brown

with a purplish grey gloss and irrorated with white ; subbasal line

indistinct, double, white, waved, from costa to submedian fold;

antemedial line indistinct, double, white, waved ; an obscure, dif-

fused fulvous brown medial shade ; two white points at angles of

cell; postmedial line indistinctly double filled in with white scales,

slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then in-

curved; an indistinct somewhat dentate dark subterminal line

defined on outer side by short white streaks on the veins, angled

outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing orange,

the terminal area suffused with red-brown except at tornus, the

termen and cilia with some white scales. Underside orange ; fore

wing with obscure brown discoidal spot, the terminal area suffused

with red-brown; hind wing with the terminal half of costal area

and the terminal area suffused with red-brown.

Hab. Sixurm (Lidderdale, Méller), 5 3 type. Exp. 56-

60 millim.

BAS NOCTUID&.

8157. Trisuloides subflava. (Plate CCX XXIII. fig. 7.)

Trisuloides subflava, Wileman, Entom. 1911, p. 31; Seitz, Gross-Schmett.

Indo-Austr. xi. pl. 4.

3. Head white; antenne blackish except at base ; palpi with

the Ist and 2nd joints black at sides except in front, the 3rd joint

brown ; frons black above; tegule white, black at base and with

black spots at middle; thorax dark brown mixed with white, the

basal half of patagia white with oblique black bars; pectus and

legs white, the tibiz and tarsi banded with black; abdomen dark

brown mixed with white, the sides orange-yellow towards base, the

ventral surface white towards base. Fore wing dark brown mixed

with some rufous and irrorated with white; subbasal black spots

below costa and cell defined at sides by white; an oblique blackish

bar from costa before the antemedial line, which is blackish, rather

inwardly oblique, angled outwards below costa, in submedian fold,

and above inner margin; orbicular a small white spot defined by

blackish ; reniform a C-shaped white mark defined on inner side

by black and with rather elongate white spots beyond it above and

at middle; an oblique black shade from costa to the orbicular,

and oblique slightly sinuous line from lower angle of cell to inner

margin ; postmedial line blackish, defined on outer side by white

towards costa, angled inwards below costa, then slightly bent out-

wards, then minutely waved, oblique below vein 4 and excurved

below submedian fold; subterminal line blackish, defined on outer

side by white towards costa and with slight white spots at veins 5

and 2, waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a crenulate

whitish terminal line; cilia intersected with white at the veins.

Hind wing orange-yellow ; the termen narrowly brown except at

tornus with a crenulate orange-yellow terminal line on it; cilia

chequered brown and white. Underside of fore wing orange-

yellow, a brown patch in end of cell and some brown suffusion

beyond its lower angle, a curved brown postmedial line with the

area beyond it pale brown; hind wing. with large white patch

beyond the cell from costa to vein 3 and streak on vein 2, a curved

red-brown postmedial line from costa to vein 2, the area beyond it

red-brown mixed with white, the white extending on termen to

vein 1. ~

2. Fore wing with the discoidal mark reduced to small spots

above and below ; hind wing with the termen more broadly brown

with darker streaks on the veins.

Hab. W. Cutna, Omei-shan, 2 2; Formosa, Rantaizan,

type + d in Coll, Wileman. xp. 56 millim.

8158. Trisuloides albitessellata, n. sp. (Plate CCX XXIII. fig. 8.)

@. Head white; palpi with the 2nd joint brown behind and

with a dark mark in front at extremity ; frons and vertex of head

with brown bars; antenne brown except towards base; tegule

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white, brown at base and with brown bands towards tips; thorax

variegated red-brown and white; pectus and legs white, the fore

and mid tibiz with dark brown bands at middle and extremities,

the hind tibiz with red-brown bands, the tarsi with dark brown

bands; abdomen orange, a dorsal brown streak intersected by white

segmental lines, the extremity brown, the ventral surface white

tinged with brown. Fore wing fulvous brown thickly irrorated

with white; an oblique white bar from base of costa ; subbasal line

white, angled outwards below costa, then oblique and ending at

submedian fold; antemedial line- dark brown slightly defined on

each side by white, angled outwards below costa, then oblique and

slightly sinuous, angled outwards in submedian fold and inwards at

vein 1; orbicular and reniform defined by blackish, the former

small, round, the latter narrow, with white lunules in its upper and

lower parts and white patches beyond it above and below vein 6; a

dark brown medial line, angled outwards to lower angle of cell, then

oblique and sinuous ; postmedial line dark brown faintly defined on

outer side by white and with more prominent white points at veins

5, 2, and 1, strongly defined on each side by white at costa, bent

outwards below costa, shehtly ineurved at discal fold, incurved and

waved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; sub-

terminal line dark brown slightly defined on outer side by white

and with more prominent white marks at veins 5 and 2, somewhat

dentate, angled outwards at veins 7, 6 and excurved at middle; a

terminal series of brown lunules defined by a crenulate white line ;

cilia with white points at the veins. Hind wing orange-yellow ; a

fine red-brown terminal line ; cilia chequered red-brown and white.

Underside of fore wing orange-yellow, the apical area with slight

brownish suffusion ; hind wing with the area beyond the cell suf-

fused with white extending to vein 3 and at termen to vein 2, a

faint brownish bar from middle of costa and a curved slightly

waved postmedial line from costa to vein 3.

Hab Assam, Khasis, 1 2 type. Exp. 66 millim.

*8159. Trisuloides entoxantha. (Plate CCX XXIII. fig. 9.)

Moma entoxantha, Hmpsn. Moths Ind, ii. p. 485 (1894) ; Seitz, Gross-

Schmett. Indo-Austr. xi. pl. 4.

3. Head and thorax yellowish mixed with reddish brown; palpi

blackish, the extremity of 2nd joint white; pectus and femora

orange, the tibiz and tarsi dark brown ringed with white ; abdomen

orange, the extremity and ventral surface except at base orange,

the crests black. Fore wing yellowish almost entirely suffused

with red-brown tinged with sap-green and irrorated with white ;

a whitish subbasal striga from costa and small spots below costa

and cell; antemedial line brown defined on inner side by some

white scales, minutely waved, oblique below submedian fold ;

orbicular and reniform defined by brown, the former small,

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round, the latter strongly constricted at middle and slightly

angled inwards at median nervure; a faint brown medial shade

from costa to the reniform and an oblique waved line from just

beyond lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line brown

slightly defined on outer side by whitish and with small white spot

at inner margin, excurved below costa, then waved, slightly in-

curved at discal fold, incurved below vein 3 and angled outwards at

vein 1, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line

black-brown, angled inwards below costa and outwards at veins 7,

6, excurved and dentate at middle, and angled inwards at vein 2,

some whitish beyond it at tornus; a lunulate black-brown terminal

line. Hind wing dark reddish brown, the basal and inner areas

orange ; cilia chequered dark brown and white. Underside of fore

wing with the basal half orange, the terminal half dark brown with

some white irroration on terminal area, a postmedial white spot on

costa followed by slight whitish streaks on the veins, a white spot

at tornus ; hind wing with the basal and inner areas orange, the

rest of wing dark brown with a wedge-shaped bluish white post-

medial patch from costa to vein 5, a subterminal band from costa

to vein 4 followed by streaks on veins 3 and 2, and patches of

bluish white irroration on termen.

Hab. Stxuim (Moller), type + 3 in Coll. Rothschild. Hap.

44 millim.

8160. Trisuloides flavala. (Plate CCX XXIII. fig. 10.)

Acronycta flavala, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 46; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii.

p: 203 ; Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Indo-Austr. xi. pl. 4,

3. Head and thorax white mixed with some brown ; palpi with

the 2nd joint brown at sides; antennze brown; patagia with brown

bars near tips; tibiz and tarsi with brownish bands; abdomen

brown, the base and ventral surface except at extremity ochreous

white. Fore wing white irrorated and suffused with bronze-brown,

a white patch beyond the cell from costa to vein 4; a slight brown

subbasal line from costa to submedian fold crossed by a minute

streak in the cell; a slightly sinuous brown antemedial line, angled

outwards below costa and inwards at vein 1, with a slight brown

mark before it below the costa; orbicular and reniform small, very

indistinctly defined by brown, the former round, the latter rather

constricted at middle; a dark medial line, angled outwards to lower

angle of cell, then oblique and slightly sinuous ; postmedial line

slight, brown, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved,

excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line rather diffused,

dark brown defined on outer side by whitish, angled outwards at

veins 7, 6, 4, 3. Hind wing pale yellow, the inner half suffused

with reddish brown to the somewhat sinuous brown subterminal

band, with dentate outer edge ending at tornus ; a terminal series

of brown strie ; cilia white chequered with brown at tips. Under-

side of fore wing pale yellow, a brown discoidal patch, a brown

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subterminal band diffused on outer side and with sinuous inner

edge; hind wing with sinuous brown subterminal band ending

at tornus.

Hab. Sixuim (Moller), 3 $; Buuran (Dudgeon),1 3. Hap.

42, millim.

8161. Trisuloides nitida.

Aplectoides nitida, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5)i. p. 197 (1878); id. Ill. Lep. Het.

B.M. iii. p. 16, pl. xlv. f. 1; Seitz, Gross-Schmett, pal. iii. pl. 3.

Aplectoides moupinensis, Leech, Trans. Eut. Soc. 1900, p. 527.

Head and thorax white mixed with dark brown; frons with

black-brown band; antennze brown except at base; tegule with

two black-brown lines near base; patagia with two black-brown

bars near extremities ; the pro- meso- and metathorax with black-

brown bars; pectus brown; tarsi banded black-brown and whitish ;

abdomen brown. Fore wing whitish suffused in parts with bronze-

brown and slightly irrorated with dark brown ; a black-brown mark

Fig. 90.—Trisuloides nitida, §. +.

at base of costa; subbasal brown striz from costa and cell with a

black-brown streak between them in the cell; antemedial line

double, dark brown, slightly angled outwards below costa, then

excurved and incurved at vein 1; orbicular and reniform cupreous

brown, the former small, round, defined by black, the latter defined

by black on inner side and below, a black streak between them in

the cell and a black streak beyond the latter below vein 5 to the

subterminal line; a white patch before the postmedial line from

below costa to vein 5; a slight oblique dark shade from lower

angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, dark brown,

352 NOCTUID®.

filled in with white towards costa, excurved to vein 5, then in-

curved and dentate ; subterminal line white defined on inner side

by blackish and with a band of black-brown suffusion before it,

excurved below vein 7, incurved at discal fold, and angled outwards

at veins 4, 38; a terminal series of indistinct dark lunules faintly

defined on inner side by white ; cilia intersected with white at the

veins. Hind wing brown, the cilia with white mixed; the under-

side with dark shade from costa to lower angle of cell and indistinct

diffused curved postmedial and subterminal lines.

Ab. 1. moupinensis. Fore wing with the ground-colour nearly

uniform purplish grey and the patch beyond the cell slightly paler

than the ground-colour.

Hab. Javan, Tokio (Maries), 1 6, 1 2, Yokohama (Jonas,

IRTYCT), 218 72) 2 ype sy Ve. CHUN, la-chien- lu @a nat) menor

Nitou, 1 ¢, Pu-tsu-fang, 1 29, Wa-ssu-kou, 2 3, Kia-ting-fu,

1 2, Moupin (Kricheldorf), 1 3 type moupinensis. Hap. 46—

54 millim.

8162. Trisuloides caliginea.

Aplectoides caliginea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1881, p. 185; Staud. Rom.

Mém. vi. p. 402, pl. 6. f. 9; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 131; Seitz, Gross-

Schmett. pal. iii. pl. 3.

Moma nitida, Gres, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 315 (nec Butl.).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with whitish and dark brown ;

palpi with black patch at side of 2nd joint; frons with black band ;

tegulz with dark line at middle; patagia with black bar at middle ;

tibiz and tarsi banded with black and whitish ; abdomen red-brown.

Fore wing pale reddish brown tinged with grey and suffused and

irrorated with black-brown, a whitish patch tinged with red-brown

beyond the cell ; subbasal line double, blackish, sinuous, from costa

to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, blackish, sinuous ;

orbicular small, round, defined by black; reniform rufous with

pale annulus, defined by black on inner side and below, an indis-

tinct sinuous brown medial line ; postmedial line double, blackish,

slightly bent outwards below costa, then somewhat dentate, slightly

incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, some pale points

beyond it on costa; subterminal line pale defined on inner side

by black forming somewhat dentate marks at middle, waved,

angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3; a terminal series of small

black lunules defined on inner side by whitish; cilia red-brown

intersected with whitish at the veins. Hind wing pale red-

brown, the terminal area rather darker; the underside paler, the

costal and terminal areas irrorated with red-brown, a dark discoidal

striga, indistinct diffused curved postmedial and subterminal lines,

and terminal series of dark striz.

Hab. E. Srperta, Amurland, 2 3, Ussuri; Japan, Tokio

(Maries), 1 3, 1 @ type, Yokohama (Jonas, Pryer), 2 9;

Corea, Gensan (Leech), 1 6,1 2; C. Cuina, Kiukiang (Pratt),

9 Whang (iis: Pratt), Oe We *Crmnal Changayane,

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(Pratt), 1 3,19, Wa-shan (Pratt), 1 3; Chia-kou-ho (Pratt),

1 3, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 2. Hap. 42-58 millim. ;

8163. Trisuloides pallidipennis. (Plate CCX XXIII. fig. 11.)

ambana pallidipennis, Warr. Noy. Zool. xix. p. 5 (1912) ; Seitz, Gross-

Schmett. Indo-Austr. xi. pl. 4.

oS. Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown irrorated with

whitish, the tarsi tinged with white. Fore wing dark brown

with a eupreous gloss and thickly irrorated with grey-white ; sub-

basal line blackish, double at costa and ending at submedian fold ;

antemedial line double, blackish, sinuous, the outer line shghtly

angled outwards below costa and cell; orbicular and reniform

whitish defined by black, the former small, round, the latter

elliptical, a black streak between them ; a sinuous blackish medial

line ; postmedial line double, blackish, waved, excurved to vein 4,

then incurved, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal ,

line whitish broadly defined on inner side by brown suffusion, angled

outwards at veins 7, 6, 4,3; a terminal series of small black lunules

defined on inner side by a slight whitish line. Hind wing glossy

yellowish white; a slight subterminal band of brown sutfusion ;

cilia brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated with red-

brown, the terminal area suffused with red-brown narrowing to

tornus, a slight red-brown discoidal striga and diffused postmedial

line from costa to vein 2.

2. Hind wing’ with the terminal area more suffused with

brown.

Hab. W. Java, Preanger, 5000’ (Sythof),1 36,19. Hap.

3 46, 9 48 milim. Type f in Coll. Rothschild.

8164. Trisuloides infausta. (Plate CCXXXITI. fig. 12.)

Mamestra infausta, W\k. ix. 237 (1856); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 486;

' Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Indo-Austr. xi. pl. 4.

Tambana nigra, Warr. Noy. Zool. xix. p. 5 (1912); Seitz, Gross-Schmett.

Indo-Austr. xi. pl. 4.

Tambana fuscipennis, Warr. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 5 (1912); Seitz, Gross-

Schmett. Indo-Austr. xi. pl. 4.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown irrorated with grey-

white ; pectus more rufous; tarsi ringed with white. Fore wing

dark brown with a cupreous gloss and thickly irrorated with grey-

white; subbasal line blackish, double at costa and ending at sub-

median fold ; antemedial line double, blackish, waved; orbicular

and reniform defined by blackish, the former small, round, a

blackish streak between their lower parts; an indistinct sinuous

dark medial line; postmedial line double, blackish, waved, incurved

below vein 4; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by

blackish, forming somewhat dentate marks, angled outwards at

veins 7, 6, and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small

VOL. XIII. Pade

354 NOCTUID&.

black spots defined on inner side by a slight whitish line. Hind

wing whitish tinged with reddish brown, the terminal area suffused

with reddish brown narrowing to tornus; the underside with the

costal and terminal areas suffused with reddish brown, traces of

diffused postmedial and subterminal lines.

@. Hind wing rather browner.

Hab. Punsaz, Simla (Harford), 2 3,1 9, Dalhousie (Har-

ford),1 3; Assam, type + d nigra in Coll. Rothschild (Badgley),

13,1 9, Shillong (Parish), 3 9, Khasis, 1 9, Silhet, 1 2 type;

Burma, Bernardmyo (Doherty), type + Q fuscipennis in Coll.

Rothschild. Hap. 46-54 millim,

8165. Trisuloides obscura. (Plate CCXXXIII. fig. 13.)

Aplectoides obscura, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 527 ; Seitz, Gross-

Schmett. pal. iii. pl. 3.

3S. Head and thorax black-brown irrorated with grey-white ;

pectus pale brown; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen brown, some

whitish at sides at base, the extremity and ventral surface irrorated

with whitish. Fore wing dark brown thickly irrorated with grey-

white; subbasal line indistinct, blackish, from costa to submedian

fold ; antemedial line double, blackish, sinuous, angled outwards at

submedian fold and inwards at vein 1; orbicular and reniform small

with slight whitish annuli defined by blackish, the former round, a

dark streak between their lower parts ; an indistinct diffused dark

medial line; postmedial line indistinctly double, blackish, bent

outwards below costa, then somewhat dentate, shghtly imeurved

at discal fold and bent inwards at vein 8, some pale points beyond

it on costa; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by

rather diffused black-brown, excurved below vein 7 and angled

outwards at veins 4, 38; a terminal series of small blackish spots.

Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous brown, the terminal area

somewhat darker; the underside with indistinct diffused postmedial

line.

Q. Hind wing more uniform brown.

Hab. W. Curna, Ni-tou, 1 5, 1 9, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 ©,

Washan (Pratt), 1 3 type, Chia-kou-ho, 1 2, Chou-pin-sa, 1 9,

Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 6, 1 9; Kasumi, 1 2; Punsgas, Kulu,

Sultanpur (G. Young), 12. Hap. 46-52 millim. 5

Srcr. LV. Antenne of male minutely ciliated.

A. Hind wing with the basal area orange-yellow

i ith the basal area orange-yellow ..........0.0..0..005 glauca.

B, Hind wing with the basal area brown

a aisnenEemiuinn coe ceentotaGn ver 6C-adbum.

8166. Trisuloides glauca.

Trisuloides glauca, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 455 (1897) ;

Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Indo-Austr. xi. pl. 4. ‘

3. Head and tegule white; palpi black, the extremity of

TRISULOIDES. 359

Ist joint and base of 2nd white in front, the extremity of 2nd

joint white; frons with lateral black spots; antenne blackish ;

thorax red-brown mixed with blackish and white, the patagia with

white patches at middle; pectus and femora brownish white, the

tibie and tarsi black-brown, the fore tibix and the tarsi ringed

with white ; abdomen black-brown mixed with grey, the basal half

red-brown at sides. Fore wing sap-green irrorated slightly with

white, some white with a flesh tinge in and below basal half of

cell, the terminal area white tinged with flesh colour; subbasal

black points below costa and cell and a minute streak above sub-

costal nervure, a white mark beyond it on costa; antemedial line

black defined on inner side by white, the black obsolescent from

Fig. 91.—Trisuloides glauca, G. }.

below costa to median nervure, waved; orbicular and reniform

flesh-white ringed with black, the former minute, round, the latter

irregular, the inner side of centre defined by olive-brown, a black

streak between them in lower part of cell; a faint sinuous dark

medial shade; postmedial line black defined on outer side by white,

oblique and sinuous to vein 4, then incurved and waved, angled

outwards at vein 1, some white points beyond it on costa; sub-

terminal line only defined by the terminal area being flesh-white

except at apex with a series of small red-brown luhules before

termen, the line excurved below vein 7, angled inwards at discal

fold, then waved, exeurved at middle and incurved below vein 3; a

terminal series of black striz; cilia reddish brown intersected with

white. Hind wing orange-yellow, the terminal area black-brown,

broadly at costa, narrowing to tornus; the medial part of termen

with blackish striz defined on inner side by white; cilia white

chequered with brown from apex to vein 2, brownish towards

tornus. Underside of fore wing with the basal half of cell and

area below the cell yellow, a yellow discoidal spot produced to a

point on outer side, a postmedial white spot on costa and the

terminal area white except at apex; hind wing dark brown

wrorated with white, the inner area ochreous.

Hab. Assam, Khasis, 1 $ type. Hep. 40 milim.

356 NOOTUID®.

8167. Trisuloides c-album. (Plate CCX XXIII. fig. 14.)

Tambana c-albuin, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 525.

©. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with white and some

red-brown; pectus whitish; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen

brown mixed with white. Fore wing bronze-brown suffused with

pury ple-grev ; subbasal line blackish, rosea by a short black streak

in the ell and ending at submedian fold; antemedial line double,

blackish, sinuous, angled outwards at sinlemaadtiann fold and incurved at

vein 1; orbicular minute, defined by black; reniform elliptical, defined

by black, with white annulus above and on inner side and yellow

streak from middle of outer edge; medial line indistinct, blackish,

sinuous, a blackish patch beyond it below submedian fold; post-

medial line double, blackish filled in with white and with some

white before it towards costa, slightly bent outwards below costa,

then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4 and excurved at

vein 1; subterminal line blackish, somewhat dentate, excurved

below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of small black

lunules slightly defined on mer side by whitish. Hind wing

dark TROUT 2 a broad orange medial band from costa to vein iE

its inner edge irregular, its outer angled at vein 4; a slight

yellowish ifn jhetone termen; cilia chequered with iis to

vein 2, then with whitish tips. Underside of fore wing with the

basal half yellow, a yellow streak beyond the cell and some

yellowish above it on costa; hind wing yellow, the veins streaked

with white, a blackish discoidal spot, the costal area white irrorated

with brown, the terminal area brown mixed with whitish, its inner

edge waved.

Hab. W. Cutna, Chang-yang (Pratt), 8 2 type. Hap.

50 millim.

Genus ELZ0DES, nov.

Type. E. brevicornis.

Proboscis aborted, small; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint bardly

reaching to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair, the 3rd short,

porrect ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair; eyes large, round; antenne of male

typically serrate and fasciculate ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales

and without crests; tibie fringed with long hair; abdomen with dorsal series

of hairy crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved

and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle ol cell; 6 from upper angle;

9 from 10 anatomosing with 8 to for m the areole; 11 from cell, Hind wing

with the cell half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 fr om angle; 5 fully developed

from well above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle: 8 anatomosing with the cell

near base only.

Sscr. I. Antenne of male with short fasciculate branches.

A. Fore wing yellow tinged with green hind wing of male

WADI ococes oo0anc9ehans co00q500009 sn OD DOGUDnoDSoBCOnOMDEUDODHANODUASEARDES Virescens.

B. Fore wing brownish grey suffused in parts with Coes een ;

hind wing greyish tinged with fuscous brown............ seveee acatharta.

ELEODES. 357

8168. Elszeodes virescens.

Eremobia virescens, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 243 (1879), g.

Euplexia ochroargyra, Mab. Ann. Soe. Ent. Vr. 1899, p. 727, 2.

3. Head and thorax greenish yellow mixed with red-brown ;

tegule with a reddish brown band near tips, the patagia reddish

iheoara at extremities, the metathorax with reddish brown band;

abdomen ochreous, the crests tipped with reddish brown. Fore

wing yellow tinged with green ; subbasal line silvery white defined

at sides by red-brown, waved, from costa to submedian fold, some

red-brown beyond it on costa and above vein 1; antemedial line

silvery white defined at sides by red-brown, angled outwards below

costa, then oblique to submedian fold and angled inwards at vein 1,

a red-brown streak from it to postmedial ifine in submedian fold ;

satan a small round silvery white annulus with red- bron

centre; reniform a minute silvery white lunule on a red-brown

patch which extends to. the orbicular; postmedial line silvery

white defined on each side by red-brown forming two small spots

Hig. 92.—Hleodes virescens, G. 1.

at costa, a patch on its outer side above and below vein 6 and

patches on each side of it between veins 4 and 2, oblique and

sinuous to discal fold, then incurved and waved; subterminal line

formed by silvery white lunules defined on outer side by red-brown

marks and on inner side also below costa and veins 3 and 2, incurved

at vein 5 and bent inwards at vein 2; cilia chequered red-brown

and white. Hind wing white tinged with red-brown; the under-

side with brown discoidal lunule and postmedial reddish bar from

costa.

©. Hind wing uniform dark brown.

Hab. Mapacascar, Antanararivo (Kingdon), 1 3 type, Betsileo

(Cowan),1 3. Hap. 36 millim. Type t Q ochroargyra in Coll.

Mabille.

8169. Elmodes acatharta, n. sp. (Plate CCXXXIV. fig. 1.)

36. Head and thorax pale dull olive-green mixed with grey and

brownish ; antennze fuscous brown; palpi blackish above; tarsi

banded with black; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing pale

08 NOCTUIDAE.

brownish grey suffused in parts with dull olive-green; some

fuscous brown at base of cell; subbasal line represented by oblique

pale striz from costa and cell defined by fuseous brown, a patch

otf fuscous brown below submedian fold in which there is a diffused

streak connecting it with the antemedial line, which is indistinetly

double, fuscous brown, waved, connected by a diffused streak below

submedian fold with the postmedial line; orbicular with fuscous

brown centre and pale annulus, a fuscous brown patch between it

and the reniform, which is represented by a pale bar defined on

outer side by fuseous brown; postmedial line pale defined on each

side by fuscous brown scales, dentate, oblique to vein 5, then in-

wardly oblique and incurved in submedian interspace, a fuscous

brown patch beyond it above vein 6 and a patch before and beyond

it between veins 4 and 2, the costa beyond it with alternating pale

and dark marks; subterminal line pale defined on each side by

fuseous brown scales and with a fuscous brown patch beyond it

between veins 6 and 4, dentate; cilia chequered fuscous brown

and whitish. Hind wing greyish tinged with fuscous brown; a

fuscous diseoidal spot and postmedial line excurved to vein 4, then

incurved.

@. Hind wing fuscous, the cilia with a fuscous line through

them.

Hab. Natat, Durban (Quekett, Bell-Marley), 1 3,3 @ type.

Exp. 3 38, 9 42-46 millim.

Larva. Dorsal surface purple-red ; ventral surface white tinged

with purple-red ; each somite with a dorsal black band with two

creamy white spots on it, the anterior rounded, the posterior hooked

and with a white patch behind it; lateral line white with the black

stigmata on it, each with a black-brown spot behind it except on

10th somite; warts with a few long white hairs; head ochreous,

the jaws on a black patch, the lower part of hemispheres with

black patches, the hairs white.

Pupa. Semihyaline, the head, wing cases, and legs defined by

chocolate-brown lines, abdominal segments with ahoolarie- brown

bands ; stigmata chocolate-brown.

Srcr. II. Antennze of male serrate and fascieulate.

A. Fore wing without white patches beyond the cell and at

middle of submediam interspace ...2.0...--c-c+-ee-sseseeeececer brevicornis.

B. Fore wing with white patehes beyond the cell and at middie

of submedian interspace ............. podoeccossscoopanecdooDDoNceS lutescens.

S170. Eleodes brevicornis.

Aanthia brevicornis, Wik. x. 466 (1856).

Mamestra tarara, Holl. Psyche, vi. p. 566 (1898).

3d. Head and thorax olive-green mixed with ochreous; antenne

brownish ; abdomen ochreous, the crests olive-green. Fore wing

ochreous suffused with olive-green; a brown patch at base of

costa; subbasal line represented by curved whitish striz from costa

ELEODES. 309

and cell defined on each side by olive-green and with brown patches

beyond them below submedian fold and above inner margin ; ante-

medial line silvery whitish defined on each side by brown, waved,

interrupted; a brown patch at middle of inner area; orbicular with

brown centre and silvery whitish annulus, a brown patch between

it and the reniform, which is represented by a silvery whitish bar

defined on outer side by brown; postmedial line silvery whitish

defined on each side by some brown scales, minutely dentate,

oblique to vein 5, then inwardly oblique, patches of dark brown

Fig. 93.—Eleodes brevicornis, G. 1}.

suffusion beyond it above vein 6 and between veins 4 and 2, some

whitish pomts beyond it on costa ; subterminal line silvery whitish

defined on outer side by some dark brown suffusion, dentate, in-

curved at discal fold and bent inwards at vein 2; cilia chequered

dark brown and whitish. Hind wing white, the terminal area

tinged with reddish brown; a small dark discoidal spot; cilia

chequered reddish brown and whitish; the underside white with

sight brownish discoidal spot and faint sinuous postmedial and

subterminal lines.

@. Abdomen and hind wing fuscous brown; underside of hind

wing whitish suffused with fuscous brown except on terminal area,

the discoidal spot and lines more distinct.

Hab. 8. Nigeria, Lagos (Boag), 1 9, Old Calabar (Crompton,

Sampson), 2 3, 1 @, Ilesha (Humfrey), 4 35, 2 9; Gapoon,

Ogové R. (Good), 1 9 co-type tarara; Congo (Curror),

1 g type; N. Awneors, Kibokolo do Zombo (Lewis), 1 3d;

Uaanpa,. Toro, Mpanga Forest (Neave),1 2. Hap. g 28-36,

2 34-44 millim.

8171. Eleodes lutescens. (Plate CCX XXIV. fig. 2.)

Noctua lutescens, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 127 (1850).

@. Head and thorax olive-yellow; palpi blackish; antenne

blackish towards tips; frons and back of head brownish white ;

tegule and patagia edged with brownish white, the thoracic crests

tipped with brownish white; pectus and femora brownish white,

the tarsi banded black and whitish; abdomen brownish white.

360 NOCTUID 5.

Fore wing olive-yellow tinged in parts with olive-brown; some

whitish at base and a whitish subbasal spot in the cell; antemedial

line white, rather diffused towards costa, oblique and waved to

submedian fold, incurved at vein 1; a medial white patch in sub-

median interspace ; orbicular and reniform with olive-brown centres,

the former with white annulus, the latter defined on inner side by

white and on outer by a white patch tinged with yellow at discal

fold; postmedial line white, interrupted between veins 4 and 2

except for a minute white streak on vein 3, oblique and sinuous

to vein 5, then inwardly oblique and angled inwards at submedian

fold ; subterminal line represented by a series of white spots in the

interspaces, the spots above vein 6 and between veins 4 and 2 con-

nected with the terminal series of white striz and with small yellow

lunules on them, the mark below vein 6 oblique and the spot below

vein 5 further from termen, two obliquely placed spots in sub-

median interspace ; cilia chequered olive-brown and white. Hind

wing pale purplish brown with a curved dark medial shade, the

terminal area whitish ; a fine brownish terminal line ; cilia chequered

brownish and white; the underside white irrorated with brown, the

terminal area slightly irrorated, a curved brown postmedial shade.

Hab. Care Cotony (Dohrn), 12. Exp. 52 millim.

Genus CALOCASIA.

Type.

Calocasia, Ochs. Schmett. Hur. iv. p. 638 (1816), non descr. ;

TEL MUD, \/ei4s 0, PADI (USBI) dnosoanonadoccoadbosenqaocAcosdodeoooaa0deber coryli.

Demas, Steph. I]. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 59 (1829) ............... corylt.

Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond the

frons and fringed with long hair; frons smooth; eyes large, round ; antennz

of male bipectinate with rather long branches to apex ; thorax clothed with

rough hair and hair-like scales and without distinct crests; tibie fringed with

long hair, the tarsal joints fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of

crests and lateral fringes of hair. 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; 7, 8 stalked, 10 from 7, 8 giving off 9 to anastomose

with 7, 8 to form a minute areole, or abnormally 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from

cell, Hind wing with the cell half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle ;

5 fully developed from well above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anas-

tomosing with the cell near base only.

A. Fore wing nearly uniformly suffused with red-brown... wirbrosa,

B. Fore wing with the basal half suffused with red-brown,

lag wermibaall Inalbe AREA? ecocosdacoao0dn0aq00000nq0qn000000C PCO?UIICE

C. ee wing with the basal half of inner area dark.

. Fore wing white irrorated with red-brown ............ Jlavicornis,

Fore wing blue-grey irrorated with black ............... electa.

D. ae wing “nearly uniformly grey, the basal area not

darker.

t. Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly ineurved

below the cell.

a, Fore wing white irrorated with brown ............... propinguilinea,

b\, Fore wing fuscous EINE “sp gaoseacondndséosodonodsss08o00e infuuta.

b, Fore wing with the potsmedial line slightly incurved

alloy? (dhe Calll conoesaoodascvceseoeovnnr90 siidlatie cal Metatisialacolte MUS.

CALOCASTA. 361

*8172. Calocasia umbrosa.

’ Demas umbrosa, Wileman, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1911, p. 243, pl. 30, f. 11:

6. Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with reddish brown ;

tarsi ringed black and white; abdomen with the dorsal crests black

at tips. Fore wing reddish brown irrorated with white; ante-

medial line black, sinuous; orbicular small, defined by black except

above, a blackish spot above it on costa; veniform whitish defined

by brown and with a curved brown striga in centre, a whitish patch

beyond it extending to costa; postmedial line black defined on outer

side by white, minutely dentate, excurved to vein 5, then incurved

and angled outwards at submedian fold ; an indistinct waved brown

subterminal line defined on outer side by slight white marks.

Hind wing reddish brown; the underside irrorated with white and

with an indistinct curved waved postmedial brown line.

Hab. Javan, type ¢ d in Coll. Wileman. xp. 32 millim.

8173. Calocasia coryli.

Bombyx coryli, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 503 (1858); Esp. Schmett. iii.

pl. 50. ff. 1-5; Hubn. Hur. Schmmett., Noct. ff. 17,18; Dup. Lép. Fr.

vi. p. 180, pl. 84. f.6; Frr. Neue Beitr. pl. 549; Donovan, Nat, Hist.

Brit. Ins. ix. p. 45, pl. 809; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. pl. 60.

f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 151.

Demas melanotica, Haverkampf, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1. p. 158 (1906).

Demus weymeri, Hold. Intern. Ent. Zeit. iii. p. 240 (1910).

Head and thorax grey mixed with brown, the metathorax red-

brown, the patagia with two oblique black bars and red-brown tips ;

Fig. 94.—Calocasia coryli, §. }.

antennz rufous; palpi and a band across frons black-brown ; pectus

black-brown in front; tarsi brown with pale rings ; abdomen

362 NOCTUIDA.

reddish brown, the crests darker, the ventral surface grey. Fore

wing grey irrorated with red-brown, the basal halt strongly suffused

with red-brown, the terminal area tinged with red-brown ; some

blackish irroration below the cell Thetinses the blackish paieme diel

line, which is angled outwards below the costa and at submedian

fold and inwards at median nervure and vein 1, connected by fine

blackish streaks above and below submedian fold with the rather

diffused blackish brown medial line which is ineurved at submedian

fold; orbicular a small round black annulus with some blackish in

centre; renitorm a very narrow lunule defined by black, strongly

on seen side ; postmedial line blackish, excurved, slightly simuous

and red-brown from below costa to vein 4, then incurved, some

minute dark streaks beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish

defined on inner side by red-brown, slightly waved, angled outwards

below veins 7 and 6 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of

brown striz faintly defined on inner side by ervey ; ; cilia red-brown

intersected with whitish. Hind wing grey tinged with red-brown,

the terminal area pale red-brown; a *sheht eT diseoidal Temlle

and faint curved postmedial line; cilia chequered red-brown and

whitish ; the underside paler with reddish brown patch at middle of

costa, small discoidal spot, postmedial line execurved beyond the

cell, curved subterminal line and fine dark terminal line.

Ab. 1. melanotica. Uniform fuscous black.

Hab. Brrratn, Leech Coll.; Francr, Sand Coll.; Germany,

Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Ausrria; Huneary; SwitzER-

LAND, Frey Coll.; N. Ivany; 8. Russta, Sarepta, Leech Coll. ;

ARMENIA; ASIA Mix OR, Pontus. Hap. 28-40 millim.

Larva. Meyy. Brit. Lep. p. 173; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ii. p. 324, pl. 82.

ff. 2 a—-d.

Greyish or pinkish ochreous, the hairs pale grey; dorsal line

sometimes black; spiracular line sometimes pale; tufts of hair on

4th and 5th somites brown or reddish; hair-pencils on Ist and 11th

somites black or brown; head sometimes black. Food-plants :

Beech, Hazel, ete. 7-9.

8174. Calocasia flavicornis. (Plate CCX XXIV. fig. 3.)

Demas flavicornis, Smith, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. vil. p. 3 (1884); id.

Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 32,

@. Head and tegule white slightly mixed with brown, the

thorax white strongly mixed with brown; patagia with three

oblique brown bars; pectus and legs white with a slight ochreous

tinge, the tibie and tarsi ringed with brown; abdomen white

str ongly mixed with red-brown, the ventral surface ochreous white.

Fore wing white slightly imonnted with red-brown, the terminal

area tinged with pale red-brown, the area below submedian fold

from near base to the postmedial line tinged with red-brown and

irrorated with rough black scales; subbasal line brownish, oblique,

from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line brownish, incurved

CALOCASIA. 363

at median nervure and vein 1 and excurved below costa, at sub-

median fold and above inner margin; orbicular small, round,

defined by rough black scales; a slight blackish discoidal bar ;

postmedial line brownish deaned on outer side by white, waved,

slightly excurved from below costa to vein 4, then incurved to near

origin of vein 2 and excurved above inner margin ; subterminal line

white defined on inner side by brown, oblique to vein 7, then

slightly waved; a brownish terminal line. Hind wing white

faintly tinged with red-brown and with a slight red-brown

terminal line; the underside white slightly irrorated with red-

brown, a minute discoidal spot and diffused postmedial line from

costa to vein 2.

Hab. U.S.A., New York, 1 9, New Jersey. xp. 42 millim.

*8175. Calocasia electa.

Demas electa, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. xix. p. 134 (1911).

@. Head whitish ; tegule grey ; thorax banded black and white;

abdomen fuscous. Fore wing blue-grey irrorated with blackish,

the postmedial area paler, the inner half from base to the post-

medial line darker; subbasal black strize from costa and cell and a

black streak below base of cell; antemedial line black, angled out-

wards below costa and in submedian fold where it is connected with

the postmedial line by a black streak, angled inwards on median

nervure and vein 1 and excurved above inner margin ; orbicular

small, round, whitish with a black point in centre; reniform

whitish with a black lunule in centre, ill-defined, narrow, oblong ;

postmedial line black, dentate, excurved from below costa to vein 4,

then strongly incurved, and excurved above inner margin ; sub-

terminal line whitish defined on mner side by nscomns, flemtinde.

angled outwards below vein 7; a blackish terminal line. Hind

wing semihyaline blackish; a black terminal line ; cilia chequered

white and black ; the underside paler with traces of a small discoidal

lunule and diffused postmedial and subterminal lines.

Hab. Canapva, Manitoba, Winnipeg (Wallis). Kap. 38-

40 millim. This species is unknown to me.

8176. Calocasia propinquilinea. (Plate CCXXXIV. fig. 4.)

Charadra propinquilinea, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. iv. p. 293 (1878) ;

Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 382.

@. Head and thorax white slightly mixed with brown ; patagia

with brown bars at middle and near tips; meso- and metathorax

with paired oblique brown bars; mid and hind tibie banded with

blackish, the tarsi banded with black; abdomen red-brown with

blackish dorsal segmental bands. Fore wing white irrorated with

brown ; minute brown subbasal spots in and below the cell; ante-

medial line dark brown, waved; orbicular defined by brown and

864 NOCTUID ®.

with some brown in centre, round ; reniform defined by dark brown

on inner side and shghtly on outer, a minute brown spot in centre ;

medial line brown, oblique, sinuous, rather diffused, confluent with

the antemedial line in submedian interspace ; postmedial line brown,

bent outwards below costa, almost obsolete to vein 4, then strongly

incurved to near origin of vein 2, on which it is slightly dentate,

and to near the medial line; subterminal line brownish defined on

outer side by white, incurved below the costa, excurved below vein 7

and at middle, a terminal series of brown striz defined on inner

side by white, the striga below vein 2 oblique; cilia obscurely

chequered brown and white. Hind wing white tinged with brown,

the terminal area suffused with brown, the termen with white striz ;

cilia white, mixed with brown at base; the underside white, the

veins, costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown,

obscure oblique diffused brownish postmedial and subterminal

shades.

Hab. U.S.A., Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode I., 1 9

type. Hap. 44 millim.

*8177. Calocasia infanta.

Demas infanta, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc, xix. p. 183 (1911).

Head, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous grey, the head, tegule,

and pectus whiter ; antennee yellowish; patagia with three black

bars. Fore wing fuscous grey, the base with some white ; ante-

medial line blackish defined on inner side by whitish scales, angled

outwards below costa and cell and inwards on median nervure and

vein 1, excurved above inner margin; orbicular minute, whitish,

round ; reniform whitish with a aecone striga in centre, narrow ;

postmedial line blackish defined on outer eae by white scales,

dentate, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then strongly in-

curved and again excurved above inner margin ; subterminal line

whitish defined on inner side by fuscous, dentate, angled outwards

below vein 7; terminal line fuscous defined on inner side by

whitish lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown; the underside fuscous

wrorated with white.

Hab. U.S.A., Pennsylvania, New Brighton, Tennessee, Johnson

City. Exp. 38-42 millim. This species is unknown to me.

*8178. Calocasia mus.

Diloba mus, Oberth. Et. Ent. x. p. 17, pl. 2. f, 4 (1884); Seitz, Gross-

Schmett. pal. ii. pl. 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. ail p. lol.

3. Head and thorax brownish grey, the patagia with two dark

bars ; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing brownish grey ; ante-

medial line dark, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, angled

outwards at submedian fold and to inner margin, connected by a

shght dark streak in submedian fold with the postmedial line ;

orbicular and reniform white defined by black, small, the former

DIPHTHERA. 365

round, the latter very narrow with some whitish beyond it; post-

medial line dark defined on outer side by whitish, oblique to vein 6,

then waved, incurved below vein 4 and excurved at vein 1; sub-

terminal line ver y indistinct, whitish defined on inner side by brown,

excurved below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing rather browner

grey. Underside of fore wing with whitish discoidal lunule.

Hab. HE. Stperta, Amurland, Ussuri, Sidemi. Hwp. 40 millim.

This species is unknown to me.

Genus DIPHTHERA.

Type.

Diphtera, Ochs. Schmett. iv. p. 63 (1816) non descr. ......... aes

Diphthera, Ureit. Schmett. Eur. vy. (1) p. 47 (1825)............ cenobita.

Payploga., istilon.. Wer, 7. AV2 (SAT). oscccanconcess00cscobs00000Ke8 cenobita.

Audela, W\k. Can. Nat. & Geol. vi. p. 387 (1861)........ ...... acronyctoides.

Platycerura, Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 374 (1864)... furcilla.

Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond the frons

and clothed with rather long hair ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennz

of male bipectinate with moderate branches to apex; thorax clothed with hair

and hair-like scales and without crests; tibiee moderately fringed with hair ;

abdomen with dorsal series of small hairy crests and lateral tufts of hair.

Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ;

vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5. from just above angle ; 6 from upper angle ;

9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long narrow areole; 11 from cell.

Hind wing with the cell half the length of wing; vein 3 from angle; 5 fully

developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with

the cell near base only.

A. Fore wing with the subterminal line dentate.

a. Fore wing with the inner half of medial area almost

entirely black, a broad black shade before subterminal

ISM secod saya ate EUS GLC SOT erate PTS Sse a Ru TsTeTs overc elrs esis eTare SIE ales eels plelatercetere cenobita.

6. Fore wing with the inner half of medial area not black,

the black or brown shade before subterminal line

narrow. ;

a’. Fore wing with the medial line angled outwards at

snes nervure.

. Fore wing with the postmedial line very strongly

ineunved! below ven 4 8. los ee acronyctoides.

b?, Fore wing with the postinedial line slightly in-

cubved below. vein/4:..66cy octets grisea.

b', Kore wing with the medial line not angled outwards

nee median nervure.

. Fore wing with the subterminal line prominent

and white.

a®, Fore wing with the antemedial line nearly

SIUM IIEIIS. coo oboe caq.oasoddaseospeadyodu.nooseoceos05ebon Surcilla.

6°. Fore wing with the antemedial line strongly

SUMWOUSHiaineaeenceraaciene uct taaeesachoeeotmaanss portiandia,

b°. Fore wing with the whitish subterminal line sight

and diffused.

a®, Kore wing with the medial line confluent with

(FNS SHELOMIHOSIA ss5 pacoocdondensaceneoaceayueeosbeeEbraaros gigantea.

6°, Fore wing with the medial line well separated

from the meriiiion (Wil Gooho=2ho0ncyaaobedaessde5apedd: virginaria.

sonedaees palata.

366 NOCTUID ®.

8179. Diphthera cenobita.

Bomhyx cenohita, Esp. Schmett. iii. p. 196, pl. 37. f. 7 & pl. 82, f. 2

(1785); Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Bomb. ff. 72,73 & Noct. f. 508; Dup.

Lép. Fr. vii. pl. 116. f.4; Frey, Beitr. pl. 17; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal.

p. 130.

Head and thorax ochreous white; antenne black with the

branches brown ; palpi and sides of frons black; tegule black at

base and with black dorsal streak ; patagia with black patches at

base, middle, and tips; pro-, meso-, and metathorax with large

paired black spots; peetus brownish white, blackish in front ;

tibie and tarsi banded with black; abdomen black, the anal tuft

and: ventral surface white, lateral and sublateral series of black

spots. Fore wing creamy white; a small black spot below base of

cell; two subbasal black-brown marks on costa, a patch below the

eell and spot above inner margin; a small round black spot in

middle of cell; reniform white defined by black except above and

with white spot before it on the black-brown medial band which is

Ble

Fig. 95.—Diphthera cenobita, 3.

waved to lower angle of cell, then the whole medial area black-

brown; postmedial line black-brown, dentate, inéurved at discal

fold and below vein 4, defined on inner side by some whitish on the

dark medial area; a black-brown subterminal band with dentate

edges, strong towards costa, at middle, and towards inner margin,

somewhat incurved at discal fold and below vein 3; some dentate

black-brown marks before termen with a large patch between

veins 6 and 4; a terminal series of black-brown bars; cilia

chequered black-brown and white. Hind wing whitish suffused

with brown, the interspaces rather paler; traces of a diffused

sinuous dark subterminal band ending on termen at vein 1; a dark

terminal line; cilia chequered brown and white; the underside

white, an antemedial black-brown band from costa to median

nervure, a postmedial band with waved edges, incurved at discal

fold and below vein 8, a bar from costa before apex and oblique

bar from vein 2 to termen at vein 1; the veins of terminal area

with dark streaks.

Hab. Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Autsrrta,

Leech Coll.; Huneary; N. Iranry, Zeller Coll.; Barkan Srarzs;

DIPHTMERA. 367

Russta, St. Petersburg (Svevers); Javan, Tsu-shima (/olsf),

13. xp. 38-56 millim.

eee: Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 155; Hffin. Raup. p. 78, pl. 22

f. 13.

Hairy with tufts of hair on 4th and 11th somites; brownish

grey, the incisures blue, dorsal line whitish intersected by transverse

whitish lines on dorsal surface; lateral stripe re ddish yellow.

Food-plants, Pinus and other trees. 8-9.

8180. Diphthera acronyctoides. (Plate CCX XXIV. fig. 5.)

Audela acronyctoides, Wik. Can. Nat. & Geol. vi. p. 37 (1861); Smith, Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 31.

Panthea leuconclana, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 428.

Head white, the antennze and vertex brown; palpi and sides of

frons black; thorax white mixed with brown, the tegule brown

except at tips, the patagia with oblique black bars at middle and

tips, the pro- and metathorax with blackish patches; tibixe and

tarsi banded black and white; abdomen ochreous white with

diffused brown segmental bands. Fore wing creamy white irro-

rated with a few brown scales; a black-brown subbasal line from

costa to vein 1; a strong waved black-brown antemedial line; a

small spot in muddle of wall conjoined to the strong waved Toleveli

brown medial line, incurved at submedian fold; nemenonaee. small,

defined by black- eo s postmedial line black-brown, sinuous,

angled outwards at veins 5, 4, 3, then incurved to near the medial

line and execurved below submedian fold; subterminal line black-

brown, strong and oblique from costa to discal fold, its outer edge

angled iiallont vein 7, angled outwards at veins 4, 3, then ‘ineunver.

and waved; some SEO suffusion before termen from apex to

vein 4 and a terminal series of brown spots. Hind wing white

tinged with brown; a diffused oblique antemedial brown ‘line; a

brown discoidal spot; postmedial line indistinct, brownish, waved,

excurved beyond lower angle of cell; a subterminal brown band

incurved below vein 3 and ending on termen at vein 1; a terminal

series of small brown spots ; the underside whiter with the markings

much more distinct.

Hab. Canava, Quebec, Rouge R., Ontario, Orono, 1 9; U.S.A.,

Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Tete. IES WWisconstn. Exp.

38 millim.

*8181. Diphthera grisea. (Plate CCX XXIV. fig. 6.)

Panthea grisea, Wileman, Entom. 1910, p. 345.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white mixed with black ;

antennee brown ; palpi, lower part and sides of frons black ; a black

line behind the tegulee ; patagia with two oblique black bars towards

tips; metathorax with a black bar; pectus and legs grey-white,

868 NOCTUIDE.

the tibize and tarsi banded with black. Fore wing grey-white

thickly irrorated with fuscous; a subbasal black bar from costa ;

antemedial line, black, oblique, waved, connected by a short streak

in submedian fold with the black medial line which is obliquely

incurved from costa to lower angie of cell, then incurved and

dentate; a minute black spot in middle of cell; reniform small,

defined by black; postmedial line black defined on outer side by

white, dentate, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line black

defined on outer side by white, waved, incurved at vein 5 and below

vein 8; a fine terminal black line ; cilia chequered white and black.

Hind wine white suffused with fuscous brown, the veins darker ;

a slightly sinuous white postmedial band; a terminal series of

brown strize defined on inner side by white ; cilia chequered white

and brown; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas

irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot and narrow sinuous

medial, postmedial, and subterminal bands.

Hab. Formosa, Rantaizan, type +d in Coll. Wileman. Hp.

46 milli.

8182. Diphthera furcilla. (Plate CCX XXIV. fig. 7.)

Platycerura furcilla, Pack. Proe. Hut. Soe. Phil. in. p. 3874 (1864) ; Stretch,

Zyg. & Bomb. p. 230, pl. 9. f. 15; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 31.

3d. Head and thorax white mixed with reddish brown ; abdomen

white with diffused red-brown bands. Fore wing white irrorated

with brown, the postmedial and terminal areas suffused with brown;

small black-brown subbasal spots on costa and below the cell; a

strong erect and almost straight black-brown antemedial line and

similar medial line; a slight brown discoidal lunule; postmedial

line black-brown, closely approximated to the cell and_ slightly

angled outwards beyond lower angle, then bent inwards to the

medial line at submedian fold, then oblique to inner margin ; sub-

terminal line rather diffused, white, angled outwards below vein 7

and at vein 4, incurved at discal fold and below vein 3; cilia

chequered brown and white. Hind wing white tinged in parts

with red-brown and with diffused sinuous reddish brown medial and

subterminal bands; the underside with dark brown antemedial and

medial bars from costa. :

Hab. Canava, Renfrew Co., 1 ¢; U.S.A., Eastern and Middle

States, New York, Evans Center (Grote), 1 ¢, Minnesota. Hap.

44—46 millim.

Larva. Lintner, N.Y. State Cabinet Ann. Rep. xxvi. p. 181, f. 7.

Head red, the frons with paler «-shaped mark and slight reticu-

lations; body dull red, each somite with an irregular bright red

band; dorsal line whitish on a grey stripe; a distinct lateral grey

stripe, with four depressed black spots arranged in a quadrangle on

each somite from the 38rd to the 8th; substigmatal fold white in

front and red behind on each somite; the tubercles with bunches

of red hair of unequal length, somewhat yellowish on the anterior

DIPHTHERA. 369

somites; the Ist, 2nd, 4th, and 11th somites with pencils of red

hair darker at tips and slightly feathered ; stigmata defined by

brown; legs red. Food-plant, Pinus. 8-9.

8183. Diphthera portlandia. (Plate CCOXXXIV. fig. 8.)

Panthea portlandia, Grote, Mitth. Roem. Mus. Hild. iii. p. 14 (1896) ;

Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 98.,

3. Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; antennz brown ;

palpi brown with some white in front; sides of frons brown;

patagia with two obscure brown bars; the pro- and metathorax

with diffused brown bands; tibize and tarsi banded with brown ;

abdomen reddish brown with white segmental lines, the ventral

surface whitish. Fore wing white irrorated with brown; subbasal

black-brown bars from costa and cell; antemedial line strong,

black-brown, sinuous ; a slight dark streak in middle of cell before

the strong black-brown medial line, which is oblique and shghtly

sinuous to the submedian fold, then excurved ; a small black-brown

discoidal Junule; postmedial line black-brown defined on outer

side by white, oblique, angled outwards at vein 6, excurved at

middle, then incurved and angled outwards at vein 1; subterminal

line black-brown defined on outer side by white, angled outwards

below veins 7 and 6 and at veins 4 and 3, angled inwards above

and below veins 5 and 2; cilia chequered black-brown and white.

Hind wing white, the basal half tinged with brown, the veins

streaked with brown; a diffused sinuous brown subterminal band

ending at tornus; a black-brown terminal line; cilia chequered

brown and white; the underside with brown bar from middle of

costa and sinuous postmedial line.

@. The markings rather blacker and better defined.

Hab. Canapa, Vancouver I. (Danby), 15, 39; USA,

Pacific States. Hap. 50-54 millim.

8184. Diphthera gigantea. (Plate CCX XXIV. fig. 9.)

Platycerura gigantea, French, Can. Ent. xxii. p. 134 (1890); Smith, Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 31.

©. Head and thorax white mixed with dark brown ; palpi dark

brown at sides; patagia dark brown at tips; tarsi ringed with

dark brown; abdomen white irrorated with dark brown and with

narrow dark brown segmental bands. Fore wing white thickly

irrorated with dark brown; subbasal line dark brown, from costa

to submedian fold ; antemedial line dark brown, excurved to sub-

median fold, then incurved ; a diffused almost straight dark brown

medial line ; postmedial line dark brown, slightly sinuous to vein 3,

then inecurved, excurved at vein 1; subterminal line white defined

on inner side by rather diffused dark brown, dentate, angled out-

wards below vein 7 and excurved at middle; cia chequered dark

VOL. XIIt. 28

370 NOCTUID.

brown and white. Hind wing white tinged with pale brown, the

veins browner; an indistinct subterminal brown shade excurved

below costa and ending at tornus; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia

chequered brown and white; the underside whiter, a brown dis-

coidal spot, indistinct oblique ante- and postmedial brown lines, the

subterminal shade more distinct.

Hab. U.S.A., Texas, Colorado (Bruce), 1 2. Hxp. 50 millim.

8185. Diphthera virginaria. (Plate CCX XXIV. fig. 10.)

Biston virginaria, Grote, Can. Ent. xii. p. 220 (1880); Dyar, Cat. Lep.

N. Am. p. 328.

Q. Head and thorax white mixed with dark brown; abdomen

red-brown irrorated with white, the ventral surface dark brown

mixed with white. Fore wing white thickly irrorated with dark

brown, the veins streaked with dark brown; subbasal line dark

brown, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line dark brown,

excurved to submedian fold, then incurved ; medial line dark brown,

nearly straight to submedian fold, then excurved; a slight dark

discoidal lunule ; postmedial line dark brown, excurved and slightly

waved at middle, incurved at discal fold and below vein 38 and

excurved at vein 1; subterminal line dark brown defined on outer

side by whitish marks, angled outwards below vein 7 and inwards

at vein 5, excurved at middle, then incurved; a fine dark terminal

line ; cilia chequered brown and white. Hind wing white tinged

with brown, the veins browner; a brown subterminal shade ending

at tornus and almost interrupted between veins 3 and 2; a fine

dark terminal line; cilia chequered brown and white; the under-

side white irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal spot, oblique’

brownish ante- and postmedial lines, the subterminal shade obso-

lescent.

Hab. U.S.A., California, Shasta Soda Spring, 1 9 type. Hap.

56 millim.

8186. Diphthera palata. (Plate CCXXXIV. fig. 11.)

Charadra palata, Grote, Can. Ent. xii. p. 258 (1880); Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 31.

3. Head and thorax white mixed with dark brown; patagia

with black bands at and near tips; abdomen dark brown with

narrow whitish bands, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing

white thickly irrorated with dark brown; subbasal line black,

oblique, from below costa to submedian fold; antemedial line

black, slightly bent inwards to costa, oblique below submedian fold

and forking above inner margin, a black streak in submedian fold

from it to the postmedial line; orbicular and reniform defined by

black and with some dark suffusion between them, the former

round, the latter somewhat quadrangular; an oblique sinuous

DIPHTHERA.—CHARADRA. 371

blackish line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial

line blackish slightly defined on outer side by whitish, slightly bent

outwards below costa, incurved below vein 4 and excurved below

submedian fold ; postmedial line blackish defined on outer side by

white, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and incurved at discal

fold; the veins of terminal half with slight dark streaks; a fine

blackish terminal line. Hind wing white; a few brown scales at

the extremity of vein 1; cilia slightly intersected with brown

from apex to vein 2; the underside with the costal area slightly

irrorated with brown.

Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 g type, Arizona. Hap. 44 millim.

Genus CHARADRA. Type

(Chanrandlinay NNW, Saori, GS) USTED) sacasenonouacupononeonsosn20dbonscaene- deridens,

Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, short, fringed with

rather long hair; frons smooth; eyes large, round ; antennx of male bipecti-

nate with rather long branches to apex, of female with short branches ; thorax

clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the metathorax with spreading crest ;

tibie moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests, the

crests on medial segments large. 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 fr om

cell. Hind wing with the cell half the length of wing; veins 3,4 fr on angle ;

5 fully developed from well above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto-

mosing with the cell near base only.

Atebincdawaneyellowdaes.tscsecectese ae tachesenee«aeceeracetcoreat sees pata.

B. Hind wing whitish or brown.

a. Fore wing with dark streak in submedian fold between the

antemedial and medial lines.

a‘, Fore wing with the costal half of medial area suffused

Neale lonNGl eV ah” Aosaderendopsacsobodssencossadocbact sasdose vcore nitens.

61, Fore wing with the costal half of medial area not suffused

with black-brown.

a*. Fore wing with blackish spot in centre of orbicular.

a®. Fore wing with the ground-colour blue-grey ......... ingenua.

a3, Fore wing with the ground-colour white ............ deridens.

62, Fore wing without blackish spot in centre of orbicular,

Cheplinesitimery se ccrieeianceccnscticcecuecne nee sonra ae sudena.

6. Fore wing without dark streak in submedian fold between

the antemedial and medial lines.

a, Fore wing with triangular blackish brown patch on

costal half of medial area; hind wing and underside

Garkabrowanierenstncetecsscscatiat ss setie cop benincincctinrctucstrer ancl: nigracreta.

o'. Fore wing without triangular blackish brown patch on

costal half of medial area; hind wing and underside

WITT | Cocco nbasonaadobosoo oud anonbAbDucoUaSdOSoHOSmUSODbEDS ASE ame dispulsa.

8187. Charadra pata. (Plate CCXXXIV. fig. 12.)

Trisulodes pata, Druce, A. M. N. H (6) xiii. p. 362 (1894); id. Biol.

Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 509, pl. 96. f. 21.

3. Head and thorax grey mixed with black-brown; antennz

red-brown; tegule with a red-brown tinge before tips; patagia

2 B2

a ed

Bf NOCTUIDZ.

black at base and. above and with two oblique black lines filled in

with reddish brown near tips; metathorax mostly black; tarsi

ringed with black-brown ; abdomen grey suffused with brown and

with some yellowish at sides at base. Fore wing bluish grey

suffused with brown, the inner half and outer part of medial area

darker; oblique subbasal black strize from costa and cell; ante-

medial line black, angled outwards below costa and at submedian

fold, then oblique and forking above inner margin, connected by

a black streak in submedian fold with the slightly simuous blackish

medial line which is angled inwards at submedian fold; orbicular

reddish brown defined by black, rather elongate ; reniform a narrow

red-brown lunule defined by black on inner side and by brown on

outer; postmedial line blackish, almost obsolete to vein 4, then

incurved and waved; subterminal line blackish slightly defined on

outer side by whitish, oblique towards costa, dentate above and

below vein 6, then obsolescent and slightly waved to vein 2 where

it is bent inwards; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with

black, a black terminal line. Hind wing yellow, the terminal area

fuscous, broadly at costa, narrowing to a pointat tornus ; a minute

discoidal spot; cilia fuscous intersected with white; the underside

with the costal and terminal areas grey irrorated with fuscous, a

small blackish discoidal spot and postmedial shade ending at

tornus.

2. Fore wing with whitish patch beyond the reniform and the

postmedial line defined on outer side by whitish.

Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, Cochise Co., Palmerlee, 1 ¢ ; GUATEMATA,

Guatemala City (Rodriguez), 1 Q type, Godman-Salvin Coll.

Exp. 3 42, 9 46 millim.

8188. Charadra nitens. (Plate CCXXXIV. fig. 13.)

Charadra nitens, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 49 (1911).

Head and thorax silvery white mixed with some red-brown and

irrorated with black; antenne red-brown; tegule with blackish

medial band; patagia with two blackish bars towards tips; palpi

black at sides except at tips; tarsi banded black and white; abdo-

men fuscous brown, the crests black at base, grey at tips, the

extremity and ventral surface grey. Fore wing silvery white largely

suffused with reddish brown and irrorated with black, the veins of

terminal half with fine dark streaks, a diffused black-brown patch

on costal half of medial area with the area beyond it white, a black-

brown apical patch ; subbasal black bars from costa and cell; ante-

medial line black with some dark suffusion before its costal half,

angled outwards below costa and oblique below submedian fold

where it is connected by a curved black streak with the medial line,

which is blackish and somewhat oblique and sinuous; orbicular

defined by blackish, round; reniform a very narrow lunule defined

by blackish; postmedial line indistinctly double, blackish filled

in with white, bent outwards below costa, then waved, strongly

CHARADRA. 373

incurved below vein 4 and excurved at vein 1, the costa beyond it

with alternating black and white streaks; subterminal line black,

oblique and strong to discal fold where it is: bent inwards, then

slight, waved, and ending on termen at submedian fold ; a terminal

series of slight black lunules defined on inner side by white. Hind

wing pale reddish brown; a terminal series of dark striz; cilia

brown and whitish with a fine brown line through them; the

underside white tinged with brown, the costal area and terminal

area to vein 3 irrorated with brown, an oblique brown bar from

middle of costa, discoidal striga, postmedial line excurved beyond

the cell and ending at submedian fold, and terminal series of

blackish lunules.

Hab. Costa Rica, Juan Vinas (Schaus),2 3,2 2. Exp. 40-

44: millim.

*8189. Charadra ingenua. (Plate CCX XXIV. fig. 14.)

Charadra tugenua, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xiv. p. 10 (1906).

3. Head and thorax bluish grey mixed with brown; antennz

red-brown; tegulze with dark brown band near tips; tarsi ringed

black and white; abdomen white mixed with brown, the crests

blackish at base. Fore wing blue-grey thickly irrorated with

brown ; subbasal line represented by oblique black strize from costa

and cell; antemedial line black, angled outwards below costa and

ia submedian fold, where it is connected by a black streak with the

medial line; orbicular defined by black and with black spot in

centre, round ; reniform defined by black on inner side followed by

two dark striz ; medial line blackish, rather diffused, oblique to the

reniform and incurved below the cell; postmedial line black, bent

outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved at discal fold and

below vein 4, strongly incurved just below vein 2; subterminal line

whitish defined on inner side by brown, slightly waved, excurved

below vein 7 and at middle ; a fine black terminal line. Hind wing

white tinged with brown; a blackish terminal line and slight

brown patch at tornus; the underside with the costal area irrorated

with brown, a small dark discoidal lunule and postmedial line

excurved at middle.

Hab.-U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, Durango. xp.

42 millim. ‘This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing

from type in Coll. J. B. Smith.

$190. Charadra deridens.

Diphtera deridens, Guen. Noct. i. p. 35, pl. 3. f. 8 (1852); Smith, Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 32.

Acronycta circulifera, Wk. xi. 709 (1857).

Charadra contigua, Wik. xxx1i. 446 (1865).

Head and thorax white mixed with some brown, the tegule with

blackish medial line, the patagia with some blackish marks near

upper edge, the thorax with three pairs of small blackish spots;

374 NOCTUIDE.

antenne red-brown ; palpi black-brown above ; frons with blackish

mixed ; pectus red-brown in front; tarsi ringed black-brown and

white ; abdomen grey-white mixed with brown, the crests blackish

at base. Fore wing silvery white irrorated with reddish brown ;

oblique subbasal black bars from costa and cell; antemedial line

black, angled outwards below costa and in submedian fold, where it

is connected by a black streak with the medial line, which is rather

diffused, dark, oblique and sinuous below the cell; orbicular round,

defined by black and with some blackish in centre; reniform with

curved black line on its inner side and small lunule beyond it ;

postmedial line indistinctly double, blackish, bent outwards below

Fig. 96.—Charadra deridens, $. 3

costa, then dentate, incurved at discal fold, strongly incurved below

vein 4 and angled inwards at submedian fold; the costa beyond it

with alternating black and white marks ; subterminal line blackish,

oblique to discal fold where it is bent inwards, then slighter,

dentate, and with small black spot on it at submedian fold ; a faint

dentate brown shade before termen; a terminal series of strong

black strie. Hind wing white tinged with red-brown ; a terminal

series of black-brown striz and oblique brown mark at tornus ;

the underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown, an

oblique brown striga from middle of costa, slight discoidal lunule,

and rather diffused postmedial line excurved beyond the cell and

ending at tornus.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the inner half of medial area and the

postmedial area suffused with blackish.

Hab. Canapva, Manitoba, Winnipeg (Wallis), 1 3 ; US.A.,

Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Evans Center (Grote),1d,2 2,

Georgia, 1 g type contigua, Florida (Doubleday), 1 2 type

circulifera, Texas. Hap. 44-52 millim.

Larva. Saunders, Can. Ent. ii. p. 145.

Head greenish white, with large black lateral patches and smaller

patches below them, slightly bilobed, the mandibles black with

lateral white streaks ; body pale greenish white with transverse

series of tubercles of the same colour from which arise tufts of long

fine silky white hairs and one or two black hairs at sides, the hair

on Ist somite overhanging the head; dorsal line pale green ;

stigmata white defined bv pale reddish, 10.

CHARADRA. 375

*8191. Charadra sudena.

Charadra sudena, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. xvi. p. 80 (1908).

Similar to C. deridens but smaller. Fore wing with the lines

less strong and without the black centre to the orbicular, the streak

connecting the antemedial and medial lines slight and brown or

almost obsolete, the subterminal line less irregular.

Hab. U.S.A., Florida, Miami. Exp. 34-36 millim. This

species is unknown to me.

8192. Charadra nigracreta. (Plate CCX XXIV. fig. 15.)

Charadra nigracreta, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 17 (1884); Druce, Biol.

Centr.-Am., Het. il. p. 472.

Colocasia rhotana, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xiii. p. 354 (1894); id. Biol.

Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 461, pl. 91. f. 14.

Head and thorax white irrorated with dark brown, the dorsum of

thorax suffused with dark brown; a blackish line at tips of tegulz

and bar near tips of patagia ; antenne rufous; palpi black-brown ;

frons black-brown at sides; tarsi banded black-brown and white ;

abdomen very dark reddish brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface

whitish. Fore wing silvery white irrorated with brown, the veins

of terminal half finely streaked with brown; subbasal black strize

from costa and cell; a dark spot in cell before the antemedial line,

which is black, angled outwards below costa and at submedian fold

and excurved above inner margin ; the medial area with triangular

black-brown patch from costa to median nervure and the area below

the cell suffused with dark brown before the medial line, which is

blackish, excurved in the cell and sinuous below it ; orbicular round,

white defined by black and with brown point in centre, some rufous

beyond it; reniform defined by black on inner side and very faintly

by brown on outer; postmedial line indistinct, double, brown, bent

outwards below costa, then waved, incurved at discal fold, strongly

incurved below vein 4, incurved below vein 2, then oblique and

slightly angled outwards at vein 1, two oblique blackish striz

beyond it from costa ; subterminal line blackish, angled outwards

below vein 7, bent inwards at discal fold, then slighter, somewhat

waved, excurved at middle and above inner margin; a red-brown

patch at apex; a terminal series of black strie and small dentate

mark below vein 2. Hind wing dark reddish brown, the cilia

whitish with a brown line through them. Underside of both wings

dark reddish brown with faint discoidal spots and curved postmedial

line.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the black-brown patch on costal area

much less prominent and without the dark brown on inner area.

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus, Trujillo), 1 3, 4 2, Orizaba ;

GuaTEMALA, Cahabon (Champion), 1 3, Guatemala City

(Rodriguez), 1 2, Godman-Salvin Coll. Hap. 38-44 millim.

376 NOCTUID.

8193. Charadra dispulsa. (Plate CCXXXIV. fig. 16.)

Charadra dispulsa, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 213 (1874);

Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 33.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen white slightly irrorated with

black; antennee red-brown, the shaft white above towards base ;

palpi black except at tips; tegule with black medial band ; patagi ia

with black bars near tips ; thorax with four pairs of very shght

blackish spots ; pectus blackish in front ; tibie and tarsi banded

black and white; abdomen with the crests blackish at base. Fore

wing white slightly irrorated with black, a pale yellow tinge in

submedian fold, on inner margin, and on terminal area ; subbasal

black striz from costa and cell; a small black spot on inner margin

before the antemedial black iin. which is angled outwards below

costa, then erect and very slightly sinuous; orbicular and reniform

pale yellow, the former defined by black and with some brown

scales in centre, the latter defined by black on inner side and its

centre by brown on inner side; a slight sinuous blackish medial

shade; postmedial line black, bent orebrenedle below costa, strongly

incurved and slightly dentate below vein 4, again incurved below

vein 2, then oblique and very shghtly angled at vein 1, some black

points beyond it on costa; subterminal line shght, blackish, oblique

to vein 6, then bent anal, excurved at veins 4, 3, and with

minute black spot at submedian fold; a fine black terminal line

interrupted at the veins ; cilia with a blackish line through them.

Hind wing white, the veins, costal and terminal areas tinged with

brown, the last narrowing to tornus; cilia chequered brown and

white at base; the underside with the costal area and the terminal

area to vein 3 slightly irrorated with brown, a curved slightly

waved subterminal line and black terminal line from costa to

submedian fold.

@. Fore wing with hardly any yellow.

Hab. U.S.A.) Mexas, 1 go, 1 2. Hap) 44\ rollin:

Genus MOMA.

Type.

Wyloraa, Valblerm, WEIR {Ds 2708) (CAUSING) socdccgecosaonocascodoosaceoosoasasedec ludifica.

Tr ichosea, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. . p. 213 (1874) ...... ludifica.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint hardly

reaching to middle of frons and rather broadly fringed with hair in front, the

3rd short ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair; eyes large, round ; antenne of

male almost simple; thorax clothed with hair aud hair-like scales and without

distinct crests; tibiss moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal

series of hairy ‘crests and lateral fringes of hair. 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 ar eole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell half the length of wing;

veins 3, 4 ‘from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from

upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

A, Abdomen with dorsal series of distinct black spots.

a. Fore wing silvery white without ochreous tinge.

a, Fore wing with the subterminal line not forming

dentate black mark between veins 7 and 4 ......... obsolescens.

MOMA. - ST)

bl, Fore wing with the subterminal line forming dentate

black marks between veins 7 and 5 ..........0ceeeees champa.

6, Fore wing ochreous white.

a‘. Fore wing with the subterminal line finely dentate

Dene VENMS 7 AMG! D .scooscospngaoosoHasoo0009590e00000 aint.

6‘. Fore wing with the subterminal line forming

dentate black spots between veins 7 and 5.

2. Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly :

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b?. Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly

dentinte Par emcnsace canes mate cate ucne ake nae asaces ludijica.

B. Abdomen without dorsal series of distinct black spots ... nigrescens.

8194. Moma obsolescens. (Plate CCX XXIV. fig. 17.)

Moma obsolescens, Warr., Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Indo-Austr. xi. pl. 5

(1912).

Head and thorax white; antennz black except at base an1 with a

black ne between their bases ; palpi black above, with white ring

at extremity of 2nd joint; lower part of frons black ; tegule with

black marks at base and medial band ; patagia with black spot near

base, oblique bar near tips and the edges black; dorsum of thorax

with four pairs of black spots and the metathorax with lateral black

marks; legs banded black and white; abdomen white, the crests

black except at tips, the sides yellow except towards extremity,

sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing silvery white shehtly

irrorated with blackish ; black pomts at base of costa and median

nervure; the costal edge black towards base; minute subbasal

black streaks in and below the cell and a spot above vein 1, ante-

~ medial line double, black, excurved below costa and cell and above

inner margin and incurved in cell and at vein 1, the inner line

strongly incurved in cell, then much interrupted ; orbicular a small

black annulus, the reniform defined by a black striga on inner side ;

an oblique black bar from middle of costa and oblique crenulate line

from discal fold to inner margin; postmedial line black, bent out-

wards below costa, oblique to vein 6, then crenulate and rather

inwardly oblique, a wedge-shaped black spot beyond it from costa

and a series of short black streaks on the veins; subterminal line

with oblique black bar from costa, bent outwards and obsolete at

vein 7, then waved; a series of short black streaks on the extremities

of the veins ; a fine black terminal line; cilia chequered black and

white. Hind wing white, the inner area clothed with yellow hair,

the veins fuscous, the costal area tinged with fuscous ; a fine black

terminal line ; cilia chequered black and white. Underside of fore

wing suffused with blackish except on inner area, the cell and area

just below it clothed with yellow-brown hair in male, some white

marks on costa; hind wing with small black discoidal spot, medial

and postmedial black spots on costa, and short postmedial black

streaks on veins 6 to 2.

Hab. Punsas, 1 3, Kulu, Sultanpur (G. Young), 2 © type,

Murree (Harford), 1 3, Thundiani (Yerbury), 2 3, Kangra

(Hocking), 1 5,1 9. Kap. 42-50 millim.

378 NOCTUID ®.

8195. Moma champa. (Plate CCXXXIV. fig. 18.)

Moma champa, Moore, P. Z.8. 1879, p. 403, pl. 33. f.2; Alph. Rom.

Mém. ix. p. 158, pl. 138. f.4; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 485; Seitz,

Gross-Schmett. pal. iii. pl. 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 130.

Moma champa, ab. diffusa, Warr., Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Indo-Austr. xi.

pl. 5 (1912).

3. Head and thorax white ; antenn black except at base and

with black bar between their bases; palpi with the 2nd joint above

except at extremity and the 8rd jot black; frons black at sides ;

tegule with black bars at base and medial black band ; patagia with

spots at base, band near tips and the outer edge black; tibiz and

tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen white, yellow at sides, the

dorsal crests black at base, the anal segment with black band,

sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing silvery white with a

pinkish tinge ; small basal black spots on costa and median nervure ;

subbasal streaks on costa and subcostal nervure, a small spot below

the cell and larger spots above vein 1 and on inner margin ; ante-

medial line double, black, excurved below costa and cell and above

inner margin, strongly incurved in the cell and incurved at vein 1,

a black striga beyond it below submedian fold; orbicular a small

black annulus; reniform represented by two black bars, the outer

giving off short streaks; an oblique black bar from middle of costa

and a strong oblique crenulate line from discal fold to inner margin ;

postmedial line double, black, bent outwards below costa, down-

curved to vein 6, then oblique and crenulate, the outer line forming

a small triangular spot at costa and with its crenulations filled in

with black; subterminal line with oblique black bar from costa,

bent outwards and obsolete at vein 7, then lunulate, the lunules

between veins 7 and 4 strong; short black streaks in the interspaces

before termen; a fine terminal black line; cilia chequered black

and white. Hind wing white, the inner area clothed with yellow

hair; the veins of terminal half blackish; costal area tinged with

fuscous; a fine black terminal line; cilia chequered black and

white. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous except on

inner area, the cell and area just below it clothed with yellow-

brown hair, some white marks on costa; hind wing with black spot

at middle of costa, postmedial black bar from costa with excurved

line from it to vein 2, and black patch at apex.

Q. Hind wing with the terminal area more or less strongly

suffused with fuscous narrowing to tornus ; underside of fore wing

without yellow-brown hair in and below the cell.

Hab. E. Srperta, Ussuri; Japan, Kiushiu, 1 9 ; W. Cura,

Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 3 ; Punsas, 1 ¢, Dharmsala, 1 ¢ type,

Kangra (Hocking), 1 9, Umballa, 1 9 ; Stxutm (dzdller), 1 9 ;

Assam (Badgley), 4 3,3 9, Khasis, 1 ¢ ; TRavancorE, 1 9.

Exp. 46-58 milim. Type + diffusa in Coll. Rothschild.

MOMA. 379

8196. Moma ainu. (Plate CCX XXIV. fig. 19.)

Moma champa var. ainu, Wileman, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1911, p. 242, pl. 30.

f, 19.

3. Head and thorax white with an ochreous tinge; antenne

black ; palpi black with the extremity of the 3rd joint white ; frons

black at sides and with black bar above; tegule with a black band

at middle and some black behind them; outer edge of patagia and

a band near their extremities black; metathorax with lateral black

patches ; black streaks below the shoulders ; tibize banded black

and white, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen yellow, the

dorsal crests and lateral tufts black tipped with white, the extremity

white. Fore wing white with an ochreous tinge; small black spots

at base, on costa and below the cell, and the base of costa black ;

an oblique subbasal streak in the cell and small spot below the cell,

with spots beyond it above vein 1 and the inner margin ; postmedial

line double, black, the inner line interrupted, angled outwards below

the costa, in submedian fold, and above inner margin, and inwards

in cell and on vein 1; orbicular a small black annulus; reniform

represented by two black bars; a medial black spot on costa and

oblique dentate line from cell to inner margin; postmedial line

double, black, the inner line waved, the outer forming dentate black

marks, obliquely curved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, the

costa beyond it black with some white points; subterminal line

black, oblique from costa and interrupted below costa, then strongly

dentate ; the extremities of the veins streaked with black; a black

terminal line; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing pale

yellow, the terminal area fuseous with darker streaks on the veins,

broad at costa, narrowing to tornus; a slight discoidal lunule ; cilia

white intersected with black; the underside white, the inner area,

median nervure and base of vein 2 yellow, black bars from costa at

and beyond middle and a patch at apex, a discoidal spot, the veins

of terminal area streaked with black, a black terminal line.

Hab. Japan, Yezo, Oshima R., Tobetsu (Wileman), 1 oS.

Exp. 40 millim.

8197. Moma gypsochroa, n. sp. (Plate CCX XXIV. fig. 20.)

@. Head white ; antenne black except at base and with black

bar between their bases; palpi black above except at extremity of

2nd joint and with the 8rd joint black ; lower part of frons black ;

thorax ochreous white ; tegule with black bars at base and black

band at middle; patagia with spot at base, band near tips and the

outer edge black; prothorax with black spot, the meso- and meta-

thorax with paired spots and the latter with some black at sides ;

legs banded black and white; abdomen white, orange-yellow at

sides, the crests black except at tips, the anal segment with black

patch, sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing ochreous white ;

black spots at base of costa and median nervure; a black streak on

subbasal part of costa, short streaks on subcostal nervure and below

3880 NOCTUID&.

the cell) spot below submedian fold, and short streak above inner

margin ; antemedial line double, black, the inner ne much inter-

rupted, angled outwards below costa, above and below submedian

fold and above inner margin; orbicular a small black annulus;

reniform defined at sides by black bars and with short streaks

beyond its upper and lower extremities ; medial line black, obliquely

incurved from below costa to lower angle of cell, then oblique and

crenulate; postmedial line double, black, the outer line strong

towards costa, bent outwards below costa, oblique and sinuous to

vein 6, then strongly dentate, incurved below vein 4, some alter-

nating black and white marks beyond it on costa; subterminal line

with oblique black bar from costa, bent outwards and obsolete at

vein 7, then represented by a series of dentate black marks slighter

between veins 4 and 2; the veins towards termen with short black

streaks ; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing with the

costal area to discal fold and the terminal area fuscous, the latter

narrowing to tornus, the rest of wing yellow; a whitish postmedial

line from vein 6 to tornus with minute black streaks before it on

the veins and the veins beyond it streaked with black ; white strize

before termen except towards apex and tornus; cilia chequered

black and white. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous,

some white marks on costa, the termen suffused with white scales ;

hind wing white, the inner area yellow, a small blackish discoidal -

spot, medial and postmedial bars from costa, the latter obliquely

curved and giving rise to the postmedial line extending to vein 3, a

subterminal shade broad at costa, interrupted between veins 3

and 2 and ending on termen at submedian fold.

Hab. Cryton, Ohiya (Mackwood), 1 2 type. Exp. 54 millim.

§198. Moma ludifica.

Noctua ludifica, Linn, Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 514 (1758); Esp. Schmett. iv.

pl. 120. ff. 1,2; Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 23, 524, 580-1; Dup.

Lép. Fr. vi. pl. 85. f.6; Frr. Beitr. pl.63; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 130.

3S. Head white; antenne black, the shaft white above towards

base and with black bar between their bases; palpi black above

with white ring at extremity of 2nd joint, the lower part of frons

black ; thorax ochreous white, the tegule with black band, the

patagia with black spot near base, band near extremity and black

outer edge, the dorsum of thorax with four pairs of black spots

and the metathorax with black spots at sides; pectus white; legs

banded black and white ; abdomen ochreous white, the crests black

at base and the anal tuft with two black spots, the sides orange-

yellow, the ventral surface white with sublateral series of black

spots. Fore wing ochreous white; a black spot at base of costa,

small subbasal spots in and below the cell and a larger spot above

vein 1; antemedial line double, black, sinuous, strongly excurved

in submedian interspace and angled inwards at vein 1, the inner

line expanding into a spot in the cell, then interrupted; orbicular

and reniform white defined by black, the former small, round, the

MOMA. 3sl

latter open above and slightly angled inwards on median nervure,

~ some black irroration beyond its upper and lower extremities and

before its lower inner extremity ; a black bar from middle of costa,

and oblique crenulate line from discal fold to inner margin; post-

medial line double, black, slightly bent outwards below costa,

oblique to vein 6, then dentate, incurved below vein 4, the outer

line forming a small triangular spot on costal area with a white

point at costa and white and black points beyond it; subterminal

line with oblique black bar from costa, bent outwards and almost

Fig. 97.—Moma ludifica, S. }.

obsolete on vein 7, then strong waved, somewhat excurved at

middle; short black streaks on the extremities of the veins and

some black irroration before termen below apex; cilia chequered

black and white. Hind wing white, the inner area clothed with

orange-yellow hair; the veins streaked with fuscous and the costal

area slightly irrorated with fuscous ; a more or less developed fuscous

subterminal shade from vein 6 to termen at vein 1, sometimes almost

obsolete, sometimes brcad above and incurved at vein 2; a terminal

_ series of black striz ; cilia chequered white and black except towards

tornus. Underside of fore wing white with brownish suffusion in and

below the cell except towards base and black above it on costa, the

costal half of terminal area black with a white postmedial bar

from costa and spots above and below vein 5, some small white

spots beyond it on costa; hind wing with small black discoidal

spot, irregular mark from middle of costa, postmedial bar from costa

and minute streaks on the veins, and streak on costa near apex.

2. Hind wing'with the terminal area fuscous broadly at costa,

narrowing to a point at vein 1; the underside of fore wing without

yellow-brown hair in and below the cell.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the black markings more diffused; hind

wing wholly tinged with blackish except the yellow inner area.

Hab, France, Sand Coll.; Gurmany, Zeller, Frey & Leech

Colls.; Austria, Leech Coll.; HuncGary; Swirzerranp; N.

Iraty; 8. Swepen; W. Russta, Livonia. Hep. 40-52 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 155; Hffm. Raup. p.77, pl 22. f. 12.

Greyish blue with dorsal and subdorsal yellow lines and white

lateral lines; the 38rd somite with dorsal white patch and the anal

somite with lateral white patches; warts hairy ; 11th somite with

a hairy tubercle. Food-plants: Sorbus aucuparia and Cratequs

oxyacantha, 9-10,

382 NOCTUID &.

8199. Moma nigrescens. (Plate CCX XXIV. fig. 21.)

Moma nigrescens, Warr. ined.

Head and thorax white faintly tinged with ochreous ; antenne

black except towards base and with black bar between their bases ;

palpi black except in front towards base and at extremity of 2nd

joint; sides of frons black ; tegule with black barat base and band

at middle; patagia with spot at base, band towards tips and the

outer edge black ; pro- and metathorax with black spots, the meso-

thorax with pair of spots; pectus black and white; legs banded

black and white; abdomen whitish tinged with fuscous, the anal

segment with a black band, the ventral surface white with sublateral

series of blackish spots. Fore wing white, faintly tinged with

ochreous ; small black spots at base of costa and median nervure ;

a subbasal black streak on costa; small spots in and below the cell

with a larger spot beyond them above vein 1; antemedial line

double, black, the inner line more or less interrupted except towards

costa, excurved below costa, above and below submedian fold and

above inner margin; orbicular a small black annulus; reniform

defined by black at sides; a medial black bar from costa and crenu-

late line from cell to inner margin; the area beyond the cell and

below the cell between the antemedial and medial lines suffused with

purplish fuscous; postmedial line double, black, the outer line

forming a triangular spot at costa, bent outwards below costa,

obliquely curved to vein 6 then dentate, incurved below vein 4,

some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line with oblique

black bar from costa, bent outwards and obsolete at vein 7, then

sinuous, forming dentate marks above and below vein 5 and angled

inwards at vein 2; a diffused black patch on termen below apex,

then short black streaks on the extremities of the veins; cilia.

chequered black and white. Hind wing fuscous, the imner area

yellow, the veins of terminal half with black streaks ; an indistinct

sinuous whitish postmedial line ending at tornus; cilia chequered

black and white. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous,

some white marks on costa; hind wing with slight blackish

discoidal spot and curved white postmedial band.

Hab. Cryuon, Uva (Green), 1 3 type, Haputale (Mackwood),

1 9, Maskeliya (Alston), 1 9. Exp. 40-46 millim.

Genus BATHYRA.

LRG, \WNWae 555i GAOB) (IUISIED)).0: scanosocson0nsanosanconnococononeeoecccd sagata.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, short, slightly fringed

with hair, frons smooth ; eyes large, round; antennz of male almost simple ;

thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the patagia with tufts of hair at

extremities curled upwards, the pro-, meso-, and metathorax with divided

crests; tibie fringed with long hair; abdomen with dorsal series of hairy

crests, the crest on 3rd segment very large. 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; 7, 8, and 9, 10 stalked in male, in female 9 from 10

anastomosing with 8 to form a long narrow areole; 11 fromcell. Hind wing

BATHYRAs 383

with the cell half the length of wing; veins 3,4 from angle; 5 fully developed

from just above angle; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell

near base only.

A. Fore wing largely suffused with fulvous, the reniform broken

up into small white spots.............scscceeeeeceenenen eens seseees sagata.

B. Fore wing with very slight fulvous suffusion, the reniform

a well defined blackish luntle............csesscceerertereenen eens chavannese.

8200. Bathyra sagata. (Plate CCX XXIII. fig. 15.)

Diphtera sagata, Wlk. ix. 38 (1856); Kirby, Cat. Lep, Het. p. 589.

3S. Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous; antennz black

except basal joint; palpi black with white rings at extremities of

2nd and 3rd joints; patagia with a brown line near tips ; prothoracic

erests blackish at base, the metathoracie crests black; some black

below shoulders and fulvous below wings; fore and mid tibiz with

Fig. 98.—Bathyra sagata, S. }.

black and fulvous bars, the tarsi except at base blue-black, the

whole hind legs blue-black; abdomen with the dorsum ochreous

whitish, the sides fulvous, the basal crest and the crests on 2nd and

3rd segments except at tips black, the anal segment with a black

band, the ventral surface ochreous whitish with diffused black sub-

lateral stripes. Fore wing white; the basal costal area black with

two white spots on it detined by fulvous, conjoined to a subbasal

black spot, defined on outer side by fulvous below the cell; a broad

band of fulvous, blue-grey and black irroration before the ante-

medial line except towards costa; antemedial line with double black

spots defined by fulvous at costa, then fulvous and black defined on

384 NOCTUID&.

inner side by white, waved; orbicular a minute fulvous annulus

with black point on its outer edge; reniform narrow defined by

fulvous and below by black; medial line black defined by fulvous,

forming a triangular spot at costa, obliquely curved to lower angle

of cell, then oblique and waved; a patch of fulvous, blue-grey and

black in lower part of end of cell and between veins 3 and 2, with

a small white spot defined by fulvous and black at origin of vein 2

and a patch between the antemedial and medial lines from sub-

median fold to inner margin; postmedial line with wedge-shaped

black spot defined by fulvous at costa, then fulvous and black,

dentate, incurved below vein 4; the postmedial area with fulvous,

blue-grey and black irroration, and alternating white and black

spots on costa; the terminal area with an ochreous band with some

fuscous irroration on. it and irregularly dentate inner edge; a small

black spot on costa before apex and terminal series of triangular

black spots defined by white. Hind wing fulvous; a rather diffused

sinuous blackish line from costa beyond middle to termen at vein 1,

the area beyond it yellowish with black streaks on the veins.

Underside of fore wing with the basal half fulvous with the costa

black, the medial line and a discoidal lunule black, the veins beyond

the cell with black streaks to the subterminal line; hind wing with

irregularly waved medial line, a black spot on costa beyond the

postmedial line.

2. Fore wing with the orbicular larger; hind wing with diffused

black medial shade and diffused black postmedial band.

Hab. Mexico, Cuernavaca ; CotompBra, Popayan, Bogota ;

VENEZUELA, Merida, 1 ¢, 1 9; Surinam; PrERu, Carabaya, St.

Domingo; Has. 1en., 1 2 type. Hap. 5 66, 2 94-100 millim.

Pupa. Red-brown covered with spatulate rufous scales tipped

with white.

*8201. Bathyra chavannesi. (Plate CCXXXIII. fig. 16.)

Panthea chavannesi, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 101. f. 1 1874).

@. Head and thorax creamy white; palpi and antennz black ;

tegulz with a small dorsal black spot at base, the mesothorax with

a pair of black points; pectus black and white in front, fulvous at

sides ; legs black, the mid tibie and tarsi and the hind tarsi banded

with white; abdomen fulvous orange, a dark brown dorsal stripe

with the crests whitish at tips, the extremity dark brown, the anal

tuft whitish, the ventral surface dark brown mixed with whitish.

Fore wing creamy white thickly irrorated and suffused with grey-

black, some fulvous suffusion on subbasal area, in submedian fold

and in the cell; a subbasal black striga from costa defined on each

side by white; antemedial line white, waved, defined on outer side

by a black bar from costa with a white patch beyond it; orbicular

a small white spot defined by fulvous; reniform incompletely

defined by blackish and with some black in centre, placed on a

BATHYRA.—GAUJONIA. 385

diffused white patch from costa; a strong black shade from middle

of costa to median nervure, then a line excurved below submedian

fold, a white spot before it above the fold, and a white band beyond

it below the fold; postmedial line indistinct, black, interrupted,

slightly defined ain outer side by white, EOUITE hdlow costa, in-

curved at discal fold, then minutely named, excurved at middle ‘ain

angled inwards at submedian fold, some smell white spots beyond

it on costa; a diffused white subteminel band, excurved below

vein 7, angled inwards at discal fold, excurved and waved at middle ;

a series of black spots defined by white on termen and cilia. Hind

wing whitish, the basal and inner areas suffused with fulvous

orange; a slight fuscous discoidal lunule; a diffused dentate fuscous

line TO costa beyond middle to tornus becoming deep black below

vein 2; a series of black striz on termen with black strie beyond

them at tips of cilia; the underside with some blackish near “base

of costa, a diffused TaTed. fuscous medial line, deep black at costa,

a black dieeoidell lunule, a waved blackish line from costa to vein 5

before the black postmedial line.

Hab. CentR. Brazin, type + Q in Coll. Rothschild. Dep.

78 millim. The type is labelled “ Brezil int.,” not Bogota as given

in the text.

Genus GAUJONIA, T

ype.

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Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, short, moderately

fringed with hair in front; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antenne of

male laminate and simple; thorax clothed with hair only and without crests ;

tibiz moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of hairy

crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex produced and rounded,

the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from before anele of cell ;

5 from just above angle; 6 from below upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing

with 8 to form a long narrow areole, or 9 and 10 from 7, 8, 9 again joining 8

to form a slight areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell more than

half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from above

angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

A. Fore wing without lunulate black centre to the reniform ;

abdomen ochreous white with slight dark bands.

a. Fore wing of male with all the lines represented by

series of black points on the veins ..............-..-+-+++: arbost.

b. Fore wing of male with the lines on basal and terminal

areas waved.

a, Fore wing without V-shaped black mark at base of

yein 2; abdomen with small black crests on basal

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286 NOCTUID®.

8202. Gaujonia arbosi.

Gaujonia arbosi, Dogn. Le Nat. 1891, p. 126; id. Lép. Loja, p. 86, pl. 8.

Towle

3. Head and thorax pale sulphur-yellow; antennz black except

at base and with black spot between their bases; palpi black above ;

_ frons with black bar above; tegulz with black bands near base and

tips; patagia with blackish spot at middle and three near upper

edge; thorax with four pairs of black spots; pectus white; fore

tibia and tarsi banded white and black, the mid and hind tibie

with black bands at extremities and the tarsi with some black

towards extremities; abdomen yellowish white with small dorsal

black spots towards base and extremity and bands on medial seg-

ments. Fore wing hyaline, the ves and margins pale sulphur-

yellow with numerous small black spots; a subbasal series from

Fie. 99.—Gaujonia arbosi, S. 4.

costa to submedian fold, a double antemedial series, a medial series,

a discoidal spot with some points above it at upper angle of cell

and on costa, a double postmedial series, and a subterminal series ;

cilia chequered black and yellow. Hind wing hyaline, the veins

yellowish white, the inner area clothed with white hair; cilia

chequered black and yellow.

@. Fore wing with the black spots tending to become lines, the

orbicular a small black annulus, the reniform slightly defined by

black.

Hab. CotomsBta (Kalbreyer), 1 3, Bogota, 1 3; Ecvapor,

Loja, type ¢ d @ in Coll. Dognin; Peru, Huancabamba. zp.

g 48, 2 54 millim. ~

8203. Gaujonia arbosioides. (Plate CCXXXYV. figs. 1 3, 2 9.)

Gaujonia arbosioides, Dogn. Lép. Loja, p. 87 (1894).

3. Head and thorax pale sulphur-yellow; sides of palpi and

frons black; antennz black except at base and with a blackish bar

between them; tegulee with black lines near base and tips; patagia

with black spots and curved line near upper edge; the pro-, meso-,

and metathorax with paired black spots; tibize and tarsi black and

yellow; abdomen yellowish white with the small crests towards

base black. Fore wing pale sulphur-yellow; a double subbasal

GAUJONTA. 5 387

series of small black spots from costa to vein 1; a double waved

black antemedial line, the inner line obsolete towards costa and with

an oblique black spot before 1b above inner margin; a small black

annulus in middle of cell; reniform incompletely defined by black

and with a minute spot in centre; a waved black medial line, ex-

curved in cell; postmedial line black, bent outwards below costa,

then oblique dentate and produced to points on the veins, some

black points beyond it on costa, a series on the veins, and a sinuous

line on imner area; a dentate black subterminal line with a series

of short black streaks beyond it on the veins; a terminal series of

black strize and a series at tips of cilia. Hind wing semihyaline

yellowish white.

Q@. Fore wing with all the lines stronger, some brown irroration

beyond the postmedial and subterminal lines.

Hab. Cotomera, Monte Tolima (Fass/), 1 $; Ecvanor, Loja,

type + F in Coll. Dognin, Zamora (Baron), 2 in Coll. Rothschild.

Hap. 3 42, 9 52 miliiens

8204. Gaujonia vau-nigrum, n. sp. (Plate CCXXXV. fig. 3.)

Head and thorax sulphur-yellow; antennz fuscous, the base of

shaft white; palpi black at sides ; frons with lateral minute black

marks ; vertex of head with black spot; tegulz with black line at

middle; patagia with black marks near edges ; pro-, meso-, and

metathorax with paired black marks ; ters pemded with black ;

abdomen white at base, pale yellow towards extremity, some black

marks on dorsum. Fore wing sulphur-yellow, the interspaces

hyaline except on basal and inner areas; a small black spot at base

of costa; a subbasal black spot on costa with oblique striga from Wt

and small spot below the cell; an oblique barabove vein 1 before the

two waved black antemedial lines, the imner line rather interrupted ;

orbicular a small black annulus; reniform incompletely defined

by black scales and much comernie’vel at middle; medial line repre-

sented by black marks on costa and subcostal nervure, a V-shaped

mark at base of vein 2, and waved line from submedian fold to inner

margin; postmedial line represented by double black spots on the

veins oral costa to vein 2 and a double sinuous line on inner area,

a small black spot beyond it on costa; a waved black subterminal

line followed by a series of slight marks on the veins; a terminal

series of small black lunules; cilia chequered with black at tips.

Hind wing hyaline, the inner area clothed with white hair, the cilia

slightly tinged with yellow; the underside with the costa yellowish.

Hab. Couomsta, Monte Tolima, Bogota; VenrzuEna, 1 ¢ type;

Peru, Agualani, Oconeque, Limbani. xp. 48-68 millim.

8205. Gaujonia renifera, n. sp. (Plate CCXXXV. fig. 4.)

Head and thorax pale sulphur-yellow; antennze fulvous brown

except at base above and with black bar between their bose ; palpi

2 c2 A

388 NOCTUID ©.

black above; frons black at sides; tegule with diffused black

bands near base and tips; patagia with three black spots near upper

edge and one at middle; thorax with four pairs of small black

spots; pectus white; tibia and tarsi banded white and black ;

abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface ochreous

white. Fore wing hyaline, the veins and margins pale sulphur-

yellow with numerous small black spots and short streaks; a sub-

basal series from costa to vein 1, a double antemedial series, the

orbicular a small black annulus with yellow centre, the reniform

narrow with black bar in centre and yellow annulus defined by

black, a medial series of short black streaks with small V-shaped

mark at origin of vein 2, a double postmedial series, a subterminal

series, and the extremities of the veins with short black streaks ; a

terminal series of black strize and the cilia chequered yellow and

black. Hind wing hyaline, the veins ochreous white, the mner

margin clothed with brownish white hair; a minute black streak at

middle of median nervure, a double postmedial series of points on

veins 6 to 2, minute subterminal streaks on veins 6 and 5, and

terminal streaks on veins 4, 38, 2; a terminal series of black striz

except towards tornus.

Hab. S.E. Perv, Agualani (Ockenden), 1 3 type, Limbani,

Oconeque, Tinguri, Suambari. Haxp. 52-60 millim.

Genus LICHNOPTERA.

Lichnoptera, Herr.-Schatf. Aussereur. Sclimett. p. 14 (1850)............ gulo.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, short, moderately

fringed with hair in front; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antennze of male

Jaminate and simple ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales and with-

out distinct crests; tibia moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal

series of hairy crests. Hore wing rather long and narrow, the apex produced

and rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from

near lower angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with

8 to form a long narrow areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell more

than half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from

above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base

only.

A. Fore wing without small black annulus or spot-in centre

of the reniform.

a. Fore wing with small black annulus below middle of

cell.

a, Hind wing without fuscous suffusion, an oblique

blackish bar to tornus.

a*, Hind wing with the cilia chequered black and ‘

WIE oe oh aces seeeeecnesvernnweonsesessecennerenseaseseess decora.

b?, Hind wing with the cilia not chequered black and

iTS RRS MEE on SER ABRCC MBS Brice con conan sonedaschme os felina.

bo’. Hind wing with more or less fuscous suffusion and

with diffused fuscous medial and subterminal

LOUISE 5s naan pRaEnontacmctonarccad tocehesnance iuomeScnanccaEe cavillator,

TLICHNOPTERA. B89

b, pore wing witheut black anaulus below middle of cell.

Fore wing with the ground-colour white.

Ve Hind wing suffused with fuseous.

a>. Fore wing with dentate blackish marks before

the subterminal line above and below middle. alhidiscata.

&. Fore wing with highly crenulate blackish line

before the subterminal line...............0...00006 rufitincta.

6°. Hind wing white not suffused with fuscous ...... alludens.

61, Fore wing pale sulphur-yellow.

@. Hind wing not wholly suffused with fuscous.

a, Fore wing with waved dark shade before the

SULOCOHMIDAT TAME. _ soaccdssncosbosovsncsosodocnoousdee™ gulo.

6°. Fore wing with the shade before the sub-

terminal line with straight cuter edge ...... .. primelina.

@?, Hind wing wholly suffused “with fuscows 0.0.0... spissc.

B. Fore wing with small black annulus or spot in centre of

reniform.

@. Fore wing with the whole inner area suffused with

HWSCOUSE) Ackyacteliaccecsneerincimn chart nesta ceteris ce ose cent marmorifera.

b. Fore wing with the inner area mostly white.

a, Frons with black-brown mixed; ture wing with the

subterminal line more strongly and evenly waved. «érifrons.

61, Frons pure white; fore wing with the subterminal

line less strongly waved and incuryed above and

below middle.

@, Fore wing with small black spot in centre of

reniform, the postmedial area mostly white;

hind wing with the inner area yellow except

HOW ATS HtORMIUS Hokie deeeniecseeneat ae dareetacsareasssncees mewstoides.

d. Fore wing with small b'ack annulus in centre of

reniform, the postmedial area red-brown except

towards costa and inner margin ; hind wing with

the inner margin fringed with yellow hair in

DID) Charente atiageisiyaeodaqetates seeds as gnsencseseee oo o0DG6 Mest.

8206. Lichnoptera decora. (Plate CCXXXV. figs.5 3,6 @.)

Charadra decora, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 55; Smith, Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 33.

Lichnoptera felina, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 471 (part.).

6. Head and thorax creamy white; antenne, palpi above, and

sides of frons black; tegule with black line at base and bars at

middle; patagia with black bars at base and three black spots near

upper edge; pro- and mesothorax with paired black spots, the meta-

thorax with two pairs of black bars; tibiz and tarsi banded with

black; abdomen white, the sides yellow except towards extremity,

black ’ seomental lines and sublateral series of small spots. Fore

wing creamy white; a semicircular black mark at base of costa,

small spot at base of cell and subbasal spot below the cell; a small

black spot in cell, spot and bar above vein | and oblique mark

above inner margin before the antemedial black line, which forms a

semicircular fake at costa, then waved ; orbicular “represented by

two small black annuli with some fuscous suffusion beyond and

below them; two black discoidal striz; medial line black, oblique

and angled outwards below costa and in lower angle of cell, then

390 NOCTUID &.

inwardly oblique and sinuous; postmedial line represented by a

double series of small black spots and strize, somewhat oblique to

vein 4, then inwardly oblique and excurved below submedian fold,

some fuscous suffusion beyond it from above vein 6 to below 2 and

a black point on costa; subterminal hne black, oblique to vein 6,

then waved and much interrupted to vem 2, then stronger and

waved; an incurved black bar from costa before apex and short

black streaks on the termination of the veins; cilia chequered black

and white. Hind wing white; slight fuscous marks at the angles

of cell; traces of a double subterminal series of black points on the

veins and an oblique black bar from vein 2 to tornus; a terminal

series of black striz ; cilia chequered black and white. Underside

of fore wing with antemedial, medial, and postmedial black spots on

costa; hind wing with black discoidal lunule with black bar above

it from costa and subterminal line from costa to vein 6.

@. Abdomen with black dorsal bands on medial segments ; hind

wing with the oblique black bar to tornus strong.

Hab. U.S.A., California ; Mextco, 1 ¢, Jalapa (Godman,

Trujillo, Hoege), 23, 39, Durango (Becker), 1 2, Coatepec

(Brooks), 1 2, Cordova (Riimeli), 1 9, Godman-Salvin Coll.,

Vera Cruz, Guadalajara, Orizaba. Hap. 3 44, 9 56-62 millim.

$207. Lichnoptera felina. (Plate CCXXXYV. figs. 7 3,8 9.)

Lichnoptera felina, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 471, pl. 93. ff. 1, 2

(1898).

3. Head and thorax creamy white; antenne, palpi above, and

sides of frons black; tegule with black medial bars; patagia with

four black spots; dorsum of thorax with four pairs of black spots,

the metathorax with black bars behind; tibie and tarsi banded

with black; abdomen white, the sides orange-yellow except at

extremity, dorsal and sublateral series of slight black spots. Fore

wing creamy white; a semicircular black mark at base of costa; a

small black spot at base of cell and subbasal spot below the cell; a

small black spot in cell, two bars above vein 1 and two above inner

margin before the black antemedial line, which forms a semicircular

mark at costa, then waved; orbicular represented by two small black

annuli with some fuscous suffusion beyond and below them; two

black discoidal striz; medial line black, obhque and angled out-

wards below costa and in lower extremity of cell, then inwardly

oblique and waved; postmedial line double black, waved, much

interrupted, with prominent black points on the veins, excurved

below costa, ineurved below vein 4 and excurved above imner

margin, some fuscous suffusion beyond it except towards costa and

a black point on costa; subterminal line black, waved, strong

towards costa and inner margin, interrupted between veins 3 and 2 ;

a curved black mark from costa before apex and black streaks on

the extremities of the veins; cilia chequered black and white.

Hind wing -vhite, the disk semihyaline ; an oblique black bar from

LICHNOPTERA. ool

vein 2 to tornus. Underside of fore wing with small antemedial,

medial, and postmedial black spots on costa; hind wing with black

discoidal spot and medial and subterminal points on costa.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the black lines interrupted and without

fuscous suffusion on medial and postmedial areas—Mexico.

2. Fore wing with the black markings stronger; hind wing with

the oblique black bar to tornus strong; terminal series of slight

black striz.

Hab. Mextco, Cuernavaca, Orizaba, in Coll. Rothschild ;

GuatrEemata (Sadler), 1 3, Guatemala City (Rodriguez),13,1 2,

Quiche Mts. (Champion), 1 9; Costa Rica (Van Patten), 1 3,

1 2, Candelaria Mts. (Underwood), 1 3, 1 2 type, Godman-

Salvin Coll., San José, Juan Vinas, Sitio, Asahar de Cartago ;

2 Cusa, Coll. Rothschild. Hap. 5 44, 9 64-76 millim.

8208. Lichnoptera cavillator. (Plate CCX XXV. figs.9¢,10 9.)

Diphtera cavillator, Wik. ix. 87 (1856), 3; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het.

i. p. 259.

Diphtera bivaria, Wk. ix. 39 (1856), 2.

Moma gracilis, Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 101, pl. iii. f. 1 (1900).

Lichnoptera felina, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 471 (part.).

3. Head and thorax creamy white ; antennez blackish and with

a black spot between their bases; palpi black above; tegule with

medial black bars; patagia with four black spots ; thorax with five

pairs of black spots ; tibiz and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen

white, the sides orange-yellow except towards extremity, dorsal and

sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing creamy white ; a semi-

circular black mark at base of costa, a small black spot at base of

cell and subbasal spot below the cell; small black spots in the cell

and above vein 1 and inner margin before the antemedial black line,

which forms a semicircular mark at costa and is double and waved

below the cell; orbicular represented by small black annuli in and

below the cell, some fuscous suffusion in and below it; reniform

more or less incompletely defined by black, angled inwards on

median nervure ; medial line black, forming a semicircular mark at

costa, obliquely ineurved to the reniform, then oblique and waved,

some fuscous irroration before it between submedian fold and

vein 1; postmedial line represented by a double series of small

black spots on the veins, shghtly bent outwards below costa and

incurved below vein 5, some slight dark lunules before it and some

fuscous in the interspaces between and beyond the spots, a black

point beyond it on costa; subterminal line black, incurved below

costa, excurved at vein 7, then waved, an incurved black mark from

costa before apex ; the extremities of the veins streaked with black,

connected by a line below vein 5; a terminal series of black strie ;

cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing whitish suffused with

fuscous black except the termen ; diffused dark medial and sub-

terminal lines; a black terminal line; cilia chequered black and

white ; the underside with the costal area white, the costal edge

B92 NOCTUID 2.

black, a medial black bar from costa, the subterminal band

indistinctly double.

Ab. 1. gracilis. Hind wing whiter, the inner half suffused with

blackish between the medial andl awbiemmcmel bands.

@. Abdomen with the dorsal area black, the crests black at base,

white at tips, the yellow at sides ending at 3rd segment, then the

sides black. Hind wing with fuscous suffusion in submedian

interspace except at base and termen, the bands broad and distinct.

Hab. Muxico, 1 3 type, Coatepee (Brooks), 1 3, Guerrero,

Amula (H. H. Smith), 1 9, Godman-Salvin Coll., Cuernavaca,

Guadalajara; ? Cotompra. Hap. 5, 42-48, 9, 68 millim.

Types + b¢varta and gracilis in Mus. Oxon, the locality “ India ”

for the latter is an error.

8209. Lichnoptera albidiscata. (Plate CCXXXV.

figs. 11 3, 12 9.)

Panthea albidiseata, Dogn. Hét. Nouv. Aim. Sud, vi. p. 14 (1912).

3. Head and thorax white tinged with yellow; antennze black

with a black spot between their bases ; palpi black, the extremities

ot Ist and 2nd joints white ; tegulee with some black at base and

black band near tips ; patagia with three oblique black bands ; pro-,

meso-, and metathorax with paired black spots ; pectus with brown

mixed; legs banded black and white ; abdomen black-brown with

some whitish at base, the anal tuft white with a black spot, the

ventral surface white with small brown spots on medial segments.

Fore wing white thickly irrorated with red-brown, the medial area

more suffuséd with red-brown except in submedian interspace ;

a small black spot at base of costa; a subbasal white striga

from costa defined at sides by blackish and small black spot below

the cell; antemedial line blackish defined on inner side by white,

waved, some blackish before and beyond it at costa; orbicular a

small black annulus with white centre; reniform a white lunule

obscurely defined by brown; a waved blackish medial line; the

terminal half of costa with alternating black and white marks ;

postmedial line blackish, waved, incurved below vein 4; subterminal

line whitish, defined on inner side by dentate Tplewele marks, large

above and below veins 6 and 2, and on outer side by a very slight

red-brown shade, oblique; a terminal series of triangular black

spots; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing cupreous

brown, the inner area darker, a faint dark subterminal shade with

the area beyond it paler except towards tornus ; cilia chequered

black and white except at tornus. Underside of fore wing with the

basal half suffused with brown, a brown postmedial shade, excurved

below costa and incurved below vein 4, some dentate subterminal

marks above middle and towards tornus ; hind wing with the costal

and terminal areas paler, a blackish bar from middle of costa and

curved postmedial and subterminal shades from costa to vein 2.

TLICHNOPTERA. 393

®. Abdomen pale yellow dorsally slightly tinged with brown ;

fore wing with the ie more distinctly defined by white, the

reniform a sinuous bar, more distinct white patches between the

postmedial and subterminal lines below costa and at middle and

the dentate dark marks before the latter reduced; hind wing pale

vellow, a diffused brown antemedial shade and a subterminal shade

with slightly waved outer edge; underside of both wings pale

yellow, hind wing with more distinct ante- and postmedial lines.

AN]Op dks Go Tone wing whiter and less suffused with red-brown, a

white streak in sultan fold; hind wing with whitish medial

and terminal bands. Coll. Rothschild.

Ab. 2. 9. Head, thorax, and fore wing with the ground-colour

yellower.

Hab. Cotompta, San Antonio (Fussl), type + d, Q in Coll.

Dognin, Popayan, 1d. Hxp. d 50, 2 70 millim.

8210. Lichnoptera rufitincta, n. sp. (Plate CCXXXYV. fig. 18.)

Panthea cavillator, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 253 (part.), nee W1k.

3. Head and thorax white, the dorsum of thorax tinged with

brown ; antennz brownish, a black bar between their bases ; palpi

black above ; tegulee with black line at base and band at middle ;

patagia with black spot at middle followed by two oblique bars and

a streak near outer edge; pro-, meso-, and metathorax with black

bands; tibize and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen fuscous brown,

some white at base, a whitish dorsal line and the extremity and

ventral surface white. Fore wing white, in parts irrorated and

suffused with red-brown ; two small subbasal black spots on costa

and spots below the cell and above vein 1; antemedial line double,

red-brown and blackish, strong and black towards costa, then the

inner line indistinct, waved ; orbicular a black annulus; the reni-

form defined by blackish except above, oblique and sinuous; medial

line blackish, oblique to lower angle of cell, then imwardly oblique

and waved, with red-brown sufftusion before it in the cell and

between submedian fold and vein 1, a black spot beyond it on costa ;

postmedial line double, blackish, oblique, the mner line dentate, Ae

outer reduced to points on the veins, some red-brown suffusion before

and beyond it; subterminal line blackish, crenulate, with somewhat

dentate brown marks on its inner side, excurved at vein 7, then

oblique ; a waved red-brown shade before termen ; a terminal series

of blackish lunules; cilia chequered blackish and white. Hind

wing white suffused with fuscous brown except the termen; cilia

chequered black-brown and white; the underside less strongly

suffused with brown, a faint dark mark from middle of costa and

diffused curved postmedial line.

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Prajillo, Hoege), 3 3 type, Godman-

Salvin Coll. Hyp. 50 millim.

B94 NOCTUID HD.

8211. Lichnoptera illudens. (Plate CCXXXV. figs. 149,15 2.)

Diphtera illudens, Wik. ix. 87 (1856); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i1-

p- 471; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 99.

Panthea pythion, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 259, pl. 26. f.6 (1889).

3S. Head and thorax white ; antenne black except at base and

with a black bar between their bases; palpi with black patches

on Ist and 2nd joints and the 8rd joint black ; tegule with black

bars at middle; patagia with black spots at base and middle and

two oblique bars towards tips; dorsum of thorax with four pairs of

black spots; tibie and tarsi banded with black; abdomen white

dorsally tinged with brown, a dorsal series of blackish spots and

sublateral series of small spots. ure wing white, in parts irrorated

and suffused with brown; a small black spot near base of costa, a

curved subbasal striga from costa and small spot below the cell ;

some blackish suffusion on costa before the double waved black-

brown antemedial line, the inner line interrupted in submedian

interspace; orbicular a small black-brown annulus ; reniform

defined by black-brown except above, narrow, irregular, confluent

with a minute white spot defined by black-brown on its inner edge ;

medial line black-brown, waved, oblique to lower angle of cell, then

inwardly oblique, some patches of brown suffusion before it; post-

medial line double, dark brown with two black spots at costa,

bent outwards below costa, then oblique and dentate, some brown

suffusion before and beyond it; subterminal line black-brown,

erenulate, oblique; a dentate brown shade before termen; a

terminal series of small blackish lunules defined by white; cilia

chequered blackish and white. Hind wing white with a faint

brownish tinge except at termen ; the underside with shght medial,

postmedial, and subterminal blackish marks on costa.

®. Thorax with the black marks slight and obsolescent; fore

wing irrorated and striated with brown, all the markings indistinct

and broken up, the medial and subterminal lines the most distinct,

the reniform a white lunule with brown suffusion before it.

Hab. U.S.A., Florida; Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 2;

Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 3 3,1 2 type pythion, Godman-

Salvin Coll., Cana Mines (Tylecote), 1 ¢; VENEZUELA, 2 9 type,

Merida. Eup. 3 48, 2 56-70 millim. 5

8212. Lichnoptera gulo. (Plate CCXXXV. figs. 16 5,17 9.)

Lichnoptera gulo, Herr.-Schiff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 529 (1850); Kirby,

Cat. Lep. Het. p. 213.

3S. Head and thorax sulphur-yellow; antennee dark brown with

a black bar between their bases; palpi black except in front and at

extremity of 2nd joint; frons black at sides; tegule black at base

and with black medial band; patagia with four black spots and the

shoulders with black spots; thorax with four pairs of black spots ;

tibie and tarsi banded with black; abdomen black-brown, the

LICHMNOPTERA. 395

extremity yellow, the ventral surface yellow with sublateral and

ventral series of blackish spots. Fore wing sulphur-yellow irrorated

with large black-brown scales especially in and below end of cell; a

small black spot at base of costa and subbasal spots on costa and

below the cell; antemedial line double, black, waved, indistinct and

interrupted except at costa and inner margin; orbicular a small

black annulus ; reniform a narrow yellow lunule obscurely defined

by black ; an indistinct oblique waved line from lower angle of cell

to inner margin; the terminal half of costa with alternating black

and whitish spots ; postmedial line very indistinct, double, oblique,

Fig. 100.—Lichnoptera gulo, 3. 3.

waved ; subterminal line defined on inner side by obscure dentate

blackish marks; a dentate dark shade before termen; a terminal

series of small black lunules defined by yellow; cilia chequered

black and yellow. Hind wing semihyaline whitish tinged with

brown, the inner area clothed with brown hair, the apical area and

terminal area except towards tornus paler; a faint brown subter-

minal line ending in a darker bar at tornus ; cilia chequered black

and white; the underside with diffused brown medial shade.

2. Abdomen yellow irrorated with black; fore wing with rather

less dark irroration, the subterminal line not defined on inner side

by blackish marks; hind wing uniform pale yellow, the cilia

chequered black and white at tips.

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa, Coll. Rothschild; Costa Rica, Juan

Vinas, Sitio (Schaus) ; ? ConomBia (Kalbreyer), 1 3; 1 @,

Bogota; VenEzuELA, Merida, Coll. Rothschild. Hzp. 3 50,

@ 70 millim.

*§213. Lichnoptera primulina: (Plate CCXXXV. fig. 18.)

Lichnoptera primulina, Dogn. Hét. Nouy. Am. Sud, vi. p. 15 (1912).

2. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale sulphur-yellow irrorated

with dark brown; palpi blackish at sides and tips; frons with

blackish bar above. Fore wing pale sulphur-yellow thickly irrorated

with large black-brown scales in the interspaces; a slight yellow

antemedial lne from submedian fold to inner margin, angled

inwards at vein 1; a small blackish spot in end of cell; a slight

396 NOCLUIDE.

yellow postmedial line, excurved below costa, then oblique and

waved; subterminal line yellow defined on inner side by dark marks

in the interspaces from below costa to vein 4 and towards inner

margin, excurved below vein 7, then oblique, and slightly bent out-

wards to inner margin ; a terminal series of dark lunules defined by

a waved yellow line; cilia black at tips in the interspaces. Hind

wing semihyaline yellowish white.

Hab. Cotompia, Monte Tolima (2ssl), type + @ in Coll.

Dognin, ¢ in Coll. Rothschild. Hxp. 3 50, 2 62 millim.

8214. Lichnoptera spissa. (Plate CCXXXV. fig. 19.)

Dipthera spissa, H. Edw. Ent. Am. iii. p. 92 (1887).

6. Head and thorax sulphur-yellow; antenne blackish; palpi

black at sides except in front; tegule with black band near tips;

patagia with black patch at base and three oblique bars towards

tips; prothorax with pair of black spots, the meso- and metathorax

with black patches ; a black streak below the wings, the tibize and

tarsi banded with black; abdomen black-brown, the ventral surface

pale yellow with subterminal series of small black spots. Fore

wing sulphur-yellow thickly irrorated with fuscous black; small

black spots at base of costa and vein 1; a sinuous subbasal striga

from costa and small spot below the cell; antemedial line double,

blackish filled in with yellow, waved, the outer line with black spot

at costa; orbicular a small black annulus with yellow centre;

renitorm a yellow lunule defined on inner side by black, a small

yellow spot before it and streak from it to the postmedial line; a

small black spot at middle of costa and waved line from cell to inner

margin; a yellow streak in submedian fold on medial area; post-

medial line yellow with small black spot at costa, strongly bent

outwards below costa and ineurved below vein 4, the costa beyond

it yellow with black points; subterminal line yellow, obliquely

downcurved from costa to vein 7, then oblique and forming shght

dentate yellow marks on its inner side; a terminal series of

triangular black spots defined by yellow; cilia chequered black and

yellow. Hind wing semihyaline whitish tinged with fuscous, the

inner area clothed with fuscous hair; cilia chequered white and

fuscous; the underside with medial and postmedial blackish marks

on costa. :

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa, 1 ¢; Peru, Carabaya, Limbani

(Ockenden), in Coll. Rothschild. Hep. 48 millim.

8215. Lichnoptera marmorifera. (Plate CCXXXYV. fig. 20.)

Diphtera marmorifera, Wik. xxxil. 612 (1865).

3g. Head and thorax white tinged with yellow ; antenne black;

palpi with black patch at side of 2nd joint; frons black at sides and

with black band mixed with white above ; tegulee with black band

mixed with white at middle; patagia with black patches at base

LICHNOPTERA. 397

and middle and black tips; prothorax with black patch, the meso-

and metathorax with paired oblique black bars; pectus white mixed

with blackish ; legs black, the tibize and tarsi with slight pale rings;

abdomen black with broad subdorsal fulvous yellow fasciz, the anal

tuft and ventral suface with white mixed. Fore wing white tinged

with yellow and almost entirely suffused with blackish except on

costal half to beyond the cell; a curved black streak from costa

near base to base of cell and a small spot on median nervure ;

antemedial line double, black filled in with whitish, waved, the

outer line with oblique black bar from costa, the inner line with

dentate mark.in cell; orbicular with strong black annulus, round ;

reniform defined by black, elliptical with small black spot in centre;

medial line black, waved, excurved at middle; postmedial lne

strong, double, black filled in with whitish, excurved from below

costa to vein 6, then waved, inecurved below vein 4, some small

black spots beyond it on costa; subterminal line yellowish white

defined on inner side by black, shghtly incurved to vein 6, then

somewhat dentate and more strongly angled inwards below vein 3 ;

a terminal series of triangular black spots defined by a waved

whitish line with a blackish band before it interrupted below veins

7 and 4:; cilia chequered black and yellowish white. Hind wing

semihyaline white with a slight black bar at tornus; the undeneide

with black discoidal spot, medial, postmedial, and subterminal bars

from costa, and the extremities of veins 7 to 2 streaked with black.

Hab. Cotompta (Marks), 1 3 type. Hxp. 46 millim.

*8216. Lichnoptera atrifrons. (Plate CCXXXV. fig. 21.)

Lichnoptera atrifrons, Dogn. Hét. Nouy. Am. Sud, vi. p. 16 (1912).

@. Head and thorax white ; antenne black except towards base

and with black band between their bases; frons irrorated with

blackish ; palpi black; tegulze with black band; patagia with black

spots at base and middle and black tips; pro-, meso-, and metathorax

with paired black spots; pectus black-brown; legs banded black

and white; abdomen black-brown irrorated with a few whitish

scales and with dorsal series of slight white spots, yellow lateral

streaks except towards extremity. Fore wing pure white; a black

spot at base of costa, a curved subbasal black striga from costa and

spot below the cell; antemedial area with an oblique sinuous

blackish band formed by spots in and below the cell and above and

below vein 1; antemedial line black, oblique towards costa, then

waved, some red-brown between it and the medial line above vein 1

and some striz above inner margin; orbicular a black annulus ;

reniform a small lunule defined by black, two black spots above it

on costa and an oblique waved line from it to inner margin; some

red-brown suffusion in end of cell and between veins 3 and 2 to the

subterminal line; two slight lines and a small black spot beyond

end of cell; a blackish patch on postmedial part of costal area with

some white points on costa, the postmedial line arising from it,

398 NOCTUID ®.

double, waved, oblique below vein 4, some reddish brown beyond a

at middle; subterminal line black, waved, strongly at veins 4, 3 ;

blackish patch on costal area before apex, and a somewhat ke

line before termen from vein 6 to tornus; a terminal series of black

lunules. Hind wing black-brown with slight whitish marks on

termen. Underside of both wings black-brown ; fore wing with a

series of small dentate white marks before termen.

Hab. Cotometa, San Antonio (Fuss/), type ¢ 2 in Coll. Dognin.

Hap. 54-64 millim.

*8217. Lichnoptera mestoides. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 12.)

Lichnoptera mestoides, Dogn. Hét. Nouv. Am. Sud, vi. p. 15 (1912).

®@. Head and thorax pure white; antenne black except towards

base, and with a black bar between their bases ; palpi black except

extremity of 2nd joint; tegulz with black band at middle; patagia

with black spots at base and middle ; pro-, meso-, and metathorax

with paired black spots ; pectus black-brown in front : legs banded

with black ; abdomen black-brown shghtly irrorated aie whitish,

lateral yellow streaks except towards ‘extremity. Fore wing pure

white; a black spot at base of costa; a subbasal black striga from

costa and small spot below the cell; the antemedial area with short

black streak below costa before the antemedial line, small spot in

cell, and obliquely placed spots above and below vein 1; antemedial

line black, oblique and sinuous to submedian fold, then incurved

and excurved above inner margin, the area between it and the

medial line filled in with red-brown below submedian fold ; orbicular

a black annulus; medial line black, angled outwards below costa

and lower angle of cell, then oblique, sinuous ; a small black spot

just beyond aie cell; the lower extremity of cell and the area

between veins 4 and 2 suffused with red-brown to beyond the post-

medial line, which is formed bya spot on costa, streak above vein 6,

spose above and below vein 5, then oblique, saved ineurved below

vein 2 and excurved below submedian fold, some red-brown marks

beyond it at middle and small black spots on costa; subterminal

line black, waved, interrupted, excurved below vein 7 and at

middle ; a black patch on costal area before apex and dentate marks

on veins 5 to 2; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing

fuscous brown, ne inner margin yellow except towards AEs «

some slight white marks on medial part of termen ; cilia with series

of white spots. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous

brown except the terminal area from below apex ; hind wing with

indistinct sinuous whitish postmedial band ending at tornus and

subterminal series of spots.

Hab. Perv, Carabaya, 8. Domingo, type + 2 in Coll. Dognin.

Exp. 58 millim.

LICHNOPTERA.—ELY DNODES. 399

8218. Lichnoptera mesta. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 13.)

Lichnoptera mesta, Hery.-Schaff. Aussereur. Sclimett. f. 580 (1850) ; Kirby,

Cat. Lep. Het. p. 2138.

@. Head and thorax white; antenne black with a black bar

between their bases; palpi black, the extremities of 2nd and 38rd

joints white; tegulze black at base and with black patches at

middle ; patagia with black patches at base and middle and black

tips; prothorax with black patch, metathorax with curved black

streaks ; pectus black; tibize and tarsi banded black and white ;

abdomen black irrorated with white and with lateral yellow streaks

except towards extremity. Hore wing white; a small black spot at

base of costa ; a curved black subbasal striga from costa connected

with a small spot on median nervure; the antemedial area with an

oblique black bar from costa and spots in cell and above vein 1 and

inner margin; antemedial line stronger at costa, slightly angled

outwards below costa, incurved below submedian fold and exeurved

above inner margin, the area between it and the medial line filled

in with purplish brown below submedian fold; orbicular with round

black annulus; reniform defined by black except above, its centie

with small elliptical black annulus ; medial line black, obsolescent

and purplish brown at middle, slightly bent outwards in the cell,

inecurved below vein 2 and excurved at vein 1, a small black spot

beyond it on costa; the area below end of cell suffused with

purple-brown ; postmedial line double, black, the inner line purple-

brown at middle and forming a small black patch below the costa,

the outer line forking at costa, obliquely exeurved from below costa

to vein 6, then dleniinte ineurved at discal fold and below vein 4,

sinuous below vein 2, the area between it and the subterminal line

suffused with purple- ‘brown except towards costa and inner margin ;

subterminal line black, oblique and sinuous from costa to vein 6,

then waved ; a series of rather dentate black marks before termen,

the mark below apex lunulate; cilia chequered black and white.

Hind wing uniform black-brown. Underside black-brown ; fore

wing with some white marks on postmedial part of costa and sub-

terminal and terminal series of white spots; hind wing with slight

white discoidal spot and slight mark formed. by white “scales before

termen.

3. Hind wing with the inner margin fringed with yellow hair.

Hab. Venezurna (Prittwitz), 1 2, g in Coll. Rothschild.

Hap. 3 44, 2 50-64 millim.

Genus ELYDNODES, nov.

Type, H. variegata.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and moderately sealed, the 38rd short, thickly scaled; frons smooth ;

eyes large, round ; antennz of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and

scales mixed, the metathorax with small paired crests, the patagia with long

spatulate scales at extremities ; tibis: moderately fr inged with hair; abdomen

without erests. Fore wing with the apex produced and falcate, the termen

excised to vein 4 where it is excuryed, then oblique to tornus; veins dand 5

400 NOCTUID A.

from near angle of cell: 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8

to form a long narrow areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell nearly

half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from

above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base

only.

8219. Elydnodes variegata.

Carea variegata, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 524.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale red-brown with some white on

vertex of head, tips of tegul, and sides of thorax. Fore wing

whitish amizneedl with pale Fete brown, the basal and costal area and

a patch at middle of terminal area browner; some pure white at

base of inner area; a chocolate-brown subbasal striga from costa

and small patch i and below the cell; antemedial line chocolate-

brown defined on inner side by whitish, “fnomnvedl from costa to near

inner margin, above which it runs outwards to near the postmedial

line ; om bnenlla a white point defined by rufous; reniform faintly

defined by rufous; postmedial line chocolate-brown and very oblique

from just beyond upper extremity of reniform to above vein 4,

Fie. 101.—-EHlydnodes variegata, 3. +.

defined below by a white fascia which extends to termen on vein 4,

the line then very indistinct, pale red-brown, very oblique and

waved to submedian fold, then bent outwards to inner margin; an

oblique bright rufous fascia from apex to the postmedial line defined

on inner side by white towards apex and crossed by slight white

streaks on the veins, a triangular yellowish patch below it defined

below by a rufous streak above the white fascia at vein 4; a

triangular yellowish mark on termen above tornus; terminal line

rufous towards apex, darker towards tornus ; cilia rufous intersected

with white at the veins. Hind wing pale yellow; dark points on

termen at veins 3 and 2. Underside of fore wing yellowish with

brown discoidal spot, oblique fascia from apex, and patch at

middle of terminal area; hind wing cchreous whitish.

Hab. W. Cuina, Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1 3 type, Kia-ting-fu,

19. Hap. 3 44, 2 46 millim.

SPECIES OMITTED.

Graphiphora lichenodes, Gres. Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 216;

Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 181. ? Trisulozdes ...... E. Siberia.

PHYTOMETRIN 2. 401.

Subfamily PHYTOMETRIN i.

Proboscis fully developed except in Episcmas palpi usually up-

turned, sometimes with tufts of hair on 2nd and 3rd joints, in

Episema porrect ; frons smooth, usually with large tuft of hair ;

eyes smooth, overhung by more or less developed “cilia, sometimes

small and elliptical ; antennze of male usually ciliated, rarely bipec-

tinate, or serrate; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed or

with hair only, the meso- and metathorax usually with large

divided crest ; tibize sometimes with large tufts of hair and the Ist

joint of tarsus sometimes with tuft of hair, the tibize typically not

spined but in some genera all the tibie or the hind tibi only are

spined; abdomen usually with dorsal crests on basal segments,

those on Ist and 8rd segments large, sometimes with ridges of hair

on basal segments, the males sometimes with large protrusible

lateral tufts towards extremity or base, the species sor this cha-

racter having usually a comb of long spines on inner side of Ist joint

of hind tarsi, apparently to assist in the protrusion of the tufts

which are probably scent organs for attracting the females. Fore

Fig. 102.—Larva of Phytometra yamma. 1.

wing usually triangular with the apex somewhat produced, the

termen usually evenly curved, but sometimes excised below apex

and excurved at middle, the tornus usually with more or less deve-

loped scale-tooth, the inner margin sometimes excised towards

tornus ; in Abr ostola and Mowralia there are small tufts of raised

scales on upperside in and below the cell; vein 1 @ weak, not anas-

tomosing with 1d; 1¢ absent; 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 1 a and 6 present ;

1 c absent; the cell about half the leneth of wing; veins 3 and 4

from angle ; ; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 6,7 from upper

angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

The Phytometring form a small, well characterised and very

natural subfamily except perhaps the genus Hpisema which is

somewhat aberrant.

The Larve are typically semiloopers with the 1st two pairs of

abdominal prolegs absent or in Abrostola small and non-functional,

but Hpisema has larvee with all the vrolegs fully developed and not

semiloopers.

YOu. XI. 2D

402 NOCTUID E.

PHYLOGENY OF THE PHYTOMETRIN®.

Caloplusia.

Autographa. Rachiplusia. Plusiopalpa.

}

Syngrapha. Chrysoptera. Hosphoropteryx. Psendeva. Plusidia.

Phytometra, Monralia.

Omorphina. Paleoplusia. Abrostola. Episema.

Key to the Genera.

A. Tibiz all spined.

Gy, Vyas SaoeNl, GUIMHEM Sesccadosospcostebcaascoos06e Canopuvsia, p. 405.

, LEWES TETARS, TROWUIG bh qaocensoobnsostooosaanan9eqoue5c008 Racurpiusia, p. 410.

B. Hind tibie only spined.

a. Hyes small, elliptical; fore wing without

scale-toothyat tonmisneceseecceeosencecseseross Avrograpma, p. 404.

b. Eyes large, round; fore wing with scale-

(KOON Atk, UOTMMUS. Cooooocecanonan.nncoodes oo6h00002000 Synerapma, p. 412.

©. Tibiz not spined.

a. Proboscis aborted, small........ epoenn apes estooes Erisema, p. 593.

b. Proboscis fully developed.

a, Fore wing with small tufts of raised scales

in and below the cell.

a. Pro- and metathorax with spreading

GREE ocososooscseoc002 0000000009 090D000000000¢ Movranra, p. 591,

2, Meso- and metathorax with large divided

CHEST aaa c cae tad eee ante ee eae eee ane Axsrostoua, p. 582.

1. Fore wing without tufts of raised scales

in and below the cell.

a2, Palpi with tuft of hair at extremity of

2nd joint behind, the 5rd joint fringed :

with hair in front and belind............ Puusiovawva, p. 437.

02, Palpi with the 8rd joint fringed with

hair in front.

a3, Palpi with the 3rd joint long; fore

wing with the termen typically

Gyemlhy GMIAVAG! décnecsecnccancasasnone000e CurysorTera, p. 439.

63, Palpi with the 3rd joint moderate;

fore wing with the termen excurved

below apex and excurved at middie... Psruprya, p. 447.

c*, Palpi with the 3rd joint not fringed with

hair.

a, Abdomen with large dorsal crests on

basal segments.

at, Patagia dilated with scales at ex-

EREGMTKY Soonogenndov00HpG0o0as90G0904000¢ Puusrp1, p. 450.

OMORPHINA. A403

U4. Patagia not dilated with scales at

extremity.

a. Fore wing with the inner margin

excised towards tornus............ Eosptrororreryx, p. 446.

v8, Fore wing with the inner margin

not excised towards tornus ..... Puyvrometra, p. 402.

63, Abdomen with ridges of hair on basal

segments, but without crests.

az. Eyes small, ellijtiecall 72-2. ..0+-2- Omorenina, p. 403.

b4, Byes large, round ...................- Pauorwusts, p. 981.

Genus OMORPHINA. Tye

Omorphina, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxvi. p. 452'(1892)...... aurantiaca.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd moderate ; frens smooth,

with tuft of hair; eyes rather small and elliptical, overhung by long cilia;

antenne of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair only and with-

out, crests; tibia fringed with rather long hair; abdomen dorsally clothed

with rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded,

the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle

of eell, 6 from upper angle, 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the

areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing ;

veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from

upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

8220. Omorphina aurantiaca.

Omorphina aurantiaca, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxvi. p. 452 (1892) ;

id. Rom. Mém. ix. p. 41, pl. i. f. 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 220.

Omorphina chrysostigma, Ping. Iris, xix. p. 223 (1906).

Head and thorax rufous; antenne grey; palpi grey mixed with

brown ; tarsi grey; abdomen dark grey-brown with some rufous

hair towards base of dorsum, the anal tuft rufous, the ventral

surface grey. Fore wing rufous slightly tinged with greyish, the

postmedial area somewhat paler; an indistinct brown antemedial

EZ NB

Fig. 103.—Omorphina aurantiaca, §. 4

line, incurved in cell; orbicular and reniform indistinctly defined

by brown, the former round, the latter narrow and elliptical ; post-

medial line indistinct, brown, excurved below costa, incurved at

diseal fold, ineurved below vein 4 and excurved below submedian

2D2

AOA NOCTUID 2.

fold; subterminal line brown, waved, excurved below vein 7 and at

middle. Hind wing orange- -yellow ; ; the base and inner area black-

brown ; a black-brown diseoidal lunule conjoined to the basal area ;

a eRSIOT black-brown terminal band; cilia black-brown at base,

yellow at tips. Underside of both wings orange-yellow with

narrow black-brown terminal band; fore wing with elliptical dis-

coidal spot; hind wing with discoidal point.

Ab. 1. chrysostigma. Fore wing with elongate yellow mark in

lower part of cell.

Ab. 2. Fore wing with the markings more distinct; hind wing

with the cilia deep red at base, pale red at tips.

Hab. Trpet, Kuku-noor, Amdo, Sining Alps, 1 d; Sikhim

(Tibet Hxp.),2 3,22. Hap. 22-28 millim. rs

Genus AUTOGRAPHA.

Type.

Halo Rea, anon, \WEWA, js ABIL (CUS) soasapocqnotoconasenoseaesanceese parilis.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about

vertex of head and fringed with rather long hair in front, the 3rd moderate;

frons smooth with large tuft of hair; eyes rather small and elliptical, over-

hung by long cilia; antenne of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair

and hair-like scales, the metathorax with divided crest; tibiae moderately

fringed with hair, the hind tibiz spined between the mid and terminal spurs

only; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments, the crests on Ist and

3rd segments large. Fore wing with the apex slightly produced, the termen

evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 5 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 cell about half the length of wing; veins

3, 4 frown angle; 5 fully developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper

angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

8221. Autographa parilis.

Noctua parilis, Hiiln. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 422 (1808); Dup. Lép. Fr.

Suppl. iv. p. 527, pl. 90. f. 6; Auriv. Bihang K. Svensk. Vet.-Akad.

Handl. xv. 4, i. p. 17, pl. i. f. 6; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 256 ;

Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 240.

Plusia quadriplaga, Wk. xii. 911 (1857).

Head, thorax, and abdomen purple-grey mixed with dark red-

brown, the tegule with whitish line at middle and whitish tips,

the patagia with whitish line near base; pectus, legs, and ventral

surface of abdomen red-brown slightly mixed with grey, the tarsi

slightly ringed with white; abdomen with the basal crest red-

brown tipped with white. Fore wing purplish grey sparsely

irrorated with black, the medial area below the cell very deep cho-

colate-brown ; a subbasal whitish striga from costa ; antemedial

line white, strongly incurved in cell, then shghtly excurved ;

orbicular indistinctly defined by whitish, rounded; an oblique

silvery-white Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its arm filled in

with purple-g orey ; veniam with slight white armen los its centre

defined by black: brown, strongly constricted at middle where

AUTOGRAPIA.—-CALOPLUSIA. 405

there is a small black-brown spot beyond it; postmedial line white

slightly defined by brown, excurved below costa, then obliquely

curved to lower angle of cell, then erect; subterminal line whitish

defined on inner side by brown suffusion, slightly excurved below

vein 7 and at middle, a brown shade beyond it from apex; a fine

brown terminal line; cilia whitish intersected with brown at the

veins. Hind wing grey-brown with a broad rather diffused white

Fig. 104.—Autographa parilis, §. +.

postmedial band from costa to vein 1, expanding on inner side to

the discocellulars, cilia white with a series of brown spots at base ;

the underside with the basal and terminal areas irrorated with grey,

a shght black discoidal lunule.

Hab. GREENLAND; GRINNELLAND, Hayes Sound (elden),

19; Fraw Is. (ILS. Investigator), 1 3, 12 type quadri-

plaga; Lasrapor, Zeller, Frey, and Grote Colls., 4 9; Canana,

Br. Columbia, Mt. Athabasca (M/s. Nicholl), 5 3, 2 9, Wilcox

Peak (Mis. Nicholl), 1 9; Laptanp (Crowe), Zeller, Frey, and

Leech Colls.; Centr. SwEDEN, Mountains; Frnuanp. Hap. 28-

32 millim.

Genus CALOPLUSIA. mee

Caloplusia, Smith, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soe. vi. p.68 (1884)... hochenvarthi.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about

vertex of head and fringed with rather long hair in front, the 8rd moderate ;

frons smooth with large tuft of hair; eyes rather small and elliptical, over-

hung by long cilia; antenne of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and

hair-like scales, the meso- and metathorax with divided crest ; tibiae moderately

fringed with hair, all the tibix spined; abdomen with dorsal series of crests,

the crests on Ist and 3rd segments large. Fore wing with the apex slightly

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 the cell half the length

of wing; veins 3,4 from angle; 5 fully developed from above angle; 6, 7

from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

A. Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly waved and

excuryed above inner margin.

@, elingl wwiing ClOS|D. CRERNEE “Socsnnsocqs0s090 008600. codondnodasossns06de virgula.

Omprinnidawines pale velo ceeeeaatae re arecn cease ce ens devergens.

B. Fore wing with the postmedial line not waved or excurved

above inner margin.

a. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell oblique V-shaped. al¢icola

405 NOCTUID.

b. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell Y-shaped.

a, Size smaller; fore wing with the stigma more acute

at extremity ; hind wing pale orange-yellow............ hochenvarthi.

b1. Size larger; fore wing with the stigma below the cell

more rounded at extremity ; hind wing deeper orange-

yellow

8222. Caloplusia virgula. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 1.)

Plusia virgulz, Blanch. Gay’s Chile, Zool. vii. p. 84 (1852).

Piusia certa, W\k. xii. 920 (1857).

Triphena signata, Phil. Linn. Ent. xiv. p. 293 (1860).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey, the tegule with

dark lines near base and at middle and whitish tips, the patagia

with dark lines at middle and near tips defined behind by white ;

tarsi ringed with white; abdomen rufous irrorated with brown.

Fore wing grey suffused with red-brown and slightly irrorated with

black; subbasal line white defined at sides by red-brown and

black, waved, from costa to vein 1, two short black streaks beyond it

below the cell; antemedial line whitish defined at sides by brown

and by black towards inner margin, angled outwards below costa,

then strongly bent inwards, excurved above vein 1, a slight black

streak before it below costa; orbicular with white annulus and its

centre slightly defined by black, narrow, oblique; a silvery-white

Y-shaped stigma defined by black below the cell, its tail short,

bent outwards and somewhat dilated; reniform with slight white

annulus defined by black at sides and its centre partly defined by

black, constricted at middle; a faint dark medial line, oblique to

lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique; postmedial line double,

red-brown filled in with whitish and defined on outer side by

white, some black on its inner edge at vein 3 and on both sides at

inner margin; excurved below costa, then oblique and minutely

waved, somewhat excurved at middle, some white points beyond

it on costa ; subterminal line black defined on outer side by white

towards inner margin, angled inwards at veins 5 and 2, excurved

below vein 7 and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3; a fine

white line before termen; cilia chequered red-brown and whitish.

Hind wing deep orange; the base with short dark streaks on the

veins; a terminal black-brown band with slightly waved inner

edge ; cilia brown at base, chequered brown and whitish at tips.

Underside orange, the costal areas tinged and irrorated with red-

brown, the terminal areas suffused with red-brown ; fore wing with

black discoidal striga.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma reduced to a V-mark.

Hab. Curt (Cuming, Edmonds), 3 Q type certa, Coquimbo

(J. J. Walker), 2 2, Taleahuano (J. J. Walker), 135,192,

Mulchen (Elwes), 35,1¢, Chilan (Hlwes),19. Hap. 28-30

millim.

Larva. Yzquierdo, Notas, Lep. Chile, 1895, p. 80 (1896).

CALOPLUSLA. 407

8223. Caloplusia devergens.

Noctua devergens, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 500-1 (1818) ; Dup. Lép.

Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 492, pl. 42. f. 3; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 240.

Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey; tegule with

grey line at middle and grey tips; patagia with grey bar at middle

and grey tips; abdomen “dark brown, the crests ‘tipped with grey.

Fore wing grey tinged with reddish brown and. irrorated with

dark brown, the medial area below the cell suffused with dark

brown ; Sues line whitish defined at sides by dark brown,

waved, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line whitish defined at

sides by dark brown, curved, incurved in cell; orbicular with

whitish annulus and its centre defined by dark brown, small,

oblique elliptical; an oblique white Y-shaped stigma below the

cell; reniform with whitish annulus and dark brown marks in its

upper extremity and lower part, constricted at middle and with

dark brown marks before and beyond it; postmedial line white

defined at sides by dark brown, slightly waved, excurved to vein 5,

then oblique, some minute white points beyond it on costa; sub-

terminal line dark brown defined on outer side by whitish, slightly

waved, excurved below veins 7 and 6 and angled outwards below

veins 4 and 3; a fine white line just before termen from apex to

vein 2; cilia chequered brown and grey. Hind wing orange-

yellow; the base and inner margin dark brown; a slight brown

discoidal bar; traces of a postmedial series of CSET points on the

veins usually present; a black-brown terminal band, its inner

edge incurved at vein 2; cilia dark brown at base, chequered

brown and white at tips. Underside yellow, the fore wing and

costal area of hind wing slightly irror ated with brown, the terminal

areas suifused with brown ; “fore wing with small brown discoidal

spot, the hind wing with discoidal striga.

Hab. 2 LABRADOR; SwitzerLanpD, Zeller, Frey, and Leech

Colls., Engadine, Frey Coll.; Lapnanp, Leech Coll.; W. TURKESTAN,

Kisil-Art, Ala Tau, Pamis. ap. 32 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 272; Hffm. Raup. p. 136.

Dark violet with pale grey lateral lines. Food-plants: Silene

acaulis, Viola, Geum. 7-8.

8224. Caloplusia alticola. (Plate CCXXXVL. fig. 2.)

Plusia alticola, Wk. xii. 912 (1857) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 288.

Head, thorax, and abdomen dark reddish brown mixed with grey.

Fore wing grey suffused with red-brown and slightly irrorated “with

black, the medial area below the cell deep =n brown: subbasal

line oreyish defined on each side by dark brown, curved, from

costa Ss submedian fold; antemedial line orey defined on each

side by dark brown, strongly incurved in a: then excurved ;

orbicular with whitish annulus and its centre Seine! by Blacks

small, oblique elliptical; a small narrow oblique V-shaped silvery-

408 NOCTUID SE.

white stigma below the cell; reniform with slight whitish annulus

and slight black marks in its extremities, constricted at middle

where there is a small black spot beyond it; postmedial line

whitish defined on each side by dark brown, excurved to vein 4,

then incurved, some whitish beyond it and some white points on

costa; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by dark

brown, excurved below vein 7, angled outwards below vein 4 and

slightly excurved below vein 38; a dark brown line just before

termen from costa to vein 2 and a fine lunulate terminal line; cilia

grey chequered with brown and with slight brown line near base.

Hind wing orange-yellow, the basal, inner, and terminal areas dark

reddish brown; cilia grey chequered with brown and with brown

line near base. Underside of both wings orange-yellow, the fore

wing and costal and inner areas of hind wing irrorated with brown,

the terminal areas brown, slight discoidal lunules, and a postmedial

line extending on fore wing to vein 2, on hind wing on costal area

only.

Hab. Canapa, Alberta, Rocky Mts. (Lord Derby), 13 type,

Kiking Horse Pass, Mt. Hector (Ids. Nicholl), 1 3 , Br. Columbia,

Mt. Assiniboine (77s. Nicholl), 12, Wileox Pass (rs. Nicholl),

23, Brobokton Creek (Mrs. Nicholl), 13, Brazeau Creek

(Mrs. Nicholl), 19. Exp. 28-380 millim.

8225. Caloplusia hochenvarthi.

Phalena hochenwarthi, Hochenw. Schrift. Berl. Ges. Naturf. Freunde, vi.

p. 837, pl. 7. f. 2 (1785); Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 179. f.3; Smith, Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 258; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 239.

Noctua divergens, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 162 (1737); Hiibn. Hur. Schmett.,

Noct. f. 286 (1802) ; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. 2, p. 56, pl. 138. f.3; Meig. Syst.

Besch. iii. p. 259, pl. 122. f. 12.

Plusia tibetana, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 829 (1895).

Plusia alaica, Galyagni, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, lvi. p. 82 (1906).

Head and thorax bright red-brown slightly mixed with grey ;

tegulee and patagia with shght whitish medial line and whitish tips ;

pectus, legs, and abdomen grey-brown, the last with the crests

bright rufous with grey tips, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing

erey suffused with bright rufous and slightly irrorated with dark

brown, the inner medial area deep rufous; subbasal line whitish,

from costa to vein]; antemedial line silvery-whitish, angled

outwards below costa, strongly imcurved in cell, then obliquely

curved; orbicular with slight whitish annulus, small, oblique

elliptical; an oblique silvery-white Y-shaped stigma below the

cell; reniform with slight silvery-white annulus and minute black

spots in its extreinities, constricted at middle where there is a black

spot beyond it; postmedial line double, red-brown filled im with

whitish, excurved below costa and incurved below vein 4; sub-

terminal line dark red-brown defined on inner side by red-brown

suffusion, excurved below vein 7, excurved and slightly waved at

middle; a curved red-brown line before termen, the termen bluish

grey with a fine red-brown terminal line; cilia with a maculate

CALOPLUSIA. 409

brown line near base. Hind wing orange-vellow, the base and

inner margin red-brown; a dark brown terminal band ; cilia brown

at base, chequered brown and whitish at tips. Underside orange-

yellow, the fore wing and costal area of hind wing irrorated with

Fig. 105.—Caloplusia hochenvarthi, $. 4.

brown, the terminal areas suffused with brown; fore wing with

dark discoidal lunule, postmedial line excurved beyond the cell, and

subterminal shade; hind wing with dark discoidal striga.

- Ab. 1. tibetana. Larger.

Ab. 2. alaica. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell smaller ;

hind wing tinged with deep orange.

Hab. Lapravor, 1 9, Zeller Coll.; U.S.A., New Hampshire,

White Mts.; Swirzprianp, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.,

Engadine, Frey Coll.; Grexcr, Leech Coll.; Scanprnavtia,

Finmark (Hampson), Lapland, Zeller and Leech Colls. ;

ARMENIA; W. Turxestan, Ferghana, Issyk-Kul, Ala Tau,

Tarbagatai; W. Srperia, Altai; HE. Turkestan, Thian Shin Mts. ;

Trzet, Amdo; E. Srperta, Amurland, 2¢; Kasumrr, Skora-la

(Leech), 3 9, Kardong (McArthur), 1 $, 3 9, Rupshu, Taga-

lung-la (Avinof’), 1 9, Nubra Valley, Shayok R. (Avinof/), 13,

Panomik (Avinof?), 2 9. Hap. 26-34 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 272; Hffin. Raup. p. 135.

teddish brown with yellowish lines on the back and sides with

indistinct waved lines between them. TF ood-plants, low growing

Umbellifere. 7.

8226. Caloplusia ignea. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 3.)

Plusia tgnea, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 274 (1863); Smith, Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 258.

Head and thorax bright red-brown mixed with some grey, the

tegule and patagia with grey lines at middle and grey tips, the

metathoracic crest tipped with grey; palpi, pectus, legs, and

abdomen grey mixed with brown, the last with the crests red-

410 NOCTUID &.

brown. Fore wing grey suffused with red-brown and slightly

irrorated with blackish, the medial area below the cell deep red-

brown; subbasal line louie, whitish, waved, from costa to vein 1;

anternedial line whitish, strongly saeuret in the cell, then

obliquely curved; orbicular w ith shght whitish annulus, small,

oblique elliptical ; an oblique silvery- white Y- shaped stigma below

the cell; memes with slight whitish annulus, Coneener at

middle where there isa black- brown spot beyond it; postmedial

line double, red-brown filled in with whitish, SxGmETal. below costa

and oblique below vein 5; subterminal line ‘dark brown, excurved

below vein 7 and shghtly below veins 4 and 3; a curved rete brown

line before termen with the area beyond it ohne erey. Hind

wing orange-yellow, the base and inner margin red-brown; a

Jouning ade brown band; cilia brown at nee, chequered ae

and white at tips. Underside orange-yellow, the costal areas

irrorated with brown, the inner area of fore wing and terminal area

of both wings suffused with brown; fore wing with brown

discoidal lunule and indistinct postmedial line excurved beyond

the cell.

Hab. Canava, Alberta, Calgary (Wolley-Dod), 23; U.S.A.,

Utah (Bar nes) Ai Cio Ik, Colorse. snc), Ig, I g, South

Park (Oslar), 2 3, Pehe’s Peak, 2 9, Hall Valley, New Mexico,

Jaos, 1 ¢, Truckas Peak (Cockerell), 13,192. Hxp. 34-36 millim.

Genus RACHIPLUSIA, nov.

Type, R. nu.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about

vertex of head and fringed with rather long hair in front, the 3rd rather long ;

frons smooth with large tuft of hair; eyes large, round, overhung by long cilia ;

antennx of male minutely ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like

scales, the meso- and metathorax with large divided crest ; tibia fringed with

rather long hair, all the tibiz spined; abdomen with dorsal series of crests,

the crests on Ist and 3rd segments large. Fore wing with the apex rounded,

the termen evenly curved and slightly ‘crenulate, the tornus with scale- tooth ;

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 the cell

about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from

above angle; 6, 7 ‘from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base

only.

A. Fore wing with the stigma Y-shaped, or U-shaped with a spot

beyond it ; hind wing tinged with cupreous red .................. NU.

B. Fore wing with the stigma U-shaped without spot beyond it;

hind wing not red .............. Ponsa BOBaG aNpandceduandae Seapoddeddnsaqcocs pedalis.

8227. Rachiplusia nu.

Plusia nu, Guen. Noct. li. p. 547 (1852).

Plusia depauperata, Blanch. Gay’s Chile, Zool. vii. p. 85 (1852).

Plusia detrusa, Wik. xii. $18 (1857).

Plusia fumifera, Wik. xii. 919 (1857).

Plusia atrata, Giacom. Amn. Soc. Arg. Ixxil. p. 38 (1911).

Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with whitish, the

tegule with slight dark medial line; abdomen. pale rufous. Fore

RACHIPLUSIA. 411

wing greyish suffused with red-brown with a golden cupreous gloss,

the medial area with a darker patch below the cell; subbasal line

represented by two faint brown strize from costa and a curved

blackish mark below the celi; antemedial line indistinct, double,

red-brown, excurved above vein 1; orbicular indistinctly defined

by whitish except above, oblique and rather quadrate ; an oblique

silvery Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its tail hardly dilated ;

reniform with indistinct pale outline with slight brown marks

beyond it and in its lower part, constricted at middle; an oblique

brown shade from costa to lower angle of cell and traces of an

oblique sinuous line on inner area; postmedial line indistinct,

double, red-brown, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and

minutely waved, somewhat angled inwards at vein 2, some whitish

points beyond it on costa; subterminal line dark with an oblique

cupreous brown shade from apex to it at vein 7 then defining its

inner side, the line bent outwards at vein 7, angled inwards at

discal fold and excurved below veins 4and 3; a terminal series

of brown striz ; cilia intersected with brown at the veins. Hind

wing whitish suffused with cupreous red-brown, the terminal area

cupreous red-brown ; cilia whitish with a red-brown line near base.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma consisting of a U-shaped mark

with spot beyond its lower extremity, sometimes much reduced.

Ab. 2. atrata. Fore wing nearly uniformly suffused with

blackish.

Hab. Paracuay, Sapucay (Foster), 19; Urueuay (Darwin),

1 ¢ type detrusa; Argentina, Goya (Perrins), 2 9, Buenos

Ayres (O. Thomas, Wilkinson), 13,39, Rioja (Giacomelli), 1 3;

Cuitt (Cuming, Edmonds), 2 $ type fumifera, Callao (J. J.

Walker), 1 3, Coquimbo (J. J. Walker), 5 3, Chillan (Hlwes),

12. Hxp. 30-86 millim.

Larva. Izquierdo, Notas, Lep. Chile, 1895, p. 47 (1896).

Food-plant, Exzgeron.

412 NOCTUIDE.

8228. Rachiplusia pedalis. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 4.)

Plusia pedalis, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 204 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 252. ;

®. Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with grey; tarsi

ringed with white. Fore wing brown mixed with grey, shghtly

irrorated with black and with a golden gloss; subbasal line dark

brown defined on outer side by whitish, sinuous, from costa to

submedian fold; antemedial line indistinctly double, brown filled in

with whitish, excurved below costa and above vein 1; an oblique

U-shaped silvery stigma defined by blackish below the cell; reniform

faintly defined by whitish, very narrow and strongly constricted at

middle, with slight blackish points in its extremities ; postmedial

line brown defined on each side by whitish, bent outwards below

costa, then minutely waved and oblique, shghtly angled inwards at

vein 2, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line

brown defined on outer side by whitish, slightly angled outwards at

veins 7, 6 and below veins 4, 3, ending at tornus; a terminal series

of small brown lunules detined by a waved whitish line; cilia

chequered brown and whitish. Hind wing brown; cilia white with

a brown line near base; the underside tinged with grey and with an

indistinet postmedial line.

Hab. U.S.A., Kansas, 1 2 type. Hyxp. 42 millim.

Genus SYNGRAPHA.

Somaraaves Valilleyae WENA, jos AO) (WPAN) carcosonacacsonen Gacessemoaacueecuse% ain.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the Ond joint reaching to about

vertex of head and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 8rd moderate ;

frons smooth, with large tuft of hair ; eyes large, round; antenne: of male

ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the metathorax with

large divided crest; tibise slightly fringed with hair, the hind tibiz spined

between the medial and terminal spurs only; abdomen with dorsal crests on

basal segments, the crests on Ist and 3rd segments large. Fore wing typically

with the apex hardly produced, the termen obliquely curved, “crenulate,

the tornus with scale-tooth, veins 8 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from

upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell.

Hind wing with the cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4from ‘angle ; ; 9 fully

dey eloped | from just above angle; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with

the cell near base only.

Sucr. I. Fore wing with the apex not produced, the termen not excised below

it.

A. Hind wing yellow.

a. Fore wing with the stignia below the cell oblique

A eared, rarely V-shaped.

. Fore wing with the subterminal line angled out-

wards below veins 4 and 3..cccceccscsecsescessseeences ain.

o1, Fore wing with the subterminal line slightly

SALI SEA OOK TEMS) 42 BING! 8} Sao ncconeceoane Sansone microgamma.

b. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell U-shaped,

sometimes with a streak beyond its lower extremity.

SYNGRAPHA.

a. Fore wing with the postmedial line not excurved

below submedian fold and without yellow beyond

it at tornus,

a2. Fore wing with the medial area below the cell

darkschocolabe-orowmntereeeeceteecteeescrenecer

22, Fore wing with the medial area below the cell

deep rufous except towards inner margin ......

1, Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved belcw

submedian fold and with some yellow beyond it at

tornus.

a®, Fore wing with the orbicular absent, the U-shaped

stigma somewhat pointed below ..................

62, Fore wing with the orbicular present, the

U-shaped stigma rounded below ..................

B. Hind wing not yellow. !

a. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell y-shaped.

a, Fore wing with the stigma narrow, its tail broad

1, Fore wing with the stigma narrow, its tail short and

FOOIUIES Us Grodaavatas nde snonsanoobaansaneucecodadaonesdacnsouon

«1, Fore wing with the stigma broad, its tail lobed......

d), Fore wing with the stigma broad, its tail slender .

Fore wing with the stigma below the cell irregular,

erect V- or U-shaped, often with a spot beyond it or

attached to its outer edge.

a, Fore wing with the stigma greenish silvery.

a, Fore wing with the V-shaped stigma irregular,

the medial area below the cell concolorous......

b2. Fore wiug with the W-shaped stigma more

regular, the medial area below the cell darker ,

1, Fore wing with the stigma not greenish silvery.

a*, Fore wing with the terminal area more or less

suffused with silvery-white.

a3, Fore wing with the orbicular entirely or

almost entirely filled in with silvery-white ...

3. Fore wing with the orbicular not filled in with

silvery-white.

a4, Fore wing with claw-shaped projection from

middle of the outer edge of the stigma

4, Fore wing with spot beyond the stigma

22, Fore wing with the terminal area not suffused

with silvery-white.

a’. Fore wing with the medial area below the

cell concolorous.

a’, Hind wing reddish ochreous more or less

suffused with brown at base and with the

termimal area dark brown.

a5, Fore wing with the stigma below the cell

broad irregular U-shaped.

a®, Fore wing with the stigma silvery-

WIAII® soaocecavacdcoasandscosoqudsudnnoa9s000

8. Fore wing with the stigma golden......

05, Fore wing with the stigma below the cell

narrow and more V-shaped.

as, Fore wing with the lower extremity of

the stigma bent outwards ...............

6, Fore wing with the lower extremity of

the stigma bent inwards.................-

}4, Hind wing with the basal half dark brown

with a narrow reddish ochreous band

between it and the dark terminal area......

413

orophila.

diasema.

saecent.

snore.

Jalcifera.

sinuplicissima,

speciosa.

epigea.

sclecta.

celsa.

rectangula.

alias.

u-aurewm.

octoscripta.

arctica.

excelsa.

angulidens.

pyrenaica,

AIA NOCTUID.E.

5, Fore wing with the medial area below the cell

deep chocolate-brown.

a‘, Fore wing with the stigma below the cell

narrow and V-shaped.

a’, Fore wing with the postmedial area

suffused with dark brown .............+... altera.

65. Fore wing with the postmedial area

not suffused with dark brown ...... w... U-alba,

b'. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell

broadvaridgVestaped seen -tseseste seer scence: surend.

c} Fore wing with the stigma below the cell

broad and more U-shaped .............02-..00+ interrogattonts.

c. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell oblique

V-shaped.

a, Fore wing with the stigma narrow...............0.+0. grenlandica.

1. Fore wing with the stigma broad ..................... circwmflexa.

8229. Syngrapha ain.

Noctua ain, Hochenw. Schrift. Berl. Ges. Naturf. Freunde, vi. p. 337,

pl. vii. f. 8 (1785); Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 179, f. 4 (1794); Hibn. Eur.

Schmett., Noct. f. 290 (1802); Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. 2, p. 53, pl. 138. f. 1;

Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 289.

Head and thorax purple-grey mixed with dark brown; tegule

with two dark lines towards tips which are white; patagia with

two whitish bars; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown,

the crests black tipped with white. Fore wing purple-grey suffused

in parts with brown and irrorated with black, the medial area with

some deep brown suffusion below the cell; subbasal line double,

Fig. 107.—Syngrapha ain, S.

rales

black-brown filled in with white, waved, from costa to vein 1;

antemedial line double, black-brown filled in with silvery-white,

excurved below costa, incurved in cell, then oblique and sinuous ;

orbicular with brown centre and whitish annulus, oblique, elliptical ;

an oblique silvery-white Y-shaped stigma below the cell; reniform

SYNGRAPILA. A415

with slight white annulus defined at sides by black-brown and its

centre defined by black-brown, constricted at middle; a dark brown

medial shade, oblique to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ;

postmedial line double, dark-brown filled in with silver v- -white, bent

outwards below costa, oblique and sinuous below vein 6, some white

points with dark streaks between them beyond it on costa ;

subterminal line black-brown defined on inner side by brown

suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards below veins 4

and 3; a waved dark terminal line defined on inner side by whitish ;

eilia chequered brown and grey. Hind wing yellow, the basal sind

inner areas suffused with brown, the sernmninell area dark brown ;

cilia chequered white and brown; the underside with the basal and

costal areas irrorated with brown, a slight brown discoidal lunule

and curved postmedial line.

Hab. Germany, Alps, Zeller Coll.; Austria, Carinthia, Zeller

Coll.; Htuneary; SwirzerLann, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ;

N. Ivary, Courmayeur (Hampson) ; W. Turkestan, Tarbagatai

Mts.; W. Srpertra, Altai; E. Stperta, Dahuria, Amurland, 1 ¢,

192. Hap. 34-42 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 272; Hffm. Raup. p. 185.

Green with fine yellow longitudinal lines. Food-plant, Larch.

4-5.

8230. Syngrapha microgamma.

Noctua microgamma, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 698-9 (1823); Dup.

Lép. Fr. vii. 2, p. 55, pl. 138. f. 2; Staud., Cat. Lep. pal. p. 239.

Plusia incompleta, Reuter, Act. Fauna Flora Fenn. ix. p. 59 (1893).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey; tegule whitish at

tips, the patagia with oblique whitish line at middle and whitish

tips, the thoracie crest whitish at tips; tarsi ringed with white;

abdomen grey-brown, the crests dark brown tipped with white. Fore

wing pur ple- orey slightly irrorated with black, the medial area

below the cell and the terminal area suffused eittln cupreous red-

brown; subbasal line double, blackish filled in with white, excurved

below costa and ending at vem 1; antemedial line blackish defined

on inner side by silvery- white, excurved below costa, strongly

incurved in cell, then oblique and sinuous; orbicular with faint

whitish annulus, oblique elliptical ; an oblique silvery-white ¥-shaped

stigma below the cell, its tail dilated into a spot; reniform with

slight silvery annulus defined on inner side by black, its centre with

some black at extremities, constricted at middle where there is a

black spot beyond it; postmedial line double, red-brown, filled in

with silvery-whitish towards inner margin, bent outwards below

costa, then minutely waved to vein 5, then slightly incurved and

sinuous, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line

brown, excurved below vein 7 and slightly below veins 4 and 3; a

brown. terminal line defined on inner side by a fine grey line; cilia

chequered greyish and brown. Hind wing yellow, the base and

inner margin suffused with brown, the Jemma area dark red-brown,

416 NOCTUID.

cilia brown at base, chequered white and brown at tips; the

underside with tbe costal and terminal areas suffused with red-brown,

a slight discoidal lunule.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma V-shaped.

Hab. N.K. Germany; Ausrria, Tirol; Scanpinavia, Lap-

land, Leech Coll.; Finnanp, Leech Coll.; Russta, Livonia, Zeller

Coll., St. Petersburg, Zeller , Frey, & Leech Cols, - ? BatKan STATES.

Hap. 30-382 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 272; Hffm. Raup. p. 299.

Violet Slightly irrorated with white, and with yellow lateral line.

Food-plant, Salix. 4-5.

8231. Syngrapha orophila. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 5.)

Autographa diasema, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pl. viii. f. 6 (nee

Boisd.).

Plusia orophila, Ampsn. Can. Ent. xl. p. 105 (1908).

Head and thorax blue-grey mixed with brown; tarsi dark brown

ringed with white; abdomen grey dorsally suffused with brown,

ventrally irrorated with brown. Fore wing blue-grey slightly

irrorated with black, the medial area below the cell very deep

chocolate-brown ; subbasal line slight, blackish, sinuous, from costa

to vein 1; antemedial line blackish defined on inner side by whitish,

excurved below costa, incurved in cell, then obliquely curved;

orbicular with very slight whitish annulus and its centre faintly

defined by brown above ; a large U-shaped silvery-white stigma

filled in with grey below the cell ; reniform with slight silvery-

white annulus defined at sides by black-brown and its centre defined

by black-brown, constricted at middle; postmedial line double,

dark brown filled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa and

incurved below discal fold; the terminal area tinged with brown

except towards tornus; a slight minutely waved brown subterminal

line defined on outer side by grey and slightly excurved below veins

7 and 6; a terminal series of slight dark lunules defined on inner

side by whitish. Hind wing yellow, the basal and inner areas

irrorated with brown, the terminal area dark brown; cilia white

with a brown line through them; the underside yellow, the costal

area irrorated with red- norm, the terminal area suffused with red-

brown, a shght discoidal eal!

Hab. Canana, Br. Columbia, Brobokton Creek (rs. Nicholl),

7 3, 1 @ type; U.S.A., Washington Forest Reserve, Harly

Winter Creek (dfs. Nicholl), 1 3. Hap. 84-40 millim.

8232. Syngrapha diasema. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 6.)

Plusia diasema, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 93 (1829); Herr.-Schaff. Eur.

Schmett., Noct. f, 597; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am, p- 256; Staud. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 239.

Plusia borea, Auviv. Bihang K. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. xv. 4. i. p. 17,

yok, ae 3k, (1890).

Head and thorax grey mixed with dark red-brown; tarsi dark

brown ringed with white; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the

SYNGRAPHA. A417

erests black-brown tipped with grey. Fore wing blue-grey striated

with black-brown, the medial area below the cell deep rufous except

towards inner margin; subbasal line black-brown defined on outer

side by whitish, sinuous, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line

black-brown defined on inner side by whitish, excurved below costa,

incurved in cell, then obliquely curved and slightly incurved at vein

1; orbicular with shght whitish annulus and its centre defined by

red-brown, oblique elliptical; an oblique silvery-white U-shaped

stigma below the cell, filled in with grey and its inner arm running

inwards almost to the antemedial line; reniform with slight

whitish annulus defined on inner side by black-brown and its centre

defined by brown, somewhat constricted at middle where there is a

black-brown spot beyond it; postmedial line double, brown filled in

with whitish, bent outwards below costa and incurved below discal

fold, some white points beyond it on costa; the terminal area

slightly tinged with red-brown; a faint waved grey subterminal

line; a series of minute whitish lunules just before termen. Hind

wing yellow, the basal and inner areas suffused with red-brown,

the terminal area deep cupreous red-brown ; cilia white witha brown

line near base; the underside yellow irrorated with red-brown, the

terminal area suffused with red-brown, a brown discoidal lunule.

Ab. 1. borea. Smaller; fore wing with white point beyond the

stigma; hind wing yellower.

Ab. 2. Fore wing with the stigma Y-shaped with a narrow tail.

Hab. GREENLAND; Laprapor; Canapa, Hudson’s Bay, Albany

R., St. Martin’s Falls (Barnston), 1 3, 1 92; Scanpinavia,

Mountains, Lapland, Leech Coll., Kusamo, Zeller Coll. ; Fintann ;

EH. Turkestan, Thian Shan Mts.; HE. Srperta, Dahuria, Amurland.

Exp. 38-42 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 272; Hifm. Raup. p. 135.

Green with fine whitish longitudinal lines. Food-plant, Betu/a.

8233. Syngrapha sacceni. (Plate CCXXXVLI. fig. 7.)

Plusia sackenii, Grote, Can. Ent. ix. p. 156 (1872); Ottolengui, J. N.Y.

Ent, Soe. x. pl. viii. f. 17; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 257.

2. Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with grey ; tegule

with black band before the tips which are white; patagia white at

tips; tarsi rmged with white; abdomen grey-brown, the crests

black towards the tips which are white. Fore wing purplish grey

suffused with red-brown and slightly iwrorated with black; the

medial area below the cell deep chocolate-brown ; subbasal line

slight, black, angled outwards below costa and ending at vein 1;

antemedial line black defined on inner side by silvery-white, angled

outwards below costa, incurved in cell, then oblique and sinuous ;

orbicular absent; an oblique silvery-white U-shaped stigma filled in

with grey below the cell, its imner arm extending along median

nervure almost to the antemedial line, a short streak beyond its

lower extremity; reniform with slight silvery annulus defined by

VOL. XII. 2E

418 NOCTUID®.

black-brown and with its centre defined by black-brown, oblique

bar-shaped ; postmedial line silvery-white faintly defined on each

side by red-brown on costal half and prominently by black-brown on

inner half, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved to

vein 5, then incurved, and excurved below submedian fold, some

rufous before it on inner half and some yellow beyond it at tornus ;

subterminal line indistinct, brownish, angled outwards below veins

7, 6, 4, 3, then slightly waved; the veins of terminal area with

slight dark streaks; a fine blackish terminal line with series of

white striz before it; cilia dark chocolate-brown, chequered brown

and white at tips. Hind wing yellow; the base and inner margin

suffused with red-brown; a slight brown discoidal lunule; the

terminal area dark brown, narrowing to tornus; cilia chequered

white and brown. Underside orange-yellow, the costal and

terminal areas suffused with red-brown ; dark discoidal strie.

Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Snow, Bruce), 2 2, Idaho Springs

(Osten-Sacken), 1 2 type. Hap. 36-40 millim.

8234. Syngrapha snovi. (Plate CCXXXVLI. fig. 8.)

Plusia snowiti, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 44 (1884); Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Hut.

Soe. x. p. 75, pl. viii. f. 16; Smith, Cat, Noct. N. Am. p. 257.

Head and thorax purple-grey mixed with black-brown; tegule

with two black lines towards tips ;. patagia with two oblique black

bars; the dorsal crest with some red-brown ; pectus and legs red-

brown and grey, the tarsi dark brown ringed with white ; abdomen

grey-brown, the crests black at tips. Fore wing purple-grey shghtly

tinged in parts with red-brown and striated with blackish, the

medial area below the cell deep chocolate-brown ; subbasal line

slight, blackish defined on outer side by whitish, sinuous, from

costa to vein 1; antemedial line black defined on inner side by

silvery-white, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, then

oblique and sinuous; orbicular with shght grey annulus and its

centre defined by black-brown, small, round, a_ silvery-white

U-shaped stigma below the cell, filled in with grey and its arms

defined by red-brown, its inner arm extending along median nervure

almost to the antemedial line, a short streak beyond its lower

extremity; reniform with slight silvery-white annulus defined by

black-brown and its centre defined by black-brown, oblique bar-

shaped; postmedial line double, pale brown filled in in parts with

whitish, bent outwards beiow costa, then minutely wave to vein 6,

then incurved and excurved below submedian fold, some rufous before

it on inner half and some yellow beyond it at tornus ; subterminal line

indistinct, grey slightly defined on inner side by brown, minutely

waved, angled outwards below veins 7, 6, 4, 3; a series of slight

whitish striz before termen ; cilia chequered whitish and brown at

tips. Hind wing yellow; the base and inner margin suffused with

brown ; a slight discoidal lunule ; the terminal area dark brown nar-

rowing to tornus; cilia chequered dark brown and white. Underside

SYNGRAPHA. 419

of fore wing red-brown with some yellow on disk ; hind wing yellow,

the costal and terminal areas suffused with red-brown, a small black

discoidal lunule.

Ab. 1. Fore wing without the streak beyond the lower extremity

of stigma.

Hab. Canava, Alberta, Calgary (Wolley-Dod), 1 2, Br.

Columbia, Athabasca (drs. Nicoll), 1 3; U.S.A., Colorado,

South Park, New Mexico. Kup. 32-38 sani,

8235. Syngrapha falcifera. (Plate CCX XXVI. fig. 9.)

Plusia falcifera, Kirby, Faun. Bor.-Am. iv. p. 808 (1837); Ottolengui,

J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. x. pl. ix. f. 2.

Plusia simplex, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 346 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

. 256.

Plusia faleigera, Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 254 (1893).

Head and thorax pale grey mixed with red-brown; tegule

whitish at tips; a slight curved whitish line across patagia and

mesothorax; abdomen pale grey tinged with brown, the crests

dark brown at tips. Fore wing pale grey tinged and irrorated

with brown, the medial area below the cell suffused with

chocolate-brown ; subbasal line represented by a curved whitish ~

striga from costa; antemedial line indistinct and whitish to median |

nervure, then silvery-white, angled outwards below costa, incurved

in cell, then oblique; traces of a very narrow oblique orbicular with

whitish outline; a rather small oblique silvery Y-shaped stigma

below the cell, its tail dilated at extremity ; reniform faintly defined

by brown, very narrow; postmedial line indistinct, double, red-

brown filled in with grey and with silver towards inner margin,

bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, oblique to vein 2,

then erect; subterminal line red-brown, excurved below vein 7,

slightly angled inwards at vein 4 and outwards below veins 4 and

3, crossed by an oblique cupreous brown shade from apex to vein 4;

the terminal area whitish grey. Hind wing yellowish white, the

basal area with some red-brown suffusion; an oblique diffused red-

brown postmedial line, the terminal area red-brown; cilia white

with a red-brown line near base; the underside white, the costal

and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal striga and

diffused oblique postmedial line.

Ab. 1. simplex. Fore wing much more suffused with red-

brown, the medial area below the cell deep chocolate-brown with

some fiery red before the postmedial line.

Hab. Canava, Anticosti I., 1 9, Hudson’s Bay, Albany R.,

St. Martin’s Falls (Barnston), 2 5,1 Q, Ontario, Orillia (Be ush),

19, Alberta, Calgary (Wolley-Dod),2. 3, Br. Columbia, Coldstream

Ranch (Miss Ricardo), 1 2, Nepigon (Fletcher), Were Wi sel.

East of Rocky Mts., 3 ¢, New York, Trenton Falls Doubleday Y)

1 3 type simplex, Tlinois, LSE Texas, Dallas (Boll), 6 ¢,

282

4.20 NOCTUID ©.

Colorado, Durango (Oslar), 4 ¢, New Mexico, Hap. 3444

millim.

Larva. (precationis.) Coquillett, Can. Ent. xiii. p. 21, & xiv. p. 60.

Deep green; two dorsal, a subdorsal, and a stigmatal white line,

the last most distinct; warts green usually tipped with black, each

with a short black hair; head pale green; two anterior pairs of pro-

legs absent. Food-plants, Grasses. 4-6,

*8236. Syngrapha simplicissima.

Autographa simplicima, Ottolengui; J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 74, pl. vi. f. 6

(1902); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 202.

2. Head, thorax, and abdomen brown. Fore wing dull brown,

the medial area below the cell darker brown ; antemedial line silvery

white, obsolete to median nervure, then oblique; orbicular almost

obsolete, defined by grey, oblique elliptical ; the stigma below the

cell silvery, Y-shaped, very small, the tail very short and ending in

a point; renifurm defined by grey, its outer edge indented at

middle; postmedial line indistinct, greyish, bent outwards below

costa, then slightly waved, oblique to submedian fold, then erect ;

subterminal line indistinct, arising from apex, oblique and slightly

sinuous. Hind wing brown with a paler medial band.

Hab. U.S.A., Washington. Hxp. 30 millim. This species is

unknown to me.

*8237. Syngrapha speciosa.

Autographa speciosa, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 73, pl. vi. f. 9

(1902); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 202.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen chocolate-brown mixed with grey.

Fore wing chocolate-brown mixed with grey, the medial area below

the cell and the area before the subterminal line darker; subbasal line

blackish defined on outer side by white, sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ;

antemedial line blackish defined on each side by white, slightly

excurved below costa then almost straight; orbicular brown on a

diffused whitish patch, rather U-shaped; the stigma below the cell

silvery-white, Y-shaped, its tail lobed at extremity; reniform with

shght pale outline, narrow, some yellowish above it on costa ; post-

medial line blackish defined on each side by white, slightly bent

outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous; a whitish

band beyond it from costa to vein 8; subterminal line blackish, angled

outwards below veins 7, 6, 4,3 and excurved below submedian fold.

Hind wing pale yellow tinged with brown, the terminal area suffused

with brown narrowing to tornus; cilia white; the underside pale

vellowish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a

dark discoidal spot.

Hab. Canada, Vancouver, Corfield (Livingstone). Exp.

34 millim. This species is unknown to me.

SYNGRAPIIA. 421

8238. Syngrapha epigea. (Plate CCX XXVILI. fig. 10.)

Plusia epigea, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1874, p. 208; Ottolengui,

J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pl. vii. f. 16; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am, p. 205.

Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown; a blackish line

between antenne; tegule with two black lines and white tips ;

patagia with two oblique black bars; the dorsal crest rufous in

front and with white tips; pectus grey tinged with rufous; tarsi

dark brown ringed with white; abdomen grey suffused with rufous,

the crests black-brown tipped with white. Fore wing grey tinged

in parts with red-brown and irrorated with black, the medial area

with a patch of deep red-brown suffusion below the cell; subbasal

line double, black-brown, excurved below costa, then oblique and

ending at subcostal nervure; antemedial line double, black-brown,

excurved below costa, bent wards in cell, then oblique and sinuous ;

orbicular with brownish centre and diffused whitish annulus, oblique

and irregularly elliptical; a fine oblique silvery-white Y-shaped

stigma below the cell, its arms filled in with grey, its tail dilated

into a small spot; reniform with whitish annulus defined at side by

black-brown, oblique bar-shaped; postmedial line double, reddish

brown fillled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa, then

minutely waved, incurved below vein 4, some white poimts beyond

it on costa; subterminal line brown, waved, angled outwards below

veins 7, 4, 3; a fine waved brown terminal line and whitish line at

base of cilia. Hind wing cupreous red-brown with a_ pale

postmedial shade and the terminal area darker ; cilia white with a

maculate brown line near base; the underside whitish suffused and

irrorated with red-brown especially on terminal area, a slight

discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the tail of the stigma almost obsolete.

Hab. U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, 1 g, 1 @ type,

Washington, 1 9, Colorado. Hyp. 44 millim.

8239. Syngrapha selecta. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 11.)

Plusia selectu, Wik. xii. 912 (1857); Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. x. pl. ix.

f. 7; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 255.

Plusia viridisigma, Grote, Bull. Buff. Suc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 73 (1874).

Plusia viridisignata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 315 (1874).

Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown; a brown

line between antennz; tegule with three brown lines defined by

white ; patagia with two oblique lines and a short bar between

them; dorsal crest tipped with white; tarsi dark brown ringed

with white; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the crests black-

brown tipped with white. Fore wing purplish silvery-grey thickly

irrorated with dark brown; subbasal line double, slightly excurved

below costa, then oblique and ending at vein 1; antemedial line

double, dark brown, angled outwards below costa, strongly bent

inwards in cell, then oblique and waved; orbicular with whitish

422 NOCTUIDE.

annulus and its centre defined by dark brown, inverted cone-

shaped; a greenish silvery V-shaped stigma below the cell, its

outer edge giving off a lobe from middle; reniform with

whitish annulus defined by black-brown and its centre defined

by black-brown, oblique bar-shaped; a rather diffused sinuous

dark brown medial line, oblique to below lower angle of cell, then

inwardly oblique; postmedial line double, dark brown, filled in

with whitish towards inner margin, slightly bent outwards

below costa, then minutely dentate, obliquely curved to vein 2,

then erect, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal

iine dark brown slightly defined on outer side by white, obliquely

curved from below costa to vein 5, excurved below veins 4 and 3

and below submedian fold; a crenulate dark brown line before

termen and a waved dark brown terminal line; cilia chequered dark

brown and grey. Hind wing ochreous suffused with red-brown, a

paler medial shade, the terminal area darker; cilia chequered

whitish and dark brown; the underside ochreous tinged with

reddish brown especially on terminal area, an indistinct discoidal

spot and oblique postmedial line.

Ab. 1. viridesigma. Fore wing with the lobe on outer edge of

the stigma rounded, the subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7

and bent inwards at discal fold.

Hab. Canava, Hudson’s Bay, Albany R., St. Martin’s Falls

(Barnston), 1 type, Quebec, 19 type viridisigma, Br. Columbia,

Sicamous Junct. (AZiss Ricardo), 13, Vancouver I.,1 9; U.S.A.,

New York, Buffalo, 1 3, Adirondack Mts., Colorado, Denver.

Exp. 44-48 milhm.

*8240. Syngrapha celsa.

Plusia celsa, WH. Edw. Papilio, i. p. 101 (1881) ; Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent.

Soc. x. p, 72, pl. viii. f. 4; Smith, Cat. Noct. N, Am. p. 255.

Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; abdomen grey

suffused with brown. Fore wing grey thickly ivrorated with dark

brown, the medial area below the cell suffused with chocolate-

brown; subbasal line double, brown, sinuous, from costa to

submedian fold; antemedial line double, blackish filled in with

white, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, then oblique

and sinuous ; orbicular defined by blackish and grey at sides, rather

V-shaped; the stigma below the cell greenish silvery, erect V-shaped

with a spot beyond its lower extremity or conjoined to it; rentform

with grey annulus defined at sides by blackish and with its centre

defined by blackish, narrow, its outer edge indented at middle;

postmedial line double, blackish filled in with white, excurved

below costa, at middle, and below submedian fold, some white points

beyond it on costa ; subterminal line brown defined on outer side by

whitish, angled outwards below veins 7, 6, 4, 3 and excurved

below submedian fold; a terminal series of whitish lunules defined

SYNGRAPHA. 423

by brown. Hind wing ochreous yellow, the basal area tinged with

brown, the terminal area suffused with brown; cilia brownish

white; the underside with the discoidal spot distinct.

flab. U.S.A., Oregon, Mt. Hood, Dalles. Hxp. 42 millim.

This species is unknown to me.

§241. Syngrapha rectangula. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 14.)

Plusia rectangula, Kirby, Faun. Bor.-Am. iv. p. 306 (1837) ; Ottolengui,

J.N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 68, pl. viii. f. 12; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 254.

Plusia mortuorum, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 353 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

p. 254.

Head and thorax black-brown mixed with white, the tegule with

slight white line at middle and white tips, the patagia with white

bars at middle and tips, the dorsal erest ochreous grey tipped with

black and white ; pectus and legs brownish grey, the tibice and tarsi

black-brown ringed with white; abdomen grey suffused with brown,

the crests black-brown tipped with white. Fore wing grey suffused

with brown and irrorated with black, the basal area, the inner half

of antemedial area, basal half of postmedial area and terminal area

except at apex silvery-white; subbasal line black defined on each

side by silvery-white, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial

line black, defined on inner side by silvery-white, angled outwards

below costa and inwards in cell, bent inwards at vein 1; orbicular

silvery-white defined at sides by black, oblique bar-shaped; a silvery-

white stigma below the cell giving off two claws below; reniform

defined by white except below, with black marks in its extremities

and strongly constricted at middle where there isa black spot beyond

it; postmedial line black defined on outer side by silvery-white,

bent outwards below costa, oblique and slightly waved below vein 6,

excurved at middle, some white points beyond it on costa; sub-

terminal line black, defined on inner side by brownish suffusion and

on outer side by silvery-white, excurved below vein 7, angled out-

wards below veins 4 and 3 and below submedian fold; a waved

black terminal line ; cilia chequered black-brown and white. Hind

wing whitish, the basal area suffused with reddish brown, the ter-

minal area with dark brown leaving a whitish postmedial shade ;

cilia white chequered with dark brown at base ; the underside with

slight blackish discoidal lunule and diffused postmedial line before

the whitish shade.

Ab. 1. mortworum. Fore wing with only one claw on lower edge

of stigma, the outer claw reduced to a small detached round spot.

Ab. 2. Fore wing without spot beyond the stigma.

Hab. Canava, Orillia (Bush), 3 9, Br. Columbia, Fraser R.

(St. John), 1 2, Sicamous Junct. (Miss Ricardo), 1 9; U.S.A,

Northern and Eastern States, New York (Doubleday), 3 3 type

mnortuorum, New Jersey, Valley (Grote),23. Hwp. 38-40 millim.

ADA NOCTUID &.

8242. Syngrapha alias. (Plate CCXXXVLI. fig. 15.)

Autographa alias, Ottolengui, J.N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 69, pl. vili. ff. 7, 13

(1902); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 201.

Plusia u-aureum, Sunth, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 254 (part.).

Head and thorax dark brown mixed with white; tegule with

slight white medial line and white tips, the patagia with white bar

at middle and white tips, the metathoracie crest tipped with white ;

tibize at extremities and tarsi ringed with white; abdomen grey

suffused with reddish brown, the crests dark brown tipped with

white. Fore wing purplish grey suffused in parts with brown and

irrorated with black, the basal area, inner antemedial area, and

terminal area more silvery-white, the medial area below the cell

browner ; subbasal line black defined on outer side by silvery-white,

waved, from costa to vein]; antemedial line black defined on inner

side by silvery-white, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell,

then oblique and waved ; orbicular defined by silvery-white except

above and rather U-shaped; a silvery-white stigma below the cell,

forked above and with two rather claw-like projections below; reni-

form with incomplete white annulus and its centre detined by black,

constricted at middle where there is a black spot on its outer side ;

postmedial line double, blackish filled it with silvery-white, bent

outwards below costa, then oblique, waved, excurved at middle,

a slight golden cupreous mark before it at submedian fold, some

white beyond it.on costal half and some white points on costa ;

subterminal line silvery-white defined on inner side by black with

brown suffusion before it, excurved below vein 7, angled outwards

below veins 4 and 38, then slightly waved; a terminal series of

brown lunules defined on inner side by silvery lunules with rather

dentate brown marks before them ; cilia chequered white and brown.

Hind wing with the basal area red-brown followed by a whitish

postmedial shade; the terminal area dark brown; cilia chequered

brown and white; the underside whitish suffused with pale red-brown,

the terminal area dark brown, a blackish discoidal lunule and curved

postmedial line.

Hab. Canapa, New Brunswick, St. John (Melitosh), 1 3;

U.S.A., Northern States, New Hampshire, 1 9 , New York, Trenton

Falls (Doubleday), 13, Valley (Grote), 19. Hap. 40 millim:

8243. Syngrapha u-aureum. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 16.)

Plusia u-aureum, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 354 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

p. 254.

Plusia vaccinii, H. Kdw. Ent. Am. ii. p. 170 (1886); Ottolengui, J. N.Y.

Ent. Soc. x. p. 71, pl. viii. f. 38; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 254.

Head and thorax dark brown mixed with purplish grey ; tegule

with shght white line at middle and white tips ; patagia with white

bars near base and at middle, and white tips; tibiz at extremities,

the spurs and tarsi ringed with white; abdomen reddish brown, the

crests dark brown tipped with white. Fore wing purple-grey

SYNGRAPHA. 7 OI5)

suffused in parts with brown and irrorated with black, the terminal

area with some silvery-white ; subbasal line black defined at sides

by white, waved, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line double,

blackish filled in with with silvery-white, angled outwards below

costa, incurved in cell, then oblique and waved; orbicular with

slight white annulus and its centre defined by black, oblique, ellip-

tical ; a silvery-white irregular U-shaped stigma below the cell with

a small round white spot beyond its lower extremity, some black-

brown suffusion round it; reniform with incomplete white annulus,

its centre defined by black, constricted at middle where there is a

black spot beyond it; postmedial line blackish defined on outer side

by white and on inner side also on costal half, bent outwards below

costa, then oblique and waved, some white points beyond it on

costa ; subterminal line black defined on inner side by brown suf-

fusion and on outer by white suffusion, excurved below vein 7,

angled outwards below veins 4 and 3, then waved; a terminal series

of black lunules defined on inner side by white lunules with rather

dentate brown marks before them; cilia chequed brown and white.

Hind wing with the basal area reddish brown followed by a narrow

diffused whitish band, the terminal area dark brown; cilia chequered

brown and white; the underside white tinged and irrorated with

brown, a dark discoidal lunule and oblique postmedial line, the ter-

minal area suffused with brown.

Hab. Canavsa, Nova Scotia; U.S.A., New Hampshire, Mt.

Washington, 1 9 , New York, Adirondack Mts., Alpine (Grote), 16,

29. Hap. 38 millm.

8244. Syngrapha octoscripta. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 17.)

Plusia octoscripta, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 72 (1874); Otto-

lengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pl. viii. f. 14; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

. 254.

Plas 8-signata, Grote, Can. Ent. vi. p. 72 (1874).

Plusia epsilon, Ottolengui, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. ii. p. 494 (1900);

id. J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pl. vi. f. 8; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 201.

Autographa zeta, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. “Ent. Soc. x. p. 70, pl. vi. p 1 (1902) ;

Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 202.

Autographa variana, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 70, pl. vi. f. 10

(1902); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 201.

Autographa pallida, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. x. p. 71, Bis Wile: tis 7

(1902); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 202.

Head and thorax dark brown mixed with white; tegule with black

line at middle defined behind by white and white tips, the patagia

with black bar near tips which are white ; tibie at extremities and

tarsi ringed with white; abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown,

the crests black-brown tipped with white. Fore wing grey- white

suffused in parts with brown and irrorated with black ; subbasal

line blackish defined at sides by silvery-white, oblique, waved, from

costa to vein 1; antemedial line blackish defined on inner ale by

silvery-white, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, then

oblique, waved; an irregular silvery-white U-shaped stigma defined

4.26 NOCTUIDAE.

by black below the cell, its outer edge connected at middle with a

small annulus; reniform with incomplete silvery-white annulus

and its centre defined by black, angled outwards at upper ex-

tremity and inwards on median nervure ; postmedial line double,

dark brown filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, then

oblique, waved, some white suffusion beyond it on costal half and

some white points on costa; subterminal line black with brown

suffusion before it and slight whitish suffusion beyond it, excurved

below vein 7 and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3, then waved ;

a series of white lunules just before termen defined on each side by

brown; cilia chequered brown and white. Hind wing whitish

tinged with pale red-brown especially on basal area, the terminal

area dark reddish brown ; an indistinct brown postmedial line ; cilia

chequered dark brown and white; the underside yellowish white

irrorated with red-brown, the terminal area suffused with red-brown,

a dark discoidal striga and rather diffused curved postmedial line.

Ab. 1. epsilon. Fore wing with the stigma confluent with the

small annulus and forming the letter w.

Ab. 2. zeta. Fore wing with the stigma confluent with the

annulus which is filled in with white.

Ab. 3. Fore wing with the small round spot beyond the stigma

with which it is disconnected above and connected below.

Ab. 4. pallida. Similar to ab. 3, but fore wing pale brown with

paler shading.—Newfoundland.

Ab. 5. variana. Fore wing much more variegated pale pearl-grey

and dark brown, the stigma as in the typical form but the annulus

filled in with white.

Hab. Ataska; Nerwrounpnanp ; Canapa, Hudson’s Bay,

Albany R., St. Martin’s Falls (Barnston), 13,19, Anticosti I.,

Nova Scotia (fedman), 33, New Brunswick, St. John, 12, Br.

Columbia, Pass D. Hope (drs. Nicholl), 19 , Duncans (Hanham),

192, Laggan (Fletcher), 12, Metlakatla (Keen), 22; U.S.A.,

13, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin,

Washington Forest Reserve, Early Winter Creek (Ids. Nicholl),

29. Hap. 38-40 millim.

*8245, Syngrapha arctica. (Plate CCXXXVL. fig. 18.)

Autographa arctica, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 66, pl. vi. f. 11

(1902).

Autographa ottolengut, Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 201 (1902).

Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey; abdomen grey

suffused with brown. Fore wing dull brown mixed with grey, a

whitish postmedial shade from costa to vein 4 and a whitish patch

at tornus; subbasal line double, blackish, sinuous, from costa to

submedian fold ; antemedial line double, blackish, angled outwards

below costa, incurved in cell, then waved; orbicular with blackish

outline defined by whitish, oblique elliptical ; the stigma below the

cell golden, erect irregular V-shaped with a spot conjoined to its

lower extremity; renitorm defined by black, narrow; postmedial

SYNGRAPIHA. 427

line double, blackish, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and

sinuous ; subterminal line black, excurved below vein 7, at middle

and below submedian fold; a whitish terminal line. Hind wing

ochreous, the basal area tinged with brown, the terminal area

suffused with brown; cilia white with brown spots at the veins.

Hab. AuasKxa, Alter I. (Turner). Exp. 34 millim. This

species 1s unknown to me, figured froma drawing from type in

U.S. Nat. Mus.

8246. Syngrapha excelsa. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 19.)

Autographa excelsa, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 71, pl. vi. f. 3

(1902); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 202.

@. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with brown. Fore

wing grey-white, thickly irrorated with brown; subbasal line

double, blackish filled in with white, from costa to vein 1; ante-

medial line double, blackish filled in with white, excurved below

costa, angled inwards in cell, then oblique and sinuous; orbicular

with slight whitish annulus, oblique ; a V-shaped white striga below

the cell, its lower extremity bent slightly outwards and with a

round spot beyond it; reniform with slight pale annulus, narrow ;

postmedial line double, blackish filled in with whitish, bent outwards

below costa, then oblique to submedian fold where it is slightly

angled inwards, then excurved, some white points beyond it on

costa; subterminal line blackish defined on inner side by a brown

shade and on outer slightly by white, excurved below vein 7 and

angled outwards below veins 4 and 3; cilia chequered white and

brown. Hind wing yellowish suffused with red-brown, the terminal

area brown; cilia chequered white and brown; the underside

yellowish thickly irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused

with brown.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the spot beyond the stigma absent.

Hab. Canana, Alberta, Laggan, Banff (Sanson), 12 ; U.S.A,

New Hampshire, Washington Forest Reserve, State Creek (Ls.

Nicholl), 19. Hap. 34 millim.

8247. Syngrapha angulidens. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 20.)

Plusia angulidens, Smith, Trans, Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 111 (1891);

Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 71, pl. viii. f.5; Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 255. :

Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with black-brown ; pectus

brownish white; legs whitish mixed with black-brown, the tarsi black-

brown ringed with white; abdomen grey mixed with brown, the

crests blackish.- Fore wing purple-grey irrorated with black-brown,

the medial area with some black-brown below the cell ; subbasal line

black defined on outer side by white, sinuous, from costa to vein 1;

antemedial line double, black filled in with whitish, angled inwards

in cell, then oblique, waved; orbicular defined by black-brown, small,

428 NOCTUID &.

oblique elliptical; a V-shaped silvery-white stigma below the cell

with its apex slightly bent inwards and a small spot beyond its

lower extremity ; “yeniform with slight white annulus and its centre

defined by black, narrow, oblique; an oblique sinuous dark medial

shade; postmedial line double, black filled in with white, bent

outwards below costa, then oblique, excurved at middle and

below submedian fold, some white points beyond it on costa ;

subterminal line black defined on inner side by brown suffusion,

excurved below vein 7, angled outwards below veins 4 and 3,

then slightly waved; a series of slight white lunules just ibeltome

termen detined on ‘enol side by dark brown ; cilia chequered

dark brown and white. Hind wing falvous yellow irrorated

with brown, the cell and veins suffused.with brown, the terminal

area dark brown; cilia white chequered with brown; the underside

ochreous white irrorated with brown especially on costal and

terminal areas, a small black discoidal spot.

Ab. 1. Fore wing without white spot beyond the stigma.

Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Bruce, Cockerell), 3 2, South Park

(Oslar), 33, 12, Gore’s Range (Comstock), 13, New Mexico,

Pecos (Cockerell), 12. Exp. 34-40 millim.

8248. Syngrapha pyrenaica, n. sp. (Plate CCX XXVI. fig. 21.)

Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown and

white; tegule with two dark brown lines defined behind by

white; patagia with oblique dark bars at middle and near tips

defined behind by white; the dorsal crest tipped with white ; tarsi

ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with reddish brown, the

crests black-brown towards tips. Fore wing pale purplish grey

tinged in parts with brown and irrorated with black; subbasal line

double, dark brown filled in with whitish, slightly exeurved below

costa, then oblique and ending at vein 1; antemedial line double,

dark brown filled in with whitish, angled outwards’ below costa,

bent inwards in cell, then oblique and waved; orbicular with

whitish annulus and its centre defined by dark brown, oblique,

ovoid; a rather irregular silvery-white V-shaped stigma below the

cell defined by dark brown ; reniform with slight silvery annulus

defined by black-brown and its centre defined by black-brown,

oblique bar-shaped ; a sinuous dark brown medial line, oblique to

lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique; postmedial line double,

dark brown filled in by whitish, slightly bent outwards below costa,

then oblique and minutely waved, some white points beyond it on

costa ; subterminal line incl browne with a brown shade before it,

excurved at vein 7, angled outwards below veins 4 and 3, then

waved ; a waved whitish line just before termen defined on each

side by brown; cilia chequered grey and brown. Hind wing

ochreous suffused with red-brown, the terminal area darker; a

slight brown postmedial line with paler shade beyond it; cilia.

white with a series of brown spots at base; the underside whitish

SYNGRAPHA. 429

tinged with red-brown and irrorated with dark brown, the terminal

area suffused with brown, a rather diffused curved brown postmedial

line.

Hab. Franck, Pyrenees, Gavarnie (Urs. Nicholl), 13,12

type. xp. 40 milli.

8249. Syngrapha altera. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 22.)

Autographa altera, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 69, pl. viii. f. 9

(1902); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 201.

Head and thorax grey-white mixed with black-brown; pectus

whitish ; legs whitish tinged with ochreous and irrorated with

black-brown ; abdomen whitish tinged with ochreous and irrorated

with black-brown, the crests black tipped with white. Fore wing

grey-white suffused with brown and irrorated with black, the

medial area below the cell and postmedial area dark brown ;

subbasal line black defined on outer side by white, from costa to

vein 1; antemedial line double, black filled in with white, angled

outwards below costa, strongly imeurved in cell, then oblique,

- waved ; orbicular with whitish annulus and its centre defined by

blackish, irregularly rounded; a rather irregular Y-shaped white

stigma below the cell with a small white spot beyond its lower

extremity; reniform with slight white annulus and its centre

defined by black, narrow and oblique, a whitish patch beyond it;

postmedial line double, blackish filled in with whitish, bent out-

wards below costa, then oblique and excurved at middle, some white

points beyond it on costa; subterminal line black, angled outwards

below veins 7, 6, 4, and 8 and above vein 1; a fine dark terminal

line ; cilia chequered dark brown and white. Hind wing fulvous

yellow irrorated with brown, the basal and inner areas suffused with

brown, the terminal area dark brown; cilia chequered dark brown

and white; the underside ochreous white irrorated with brown

especially on costal and terminal areas, a black discoidal lunule.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with minute white annulus attached to the

lower part of outer edge of the V-shaped stigma.

Hab. Canada, Ontario, Lake Nipigon, Br. Columbia, Pass D.

Hope (Mrs. Nicholl), 23, Metlakatla (Keen), 192; U.S.A.,

Adirondack Mts. xp. 38 millim.

*8250. Syngrapha v-alba.

Autographa v-alba, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 73, pl. vi. f. 2

(1902); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 201.

2. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with grey.

Fore wing irrorated with brown, the medial area below the cell

suffused with dark brown; subbasal line brown defined on outer

side by whitish, sinuous, from costa to vein 1, an oblique brown

shade beyond it from costa; antemedial line brown defined on

inner side by whitish, double at costa, exeurved below costa,

430 NOCTUID®.

incurved in cell, then obliquely exeurved; orbicular small, dark,

oblique; a small erect V-shaped white stigma below the cell;

renitorm with slight white annulus and its centre defined by black,

narrow, oblique, an oblique dark bar above it from costa ; postmedial

line dark brown defined on outer side by white, indistinctly double

on inner half, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to

vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner

side by dark brown suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and angled

outwards below veins 4 and 3; cilia chequered white and brown.

Hind wing ochreous tinged with brown, the terminal area suffused

with brown ; cilia chequered white and brown.

Hab. U.S.A., Wyoming, Yellowstone Pass (Barnes). up.

42 millim. ‘This species is unknown to me.

*8251. Syngrapha surena.

Plusia surena, Grote, Bull. Geol. & Geog. Surv. Terr. vi. p. 585 (1882) ;

Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pl. viii. ft. 10; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

p. 255.

Head and thorax whitish grey with some brown scales; tegule

with black lines at middle and near tips; abdomen grey suffused

with brown. Fore wing whitish grey irrorated with black, the

medial area below the cell suffused with black-brown ; subbasal line

double, black filled in with white, excurved below costa and ending

at submedian fold; antemedial line double, black filled in with white,

excurved below costa, strongly incurved in cell, then oblique and

sinuous; orbicular with whitish annulus and its centre defined by

brown, oblique, irregular; the stigma below the cell silvery, erect

V-shaped, filled in with grey, its outer arm rather irregular ;

reniform with whitish annulus defined at sides by black, narrow,

oblique, its outer edge indented at middle ; postmedial line double,

black filled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa, then

oblique and minutely waved, a whitish shade beyond it from costa

to vein 4; subterminal line black with some dark suffusion before

it, excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards below veins 4and 3 ;

a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing ochreous tinged with brown,

the terminal area suffused with brown; cilia white with brown

spots at the veins. '

Hab. U.S.A., Maine, Orono. Hap. 38 millim. This species is

unknown to me.

8252. Syngrapha interrogationis.

Noctua interrogations, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 513 (1758); Clerck, Icones,

pl. 6. f.7; Hsp. Schmett. iv. pl. 1138. f.1; Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct.

ff. 281, 854; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. 2. p. 47, pl. 136. f. 2; Steph. Ill. Brit.

Ent., Haust. iii. p. 102; Frr. Beitr. pl. 130. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal.

p. 239.

Noctua emula, Faby. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 162 (1787).

SYNGRAPHA. 431

Phalena aurosignata, Donoy. Brit. Ins. xiii. pl. 453. f. 1 (1808).

Plusia borealis, Reuter, Act. Fauna Flora Fenn. ix. p. 57 (1898).

Plusia transbaikalensis, Staud, Iris, v. p. 371 (1892).

Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with grey-white; tegulie

with two dark lines defined behind by white; patagia with two

dark bars defined by white ; metathoracic crest tipped with white ;

tarsi ringed with white; abdomen grey suffused with red-brown,

the crests dark brown tipped with white. Fore wing grey-white

tinged in parts with red-brown and irrorated with black-brown, the

medial area with a patch of black-brown suffusion below the cell ;

subbasal line double, dark brown filled in with silvery-white, waved,

from costa to vein 1; antemedial line double, dark brown filled in

with silvery-white, angled outwards below costa, bent inwards in

eell, then waved; orbicular with silvery-white annulus and its

centre defined by dark brown, oblique elliptical or irregularly

rounded; a silvery-white rather irregular V-shaped stigma below

the cell with a small spot or annulus beyond its lower extremity ;

reniform with silvery-white annulus defined at sides by dark brown

and its centre defined by dark brown, constricted at middle; a

rather diffused sinuous dark brown medial line, oblique to lower

angle of cell, then inwardly oblique; postmedial line double,

dark brown filled in by whitish, bent outwards below costa, then

oblique and minutely waved, some white points beyond it on costa ;

subterminal line black-brown with some reddish brown suffusion

before it except towards costa and a short dark streak at discal fold,

excurved below vein 7, angled outwards below veins 4 and 3, then

waved ; a crenulate white line just before termen, defined on each

side by dark brown; cilia chequered white and dark brown. Hind

wing pale cupreous red-brown, the terminal area darker, an

indistinct smuous brown postmedial line; cilia white with a series

of brown spots near base; the underside whitish tinged with

red-brown and irrorated with dark brown, the terminal area

suffused with dark brown, a slight brown discoidal lunule and

oblique postmedial line.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with small annulus confluent with the outer

edge of the stigma at middle.

Ab. 2. Fore wing with a small spot confluent with the stigma

below.

Ab. 3. Fore wing without spot or annulus beyond the stigma.

Ab. 4. transbaicalensis. Fore wing much greyer; hind wing

paler.—H. Siberia.

Hab. Brrrarn, Leech Coll.; Franck; Germany, Zeller and

Frey Colls.; Austria; Hune@ary; Swirzertanp; Zeller, Frey,

and Leech Colls.; N. Inanry; Scanprnavra, Lapland, Leech Coll. ;

Russta, Livonia, Zeller Coll., St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll., Urals ;

HK. Srperta, Amurland, 23,19. Hap. 30-40 millim.

Larva. Meyr. Lep. Brit. p. 159; Barrett, Brit. Lep. vi. p. 133, pl. 243.

f. 3; Hffin. Raup. p. 135.

Green ; dorsal line darker with pale edges ; subbasal line whitish

green ; lateral line whitish green with dark edges; spiracular line

yellow. Food-plants: Erica, Calluna, Urtica, ete. 5-6,

432 NOCTUID®.

8253. Syngrapha grenlandica. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 93.)

Plusia grenlandica, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1857, p. 306.

Plusia artica, Moschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxiv. p. 296 (1884).

Plusia u-aureum, Auriv. Bibang K. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. xv, 4. 1.

p. 16, pl. 1. f. 7 (1890); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 239 (nec Guen.).

Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey-white, the tegulz

with blackish medial line defined behind by whitish and whitish

tips, the patagia with oblique whitish line across them and whitish

tips; tarsi with white mixed; pectus and abdomen reddish brown,

the latter with the crests blackish and grey. Fore wing purplish

erey irrorated with dark brown, the medial area with a patch of

black-brown suffusion below the cell; subbasal line white defined

on each side by dark brown, sinuous, from costa to vein 1; ante-

medial line indistinct towards costa, below the cell silvery-white

defined on each side by brown, angled outwards below costa and

inwards in cell, then oblique, waved; orbicular defined by brown,

oblique elliptical; an oblique silvery V-shaped stigma below the

eell, its: lower extremity bent outwards; reniform with shght

silvery outline, defined on inner side by black, its centre defined by

black above and below, constricted at middle where there is a small

black spot beyond it; postmedial line double, brown filled in with

grey and with some silvery scales at inner margin, bent outwards

below costa, then oblique and slightly waved, some whitish points

beyond it on costa; subterminal line blackish with a brown

shade on its inner side, excurved below vein 7, angled outwards

below veins 4 and 3, then slightly waved to tornus; a terminal

series of slight brown lunules defined on inner side by a waved

whitish line. Hind wing ochreous suffused with red-brown leaving

a faint pale postmedial band; cilia white, brownish at base and

with brown marks from apex to vein 2; the underside ochreous

tinged with red-brown, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with

brown.

Hab. WcEvAndD, 1 3, Frey Coll.; Greennanp; Laprapvor. Lap.

38 millim.

8254. Syngrapha circumflexa.

Noctua circumflera Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. p. 844 (1767); Guen. Noct.

ii. p. 302, pl. 11. f. 9; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 571 ; Staud. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 239.

Plusia graphica, Herr.-Schaff. Kur. Schmett. ii. p. 394, Noct. f. 548 (1845) ;

Frr. Neue Beitr. pl. 576. f. 3.

Plusia daubii, Frr. Neue Beitr. p. 90, pl. 256. f. 2 (nec Boisd.).

Plusia patefacta, W\k, xii. 924 (1857); Hmpsn. Ill. Het. B.M. viii. p. 16,

joy Ws see

Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with whitish, the

patagia with shght oblique white line across them; tarsi brown

ringed with white; abdomen grey suffused with red-brown. Fore

SYNGRAPHA. 433

wing whitish suffused with red-brown with a golden gloss and

striated with dark brown, the medial area with a deeper red-brown

patch below the cell; subbasal line white defined on each side by

dark brown, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line

silvery-white defined on each side by deep red-brown, angled

outwards below costa, strongly bent inwards in cell, then obliquely

eurved ; orbicular with white annulus, oblique elliptical, narrowing

below ; an oblique silvery-white W-shaped stigma below the cell, its

inner side angled inwards on median nervure, its arms filled in by

whitish defined by red-brown; reniform with silvery-white outline

and slight black marks in its four extremities, its inner edge oblique,

its outer strongly indented at middle with a blackish mark beyond

it; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with whitish, bent

outwards below costa, then oblique, slightly waved to discal fold

and angled inwards at vein 2 and submedian fold, a whitish shade

beyond it; subterminal line black-brown with short dark streaks

before it from costa to below vein 3 and a longer streak at discal

fold, angled inwards below costa, excurved at vein 7 and angled

outwards below veins 4 and 38, a red-brown shade beyond it from

eosta to vein 2; a fine sinuous dark terminal line; cilia with a

white line at base followed by a sinuous red-brown line. Hind

wing white tinged with red-brown, the terminal area red-brown

with a golden gloss ; cilia white with a red-brown line near base ;

the underside white tinged and irrorated with red-brown, a slight

brown discoidal striga, diffused postmedial line and subterminalshade.

Hab. Mapetra (Wollaston, Meek), 1 3, 4 2 ; CANARIES,

Teneriffe (Leech, Holt-White, Walsingham), 4 3, 1 92;

DauMATIA; GREECE, leech Coll.; S. Russta; TRansvaan

(Ross), 2 3, Pretoria (Distant), 1 9, Johannesburg (Distant),

1g; Namat, Stanger (Delvin), 1 3, Estcourt (Hutchinson),

1 g,1 9, Maritsberg (Berensburg), 1 2, Durban (Legh),

1 $; Basuronann, Machacha (Crawshay), 1 ¢ ; CarpE Cotony

(Sir A. Smith, Drege), 2 3, 4 92 type patefacta, Annshaw

(Miss Ff. Barrett), 1 9, Grahamstown (Mrs. Tuck), 1 6,

Capetown (Zrimen),1 9 ; ArmEnTA; Asta Minor (Lederer),

1 9, Amanus Mts.,1 ¢ ; Syrra,] ¢, Leech Coll.; Persian Guir,

Fao (Cumming),1 3,1 9; N. Persia, Scharud (Cristoph),3 9°;

W. Turxestan, Sarawschan, Issyk-Kul, Ala Tau; W. Srperta,

Altai; EH. Turkestan, Ili; Mapras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 2 2,

1 92, Palnis (Campbell),1 & ; Ceyton, Pundaloya (Green), 1 2.

Lap. 36-46 millim.

Larva. Kirby; Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 271.

Green with a lateral yellow stripe. Food-plants: Potato, etc.

Szcr. II. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen

slightly excised below it.

A. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell Y-shaped, cr

U-shaped with a spot beyond its lower extremity ......... gammoides,

B. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell U-shaped, its

lower extremity produced to a slight streak ............... egena.

WOU, Saunt, QR

434 NOCTUID &.

C. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell represented by a

downcurved streak

HARE ner eaten ian. fase rcp onaaédodneséoded feisthameli.

D. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell faint and

rounded.

a. Fore wing without golden cupreous patch beyond the

oblique antemedial streak ................cccecsesesssee seen es egenella.

b. Fore wing with golden cupreous patch beyond the oblique

EVASION GELS — noapoaoganosnancasnncqpcooonnadecnosdsa990c00 ilustrata.

8255. Syngrapha gammoides.

Plusia gammoides, Blanch. Gay’s Chile, Zool. vii. p. 84, pl. 6. f. 11 (1852), 2.

Flusia chilensis, But]. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 138, ¢. .

@. Head and thorax deep red-brown mixed with grey, the

tegule with slight medial dark line and grey tips; tarsi with pale

rings; abdomen grey-brown, the crests chocolate-brown mixed with

grey. Fore wing silvery-grey suffused with deep cuprous brown and

Fig. 108.—Syngrapha gammoides, 3.

slightly irrorated with blackish, the medial area witha deep cupreous

brown patch below the cell; subbasal line silvery defined on each

side by chocolate-brown, sinuous from costa to vein 1; antemedial

line silvery defined on each side by chocolate-brown, excurved below

costa, incurved in cell, then oblique and slightly sinuous; orbicular

with grey outline and its centre defined by chocolate-brown ; an

oblique silvery Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its tail dilated

into a spot; reniform with silvery outline defined on inner side by

chocolate-brown, its centre defined by chocolate-brown and with

black marks in its extremities, its outer edge constricted at middle

and with black mark beyond it; postmedial line double, chocolate-

brown filled in with silvery-grey, strongly bent outwards below costa,

SYNGRAPHA. 435

then oblique and slightly waved, somewhat angled inwards at vein 2,

some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line black-brown,

an oblique cupreous-brown shade from apex to its inner side at discal

fold then defining it on inner side, the line excurved below costa,

angled outwards below veins 4 and 3 and ending at tornus, a

cupreous-brown shade beyond it at middle with waved outer edge ;

the termen pale grey, expanding into a triangular patch below vein

2; a terminal series of slight black strie. Hind wing whitish

suffused with cupreous-brown, the veins and terminal area deep

cupreous-brown ; cilia brown at base, white at tips; the underside

white irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule, postmedial

line ineurved below vein 6, and subterminal shade.

3. Head and thorax rufous and grey ; fore wing more silvery-

grey with less cupreous brown suffusion especially before inner half

of subterminal line.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma a V-mark with a spot beyond

its lower extremity. .

Hab. Curtit, Callao (J. J. Walker), 1 9, Coquimbo (J. J.

Watker), 5 3,49, Valparaiso (Hdmonds) 2 3, 2 2 type chilensis,

Mulchen (Hlwes),1 3,19. Hap. 38-54 millim.

8256. Syngrapha egena. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 24.)

Plusia egena, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 8328 (1852); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het.

i. p. 332; Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pl. vii. f. 8; Smith, Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 251.

Head and thorax pale red-brown mixed with grey, the tegulz

and metathoracic crest tipped with grey; abdomen grey suffused

with pale red-brown, the crests rufous tipped with grey. Fore wing

purplish grey suffused with pale red-brown, the medial area below

the cell deep rufous with patches of the ground-colour at middle of

inner margin, and some golden cupreous below the cell and stigma ;

traces of a pale curved subbasal line from costa to median nervure ;

antemedial line fine, brown defined at sides by grey, angled out-

wards below costa, then oblique ; orbicular slightly defined by

brown, elliptical; a U-shaped stigma below the cell with slight

silvery outline; reniform slightly defined by brown, oblique,

oblong ; postmedial line fine, brown defined on each side by grey,

excurved below costa, incurved and slightly sinuous below vein 6,

some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line brown,

oblique from apex to vein 5, excurved below veins 4 and 3, then

incurved, a golden cupreous shade beyond it from apex to termen

at vein 2, extending to just before the line at middle. Hind wing

red-brown, the interspaces of basal half whitish except on inner

area; cilia whitish with a red-brown line near base; the underside

ochreous white irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal spot,

postmedial line exeurved below costa, subterminal shade, and fine

terminal line.

Ab. 1. Much darker.

Hab. U.S.A., Florida, Indian R., 1 2; Mexico, Jalapa

282

436 NOCTUID®.

(Tr wjillo, Hoege), 3 3, 4 2, Orizaba (Horh), 1 9, Coatepec

CBro0ks)). Maw: GUATEMALA (Rodriguez), 1 3, Cerro Zunil

(Champion), 1 9, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Harri (Tweedie), 1s

Cotompia, Bogota (Stevens), 1 3; VENEAUEDA (Moritz, Kaden,

Dyson), 2 3, 6 Q; Brazin, Rio Janeiro, 1 9, Tryuca (Wagner),

TOR Paravay, Sapucay (foster), 1 Q@; AreEnrina, Goya

(Perrins), 1 3, La Rioja (Giacomeli), 1 9, Buenos Ayres

(O. Thomas, Wr ‘Uhinson), é 3,22. Harp. 40-50 millim.

8257. Syngrapha feisthameli. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 25.)

Plusia feisthamelit, Guen. Nect. ii. p. 829 (1852).

S. Head and thorax violaceous white mixed with red-brown, a

whitish line between antenne; abdomen brownish grey, the

erests chocolate-brown at tips. Fore wing violaceous white irrorated

with red-brown, the medial area below the cell chocolate-brown

with a golden elo ss except at inner margin, the subterminal area

suffused with golden brown; subbasal line fine, whitish shgnhtly

defined on each side by brown, “from costa to vein 1; : antemedial line

whitish slightly defined on extn side by brown, excurved below costa,

ineurved in cell, then oblique; orbicular ih violaceous annulus

slightly defined by brown, elliptical, inwardly oblique; reniform with

violaceous outline and its centre defined by brown, angled inwards

along median nervure to near the antemedial line and defined

below by a curved silvery streak; postmedial line violaceous

defined on outer side by chocolate- brown, slightly bent outwards

below costa, oblique to vein 5, then obliquely - incurved, some pale

points beyond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, dark,

incurved below discal fold and slightly angled outwards at sub-

median fold; a fine waved dark terminal line defined on inner side

by whitish from apex to below vein 4. Hind wing pale cupreous

brown; cilia white with a slight brown line through them; the

underside whitish suffused with brown, an indistinct diffused

postmedial line.

Hab. Fr. Gutana, Cayenne, St. Jean Maroni (Schaus), 1 So.

Hep. 36 millim.

8258. Syngrapha egenella.

Plusia egenella, Herr.- Schatt. Corresp.-blatt. zool.-min. Ver, Regensb. xxii,

p. 183 (1863).

Plusia abeona, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 332, pl. 30. f. 16 (1889).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with grey.

Fore wing pale pinkish grey mixed with red-brown : subbasal line

repr esented by a greyish striga from costa ; antemedial line greyish,

slightly waved, oblique below the cell where it is defined on outer

side by a narrow oblique whitish band from below the orbicular,

which has a greyish annulus and its centre defined by red-brown,

round; a faint whitish rounded stigma below the cell; reniform with

red-brown centre and slight grey annulus, figure-of-eight-shaped ;

the medial area with three indistinct oblique red-brown lines from

SYNGRAPHA.—PLUSIOPALPA. 437

cell to. inner margin ; postmedial line diffused, red-brown, bent

outwards below costa, then oblique, met at vein 6 by a narrow

oblique whitish band from costa near apex which then defines its

outer side, a golden cupreous patch beyond it from just below costa

to beyond lower angle of cell, then bent outwards to termen below

vein 2; subterminal line hardly traceable on the golden patch,

then brown defined on outer side by whitish; a fine whitish line

just before termen from just below costa, ending on termen at

vein 38. Hind wing whitish, the veins and terminal area cupreous

brown ; cilia white; the underside with the costal and terminal

areas mores with brown, a brownish postmedial line from costa

to vein 5, and subterminal shade.

Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 1 3 type abeona, Godman-

Salvin Coll.; Cua, San Cristobal. Hxp. 36 millim.

8259. Syngrapha illustrata.

Plusia illustrata, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 828 (1852).

Plusia rorana, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xiii. p. 862 (1894) ; id. Biol. Centx.-

Alm, Elle te aie) 19) 503, pl. 96. f. 11.

@. Head, thorax. and abdomen grey mixed with brown. Fore

wing grey suffused with pale brown and slightly irrorated with

dark brown; a faint grey subbasal line from costa to vein 1; ante-

medial line indistinct, grey, angled inwards in cell and oblique

below the cell, an obliquely curved silvery-whitish shade beyond

it arising in end of cell and with oblique golden cupreous patch

beyond it in submedian interspace ; onntenles with faint whitish

outline, constricted at middle; a faint whitish rounded stigma

below the cell; reniform faintly defined by whitish, constricted at

middle and produced at upper extremity ; two faint whitish.

medial lines from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line silvery-

whitish, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, interrupted above

vein 4 by a deep golden cupreous wedge-shaped patch arising

below apex and from termen at vein 2 and extending to lower

angle of cell, met at vein 5 by a silvery-white shade from apex; a

white subterminal line from vein 2 to tornus. Hind wing whitish

tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area brown ; cilia white ;

the underside with faint postmedial line.

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 2 type rowana, Godman-

Salvin Coll.; Harrr; Brazin, Espiritu Santo, 1 9. xp. 86-40

millim.

Genus PLUSIOPALPA. Type

Plusiopalpa, Holl, Psyche, vii. p. 9 (1894) ..... SEROCee Danan manent adrasta.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and with a tuft of hair behind at extremity, the 3rd rather long and

triangularly fringed with hair in front and behind; frons smooth with large

tuft of hair; eyes large, round; antenne of male minutely ciliated ; thorax

clothed with hair and scales mixed, the metathorax with large divided crest ;

438 NOCTUID A.

fore and mid tibise moderately fringed with hair, the hind tibiz smoothly

scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crests on three basal seginents, the crest on Ist

segment large. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the costa arched towards

apex which is somewhat produced, the termen evenly curved and slightly

crenulate, the tornus with scale-tooth ; veins 3 and 5 froma near angle of cell ;

§ from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole;

11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing; veins

3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6,7 from upper

angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

A. Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly angled

inwards) im) subnaedian! foldl) 2... .c.-esscoeee esses esas camptogamm«.

bB. Fore wing with the postmedial line not angled inwards

1, MATING NCL co osocscnncnansaqendcs0000000000 aonBDoDGR0C adrasta.

8260. Plusiopalpa camptogamma. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 26.)

Polychrysia camptogamma, Hmpsn. A. M.N. H. (8) v. p. 480 (1910).

2. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some greyish ;- tarsi

ringed with whitish; abdomen grey suffused with brown, whitish

at base. Fore wing er ey suffused with red-brown and with sight

dark irroration; traces of a silvery streak in base of submedian

fold ; subbasal line represented by a curved silvery striga from

costa ; antemedial line represented by an oblique silvery striga

from. costa and inwardly oblique sinuous silvery line from cell to

inner margin; an oblique silvery Y-shaped stigma below end of

cell, filled in with erevyish and with downeurved silvery streak

above it in cell, the inner arm of the stigma sinuous, some golden

cupreous suffusion beyond and below it; postmedial line indistinct,

strongly bent outwards below costa and incurved below the tail

of the Y-shaped stigma, where there is some silvery-white on it,

some greyish points “bey ‘ond it on costa and an oblique shade from

pelo i costa to its outer edge at vein 4; subterminal line greyish

defined on inner side by dark brown from vein 7 to 2 and a wedge-

shaped patch in submedian fold, excurved to termen at vein 6, then

incurved, a dark patch beyond it at middle; a terminal series of

black strie defined on inner side by a grey ish line. Hind wing

brown with a slight cupreous tinge; cilia greyish with a dark line

at base; the underside grey-brown with diffused grey-white medial

shade.

Hab. Br. E. Arrica, Kikuyu; Roromo (Crawshay), 1 9 type.

Hap. 34 millim.

8261. Plusiopalpa adrasta.

Plusia adrasta, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 110. f. 85 (1874).

Plusiopalpa dichora, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 9 (Jan. 1894).

Plusia crassipalpus, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 576 (March 1894).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with pinkish grey; abdomen

ochreous white, the crests red-brown. Fore wing red-brown mixed

with pinkish grey, striated with brown and largely suffused with

PLUSIOPALPA.—CHRYSOPTERA. 439

golden copper; a curved dark streak from base of costa to the

antemedial line below the cell, with an oblique white subbasal

striga on its outer edge from costa; antemedial line brownish

defined on inner side by pinkish grey, inwardly oblique below

median nervure, a black point on its outer edge in the cell; an

oblique Y-shaped silvery-white stigma at origin of vein 2 witha

point above its outer arm in the cell ; a silvery point in lower ex-

tremity of cell before the V-shaped dark reniform ; some chocolate-

brown suffusion below and beyond angle of cell; postmedial line

Fig. 109.—Plusicpalpa adrasta, §. 3.

slight, double, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, slightly

waved below vein 5 and excurved below submedian fold; sub-

terminal line greyish defined on inner side by black with chocolate-

brown suffusion before it to below vein 5 and with oblique brown

suffusion before it from the postmedial line at vein 2 to termen at

vein 1, bidentate between veins 7, 6, then incurved and ending on

termen at vein 1, some black-brown beyond it at apex; a fine

black terminal line and grey line at base of cilia. Hind wing

whitish suffused with cupreous brown except on basal and costal

areas; the underside white irrorated with brown, a broad brown

subterminal shade with its outer edge angled outwards at discal

fold.

Hab. Gapoon, Ogové R.; Nara, Durban, in Coll. Clark

Assam, Khisis, 1 & type crassipalpus; Cryion, Haputale

(Mackwood), 1 3, Diyatalawa (Mackwood),1 2; Java (Hors-

field), 1 9; Cretenrs. Hap. 40-44 millim.

Genus CHRYSOPTERA.

Type.

Chrysoptere, Latr. Fam, Nat. p. 476 (1825) ........cssscesenseeeene c-aureum.

Polychrysia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 251 (1827) ......... Secaouadedapovodboses moneta.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and broadly scaled, the 3rd long and fringed with long hair in front ;

frons smooth, with large tuft of hair; eyes large, round, overhung by long

cilia; antennz of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-

like scales mixed with some scales, the patagia fringed with long scales above,

the meso- and metathorax with large divided crest; tibiz fringed with long

hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests, the crests on Ist and 3rd segments

larger. Fore wing with the costa arched towards apex which is somewhat,

produced, the ternien typically evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and

440 NOCTUID&.

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 cell about half the

length of wing; veins 3,4 from angle; 5 fully developed from above angle ;

6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

Sucr. I. Fore wing with the termen excised below apex and excurved at middle.

*8262. Chrysoptera sica.

Plusia sica, Greser, Berl. Ent. Zeit. xxxv. p. 77 (1890); John, Hor. Soe.

Ent. Ross. xxxix. p. 251, pl, xiv. f. 22; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 235.

Head and thorax yellow tinged with rufous and irrorated with a

few dark brown scales ; tegule with blackish line at middle, the tips

of tegule, patagia, and metathoracic crest red-brown and white ; legs

red-brown and yellowish; abdomen whitish irrorated with brown,

the crests yellow tipped with red-brown and white. Fore wing

with the ground-colour of the basal area and inner area to the cell

Fig. 110.--Chrysoptera sica, G. 3

1°

and vein 2 pale purplish pink, the rest of wing metallic golden, the

whole wing suffused in parts with red-brown and irrorated with

black, the veins streaked with red-brown; antemedial line red-

brown, excurved below costa, incurved in cell, then excurved ;

orbicular with whitish annulus defined at sides by brown, narrow,

oblique; a silvery-white oblique elongate V-shaped stigma below

the cell, its extremity rather bent outwards; reniform with whitish

annulus defined by brown, constricted at middle; postmedial line

double, red-brown filled in with whitish, slightly bent outwards

below costa and incurved at discal fold, oblique and slightly smuous

below vein 4 and excurved below submedian fold, some white points

beyond it on costa; subterminal line red-brown, slightly dentate,

arising at vein 7, angled inwards at discal and submedian folds and

excurved at middle; a dark brown terminal line. Hind wing

CHRYSOPTERA. 44).

whitish suffused with red-brown especially on terminal half; cilia

white at tips; the underside white tinged and irrorated with brown

and with traces of postmedial and subterminal lines.

flab. Wi. Stpurta, Amurland, Raddefka, type + 2 in Coll.

Piingeler; Mancuurta. Exp. 36 milli.

Secr, I]. Fore wing with the termen evenly curved.

A. Fore wing with the postmedial line angled outwards to

below apex.

a. Fore wing with the subterminal line angled inwards to

theypostmyedinl line ratinveraua mee nescesne-o tee sees eae ce eee ce micadina.

b, Fore wing with the subterminal line not angled inwards

to the postmediall linevat veins oc se-.sesees-ceeneee ce -ee one c-aureum.

B. Fore wing with the postmedial line not angled outwards to

below apex.

a. Fore wing red-brown suffused in parts with gold ......... splendida,

O, lore wpling: mstAUG GOlGEMN 5, cocescoosonscacsnorasoopEbeaobodedber aurata,

ce. Kore wing whitish tinged with red-brown. :

a’. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell U-shaped ... moneta.

b'. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell oblique

Wes lta podlpe scareraaaas wisn daar eemetimuacnenseannone tener MOorigera.

8263. Chrysoptera micadina.

Plusia mikadina, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 202 (1878) ; id. Ill. Het. B.M.

lil. p. 22, pl. 46. f. 7; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 235.

Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with blue-grey ; antenne

white; palpi reddish brown; pectus whitish; abdomen whitish

tinged with red-brown, the crests red-brown. Fore wing pinkish

suffused with purplish grey and slightly irrorated with brown, the

area before the postmedial line below submedian fold and the

terminal area brilliant gold; subbasal line represented by a red-

brown striga from costa, a red-brown patch beyond it with golden

spots on it below costa and cell; antemedial line shght, double,

red-brown, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, slightly

waved, and retracted to inner margin; orbicular represented by

two obliquely placed spots defined by brown, the lower minute; an

oblique elliptical spot defined by brown at origin of vein 2, its

lower part filled in with a golden comma-shaped mark; reniform

represented by two small brown annuli defined by greyish ; medial

line brown, oblique and rather diffused to the reniform, then

inwardly obliqué; postmedial line double, brown filled in with

purplish grey and defined on outer side by purplish grey with a

brown shade beyond it, bent outwards below costa, oblique to below

vein 7, then obliquely incurved; traces of a red-brown subterminal

line, execurved below vein 7 and oblique to tornus; a brown terminal

line defined on inner side by grey towards apex. Hind wing pale

cupreous brown, the cilia pale rufous; the underside ochreous white

irrorated with brown, diffused curved brown medial and postmedial

lines.

449 NOCTUID®.

Hab. 1. Stperta, Ussuri; Japan, Hakodaté, 1 d type, Oiwaké

(Pryer), 1 2, Fushiki (Leech), 1 3, Tokio (Maries), 1 9. Hap.

34-42 millim.

8264. Chrysoptera c-aureum.

Phalena c-aureum, Kuoch, Beitr. i. p. 7, pl. 1. f. 2 (1781); Esp. Schmett.

iv. pl. 110. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 230.

Noctua concha, Faby. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 161 (1787); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett.,

Noct. ff. 287 (187), 458; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. 2. p. 66, pl. 139. f. 3; Frr.

Beitr. pl. 76.

Head and thorax dark brown mixed with blue-grey, the patagia

and mesothoracie crest with some rufous; antenne white ; palpi,

frons, and pectus in front dark brown, the hinder part of pectus

whitish ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests rufous. Fore wing

SSSSSSSS5

)

Fig. 111.—Chrysoptera c-aureum, 3. +

T°

pinkish suffused with purplish grey and slightly striated with brown,

brilliant gold spots before the postmedial lie above and below

vein 1 and the terminal area brilliant gold; subbasal line indis-

tinctly double, red-brown, from costa to submedian fold, some red-

brown suffusion beyond it with a gold spot on subcostal nervure ;

antemedial line double, brown, angled outwards below costa and

inwards on median nervure, then excurved and sinuous, an oblique

brown bar above it from costa; orbicular indistinct, brownish, repre-

sented by two obliquely placed spots, the lower minute ; an elliptical

spot defined by brown at origin of vein 2 with a golden U-shaped

mark in its lower part; reniform very narrow and strongly con-

stricted at middle, with slightly greyish annulus ; medial line brown,

diffused and oblique to the reniform, then inwardly oblique and

sinuous; postmedial line double, brown filled in with grey, bent

outwards below costa, oblique to below vein 7, then inwardly

CHRYSOPTERA. 443

oblique and slightly sinuous, some brown suffusion before it and a

brown shade beyond it ; subterminal line brownish, waved, excurved

below vein 7 and incurved below discal fold; a brown terminal

line. Hind wing grey-brown; the underside whitish irrorated

with brown, an oblique diffused brown medial line and postmedial

line oblique below discal fold.

Hab. BEtaium; GERMANY, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ;

Austria ; Huncary; SwitzErRuanp ; N. Iraty; S. ScanpDInavtia ;

S. Russta; Armenta; W. Srperia, Altai. Hvp. 40-46 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 267; Hffn. Raup. p. 182, pl. 35. f. 2.

Humped ; green, with three white longitudinal lines on somites

2 to 4 and oblique dark green stripes broadly bordered by white

from dorsum to sides of preceding somites; the three terminal

somites white. Food-plants: Thalictrum aquilegifolium and

Aquilegia vulgaris. 9-4.

8265. Chrysoptera splendida.

Deva splendida, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 208 (1878) ; id. Ill. Het. B.M.

ili. p. 23, pl. 46. f. 8; Staud. Rom, Mém. vi. p. 537, pl. 10. f. 8; id. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 285.

Plusia intractata, Staud. Stett. Hut. Zeit. 1888, p. 262.

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with pink, some of the scales

tipped with grey ; antennze whitish ; pectus ochreous white behind ;

abdomen pale red-brown, the crests bright red-brown tipped with

grey, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing bright red-brown

mixed with greyish and irrorated with a few black scales, the area

before inner half of the postmedial line and the terminal area

suffused with gold; subbasal line represented by double white

striee from costa; antemedial line white defined on inner side by

‘ greyish, angled outwards below costa, then obliquely curved to

inner margin near base; orbicular defined by white, elliptical, con-

joined to a stigma defined by white below the cell, its inner side

produced to a point on median nervure confluent with the ante-

medial line and its lower extremity somewhat produced ; reniform

slightly defined by whitish, narrow, oblique, a black point in its

upper extremity ; postmedial line slight, whitish, bent outwards

below costa, then double, oblique, sinuous, slightly bent outwards

to inner margin, some whitish points beyond it on costa; sub-

terminal line brown, defined on outer side by whitish towards

costa and inner margin, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and

ending at tornus; a terminal white line except towards tornus;

cilia red-brown mixed with whitish. Hind wing cupreous red-

brown, the cilia white at tips; the underside white irrorated with

red-brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, a brown post-

medial line excurved below costa, and subterminal shade.

Hab. KH. Stperta, Ussuri, 1 5; Japan, Yesso Cara), IL &

Hakodaté, 2 3 type, Tokio (Marzes), 1 2, Yokohama (Pryer),

13,32. Hep. 32-42 millim.

444, NOCTUID”.

*8266. Chrysoptera aurata. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 27.)

Plusia aurata, Stand. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 260; id. Rom. Mém. vi.

p. 536, pl. 10. f. 6; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 235.

Head and thorax yellow tinged with rufous and with a few dark

brown scales, the metathoracic crest red-brown and white at tip;

palpi with red-brown streak at side of 2nd joint, the 8rd joint

mostly dark brown; abdomen yellowish white, the crests red-brown

and white at tips. Fore wing métallic golden shiehtly irrorated

with red-brown, the veins streaked with red-brown ; a red-brown

subbasal striga from costa; antemedial line slight, red-brown,

strongly excurved; orbicular shghtly defined by red-brown, oblique

elliptical, conjoined to a rounded spot below the cell; reniform

very indistinctly defined by red-brown, strongly goneinicten at

middle and with black point beyond its upper ‘extremity ; medial

line dark red-brown, rather diffused at costa, angled outwards to

lower angle of cell, then oblique ; postmedial line red-brown, oblique

to below vein 7, angled inwards at discal fold, excurved at middle,

then oblique and slightly sinuous; subterminal line red-brown,

excurved to discal fold in which there is a streak before it extending

to the postmedial line, then faint, oblique, slightly angled out-

wards below vein 4, a pinkish white patch beyond it above tornus ;

a red-brown terminal line. Hind wing pale yellow tinged with

brown, the veins browner; a red-brown terminal line; the underside

slightly irrorated with red-brown, an indistinct brown medial line

and postmedial line strongly excurved below costa.

Hab. EK. Streerta, Amurland, Raddefka, in Coll. Piingeler,

Ussuri. Hap. 40 millim.

8267. Chrysoptera moneta.

Noctua moneta, Faby. Mant. Ins. ii. p. Mee (et ); Hibn. Eur. Schmett.,

Noet. ff. 189, 289, 773-5; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. 2. p. 63, pl. 139. f.2; Frr.

Beitr. pl. 71; South, Extom. xxiii. p. 287, pl.3. tf 6 (1890) Staud. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 235 ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 198.

Noctua flavago, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 112. f. 1 (1787).

Noctua napelii, Vill. Ent. Linn. p. 275, pul, fe 1 PAL (CAS),

Noctua argyritis, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 218 (1792).

Plusia esmeralda, Oberth. Et. Ent. v. p. 85 (1880).

Deva trabea, Smith, Ent. News Philad. vii. p. 29 (1896).

Head and thorax white tinged with rufous and mixed with red-

brown and black scales; palpi in front and behind with red-brown

streaks on 2nd joint and dark brown on 38rd joint; abdomen white

tinged with brown, the crests red-brown at tips. Fore wing pale

bright rufous irrorated with some black scales and largely suffused

with silvery-gold especially on inner medial area, apical part of

costal area, and middle of terminal area ; subbasal line double, red-

brown filled in with gold and with some gold before and beyond it,

from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double, red-brown

CHURYSOPTERA. 445

filled in with gold and with some gold before and beyond it, ex-

curved below costa, incurved in cell, then exeurved; orbicular

defined by red-brown, its annulus formed by golden silvery spots,

extending almost to submedian fold, its inner edge excised; a

curved red-brown medial shade with the deeper rede brown medial

line on it, obliquely incurved to lower angle of cell, then oblique ;

postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with ae and with some

gold before and beyond it, oblique to below vein 7, then inwardly

oblige, sinuous, and slightly excurved at vein 4; eal line

red-brown, oblique to below vein 7, then waved, excurved at

middle ; the apical golden patch defined by bright rufous below,

angled “inwards in discal fold ; a red-brown terminal line. Hind

wing pale cupreous red-brown, the costa whitish; cilia whitish

with a red-brown line through them ; the underside white irrorated

with brown, the costal area with blackish, a slight brown discoidal

striga and rather diffused postmedial line excur ved below costa.

Ab. 1. esmeralda. Head, thorax, abdomen, and wings with the

rufous tones replaced by pale yellowish brown. —Alberta, K. & W.

Turkestan, Mongolia, Siberia, N. China.

Hab. Ox ANwaDA, Alberta, Calgary (Wolley-Dod), 3 3, 39;

Brrrain; FRANcE, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech

Colls.; Austria; Huneary; Switzerbanp, Zeller Coll.; Spatn,

Andalusia; Russta, Zeller Coll.; ArmEenta; W. TURKESTAN,

Issyk-Kul, Ala Tau; W. Srperta, Altai; E. Turxesray, Il;

Moneoria, Changai Mts.; E. Srperta, Dahuria, Ussun; N.

Cuina. Hep. 86-44 millim.

Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 156 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 104, pl. 241. f. 2;

Tiffin. Rawp. p. 132, pl. 35. f. 3.

Grass-green with white dots ; dorsal lme dark ; lateral line white.

Food-plants: Aconitum napellus, Delphinium, and Trollius

europeus, both leaves and flowers. 5-6 and 7—

8268. Chrysoptera morigera. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 28.)

Deva morigera, H. Kdw. Ent. Am. ii. p. 169 (1887); Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 247.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen white shghtly mixed with red-

brown. Fore wing ‘white mostly suffused with pale red-brown and

irrorated with a few black scales; a curved subbasal white striga from

costa defined on inner side by red-brown ; antemedial line’ brown

with whitish suffusion before it, angled outwards below costa, then

obliquely curved ; orbicular and the stig ma below the cell defined by

white, both narrow oblique bar- shaped ; reniform faintly defined

by whitish; postmedial line white, angled outwards below costa,

then oblique, sinuous, and cnemmedl § in salimnadien interspace ; sub-

terminal line diffused, whitish defined on inner side by red-brown

suffusion, exeurved below vein 7, excurved and somewhat dentate

at middle, and ending at tornus; a fine dark terminal line defined

on inner side by canto a white Tne at base of cilia. Hind wing

whitish tinged with eupreous brown especially on terminal area ; a

AAG NOCTUIDZ.

faint dark postmedial line with whiter shade beyond it; a whitish

line at base of cilia; the underside whiter irrorated with brown,

the postmedial line more distinct and rather diffused.

Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Cockerell), 1 3. Hxp. 40 millim.

Genus EOSPHOROPTERYX. .

ype.

Kosphoropteryxz, Dyar, Journ. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 80 (1902)... thyatyroides.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reavhing to well

above vertex of head and broadly fringed with scales in front, the 3rd long ;

frons smooth, with tuft of hair; eyes large, round, slightly overhung by cilia;

antenne of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the

meso- and metathorax with large divided crest; tibie slightly fringed with

hair; abdomen with small basal crest and very large crest on 3rd segment.

Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenu-

late, the inner margin excised towards tornus which has a seale-tuoth; 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 cell about half

the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed froin above angle ;

6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

8269. Eosphoropteryx thyatyroides.

Plusia thyatyroides, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 337, pl. 11. f. 8 (1852); Ottolengui,

J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. x. pl. ix, f. 12; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 249.

Head and thorax pale grey-brown ; frons with white bar above ;

antenne white towards base and with some black scales on basal

joint above; palpi rufous; tegule with black line at middle and

Fig. 112.—LHosphoropteryx thyatyroides, 3.

white tips; patagia with some black at shoulders and white line

near base ; the dorsal crests bright rufous; pectus and legs white

mixed with grey-brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white;

abdomen white dorsally suffused with grey-brown, the crests

rufous, the anal tuft red-brown above. Fore wing white suffused

with purplish pink and slightly irrorated with black, the medial

area silvery except towards costa; an oblique black-brown fascia

edged with rufous from costa near base to the antemedial line at

subeostal nervure; antemedial line brown defined on inner side by —

EOSPHOROPTERYX.—PSEUDEVA. 447

white, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, sinuous ; orbicular

with slight white annulus, oblique elliptical; the stigma placed on

an oblique rufous fascia from cell to the postmedial line, silvery-

white, iregularly V-shaped with a small spot beyond its lower

extremity; reniform very faintly defined by brownish and very

narrow, a small black spot in its upper part and two points in

lower; postmedial line double, red-brown, obsolescent towards

costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 6,

incurved at discal fold and slightly excurved at middle, angled

inwards at vein 2, then excurved, some yellow before it on inner

area and some white points with brown streaks between them

beyond it on costa; an obliquely curved red-brown shade from apex

to near the postmedial line with some silvery suffusion below its

extremity; subterminal line white and oblique to vein 7, then

indistinct, waved, and incurved; a fine dark terminal line with

white line before it from apex to vein 2. Hind wing whitish

suffused with brown with a sight golden gloss; an oblique whitish

postmedial shade; cilia white with small blackish spots at the

veins; the underside ochreous white, a sinuous brown postmedial

line and subterminal shade.

Hab. Cananva, Ottawa (Young), 1 2, Ontario, Orillia (Bush),

235; U.S.A., Northern, Central, and Middle States, New York

(Doubleday), 1 3,1 2 type, Evans Center (Grote), 1 5,1 9,

Washington, 1 2. Hxp. 36—42 millim.

Genus PSEUDEVA, nov.

Type, P. purpurigera.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd rather long and fringed with hair

in front; frons smooth, with tuft of hair; eyes large, round, overhung by long

cilia; antenn of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales,

the patagia fringed with long hair-like scales above and at extremity, the pro-

thorax with spreading crest, the metathorax with very large crest; fore tibize

fringed with long hair, the mid and hind tibiz moderately fringed with hair ;

abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments, the crests on !st and 3rd

segments large, and with lateral tufts of hair. Fore wing with the apex pro-

duced and acute, the termen excised below apex and excurved at middle, 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

the cell half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from

well above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near

base only.

A. Fore wing with the postmedial line double, angled out-

wards below costa, then oblique and straight ............ purpurigera,

B. Fore wing with the postmedial line single, excurved

below costa, then oblique and almost straight; hind

wing white, the termen suffused with brown ............ palligera.

C. Fore wing with the postmedial line single, excurved

below costa, then oblique and incurved at middle ; hind

wing wholly suffused with brown .... .......c.seccscceseeee rubigera.

AAS NOCTUID &.

8270. Pseudeva purpurigera.

Deva purpurigera, Wik. xv. 1791 (1858); Ottoleneui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soe.

x. pl. vii. f. 1; Smith, Cat. Noct, N. Am. p. 246.

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with yellow and pink; antennx

whitish; pectus behind and hind legs whitish; abdomen whitish

irrorated with brown, the crests red-brown. Fore wing yellow

suffused with rufous and in parts with pink and sparsely irrorated

with black ; subbasal line represented by a slight red-brown striga

from costa and small dark spot below the cell, a curved red-brown

shade beyond it from costa; antemedial line indistinct, double, red-

brown, oblique, shghtly bent outwards at median nervure; orbicular

Vig. 1138.—Pseudeva purpurigera, G. 1.

slightly defined by blackish brown, rather diamond-shaped; reni-

form incompletely defined by blackish brown, narrow and strongly

constricted at middle; antemedial line double, red-brown, excurved

to below vein 7, then oblique and witha small black spot on its

outer edge at submedian fold, defined on outer side by an oblique

pinkish shade arising from apex ; subterminal line blackish, exeurved

below costa, angled outwards above vein 3, and ending at tornus ;

a fine blackish terminal line except towards tornus, defined on inner

side by a pink line to vein 4; some golden suffusion at middle of

terminal area and on inner area towards tornus. Hind wing white

tinged with cupreous brown except on costal area to near apex, the

terminal area slightly darker; a fine brown terminal line defined

on inner side by a white line to vein 2; cilia white; the underside

white slightly irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal point, slight

curved postmedial line, and somewhat diffused subterminal line.

Hab. Canada, Ontario, Orillia (Bush), 1 g type; US.A.,

PSEUDEVA. 449

Northern and Eastern States, Massachusetts, Amhurst (Packard),

1 3,1 9, New York, Colorado, New Mexico. Hxp. 32-36 millim.

Larva. Dyar, J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. iv. p. 145.

Head small, green with black ocelli; body with somites 4, 5,6 and

11 slightly enlarged, the tubercles low rounded cones on the promi-

nent somites; translucent green with oblique white bands; a white

lateral band contracted at the thoracic incisures, interrupted and

produced subventrally at the abdominal incisures ; a narrow double

dorsal line; Ist two pairs of abdominal prolegs absent. Food-plant,

Thalictrum. 5.

8271. Pseudeva palligera. (Plate CCXXXVLI. fic. 29.)

=e abies Grote, Papilio, i. p. 85 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

247.

Head and thorax rufous mixed with yellow; antennz white ;

fore tarsi, pectus behind, and hind legs white; abdomen white

slightly irrorated with brown, the crests rufous. Fore wing pale

yellow. tinged with rufous andl slightly irrorated with red- bro.

some pinkish i in and beyond end of cell, on postmedial area and on

terminal area above tornus, the veins streaked with red-brown ;

subbasal line represented by a curved red-brown striga from:costa

with a slight curved red-brown shade beyond it; antemedial line

red-brown, inwardly oblique, slightly incurved in cell, then ex-

curved; orbicular defined by red- brown, round, an elliptical spot

defined by red-brown below it; yeniform defined by red-brown,

narrow, oblique; postmedial line red- brown, defined on outer side

by a catitaln shade diffused to apex to vem 4, then by a white line,

very obliquely excurved to below vein ff, Bie inwardly oblique and

almost straight; a fine red-brown Eran line defined on inner

side by a pinkish white line to vein 3. Hind wine white, the

terminal area with a slight cupreous brown shade ; a slight some-

what sinuous brown postmedial line; a fine brown terminal line

with a slight white line before it to vein 2; the underside white,

the costal area faintly tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown,

a curved brown postmedial line.

Hab. U.S.A., Washington, 1 3, Colorado, California, Colusa

Co. (Walsingham), 43, 1 Q, Sierra Nevada, 2 ¢ type. Hp.

38 millim.

8272. Pseudeva rubigera, n. sp. (Plate COXXXVI. fig. 30.)

3. Head and thorax rufous mixed with yellow; antennz whitish;

palpi, pectus in front, and legs red-brown; abdomen white tinged

with red-brown, the crests rufous. Fore wing yellow suffused enn

rufous and slightly irrorated with red- brown, the postmedial area

and terminal area above tornus with a slight pinkish tinge, the

veins streaked with red-brown ; subbasal ine shght, curved, red-

brown, from costa to median anna, a slight eurved red- lomo

VOL. XLLt. ae

450 NOCTUID®.

shade beyond it; orbicular defined by red-brown, round, an elliptical

spot defined by red-brown below it; reniform defined by red-brown,

narrow, placed on a red-brown medial shade which below the cell

is approximated to the postmedial red-brown line, which is strongly

excurved below costa, then oblique, slightly ineurved to vein 2,

then slightly excurved, defined on outer side by a pinkish shade

arising from apex and extending to before it on costal area ; sub-

terminal line red-brown, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, and

ending at tornus; a fine red-brown terminal line defined on inner

side by a pink line to vein 4. Hind wing whitish suffused with

cupreous brown ; a slight oblique brown postmedial line defined on

outer side by whitish ; a fine brown terminal line defined on inner

side by whitish to vein 2; the underside white faintly tinged with

rufous and irrorated with red-brown, indistinct diffused postmedial

and subterminal lines.

Hab. U.S8.A., California (D’ Urban), 1 3 type. Hap. 40 millim.

Genus PLUSIDIA.

Type.

Plusidia, Buti. Il. Het. B. M. iii. p. 27 (1879)

nce eo eens cheiranthi,

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and rather broadly scaled in front, the 3rd rather long ; frons smooth,

with tuft of hair; eyes large, round, overhung by long cilia; antennz of male

ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the patagia dilated

with scales at extremities, the metathorax with large spreading crest; fore

tibix broadly fringed with hair on outer side, the mid and hind tibize smoothly

scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments, the crests on Ist and

3rd segments large. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly

curved and not crenulate; a small scale-tooth at 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 the cell about half the length

of wing; veins 3,4 from angle; 5 fully developed from well above angle;

6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastoniosing with the cell near base only.

8273. Plusidia cheiranthi.

Noctua cheiranthi, Tausch. Mém. Mose. ii. p. 822, pl. 20. f. 6 (1809) ; Friv.

Tudom, Akad. Evkon. xi. iv. pp. 53, 160, pl. 7. f. 6; Mill. Icones, iii.

p- 429, pl. 186. ff. 1-38 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 236.

Plusia eugenia, Ev. Bull. Mose. 1841, i. p. 32, pl. 3. ff. 38, 4; Terr.-Schaff,

Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 267; Frr. Neue Beitr. p. 83, pl. 532. f. 2.

Plusidia abrostoloides, Butl. Il. Het. B.M. iii. p. 28, pl. 47. f. 5 (1879).

Head and thorax pale red-brown; antennze with the shaft white

towards base; palpi deeper red-brown; tegulz with white tips ;

patagia with oblique white line at middle, the tips and dorsal crest

chocolate-brown with white tips; fore tibiz chocolate-brown, the

tarsi whitish ; abdomen pale red-brown, the crests chocolate-brown

tipped with white. Fore wing pale pinkish, the veins darker, the

medial area striated with brown, the costal and terminal areas

slightly irrorated with black; subbasal line black defined on each

PLUSIDIA. 451

side by white, oblique, from costa to vein 1, a rounded chocolate-

brown patch beyond it and a patch elons it on inner margin ;

antemedial line double, brown, curved ; orbicular defined by brown,

elliptical, a similar spot below it below the cell; reniform defined

by brown; a reddish brown medial shade ; postmedial line double,

brown, filled in with white and the outer line black-brown at inner

margin, oblique to vein 6 where it is angled outwards, then obliquely

inecurved; subterminal line whitish, defined on inner side by

chocolate-brown to vein 5, then by a brown shade and with a

rufous patch beyond it at apex, oblique to vein 6, then bent

inwards to vein 5, then sinuous; a brown terminal line defined on

inner side by white beyond the red apical patch. Hind wing

reddish brown, an indistinct sinuous postmedial line with caititais:

Fig, 114.— Plusidia cheiranthi, 3.

ale

shade beyond it; the underside white tinged with red-brown, a

slight discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line, and subterminal

shade.

Ab. 1. Fore wing much paler; hind wing white faintly tinged

with red-brown.

Hab. N.K. Germany, Zeller and Leech Colls., Silesia, Frey Coll. ;

Austria, Galicia; Hungary, D’Emmich Coll.; S. Russta, Urals ;

ARMENIA; W. Srperta, Altai; Moncorta; E. Srprrta, Dahuria,

Amurland, Ussuri; Japan, Hakodaté (Whiteley), 1 3,1 9 type

abrostoloides, Oiwaké (Pryer),1 3,19. Hap. 32-38 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 268; Hffm. Raup. p. 133, pl. 35.

f. 4.

Green, with dorsal and subdorsal white lines on thoracic somites

and oblique white streaks on abdominal somites ; lateral line white ;

11th somite humped. Food-plants, Thalictrum and Aquilegia

vulgaris. 5.

ZG?

452 NOCTUID &.

Genus PHYTOMETRA.

Type.

Phytometra, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 254 (1809) «21... eeeeeeeee scenes Sestuce.

*Plusia, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 89 (1816), non descr. nee

MURS SPO c.coaqanoo she comaasoacconedoadsoquecandodr onoddo90qdasuugnaede deaurata.

Tanelvallcia, eliilom, VOR, Da 20 (USAT) ococcencosasconccandaoopno0o0r variabilis,

Agrapha, Hibn. Verz. p..250 (1827) ..........0..-0ecerseen rete neon ered,

Panchrysia, Hiibn. Verz, p. 22 (1827) ............. Banca taatewstetenrae deaurata.

Diachrysia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 252 (1827) 2.1.00: seeeeeeeeeeeeeer eee orichalcea.

Chrysaspidia, Hibu. Verz. p. 252 (1827) ....... cooanoensa019s009000 bractea.

Chrysodeixis, Hiibn. Verz. p 252 (1827) ............- siaieeleleiseeies chaleytes,

Plusiotricha, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 10 (L004) ............2----sceeeee livida.

Trea, Lelio, IVI, WHEE! sooodoocpacceaoboaoeocoscoRocbopBoqaddeoacace chrysitis.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and moderately sealed, the 8rd rather long ; frons smooth, with large

tuft of hair; eyes large, round, overhung by long cilia; antenne of male

typically minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the

patagia fringed with long scales above, the meso- and metathorax with large

divided crest; tibize fringed on outer side with rather long hair; abdomen

with dorsal series of crests, the crests on Ist and 8rd segments larger. Fore

wing with the costa arched towards apex which is produced and acute, the

termen evenly curved and not erenulate, the tornus with 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 the cell about half

the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above

angle; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

Sect. 1. Antenne of male bipectinate with rather long branches, the apical

part ciliated, of female with serrations ending in bristles.

8274. Phytometra pterylota.

Plusia pterylcia, Meyr. Faun. Hawaii. iii. p. 848 (1904).

3. Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with some ochreous

and dark brown, some of the scales tipped with white ; palpi, frons,

and tegulze mostly scarlet; abdomen whitish tinged with rufous,

the crests rufous tipped with brown and grey. Fore wing golden

yellow suffused in parts with scarlet and irrorated with brown, the

costal area except towards base, the postmedial area, and the

terminal area towards tornus more purplish grey; subbasal lme

represented by an oblique brown striga from costa defined on outer

side by golden yellow ; antemedial line brown defined on inner side

by golden yellow, angled outwards below costa, interrupted in cell,

then oblique and slightly retracted to imner margin; a curved

silvery-white mark defined by brown at origin of vein 2, extending

into the cell and with round silvery-white spot defined by brown

beyond its lower extremity; reniform an oblique silvery-white bar

* Plusia, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. (8) p. 134 (1826) type amethystina has

precedence over Zelest/la, Herr-Schaff. Cat. Lep. Phal, B.M. vii. p. 587.

PHYTOMETRA. 453

defined by brown; medial line brown, diffused, oblique to the reni-

form, then inwardly oblique and bent inwards at submedian fold ,

postmedial line brown defined on inner side by golden yellow,

slightly incurved below vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line

brown, diffused on inner side, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ;

Fig. 115.—Phytometra pterylota, g. tt.

a brown terminal line. Hind wing whitish suffused with ochreous

brown, an indistinct oblique brown postmedial line; the underside

more ochreous.

©. Head and thorax dark chocolate-brown, the scarlet areas

more prominent, some of the scales tipped with purple-grey ; legs

brown mixed with purple-grey, the fore legs with some scarlet in

front; abdomen brown, the crests darker mixed with rufous and

tipped with white, the ventral surface scarlet except at base and

extremity; fore wing dark chocolate-brown with some scarlet

suffusion beyond the subbasal striga and below end of cell, the

middle of terminal area suffused with golden cupreous, some purple-

grey suffusion before inner part of antemedial line, above and

beyond end of cell, beyond the postmedial line, and on terminal

area towards tornus, a golden yellow mark before the subterminal

line between veins 3 and 2; hind wing brown, the cilia tipped with

white.

Hab. Hawatt, 8.H. Korlan Range, 1 ¢ type, Kilauea (Perkins),

12. Hap. 42 millim.

Srcr. II. Antenne of male bipectinate with short branches ending in long

bristles, serrate towards apex.

8275. Phytometra psectrocera, n. sp.

3S. Head and thorax black-brown mixed with grey; palpi with

the tip of 3rd. joint white; antennze with the shaft ringed with

white towards base; spurs and tarsi ringed with white; abdomen

dark brown mixed with grey. Fore wing dark brown tinged with:

grey and irrorated and striated with black, the inner half of medial

area darker; subbasal line represented by a sinuous silvery striga

454 NOCTUIDE.

defined by black from costa and short oblique streak in submedian

interspace ; antemedial line silvery defined on each side by blackish,

angled outwards below costa, then oblique sinuous; the silvery

stigma consisting of a small lunule above median nervure and an

oblique mark below the cell, its upper edge produced inwards to a

point, its lower extremity rounded with a small round spot below

it; reniform represented by a silvery bar forking above and below,

its upper outer arm very slight and with a small black spot on its

inner side ; postmedial line silvery defined on each side by blackish,

sinuous from costa to vein 4, then oblique and waved, angled

inwards in submedian fold almost to the stigma, some pale points

Fig. 116.—Dhytometra psectrocera, 3.

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beyond it on costa; subterminal line rather diffused, blackish,

arising below costa, slightly angled outwards at vein 7, then

sinuous, below vein 4 oblique and with silvery-whitish suffusion

beyond it; a terminal series of small black lunules slightly defined

on inner side by silvery-whitish; cilia with a fine whitish line at

base. Hind wing dark reddish brown; an indistinct dark post-

medial line oblique below vein 8, and diffused subterminal shade ;

the underside grey thickly irrorated with brown, the terminal area

suffused with fuscous, traces of a medial line with dark discoidal

striga on it, and a diffused postmedial line incurved below vein 3.

Hab. Hawatt, Maui, Campo Trail (# W. Terry), 1 & type.

Hap. 44 millim.

Srcr. ILI. Antennse of male serrate.

A. Fore wing violaceous grey shaded with brown ................8. Zavendula.

B. Fore wing whitish shaded with bright red-brown............... gerdu.

8276. Phytometra lavendula.

Plusia lavendula, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 347 (1902).

3. Head and thorax brown mixed with white; palpi with the

2nd joint brown at sides; a brown bar between antenne; the

tips of tegule, edges of patagia, and a line across their middle

violaceous white; tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen white

faintly tinged with brown, the crests brown and white. Fore wing

PHYTOMETRA. 455

pale violaceous grey irrorated with a few black scales and suffused

in parts with brown, especially the medial area below the cell and

the area before the subterminal line; subbasal line silvery-white

defined on each side by black-brown, from costa to submedian fold;

antemedial line silvery-white defined on each side by black-brown,

excurved below costa, almost obsolete in cell, then excurved and

slightly waved; orbicular a faint blackish U-shaped mark; an

oblique silvery Y-shaped mark below the cell, defined by black and

its arms filled in with grey; reniform defined by brown and with

white striz at inner and outer extremites below, slightly constr cted

at middle and angled inwards on median nervure; an indistinct

diffused brown medial line, excurved to vein 2, then incurved;

postmedial line double, brown filled in with violaceous grey, angled

inwards at discal fold, oblique from vein 4 to submedian fold where

Fig. 117.—Phytometra lavendula, 3. }.

it is angled inwards, angled outwards at vein 1, some white striz

with dark streaks between them beyond it on costa; subterminal

line white defined on inner side by brown suffusion, slightly

incurved below costa and strongly at discal fold, angled outwards

below vein 4, then incurved and ending at tornus ; dentate brown

shades before termen below apex and at middle; a fine waved dark

terminal line with a pair of minute black spots at vein 4; cilia

white, chequered with black at the veins. Hind wing white tinged

with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown; a whitish

subterminal mark at discal fold and terminal mark below vein 2;

cilia white chequered with brown at the veins; the underside white

with diffused brownish postmedial and subterminal lines,

Hab. Care Cotony, 1 ¢ type. Hxp. 42 millim.

*8277. Phytometra gerda. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 1.)

Plusia gerda, Ping. Iris, xix. p, 224, pl. 8. f. 8 (1907).

3S. Head rufous; thorax whitish suffused with rufous ; abdomen

whitish suffused with brown, the crests rufous tipped with white,

‘the anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing brownish white sparsely

striated with brown, the medial area red-brown below the cell and

suffused with red-brown towards costa; antemedial line whitish

slightly defined on inner side by red- brown, excurved below costa,

incurved in cell, then obliquely excurved; the stigmata purple-

456 -NOCTUID BE.

brown irrorated with grey, the orbicular defined by whitish, obliqua

U-shaped, the stigma below the cell defined by white, oblique

V-shaped with its lower extremity slightly bent outwards, the

reniform narrow and oblique above and angled outwards on median

nervure ; postmedial line white defined by red-brown, slightly on

outer side, bent outwards below costa and meurved below vein 5;

subterminal line white defined on inner side by rufous suffusion,

slightly incurved at discal fold and incurved below vein 3, the area

beyond it rufous towards apex and at middle; a red-brown terminal

line defined on inner side by a fine white line from apex to vein 3;

cilia rufous at apex and middle. Hind wing whitish suffused with

purplish brown, an indistinct diffused ineurved postmedial line and

diffused subterminal line; cilia ochreous white; the underside

ochreous white slightly wrorated with brown, the diffused lines

more distinct.

Hab. Trner, Kuku-noor, type ¢ ¢ in Coll. Piingeler. up.

40 millim.

Srucr. LV. Antenne of male ciliated.

A. Abdomen of male with more or less developed lateral tufts of long hair

towards extremity.

a. Hind tarsi of male with a comb of long spines at right angles to the

tarsus on inner side of basal half of 1st joint.

a‘. Hind tibie of male fringed with very long hair above; the anal

tufts large. ;

a. Hind tarsi of male with the basal joint fringed with long hair

above.

8278. Phytometra chalcopasta.

Plusia chaleopasta, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xxi. p. 1225 (1912).

Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with grey; antennze

Fig. 118—Phytometra chalcopasta, g. +

T°

ringed with white; tegule tipped with white; patagia with an

oblique white line near base; the dorsal crest tipped with white ;

PHYTOMETRA. 457

tarsi ringed with white; abdomen reddish brown, the crests tipped

with grey. Fore wing brown glossed with silvery-grey ; subbasal

line slight, silvery, excurved below costa and ending at vein 1;

antemedial line slight, silvery, incurved in cell, angled outwards at

median nervure, then oblique and slightly sinuous; orbicular with

faint dark outline, rounded; an irregularly quadrate stigma with

faint dark outline below the cell; reniform with faint dark outline,

constricted at middle; postmedial line slight, dark, bent outwards

below costa and oblique below discal fold, some whitish points

beyond it on. costa; subterminal line silvery slightly defined on

inner side by reddish brown, oblique and almost straight from apex

to tornus; a fine waved silvery terminal line from apex to vein 2.

Hind wing glossy grey-brown ; cilia with fine white line at base

and white tips; the underside grey irrorated with fuscous brown,

the base and inner area clothed with grey-brown hair, a dark

discoidal striga, the postmedial area broadly brown.

_ Hab. ? N. Invia (Walhouse), 1 9; Mapras, Gooty (Camp-

bell), 1 9, Nilgiris (Lindsay, Hampson), 3 9; Cuyton, Maske-

liya (de Mowbray), 1 3 type, Pattipola (Mackwood),1 9. Eup.

38—42 milli, ;

b?. (Plusiotricha.) Hind tarsi of male with the basal

joint not fringed with hair above.

a*, Fore wing with the inner medial and terminal

areas not golden.

a‘, Fore wing without white point beyond the

stigma below the cell and with white point at

Ger ainale, OF Call, csconcascdoasasosbcaq00000R000000000 livida.

b', Fore wing with white point beyond the stigma

below the cell and without white point at lower

anc levoiecellllamreenectnekan senate c ce ueeeeacasceescr ccs phocea.

6%. Fore wing with the inner medial and terminal

areas brilliant metallic gold ................cseeceees - @encofusa.

*§279. Phytometra livida. (Plate CCXX XVII. fig. 2.)

Plusiotricha livida, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 10, pl. xxi. f. 5 (1904).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with grey; tarsi

fuscous with slight pale rings; the lateral anal tufts whitish and

the genital tufts blackish. Fore wing dark brown mixed with

grey and with a slight cupreous gloss; subbasal line represented

by a slight pale striga from costa and two blackish marks below

the cell; antemedial line slight, pale, oblique from costa to the

upper edge of the narrow oblique orbicular, faintly defined by grey

and inwardly oblique below the cell from the inner arm of an

oblique V-shaped mark below the cell faintly defined by white and

somewhat constricted at middle; some dark reddish brown suffusion

at and below end of cell with a minute white point on it at lower

angle of cell; postmedial line indistinct, double, minutely waved

and somewhat angled inwards at submedian fold; the subterminal

area suffused with cupreous brown witha slight whitish striga with

458 NOCTUIDZ®.

blackish mark beyond it on its outer edge above and below vein 4.

Hind wing dark cupreous brown, the cilia greyish at tips; the

underside with the basal half greyish brown, the terminal half

fuscous, the termen greyish.

fab. GaBoon, Ogowé R., type + d in Coll. Holland. zp.

36 millim.

8280. Phytometra phocea.

Plusia phocea, Hmpsu, A. M. N. H. (8) v. p. 433 (1910).

Head and thorax red-brown with a greyish tinge; tarsi ringed

with whitish; abdomen pale ochreous brown, the basal crest and

ventral surface grey-brown. Fore wing red-brown with a silvery

erey gloss; subbasal line slight, whitish, from costa to vein 1;

antemedial line obsolete on costal half, slight oblique and silvery-

from cell to inner margin, slightly defined on inner side by dark

brown and on outer by a dark shade expanding into a triangular

patch below the stigma, which is indistinct silvery U-shaped with

a silvery-white point beyond its lower extremity; reniform very

Fig. 119.—Phytometra phocea, G. 1.

indistinct, dark brown with slight silvery points on its inner and

outer edges, rather quadrate ; an indistinct brown spot at middle

of costa and oblique shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin;

postmedial line slight, silvery defined on each side by dark brown,

excurved below costa, then oblique, excurved at middle and bent

outwards below submedian fold; subterminal line silvery-grey

defined on inner side by dark brown suffusion, angled outwards at

vein 7, then slightly incurved and oblique to tornus, some dark

suffusion beyond it at middle; a series of slight silvery strize just

before termen. Hind wing brown with a cupreous gloss; cila

white at tips; the underside whitish suffused with brown, the

terminal area broadly fuscous brown.

Hab. Ucanpa, Mabira Forest, Chagwe (Weave), 1 2, Mbale,

Mt. Kokanjero (Weave), 1 9; Navan, Durban (EH. ZL. Clark),

2 3 type. Hap. 36 millim.

PHYTOMETRA. 459

8281. Phytometra eneofusa. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 3.)

Plusia encofusa, Hmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. p. 576 (1894); Swinh. A. M.N.H.

(6) xv. p. 11 (1895).

3. Head and tegule ochreous tinged with scarlet, the latter

with dark medial line and the tips blackish and white; thorax

grey-brown, with the patagia at base and dorsal crest in front

ochreous tinged with scarlet; palpi, pectus, and legs grey-brown ;

abdomen grey-brown, the genital tufts white. Fore wing brown

suffused with grey, the inner medial area and the terminal area

except at apex and a patch above tornus brilliant metallic gold, a

patch below base of cell, the cell on medial area and patches beyond

it and below its extremity red-brown mixed with gold, subbasal

line slight, brown, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line brown

slightly defined on inner side by gold, oblique and almost straight ;

orbicular, reniform, and a U-shaped stigma below the cell with very

faint brown outlines; an oblique brown line from lower angle of

cell to inner margin; postmedial line brown slightly detined on

inner side by gold, oblique, straight to submedian fold then slightly

excurved, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line

brown defined on inner side by red-brown and golden suffusion,

angled outwards at vein 7 and below veins 4 and 3 and excurved to

tornus; a fine white line at base of cilia. Hind wing brown with

a cupreous gloss ; cilia white with a brown line through them; the

underside whitish thickly irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal

striga, the postmedial area broadly brown.

Hab. Stxntm (Lidderdale, Moller), 4 3 type; Assam, Khisis.

Exp. 36 millim.

b'. Hind tibix of male moderately fringed with hair above,

the anal tuft normal.

a’, Fore wing with the termen excised below apex and

excurved at middle.

a>. Fore wing with the golden brown shading on inner

medial and subterminal areas dark, the sub-

terminal line strongly incurved below vein 6 ...... Jracta.

68, Fore wing with the golden shading on inner

medial and subterminal areas paler, the sub-

terminal line obliquely incurved below yein6 ... placida.

8282. Phytometra fracta. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 4.)

Plusia fracta, Wik. xii. 920 (1897).

Head and thorax grey mixed with pale brown, the tegulie except

at base and the dorsal crest in front witha slight reddish tinge,

the former whitish at tips; patagia with an oblique whitish line

at middle; abdomen whitish tinged with brown, the. basal crest

rufous in front. Fore wing whitish tinged with red-brown and

with a slight golden gloss especially on terminal area, the inner

medial area golden-brown beyond the antemedial line and below

the stigma; subbasal line fine, white, from costa to vein 1; ante-

460 NOCTUID E.

medial line whitish, excurved below costa and ineurved in cell, then

silvery-white and oblique, a golden-brown mark before it at inner

margin; orbicular with brownish centre and whitish annulus,

round; a U-shaped stigma below the cell slightly defined by

whitish; reniform with brownish centre and whitish annulus,

elliptical; an oblique brownish line from lower angle of cell to

inner margin; postmedial line brown filled in with ochreous white,

excurved below costa, then oblique, very slightly waved to discal

fold, a whiter shade beyond it and some white points on costa ;

subterminal line brown, rather diffused, excurved below costa and

strongly incurved below vein 6, then erect and defined on outer

side by whitish towards inner margin; a white line just before

termen from apex to vein 3; cilia with a fine whitish line at base

and small dark spot at vein 4. Hind wing cupreous brown, the

interspaces of basal half whitish; cilia white with a brown line

through them; the underside with the basal half brownish white,

the terminal half pale brown, the costal and terminal areas irrorated

with dark brown.

Hab. Congo (Curror), 1 2 type; ABysstnta, Atbara (Ger-

rard), 1 3; Br. EH. Arrica, Ndimu (Betton), 1 9; Ucanna,

Entebbe (Afinchin), 13, Ruwenzori (Wollaston), 19; Masnona-

LAND, Salisbury (Marshall), 13; Nara, Durban (Lezgh),2 9.

Hep. 86-40 mill.

8283. Phytometra placida.

Pilusia placida, Moore, Lep. Cey]. iii. p. 78, pl. 151. f. 10 (1884); Himpsn.

Moths Ind. il. p. 574.

Plusia chillagocs, Lucas, Pr. Roy. Soc. Queens]. xv. p. 150 (1900).

Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale red-brown, the tegul

Fig. 120.—-Phytometra placida, . 1.

pale rufous with white tips; antenne white slightly tinged with

brown; abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown, the basal crest

PHYTOMETRA. : 461

fiery red in front. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale red-

brown, the medial area below the stigma and the terminal area

with a metallic golden gloss; subbasal line fine, white, from costa

to submedian fold ; sartemedtel line whitish, incurved in cell, then

oblique ; orbicular with brownish centre and. whitish annulus,

round; a broad U-shaped stigma below the cell, slightly defined by

WwW die!D - renitorm with br ons centre and shght whitish annulus,

elliptical ; ; postmedial line double, brownish Filed; -in with white,

bent outwards below costa, then oblique, a whiter shade beyond it ;

subterminal line ditfused, brown, excurved at vein 7, and ee

incurved below vein 8; a white line before termen from ape

to vein 8; a fine white line at base of cilia. Hind wing adi

brown, the interspaces of basal half whitish; cilia white with

a brown line through them; the underside with the basal half

brownish white, the terminal half suffused with brown, a brown

discoidal striga, diffused postmedial line, and subterminal shade.

Hab. Punsas, Deyra Dhun, 13; Manras, Nilgiris (Hampson),

oe Cimon a nype; QUEENSLAND, pape t chillagoes in Coll.

Inueas. Hap. 38 millim.

*, Fore wing with the termen evenly curved.

a®. Fore wing with the postmedial and terminal

areas not metallie gold.

a4. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell

Y-shaped, or U- shaped with a spot

a eeyond its lower extremity. -

. Fore wing with the inner medial area

suffused with golden cupreous.

a®, Fore wing with the tail of the Y-

shaped stigma forming a large tri-

aAVLNP MONS): occa edo ‘sounodeoedood0eda0 gammaloha,

b°. Fore wing with the tail of the Y-

shaped stigma not forming a large

La iangular lobe.

. Fore wing with silver spct filled in

with ecupreous in lower part of cell

AITOTE JNO SMUETND, cococsodocosocoucane cupreomicans,

7, Fore wing with slight silver mark

in lower part of “cell above the

stigma,

a8. Fore wing with the inner and

terminal areas chocolate-brown

suffused with golden cupreous .. chalcedona.

o8. Fore wing with the inner. and

terminal areas bright red-brown

suffused with golden cupreous... cirewmscripta.

ci, Fore wing without silver mark in

cell above the stigma.

a’, Fore wing with the stigma U-

shaped with a spot beyond its

lowerextme niibyeeeeeeR Eee Eee rar cee VerrUcd,

68, Fore wing with the stigma Y-

shaped.

a® Kore wing without black-

brown patch on medial area

laSlOnr NG Colllscopooanecocags0800 hemichalcea,

4.62 NOCTUID ®.

69, Fore wing with black-brown

patch on medial area below

thegcelll Mecenacemctisecsetsccee doagee

vs, Fore wing with the inner medial area

not suffused with golden cupreous.

a®. Fore wing with short black streaks

before the subterminal line between

veins 8 and 4,

ai, Head, thorax, and fore wing grey

mixed with dark brown ............

v7, Wead, thorax, and fore wing whitish

mixed with red-brown ...............

46, Fore wing without short black streaks

before the subterminal line between

veins 8 and 4.

ai, Fore wing with rufous patch below

MANGAS OE Gall mestoocooosessccocoagaes

47, Fore wing without rufous patch

below middle of cell.

a’, Kore wing with the termen pale

with fine silvery line and short

Streaksiloeton Ombre eee taeeecee

18. Kore wing with the termen not

pale with fine silvery line and

short streaks before it.

a’, Fore wing with flesh-coloured

spot before middle of termen.

o9, Fore wing without flesh-

coloured spot before middle

of termen.

a0, Fore wing with the stigma

below the cell widely

spreading above...........-...

10, Fore wing with the stigma

below the cell narrow

ADOVE. (nsonadsicstoeaoenaassc

v4. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell

U-shaped without spot beyond it .........

c!, Kore wing with the stigma below the cell

V-shaped, its lower part bent outwards.

a, Fore wing with the ground-colour

GOllGleM-yVEMIOGY oosoooarosrocesccnsceouscaoc

b5, Fore wing with the ground-colour not

golden-yellow.

a’, Fore wing with fine waved silvery

line before termen.

a’, Fore wing with the stigma below

the cell elongate .......... hes slclesios

b7, Fore wing with the stigma below

the cell short.

a8, Fore wing without silvery-white

spot in lower extremity of the

MBM coooccoccaasan0a000 0.6 Jeleieiesinisis

03. Fore wing with silvery-white

spot in lower extremity of the

E{alalvh eneseerpRacnobecsonpanotooeaecne

48. Kore wing without fine wayed silvery

line before termen.

ai, Kore wing with the markings

silvery-white.

dor fineisteri.

brassice.

nt.

subsidens.

angulum.

limbirena.,

tarassota,

Surcifera.

eugrapha.

ablusa.

lunata.

violascens.

microstigma,

PHYTOMETRA. 463

a8, Fore with without black-brown

patch on medial area below the

Col Meae striae sence tee cete nee eainese tans daubet.

és, Fore wing with black-brown

patch on medial area below the

GOUT UU SSE eae moar ae mtt indicator.

u7, Fore wing with the markings not

SHES AUSIND Hocacsacgsoosoegoauaacoe0de oblusistgna.

ds, Kore wing with the stizma below the cell

very elongate and oblique V-shaped with

its lower part not bent outwards ......... lectula,

ce‘, Fore wing with the stigina below the cell

formed ‘by two obliquely- placed elongate

elliptical ENIKIGIAY GISOUS coeeonen eansoancanecene distalagma.

v°. Fore wing with the postmedial and terminal

areas metallic gold.

a4, Fore wing with the golden area emitting

an oblique spur to the cell below the

Onbicullayc1s.c2 bebsascee danxcoostteacaeee cece brachychalcea.

b'. Fore wing with the golden area not

emitting an oblique spur to the cell

belowstlvevorbreulaiveeseesee eee mecaman ara bipartita.

6284. Phytometra gammaloba. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 5.)

Plusia gammaloba, Hmpsnu. A. M. N. H. (8) v. p. 430 (1910).

3. Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with grey; tegule

with slight dark medial line and white tips; abdomen pale rufous,

the basal crest fiery red tipped with grey, the crest on 2nd segment

brown tipped with grey. Fore wing bright golden cupreous with

slight dark irroration ; subbasal line repr esented by a silvery striga

from costa and double striga from cell; antemedial line silvery

defined by cupreous brown, exommvell below: costa, angled inwards

in cell, oblique and sinuous ‘from cell to inner margin; the stigma

formed by a small black spot defined at sides by silvery strize

above median nervure and a Y-shaped silvery mark below the

cell filled in with whitish, its tail bent outwards and dilated into a

triangular lobe filled in with silvery-white; reniform represented

by a silvery striga on upper discocellular with elliptical cupreous

brown mark beyond it and two silvery strie below forming with

the median nervure an incomplete triangle; postmedial line in-

distinctly double filled in with silvery. -or ey, obliquely curved

and minutely waved from costa to submedian fold where it is

angled inwards, then bent outwards, some grey-white suffusion

before and beyond it from costa to vein 38, narrowing below;

subterminal line silvery-white, excurved from costa to vein 6,

then oblique, some grey-white beyond it at middle and in sub-

median interspace; a fine silvery-white line just before termen ;

cilia grey-white mixed with cupreous brown. Hind wing cupreous

brown, the cilia with fine whitish line at base and white tips; the

underside whitish suffused and irrorated with red-brown, an in-

distinct oblique postmedial line, the area beyond it dar k brown

with a cupreous gloss.

AGA NOCTUID®.

@. Abdomen greyer; hind wing darker.

Hab. Mavacascar, Betsileo (Cowan), 1 3,1 9 type. Hzxp.,

3 44, 9 40 millim.

8285. Phytometra cupreomicans.

Plusia cupreomicans, Hmpsn. Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 112, pl. iv. f. 19

(1209).

Head and thorax whitish suffused with red-brown; abdomen

white tinged with red-brown, the crests darker at tips. Fore wing

red-brown almost entirely suffused with brilliant cupreous gold ;

subbasal line double, brown filled in with gold, from costa to

vein 1; antemedial line double, brown filled in with gold, waved; an

oblique elliptical silvery stigma in and below middle of cell with a

small round spot beyond its lower extremity, both defined by brown

and with some gold in centres ; reniform slightly defined by brown

and with silvery points at lower extremities; postmedial line

double, brown filled in with gold, shghtly excurved below costa

and incurved at discal fold, exeurved at middle, then oblique and

slightly excurved above inner margin; subterminal line brown,

excurved below vein 7 and at middle; cilia with fine whitish line

at base and whitish tips. Hind wing whitish suffused with

cupreous red-brown, especially on terminal half; cilia with fine

whitish line at base and white tips; the underside white tinged

with rufous, the terminal half suffused with brown, a slight curved

brown postmedial line.

Hab. S. Nieerta, Old Calabar (Crompton), 1 9; Ucanna,

Ruwenzori, Semliki Valley (Wollaston), 1 9 type; N. Ruopesta,

Luangwa R. (Weave), 1 5. Hap. 32-36 millim.

8286. Phytometra chalcedona. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 6.)

Plusia chalcedona, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 346 (1902).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some grey, the tegule

fiery red at middle, the patagia tipped with grey; tarsi ringed

with whitish; abdomen pale red-brown, the crests at tips and

ventral surface deeper red-brown. Fore wing purple-grey suffused

with red-brown and almost entirely glossed with gold; subbasal

line slight, silvery-white, from costa to submedian fold, a red-brown

and golden patch beyond it below the cell; antemedial line silvery,

obsolescent, angled outwards below costa and inwards in cell, then

oblique and slightly sinuous ; a silvery stigma below the cell con-

sisting of a small oblique U- shaped mark with minute cr escent

above it in the cell and elliptical spot beyond its lower extremity ;

postmedial line brown, slightly defined on outer side by silvery-

white from costa to vein 3, oblique, straight; subterminal line

indistinct, brown, almost straight ; a slight ‘silvery-white line

before middle of termen ; cilia grey at base, brown at tips. Hind

wing whitish suffused with | cupreous brown, the terminal area

cupreous brown ; cilia white at base, brown at tips ; ; the underside

PHYTOMETRA. 465

whitish irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal striga, sinuous

postmedial line, and faint subterminal shade.

Hab. Ucanpa, Ruwenzori (Wollaston), 1 2 ; TRANSVAAL,

Pretoria (Distant), 1 6; Navat, Esteourt (Hutchinson), 1 3,

1 @ type, Durban (Clark), 1 3. Exp. 30-384 millim.

8287. Phytometra circumscripta.

Plusia circumscripta, Frr. Neue Beitr. i. p. 42, pl. 23. f. 2 (1831); Geyer,

Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 855; Dup. Lép. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 489, pl. 42.

f. 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 237.

3. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with purple-grey, the

tegulz fiery red at base; abdomen grey-brown suffused with

rufous, the crests dark brown and grey at tips. Fore wing

purple-grey suffused and irrorated with red-brown, the inner half

of medial area and the terminal area except at apex and tornus

bright rufous with a golden gloss; subbasal line slight, silvery-

whitish, from costa to submedian fold, a rufous and gold patch

beyond it below the cell; a silvery stigma below the cell consisting

of a very narrow oblique U-shaped mark with streak from it to

antemedial line on median nervure and elliptical spot beyond its

lower extremity; postmedial line brown defined on outer side by

silvery-whitish and with a silver line before it from vein 3 to inner

margin, oblique, excurved above inner margin, some whitish points

beyond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, brownish, oblique

to vein 5 and slightly excurved at middle, some silvery-white on it

below vein 2; a silvery-white terminal line from just below apex to

vein 2. Hind wing whitish suffused with cupreous brown, the

terminal area cupreous brown, a slight brown postmedial line; cilia

whitish with a brown line near base; the underside whitish tinged

and irrorated with red-brown, a rather diffused brown postmedial

line and faint subterminal shade.

Hab. Stctny, 2 3 ; Greect, 1 ¢ ; Crete; Syria. Hap. 30-

36 millim.

8288. Phytometra verruca. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 7.)

Noctua 00, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 45, pl. 311. f. F (1782), nec f. I.

Noctua verruca, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 81 (1794); Ottolengui, J. N.Y.

Ent. Soe. x. pl. viii. f. 2; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 250.

Argyrogramma omega, Hiibn. Ziitr. ii. p. 29, ff. 873-4 (1823).

Autographa omicron, Hibn. Verz. p. 251 (1827),

Plusia questionis, Treit. Schmett. Eur. x. 2. p. 182 (1835), nee Fabr.

Plusia rutila, W\k. xxxiii. 837 (1865).

Head yellow suffused with fiery red, the antennz brownish ;

thorax deep brown, some of the scales tipped with grey; pectus

and hind legs brownish white; abdomen whitish tinged with

brown, the crests deep brown. Fore wing greyish suffused and

irrorated with deep brown and almost entirely glossed with brilliant

VOL, XIII. 2 isl

4.66 NOCTUID ®.

gold, the medial area below submedian fold brilliant gold; a slight

chocolate-brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; ante-

medial line chocolate-brown, indistinctly double, inwardly oblique

below the cell; an oblique elliptical golden spot with silvery

annulus below middle of cell, with a minute silvery spot well

beyond its lower extremity ; reniform faintly defined by chocolate-

brown, oblique; a faint oblique sinuous brown line from lower

angle of cell to. inner margin; postmedial line chocclate-brown,

indistinctly double, excurved below costa, then oblique and slightly

sinuous, angled inwards in submedian fold, then execurved; sub-

terminal line chocolate-brown, rather diffused, angled outwards

at vein 7 and inwards at discal fold, angled outwards below

veins 4, 38 and ending at tornus; a slight chocolate-brown line

before termen except towards tornus; cilia dark brown. Hind

wing whitish suffused with cupreous brown; a fine dark terminal

line ; cilia whitish; the underside white faintly tinged with brown,

a faint brown subterminal shade.

Hab. U.S.A., Hastern States, 3 ¢, 1 9, Massachusetts, New

York, New Jersey, Florida, Kansas, Texas; Mexico, Jalapa

(Trujillo), 1 3, 1 2, Tabasco, Teapa (H. H. Smith), 1 9,

Ventanas (Morrer), 1 9; Costa Rica, Candelaria Mts. (Under-

wood), 1 9 ; Panama, San Felix (Champion), 1 9, Godman-

Salvin Coll., Cana mines (Zylecote), 1 2 ; Jamatca (Hlmsley),

1 @ type rutela, Runaway Bay (Walsingham), 1 3 ; CuBa,

Matanzas (Schaus), 1 6; Dominica (Eliott), 1 2 ; Sr. VINCENT

(H. H, Smith), 2 9; Conompra, Bogoti (Stevens), 1 Q ;

VENEZUELA (Dyson), 1 9 ; Br. Guiana (Hodway),1 3. Huxp.

30-34 millim.

8289. Phytometra hemichalcea, n. sp.

(Plate CCX XXVII. fig. 8.)

@. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some whitish ;

abdomen whitish suffused with red-brown. Fore wing red-brown

mixed with greyish and almost entirely suffused with cupreous

gold; subbasal line silvery defined on outer side by brown, ex-

curved below costa and ending at submedian fold; antemedial

line silvery slightly defined on each side by brown, incurved in

cell, then oblique and sinuous; orbicular narrow, oblique, defined

by whitish; an oblique silvery Y-shaped stigma below middle

of cell, filled in with gold and its tail formed by a small spot;

reniform very faintly defined by brown; traces of a medial brown

line from the stigma to inner margin; postmedial line double,

brown filled in with gold, excurved below costa and at middle,

some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line in-

distinct, diffused, brown, angled outwards at vein 7 and below

veins 4 and 3, ending at tornus; a white line just before termen

except at apex. Hind wing cupreous brown; cilia white tinged

with brown; the underside white irrorated with brown, a slight

PHYTOMETRA. 467

brown discoidal striga, indistinct oblique postmedial line, and

faint subterminal shade.

Hab. N. Nieerta, Ilesha (Humfrey), 1 Q type. Hap.

28 millim.

8290. Phytometra dorfmeisteri. (Plate CCX X XVII. fig. 9.)

Plusia dorfmeistert, Feld. Keis. Nov. pl. 110. f. 33 (1874).

Plusia siculifera, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 8 (1894).

Plusia rhodochrysa, de Juan. Aun. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1903, p. 171, pl. 9. f. 3.

2. Head and thorax deep red-brown mixed with some yellowish

and white, the tegulz and patagia with whitish tips and the latter

with oblique whitish line across them; pectus and legs yellowish

mixed with red-brown, the tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen yellowish

suffused with brown. Fore wing yellowish suffused and irrorated

with red-brown and glossed with brilliant metallic gold especially

on inner medial area, which has a black-brown patch below the

cell; subbasal line represented by silver strie from costa and cell

defined on outer side by black; antemedial line silvery defined on

outer side by black-brown, angled outwards below costa and in-

wards in cell, then oblique and slightly sinuous; orbicular with

yellowish outline and its centre defined by black, oblique; an

oblique silver ¥Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its arms with yellow

between them and its tail slightly dilated; reniform chocolate-

brown defined by black ; two small black spots at middle of costa ;

postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with gold, slightly bent

outwards below costa, then waved, oblique below vein 3, and angled

inwards at submedian fold, some white points beyond it on costa ;

subterminal line blackish with black-brown shades before it from

costa to vein 4and beyond it at middle, slightly excurved below

vein 7 and waved towards inner margin ; a terminal series of small

black lunules forming a bar at middle, defined on inner side by

whitish ; cilia whitish with an interrupted red-brown line through

them. Hind wing dark brown with a cupreous gloss ; cilia whitish

with a brown line near base; the underside with the basal half

whitish suffused with red-brown, the terminal half fuscous, a slight

brown discoidal striga.

Hab. 8. Nigeria, Hesha (Humfrey), 1 9; GaBoon, Ogové R.,

type t+ stculifera in Coll. Holland; Navan, Durban (Leigh,

Cooke), 2 2; Care Coxony, Knysna, type f 2 in Coll. Rothschild ;

Mavririvs. Hp. 30 millim.

8291. Phytometra brassice. (Plate CCXXXVIL. fig. 10.)

Plusia brassice, Riley, 2nd Rept. Ins. Mo. p. 110, f. 81 (1870); Beth.

Rept. Ent. Soe. Ont. 1871, p. 51, f. 93; Pack. Hayden’s 9th Rept. Geol.

Suivey Pio, i a—c-) Ottolengui, J. N-Y.' Hint. Soc) x. pl: ix, f 11;

Dee: Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 503; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

p. 253.

Plusia echinocystis, Behr, Streck. Lep. p. 94 (1874).

Head and thorax brown mixed with grey; tegule at middle and

2H2

468 NOCTULD &.

tips and patagia at tips with black lines defined behind by white

scales; the spurs and tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen grey

tinged with red-brown, some whitish hair at base, ne erests dark

brown and whitish at tips, the lateral tufts of male rufous. Fore’

wing brown mixed with grey and irrorated with black, tinged in

parts with rufous; subbasal line mdistinctly double, ion filled

in with whitish, slightly angled outwards below costa and cell and

ending at submedian fold; antemedial line indistinctly double,

brown filled in by whitish, waved; orbicular defined by white,

narrow, oblique, somewhat constricted at middle; an oblique

silvery-white ¥-shaped stigma below the cell, its tail dilated into an

elliptical spot ; reniform very indistinct and defined by a few white

scales, constricted at middle ; postmedial line dark brown slightly

defined on outer side by whitish, bent outwards below costa, then

oblique and minutely waved, somewhat bent outwards below sub-

median fold, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal

line blackish slightly defined on outer side by white and with short

black streaks before it from below costa to above vein 4, dentate ;

a fine waved blackish terminal line; cilia with red-brown line near

base and intersected with red-brown at the veins. Hind wing red-

brown with a cupreous gloss, the interspaces of basal half with some

whitish; cilia white with a maculate brown line near base; the

underside white thickly irrorated with brown.a shght brown discoidal

striga and indistinct diffused curved postmedial line.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma consisting of a U-shaped

mark with spot beyond its lower extremity.

Hab. Canada, Ottawa (Fletcher), 2 3; U.S.A., throughout,

New York (Speyer), 1 3,2 9, Missouri (Raley), 3 ¢, Alabama,

1 2, Colorado, Boulder (Cocker ell), 1 6,42, Denver (Oslar),

erat es California (Behr, D Urban), 3 6, 22, Marina Co.,

eS 5 Arizona, Phenix (Awnzé), 7 3,5 Q, Prescott (Kunze), 1 3,

1 QO: Maxxco, Jalapa (Lrujillo), 1 3, 2 2, Godman-Salvin Coll.

Hap. 34-42 millim.

Larva. Riley, Rept. US. Dept. Agric. 1883, p. 119, pls i. & xi.

Green with whitish dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral lines, sometimes

wanting ; 1st two pairs of prolegs absent. Food-plants: Cabbage,

Turnip, Tomato, Reseda, Taraxicum, Rumex, Crepis, Chenopodium,

Trifolium, Senecio. Extremely destructive.

8292. Phytometra ni.

Hoatrae nt, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 284 (1802); Dup. Lép. Fr. vii.

Zep: 44, FOL WSe ti, ES lair, Neue Beitr. pl. 23. f. 1; Knaggs, Ent. Ann.

1869, p. 124 & 1870, f. 8; Mill. Icones, iii. p. 394, pl. 149. ff. 11-13;

Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 159; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 128, pl. 2438. f. 2

Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 570; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 239,

Plusia humilis, Wk. xii. 915 (1857).

Plusia extrahens, Wk. xii. 929 (1857).

Piusia signifieans, Wk. xii, 930 (1857).

PHYTOMETRA. 469

Plusia innata, Werr.-Schaff. Corresp.-blatt. zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. xxii

p. 184 (1868).

Piusia comma, Schultz, Intern. Ent. Zeit. i. p. 32 (1907).

Plusia ni, deserticola, Oberth. ined. Roths. ? Nov. Zool. xx. p. 129 (1918).

Head and thorax rufous mixed with whitish, the tegule with

slight blackish line at middle defined behind by white scales ; abdo-

men pale rufous, the crests red-brown and whitish, the ventral

surface white tinged with rufous. Fore wing whitish irrorated and

striated with black-brown and suffused with red-brown with a

golden cupreous gloss ; subbasal line white defined on each side by

red-brown and with a black striga before it below the cell, sinuous,

from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, red-brown

filled in with white, waved, oblique below the cell; orbicular white,

its centre defined by red-brown, oblique elliptical; an oblique

silvery-white W-shaped stigma below the cell, with spot beyond

its lower extremity with some red-brown in centre, its arms

filled in with white; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in

with white, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and minutely

Fig. 121.—Phytometra ni, S. 4.

waved, bent outwards below submedian fold, some white points

beyond it on costa; subterminal line blackish slightly defined on

outer side by white and with short black streaks betore it from

below costa to above vein 4, dentate; a fine white line before

termen and a fine dark terminal line; cilia with a white line

at base followed by a series of red-brown lunules. Hind wing

whitish suffused with cupreous red-brown, the terminal area cupreous

red-brown ; cilia white with a red-brown line near base ; the under-

side white tinged with rufous, the costal area irrorated with brown

and the terminal area slightly suffused with brown.

Ab. 1. comma. Fore wing with the stigma forming a Y-mark.

Ab. 2. deserticola. Fore wing slightly paler and less rufous.

Hab. Jamatca, Kingston (Cockerell), 1 9; CuBa; Harri

470 NOCTUID EB.

(Tweedie), 1 2 type humilis; Carn VERDE Is., St. Vincent (J. J.

Walker), 3 6,29; Briraty; France, Sand Coll-; Germany

Zeller Coll.; Austr1A; Hungary; SwifZERLAND; Spatn, Barce-

lona, Frey Coll., Andalusia, Leech Coll. ; Irary, Naples, Zeller Coll.,

Capri (C. 8. Browne); Auaria ; Canaries, Teneriffe, Guimar

(Walsingham), 1 9 ;? Larnann, Leech Coll.; AnmentA; ASTA

Minor (Lederer), 1 2, Pontus, ‘A caaenranns Mts. ,Eybiz, 1 OF Cyprus

(Glaszner), 1 3, Nicosia (Bucknill),2 9° ; SYRIA ; Eerrt, Dabod

(Wood-Jones), 1 6; Br. EH. Arnica, Eb Urru (Betton), 2

TRANSVAAL, Pretoria (Distant), 1 ¢ ; Basuronanp, Caledon R.

(Crawshay), 1 9; Care Cotony, Cape Town (Lightfoot), 1 3 ;

ADEN (Yerbury), 1 § ; Persian GuiF, Fao (Cumming), 1 @,

Mekran Coast, Ormara (Cumming), 1 9; W.TuRKESTAN; JAPAN,

Yokohama (Tons, Jamey, M6 AQ 3 Cy Orias, Chekiang

(Pryer), 1 2; Punsas, Dharmsala (Hocking), 1 6, Cambellpur

(Yerbury), 1 2, Wuzeerabad (Hearsey), 1 3,1 2 types extrahens

and szgnificans; BENGAL, Pusa (Lefroy), 1 o Bomepay, Kutch,

13, Mhow (Forsayeth), 1 3; Mapras, Bangalore (Watson),

1g,1 92. Hzxp. 30-38 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 271; Hffin. Raup. p. 135.

Yellowish green with white lateral line. Food-plants: Nettle,

Solanum, ete.

8293. Phytometra subsidens. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 11.)

Plusia subsidens, W\k. xv. 1787 (1858).

Q@. Head and thorax rufous, the tegulz and patagia whitish at

tips, the scales of metathoracie crest whitish at tips; pectus and

legs ochreous and rufous, the tarsi slightly ringed with white ;

abdomen ochreous suffused with rufous, the crests darker. Fore

wing rufous suffused with golden cupreous, the medial area with a

deep rufous patch below the cell; subbasal line silvery defined on

each side by deep rufous, from costa to vein 1, a rufous patch

beyond it below the cell with a slight silver streak in submedian

fold ; antemedial line silver, angled ‘outwards below costa, Incurved

in cell, inwardly oblique below the cell; an oblique silver U-shaped

stigma below the cell with a spot beyond its lower extremity ; reni-

form very faintly defined by brown and somewhat constricted at

middle ; postmedial line indistinctly double, red-brown, filled in

with silver at imner margin, bent outwards below costa, then

oblique, shghtly excurved at middle and excurved below submedian

fold, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line in-

distinct, red-brown, excurved below vein 7, angled inwards at discal

told, exeurved below veins 4 and 8 and submedian fold, a deep

rufous shade beyond it from apex to vein 3; a whitish line before

termen from apex to vein 2; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing

ochreous suffused with cupreous red-brown, the terminal area

PHYTOMETRA. A711

darker; cilia white with a red-brown line near base; the underside

white tinged with rufous, a diffused brown postmedial line, the area

beyond it suffused with greyish brown.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell forming a

Y -mark.

fab. N.S. WauEs, Sydney (Lambert), 2 2 type; S. AusTRALIA,

Parkside (Lower), 1 9. Exp. 36 milli.

8294. Phytometra angulum. (Plate CCX XXVILI. fig. 12.)

Plusia angulum, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 850 (1852),

Head and thorax bright rufous, the tegule with slight brown

line at middle and white tips, and some of the scales of thorax

tipped with white; tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen

ochreous suffused with rufous, the crests rufous with some white at

tips. Fore wing purple-brown irrorated with white and suffused

with golden cupreous especially on terminal area except towards

tornus, the medial area with a deeper rufous patch below the cell ;

subbasal line represented by two slight oblique white strize from

costa; antemedial line slight, whitish, oblique to middle of cell,

then waved; orbicular defined by whitish except above and with

some whitish in centre, oblique elliptical; an oblique brilliant

silver Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its arms with some white

between them, its tail short and dilated at extremity ; reniform

deep rufous with slight whitish outline very strongly constricted at

middle ; postmedial line rufous, bent outwards below costa, then

waved to vein 5, oblique to submedian fold where it is angled in-

wards, then bent outwards, some white points beyond it on costa ;

subterminal line indistinct, brownish, slightly exeurved below vein 7,

angled inwards at discal fold, exeurved below veins 4 and 3 and

above vein 1; a fine silvery-white line before termen with slight

streaks before it in the interspaces from below apex to vein 2; the

termen and cilia grey mixed with purple-brown. Hind wing

cchreous tinged with cupreous brown, the terminal area darker ;

cilia ochreous white with a brown line near base; the underside

ochreous white tinged with brown, the terminal area suffused with

brown.

Hab. Transvaat, Pretoria (Distant), 1 ¢, Johannesburg

(toss), 1 3; Navan, Fort Nottingham (Hornby), 1 2, Marits-

burg (Berensburg), 1 ¢, Esteourt (Hutchinson), 1 3, 8 9,

Durban (Marshall, Leigh), 1 3, 1923; Basvrotanp, Maseru

(Crawshay), 1 6; Care Conony (Drege, Trimen), 13,1 9,

Transkei (Miss F. Barrett),3 3,192. Hxp. 38-42 millim.

Larva. Pale green; dorsal line double, fine, white; subdorsal

line formed by obscure sinuous whitish strie; a stronger white

lateral line; warts with one hair; two anterior pairs of prolegs

absent.

A472 NOCTUIDAE.

8295. Phytometra limbirena.

Plusia gamna, Koll, Hiigel’s Kaschmir, iv. p. 481 (nec Linn.).

Plusia limbirena, Guen. Nocet. ii. p. 350 (1852); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii.

p- 72, pl. 152. f.5; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 568.

Head and thorax dark chocolate-brown mixed with grey-white ;

tegule with black line at middle and whitish tips ; tarsi dark brown

ringed with white; abdomen pale brown with some white hair at

base of sides, the crests dark brown, the lateral tufts of male rufous,

the ventral surface brown mixed with grey. Fore wing -purplish

grey suffused in parts with deep chocolate-brown and irrorated with

black, the medial area with a deep chocolate-brown patch below the

cell; subbasal line slight, pale, sinuous, from costa to submedian

fold; antemedial line double, chocolate-brown filled in with silvery-

white, waved, incurved in cell and oblique below the cell; orbicular

with faint pale outline and its centre defined by blackish, narrow,

oblique, constricted at middle; an oblique brilliant silver U-shaped

stigma below the cell, its lower extremity somewhat bent inwards

and with an elliptical spot beyond it; reniform very faintly defined

by black-brown; postmedial line double, chocolate-brown, filled in

with silver at inner margin, bent outwards below costa, then oblique

and minutely waved, angled inwards at submedian fold and bent

outwards below it, some whitish points beyond it on costa; sub-

terminal line very indistinct, dark, with some silvery points on its

outer side, chocolate-brown shades before it from costa to vein 4

and below vein 2, and beyond it at middle, the line excurved below

vein 7, then incurved; a fine waved black terminal line with minute

strize before it on apical half, and a flesh-coloured spot defined on

inner side by black at middle. Hind wing white, the inner area

suffused with cupreous brown, the veins and terminal area dark

cupreous brown; cilia white with a cupreous brown line through

them; the underside white irrorated with brown especially on costal

area, the terminal area suffused with brown, a slight discoidal striga

and diffused postmedial line.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma in the form of a Y-mark.

Hind tibize with the comb formed by two spines only.

Hab. Sv. Hetena (Wollaston), 2 6,3 2; Br. E. Arrica, Eb

Urru (Betton), 1 5, 1 2, Lagari (Betton), 1 9, Machakos

(Crawshay), 1 5, 1 9; Ueanpa, Entebbe (Wollaston), 1 92,

Ruwenzori (Wollaston), 1 29; Guru. E. Arrica, Utangu Distr.

(Neave), 1 3; Masnonatand, Salisbury (Marshall), 2 5,19;

Lorengo Marques (Junod), 1 6,19; Transvaat, White R.

(Cooke), 1 9, Pretoria (Distant),1 2; Navan, Estcourt (Hutchin-

son), 1 2, Durban (Clark), 1 3; Cape Conony (Sir A. Smith),

136,19; Mapagascar, Betsileo (Cowan), 1 9 ; Mavririus,

Curepipe (Lwlloch), 12; Avrmn ( Yerbury), 13; Manvras, Nilgiris

(Hampson), 4 3; Cryion (Green), 1 2, Kandy (Meade-Waldo),

1 9, Udagama (Mackwood),1 3. Hxp. 82-42 millim.

PHYTOMETRA. 473

8296. Phytometra tarassota, n.n. (Plate CCXXXVIL. fig. 13.)

Plusia confusa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 149 (1882), nec Stephens, 1850;

Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 568.

Head and thorax brown mixed with ochreous and a few black

scales; antennz blackish ; tegule tipped with white; tibiz and

tarsi ringed with whitish, the spurs black and white; abdomen

brownish ochreous, the crests browner. Fore wing ochreous

irrorated and suffused with brown with a golden gloss, especially on

inner half of medial area and before the subterminal line; subbasal

line white, excurved below costa and ending at vein 1, a black striga

before it below the cell; antemedial line whitish defined on each

side by brown, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell,

oblique and sinuous below the cell, two slight black marks before it

on inner margin; orbicular with whitish annulus, narrow, oblique ;

an oblique silvery U-shaped stigma below the cell, with a spot

beyond its lower extremity; reniform very obscurely defined with

four black points in its angles ; postmedial line double, brown

filled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa, then minutely

waved, somewhat incurved at discal fold and angled inwards below

submedian fold, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal

line whitish defined on inner side by golden-brown suffusion, angled

outwards at veins 7,6 and excurved above and below vein 3; a line

formed of whitish striz before termen, a terminal series of slight

blackish lunules, and a fine white line at base of cilia. Hind wing

brown with a golden gloss; cilia white with a brown line near base ;

the underside ochreous white irrorated with brown, the terminal

area suffused with brown, a brown discoidal lunule and rather

diffused postmedial and subterminal lines.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma forming a Y-mark.

Hab. Stxur, 2 3,2 2 type; Manpras, Nilgiris, 1 9. Hap. 36-

40 millim.

8297. Phytometra furcifera.

Plusia furcifera, Wk. xii. 927 (1857); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 568.

Plusia mutans, Wik. xxxili. 839 (1865); Hmpsn. Ill. Het. B.M. ix. p. 101,

ol, WO 1

Plusia ogovana. Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 9 (1894).

Plusia babooni, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 270 (1906).

Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with whitish; tegule with

black line at middle and white tips; pectus and legs white tinged

with brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen white

tinged with brown, the crest rufous and white, Fore wing white

thickly irrorated and striated with red-brown and glossed with

golden cupreous; subbasal line whitish defined on each side by

red-brown, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line whitish

defined on each side by red-brown, angled inwards in cell and

inwardly oblique below the cell; orbicular with whitish annulus,

narrow, oblique; an oblique silvery-white Y-shaped stigma below

474 NOCTUID®.

the cell, its tail thick, a patch of cupreous brown beyond it;

reniform whitish, slightly defined at sides by cupreous brown and

its centre defined by cupreous brown; postmedial line double, red-

brown filled in with whitish, slightly bent outwards below costa,

then minutely waved, somewhat incurved at discal fold, and oblique

below vein 4; some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal

line whitish defined on each sile by cupreous brown, excurved

below vein 7 and slightly angled outwards below veins 4, 3; two

fine waved whitish lines before the terminal series of slight

cupreous brown lunules; cilia white with two fine pale brown lines

through them. Hind wing white tinged with cupreous brown, the

terminal half suffused with cupreous brown; cilia white with a

brown line near base; the underside white, the costal and terminal

areas irrorated with brown, sinuous brown postmedial and sub-

terminal lines with brown suffusion between them except towards

inner margin.

Hab. GaBoon, Ogové R., type + ogovana in Coll. Holland ;

Transvaat (Cholmley), 1 3; Navan, Durban (Leigh), 13,19;

Punsas (James), 1 3 type, Dharmsala (Hocking), 29, Allahabad,

292; Srxum (Moller), 1 9; Manras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 2 6;

Creyton, 1 2 type mutans, Dickoya (Green), 1 2, Pundaloya

(Green), 1 3 ; Br. N. Guryea, Babooni (Pratt), type + baboont

in Coll. Bethune-Baker ; QuEENsLAND, Duaringa (Lower), 1 @.

Exp. 32-34 millim.

8298. Phytometra eugrapha, n. sp. (Plate CCXX XVII. fig. 14.)

¢. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous whitish ;

antenne ringed with black towards base then blackish; tegule

with two blackish lines and whitish tips; tarsi brown ringed with

white ; abdomen brownish ochreous, the crests brown mixed with

ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous tinged with brown with a

golden gloss and irrorated and striated with black; subbasal line

indistinct, whitish, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold, with

black points before and beyond it below the cell; antemedial line

indistinct, whitish defined on each side by brown, waved, with two

shght black marks at inner margin ; orbicular with whitish annulus

incompletely defined by blackish, round; a whitish U-shaped stigma

below the cell defined by blackish; reniform with whitish annulus

and a blackish bar before it, its centre defined by black, rather

produced at upper extremity ; a very indistinct brown medial line,

oblique to lower angle of cell and angled inwards at submedian

fold; postmedial line double, brown filled in with pinkish white

and with pinkish white suffusion beyond it, bent outwards below

costa, then oblique and minutely waved, bent outwards below

submedian fold, some whitish points beyond it on costa; sub-

terminal line whitish defined on inner -side by dark brown with

golden brown suffusion before it, exeurved below vein 7 and at

middle, slightly angled outwards below vein 3, and ending at

tornus; a terminal series of slight black lunules with two fine

PHYTOMETRA. 475

waved whitish lines before it; cilia ochreous white. Hind sous

ochreous suffused with golden bron, the terminal area darker ;

terminal series of slight dark striz; cilia white with brown outs

near base; the adore ochreous srl irrorated with dark brown,

a brown aReeotdel spot and rather diffused postmedial and Sule

terminal lines.

Hab. Durcu N. Guinea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 2 3 type. Hap.

36 millim.

8299. Phytometra ablusa.

Plusia ablusa, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 110. f. 84 (1874).

Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with some red-brown and

ereyish; abdomen whitish suffused with rufous. Fore wing

golden yellow tinged and irrorated with rufous, the end of cell, the

area beyond the “cell, and the terminal area suffused with pale

purple, the veins with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line red-brown,

sinuous, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line red-brown, sinuous

to median nervure, then obliquely curved ; orbicular indistinct,

golden, oblique elliptical; an elongate narrow oblique V-shaped

golden stigma defined by red- brown. below the cell, its lower part

bent outwards ; reniform faintly defined by red- ‘brown ; a red-

brown medial line oblique to the reniform, then inwardly ‘oblique ;

postmedial line red-brown, bent outwards below costa, obliquely

curved to vein 8, then slightly incurved and excurved below sub-

median fold ; subterminal line red-brown, slightly excurved below

veins 7, 4, 3. a red-brown line before fermen from costa to vein 3.

Hind wing white tinged with red-brown, the veins and terminal

half suffused with red- brown ; cilia pale rufous with a red-brown

line through them ; the ander side whitish irrorated with rufous, a

diffused red-brown postmedial line.

Hab. Transvaat, Pretoria (Distant), 1 9; Nara, Hstcourt

(Hutchinson), 1 29; Cape Cotony, Dordrecht, 1 5, Knysna.

Hep. 36 millim.

8300. Phytometra lunata.

Noctua lunata, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 163 (1787).

Plusia anargyra, Guen. Noct, ii. p. 3851 (1852); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii.

p- 979.

Plusia spoliuta, Wik. xii. 923 (1857); Hmpsn. Ill. Het. B.M. viii. p. 16,

pl. 149. f. 7.

Plusia reticulata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 148 (1882).

Head and thorax purplish red-brown slightly mixed with grey,

the tegule and dorsal crest in front with some fulvous yellow;

antennze ringed brown and white ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests

dark brown and grey. Fore wing chocolate-brown suffused with

purple and slightly irrorated with white, the veins finely streaked

with white; subbasal line fine, silvery- seth, sinuous, from costa

to submedian fold; antemedial line fine, silvery-white, excurved

- below costa, strongly incurved in cell, angled outwards at median

476 NOCTUID &.

nervure, then oblique and sinuous; orbicular defined by silvery-

white, narrow, oblique, constricted at middle; an elongate oblique

V-shaped stigma defined by silvery-white below the cell, bent

outwards at middle; reniform finely defined by silvery-white,

produced at extremities and its outer edge strongly angled inwards

at middle, an indistinct oblique brown line from it to inner margin ;

postmedial line fine, silvery-white, bent outwards below costa, then

oblique and slightly waved, angled inwards at submedian fold,

some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line silvery-

white slightly defined on inner side by brown, waved, incurved at

vein 5 and submedian fold, the interspaces beyond it with fine

silvery-white streaks ; a fine waved silvery-white line just before

termen ; a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing red-brown,

the interspaces of basal half whitish; a terminal series of small

dark lunules slightly defined on inner side by white; cilia brownish

white with a brown line through them; the underside whitish

thickly irrorated with red-brown, a brown discoidal striga, diffused

waved postmedial line, and subterminal shade.

Hab. 8. Nreuria, Ilesha (Humfrey), 1 5; Coneo (Curror),

1 © type spoliata; Uaanpa, Entebbe (Minchin), 1 9; Mapa-

G@ascaR, Betsileo (Cowan), 1 3, 1 9; Siku, 2 cd type

reticutala; Mapras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 9 ; CrYLoN, Pundaloya

(Green), 1 9; Srtancor (Meade-Waldo), 1 2. Hap. 32-

40 millim.

8301. Phytometra violascens, n. sp. (Plate COXXXVIL. fig. 15.)

3S. Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with grey-white ;

antenne ringed dark brown and white towards base; tarsi brown

ringed with white; abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown, the

crests dark brown and grey at tips, the lateral tufts rufous. Fore

wing chocolate-brown suffused with purple and slightly irrorated

with dark brown, the veins with shght dark streaks; subbasal line

brown slightly defined on outer side by silver, from costa to

vein 1; antemedial line brown slightly defined on inner side by

silver, incurved in cell, then oblique; orbicular slightly defined

by silver, obliquely and slightly constricted at middle; a short

broad V-shaped stigma slightly defined by silver below the cell, its ©

lower part bent outwards ; reniform slightly defined by silver and

strongly constricted at middle; an oblique brown line from lower

angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line brown slightly

defined on outer side by silver, bent outwards below costa, then

oblique, slightly ineurved at discal fold and below vein 3; sub-

terminal line brown, slightly excurved below veins 4 and 3; a

terminal series of small chocolate-brown lunules defined on inner ~

side by a fine waved silvery line. Hind wing with the basal half

whitish, the veins and inner area suffused with brown, the terminal

half dark brown; cilia white with a brown line near base; the

underside white irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule,

diffused postmedial line, and subterminal shade.

PHYTOMETRA. 477

2. Head, thorax, and fore wing redder brown, the last with the

silver defining the marking almost obsolete.

. Hab. Transvaat (Cholmley), 1 2, White R. (Cooke), 1 3

type; Narat, Durban (ames), 1 5. Exp. 36-88 millim.

- 8302. Phytometra microstigma. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 16.)

Plusia microstigma, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (8) v. p. 483 (1910).

2. Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with grey ;

antennz with the shaft ringed with white towards base; tarsi

ringed with white. Fore wing golden bronze-brown thickly

irrorated with grey; traces of an oblique antemedial line; the

stigma below the cell small, oblique V-shaped, bent outwards below,

its outer arm and a small spot in its apex silvery-white ; orbicular

and reniform very indistinctly defined by grey, the former rather

oblique elliptical, the latter constricted at middle; an oblique

indistinct rather diffused line from lower angle of cell to inner

margin ; postmedial line indistinct, oblique, sinuous; traces of a

dark subterminal line, excurved below vein 7, angled inwards at

discal and submedian folds and outwards below vein 4; a series of

minute white striz just before termen. Hind wing uniform golden

bronze-brown ; the cilia with a pale line at base and white tips;

the underside white thickly irrorated with brown, the terminal

area broadly fuscous with some white irroration near termen.

Hab. Goud Coast (Johnston), 1 2 type. Hxp. 26 millim.

8303. Phytometra daubei.

Plusia daubet, Boisd. Gen. & Ind. Meth. p. 159 (1840); Dup. Lép. Fr.

Suppl. iii. p. 486, pl. 42. f. 1; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 206 ;

Rmbr, Cat. Lep. 8. And. pl. 6. f.6; Mill. Icones, ii. pl. 70. ff. 5-7;

Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 572; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 239.

Plusia ciliaris, Wik. xii. 928 (1857); Butl. Ill. Het. B.M. vi. p. 36,

pla lalON fe:

Head and thorax whitish mixed with reddish brown and some

black-brown, the vertex of head with two blackish strie; tegulx

with curved black line at middle; palpi with white ring at

extremity of 2nd joint; the tibiz at extremities and tarsi ringed

with white; abdomen whitish suffused with pale brown, the crests

darker, the lateral tufts of male ochreous. Fore wing white

suffused with pale golden-brown and striated with dark brown;

subbasal line white defined on each side by dark brown, from costa

to vein 1; antemedial line silvery-white defined on each side by

brown, angled outwards below costa and at median nervure,

incurved in cell and submedian fold, then excurved ; orbicular with

silvery-white outline, its centre defined by blackish, very narrow

and oblique; an elongate oblique silvery-white Y-shaped stigma

below the cell, extending below vein 2 to near the postmedial line,

some golden-brown suffusion before and beyond it; reniform with

silvery-white outline, its centre defined by blackish, constricted at

478 NOCTUID®.

middle; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with silvery-

white and with minute black lunules on its inner side below

veins 4 and 8, bent outwards below costa, slightly ineurved at

discal fold, then somewhat sinuous and slightly excurved at

middle, a narrow white band beyond it and some small white spots

on costa ; subterminal line blackish, shghtly waved, angled inwards

below costa and at discal fold, excurved below vein 7, and

angled outwards below veins 4 and 3; a terminal series of minute

blackish lunules with a narrow white band before them traversed

by a fine brown line; cilia whitish with a series of minute dark

spots. Hind wing white tinged with golden brown, the terminal

area suffused with golden brown except towards tornus ; cilia white

with small brown spots from apex to vein 2; the underside white,

the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with brown, a

slight discoidal lunule and faint diffused postmedial and sub-

terminal lines.

Hab. 8. Francn, Leech Coll., Montpellier, Zeller Coll.; Spaty,

Leech Coll., Catalonia, Zeller Coll., Barcelona, Frey Coll.; Corsica ;

Srcizy; At@erta, Biskra (Haton), 1 6; PatEestinE; Punsas,

Kulu (Hocking), 3 5,19, Sultanpur (G. Young), 13,29,

Almorah (Boys), 1 3, Jubbulpur (#. Butler), 1 3; Nepat, 1 2

type celiaris; Sixuim; Brneau, Pusa (Lefroy), 1 9. Kup.

30-32 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Hur. p. 271; Hffm. Raup. p. 135, pl. 32. £.8.

Reddish brown with oblique dark lateral streaks. Food-plant,

Sonchus maritinus.

8304. Phytometra indicator.

Plusia indicator, Wk. xii. 922 (1857).

Plusia g-rosewm, Guen. Maillard’s Réunion, Lép. p. 42 (1862).

Head and thorax brown mixed with ochreous and some grey-

white, the tegule with slight dark medial line and whitish tips ;

pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous mixed with brown, the last

with the crests blackish at tips. Fore wing greyish suffused and

irrorated with dark chocolate-brown and with a slight cupreous

gloss, the medial area with a deep chocolate-brown patch below

the cell, the veins with shght pale streaks ; subbasal line represented

by double silvery striz from costa and a small V-shaped mark

below the cell, defined by black-brown ; antemedial line silvery

defined by brown, excurved below costa and obliquely incurved

below the cell; orbicular with silvery outline, very narrow and

oblique ; a very elongate oblique silvery V-shaped stigma filled in

with grey below the cell, its inner arm extending to the antemedial

line and its apex almost to the postmedial line; reniform defined

at sides by silvery striz, constricted at middle and with small

black spot on its outer edge; postmedial line silvery defined at

sides by brown, bent outwards and obsolescent below costa, very

slightly incurved at discal fold, and oblique below vein 3, a narrow

PHYTOMETRA. 479

whitish band beyond it and some whitish points on costa; sub-

terminal line blackish defined on outer side by some silver, excurved

below vein 7, angled inwards at discal fold, excurved at middle,

then very minutely dentate; a fine black terminal line preceded

by two whitish lines with a fine brown line between them; cilia

whitish with a slightly waved brown line through them. Hind

wing ochreous white, the veins and terminal area suffused with

brown ; cilia white with an interrupted brown line through them ;

the underside ochreous white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated

with brown, a slight discoidal striga and faint diffused postmedial

and subterminal lines.

Hab. Coneo (Curror), 1 2 type indicator; MasHonaLanD,

Salisbury (Marshall), 1 9; RuopeEsta, Bulawayo (Marshall),

3 6,192; Transvaat, Pretoria (Janse), 1 29; Natat, Estcourt

(Hutchinson), 2 3; Matrrrius, Curepipe (Lwlloch), 1 5,12,

Rivunion. Hxp. 28-32 millim.

8305. Phytometra obtusisigna.

Plusia obtusisigna, Wik. xii. 930 (1857); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 71,

pl. 152. ff. 1, la; Himpsn, Moths Ind. ii. p. 570.

Head and thorax white mixed with red-brown, the patagia with

oblique white line across them; tarsi brown ringed with white ;

abdomen white tinged with red-brown, the lateral tufts of male

ochreous. Fore wing white irrorated with red-brown ; double

subbasal red-brown striz filled in with white from costa and a

sinuous black streak below the cell; antemedial line white defined

on each side by red-brown, slightly excurved below costa and

incurved in cell, then excurved ; orbicular defined by white, narrow,

oblique ; an oblique white Y-shaped stigma below the cell; reniform

with incomplete white outline and its centre defined by dark

brown, constricted at middle where there is a small dark spot

beyond it; a cupreous red-brown patch below end of cell beyond

the stigma; postmedial line indistinctly double, red-brown filled

in with whitish, shghtly bent outwards below costa, then slightly

sinuous, incurved at discal fold, oblique below vein 3 and excurved

below submedian fold, some white points beyond it on costa; sub-

terminal line white defined on inner side by cupreous red-brown,

excurved below vein 7, angled outwards below vein 4, then sinuous ;

a fine white line just before termen with a series of minute black

streaks beyond it and two more distinct spots towards apex; cilia

white and red-brown with a fine waved white line through them.

Hind wing white suffused with cupreous brown especially on

terminal area ; cilia white with a brown line through them; the

underside white irrorated with red-brown, indistinct diffused

brown postmedial and subterminal lines.

lower extremity.

Hab. Narat, Stanger (Delvin), 1 6; Bompay, Poona;

4SO NOCTUID &.

Manpras, Belgaum (Watson), 1 3, Nilgiris (Hampson),13,12;

Cryton (Templeton), 1 36,3 Q type, Badulla (Yerbury), 1 9;

Burma, Rangoon (Scott), 1 ¢. Hap. 24-86 millim.

Larva. Green with white dorsal lines, subdorsal streaks, and

lateral dots; black dots on 4th to anal somites; medial prolegs

pale red.

8306. Phytometra lectula.

Prodenia lectula, Wlk. xv. 1679 (1858); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 73,

pl. 146. f. 2; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 576.

Plusia kalitura, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 110. f. 24 (1874).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous; abdomen

ochreous tinged with rufous, the crests and ventral surface browner.

Fore wing silvery-grey suffused with red-brown and irrorated with

dark brown; subbasal line silvery defined on each side by red-

brown towards costa below which it is excurved, below the cell

defined on inner side by black, ending at vein 1 where it is met by

an oblique silvery line from median nervure defined on outer side

by black; antemedial line silvery-white, angled outwards below

costa and excurved above vein 1; orbicular represented by an

oblique silvery-white streak on its upper edge; a very elongate

and oblique silvery-white V-shaped stigma below the cell extending

to the postmedial line, filled in with yellowish and with a black

point on the outer arm at median nervure; reniform very faintly

defined by red-brown, constricted at middle and with a minute

silvery striga on its inner edge and spot on outer; postmedial line

double, red-brown, filled in with silvery-white between vein 4: and

submedian fold and defined on outer side by a greyish shade, bent

outwards below costa, then slightly waved, execurved at vein 5,

then oblique, some minute whitish points beyond it on costa ;

subterminal line indistinctly double, red-brown filled in with

ereyish, minutely waved, with slight black streaks before it below

veins 7 and 6 and with an oblique white mark on it at discal fold ;

a narrow whitish terminal band with a rufous shade before it with

slight blackish marks on it and fine red-brown lines just before

and on termen; cilia ochreous. Hind wing ochreous white tinged

with rufous, the terminal area suffused with ochreous brown; cilia

ochreous white; the underside ochreous white, the costal area

irrorated with red-brown and the terminal area suffused with

red-brown, a slight discoidal bar and diffused postmedial and

subterminal lines,

Hab. Benoa (Russell), 2 6; Bompay, Kanara (Ward),

1 3g, 1 @ type; Cuynon, Kegalle (Alston), 1 2. Hxp. 28-86

millim.

8307. Phytometra distalagma, n.sp. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 17.)

9. Head and thorax bright red-brown mixed with some grey-

white, the back of head and tegule tinged with fiery red; pectus

and legs whitish mixed with rufous; abdomen bright red-brown,

PHYTOMETRA. 481

the ventral surface whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale

purplish tinged with red-brown and slightly irrorated with dark

brown, a patch below end of cell and the terminal area except

towards apex and tornus golden cupreous; antemedial line diffused,

red-brown, curved; two small elongate obliquely placed silver spots

below the cell, the upper with some rufous in centre; a diffused

red-brown discoidal patch; an indistinct diffused oblique brown

line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line

brown, bent outwards and obsolescent below costa, then oblique,

slightly ineurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 3 and excurved

below submedian fold, some shght pale points beyond it on costa;

subterminal line indistinct, brown, slightly excurved at vein 7 and

oblique towards inner margin ; a silvery-white line before termen

from below apex to submedian fold. Hind wing whitish tinged

with red-brown, the terminal area suffused with dark brown from

below apex to near tornus; the underside white tinged with rufous

and slightly irrorated with brown, a slight brown discoidal lunule

and diffused postmedial and subterminal lines with a dark shade

between them except towards costa.

Hab. Transvaat, Johannesburg (foss), 1 2 type. Hap.

32 millim.

8308. Phytometra brachychalcea, n. sp.

(Plate CCXX XVII. fig. 18.)

Head and tegule fiery red and yellow, the latter with brown and

white lines near base, at middle, and at tips; thorax red-brown, the

dorsal crest with fiery red and yellow above, the patagia with

oblique brown and white line at middle and brown and white tips ;

pectus yellow and fiery red in front; abdomen yellow tinged with

rufous, the crests dark brown and white at tips. Fore wing

chestnut-red striated with brown and irrorated with silvery-white,

the postmedial and terminal areas except towards costa and inner

margin brilliant metallic gold, emitting an oblique spur above and

below vein 2 to the median nervure where it ends bluntly below

the orbicular; subbasal line slight, silvery, oblique, sinuous, from

costa to vein 1; antemedial line slight, silvery, waved, strongly

incurved in the cell; orbicular and reniform with slight silvery

outlines, the former narrow, oblique, the latter with its outer edge

strongly constricted at middle ; postmedial line double, red-brown

filled in with grey, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, very

slightly angled outwards at discal fold and vein 38 and bent

outwards below submedian fold, hardly traceable on the gold area ;

some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line red-brown,

indistinct on the gold area, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, below

veins 4 and 3, and at vein 1; the termen red-brown; a waved

brown line at base of cilia. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins

and terminal half suffused with red- brown ; cilia whitish tinged

with red-brown and with a red-brown line near base; the medlere de

VOL. XIII. 23 TE

482 NOCTUID®.

yellowish white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with red-

brown, a brown discoidal striga and diffused postmedial and

subterminal lines.

Hab. Javan, Tokio (Maries), 1 3, 1 2, Yokohama (Jonas),

2 2, Satsuma (Leech), 1 9, Tsuruga (Leech), 1 9; Loocuoo Is.

(Pryer), 13; Formosa (Hobson), 1 2; W. Cuina, Chang-yang

(Pratt), 1 9, Psu-tsu-fang, 1 g¢, Omei-shan, 1 ¢, Kwei-chow,

1 3, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 3, Moupm (A7richeldorf), 2 3;

Assam (Badgley), 1 2, Shillong (Parish), 2 9; Mapras, Nil-

giris (Hampson), 2 3, 3 Q type; Ceyton (Templeton, Lewis),

236. Hxp. 40-46 millim.

*§309. Phytometra bipartita.

Plusia bipartita, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 71, pl. 6. f. 2 (1880).

Plusia ekeikei, Beth.-Baker, Noy. Zool. xiii. p. 270 (1906).

3. Head and thorax fiery orange-red, the tegule with rufous

lines at middle and tips and tipped with white, the patagia rufous

mixed with white, the meso- and metathoracic crests tipped with

rufous and white; pectus and legs yellowish tinged with rufous ;

abdomen yellow tinged with rufous, the basal crests rufous. Fore

wing grey-white suffused and striated with rufous to the post-

medial line, then brilliant metallic gold striated with rufous, the

gold extending to cell above and below base of vein 2; subbasal

line represented by slight double inwardly oblique white striz

from costa; antemedial line shght, double filled in with whitish,

excurved to median nervure, then inwardly oblique and sinuous ;

orbicular and reniform slightly defined by white, the former

oblique V-shaped, somewhat constricted at middle, the latter

strongly constricted at middle; postmedial line rufous, very

oblique from costa to middle of submedian fold, then excurved

and indistinctly double; subterminal line rufous, slightly angled

at vein 7, then oblique and slightly excurved below submedian

fold; a fine rufous terminal line; cilia white mixed with rufous

and with waved rufous line through them. Hind wing yellowish

white, the terminal half suffused with red-brown ; cilia white with

a red-brown line through them; the underside yellowish white

with faint diffused red-brown postmedial line from costa to vein 2.

Hab. CkLEBES; Br. N. Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), type + ¢o

eketket in Coll. Bethune-Baker. xp. 38 millim.

6. Hind tarsi of male without comb of long spines on

Ist joint.

a. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell

U-shaped with a spot beyond its lower extremity

or conjoined to it.

a?, Fore wing with the medial area below the cell

suffused with golden cupreous.

a3, Fore wing with the stigma below the cell

large, the U-mark broad, the postmedial

line angled inwards at submedian fold ._ ... chalcytes.

PHYTOMETRA. 483

63, Fore wing with the stigma small, the U-mark

narrow.

at, Fore wing with the postmedial line in-

OUMVACL SIO VEIN ) ccncocaceaco accesoaos9s009 basigera.

64, Fore wing with the postmedial line almost

@vemlhy CWYEE! conos.eadcnnonecoancadoaocscoood impulsa,

62, Fore wing with the medial area below the cell

suffused with golden bronze.

a3, Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved

below vein 5.

a4, Kore wing with two small black spots

below the cell before the antemedial line. meretricia.

o4, Fore wing without two small black spots

below the cell before the antemedial line. dongicornis.

+3, Kore wing with the postmedial line excurved

and waved at middle.

a, Fore wing without sinuous silvery striga

OM NS TOMTOM — oooonecaseaasnvaccacssocos0 caudata.

64, Fore wing with sinuous silvery striga on

(WING) TEMTINOIPHN ..6conaRessedon008006 donsoconsegaos argentifera.

c2, Fore wing with the medial area below the cell

without golden-brown suffusion.

a3, Fore wing with the tail of the Y-shaped

stigma or spot beyond the U-mark tri-

EINIGILIENS cuoandetoss oensadtesenerocon tetecan stances calceolaris.

03, Fore wing with the spot beyond the U-shaped

stigma rounded .............02...s00eeseeeen-0 . signata,

61, Fore wing with the stigma below the cell oblique

V-shaped without spot beyond it, sometimes

reduced to a small elliptical mark or obsolete.

a*, Fore wing cupreous red ..............0.00s0eeeeeee rubida,

2. Fore wing without cupreous red tinge.

a3, Fore wing with the inner edge of the stigma

below the cell angled inwards above sub-

median fold.

a, Fore wing with minute triangular black

marks defined by white at middle of sub-

(aerPDaUME IOWTE) 65 oacccooncns socenqo0: eossdgoaHehe accentifera,

o4, Fore wing without triangular black marks

defined by white at middle of subterminal

Nik Oe adsayacae state ma cece eve aaite ete ina Ree phocina.

i3, Fore wing with the inner edge of the stigma

below the cell not angled inwards above

submedian fold.

a‘, Fore wing with the orbicular defined by

white.

a°, Fore wing with the orbicular rounded... abrota.

6°, Kore wing with the orbicular oblique

and narrow.

a6, Fore wing without black streak before

the subterminal line in discal fold,

ai, Fore wing with the postmedial line

not strongly angled inwards in

Sulbimecia myo) deere eeeeereereeseraee oxygramma,

b7, Kore wing with the postmedial liae

strongly angled inwards in sub-

TM@CHEH KOC! coocconsoacesoueboaspodunge cebee.

8, Fore wing with black streak before the

subterminal line in discal fold ..... albostriata.

Dye

ASA NOCTUID®.

c’, Fore wing with the orbicular obsolete.

a’, Fore wing with dentate subterminal

line with short black streak before it

imydiscalatoldlseecseeeeeec ere hee eee reece subchalybea.

b°. Fore wing without subterminal line

or streak in discal fold................+. gorilla.

8310. Phytometra chalcytes.

Noctua chalcytes, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 447, pl. 141. f. 3 (1789); Mill.

Icones, i. pl. 5. ff. 1-4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238.

Noctua questionis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ili. 2, p. 81 (1794).

Noctua bengalensis, Rossi, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 22, pl. 3. f. P (1794).

Noctua chalcytis, Hibn. Hur. Schmett., Noct. f. 276 (1802); Frr. Neue

Beitr. pl. 47. f. 2.

Plusia eriosoma, Doubl. Dieffenbach’s New Zealand, ii. p. 285 (1843) ;

Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 569.

Plusia verticiliata, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 344 (1852); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii.

p. 70, pl. 152. f. 6.

Plusia integra, W1k..xii. 931 (1857).

Plusia adjuncta, Wik. xxxiii. 840 (1865).

Plusia buchholzi, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xli. p. 298 (1880).

Plusia agnata, Staud. Rom. Mém. vi. p. 547 (1892); id. Cat. Lep. pal.

p. 238.

Phusia dinava, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 270 (1906).

Plusia coherens, Schultz, Intern. Ent. Zeit. i. p. 32 (1907).

Head and thorax rufous, the head and tegule yellower, the

thoracic crest paler rufous above; pectus yellowish white; abdomen

yellowish white suffused with brown, the crests rufous at tips, the

. Fig, 122.—Phytometra chalcytles, $. }.

lateral anal tufts of male blackish brown. Fore wing bright

rufous with some brown irroration and striz, the medial area below

submedian fold and before the postmedial line and the terminal

area mostly suffused with gold; a subbasal golden striga from

PHYTOMETRA. 485

costa; antemedial line fine, golden, interrupted in cell by an

oblique yellowish bar from costa, inwardly oblique and very slightly

sinuous below the cell; two obliquely placed silvery spots below

middle of cell, the upper rounded, the lower elliptical; reniform

represented by four slight whitish and black points at the angles ;

an indistinct sinuous rufous medial line beyond the cell, oblique

below vein 3; postmedial line double, rufous filled in with gold,

excurved below costa and at vein 4, then oblique to submedian

fold, then excurved; subterminal line very indistinct, rufous,

excurved at vein 7, angled outwards below veins 4, 3 and ending

at tornus, some rufous suffusion beyond its costal half; a slight

silvery-white striga from costa before apex; cilia pale with a

blackish mark at vein 4 and deep rufous towards tornus. Hind

wing red-brown with a cupreous gloss; cilia white with a red-

brown line near base; the underside brownish white, the terminal

area irrorated with brown, a faint brown medial shade and in-

distinct diffused postmedial line with darker brown patch at costa

and some brown suffusion beyond it.

Ab. 2. questionis. Browner; fore wing with less golden suf-

fusion.

Ab. 1. coherens. Fore wing with the U-shaped stigma conjoined

to the spot.

Hab. Briraty, Stainton Coll.; France, Sand Coll.; Germany,

Zeller & Frey Colls.; Austrra, Carniola; Hungary; SwitZzER-

LAND, Zeller Coll.; Sparn, Leech Coll., Barcelona (Lederer) ;

Iraty, Venice (A. H. Jones), Tuscanv; Matra (Irby); MapEIRA

(Wollaston), 1 3; Canaries (Leech), 1 3, 292, La Laguna

(Eaton), 12, Guimar (Walsingham), 1 2; GREECE; BALKAN

Srates; Asta Mrvor, Pontus, Bithynia, Taurus; Syrra, Beirut,

16,19; Mapagascar; Srvcuettes, Mahé (Thomasset), 1 3,

1 9; Roprieaunz (Manders), 1 5; Mauririus, Curepipe (Lul-

loch), 1 2; HE. Srperra, Ussuri; Japan, Fushiki (Leech), 1 9,

Kyukyu, 1 2, Satsuma (Leech), 1 ¢, Yokohama (Jonas, Manley),

4 9; Loo-cHoo Is. (Pryer), 2 35; Corna, Gensan (Leech), 1 3,

Fusan (Ichikawa), 1 9; N. Cutna, Wei-ha-wei (de la Garde),

13; Cxunrr. Cutna, Foo-chow (Lay), 13, Shanghai (J. J.

Walker), 1 3, Ship-y-shin, 1 6; W. Curna, Nitou, 1 d, Digam

Pani (Bailey), 1 3; S. Cuina, Pagoda (de la Garde), 1 9;

Honexone (J. J. Walker), 1 6; Formosa, 1 5,19; Punsas,

Kulu, Sultanpur (G. Young), 1 9, Dharmsila (Hocking), 3 9,

Manpuri, 1 @, Allahabad, 2 2; Stxurm (Dudgeon, Moller), 1 3,

4 9; Assam, Silhet (Stainsforth), 1 g; Beneat, Pusa (Lefroy),

13, Caleutta, 19; Sinn, Karachi (Swinhoe), 25; Bompay,

1S, Kuteb, 1 3, 1 9; Manras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 9,

Cryton (Lempleton), 2 36; Burma, Moulmemn (Clerk), 1 9,

Myingyan (Watson), 2 9; AnpamMans, 1 d ; Borneo, Sarawak

(Wallace), 1 9; Puttrprines, 19; Java (Horsteld), 3 3

type verticillata; Cocos Kernine I. (Wood-Jones), 1 3, 2 9;

Durcu N. Guinea, Mimika R. (Wollaston),1 9; Br. N. Guinea,

486 NOCTUID®.

Dinawa (Pratt), type + dinawa in Coll. Bethune-Baker; D’Enrre-

casTEAUX Is., Fergusson I. (Meek), 1 56; N. Ausrratia, Port

Darwin (Buckland, J. J. Walker), 2 3, 1 9; QUEENSLAND,

Moreton Bay (Diggles), 12 type adjuncta, Brisbane (Lucas,

Turner), 23, 22; N.S. Wates (J. J. Walker), 1 3, Sydney

(Lambert, Mathew, de la Garde), 23, 29; N. Zmatanp

(Colenso), 13, 192, Auckland (Sinclair, Bolton), 23, 1 2

type erzosoma, Marlborough Prov. (Skelton), 1 3,192, Wellington

(Mathew), 1 6; Frist (Mathew), 1 2; Tautri (J. J. Walker),

So, 1 23 Tones Cathew), 1S: Socmry Is. ehimeo) ae

(Mathew, J. J. Walker), 25, 29, Rap-a (J. J. Walker),

23; Marquesas (J. J. Walker), 1 9; Hawatt, Waianea Mts.

(Perkins), 13; 1 2, Kona Geerkims), 1 9, Ohaa (Perkins);

1 9, Oahu (Blackburn),1 3,29. Hap. 34-46 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p.270; Hffm. Raup. p. 134, pl. 35. f. 8.

Green with numerous waved whitish streaks on dorsal area and

more distinct lateral stripe. Food-plants: Urtica, Salvia, Echium,

Marrubium, in India on Ficus. 6-8.

8311. Phytometra basigera. (Plate CCXXXVIL. fig. 19.)

Plusia basigera, Wik. xxxiil. 836 (1865); Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc.

x. pl. ix. f. 5; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Het. i. p. 332; Smith, Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 255.

Plusia laticlavia, Morr. Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N.Y. xi. p. 98 (1875).

Head and tegule fiery red, the latter tipped with brown and

grey; thorax red-brown mixed with some grey, the patagia with

slight oblique grey line near base; palpi, pectus, and legs rufous ;

abdomen rufous, the sides whitish at base, the crests deeper rufous.

Fore wing purplish grey suffused with red-brown and striated with

brown, the inner half of medial area and the terminal area towards

apex suffused with cupreous gold, the veins of terminal area with

slight dark streaks ; subbasal line silvery, from costa to submedian

fold; a slight blackish striga from cell before the antemedial line,

which is silvery defined on inner side by brown, excurved below

costa, incurved in cell, then oblique; a silvery stigma below the

cell consisting of an oblique U-shaped mark with silvery point

above its outer arm in the cell and an elliptical spot beyond its

lower extremity; reniform slightly defined by silver and with

slight blackish marks in its upper and lower extremities, strongly

constricted at middle; postmedial line blackish defined on inner

side by purple-grey and by silver towards inner margin, excurved _

below costa, incurved below vein 4, and slightly excurved below

submedian fold; subterminal line slight, red-brown, excurved

below vein 7, then oblique and shghtly excurved below veins 4

and 8; a slight red-brown line before termen from apex to vein 3,

the area beyond it violaceous white; a fine waved dark terminal

line. Hind wing whitish suffused with cupreous red-brown ; a fine

brown terminal line with whitish line before it from apex to vein 3;

cilia white tinged with red-brown; the underside white tinged

PHYTOMETRA. 487

with rufous, a small brown discoidal spot, curved postmedial line,

and diffused subterminal line.

Hab. U.S.A. (Carter), 1 2 type, New York, New Jersey,

Virginia, 1 §; Mexico, Mexico City (Moege), 1 9, Godman-

Salvin Coll. Hap. 34-38 millim.

8312. Phytometra impulsa.

Plusia impulsa, Wik. xxxiii. 838 (1865); Hmpsn. Ill. Het. B.M. ix. p. 100,

pl. 162. f. 11; id. Moths Ind. i1. p. 573.

Head and thorax purplish red mixed with fiery red; tegule with

whitish tips; patagia with oblique whitish line at middle and

whitish tips; metathoracie crest whitish at tips; fore and mid

tibize brownish grey, the hind tibiz and the tarsi brownish white ;

abdomen white, the dorsal crests rufous, the lateral tufts of male

yellowish. Fore wing purple-grey suffused and irrorated with

purple-brown, the end of cell, medial area below the cell, and the

apex gold suffused with fiery red; antemedial line double, brown

filled in with silvery-white, angled outwards below costa, then

oblique; orbicular defined by whitish and its lower part by silver,

narrow, oblique; a narrow oblique silver U-shaped stigma ‘bellow

the cell with a spot beyond its lower extremity ; reniform with

slight silvery outline and some fiery red and gold in centre, its

fret edge oblique, its outer strongly aonsmietadl at middle vine

there is some red and gold beyond it; postmedial line double,

brown, the outer line darker, obliquely and almost evenly curved ;

subterminal line brown slightly defined on outer side by whitish,

excurved below vein 7 and slightly at middle; a narrow pinkish

white band just before termen defined on each side by dark brown

lines. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal half suffused with

red-brown; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas

irorated with brown, a slight brown discoidal lunule, curved post-

medial line, and subterminal shade.

Hab. TRAvANcoRE, Trivandrum (Fergusson), 1 9; CEYLON,

Pundaloya (Green), 2 6,19. Hap. 24-32 millim.

8313. Phytometra meretricia. (Plate CCX XXVII. fig. 20.)

Plusia meretricia, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 51 (1911).

3. Head and thorax pale red-brown, the tegulz, an oblique line

across patagia, and the tips of scales of metathoracie crest grey ;

legs grey-brown, the tarsi ringed with whitish; abdomen grey,

brown, the crests dark brown, the lateral tufts of hair at extremity

rufous. Fore wing purple-grey, the medial area below the cell and

the area before and beyond the subterminal line suffused with

cupreous brown ; a slight sinuous brown subbasal line from costa

to submedian fold, placed on some brown suffusion and with two

small black spots beyond its lower extremity; antemedial line

cupreous brown slightly defined on outer side by white, somewhat

488 NOCTUID &.

excurved below costa, then inwardly oblique; orbicular purple-

erey with its centre and circumference slightly defined by brown,

oblique U-shaped ; reniform with incomplete silvery annulus, very

strongly constricted at middle, some cupreous brown in its upper

part and some blackish in lower part, some cupreous brown before

and beyond it; a silvery stigma below the cell formed by a small

U-shaped spot with round spot below it; postmedial line cupreous

brown, excurved from below costa to vein 5, then incurved and

slightly bent outwards above vein 1, some white points beyond it

on costa; subterminal line indistinct, dark, excurved below vein 7,

angled inwards at discal fold, then waved and ending at tornus ;

a slight whitish line before termen from apex to vein 4; a fine

dark terminal line; cilia whitish with traces of a brown line

through them. Hind wing grey-brown, the hair on inner margin

with a reddish tinge; cilia whitish with a slight brown line through

them; the underside with the basal half whitish tinged with brown,

the terminal half grey-brown, traces of a curved postmedial line

and subterminal shade.

Hab. Costa Rica, Juan Vinas (Schaus), 1 3. Hap. 44

millim.

8314. Phytometra longicornis.

Plusia longicornis, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am, Het. i. p. 332, pl. c0. f. 17

(1889).

3. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with purple-grey ;

antennz with the basal joint white at sides; pectus and legs

grey-brown, the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown,

the crests dark brown mixed with purple-grey. Fore wing purple-

grey suffused in parts with brown, the medial area below the cell

and the area before the subterminal line deep cupreous brown ;

traces of a sinuous grey subbasal line from costa to submedian fold

ona patch of brown suffusion ; antemedial line dark slightly defined

on outer side by white, somewhat excurved below costa, then

inwardly oblique; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres

and purple-grey annuli defined by dark brown, oblique elliptical,

the latter with white points below on inner and outer sides; a

silvery stigma below the cell formed by a small oblique U-shaped

mark with elliptical spot beyond its lower extremity; postmedial

line dark brown, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 5,

then incurved, and again slightly excurved below submedian fold,

some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line dark brown

with cupreous brown suffusion before it and beyond it below apex,

excurved below vein 7, then oblique; a dark line before termen

from apex to vein 3 and a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing

purplish grey suffused with brown; cilia whitish at tips; the

underside whitish tinged with purple-grey and irrorated with

brown, a dark brown discoidal lunule and broad postmedial shade.

Hab. Costa Rica, Juan Vinas (Schaus), 1 5; Panama,

Chiriqui; Ecvapor, Sarayacu. Hap. 36 millim.

PHYTOMETRA. 489

8315. Phytometra caudata. (Plate CCX XXVII. fig. 21.)

Plusia caudata, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 105 (1906).

3. Head and thorax red-brown, some of the scales tipped with

grey and the metathoracie crest with blackish mixed ; tarsi ringed

with whitish ; abdomen pale reddish brown, the crests deep red-

brown. Fore wing brownish grey with a metallic golden gloss,

suffused in parts with blackish brown and irrorated with black ;

subbasal line represented by double pale striz from costa; ante-

medial line pale, inwardly oblique, sinuous; orbicular a small pale

oblique elliptical annulus; reniform slightly defined by black

points, narrow, somewhat dilated above and angled inwards on

median nervure; a silvery gamma-shaped stigma below the cell;

postmedial line brown defined on each side by flesh-colour, bent

outwards below costa, then oblique, waved, angled inwards above

vein 1, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line

pale defined on inner side by dark brown suffusion, slightly angled

outwards at veins 7, 6, then sinuous; a terminal series of slight

blackish lunules. Hind wing cupreous brown, the cilia whitish

with a brown line through them; the underside with the basal

half whitish irrorated with cupreous brown, the terminal half

suffused with cupreous brown bounded on inner side by a darker

postmedial band.

Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (Schaus), type + 5 in U.S. Nat. Mus. ;

Costa Rica, Juan Vinas (Schaus),1 3. Exp. 38 millim.

8316. Phytometra argentifera. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 22.)

-Plusia argentifera, Guen Noct. ii. p. 852 (1852).

Plusia secundaria, Wik. xii. 933 (1857).

Head and thorax pale brown mixed with grey-white; tegule and

patagia at tips and an oblique line across the latter white; pectus

and legs white and brown; abdomen white suffused with bronze-

brown, the crests red-brown and white, the ventral surface white

irrorated with bronze-brown. Fore wing grey-white suffused with

golden bronze and irrorated with blackish ; subbasal line silvery-

white defined on each side by red-brown, from costa to vein 1, a

red-brown patch beyond it in submedian interspace with a slight

silver streak in the fold; antemedial line silvery-white defined on

each side by red-brown, angled outwards below costa, incurved in

cell, then oblique, its outer edge angled outwards below submedian

fold; orbicular represented by a slight silvery-white lunule in lower

part of cell, conjoined to an oblique brilliant silvery-white stigma

below the cell composed of two obliquely placed spots, the upper —

rather V-shaped, with some brownish in centre; reniform with its

upper part defined by slight black-brown marks, its lower part

with a curved silvery-white striga angled outwards at lower angle

of cell; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with greyish

490 NOCTUID®.

and with silver at inner margin, bent outwards below costa, in-

curved at discal fold, then oblique and minutely waved, angled

inwards at submedian fold, some white points beyond it on costa

and a white shade from costa to discal fold ; subterminal line dark

brown, excurved at vein 7 and middle and angled inwards below

vein 5 and at submedian fold, a black streak before it at discal fold

and bronze-brown shades beyond it from costa to discal fold and at

middle, defined on outer side by a slight white line before termen ;

a fine dark brown terminal line dilated into a small spot at middle ;

a fine white line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish suffused

with golden brown, the terminal area darker; cilia white with a

series of brown striz near base at the veins; the underside white

tinged with red-brown, the costal area irrorated with red-brown,

the terminal area suffused with brown, a slight brown discoidal

lunule.

Ab. 1. secundaria. Fore wing with the stigma forming a

bilobate mark.

Hab. QuEENSLAND (Higlett), 1 9, Brisbane (Turner), 2 2,

Moreton Bay (Diggles), 3 9; N. Ausrrata, Alexandria (Stalker),

23; W. Ausrratta, Sherlock R. (Clements), 1 3,1 9, Cossack

(J.J. Walker), 2 3,1 9, Swan R. (fichardson), 1 2;- INS:

Wates, Sydney (Lambert, Raynor), 1 3, 4 2, Broken Hill

(Lower), 1 2; Vuicrorta, Gisborne (Lyell), 1 3; S. AUSTRALIA,

Adelaide (Wilson), 2 3, 2 92 type secundaria ; TASMANTA,

Hobart (4. J. Smith, J. J. Walker), 2 9, Ulverstone (Lyell), 1 3.

Exp. 34-40 millim.

8317. Phytometra calceolaris. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 23.)

Plusia calceolaris, W1k. xii. 915 (1857).

3S. Head and thorax grey-brown; abdomen grey tinged with

brown, the ventral surface grey-brown. Fore wing purplish grey

mostly suffused with cupreous brown, the medial area deep chocolate-

brown below the cell and beyond inner half of the antemedial line ;

subbasal line slight, greyish, from costa to submedian fold; ante

medial line slight, grey, hardly traceable to median nervure, then

inwardly oblique ; an oblique silvery Y-shaped mark below the

cell, its tail dilated into an elliptical knob; reniform with slight

pale outhne, strongly constricted at dale with black- heen

marks in its upper and lower extremities and its inner side defined

by a silvery striga below; postmedial line very indistinct, pale

faintly defined on each Bide by brown, bent outwards below costa,

excurved to vein 5, then ineurved to lower angle of cell and erect

to inner margin, some whitish points beyond it on costa; sub-

terminal line ‘slight and incurved from costa to vein 7 sihese it is

met by an oblique dark chocolate-brown shade from apex, then

defined on inner side by chocolate-brown suffusion, excurved below

vein 7, bent inwards at vein 5 and sinuous to tornus; a slight

ae pale line before termen from apex to vein 4. Hind wing

PHYTOMETRA. 49)

grey suffused with brown, the terminal area darker; cilia brownish

erey; the underside greyish brown with traces of a diffused post-

medial shade.

@. Fore wing with small V-shaped silvery mark below the cell

with elliptical spot beyond its lower extremity.

Hab. Jamaica (Kaye), 1 9; Harrr eee 1 6d type”

Exp. 34-38 millim.

8318. Phytometra signata. (Plate CCXXXVIL. fig. 24.)

Noctua signata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 81 (1792); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii.

p- 71, pl. 151. f. 4; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p, 568.

Plusia diminuta, Wk. xxxiii. 837 (1865).

Head and thorax pale red-brown ; basal joint of antennz with a

white ring; tegule at tips and an oblique line across patagia

whitish; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen whitish tinged with

rufous, the crests red-brown. Fore wing red-brown with a greyish

tinge and glossed with golden cuprecus; subbasal line silvery-

whitish defined on inner side by brown, ending at submedian fold ;

a black striga before it below the cell and two black points with a

minute silvery streak between them on outer side; antemedial line

silvery, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, then oblique

and sinuous; an oblique silvery U- shaped stigma below the cell

with a round spot beyond its lower extr emity ; reniform indistinctly

defined by silver at sides, strongly constricted at middle and with

four blackish points in its extremities; postmedial line indistinctly

double filled in with silvery-whitish, excurved to vein 5, then in-

curved and again excurved below submedian fold, some whitish

points beyond ; it on costa; subterminal line very indistinct, brown,

waved, angled outwards ai vein 7 and inwards at discal colar some

whitish on termen from apex to vein 2 and a fine white line at base

of cilia. Hind wing whitish suffused with cupreous brown; cilia

white with a brown line through them; the underside white

slightly irrorated with brown, a slight brown discoidal striga with

bar above it from costa, diffused brown postmedial and subterminal

lines with brown suffusion between them.

Hab. Sterra Leone (Foxcroft), 1 2 type diminuta; Navan,

Durban (Leigh), 1 3; Maurirrus (Manders), 1 9; Centr.

Cutya, Ichang (Hobson), 12; Manras, Gooty (Campbell), 1°,

Calicut (Car dew), i Oe Cryton, 2 36; Burma, Mandalay (Bing-

ham), 1 3; Java (Horsfield), 4 d, 2 @; Frist (Mathew), 1 2

Exp. 30-34 millim.

8319. Phytometra rubida. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 25.)

Autographa rubidus, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 67, pl. vi. f. 4

(1902); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 200.

@. Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with whitish, the tips

of tegulz and patagia and an oblique line across the latter whitish ;

shaonnet reddish brown mixed with grey, the crests rufous sin

492 NOCTUID ®.

whitish. Fore wing cupreous red mixed with purplish grey and

slightly irrorated with black-brown; subbasal double red-brown

strie from costa; antemedial line red-brown defined on inner side

by whitish and on both sides towards costa, angled outwards below

costa and obliquely curved below the cell; an oblique Y-shaped

silvery-white stigma below the cell, filled in with rufous and defined

by blackish; reniform with faint pale annulus and its centre

defined by dark brown, open above and strongly constricted at

middle ; traces of a sinuous medial red-brown line ; postmedial line

double, red-brown filled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa,

then oblique and very slightly waved, angled inwards at vein 2,

then excurved, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal

line dark brown with some dark suffusion before it at discal fold,

excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3;

a terminal dark brown line defined on inner side by a whitish line ;

a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish suffused

and irrorated with red-brown, the terminal area red-brown; cilia

white with a brown line through them; the underside whitish

tinged with rufous and irrorated with red-brown, the terminal area

suffused with red-brown, a small brown discoidal lunule and in-

distinet postmedial line.

Hab. Canava, New Brunswick, St. John, Manitoba, Cartwright,

Alberta, Calgary (Wolley-Dod),1 2. Exp. 40 millim.

8320. Phytometra acceutifera.

Plusia accentifera, Lef. Ann. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1827, p. 94, pl. 5. ff. 1, 2;

Mill. Icones, pl. 70. ff. 2-4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 239.

Plusia lauwrewm, Frr. Neue Beitr. i. p. 43, pl. 23. f. 3 (18381).

Head and thorax ochreous tinged with reddish brown, the tegule

at tips and the patagia above edged with brown and grey, the

metathoracie crest tipped with brown; tarsi brown ringed with

white; abdomen ochreous, the crests red-brown and grey. Fore

wing greyish ochreous tinged and irrorated with red-brown ; sub-

basal line slight, ochreous defined on each side by red-brown, from

costa to vein 1, a red-brown patch beyond it below the cell;

antemedial line indistinct, ochreous defined on each side by red-

brown, oblique, waved, a blackish mark before it at inner margin ;

orbicular with faint ochreous annulus defined on outer side by

brown, narrow, oblique ; an oblique stigma slightly defined at sides

by silver below the cell, its lower extremity produced to a slight

point on inner side and a longer point on outer, a chocolate-brown

patch beyond it below and beyond lower end of cell; reniform

chocolate-brown faintly defined at sides by ochreous; postmedial

line double, red-brown filled in with ochreous, bent outwards below

costa, then slightly waved, excurved at middle, then incurved,

some ochreous points beyond it on costa; subterminal line slight,

silvery defined on inner side by chocolate-brown shades from below

costa to vein 4 and towards inner margin, excurved below vein 7,

incurved at middle to the postmedial line, and with shght dentate

PHYTOMETRA. 493

black marks defined by silvery-white below veins 4 and 3; a

terminal series of slight blackish lunules defined on inner side by

an ochreous line from costa to vein 2 with a chocolate-brown shade

before it expanding into a triangular patch at middle, and a brown

spot above tornus; cilia with a slight waved red-brown line near

base. Hind wing ochreous suffused with red-brown especially on

terminal area ; cilia whitish with some red-brown striz near base;

the underside ochreous irrorated with red-brown, a rather diffused

postmedial line with red-brown band beyond it except towards

costa.

Hab. Spatn, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; ? Corstca; Stcrny ;

? Crete; Syria. xp. 30-34 millim.

Larva. Kirby. Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 270; Hffm. Raup. p. 134.

Green, with pale and dark dorsal and subdorsal lines and ill-

defined pale lateral stripe. Food-plant, Mentha. 1-2.

8321. Phytometra phocina, n. sp. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 26.)

Q@. Head and thorax grey-brown; tegule and patagia with grey

tips; metathoracic crest with some reddish yellow above and grey

tips; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing purplish grey-brown, the

medial area below the cell and the terminal area deep brown with a

golden bronze gloss; subbasal line brown defined on outer side by

silvery-grey, sinuous, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line brown

defined on outer side by silvery-grey, oblique to median nervure,

then inwardly oblique; orbicular and reniform slightly defined by

erey, the former elliptical, the latter somewhat constricted at

middle ; an oblique V-shaped stigma defined by silvery-grey below

the cell, slightly angled inwards below and its apex bent outwards

to the postmedial line; postmedial line double, brown filled in with

silvery-grey, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly

waved to the submedian fold where it is angled inwards, then

erect ; subterminal line dark brown defined on outer side by silvery-

erey, excurved below vein 7, then erect to tornus; a faint waved

whitish line before termen. Hind wing brown, the interspaces of

basal half whitish ; cilia whitish with a brown line through them ;

the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a brownish discoidal

striga, rather diffused postmedial line incurved below vein 3, and

subterminal shade.

Hab. Brazit, Rio Janeiro (Wilson), 1 9 type. Hap. 38

millim.

8322. Phytometra abrota.

Plusia abrota, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 333, pl. 30. f. 19 (1889) ;

Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 67, pl. ix. f.4; Dyar, Cat. Lep.

N. Am. p. 200.

Head and thorax grey-brown; tegule and patagia with the tips

grey ; metathoracic crest with some fulvous yellow above and grey

tips; abdomen grey-brown, the lateral and genital tufts reddish

yellow. Fore wing purplish grey-brown, the medial area below the

494: NOCTUID®.

cell and the medial part of terminal area dark brown with some

golden bronze suffusion ; subbasal line brown defined on outer side

by grey, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line brown defined on

outer side by grey, oblique to median nervure, then inwardly

oblique, a wedge-shaped dark mark tinged with golden bronze

before it at immer margin; orbicular brown defined by grey,

elliptical, a brown mark above it on costa; a V-shaped stigma

with its apex bent outwards below the cell, defined by silvery-white

except at upper part of outer edge where it is defined by grey ;

reniform brown defined by grey, constricted at middle, a brown

mark above it on costa and a brown shade before it from costa ;

postmedial line double, brown filled in with grey, bent outwards below

costa, then oblique, shghtly waved to vein 5, then slightly excurved

to vein 3 and again excurved below submedian fold, some grey

points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line dark brown defined on

outer side by grey and on inner by brown suffusion, incurved

below costa, angled outwards to termen below vein 7, then incurved

to tornus ; two brown spots suffused with golden bronze on termen

below apex. Hind wing brown, the interspaces of basal half

whitish ; cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; the under-

side whitish irrorated with brown, a sinuous brown postmedial line

and broad subterminal shade.

Hab. U.S.A., Florida; Mexico, Jalapa (Godman, Trujillo),

2 3 type; GuatEmMata Ciry (Rodriguez), 1 3,1 2, Godman-

Salvin Coll. Exp. 40-42 millim.

8323. Phytometra oxygramma. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 27.)

Autographa oxygramma, Geyer, Ziitrage, iv. ff. 769-70 (1882) ; Ottolengui,

J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pl. ix. f. 10; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Ain, p. 253.

Plusia indigna, W1k. xii. 909 (1857).

Plusia parallela, Wik. xii. 918 (1857); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i.

p. 332.

Plusia collateralis, Hery.-Schaff. Corresp.-blatt. zool.-min. Ver. Regensb.

xxii. p. 184 (1868).

Head and thorax dark brown mixed with greyish, the tegulz

with slight blackish line defined behind by whitish at middle and

whitish tips, the patagia with oblique whitish hne near base; tarsi

blackish ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown, the crests with

blackish mixed. Fore wing brown suffused with purplish grey and

irrorated with blackish, the medial area with dark brown patch

below the cell; subbasal line whitish defined on outer side by brown,

sinuous, from costa to vein 1, a shght oblique black streak beyond

it below the cell; antemedial line whitish defined on each side by

brown, excurved below costa, imcurved in cell, then oblique and

slightly sinuous; orbicular with whitish outline and its centre

defined by blackish, narrow, oblique; a very narrow elongate

oblique silvery stigma below the cell, its arms defined by rufous on

inner side and its imner side slightly angled inwards at submedian

fold; reniform defined by blackish, narrow, and constricted at

middle ; postmedial line indistinctly double, dark brown filled in

PHYTOMETRA. 495

with some silvery-whitish, excurved below costa, then oblique and

minutely waved to submedian fold, then excurved, some whitish

points beyond it on costa; subterminal line blackish with brown

shades before it between veins 7 and 4 and beyond it below costa

and at middle, angled outwards at veins 7,6 and below veins 4

and 3; a fine waved black terminal line with a series of slight

silvery striz defined on inner side by brown before it except towards

tornus. Hind wing brown with a cupreous gloss, the interspaces

of basal half whitish; cilia brownish white; the underside white,

the veins and postmedial area suffused with brown, the costal and

terminal areas greyish irrorated with brown.

Hab. U.S.A., Georgia, 1 g, 2 2 type endigna, Missouri, Texas ;

Mexico, Jalapa (Zrujillo), 3 $, 1 2, Tabasco, Teapa (A. H.

Smith), 1 2; Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 1 2, Godman-

Salvin Coll.; Cupa; W. Cotompra, Jiminez, 1 2 ; VENEZUELA

(Dyson), 1 2 type parallela; Brazit, Rio Janeiro, 1 9, Tijuca

(Wagner),1 2. Hap. 36-42 millim.

8324. Phytometra cebeze. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 28.)

Plusia kebee, Beth.-Baker, Novy. Zool. xiii. p. 270 (1906).

$. Head and thorax reddish brown largely mixed with grey ;

tegule slightly tipped with white; abdomen whitish suffused with

rufous, the crests at base darker. Fore wing grey with a silvery

gloss and dark brown irroration, a triangular patch on costal half

of medial area and the apical half of terminal area rather darker ;

subbasal line represented by two slight strie from costa filled in

with grey ; antemedial line slight, double filled in with grey, angled

outwards below costa, then inwardly oblique; orbicular a faint pale

very oblique V-shaped mark; reniform defined on inner side by a

faint pale bar, hardly defined on outer; the stigma below the cell

consisting of an oblique silvery-white striga, rather dilated on

inner side below and slightly defined by blackish; postmedial line

slight, double filled in with grey, bent outwards below costa, then

obliquely excurved to submedian fold and bent outwards to inner

margin; subterminal line slightly defined by golden brown on inner

side, minutely waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; cilia

grey mixed with brown, a fine brown line near base. Hind wing

whitish, the ves and terminal half suffused with brown with a

silvery gloss; cilia white with a brown line through them; the

underside whitish suffused and irrorated with red-brown, an indis-

tinct diffused brown postmedial band and faint subterminal band on

inner half.

?. Abdomen grey ; fore wing without the white stigma below

the cell.

Hab. Duren N. Guinea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 2 5,19; Br. N.

GutnEA, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), type+ ¢, 2 in Coll. Bethune-Baker,

Aroa R. Hap. 36-40 millim.

496 NOCTUID 2.

8325. Phytometra albostriata. (Plate CCXXXVIL. fig. 29.)

Plusia albostriata, Brem. & Grey, Beitr. Schmett. N. Chin. p. 18 (1853) ;

Men. En. Anim. Mus. Petr. pl. 16. f. 10.

Abrostola transfixa, Wk. xv. 1783 (1858), nec xii. p. 884.

Plusia oxygramma, Ampsn. Moths Ind, ii. p. 575.; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal.

p. 239 (nec Geyer).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey, the patagia greyer,

the tegule with black medial line, the patagia with curved black

line near base ; frontal tuft edged with black ; the spurs and tarsi

ringed with white; abdomen greyish suffused with red-brown, the

crests red-brown and grey. Fore wing grey suffused and striated

with red-brown and irrorated with some black ; subbasal line slight,

brown, sinuous, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line indistinctly

double, brown, waved; orbicular with whitish outline, very narrow

and oblique; a very narrow and oblique wedge-shaped yellowish

white stigma below the cell, its middle defined by faint rufous lines,

extending to just beyond the postmedial line and emitting a streak

on median nervure to before the antemedial line; reniform defined

by black, narrow; postmedial line double, brown, the outer line

black towards inner margin, bent outwards below costa, then

oblique and minutely waved to submedian fold where it is angled

inwards, then excurved, some grey points beyond it on costa ; sub-

terminal line fine, black, dentate, with slight black streaks before it

below veins 6 and 5 and angled inwards at vein 2 and submedian

fold; a slight waved brown shade before termen with some whitish

points on its outer edge and a fine waved dark terminal line. Hind

wing brown with a cupreous gloss, the interspaces of basal half

whitish ; cilia whitish with a brown line near base; the underside

whitish irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule and diffused

brown postmedial and subterminal lines.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma not quite reaching the post-

medial line.

Ab. 2. Fore wing with the stigma pointed at both ends and not

reaching either the median nervure or postmedial line.

Hab. Ki. Stperta, Ussuri; Japan, Hakodaté, 1 9, Yokohama

(Jonas, Pryer),2 3,2 9 ; CorEa, Gensan (Leech), 1 3 ; CENTR.

Cuina, Shanghai (Pryer), 1 9, Foo-chou (Say), 1 3 ; W. Cutna,

Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 ¢ ; Punsas, Kulu, Sultanpur (G. Young),

1 3, Dharmsila (Hocking), 3 9 ; Assam, Shillong (Parish), 1 3,

1 9; Mapras, Bangalore (Watson), 2 9, Nilgiris (Hampson),

QUEENSLAND, Brisbane (Turner), 1 3, Moreton Bay (Diggles),

146,19; Fut (Mathew),1 3,19. Hap. 32-40 millim.

8326. Phytometra subchalybea. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 30.)

Abrostola subchalybea, Wik. xxxiii. 883 (1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii.

p. 575.

Abrostola nubila, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 549 pl. 214. f. 5 (1887).

Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with purplish grey ;

tegulz with black line at middle ; tarsi blackish ringed with white;

PHYTOMETRA. 4.97

abdomen grey-brown, the crests brown and grey, the lateral tufts

of male rufous. Fore wing purplish grey suffused and striated

with dark brown and with a slight cupreous gloss; subbasal line

slight, black, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial

line double, blackish, waved; reniform defined by black, narrow,

oblique; an indistinct sinuous dark medial line, oblique to lower

angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line double, dark,

filled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and

minutely waved, acutely angled inwards at submedian fold, then

excurved ; subterminal line very slight, black, dentate, angled out-

wards at veins 7, 6 and below vein 4, and inwards at discal fold; a

very fine waved black terminal line. Hind wing grey-brown, the

interspaces of basal area whitish; cilia whitish with a brownish line

near base; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas pale

grey irrorated with brown, diffused brown postmedial and subter-

minal lines.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with narrow oblique whitish-edged stigma

below vein 2 well separated from the cell.

Hab. Punsas, Deyra Dhun, 12 ; Manras, Nilgiris (Hampson),

13,19; Curnon, Maskelyia (Green), 1 5, Dickoya (Green),

13, Kandy (Green), 1 9, Pundaloya (Green), 1 3 type nubila ;

QUEENSLAND, Moreton Bay (Diggles), 1 Q type. Hap. 34-40

millim.

*§327. Phytometra gorilla. (Plate CCXXXVIL. fig. 31.)

Piusia gorilla, Woll. Psyche, vii. p. 9 (1904).

Q@. Head and thorax dark greyish brown; pectus, legs, and

abdomen paler, the last with the basal crest blackish at tip. Fore

wing grey-brown with a slight cupreous gloss ; subbasal line faint,

double, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line faint, double,

sinuous; orbicular absent; rentform faintly defined by brown; a

faint sinuous medial line; postmedial line indistinct, double, slightly

incurved at discal fold and below vein 3; a faint pale line just

before termen with rather darker suffusion on its inner side, very

slightly incurved from below apex to vein 3, then slightly waved ;

a fine pale line at base of cia. Hind wing dark brown with a

slight cupreous gloss; a fine pale line at base of cilia; the under-

side with the basal half grey suffused with brown, the terminal half

fuscous.

Hab. Coneo, Benito, type f 2 in Coll. Holland. Huwp. 30

millim.

B. Abdomen of male with expansile medial lateral tufts of long hair con-

tained in a fold and large anal tults.

8328. Phytometra permissa.

Plusia permissa, Wk. xv. 1786 (1858); Hmpsn Moths Ind. ii. p. 571.

Head and tegulze pale rufous, the latter tipped with white ;

thorax red-brown mixed with whitish, the patagia with oblique

VOL. XIII, 2K

498 NOCTUIDM.

whitish line across them and whitish tips; pectus and legs rufous

and whitish, the tarsi ringed with whitish; abdomen ochreous

suffused with red-brown, the lateral tufts of mnelle yellowish white,

the anal tuft black-brown. Fore wing whitish suffused and

irrorated with red-brown and glossed with golden cupreous,

especially on inner medial area and imner half of postmedial area,

the medial area with a deep chocolate-brown patch below the cell ;

subbasal line white defined on inner side below the cell by black and

with black patch beyond it, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line

white defined on each side by red-brown, angled outwards below

costa, strongly bent inwards in cell, oblique art sinuous below the

cell ; onion ine defined by white, narrow and oblique; an oblique

silvery- -white V-shaped stigma below the cell; reniform chocolate-

brown defined by dark Tro we: ; postmedial lime white defined on

Fig. 123.—Phytometra permissa, 8.

each side by red-brown, bent outwards below costa, incurved at

discal fold, oblique from vein 4 to submedian fold where it is angled

inwards, then excurved, some white points beyond it on costa and a

whitish shade from costa to vein 4; subterminal lne blackish

brown with a red-brown shade before it from costa to vein 4 and

beyond it towards apex and at middle, excurved below vem 7 and

at middle and incurved at discal and submedian folds; a eal

series of small black lunules defined on inner side by a narrow white

band from apex to vem 2; cilia whitish and red-brown witha slight

waved white line through them. Hind wing red-brown with a

cupreous gloss; cilia white with a red-brown lne through them ;

the underside white irrorated with red-brown, indistinct sinuous

postmedial and subterminal lines with a brown band between them.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma forming a ¥Y with a short

Ueille 2

Hab. Bompay, Kanara (Ward), 2 3 type; Manras, Nilgiris

(Lindsay), 1 3,12 ; Ceynon, Kandy (Pole), 1 2, Pundaloya

(Green), 1 9. Hxp. 30-36 millim.

C. Abdomen of male with expansile lateral tufts of long hair from near base

and towards extremity contained in folds, the anal tuft small; hind

wing with tne termen strongly excurved at middle, the inner margin

fringed with long hair,

PHYTOMETRA. 499

*8329. Phytometra cebeana.

Polychrisia kebeana, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 271 (1906).

3. Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with reddish brown ;

abdomen grey-brown with the lateral fringes of hair rufous. Fore

wing brownish grey with slight dark irroration, the medial area

suffused with golden bronze except towards costa, the postmediai

area except towards costa and the terminal area except at tornus

with golden and bronze suffusion; subbasal line represented by

slight double oblique rufous striz from costa and cell; a slight

double antemedial line angled outwards below costa, interrupted in

cell, then oblique; orbicular with slight whitish annulus, narrow,

Fig. 124.—Phytometra cebeana, S. 4.

oblique elliptical; reniform very indistinctly defined, constricted at

middle; the stigma below the cell consisting of a U-shaped silvery

spot filled in with silver and round spot beyond its lower extremity,

both slightly defined by dark brown; postmedial line double,

obsolescent towards costa, bent outwards below costa, then incurved,

excurved between veins 4, 3, then again incurved ; subterminal line

defined by golden bronze on inner side, excurved below vein 7 and

at middle, a narrow whitish terminal band and fine waved brown

terminal line; cilia pale. Hind wing silky grey tinged with rufous

except on terminal area ; the underside suffused and irrorated with

rufous except on terminal area and with indistinct diffused dark

postmedial and subterminal bands.

Hab. Br. N. Gunga, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), type ¢ 5 in Coll.

Bethune-Baker. xp. 46 millim.

D. Abdomen of male with expansile medial lateral tufts of long hair con-

tained in a fold, the anal tuft small.

8330. Phytometra acuta.

Plusia acuta, Wik. xii. 922 (1857).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with greyish, the tegulz with

blackish medial line, the tegulze and patagia with whitish tips and

the latter with oblique whitish line across them; pectus and hind

legs brownish white; abdomen grey-brown with a reddish tinge,

500 NOCTUID &.

the crests darker at tips, the ventral surface brownish white, the

medial lateral tufts of male red-brown. Fore wing silvery-grey

slightly irrorated with black and glossed with golden eupreous, the

medial area with a deep chocolate-brown patch below the cell; sub-

basal line silvery shghtly defined on each side by red-brown, waved,

from costa to vein 1; antemedial line silvery defined on outer

side by chocolate-brown, angled outwards below costa and inwards

Fig. 125,—Phytometra acuta, S. 3

in cell, then oblique and slightly sinuous; orbicular with slight

pale annulus, oblique, narrow; an oblique silver U-shaped. stigma

below the cell with spot beyond its lower extremity, some silver

between the arms of the stigma ; reniform faintly defined by brown,

strongly constricted at novela “and with silvery striga at lower

extremity; postmedial line double, chocolate-brown filled in with

whitish and with silver at inner margin, bent outwards below costa,

then oblique and very slightly waved to vem 5 where it is angled

inwards, excurved at vein 4 and below submedian fold, some whitish

points beyond it on costa; subterminal line black-brown with a

chocolate shade before it from vein 7 to below 5, slightly angled

outwards at vein 7, below veins 4 and 3 and above vein 1, a

chocolate-brown shade beyond it from costa to vein 4, expanding

into a triangular mark at vein 5; a fine waved dark terminal line

and small spot at base of cilia at vein 4. Hind wing cupreous

brown; cilia with a fine white line at base and white tips; the

underside greyish suffused and irrorated with brown, a slight

discoidal lunule, rather diffused postmedial line and subterminal

shade.

Hab. S. Nigeria, Lagos (Boag), 12, Old Calabar (Crompton),

1 9; Wesha (Humfrey), 1 2 ; Conco (Curror), 1 9 type;

Axpyssinia, Atbara ( Gerrard), 1 $ ; Somantnann, Bulhar (Drake-

Brockman), 1 2 ; Soxorra, Moukaradia (O.-Grant), 2 9 ; Br.

K. Arrica, Taveta (fogers), 1 2, Kitwe (Crawshay), 1 9°,

Kikuyu (Crawshay), 13 , Kb Urru (Betton), 1 &€ ; Uaanna,

Entebbe, 1 2, Kampala ( (Dog gett), 1 9, Wadelai (Emin Pasha),

1 9, Ruwenzori (Wollaston), 2 9 ; Gurm. H. Arrica, Usagara

(Neave), 2 3; Br. C. Arrica, Ikomba (Grogan), 1 2, Hort

Mangoche (Weave), 1 3, Fort Maguire (Weave), 1 9, Chiromo

(Weave), 1 g, Chinde (de Jersey), 1 3, Zomba (Johnston), 1 3,

PHYTOMETRA. 501

1 2; N. Ruopzsta, Serenje Distr. Weave), 13,29 ; Masnona-

LAND, Salisbury (Marshall), 2 6, 1 9; Gazazanp, Chirinda

Forest (Marshall), 1 3; Br. Brcnuuanatann, Lake N’Gami

(Lugard), 1 9; RuopEsta, Bulawayo (Marshall), 1 3,12;

Transvaal, Karino (Cooke), 1 9, Pretoria (Distant), 1 9,

Johannesburg (Hoss), 1 g; Namat, Karkloof (Marshall), 2 3,

Durban (Plant, Leigh), 29; Basuronanp, Little Caledon

(Crawshay), 1 2; AvreN (Chevalier), 1 6; Bompay, Kanara

(Ward),1 3; Java (Horsfield),3 3. Hxp. 38844 millim.

i. Abdomen of male without tufts of long hair.

a. Fore wing with the postmedial area not metallic

golden.

a’, Fore wing without large golden patch beyond the

cell.

a, Kore wing with the stigma below the cell U-shaped

with a spot beyond its lower extremity or con-

joined to it to form a Y.

@. Fore wing with the medial area below the cell

suffused with gold er ecoppery red.

as, Kore wing with the postimedial line angled

inwards at discal fold where there is a

silvery inark beyond it.

a, Fore wing with the stigma below the cell

extending into lower part of cell.

a®. Fore wing with the outer edge of the

stigma somewhat produced above and

rectangular,

Gi, Jaliindl wring ROWAN coocasnecacqanaoa009000C Sestuce.

o7, Hind wing yellowish tinged with

TIKOWAN, cerns beteseasee encase cece one mceaees JSestata.

os, Fore wing with the outer edge of the

stigma obliquely rounded ............... putnam,

o. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell

not extending into the lower part of

cell.

as. Fore wing with the stigma below the

cell separate from the spot ............... nicholle.

48, Wore wing with the stigma below the

cell conjoined to the spot...... ..........- contexta.

5', Kore wing with the postmedial line not

angled inwards at discal fold and without

silvery mark beyond it.

a, Kore wing with the lower part ef reniform

defined by silvery-white.

a§, Fore wing with lower part of reniform

almost entirely filled in with silvery-

Aicnullli) op Boapennabubpened sn sudoadoSonpDHantioue toe bonaerensis.

58, Fore wing with the lower part of reni-

form defined by silvery-white except

below.

a, Fore wing with the antemedial line

excurved below submedian fold ...... biloba.

b7, Fore wing with the antemedial line

obliquely aud evenly curved below

thecal acme stiten nema sdettualac wesc se rhopalosena,

6%, Fore wing with the lower part of reniform

not defined by silvery-white or by slight

points at sides only.

502

‘NOCTUIDE.

as, Fore wing with the U-shaped stigma

filled in with silvery-white.

a’. Fore wing with the U-shaped stigma

large.

a8. Fore wing with the postmedial line’

slichtly waved below the angle

below costa.

a’. Head and tegule not fiery red.

a, Fore wing with the antemedial

lie straight and silvery from

cell to inner margin .........

610, Fore wing with the antemedial

line not silvery and exeurved

below submedian fold .........

49, Wead and tegule fiery red ......

$8, Fore wing with the postmedial line

not waved below the angle below

(COEUB, —cogdonssoa0bosadesaconcea0000D000000

67, Fore wing with the y-shaped stigma

minute.

a’. Fore wing with the postmedial line

nearly straight and oblique .........

o8. Fore wing with the postmedial line

excurved below costa, then incuryed.

c8, Kore wing with the postmedial line

bent outwards below costa, then

waved.

a. Fore wing with the spot beyond

the U-shaped stigma very large.

09, Fore wing with the spot beyond

the U-shaped stigma small ......

68. Fore wing with the U-shaped stigma not

filled in with silvery-white.

a, Fore wing with the U-shaped stigma

minute,

a8. Fore wing with the orbicular a

minute black spot with pale annu-

lus in lower part of cell ............

68, Fore wing with the orbicular with

pale annulus, oblique elliptical

b7, Kore wing with the U-shaped stigma

large.

a8, Fore wing with double black spot

before termen above and below

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68. Fore wing without double black

spot before termen.

a’, Fore wing with the postmedial

line not angled inwards at vein 2.

a0, Fore wing with the. postmedial

line strongly angled inwards

at submedian fold ............

610, Fore wing with the postmedial

line slightly angled inwards

at submedian fold.

a, Fore wing with the U-shaped

stigma narrow .......-.......

6, Fore wing with the arms of

the U-shaped stigma separa-

ting widely, the inner arm

angled inwards on median

TACTAPUEKO coscescanscoasocavass0.

confusa.

argyrosiqna.

ornatissima.

agualaniata.

pyropia,

rutilifrons.

megaloba.

migriluna.

pannosa.

admonens.

geminipuncta.

een

00.

pseudochalyctes.

PHYTOMETRA,

10, Fore wing with the postmedial

lne not angled inwards at

submedian fold ...........0...

69, Fore wing with the postmedial

line angled inwards at vein 2 ...

’8. Fore wing with the medial area below the cell

sultasedMwithysilver) sseeeeenanceseserecreacse reece

@. Bore wing with the medial area below the cell

not suffused with cupreous gold or silver.

a, Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly

excuryed below costa and slightly incurved

at discal fold.

a?, Hind wing yellow ...............00+.- agbsedaoe

J, Hind wing not yellow.

a6, Fore wing with the antemedial line

strongly angled outwards above vein 1.

a, Fore wing with the ground-colour

TOMO DNAS — ocogocoosousnnosdsoanqe9o0

bi. Fore wing with the ground-colour

WIDE). ocodoccoogeooasosocobosoanoagdcobadcas

16, Fore wing with the antemedial line not

angled outwards above vein 1 ............

b& Fore wing with the postmedial line angled

outwards below costa and inwards at

yein 2.

a, Kore wing with the postmedial line dis-

{inctly waved from below costa to inner

inarein.

a8, Fore wing with the postmedial line

strongly waved, the lower part of the

orbicular defined by silver, the Y-shaped

stigma very irregular ...........--.0-.-.65

o6. Fore wing with the postmedial line

moderately waved, the orbicular a

minute brown spot, the Y-shaped stigma

FRAGA socoocosonnn0a0nscenadasnesogoenDES O06

o>, Fove wing with the postmedial line not

distinetly waved.

a’, Kore wing with the lower part of the

orbicular defined by a U-shaped silvery

mark,

ai, Fore wing with the ground-colour

fowefOlieI JOIN. -nodonooonosoboenapq0Dec50enN

v7, Fore wing with the ground-colour

- goldem bronze <2... ...20..s.s2.-20-0-00ee

ei, Fore wing with the ground-colour

POWAOlISIN GAR? — covonosDonspvoSoGONDIB0DeE

68, Fore wing with the lower part of the

orbicular not defined by a U-shaped

silvery mark.

ai, Fore wing with the ground-colour

purplish pink.

a8, Fore wing with the subbasal line

defined on inner side by slight

black marks.

a9, Fore wing with the subterminal

line defined on inner side by

IDA coocon0e ReaD ais scheeiosMeasite tats

6°, Fore wing with the subterminal

line not defined on inner side by

Dnlaiels saescetesatsase sents ARR aac

canuptosema.

precationis.

sestertia.

dives.

v-argenteuin.

ornata.

claret.

COrUuSCH.

labrosa.

bimaculata.

macrogamina.

mandarind.

nappa.

pulchrina.

504 NOCTUID BH.

68. Fore wing with the subbasal line not

defined on inner side by slight

blac kennars key seere- eee reeseece eee.

é7, Pore wing with the ground-colour

grey.

a8, Fore wing without black streak be-

fore the subterminal line in diseal

fold.

a, Fore wing with the spot placed

beyond the lower extremity of

the stigma below the cell ......

69, Fore wing with the spot obliquely

conjoined to the stzgma below

NIGEL SosoSncboasa socensdsobcboeanbe

v8, Fere wing with black streak before

the subterminal line in discal fold.

a9, Fore wing with distinct tail to

the Y-shaped stigma.

a, Fore wing with the postmedial

line slightly angled inwards

on vein 2 and well separated

from the tail of the Y-shaped

stigma,

wil, Head andtegule tinged with

red-brown ; fore wing with

golden bronze tones.

a2, Fore wing with the tail of

the Y-shaped stigma

straighter and_ slightly

lobed eeessesecoee ess

62, Fore wing with the tail of

the Y-shaped stigma

more upturned and

strongly lobed ............

a1, Head and tegule not tinged

with red-brown ; fore wing

with hardly any bronze

WOM cconoscssa0co0sGco0s0000 soe

610, Fore wing with the postmedial

line angled inwards to the tail

of the Y-shaped stigma ......

6°, Fore wing with the stigma formed

by a U-shaped mark with a spot

beyond its extremity or con-

joined to it.

a, Fore wing pale grey suffused

WAH ROW. “ooacanccaccoaesd00s 3

619, Fore wing deep purple-grey

suffused with chocolate-brown

BING! |WROMVAS. cooaosounaeobobedab0s

c!, Kore wing with the postmedial line incurved

below vein 4 to below end of cell.

«#, Fore wing rufous suffused with golden

IDPOTVE coodoacoosoansaceoosodoocnenpocenesssoacK

brown

é4, Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique

and slightly waved from belew costa to

submedian fold where it is angled inwards .

6, Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique

and slightly sinuous from below costa to

inner margin.

iol he

NUJTISUY be

schalisema.

GAMING.

pseudogamm«a.

californica.

flagellum.

Ou.

purpurcofusa.

dudgeont.

limata.

Jessica.

PHYTOMETRA.

a5, Hind wing grey suffused with brown ......

6°, Hind wing ochreous white ..............006+

ce, Hind wing bright yellow .............-.---..:

J'. Fore wing with the postmedial line sinuous

below costa and angled outwards at veins

Sy ENNGUIL y UronganondeaabesiGonno AHabEMooR dd snbaganaconG

g'. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique

from below costa and slightly incurved

below vein 4, the U-shaped part of the

arene very small and narrow.

. Fore wing grey strongly irrorated with

[DROW coconopassn0500n00 one no0dosuooNMoDGDIDb009006

6%, Fore wing white slightly irrorated with

brown.

a6, Fore wing with elongate dark brown

spot beyond lower angle of cell .........

06, Fore wing without elongate dark brown

spot beyond lower angle of cell .........

h‘. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved

to vein 4, then oblique, the U-shaped part of

the stigma very small .........s..sseeeeeeseees ‘

U7, Fore wing with the stigma below the cell U-shaped

WINE & SPOOIE ISAT M5 s2acaceeasancesosoapcocdvassqs0nnCeN

c. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell oblique

conical, rounded at extremity, filled in with gold

or silver, and without spot beyond or below it or

conjoined to it.

a3, Bore wing with the stigma golden.

a}, Fore wing with gold point on inner side of

EMO LITO sococossododooooceHo00v005000000006

64, Fore wing without gold point on inner side

of reniform below.

a, Fore wing with the stigma below the cell

[DROAG! BNO _nonooccavqnoqaoson5n050e090000B0000

05, Fore wing with the stigma below the cell

narrowing above ...... spobdoo00g0s909000000006

03. Fore wing with the stigma silvery.

a!, Fore wing without chocolate-brown patch

from costa before ApeX — .........seceeeeereeeeee

U4, Fore wing with chocolate-brown patch from

GOs WENO BYES coasonsonaosoce000boncs0000000000

. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell ‘oblique

V-shaped without spot beyond or below it or

conjoimed to it.

a3, Fore wing with the postmedial line angled

outwards below costa and inwards at, vein 2.

a‘, Hind wing pure white ............... dophanender

b4, Hind wing ochreous, the terminal area

OIRO - consoocsccesos000na nD 9 s00n90500NobULDOOEDDEDONE

3, Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique and

sinuous from below costa to inner margin

c3, Fore wing with the postmedial line angled out-

wards below costa and inwards at submedian

fold.

as. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique

and slightly waved from below costa to its

angle at submedian fold, the V-shaped

stigma very elongate and filled in with

white.

a°, Fore wing purplish pink, the terminal area

suffused with golden cupreous except at

apex eeevose COL Se sees sseoeteseeseassose eeeeerss 2 OB aoe

bella.

pasipheia.

SANSONL.

exquisita.

semivitla.

PUrisstma,

tetragona.

anda.

orbifer.

parabracica.

bractea.

metallica,

excelsa.

emula.

argyrodonta.

U-mMinus.

tancreét.

ochreata.

506 NOCTUID B.

55, Fore wing purplish grey, the terminal area

not suffused with golden cupreous .. ......

Fore wing with the postmedial line excuryed

from below costa to vein 4, then almost

obsolete and incurved to vein 2, the U-

shaped stigma not filled in with white ......

ce’, Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly

incurved at discal fold, the V-shaped stigina

rao Talker sir, WHIM WHINE), ca00 sso gooasvedosasconocs.

e?, Fore wing with the stigma below the cell formed

by three obliquely placed silvery spots ............

f?. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell formed

by two minute obliquely placed silvery spots ...

g°. Kore wing with the stigma below the cell formed

by a single round white spot defined by biack ...

h2, Kore wing with the stigma below the cell oblique

elliptical and finely defined by white ........ ......

#,. Fore wing with the stigua below the cell round and

finely defined by white.

a, Fore wing chestnut-red irrorated with white.

a‘, Kore wing with the inner area suffused with

yellow to the postmedial line ..................

o4, Fore wing with the inner area not suffused

waht yellows i.tsesteaeeenas samc aeeseeeeetat Saree

8, Bore wing very pale cupreous brown irrorated

willl) wihiten,. cctv aca. ceuca sees aeacaseee bam emanates

72. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell U-

shaped without spot. beyond or below it.

a3, Kore wing with the postmedial line not angled

outwards to below apex.

a’, Fore wing with the postmedial line not in-

curved to lower angle of ceil.

a. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell

oblique.

a’. Fore wing suffused in parts with purplish

ScDMIG ay wines poste mere ee ee EE eee

o§, Fore wing not suffused with purplish

pink,

ae Fore wing with the inner half of medial

area not suffused with chestnut-red. .

o7, Fore wing with the inner half of medial

area suffused with chestnut-red.

a8, Fore wing with the postmedial line

slightly incurved below vein 4......

6, Fore wing with the postmedial line

strongly incurved below vein 4 ...

5, Fore wing with the stigma below the cell

erect.

a’, Fore wing with the stigma below the

cell defined by brown.

a, Fore wing with the whole medialarea

suffused with rufous............:0.0.c8e

07, Fore wing with the basal half of medial

areaanda patch before the postmedial

line below lcosta pale..-....0..0...-.- +...

v6, Fore wing with the stigma below thie cell

very faintly defined by grey...............

c§, Fore wing with the stigma below the cell

strongly defined by white.

ai, Fore wing with the ground-colour

olive-brown.

transfitd.

arachnoides.

aranea

tetrastigma.

disticta.

hampsont.

emichi.

dorsiflava.

maria.

augusta.

variabilis,

modesta.

wralensis.

siderifera.

inconspicua.

generosa.

cashmirensis.

PHYTOMETRA. 507

a8, Fore wing with pale cupreous red

patch at middle of termen.

a, Fore wing with the postmedial

line strongly incurved below

Tera 4b scoscacnsonoosodoodnoosndedaa00C herricht.

69, Fore wing with the postmedial

line slightly incurved below

VGH 42 ooooqc0davooqecsoos00neRsG9G0000 renardi,

8. Fore wing with deep chocolate-brown

patch at middle of termen ......... consond.

07, Fore wing with the ground-colour

TAIIE® coadbsobaccsaosedeuobocosseepdeceongneD albavitta,

4, Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved

i lower amslle of GAUL scagnoannoneqcdnesaccac0es ampla.

63, Fore wing with the postmedial line angled out-

wards to below apex .............2..seusseeesesseee deaurata.

k2. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell oblong,

rather inwardly oblique and with dark outline... @reoides.

Zz. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell forming

a bilobate mark slightly defined by grey-white... masont.

m, Fore wing without stigma below the cell.

a®, Kore wing with the postmedial line angled out-

wards below costa, then oblique and sinuous

to inner margin.

a4, Fore wing with the ground-colour olive-

DOWN oaiecn renatistactastcesenat ome tae eerie ce peponis.

b4. Fore wing with the ground-colour purplish

Thal ggpodeosnecacosaedonsosadoppaqsnduadoqsadaqaebadac hebetata.

pint

63, Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved

below costa, at middle, and below submedian

TOMB socoassccc00qng0s000K00005000000 | GooaoD0DEDODD009000 ered.

n2, Fore wing with the stigma below the cell repre-

sented by a faint dark bar ...............seseeesereee leonina.

61, Fore wing with large golden patch beyond the cell . chryson.

b. Fore wing with the postmedial area golden.

@, Fore wing with the metallic areas golden-green.

a2. Fore wing with the postmedial line bent outwards

below costa, oblique to vein 7, then inwardly

GISIICNUS) cocyabeannoodec oe cacooonbcoandoobosaceabnensooeeod balluca.

62, Fore wing with the postmedial line obliquely ex-

curved from costato below vein 3, then incurved . zoszmz.

ce, Kore wing with the postmedial line excurved below

costa, then inwardly oblique and sinuous ......... chrysitis.

b', Fore wing with the metallic areas golden without

green tinge.

a, Fore wing with the golden area extending into

middle of cell and to inner margin on postmedial

EvavGl (ReaD PUREE! “cosconsononscdsacacosqoeacenouacoOde jflorina.

2, Fore wing with the golden area not extending into

middle of cell or to inner margin on postmedial

anal reansoell ENREEIS cobooepooospsncanqosnsnpuocenDoo50ae orichaleea.

8331. Phytometra festuce.

Noctua festuce, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 518 (1758); Esp. Schmett. iv.

pl. 113. f.6; Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 277; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. 2,

p. 380, pl. 135. f. 4; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. mi. p. 107; Frr.

Beitr. pl. 100; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 237.

Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with yellow; abdomen

whitish, the crests rufous, the extremity tinged with rufous, the

508 NOCTUID &.

ventral surface yellow tinged with rufous. Fore wing bright

rutous, the basal costal area, the inner area beyond the antemedial

line and the postmedial area towards tornus golden irrorated with

rufous; a double rufous subbasal striga from costa; antemedial

line double, red-brown, excurved below costa and inwardly oblique

below the cell; a rather pear-shaped golden-silvery stigma below

middle of cell and extending into the cell, defined by blackish, with

a similar rather oblique golden-silvery spot beyond its lower

extremity; a black point at upper angle of cell; a slight rufous

medial line, very oblique from costa to beyond lower angle of cell,

then very oblique inwardly and shghtly sinuous; postmedial line

rufous, excurved below costa, angled inwards at discal fold, ex-

curved at vein 4, then oblique, double and sinuous towards inner

margin; a golden-silvery wedge-shaped mark below vein 6 from

the postmedial to the subterminal line, which is rufous, oblique and

diffused to diseal fold, then slighter and somewhat sinuous, defined

on inner side by golden-yellow towards apex; a rufous line before

termen and a terminal line; cilia with a pinkish tinge. Hind

wing ochreous whitish suffused with brown; a fine dark terminal

line; cilia purplish pink; the underside white irrorated with brown,

the costal area, and terminal area except towards tornus tinged

with rufous, a small brown discoidal spot and postmedial line

excurved below costa.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the silvery spots below the cell confluent.

Hab. Brivatn, Leech Coll.; France; Germany, Zeller, Frey,

& Leech Colls.; Austria; Huncgary; SwirzernaAND; Spain,

Catalonia, ? Castile; Barkan Srares; Scanpinavia; Russia,

Livonia, Zeller Coll.; Armenta; W. Turkestan, Tarbagatai,

Issyk-Kul; W. Srperra, Altai; HE. Turxesran, Ih; HE. Sreerta,

Dahuria, Amurland. Hap. 38-40 millim.

Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 157; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 114, pl. 242.

f. 1; Hoffm. Raup. p. 134, pl. 35. f. 10.

Green; dorsal line darker defined by white; subdorsal and

lateral lines white; spiracular line yellow, head green. Food-

plants: Grasses, Carex, Typha, Sparganium ramosum, Iris pseud-

acorus, and Alisma plantago. 5%.

8332. Phytometra festata. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 32.) -

Plusia festata, Gres. Berl. Ent. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 262 (1889); Snell. Tijd.

v. Ent. xliii. Verslag, p. 46; John, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxxix. p. 253,

pl. xiv. f. 24; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 237.

Head and thorax yellow tinged with rufous, the patagia except

at base and the metathorax red-brown ; abdomen ochreous tinged

with brown. Fore wing yellowish suffused with rufous, the veins

streaked with brown, the basal costal area, the inner area beyond

the antemedial line, and the terminal area golden irrorated with

rufous; a curved red-brown subbasal striga from costa; antemedial

line double, red-brown, angled outwards below costa and at median

nervure, then inwardly oblique; a rather pear-shaped golden-silvery

PHYTOMETRA. 509

stigma defined by blackish in and below middle of cell, with a

similar rather oblique elliptical spot beyond its lower extremity ;

a slight red-brown medial line oblique from costa to beyond lower

angle of cell, then very oblique inwardly and slightly sinuous;

postmedial line red-brown, excurved below costa, angled inwards at

discal fold and outwards at vein 4, then double, oblique and sinuous ;

a wedge-shaped golden-silvery spot below vein 6 from the post-

medial line, which is red-brown, oblique and strong to vein 5 where

it is slightly angled inwards, then shghter and somewhat waved ;

a red-brown line before termen from apex to vein 2 and a fine

terminal line. Hind wing yellowish suffused with brown, the

veins browner; a slight postmedial line and subterminal shade; a

fine brown terminal line; the underside yellowish white, a slight

brown discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the spot conjoined to the stigma below

the cell.

Hab. W. TurKxestan, Ferghana, Sarawschan; H. Srperta,

Dahuria, Amurland, Ussuri; Japan, Fushiki (Leech), 1 3,

Tsuruga (Leech), 1 2, Tokio (Maries), 1 2, Yokohama (Jonas,

Pryer), 23,29. Hap. 32-40 millim.

8333. Phytometra putnami. (Plate CCX XXVIII. fig. 1.)

Plusia putnami, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. pp. 146, 192, pl. 4. f. 2

(1873); Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pl. vii. f. 13; Smith, Cat.

Noct. N. Aim. p. 248; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 287.

Head, tegul, prothorax, and the dorsal crest in front yellow

suffused with fiery red, the rest of thorax brown mixed with grey,

the patagia redder brown towards tips; pectus and legs yellow

suffused with fiery red; abdomen yellowish suffused with reddish

brown, the ventral surface rufous. Fore wing greyish ochreous

suffused and irrorated with brown, the basal costal area and inner

area beyond the antemedial line yellow irrorated with fiery red; a

curved subbasal red striga from costa; antemedial line double,

oblique red and widely separated towards costa, brown approxi-

mated and inwardly oblique below the cell; a triangular silvery-

white mark defined by blackish below the cell, its apex extending

into lower part of cell, confluent or almost so with an elliptical

silvery-white spot beyond its lower extremity; a black point at

upper angle of cell and slight oblique brown line from beyond

lower angle to inner margin; postmedial line fine, brown, excurved

towards costa, incurved at discal fold, excurved at vein 4, then

oblique, shghtly sinuous, and double towards inner margin; a

rather wedge-shaped silvery-white mark below vein 6 from post-

medial to subterminal line, which is brown, oblique and rather

diffused on outer side from apex to discal fold, excurved at vein 4,

then slightly sinuous; a red-brown line before termen and a

terminal line. Hind wing ochreous suffused with brown; a fine

brown terminal line defined on inner side by ochreous except

towards tornus; cilia ochreous; the underside ochreous tinged

510 NOCTUID &.

with brown, a slight discoidal spot and rather diffused postmedial

and subterminal lines.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the upper part of the stigma forming a

detached point in cell.

Ab. 2. Much more red-brown; fore wing with the golden areas

much reduced, the point in cell separate from the stigma, some

golden scales on discocellulars, the wedge-shaped mark before the

subterminal line golden yellow; hind wing red-brown, the cilia

pinkish.—M endocino.

Hab. Canapa, Hudson’s Bay, Albany R., St. Martin’s Falls

(Barnston), 2 3, Ontario, Orilha (Bush), 1 g, Alberta, Calgary

(Wolley-Dod), 4 3,22, High R. (Baird), 2 3, Vancouver L.,

Cowichan Bay (Livingston), 2 5; U.S.A., Northern, Hastern, and

Middle States, 4 g¢ type, Virginia, Oregon, Portland, Colorado,

California, Mendocino, 1 ¢. Hap. 34-40 millim.

Larva. Thaxter, Papilio, iii. p. 18.

Early stages similar to H. contexta. Food-plants, Grasses.

8334. Phytometra nicholle. (Plate CCXX XVIII. fig. 2.)

2. Head yellow tinged with fiery red; thorax red-brown mixed

with yellow; abdomen yellow suffused with red-brown. Fore wing

red-brown ; the costal area, the inner area beyond the antemedial

line, and the terminal area except towards apex golden-yellow

suffused with rufous; a curved red-brown subbasal striga from

costa; antemedial line double, red-brown, excurved below costa and

inwardly oblique below the cell; an oval silvery-white spot defined

by blackish below middle of cell, expanding outwardly, a similar

sinall elliptical spot beyond its lower extremity ; a blackish brown

point at upper angle of cell and faint oblique brown line from lower

angle to inner margin; postmedial line brown, oblique to vein 6,

angled inwards at discal fold and oblique from vein 5 to inner

margin; a rather wedge-shaped silvery-white mark below vein 6

from the postmedial to the subterminal line, which is strong black-

brown and oblique from apex to discal fold, then slighter, excurved

at vein 4 and waved to inner margin, defined on inner side by

whitish towards apex; a rather diffused brown line before termen

and a brown terminal line; cilia yellowish, red-brown at tips.

Hind wing glossy yellowish suffused with brown; cilia yellowish ;

the underside pale ochreous slightly tinged with red-brown, a small

brown discoidal spot.

Hab. Canava, Br. Columbia, Pass D. Hope (J/rs. Nicholl),

1 @ type. wp. 40 millim.

8335. Phytometra contexta. (Plate CCX XXVIII. fig. 3.)

Plusia contexta, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci.i.p. 193 (1873); Ottolengui,

J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. x. pl. vii. f. 12; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 248.

¢o. Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with yellow ; abdomen

PHYTOMETRA. 511

ochreous, the crests on basal segments rufous. Fore wing bright

rufous, the basal costal area, the inner area beyond the antemedial

line, and the terminal area except towards apex golden-yellow

irrorated with fiery red; a curved subbasal red-brown striga from

costa ; antemedial line double, red-brown, excurved below costa and

inwardly oblique below the cell; an elongate bilobate silvery-white

mark defined by black-brown below the cell, its upper edge indented,

a slight obliquely curved fiery red medial line from it to inner

margin ; a blackish point at upper angle of cell; a wedge-shaped

silvery-white mark from beyond upper anele of cell to the sub-

terminal line where it extends from vein 7 to 5; subterminal line

strong, black-brown and oblique from apex to vein 5, then slight,

red-brown, slightly incurved at submedian fold, some whitish before

it towards apex; a slight red-brown line before termen and a fine

brown terminal line; cilia yellowish. Hind wing yellowish white

tinged with red-brown, the veins brownish; a slight red-brown

subterminal shade and a fine brown terminal line except towards

tornus; the underside glossy white, the veins faintly tinged with

rufous.

Hab. U.S.A., Maine, New York, 3 ¢ type, Eastern and Middle

States. Hap. 34-38 millim.

Larva. Phaxter, Papilio, iii. p. 18

Pale green, darker below; two dorsal and two subdorsal cream-

coloured lines and a creamy-yellow lateral stripe; a dull yellow

diffused dorsal patch on posterior part of somite 7 and anterior

part of 8 sometimes obsolete, and a similar patch sometimes on

somites 9, 10; head green with a few minute points and hairs.

Cocoon slender, elongate, white, poimted at the ends. Food-plants,

Grasses. 7-8.

Egg large, somewhat flattened, greenish yellow.

8336. Phytometra bonaerensis. (Plate CCXXXVIIL. fig. 4.)

Plusia bonaérensis, Berg, Ann. Soc. Arg. xiv. p. 287 (1882).

Autographa solida, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 64, pl. vi. f. 5

(1902); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am p. 199.

Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with yellow, the tecule

yellow towards base with a slight brownish line at middle; antennze

white in front towards base; abdomen yellowish tinged with rufous,

the crests rufous at tips. Fore wing yellowish suffused with rufous

with a golden gloss, the medial and postmedial area deep rufous, ex-

tending on costa to apex ; a slight rufous subbasal spot below the cell ;

antemedial line silvery defined by red-brown, excurved below costa,

then obliquely curved, a bilobate silvery mark below the cell, its

upper edge indented, the basal lobe running to a point on median

nervure touching the antemedial line ; an elliptical silvery discoidal

spot ; postmedial line red-brown, bent outwards below cesta,

excurved to vein 5, then oblique and sinuous, slightly defined on

inner side by silver towards inner margin, some pale points beyond

it on.costa ; subterminal line obliquely excurved from apex to

512 NOCTUID ©.

vein 5, then faint and sinuous, defining the darker area; the veins

of terminal area with slight dark streaks ; a fine dark terminal line.

Hind wing whitish tinged with ratous, especially on terminal area ;

cilia paler; the underside yellowish white slightly tinged with

rufous.

Hab. U.S.A., Texas; Mexico; Brazrn, Rio Janeiro, 1 ¢,1 2,

Castro Parafia (D. Jones), 19; Uruauay, Colon (Oldfield

Thomas), 1 $6; Argentina, Goya (Perrins), 1 3; Cutt (J. J.

Walker),1 3. Hap. 32 millim.

8337. Phytometra biloba. (Plate CCX XXVIII. fig. 5.)

Plusia biloba, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. i. p. 104 (1852); Guen. Noet.

ii. p. 341, pl. IL. £. 10; Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Suc. x. pl. vii. f. 4;

Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 249.

Head and thorax red-brown; tegule rufous; antennz white

ringed with brown; abdomen brownish white, the crests and

ventral surface rufous. Fore wing grey-brown with slight dark

striz, the basal costal area and the medial area except towards costa

suffused with cupreous gold; a silvery point at base of costa and

subbasal striga from costa ; antemedial line silvery defined on each

side by brown, angled outwards below costa, then inwardly oblique

and excurved below submedian fold; a large oblique silvery bilobate

mark defined by blackish below the cell, its upper edge strongly

indented; reniform represented by a small black spot at upper

angle of cell and a silvery streak with striz from its extremities at

lower angle ; postmedial line silvery-whitish detined on each side by

brown, oblique, very slightly incurved below vein 4 and submedian

fold; subterminal line pale defined on inner side by red-brown

suffusion, excurved below costa and towards tornus and incurved

between those points; a shght whitish line before termen from apex

to below vein 4, defined on inner side by red-brown towards apex

and on both sides at vein 4; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing

pale cupreous red-brown, the terminal area darker; cilia whitish

with a brown line near base; the underside whitish tinged with

red-brown and irrorated with brown, a slight brown discoidal striga,

oblique postmedial line, and subterminal shade.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the upper edge of the silvery stigma below

the cell more evenly downeurved instead of indented.—Venezuela.

Hab. N. America, 1 @ type, Stainton Coll.; Canapa, Ottawa

(Gibson), 1 9; U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, 1 g, 1 9,

Florida (Doubleday),1 9, Missouri (fezley), 1 3, Texas, Dallas

(Boll), 2.3, 1, Colorado, Berkeley (Oslar), 3 2, California

(D Urban), 1 2, New Mexico, San Ignacio (Cockerell), 1 3;

Mextco, Atoyac (Schumann), 1 2, Milpas (forrer), 1 2, Cordova

(Riimeli), 19, Jalapa (Trujillo), 13, 1 2, Godman-Salvin Coll. ;

Jamaica, Cinchona (Fawcett), 3 9; VENEZUELA (Dyson), 1 2;

Peru, Callao (J. J. Walker), 2 2; ArcentTiINA (Oldfield-Thomas),

19; Hawatt, Kona (Perkins), 13, Lanai (Perkins). Hap. 34-

43 millim.

PHYTOMETRA. 51

Larva. French, Papilio, ii. p. 113.

Green; dorsal line dark green; subdorsal and two lateral lines

white connected by spurs with the dorsal line; stigmatal line faint

greenish white with obscure black spots above it on somites 4 to 8,

sometimes wanting; stigmata green defined by black; head green

with black lateral stripes connected in front; antenne black ; the

body covered with short pale brown hair at sides, white on dorsum.

Egg nearly globular, the base somewhat flattened, the apex

bluntly conical; ridged with quadrate punctures between them each

with a small elevation in centre; white with a faint creamy tinge.

8338. Phytometra rhopalosema, n. sp.

(Plate CCX XXVIII. fig. 6.)

Plusia gutta, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 571 (part.).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey, the tegule, patagia,

and metathoracic crests white at tips, the patagia with oblique

white line at middle; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the

crests dark brown, grey at tips. Fore wing purplish grey suffused

in parts with red-brown with a cupreous gloss and irrorated with

dark brown, the medial area deep red-brown below the cell with

some fulvous yellow before the postmedial line; subbasal line

silvery-white defined on each side by red-brown, from costa to sub-

median fold; antemedial line silvery-white defined on each side by

red-brown, angled outwards below costa, bent inwards in cell, then

oblique; an oblique brilliant silvery bilobate stigma below the cell,

angled inwards on median nervure; reniform with faint greyish

outline, its outer edge strongly constricted at middle and with

oblique silvery streak above its lower extremity; a faint dark

medial line, oblique to beyond lower angle of cell, then inwardly

oblique; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with grey and

with silver towards inner margin, bent outwards below costa,

oblique to vein 4, then excurved and slightly sinuous, an oblique

whitish shade beyond it from costa to vein 4; subterminal line

dark brown, excurved below vein 7 and angled inwards at discal

fold, crossed by an oblique cupreous brown shade from apex to

vein 4, some cupreous brown beyond it at middle; a fine dark

terminal line defined on inner side by a whitish line from below

apex to below vein 3; cilia with a slight cupreous brown spot at

middle. Hind wing whitish suffused with cupreous brown, the

terminal area darker; cilia white with a red-brown line near base ;

the underside white irrorated with brown, an oblique postmedial

line and subterminal shade.

flab. Japan, Yokohama (Jonas), 1 9, Oiwaké (Pryer),1 3;

CorEa, Gensan (Leech, Ito), 1 6,1 2; Cenrr. Curna, Shanghai,

1 3S, Chusan Is. (J. J. Walker), 3 9, Chekiang (Pryer), QD)

Kiukiang (Pratt), 1 6; W. Cutna, Chang-yang (Pratt), 2 9°,

Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 2; Punsas, Dharmsila (Hocking), 4 9;

Assam (Badgley), 13 ; Mapras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 3 type.

Hap. 36-40 millim.

VOL. XIII. 214

514 NOCLUID E.

8339. Phytometra confusa.

Noctua circumflera, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 111. ff. 5, 6 (1788); Hiibn. Eur,

Schmett., Noct. f. 285; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. 2. p. 51, pl. 137. f.4; Frr.

Neue Beitr. pl. 118 (nee Linn.).

Plusia confusa, Steph. Spee. Brit. Anim. y. p. 291 (1850).

Plusia gutta, Guen. Noet. ii. p. 346 (1852) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 571 ;

Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 237.

Plusia bigutta, Staud. Rom. Mém. vi. p. 545 (1892).

Head and thorax rufous tinged with greyish, the tegule, patagia,

and metathoracie crest grey at tips, the patagia with an oblique

grey line across them ; abdomen greyish suffused with red-brown,

the crests red-brown with some grey at tips. Fore wing greyish

suffused and irrorated with red-brown and with a shght golden

gloss, the medial area below the cell deep rufous; subbasal lne

greyish, sinuous, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line greyish to

median nervure, then silvery-white, angled outwards below costa,

bent inwards in cell, then oblique ; an oblique brilliant silver stigma

below the cell angled inwards on median nervure and dilated at lower

extremity ; reniform with very faint pale outline, constricted at

middle; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with greyish,

bent outwards below costa, then oblique and minutely waved; sub-

terminal line indistinct, red-brown, excurved below vein 7, angled

inwards at discal fold and outwards below veins 4 and 3, a wedge-

shaped patch of deep rufous suffusion beyond it from apex to below

vein 3; a fine red-brown terminal line defined on imner side by a

whitish line from just below apex to below vein 8. Hind wing

ochreous suffused with rutous with a golden gloss, the terminal area

rather darker; cilia whitish with a red-brown line near base; the

underside greyish ochreous irrorated with red-brown and with faint

diffused postmedial and subterminal lines.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma not angled inwards but with

minute silver str sale before it on santa nervure.

Ab. 2. bigutta. Fore wing with the stigma divided into two

spots.

Hab. France, Leech Coll.; Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls. ;

Austria; Hungary; Spain; Irany, Stresa (4. H. Jones);

Datmatia; Batkan States; S. Russra, Sarepta, Leech Coll. ;

Armenia; Asta Mrnor, Bithynia, Lydia; Syria; Persia ;

W. Turkestan, Sarawschan, Ferghana, Tarbagatai Mts., Issyk-

Kul; W. Srperta, Altai; EK. Stperta, Dahuria, Amurland, 2 ¢;

Japan, Yezo (Pryer), 1.3, Hakodaté (Andrews), 13, 19,

Tokio (Maries), 1 6, 1 2, Yokohama (Jonas, Manley), 2 2;

Corka, Gensan (Leech), 12 ; Kasumir, Nubra Valley, Panomik

(Avinoff), 1 5; Has. 1en., 1 ¢ type, Stainton Coll. Hap. 32-

4) millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 270; Hffm. Raup. p. 134, pl. 35. f. 11.

Green or brownish ; dorsal line black edged with white ; subdorsal

stripe black edged with white, waved on abdominal somites ; lateral

stripe white. Food-plants: Achillea millefolium and Matricaria

chamonilla, 5 & 7

PHYTOMETRA. 515

8340. Phytometra argyrosigna. (Plate CCXXXVIIL. fig. 7.)

Plusia argyrosigna, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 149 (1882); Hmpsn. Moths Ind,

ills JB DA

Head and thorax deep rufous slightly mixed with greyish, the

tegule fulvous red at base; fore tarsi whitish, the mid and hind

spurs and tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen fulvous red, the

crests and anal tuft deep ratous. Fore wing deep rufous suffused in

parts with metallic gold especially on terminal area, the medial area

with a deeper rufous patch below the cell; subbasal line represented

by a slight curved fulvous red striga from costa; antemedial line

very slight, silvery with a greyish shade before it, angled outwards

below costa, strongly bent inwards in cell, oblique below the cell

and slightly excurved above vein 1; orbicular with very faint pale

outline, very narrow and oblique; an oblique rather S-shaped

brillant silvery white stigma below the cell, produced inwards to a

point on median nervure and its tail somewhat dilated; reniform

with very slight silvery outline, very narrow and slightly dilated at

lower extremity, placed on a deep rufous patch and filled in with

deep rufous ; postmedial line double, deep rufous, slightly filled in

with silvery-white at inner margin, bent outwards below costa, then

oblique and minutely waved, angled outwards at vein 2; sub-

terminal line red-brown, excurved below veins 7, 4, 3, a deep rufous

shade before it between veins 7 and 3 and beyond it from apex to

vein 2, leaving the termen paler except at apex. Hind wing rufous

with a cupreous gloss, the terminal area darker; the underside with

the costal area suffused with fiery red, diffused brownish postmedial

and subterminal lines.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma not angled inwards on median

nervure.

Hab. Kasumrr, Kiris (Leech), 1 9, Rala (McArthur), 1 3,

19; Punsas, Kulu, Dugi Pass (Thompson), 1 3,1 2, Dalhousie,

2 3 type. Hxp. 34-48 millim.

8341. Phytometra ornatissima.

Plusia chalsytis, Koll. Hugel’s Kaschmir, iv. p. 482 (nec Esp.).

Plusia ornatissima, Wik. xv. 1786 (1858); Himpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 572;

Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 238.

Plusia locuples, Oberth. Kt. Ent. v. p. 85, pl. 9. f. 3 (1881).

Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with greyish; Ist

joint of palpi, extremity of 2nd joint, vertex of head, and patches

on tegule fiery red; fore coxe with small patches of fiery red;

abdomen red-brown with a greyish tinge, the crests red-brown

tipped with grey. Fore wing red-brown mixed with some greyish,

and with dark brown striz, the basal costal area, the inner area

beyond the antemedial line, and the terminal area suffused with

cupreous gold; a curved silvery subbasal striga from costa ; ante-

medial line double, red-brown, filled in with silver except in cell,

2L2

516 NOCTUTD 1

angled outwards below costa, then tiwancls hqgue and sinuous ;

an oblique bilobate silvery stigma below the cell, formed by two

conjoined spots, the basal spot produced to a point on median

nervure towards base and with two points above it in the cell;

reniform obscurely defined by red-brown, oblique; an obscure

diffused red-brown medial line, angled inwards below costa and out-

wards on median nervure, then oblique; postmedial line double,

red-brown, filled in with silver towards inner margin, bent outwards

below costa, then oblique, minutely waved and excurved below sub-

median fold; subterminal line red-brown, oblique and diffused on

inner side to vein 5, excurved below veins 4 and 3, then sinuous to

tornus. Hind wing red-brown; cilia whitish at tips; the under-

side grey irrorated with brown, the postmedial area suffused with

brown, an irregular medial line, postmedial line oblique below

vein 6, and slight subterminal line.

Hab. E. Stperta, Amurland, Ussuri; Japan, Hakodaté, 1 ¢,

Tokio (Maries), 1 2, Yokohama (Pryer), 2 3, 2 2, Morioka

(Lewis), 1 3; Corba, Gensan (Jto),1 ¢; W. Cuina, Chang-

yang (Pratt), 13; Ponsa, Dharmsila (Hocking), 19; Sixuim

(Russell), 3 9 type. Kup. 38-46 milhm.

8342. Phytometra agualaniata. (Plate CCX XXVIII. fig. 8.)

Plusia agualaniata, Dogn. Hét. Nouv. Am. Sud, vi. p. 7 (1912).

3. Head and thorax purple-grey mixed with dark red-brown ;

minute crimson marks below base of palpi; abdomen whitish

suffused with brown, the crests dark red-brown mixed with purple-

grey. Fore wing purple-grey irrorated with black, the medial area

suffused with deep cupreous red-brown except towards costa and

inner margin; a faint oblique whitish subbasal line from costa to

vein 1; antemedial line whitish defined on each side by brown,

angled outwards below costa, then inwardly oblique; a bilobate

silvery-white stigma defined by black except above below the cell,

formed by a triangular spot conjoined to an elliptical spot; reniform

slightly defined by whitish, its upper and lower extremities with

slight blackish marks in them, its inner edge oblique, its outer

strongly constricted at middle; postmedial line whitish defined by

brown, indistinctly double except beyond the cell, slightly angled

outwards below costa, then oblique, shghtly excurved to vein 3, then

slightly imcurved; subterminal Ime deep red-brown, obliquely

curved and diffused on inner side to vein 4, then slight and waved ;

a small brown spot before termen below vein 4 and a fine dark

terminal line. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the terminal

area suffused with brown; cilia white with a brown line through

them; the underside white irrorated with brown.

Hab. Peru, Agualani (Ockenden), 2 6. Hap. 40 millim.

Type t ¢ in Coll. Dognin.

PHYTOMETRA. 517

8343. Phytometra pyropia. (Plate CCXX XVIII. fig. 9.)

Plusia pyropia, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 867 (1879); Hmpsn. Moths

Inde ait pou.

Head and thorax rufous mixed with some grey, the vertex of

head and tegule fiery red, the tips of tegule and patagia grey ;

pectus, legs, and abdomen pale rufous, the last with the crests deep

rufous. Fore wing rufous tinged with grey and slightly striated

with brown, the inner half of medial area and the postmedial area

except towards tornus suffused with brilliant cupreous gold; sub-

basal line slight, silvery defined on inner side by brown, from costa

to submedian fold; antemedial line silver, angled outwards below

costa and inwards in cell, bent outwards at median nervure, then

oblique; a brilliant silver stigma below the cell, consisting of an

oblique elliptical spot with streak on median nervure running in-

wards to the antemedial line and another elliptical spot beyond its

lower extremity ; reniform very obscurely defined by brown; post-

medial line brown with silver on it from vein 2 to inner margin,

slightly exeurved below costa, then oblique and sinuous below

vein 2; subterminal line red-brown, excurved below vein 7 and

angled outwards below veins 4 and 3; a fine brown terminal line.

Hind wing pale reddish brown, the terminal half rather darker ;

cilia white at tips; the underside whitish tinged with rufous and

irrorated with brown, a small brown discoidal spot and diffused

oblique postmedial line.

Hab. Jaran, Otwaké (Pryer), 12, Yokohama (Pryer),1 ¢d,

1@ type; Corrs, Gensan (Jto), 15; Kasur, Rajaori (Leech),

1 $; PungaB, Dharmsila (Hocking), 23,32. Hap. 32-34

millim.

8344. Phytometra rutilifrons.

Plusia rutilifrons, Wik. xv. 1785 (1858).

Plusia argenteo-guttata, Pou}. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) vii. p. lxviii (1887).

Plusia adscripta, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 261; id. Rom. Mém. vi.

p. 545, pl. 10. f. 7; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238.

Head and thorax grey tinged with red-brown, the vertex of head

and base of tegule fiery red, the metathoracie crest red-brown

tipped with grey ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests red-brown. Fore

wing glossy grey-brown irrorated with a few black scales, the inner

half of medial area and middle of terminal area bright red-brown

with a golden gloss; subbasal line silvery-whitish slightly defined

on each side by red-brown, from costa to submedian fold; ante-

medial line silvery-white slightly defined on each side by red-brown,

excurved below costa, incurved in cell, bent outwards at median

nervure, then oblique and sinuous; a silvery stigma below the cell

consisting of a small oblique U-shaped mark with round spot beyond

its extremity, both defined by blackish; reniform with slight grey

annulus, the upper and lower parts of centre defined by black, its

inner edge oblique and straight, its outer constricted at middle ;

518 NOCTUID H.

postmedial line silvery-white defined on inner side by red-brown,

bent outwards below costa and slightly incurved below vein 5;

subterminal line chocolate-brown defined on outer side by whitish

towards costa and tornus, strongly angled inwards at discal fold

and angled outwards at vein 4; a slight dark terminal line defined

on inner side by whitish from below apex to vein 3. Hind wing

grey-brown with a cupreous gloss; cilia whitish at tips; the under-

side whitish tinged with brown, a rather diffused brown postmedial

line excurved below costa, and faint subterminal shade.

Hab. Ei. Sreeria, Ussuri; Japan, Tokio (Maries), 2 9, Yoko-

hama (Jonas, Pryer),53,4 2; N. Cutna (fortune), 1 2 type;

Tizer. Hap. 30-34 millim.

8345. Phytometra megaloba. (Plate CCX XXVIII. fig. 10.)

Plusia megaloba, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xxi. p. 1225 (1912).

@. Head and tegule at base fiery red, the rest of thorax red-

brown mixed with grey; patagia with oblique whitish line across

them; pectus and hind femora and tibiz whitish, the tarsi ringed

with whitish; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the crests fiery

red. Fore wing purplish grey suffused with red-brown, the medial

area below the cell and the medial part of terminal area suffused

with metallic fiery red; subbasal line represented by a golden striga

from costa defined on each side by cupreous red; antemedial line

fine, golden, inwardly oblique and almost straight; orbicular with

slight golden annulus, round; a brilliant silvery-white stigma below

the cell, formed by a small spot conjoined to a large rather conical

spot on its outer side; reniform with shght silvery outline, its

outer edge strongly indented ; postmedial line red-brown slightly

defined on outer side by silver, bent outwards below costa, then

nearly erect and slightly sinuous, some white points beyond it on

costa; subterminal line indistinct, red-brown, excurved below

vein 7 and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3; cilia whitish

tinged with red-brown. Hind wing purplish grey-brown with a

slight reddish gloss; cilia whitish at tips.

Hab. Assam (Badgley), 1 9 type. Hap. 26 millim.

8346. Phytometra nigriluna.

Plusia nigriluna, Wik. xii. 931 (1857); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 70, pl. 152.

ff. 2, 2a; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 569.

Head and thorax dark brown with a cupreous gloss, the tips of

tecule, patagia, and metathoracic crest, and an oblique line across

patagia near base whitish; pectus behind whitish tinged with

brown; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen whitish suffused with

brown, the crests dark brown tipped with whitish. Fore wing

chocolate-brown with a leaden grey gloss, the basal costal area, the

medial area below the cell, and the terminal area suffused with

brilliant gold; a curved subbasal silvery striga from costa; ante-

PHYTOMETRA. 519

medial line slight, silvery, oblique to just above median nervure and

slightly excur ved below costa, inwardly oblique and slightly sinuous

below the cell; a brilliant silver stigma below the cell consisting of

a U-shaped spot with silvery point “above its outer arm in the cell

and a round spot beyond ‘its lower extremity ; reniform oblong,

faintly defined by grey, with black points m its four angles and a

silver point at its lower inner extremity ; postmedial line double,

brown filled in with greyish, strongly bent outwards below costa,

then waved, ineurved at submedian fold, some white points beyond

it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, dark, slightly angled out-

wards at vein 7, then obligue to tornus; the termen with series of

small black spots defined on inner side by silvery-white from apex

to above vein 2, two of them conjoined to form a lunule between

veins 5 and 3. Hind wing cupreous brown with some whitish at

base ; cilia whitish, chequered with brown to vein 2, then with

brown line through them; the underside with the basal half white

irrorated with red-brown, the terminal half suffused with cupreous

brown, a brown discoidal striga and diffused curved postmedial

line.

Hab. Stxuim; Cryton (Templeton, Green), 1 3, 3 Q type.

Hep. 32, millim.

Larva. Olive-green, darker below, the somites spotted with

black; a few fine dorsal hairs. Food-plant, Acalypha.

Pupa green with dorsal segmental brown streaks.

8347. Phytometra pannosa. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 11.)

Plusia pannosa, Meore, Lep. Atk. p. 149 (1882); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii.

p- 078.

3. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with greyish; tegule

white at tips; patagia with oblique white line near base and white

tips; tarsi ringed with whitish; abdomen whitish suffused with

red-brown. Fore wing flesh colour, the basal half of costal area,

the inner half of medial area and the terminal area red- brown with

a cupreous gloss; subbasa] line whitish, excurved below costa and

ending at submedian fold; antemedial line white, angled outwards

below costa, angled inwards and obsolescent in cell, then obliquely

incurved; orbicular a minute black-brown spot with white annulus ;

an oblique silvery-white Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its tail

formed by an elliptical spot; small black-brown spots at angles of

cell, the lower with white annulus; postmedial line red-brown,

defined on outer side by white below vein 2, slightly excurved below

costa, then oblique and almost straight, some whitish points beyond

it on costa, and a slight subterminal striga from costa; a pinkish

white terminal line from just below apex to vein 2, where it is angled

inwards, and forming a triangular mark at tornus; cilia pinkish

with a fine brown line at base. Hind wing whitish sutfused with

red-brown, the terminal area red-brown, a slight postmedial line ;

cilia white with a brown line near base; the underside whitish

520 NOCTUID &.

suffused with red-brown, a diffused brown postmedial line and a

faint subterminal shade.

Hab. Stxutm, 1 3 type; Assam (Badgley), 13. EHzxp. 30

millim.

8348. Phytometra admonens. (Plate CCX XXVIII. fig. 12.)

Plusia admoners, Wik. xii. 917 (1857).

Plusia intracta, Wik. xv. 1785 (1858).

6. Head and thorax rufous mixed with ochreous, the vertex of

head with some fiery red; abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown.

Fore wing ochreous suffused and irrorated with rufous, the terminal

area striated with rufous, the inner half of medial area deep rufous

with a cupreous gold gloss, the subterminal area with a golden

gloss; subbasal line whitish defined on inner side by red-brown,

from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line silvery-white defined

on inner side by red-brown, excurved below costa, incurved in cell,

then oblique and sinuous; an oblique Y-shaped silvery stigma below

the cell, its tail dilated into an elliptical spot; reniform oblong,

defined by rufous and with a silvery striga at its lower inner

extremity ; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with whitish,

bent outwards below costa, incurved and slightly sinuous below

vein 5; subterminal line red-brown, excurved below costa, then

rather obliquely incurved ; the termen whitish from apex to below

vein 4, defined on inner side by red-brown suffusion with a golden

gloss; the veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks; a fine

waved dark terminal line. Hind wing white slightly tinged with

rufous ; the veins rufous; a faint rufous subterminal shade except

towards costa; a fine red-brown terminal line, the underside white

shghtly tinged with rufous, an indistinct curved red-brown post-

medial line from costa to vein 2.

2. Hind wing more strongly suffused with red-brown.

Hab. Brazit, Rio Janeiro, Tijuca (Wagner), 1 9, Petropolis

(Doer), 1 3, Sio Paulo (D. Jones),2 9. Hap. 32 millim.

8349. Phytometra geminipuncta. (Plate CCXXXVIIL. fig. 13.)

Plusia geminipuncta, Hmpsn. Aun. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 347 (1902).

3. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some greyish; tarsi

ringed with white; abdomen whitish tinged with brown, the crests

and ventral surface reddish brown. Fore wing red-brown mixed

with whitish and glossed with golden cupreous; subbasal line fine,

silvery, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line silvery, oblique to

subcostal nervure, incurved in cell, then inwardly oblique ; orbicular

slightly defined by silver, oblique elliptical; a silvery stigma below

the cell consisting of an oblique U-shaped mark with small annulus

beyond its lower extremity ; rentform slightly defined by silvery-

white, its inner edge straight, its outer edge constricted at middle ;

postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with silvery-whitish, bent

PHYTOMETRA. 521

outwards below costa and slightly incurved below vein 5, some

whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line silvery defined

on inner side by red-brown, slightly excurved below costa, then

oblique; a series of minute silvery points just before termen ; a

chocolate-brown mark at apex and a pair of chocolate-brown spots

defined on outer side by silvery-white above and below vein 4); a

fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the veins and

terminal area suffused with cupreous brown; cilia white with a

brown line near base; the underside white irrorated with brown,

indistinct smuous brown postmedial and subterminal lines.

Hab. Transvaat, White R. (Cooke), 1d; Narat, Mooi R.,

1d type. Hap. 30-32 millim.

8350. Phytometra dalei. (Plate CCXXXVIIL. fig. 14.)

Plusia dalei, Woll. A. M. N. H. (5) iii. p. 232 (1879).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey-white, the tegulee

and patagia with whitish tips and the latter with whitish line

across them; pectus, legs,and abdomen ochreous suffused with rufous,

the last with the crests deep rufous. Fore wing pale flesh-colour

irrorated with red-brown and with a cupreous golden gloss, the

medial area with a deep red-brown patch below the cell; subbasal

line silvery defined on each side by red-brown and with red-brown

patches before and beyond it below the cell, sinuous, from costa to

vein 1; antemedial line silvery defined on each side by red-brown,

angled outwards below costa, strongly bent inwards in cell, then

oblique and slightly angled outwards below submedian fold;

orbicular with faint pale annulus, silvery below, narrow, oblique ; an

oblique U-shaped silvery stigma below the cell with a spot beyond

its lower extremity; reniform defined by dark brown and with

oblique pale line on inner edge and silvery striga at lower extremity,

constricted at middle; postmedial line double, dark-brown, bent

outwards below costa, then oblique and sinuous, angled inwards

at submedian fold, some white points beyond it on costa; sub-

terminal line dark brown with golden brown shades before it from

costa to vein 4 and towards inner margin, angled outwards at veins

7, 6, 1 and inwards at veins 5 and 2; a slight waved dark terminal

line defined on inner side by whitish with golden brown shades

before it towards apex and at middle; cilia with small dark spots

at base at the veins and more distinct spot at middle. Hind wing ~

cupreous red-brown ; cilia white with a brown line near. base with

dark striz at the veins; the underside whitish tinged with red-

brown, a rather diffused simuous postmedial line and subterminal

shade.

Hab. St. HEtENA (Wollaston), 43,19 type. Hap. 40-44

millim.

iw)

NOCTUIDS.

8351. Phytometra oo.

Phalena oo, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 45, pl. 311. f. E (1782), nec f. F.

Plusia rogutionis, Guen. Noct. 11, p. 644 (1852); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am.,

Het.i. p. 331; Ottolengni, J.N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 66, pl. ix. f.1; Smith,

Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 250.

Plusia includens, Wik. xii. 914 (1857).

Plusia hamifera, Wk. xii. 917 (1857).

Plusia binotula, Herr.-Schaff. Corresp.-blatt. zool.-min. Ver. Regensb.

xxii. p. 184 (1868). ;

Plusia dyaus, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 203 (1875).

Plusia pertusa, Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxx. p. 890 (1880).

Plusia culta, Lintner, 2nd Report Ins. N. York, p. 99 (1885); Smith, Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 251.

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some grey-white, the

tegule with slight black line at middle and whitish tips, the

patagia with whitish edges and oblique whitish line near middle ;

abdomen grey-brown, the crests darker, the ventral surface whitish

irrorated with brown. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with red-

brown and with a cupreous golden gloss, the medial area with a

deep red-brown patch below the cell; subbasal line silvery defined

on each side by red-brown and with red-brown patches before and

beyond it below the cell, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line

silvery defined on each side by red-brown, excurved below costa,

angled inwards in eell, then oblique; orbicular whitish, oblique

elliptical ; an oblique silvery U-shaped stigma below the cell witha

spot bevond its lower extremity; reniform deep red-brown with

slight incomplete pale annulus with silvery stri on its lower part,

constricted at middle ; postmedial line double red-brown, bent out-

wards below costa, incurved at discal fold, excurved at middle and

angled inwards at submedian fold, some white points beyond it on

costa and an oblique whitish shade from costa to vein 5; sub-

terminal line dark brown, excurved below vein 7, angled outwards

below veins 4 and 3 and incurved at vein 2, some golden brown

suffusion before and beyond it from costa to below vein 4 and before

it towards inner margin; a slight waved dark terminal line with a

narrow whitish band before it. Hind wing cupreous brown ; cilia

whitish with a brown line through them; the underside whitish

irorated with brown, a slight brown discoidal striga, rather diffused

postmedial line and subterminal shade. :

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the U-shaped stigma conjoined to the

_ Spot.

Hab. U.S.A., Hastern States, Florida, Indian R. (Doubleday),

1¢@, Texas (Boll), 23, 2 2 type dyaus, Colorado; Mrxico,

Jalapa (Trujillo, Hoege), 23, 49, Coatepec (Brooks), 1 3d,

Guerrero, Tierra Colorado (H. H. Smith), 1 9, Venta de Zopilote

(H. H. Smith), 1 3, Vera Paz (Champion), 1 9; GuarEMana,

San Isidro (Champion), 13, Cerro Zunil (Champion), 12; Costa

Rica, Candelaria Mts. (Underwood), 3 6; Panama, Chiriqui

(Champion), 2 9, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Brermupa (Nechol/),

1 9; Cusa, Tanamo (Schaus), 1 6; Harri (Pweedie), 2 2 type

PHYTOMETRA. 523

includens; Antigua (Gregory), 19; Grenapa (H. H. Smith),

ig, il on Barpanos (Frampton), 1 3d; Trixipap (Kaye), 2 9,

St. Ann’s (Kaye), 12, Caparo (Kaye), i Q; VENEZUELA (Dyson),

Potaro R. (Kaye), 136,29; Brazit, Amazons, Santarem (Bates),

3 9 type hamifera, Bahia (Oldfield-Thomas), 1 3, Rio Janeiro,

1 9, Sao Paulo (D. Jones),2 2. Hap. 30-42 millim,

Larva. Food-plant, Cabbage.

83852. Phytometra pseudochalcytes, n. sp.

(Plate CCX XXVIII. fig. 15.)

6. Head and thorax rufous, the later whitish at tips; thorax

reddish brown mixed with grey, the patagia and metathoracic crest

whitish at tips and the former with oblique whitish line across

them ; pectus behind and hind legs whitish, the tarsi ringed with

whitish; abdomen whitish tinged with rufous, the crests dark

brown at tips. Fore wing pale grey striated with dark brown and

glossed with golden cupreous, the basal area to vein 1, the medial

area below the cell, and the terminal area to vein 2 ceep golden

cupreous ; auiblagall line silvery, from costa to vem fl with

chocolate-brown marks before and beyond it below the cell and a

slight silvery streak beyond it in submedian fold; antemedial line

silvery defined on each side by chocolate-brown, oblique and

slightly sinuous ; orbicular with faint whitish annulus, narrow and

oblique ; an oblique Y-shaped silvery stigma below the cell, its tail

dilated into a spot; reniform obscurely defined by red-brown,

constricted at middle and with slight silvery striz at its lower

extremities ; postmedial line double, clnocolatesbrowm, bent outwards

below costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous; excurved below

submedian fold, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal

line dark brown, excurved below vein 7 and slightly incurved at

discal and submedian folds; a fine dark terminal line defined on

inner side by whitish beyond the cupreous suffusion ; cilia with a

slight dark spot at vein 4. Hind wing cupreous brown, the

interspaces of basal half whitish; cilia white with a brown line

through them; the underside white slightly irrorated with red-

brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, a slight brown

discoidal lunule.

Hab. N.S. WatEs, Sydney (Lyell),1 3 type. Hap. 40 millim.

8353. Phytometra camptosema, n. sp.

(Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 16.)

3. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous tinged

with rufous; tegule, patagia, and metathoracic crest with some

grey-white at tips ; legs and abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous,

the tarsi ringed with whitish, the abdominal onesie red-brown and

grey-white at tips. Fore wing greyish ochreous suffused with red-

524 NOCTUID H.

brown and slightly striated with dark brown, the medial area deep

red-brown below the cell with some fulvous yellow in submedian

interspace before the postmedial line ; subbasal line silvery-whitish

defined on each side by red-brown, sinuous, from costa to vein 1;

antemedial line silvery-whitish defined on each side by red-brown,

indistinet to median nervure, angled outwards below costa, strongly

bent inwards in cell, oblique and sinuous below the cell; orbicular

with pale annulus, oblique elliptical; an oblique silvery-white

Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its tail curved and rather slender ;

reniform with slight silvery annulus, slightly angled inwards at

median nervure and its outer edge excised at middle, slight black

marks in its extremities and beyond it at middle; a slight brown

medial shade oblique to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ;

postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with ochreous and with

silvery-whitish below vein 2, obsolescent and bent outwards below

costa, then obliquely curved to below vein 3, then slightly sinuous ;

subterminal line dark brown defined on inner side by red-brown

suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards below veins 4

and 3; a fine dark brown terminal line defined on inner side by a

greyish line; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing ochreous

suffused with rufous, the terminal area rather darker; cilia whitish

with a red-brown line through them; the underside ochreous

irrorated with rufous and with faint diffused postmedial and

subterminal lines.

Hab. Kasumir, Deosai Plains (Leech), 1 5 type. Hap.

4.2 millim.

8354. Phytometra precationis. (Plate CCX XXVIII. fig. 17.)

Plusia precationis, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 344 (1852); Ottolengui, J. N.Y

Ent. Soc. x. pl. ix. f.6; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 251.

Head and thorax rufous mixed with red-brown and grey, the

tegule and patagia tipped with grey and the latter with an oblique

grey line across them; antenne ringed black and white towards

base; the spurs and tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish ; abdomen pale

rufous, the crests deep rufous at tips. Fore wing deep rufous

mixed with greyish and slightly irrorated with black, the inner half

of medial area and the terminal area with a golden cupreous gloss ;

subbasal line silvery defined on inner side by deep rufous, sinuous,

from costa to vein 1; antemedial line silvery defined on each side

by deep rufous, angled outwards below costa, strongly incurved in

cell, then oblique and sinuous; orbicular represented by a slight

silver lunule above median nervure; an oblique V-shaped silver

stigma below the cell with elliptical spot beyond its lower extremity ;

renitorm rufous with faint silvery outline, strongly constricted at

middle; a faint oblique browh medial shade from costa to lower

angle of cell; postmedial line double, rufous filled in with greyish,

bent outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous, angled

inwards at vein 2, then filled in with silver; subterminal line

PHYTOMETRA. 525

indistinct, red-brown, excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards

below veins 4 and 3; a fine brown terminal line defined on inner

side by grey except towards tornus. Hind wing cupreous red-brown,

the terminal area rather darker; cilia whitish with a brown line

near base; the underside whitish irrorated with red-brown, a slight

brown discoidal striga and rather diffused medial, postmedial, and

subterminal lines.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell forming a

Y-mark.

Hab. Canana, Ottawa (Pletcher), 3 3, Ontario, Orillia (Bush),

13; U.S.A., Massachusetts, Beverley (Burg), 2 9, New York

(Doubleday, Packard, Riley), 73,62 type, Trenton Falls

(Doubleday), 1 3,1 2, Pennsylvania, New Brighton (Merrick),

1 , Illinois, Chicago (Schlecter), 1 36. Hap. 36-42 millim.

Larva. Packard, Guide to the Study of Insects, p. 812.

Green; dorsal and subdorsal lines whitish; lateral stripe whitish,

more distinct; head with lateral black stripes. Food-plant, Holly-

hock. 7-8.

8355. Phytometra sestertia.

Plusia sestertia, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 110. f. 31 (1874).

Plusia mapongua, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 8 (189+).

2. Head and thorax silvery-white mixed with deep chocolate-

brown, the tegule except at tips pale rufous ; palpiand sides of frons

black-brown, the former with some ochreous at extremity of 2nd

joint and in front of 8rd jot; pectus and legs black-brown mixed

with white, the fore tibize ochreous white in front, the tarsi ringed

with white; abdomen brownish grey, the basal crest pale rufous.

Fore wing brilliant silver sparsely irrorated with black-brown and

tinged in parts with pale rufous, the costal area thickly irrorated

with black-brown, a large deep chocolate-brown patch on medial

area below the cell and beyond its lower angle, the area before the

subterminal line suffused with deep chocolate-brown except at

middle; a subbasal silvery striga from costa detined on outer side

by black-brown; antemedial line silver defined on each side by

black-brown, excurved below costa and at vein 1; a brilliant silvery

stigma below the cell consisting of a large oblique U-shaped mark

with silvery point above its outer extremity in the cell, and a rather

diamond-shaped mark beyond its lower extremity, sometimes

touching it; reniform elliptical, defined by deep chocolate-brown

and with a minute silver point at its lower inner extremity ;

postmedial line double, black-brown, indistinct and filled in with

white towards costa, then filled in with silver, reduced to points

between veins 4 and 2, bent outwards below costa, incurved at

discal fold, incurved below 4 and slightly exeurved at vein 1, some

small white spots beyond it on costa; subterminal line silvery

defined on inner side by deep chocolate-brown except at middle,

slightly angled outwards at veins 7, 6, then bent inwards, then

526 NOCTUID ©.

slightly waved to tornus; the apex with some chocolate-brown

suttusion and two minute black spots-defined oa inner side by

silvery-white on termen; cilia with a series of black points at base

and chequered with black-brown at veins 4, 3,2 and tornus. Hind

wing dark cupreous brown with some whitish on basal half; cilia

whitish with a brown line near base and chequered with brown at

apex and middle; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, the

terminal area suffused with brown, a brown discoidal striga and

diffused postmedial and subterminal lines.

Hab. Gasoon, Ogové R., type + mapongua in Coll. Holland,

Br. EH. Arrica, Mombasa (de Ja Garde), 1 9; Ueanpa,

Ruwenzori (Wollaston), 1 9; Navan, Karkloof (Marshall),

1 @ ; Carr Cotony, Kokstad (W/rs. Pringle), 1 2, Knysna, type

+ 2 in Coll. Rothschild. xp. 80-32 millim.

8356. Phytometra dives.

Plusia dives, Ky. Bull. Mosc. 1844, iit. p. 596 & 1857, i. p. 125; Merr.-

Schalf. Eur. Schumett., Noct. f. 511; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 237.

Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with some greyish ; tegule

with a grey line at middle and grey tips; patagia with an oblique

erey line at middle; pectus and legs brownish white, the tibiz and

tarsi tinged with rufous; abdomen dorsally pale rufous with some

yellow at base, the crests deep rufous, the ventral surface white.

Fore wing pink almost entirely suffused with rufous except on

costal and terminal areas ; a curved dark subbasal striga from costa

defined on outer side by silvery-gold, and an oblique striga from

median nervure defined on inner side by silvery-gold; antemedial

line double, dark, angled outwards and filled in with silvery-gold

below costa, angled inwards on median nervure, then oblique

sinuous and filled in with silvery-gold and produced to a dentate

mark above vein 1; orbicular a small round silvery-gold spot in

lower part of cell, conjoined to a Y-shaped stigma below the cell

filled in with silvery-gold and with a round silvery-gold spot well

beyond its lower extremity ; reniform with its lower part defined by

an oblique silvery-gold striga on inner side and a >-shaped mark

on outer, otherwise undefined; an oblique brown striga from middle

of costa and slight oblique line from vein 4 well beyond the cell to

inner margin; postmedial line brown, double towards costa and

below vein 4 and filled in with silvery-gold towards inner margin,

bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 7, slightly incurved at

discal fold and oblique below vein 4; subterminal line represented

by wedge-shaped black marks between veins 8 and 5 and an oblique

line from vein 4 to inner margin, some rufous beyond it towards

apex and at middle; a black-brown terminal line; cilia pink at

base, with pale line at middle and rufous tips. Hind wing orange-

yellow, some brown at base; a black-brown terminal band, its

inner edge indented at submedian fold; cilia orange-yellow with a

red-brown line at base. Underside of fore wing orange-yellow

suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown except on costal and

PHYTOMETRA. ST

terminal] areas ; hind wing without brown at base and the terminal

band obsolescent.

Hab. W. Srpurisa, Altai; Trsnt, Amdo; Moneorta, Urga;

E. Siperta, Dahuria, Kentei, 1 5,1 9, Amurland; KamrscHarka.

Hep. 34 millim.

8357. Phytometra v-argenteum.

Noctua v-argenteum, Msp. Schmett. iy. pl. 188. f. 3 (1795); Staud. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 287.

Noctua mya, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 275 (1802) ; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. 2.

p. 83, pl. 135. f. 38; Frr. Beitr. in. p. 40, pl. 107. f.1; Herr.-Schaff. Eur.

Schmett., Noct. f. 205.

Head and thorax bright rufous, some of the scales tipped with

whitish ; palpidarker brown with whitish lines in front and behind ;

antenn with white ring at extremity of basal joint, the shaft

whitish in front; tegulee with white lines at middle and tips with

darker brown between them; patagia with oblique white bar and

bar at middle defining a triangular dark patch; pectus and legs

whitish tinged with rufous; abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown,

the crests bright rufous. Fore wing pink suffused in parts with

red-brown, especially on discal area; an oblique black streak from

base of costa; subbasal line double, the inner line black, the outer

red-brown, filled in with yellow and defined on outer side by yellow,

sinuous, from costa to submedian fold where there is a sight yellow

streak beyond it defined above and below by blackish; a slight

black streak on inner margin before the antemedial line, which is

double, the inner line red-brown, the outer blackish, angled outwards

below costa, inwards at median nervure and outwards just above

and below vein 1; orbicular represented by a small U-shaped silvery

mark defined by blackish and with two yellow points above it; a

larger similar U-shaped mark below it with an elliptical spot

beyond its lower part; reniform faintly defined by yellowish and

its lower part by three silvery points, its upper part very narrow and

oblique ; an oblique brown bar from costa to the reniform, an oblique

black streak beyond upper extremity of reniform, then an oblique

sinuous brown line to inner margin; postmedial line double, red-

brown, strongly excurved below costa, then oblique and sinuous to

inner margin, the inner line with some black on it, defined on

outer side by a yellowish line which is well separated at costa ;

subterminal line yellow defined on inner side by black, exeurved

below vein 7 and waved below vein 5; a yellow line before termen ;

cilia pink at base, rufous at tips. Hind wing whitish suffused with

red-brown with a faint golden gloss; cilia rufous; the underside

white tinged with brown, a slight dark discoidal lunule, oblique

rather diffused medial and postmedial lines, a faint subterminal

shade.

Hab. Austria, Tirol, Carniola; Swirzernanp, Valais, Zeller,

Frey, & Leech Colls., Zermatt (A. H. Jones); Iraty, Piedmont,

Leech Coll. Exp. 36-42 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Hur. p. 268; Hffm. Raup p. 134.

Dull green with yellowish lines. Food-plants: Jsopyrum

thalictroides and flowers of Thalictrum fetidum. 6.

NOCTUID &.

8358. Phytometra ornata.

Plusia ornata, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 103, pl. 8. f. 15 (1864); Staud.

Cat. Lep. pal. p. 237.

3. Head and thorax white mixed with some brown ; the patagia

near tips and metathorax with oblique brown bars; tarsi brownish

ringed with white; abdomen white slightly irrorated with brown,

the crests darker. Fore wing white suifused in parts with brown

with a slight bronze tinge ; subbasal line represented by oblique

blackish strive from costa and cell defined on outer side by white ;

antemedial line blackish defined on inner side by white, strongly

angled outwards below costa and above vein 1, incurved between

those points and retracted to inner margin; orbicular a silvery-

white U-shaped mark with point above it, both defined by blackish ;

reniform represented by a curved silvery-white striga with dark

streak above its upper extremity which is much produced, its

lower part defined by silvery-white points on inner and outer sides ;

a V-shaped silvery-white mark below orbicular with elliptical spot

beyond its lower extremity, both defined by blackish; postmedial

line double, blackish filled in with white and defined on outer side

by white, very strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to

below vein 7, then oblique, sinuous; subterminal line closely

approximated to the postmedial line, blackish defined on outer side

by white towards costa, incurved at vein 5 and angled outwards

above and below vein 3; a fine dark terminal line defined on inner

side by white produced inwards as short streaks on veins 5, 3, 2.

Hind wing white tinged with brown especially on terminal area ;

a brown terminal line.

Hab. W. Srperta, Altai; Moneorta, Urga, 1 g ; Trset,

Amdo; E. Srperta, Dahuria, Amurland. Hap. 38 millim.

8359. Phytometra clarci. (Plate CCXXXVIIL. fig. 18.)

Plusia clarci, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (8) v. p. 482 (1910).

2. Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with grey-

white ; tegule with slight white line near base and white tips.

Fore wing pale grey largely suffused with cupreous brown especially

at middle of medial area and beyond the postmedial line, and

sparsely irrorated with dark brown; subbasal line silvery-white,

straight, from costa to vein 1; a patch of cupreous brown suffusion

beyond it; antemedial line represented by an oblique silvery-white

striga from costa and obliquely curved line from cell to inner

margin defined on each side slightly by dark brown ; a small silver

U-shaped stigma filled in with grey below the cell towards extremity

with a small rather triangular silver spot obliquely placed below it;

reniform represented by an indistinct brown bar on its inner edge

and some slight spots on its outer, an oblique brown shade to 1t

from costa; postmedial line double, grey-white filled in with brown,

the outer line with silvery outer edge, bent outwards below costa,

then oblique, incurved at discal fold, then slightly sinuous; a silvery-

white subterminal line from above vein 2 to tornus; a grey-white

PHYTOMETRA. 529

line just before termen from costa to vein 3, double towards

costa; a terminal series of slight dark brown lunules and strie;

cilia brownish at base, grey-white at tips. Hind wing whitish

tinged with brown, the terminal area broadly fuscous brown with

a cupreous tinge; cilia white with a brown line near base; the

underside white thickly irrorated with brown, oblique brown medial

and postmedial rather indistinct lines, and a broad diffused sub-

terminal shade.

Hab. Natat, Durban (#. L. Clark), 2 2 type. Hap. 38

millim.

8360. Phytometra corusca. (Plate CCXX XVIII. fig. 19.)

Plusia corusca, Streck. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci, Phil. 1885, p. 178; Otto-

lengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pl. vii. f. 15; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

p. 257.

Head and thorax rufous, the tips of tegule and patagia, an

oblique line across middle of latter and the tips of scales of meta-

thoracic crest grey-white; antennze ringed with white towards base ;

pectus and legs ochreous tinged with rufous; abdomen brownish

ochreous, the crests brown and grey at tips. Fore wing purple-

grey tinged with brown, the medial area below the cell purple-

brown; subbasal line silvery-white, defined on each side by black

towards costa and on inner side below the cell; antemedial line

silvery-white defined on outer side by black except in cell, on inner

side also towards inner margin and on outer side by brown towards

costa, strongly bent inwards in cell, then waved and more strongly

excurved above vein 1 ; orbicular defined by black and by silvery-

white below, small, round; an irregular silvery-white Y-shaped

stigma defined by black below the cell, its tail angled outwards

and dilated into a spot; reniform with slight incomplete silvery-

white annulus defined by blackish, strongly constricted at middle

where there is a black spot on its outer edge, its lower part with a

black spot in it; a small blackish-brown spot at middle of costa ;

postmedial line with small blackish-brown spot at costa, then

obsolescent and brownish to vein 4, bent outwards below costa,

then minutely waved, below vein 4 silvery-white defined on each

side by black marks, waved, angled inwards at vein 2 and sub-

median fold, a blackish-brown mark beyond it on costa; subterminal

line whitish defined on inner side by blackish with golden-brown

suffusion before it, excurved at vein 7, angled inwards at discal

fold and outwards below veins 4 and 8, angled inwards at vein 2

and ending at tornus; the terminal area with some golden-brown

suffusion at apex and middle; cilia chequered blackish brown and

white. Hind wing ochreous suffused with cupreous brown;

a brownish subterminal shade; cilia white chequered with golden

brown; the underside ochreous tinged with rufous, a faint brownish

subterminal shade.

Hab. Canapa, Vancouver I., 1 9; U.S.A., Washington, 1 ¢,

Colorado. Hap. 38-42 millim.

VOL. XIIt. 2 M

530 NOCTUIDAE.

8361. Phytometra labrosa. (Plate CCXXXVIIL. fig. 20.)

Plusia labrosa, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1874, p. 207 ; Ottolengui,

J. N.Y. Mnt. Soc. x. pl. vii. f. 14; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 251.

@. Head and thorax bright red-brown, the tegule and thoracic

crest tipped with grey ; antennee whitish ringed with brown ; pectus

and legs pale red-brown, the tibiz at extremities and tarsi rmged

with white; abdomen whitish suffused with red-brown, the crests

red-brown tipped with grey. Fore wing purple-grey tinged with

red-brown, the medial area below the cell deep red-brown ; subbasal

line silvery-white defined on each side by red-brown, sinuous,

from costa to submedian fold, a red-brown shade beyond it; ante-

medial line silvery-white defined on each side by red-brown, angled

outwards below costa, bent inwards in cell, then oblique aml eXx-

curved above vein 1; orbicular a small red-brown spot; an oblique

silvery Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its tail bent outwards and |

dilated at extremity; reniform with slight silvery-white annulus,

constricted at middle where there is a brown spot beyond 1t, its

lower part filled in with brown; postmedial line silvery-white

defined by red-brown, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and

waved, obsolescent beyond the cell, some white points beyond 1% on

costa; subterminal line silvery-white defined on inner side by deep

red- conan suffusion, angled outwards at vein 7 and below veins 4

and 8 and inwards at Ciecall fold and vein 2, a red-brown shade

beyond it at apex and a trifid shade at middle; cilia chequered

purple-g erey and brown with a fine white line at iba. Hind wing

eis suffused with red- brown, the terminal area red-brown;

cilia chequered white and brown ; ; the underside ochreous white,

the costal and terminal areas suffused with brown, a slight brown

discoidal striga.

Hab. U.S.A., California, Sanzalito, 1 2 type. Hap. 44 millim.

8362. Phytometra bimaculata. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 21.)

Plusia bimaculata, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 102 (1832);

Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Hut. Soe. x. pl. vii. f.5; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

p. 249.

Plusia u-brevis, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 541 (1852).

Head rufous mixed with some brown; tegul rufous at base,

red-brown at tips; thorax red-brown with the crest rufous in

front; antennz whitish tinged with rufous and ringed with black

towards base; palpi with the 3rd joint brown; pectus and legs

red-brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; afollemnen erey-brown

with a reddish tinge, the er ass red-brown ansad! with blackish, the

ventral surface rufous. Fore wing pale greyish rufous slightly

irrorated and striated with black, the medial area with a patch of

deep rufous below the cell, the medial part of subterminal area

with a golden gloss; a golden subbasal striga from costa defined

on each side by brown and a minute black spot below the cell;

antemedial line golden defined on each side by black-brown, angled

PHYTOMETRA. 531

outwards below costa, strongly bent inwards in cell, angled outwards

at median nervure and excurved above vein 1; orbicular represented

by a slight curved golden-silvery mark below confluent with the

brilliant golden-silvery rather oblique stigma below the cell with a

small wedge-shaped rufous mark in its upper part which is defined

by a golden-silver streak above, its inner edge concave towards

base, an elliptical golden-silvery spot beyond its lower extremity ;

reniform defined by diffused brown with golden-silvery striz

on inner and outer sides of lower part and slight black marks

in upper and lower extremities, constricted at middle; a diffused

brown medial line, oblique to lower angle of cell, then inwardly

oblique and incurved at submedian fold where there is some

rufous beyond it; postmedial line double, rather diffused, brown to

vein 3, then blackish filled in with gold, bent outwards below costa,

then oblique, bent outwards below vein 2 and very slightly angled

inwards at submedian fold; subterminal line blackish, an oblique

brown shade from apex to the line at vein 7, then defining its

inner side, excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards below veins

4 and 3; cilia blackish at tips on apical half. Hind wing ochreous

suffused with cupreous red-brown, the veins and terminal area darker

brown; a slight oblique brown postmedial line; cilia pale rufous ;

the underside ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated with

brown, a slight blackish diseoidal lunule, rather diffused post-

medial line excurved below costa, a subterminal shade except

towards costa.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma forming a Y-mark.

Ab. 2. u-brevis. Fore wing with the stigma pure silver.

Hab. Canapa, Renfrew Co., 1 5, Nova Scotia (Redman), 1°,

Anticosti I., 1g, Alberta, Calgary (Wolley-Dod),3 3,39, High R.

(Baird), 1 9; U.S.A., New York (Doubleday, Grote),1 3,2

type w-brevis, New Jersey, New Mexico, Beulah (Cockerell), 22;

Has. ten., 1 2 type, Stainton Coll. Hxp. 40-48 millim.

8363. Phytometra macrogamma.

Plusia macrogamma, Kv. Bull. Mose. 1842, iii. p. 554 & 1857, i. p. 120;

Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 266; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 288.

Noctua sevastina, Frr. Neue Beitr. pl. 458. f. 5 (1845).

Head and tegule pale rufous, the latter tipped with whitish ;

antenne whitish; thorax rufous mixed with greyish; pectus, legs,

and abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous, the last with the crests

rufous. Fore wing greyish with a golden gloss, the medial area

except at costa golden-rufous; a minute black streak defined above

by silver above base of subcostal nervure and a black striga defined

on outer side by silver below the cell; two subbasal silvery striz

from costa ; antemedial line silver defined on each side by rufous,

excurved below costa, incurved in cell and excurved above vein 1;

orbicular represented by a slight silver lunule above median nervure

conjoined to an oblique brilliant silver Y-shaped stigma below the

cell, its arms filled in by a small black mark and its tail dilated

2u2

5382, NOCTUID &.

into an elliptical spot; reniform slightly defined by silver, strongly

constricted at middleand with shght black marks in its extremities ;

a faint brownish medial shade, oblique below the cell; postmedial

line double, rufous filled in with greyish, bent outwards below

costa, then oblique, at vein 2 slightly bent outwards then somewhat

sinuous and filled in with silver; subterminal line greyish defined

on inner side by golden-brown sutffusion, excurved at vein 7 and

slightly angled outwards below veins 3 and 2; a slight rufous shade

before termen from apex to vein 3 and a fine terminal dark line;

cilia with slight brown spots at the veins from apex to vein 3.

Hind wing ochreous tinged with golden-brown, the terminal area

rather browner; a faint brownish postmedial line; cilia whitish

tinged with rufous and intersected with rufous from apex to vein 3 ;

the underside ochreous tinged with rufous, a fine brown postmedial

line excurved below costa, and subterminal shade.

Hab. Larnuanp, Leech Coll.; Fintann; Russta, Urals;

W. Sreerta, Altai; Moneoria, Urga; EH. Srperia, Dahuria,

Amurland. Hap. 42 millim.

8364. Phytometra mandarina.

Noctua mandarina, Frr. Neue Beitr. v. p. 164, pl. 479. f. 4 (Jan. 1846) ;

Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238.

Plusia interscalaris, Hery,-Schaff. Eur. Schimett., Noct. f. 510 (1850).

Plusia typinota, Butl. A. M.N. H. (5) i. p. 201 (1878); id. Ll. Het. B.M.

ii. p. 34, pl. 31. f. 10.

Plusia obscura, Oberth. Et. Ent, x. p. 27, pl. 3. f. 13 (1884).

Head and thorax bright rufous, the tegul, patagia, and meta-

thoracic crest tipped with whitish and the patagia with oblique

whitish line at middle; antenne whitish; tarsi ringed with

whitish ; abdomen rufous. Fore wing bright rufous mixed with

purplish grey and striated with red-brown ; subbasal line silver

defined on each side by rufous, sinuous, from costa to vem 1; ante-

medial line silver defined on each side by rufous, angled outwards

below costa, strongly excurved in cell, then oblique and sinuous ;

orbicular defined by silver, oblique and somewhat quadrate, con-

joined to an oblique silver stigma below the cell, its tail dilated

into an elliptical spot; reniform defined by silver and with slight

black marks in its extremities, its inner edge oblique, its outer edge

strongly constricted at middle; a slight red-brown medial shade,

oblique to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique and angled

inwards at submedian fold ; postmedial line double, rufous filled in

with silver, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly

sinuous, angled inwards at vein 2; subterminal line brown with rufous

suffusion before it, excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards

below veins 4 and 3; a fine dark terminal line with a silvery line

before it from apex to vein 2 defined on inner side by rufous

suffusion. Hind wing whitish tinged with rufous, the terminal

area suffused with rufous; a faint postmedial line; cilia white

with a series of rufous strie from apex to vein 2; the under-

PHYTOMETRA. 533

side white irrorated with rufous, a slight rufous discoidal spot,

rather diffused medial and postmedial lines, and a subterminal

shade.

Ab. 1. obscura. Fore wing much darker.

Hab. Russta, Urals, Zeller Coll.; W. Srperra, Altai, 2 2;

EK. Srperta, Amurland, 1 9, Ussuri; KamrscHarka ; JAPAN,

Yokohama (Jonas), 1 2 type typinota. Hap. 40-44 millim.

8365. Phytometra mappa. (Plate CCX XXVIII. fig. 22.)

Plusia mappa, Grote & Rob. Trans. Ain. Ent. Soe. ii. p. 204 (1868);

Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pl. viii. f. 1; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am.

p. 249.

@. Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with yellowish ;

abdomen ochreous white tinged with red-brown, the crests rufous,

the ventral surface suffused with rufous. Fore wing yellowish

suffused with bright rufous and irrorated with a few black scales ;

subbasal line represented by two curved rufous striz from costa

filled in with yellow and defined on outer side by yellow, a black

point defined above by yellow before it on subcostal nervure and a

minute black spot defined on outer side by yellow below the cell;

antemedial line double, rufous filled in with yellow, incurved in cell

and bent inwards to inner margin; orbicular slightly defined by

whitish, narrow, oblique elliptical, open above; a small silvery

V-shaped stigma, defined by blackish below it with an elliptical

silvery spot well beyond its lower extremity; reniform slightly

defined by yellow with black before its outer edge, strongly

constricted at middle; medial line brown, rather diffused, angled

inwards in cell and outwards to lower angle, then oblique and

sinuous; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with yellow,

bent outwards below costa, then oblique, shghtly angled inwards at

vein 2, then waved, some yellowish points beyond it on costa ;

subterminal line yellowish defined on inner side by red-brown and

by black on costal half, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and

angled inwards at submedian fold; a red-brown terminal line

defined on inner side by yellow; cilia yellowish with a slight brown

line near base. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with red-brown,

the terminal area suffused with darker brown; a faint sinuous

brown postmedial line defined on outer side by ochreous white; a

slight ochreous white line before termen; cilia ochreous with a

slight brownish line near base; the underside ochreous white tinged

with red-brown, a slight brown discoidal striga, rather diffused

postmedial line, and sibiencatinall shade.

Hab. Cananva, Anticosti I., 1 9, Ontario, Orillia (Bush), 1 9;

U.S.A., N. States, New Hampshire, White Mts. (Dimmock), 1 &,

Mt. Washington. Hep. 40 millim.

oob4 NOCLUIDE.

8366. Phytometra pulchrina.

Noctua iota, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 282 (1802); Frr. Beitr. pl. 94

(1829); Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. 2. p. 38, pl. 1386. f. 2 (nec Linn.),

Noctua pulchrina, Haw. Prod. Lep. Brit. p. 16 (1802) non deser.; id.

Lep. Brit. p. 256 (1809) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238,

Plusia v-aureum, Guen. Noet. ii. p. 339 (1852).

Plusia gammoides, Speyer, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxxvi. p. 103 (1875).

Plusia percontatrix, Auriy. Nord. Fyjar. p. 181 (1888).

Plusia buretica, Staud. Iris, v. p. 870 (1892).

Head and thorax bright rufous; tegule with whitish tips;

patagia with oblique whitish line at middle and whitish tips, the

scales of metathoracic crests tipped with whitish ; tarsi rmged with

white ; abdomen red-brown with a greyish tinge, the crests rufous

and whitish at tips. Fore wing rufous mixed with pinkish and

slightly irrorated with blackish, the medial area below the cell and

the terminal area except towards tornus bright rufous ; a subbasal

silvery striga from costa defined on each side by bright rufous and

a silvery striga from cell with a black striga on its inner side;

antemedial line silvery defined on. each side by bright rufous,

strongly bent inwards in cell and obliquely curved below the cell;

orbicular rufous with ochreous annulus except below where it is

defined by silver, oblique elliptical; a brilliant silver V-shaped

stigma below the cell with elliptical spot beyond its lower extremity ;

reniform defined by silver and its centre by brown, and with small

black spots in its extremities, its inner side oblique, its outer

strongly constricted at middle where there is some bright rufous

beyond it; a rufous medial shade, oblique to lower angle of cell,

then inwardly oblique, postmedial Ime defined on each side by

rufous, pinkish to vein 2, then silvery-white, bent outwards below

costa, then oblique and sinuous, some pink points beyond it on costa ;

subterminal line blackish and rather diffused on inner side except

towards costa and inner margin where it is red-brown defined on

outer side by pink, excurved at vein 7 and angled outwards

below veins 4 and 3; a pink line before termen. Hind wing

ochreous suffused with red-brown with a golden gloss, the terminal

area red-brown; cilia white with sight brown spots near base to

vein 2, then a line; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, the

costal area tinged with rufous, an oblique brown striga on upper

discocellular and diffused medial, postmedial, and subterminal lines.

Ab. 1. percontatrix. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell

forming a Y-mark.

Ab. 2. gammoides. Fore wing more brown and violaceous grey

and with less rufous.

Ab. 3. buretica. Similar to ab. 2 but fore wing with the

stigma Y-shaped.—k. Siberia.

Hab. Brivatn, Leech Coll, Shgo (Salvage); FrRancez;

Germany, Zeller, Frey, & Leech Colls.; Ausrria; Huneary;

SwITZERLAND, Frey Coll.; Scanprnavia; Russta, Livonia, Zeller

PHYTOMETRA. 535

Coll., St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll.; W.Turkrsran, Tarbagatai Mts. ;

W. Srperta, Altai; H. Srperra, Amurland, 1 3, Kentei, 19.

Exp. 40-44 millim.

Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 108; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 118, pl. 242.

rt,

Pale green; dorsal line darker edged with white ; subdorsal and

lateral lines white; spiracular line yellowish; dots whitish; head

pale green. Food-plants, Lamiwm, Urtica, Lonicera, etc. 8-5.

8367. Phytometra iota.

Noctua tota, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 513 (1758) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 113.

f. 3; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. 2. p. 38, pl. 136. f. 3; Herr.-Schaff. Eur.

Schmett., Noct. f. 265; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238.

Noctua protea, Stoll, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 244, pl. 100. f. M (1782).

Noctua inscripta, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 229, pl. 113. f: 5 (1787).

Plusia percontationis, Treit. Eur. Schmett. v. 3, p. 184 (1826); Steph. IIL.

Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 101.

Noctua ancora, Frr. Neue Beitr. i. p. 89, pl. 47 (1833).

Plusia bartholomeit, Mén. Bull. Phys., Math. Acad. St. Petersb. 1859,

p-. 815; id. En, Mus. Petr. iii. p. 146, pl. 16. f. 9.

Plusia baltica, Speyer, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxxvi. p. 103 (1875).

Plusia monogramma, Alph. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 171.

Plusia amurica, Staud. Rom. Mém. vi. p. 549 (1892).

Head and thorax bright rufous, the patagia and metathorax deep

rufous mixed with some greyish; antennze brown, ringed with

whitish towards base; abdomen bright rufous, the crests deeper

rufous, the scales tipped with greyish. Fore wing pink slightly

irrorated and striated with brown, the basal costal area, medial

area below the cell, and subterminal area deep rufous; subbasal

line greyish, excurved below costa and ending at submedian fold ;

antemedial line whitish defined on each side by red-brown, strongly

bent inwards in celland obliquely curved below the cell; a brilliant

silver V-shaped stigma below the cell with elliptical spot beyond its

lower extremity ; reniform with slight greyish outline and minute

black points in its upper and lower extremities, strongly constricted

at middle ; an oblique rufous shade from middle of costa to lower

angle of cell; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with

pinkish to vein 2, then by greyish, bent outwards below costa, then

oblique and almost straight; subterminal line placed on the rufous

shade, defined on outer side by pink towards costa and inner margin,

blackish between veins 7 and 4, excurved below vein 7 and above

and below vein 3; a fine rufous terminal line. Hind wing pinkish

suffused with red-brown, the terminal area red-brown; a sinuous

brown postmedial line, a fine dark terminal line defined on inner

‘side by greyish to vein 2; the underside pink irrorated with brown,

diffused oblique somewhat sinuous brown medial, postmedial, and

subterminal lines.

Ab. 1. percontationis. Fore wing with the stigma below the

cell forming a Y-mark.

536 NOCTUIDE. Fit, OS

Ab. 2. inscripta. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell

absent or the V-mark much reduced and the spot beyond it absent.

Ab. 3. ancora. Paler.

Ab. 4. baltica. Darker.

Ab. 5. amurica. Much darker.—E. Siberia.

Ab. 6. monogramma. Similar to ab. 1 but darker.—W.

Turkestan.

Hab. Briraty, Leech Coll.; France, Sand & Leech Colls. ;

GERMANY, Zeller & Leech Colls.; Austria; HunGary; SwitzER-

LAND; Spain, Leech Coll., Andalusia; N. Irany, Courmayeur

(Hampson); Scanprnavia; Rvssta, Livonia, Zeller Coll;

ARMENIA; W. TurKEsTAN, Ferghana, Issyk-Kul; EH. Srperta,

Amurland, Ussuri. Hap. 40-48 millim. The locality Surinam for

Stoll’s figure is an error as also for the following figure juventina.

Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 157; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 121, pl. 242.

f.3; Hffm. Raup. p. 135, pl. 35. f. 13.

Pale green; dorsal line darker, edged with white; subdorsal and

lateral lines white; spiracular line yellowish; dots whitish; head

pale green. Food-plants, Lamium, Urtica, Senecio, ete. 8-5.

8368. Phytometra nigrisigna.

Plusia nigrisigna, Wik. xii. 928 (1857); Butl. Ill. Het. B.M. vi. p. 36,

pl. 110. f. 4; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 570.

Head and thorax rufous mixed with purple-grey; tegule

purple-grey at tips; the spurs and tarsi brown ringed with white ;

abdomen grey tinged with rufous, the crests rufous and purple-

grey at tips. Fore wing purple-grey irrorated and striated and

in parts suffused with brown, a patch of chocolate-brown suffusion

on medial area below the cell with some golden-cupreous before the

postmedial line in submedian interspace, the subterminal area

suffused with golden-cupreous; subbasal line silvery defined on

each side by chocolate-brown and with a black striga before it

below the cell, from costa to vem 1; antemedial line hardly

traceable from costa to median nervure, excurved below costa and

strongly incurved in cell, then silver defined on each side by

chocolate-brown and obliquely curved; orbicular represented by a

minute silver lunule above median nervure with a black point in it ;

an oblique U-shaped silver stigma below the cell with an elliptical

spot beyond its lower extremity ; reniform defined at sides by silver,

its inner side oblique, its outer strongly constricted at middle with

a black spot beyond it and slight black marks in its extremities ;

an oblique brown shade from costa to lower angle of cell and traces

of an oblique slightly sinuous line from cell to imner margin ;

postmedial line indistinctly double, red-brown, filled in with silver y-

white below vein 3, bent outwards below costa, then oblique to

vein 2 with a slight whitish shade beyond it, then excurved and

slightly angled inwards at submedian fold, some whitish points

beyond it on costa; subterminal line chocolate-brown, excurved

below costa and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3; a fine dark

PHYTOMETRA. RS

terminal line defined on inner side by violaceous white from below

apex to vein 2. Hind wing whitish tinged with cupreous brown,

the terminal area cupreous brown; cilia white with a brown line

near base; the underside white, the costal area tinged with rufous

and irrorated with brown, a slight brown discoidal striga, rather

diffused postmedial line excurved below costa, and subterminal

shade.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell forming a

Y-mark.

Ab. 2. Fore wing with the inner half of medial area and the

subterminal area deeper cupreous brown.

Hab. Trsrt; Japan, Yokohama (Pryer), 2 9; W. CuiNa,

Moupin (Avricheldorf), 1 2, Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1d ; Kasumir,

Goorais Valley (Leech), 1 3, Narkundar (McArthur), 1 9,

Kuiyar (eArthur), 1 35 ; Punsas (Horne, Trimen), 1 3,1 9,

Rawal Pindi, 1 gd, Kasauli (Swinhoe, Barrow), 29°, Campbellpur

(Yerbury), 2 3, Dharmsila (Hocking), 3 3,3 9, Wuzeerabad

(Hearsay), 2 2 type, Manpuri, 1 ¢ ; Srxxim, 1d; Beneat,

Pusa (Lefroy), 13. Hap. 38-44 millim.

Larva. Green ; dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral lines shght, white ;

tubercles white.

8369. Phytometraschalisema,n.sp. (PlateCCX XXVIII. fig. 23.)

@. Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with some grey-white,

the tegulee with shght dark line at middle and whitish tips, the

patagia with oblique whitish line near base; abdomen grey suffused

with reddish brown. Fore wing greyish strongly suffused with

reddish brown; minute subbasal black points above and below the

cell; antemedial line very indistinct, pale, excurved below costa,

then oblique and sinuous; a very oblique silvery stigma below the

cell formed by a U-shaped mark conjoined to an elongate elliptical

spot; reniform with slight silvery outline, strongly constricted at

middle and with black marks in its extremities and beyond its

middle; postmedial line double, brown filled in with greyish, bent

outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous, angled

outwards below vein 2, some whitish points beyond it on costa ;

subterminal line slight, silvery defined on inner side by dark brown

suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and slightly angled outwards below

veins 4. and 3; a dark brown terminal line with a narrow greyish

band before it from apex to vein 2 defined on inner side. by dark

brown suffusion. Hind wing whitish suffused with cupreous red-

brown especially on terminal area; the underside with diffused

subterminal shade.

Hab. W. Cuina, Huang-mu-chang (Pratt), 1 9 type. Exp.

40 mullin.

538 NOCTUID ©.

8370. Phytometra gamma.

Noctua gamma, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 513 (1758); Esp. Schmett, iv.

pl. exi. f. 1; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 283; Dup Lép. Fr. vii. 2. p. 41,

pl. 186. f. 4; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iil. p. 103; Frr. Neue Beitr.

pl. 544; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238.

Plusia gammina, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238 (1901).

Plusia alepica, Nitsche, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, lxi. p. 52 (1911).

Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey, the tegule

with dark line at middle and tipped with grey; antenne ringed

blackish and white towards base; tarsi ringed with whitish; abdo-

men grey tinged with red-brown, the crests red-brown at tips.

Fore wing. grey with a golden cupreous gloss and irrorated and

striated with brown, the medial area with a patch of golden-brown

suffusion below the cell; subbasal line silvery defined on each side

by golden brown towards costa, with a black point before it above

subcostal nervure and a black striga below the cell, sinuous, from

costa to vein 1; antemedial line silvery defined on each side by

golden brown, angled outwards below costa, strongly incurved in

cell, then oblique and sinuous; orbicular with silvery annulus,

oblique, elliptical; an oblique silver Y-shaped stigma below the

cell, its tail somewhat dilated at extremity ; reniform with silvery

outline and small blackish marks in its extremities, its inner edge

Wig. 126.—Phytometra gamma, S. }.

oblique, its outer strongly constricted at middle with a small

blackish mark beyond it; postmedial line golden brown filled in

with silvery white, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and

very slightly simuous to vein 2 where it is angled inwards, then

excurved and waved, some whitish suffusion beyond it on costal

half and some whitish points on costa; subterminal line brown with

golden-brown sutfusion before it, exeurved below vein 7 and angled

outwards below veins 4 and 38; a slight white line before termen

from just below costa to vein 2 with golden-brown suffusion before

it; the termen whitish expanding into a triangular patch below

vein 2 and with a fine waved brown terminal line. Hind wing

white tinged with red-brown, the terminal area dark brown with a

cupreous gloss ; cilia white with a series of small brown spots from

apex to vein 2; the underside white irrorated with brown, the

terminal area suffused brown, a faint oblique postmedial line.

Ab. 1. alepica, Fore wing paler.

PHYTOMETRA. 539

Ab. 2. gammina. Much smaller; fore wing with the stigma

larger.—Asia Minor, Syria.

Hab. Brrraty, Leech Coll.; Francn, Sand Coll., Hyeres

(Yerbury); Germany, Zeller & Leech Colls.; Avsrria ;

Houneary ; Switzernanp, Frey Coll.; Spain; Ivrany, Capri

(C. S. Browne), Catania, Zeller Coll.; Stcizy, Zeller Coll. ;

Axaertia, Tkout (Walsingham), 1 6, Hammam-es-Salahin (Wal-

singham), 1 3; Morocco, Tangier (Leech), 1 ¢ ; Manrrra

(Wollaston), 4 3 ; Canartes (Leech), 1 5, Teneriffe, Sta. Cruz

(Walsingham), 1 9; Datmaria; GREECE; BaLKaNn SratTEs;

Scanpinavia, Zeller Coll.; Russ1a, Livonia, Zeller Coll., St. Peters-

burg, Zeller Coll., S. Russia (Grum-Grishmaillo); ARMENIA;

Asta Minor (Lederer), 13, Amanus Mts., Eybes, 1 9 ; Syria,

1 3, Leech Coll., Beyrut (Jessup), 1 56; Cyprus (Glaszner),1 3;

Eayer, Gizeh (Flower), 2 9 ; Perstan Guir, Fao (Cumming),

19; W. Turkestan; W.Srperta; HE. Turkestan; EH. Srperta,

Amurland, 1 9; Japan; W. Cuina, Chow-pin-sa, 1 2. Eup.

40-48 millim.

Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 158; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 125, pl. 248.

f. 1; Hffm. Raup. p. 135, pl. 35. f. 14.

Green; dorsal line double, whitish; subdorsal and lateral lines

whitish ; spiracular line yellowish; dots whitish. Food-plants :

Urtica, Sonchus, Geranium, Lamium, etc. 6-4.

8371. Phytometra pseudogamma. (Plate CCXXXVIILI. fig. 24.)

Plusia pseudogamma, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 203 (1875); Ottolengui,

J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pl. ix. f. 8; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 251.

Plusia russea, 1. Edw. Ent. Am. ii. p. 170 (1886); €mith, Cat. Noct. N.

Am. p. 252.

Plusia gamma, Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 251 (mec Linn.).

Head and thorax chocolate-brown mixed with purple-grey, the

tegule and metathoracic crest with some rufous; antenne ringed

with black towards base; the spurs and tarsi brown ringed with

white ; abdomen grey suffused with red-brown, the crests chocolate-

brown with purple-grey at tips. Fore wing glossy purple-grey

suffused in parts with chocolate-brown and sparsely irrorated with

black, the medial area with a patch of deep chocolate-brown below

the cell with some golden-cupreous before the postmedial line in

submedian interspace, the subterminal area suffused with chocolate-

brown with a golden-cupreous gloss; subbasal line silvery defined —

on each side by chocolate-brown with a black point before it above

subcostal nervure and striga below the cell, excurved below costa

and ending at submedian fold; antemedial line silvery defined on

each side by chocolate-brown, angled outwards below costa, strongly

bent inwards in cell, then oblique and excurved above vein 1;

orbicular with silvery outline, oblique elliptical; an oblique silver

Y -shaped stigma below the cell, its tail dilated into a spot; reniform

with silvery outline, its centre defined by blackish on outer side, its

inner edge oblique, its outer strongly constricted at middle; an

540 NOCTUID.

oblique brown shade from costa to lower angle of cell; postmedial

line double, chocolate-brown filled in with whitish and with silvery-

white below vein 2, bent outwards below costa, then oblique to

vein 2 where it is angled inwards, then excurved and slightly angled

inwards at submedian fold, a white shade beyond it and some white

points at costa; subterminal line chocolate-brown, excurved below

vein 7 and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3; a fine dark ter-

minal line defined on inner side by white from below apex to vein 2.

Hind wing pale cupreous brown, the terminal area deep cupreous

brown, a slight whitish postmedial shade ; cilia white with a brown

line near base ; the underside pale rufous, the costal area irrorated

with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, a slight brown

discoidal striga and indistinct diffused postmedial line.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the spot of the stigma separate from

the Y-mark.—Newfoundland.

Hab. NEWFOUNDLAND, Doyles, Cadroy Valley (Beddek), 1 ¢ ;

Canapa, Cape Breton, 1 ¢ type, Hudson’s Bay, Albany R., St.

Martin’s Falls (Barnston), 1 2, Alberta, Calgary (Wolley-Dod),

13, 19, Br. Columbia, Revelstoke (Mrs. Nicholl), 1 c ;

US.A., California (Walsingham), 1 9. Hap. 42-46 millim.

8372. Phytometra californica. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 25.)

Plusia californica, Speyer, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxxvi. p. 164 (1875); Ottolengui,

J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. x. pl. viii. f. 11 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 202.

Head and thorax purple-grey mixed with chocolate-brown, the

tegule with black-brown lines near base, at middle, and near tips

defined behind with white, the metathoracie crest tipped with

black-brown and white; pectus and legs grey and rufous, the spurs

and tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen grey suffused with

brown, the crests darker with grey tips. Fore wing pale glossy

purplish grey irrorated with black and suffused in parts with

chocolate-brown, the medial area with a patch of deep chocolate-

brown below the cell and some golden cupreous before the post-

medial line in submedian interspace ; subbasal line silvery defined

on each side by chocolate-brown, excurved below costa and ending

at vein 1; antemedial line silvery-white defined on each side by

chocolate - brown, angled outwards below costa, strongly bent

inwards in cell, then oblique and excurved above vein 1; orbicular

defined by diffused white, narrow, oblique; an oblique silvery

Y -shaped stigma below the cell, its tail slightly dilated at extremity ;

reniform with silvery-white outline, its inner edge oblique, its outer

strongly constricted at middle with a slight black mark beyond it

and black marks in its extremities; an oblique dark shade from

costa to lower angle of cell and indistinct oblique sinuous line from

cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, chocolate-brown filled

in with white, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly

waved to vein 2 where it is angled inwards, then excurved and

angled inwards at submedian fold, some white points beyond it on

costa; subterminal line chocolate-brown with chocolate-brown

PHYTOMETRA. 541

suffusion before it from vein 7 to 4, shghtly waved, bent outwards

at vein 7 and excurved below veins 4 and 3; a white line before

termen from just below costa to vein 2 with chocolate-brown

suffusion before it; a terminal series of slight dark lunules; cilia

brown and white with fine waved white lines at base and middle.

Hind wing whitish suffused with red-brown, the terminal area dark

cupreous brown; cilia white, chequered with dark brown at base

from apex to vein 2; the underside white irrorated with brown, the

terminal area suffused with brown.

Hab. Canapa, Alberta, Calgary (Wolley-Dod), 1 3, 1 9,

Br. Columbia (Lord), 1 3, Ashnold (Mis. Nicholl), 1 9, Bear

Creek (Mrs... Nicholl), 1 9, Dunean’s (Hanham), 1 2, Kaslo

(Fletcher, Cockle), 13,1 2, Vancouver I. (Lyall, J. J. Walker),

25,2 2, Cowichan Bay (Livingstone), 2 2 ; U.S.A., Colorado

(Cockerell), 2 9 , Berkeley (Oslar), 2 9, California (Osten-Sacken,

Walsingham, D’ Urban), 1 3,2 2, Kern Co.,1 35, Havilah, 1 ¢.

Hep. 36-44 millim.

Larva. Dyar, Ent. Am, vi. p. 14.

Dark green, dorsal line white slightly sinuous and interrupted,

subdorsal line white; lateral line white, rather broader; a white

stigmatal stripe, diffused below; warts whitish with white hairs,

the suprastigmatal warts with black centres ; 4th—9th somites with

small dorsal black spots on anterior part of somites ; spiracles white

with black ring; head green, the Jaws and palpi black; the head

sometimes with black stripe; three pairs of prolegs. Pupates in a

thin web of white silk. Food-plant, Malva.

8373. Phytometra flagellum. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 26.)

Plusia flagellum, Wik. xii. p. 909 (1857); Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc.

x. pl. ix. f.9; Smith, Cat Noct. N. Am. p. 251.

Plusia monodon, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 202 (1875).

Plusia insolita, Smith, Ent. News Philad. vii. p. 80, pl. xv. f. 17 (1896).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with white; tegule with

slight dark line at middle defined behind by white and white tips,

the patagia with oblique white line near base and white tips, the

metathoracic crest tipped with white; pectus, legs, and abdomen

greyish mixed with brown, the tarsi ringed with white, the

abdominal crests red-brown and white. Fore wing silvery-grey

suffused and irrorated with dark reddish brown; subbasal line

double, silvery-white and obliquely curved from costa near the

antemedial line to median nervure, where there is a black point

above it, then with double silvery striz filled in with black; ante-

medial line silvery, slightly defined on inner side by red-brown and

strongly on outer side by dark brown, strongly angled outwards

below costa and inwards at median nervure, then obliquely curved ;

orbicular with silvery outline and its centre defined by blackish,

oblique elliptical; a very oblique and elongate silver Y-shaped

stigma below the cell, its arms with whitish between them and its

tail extending to near the postmedial line; reniform with slight

542 NOCTUID &.

silvery outline, oblique, strongly constricted at middle and with

some black in its extremities ; postmedial line double, dark brown

filled in with silvery-white, bent outwards below costa, then oblique

to vein 2 where it is angled inwards, then excurved, some white

points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line dark defined on inner

side by brown suffusion, oTaTes below vein "i, angled outwards

below vein 4 and inwards at vein 2; a blackish terminal line with

a narrow white band before it defined on inner side by chocolate-

brown from apex to vein 2; cilia whitish with a brown line through

them. Hind wing ochr eous suffused with cupreous red-brown, the

terminal area darker ; a fine dark terminal line slightly defined on

inner side by whitish except towards tornus; cilia white with a

brown line through them; the underside ochreous irrorated with

red-brown, the terminal area tinged with red-brown.

Hab. Canada, Hudson’s Bay, Albany R., St. Martin’s Falls

(Barnston), 23,1 9 type, Cape Breton (TLhaxter), 1 35,1 2

type monodon, Alberta, Calgary (Wolley-Dod), 3 3,2 9, High

R. (Baird), 2 2. Hap. 42-48 millim.

8374. Phytometra ou. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 27.)

Plusia ow, Guen, Noct. ii. p. 348 (1852); Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent.-Soe. x.

levi OF iDance, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 831; Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 252,

Plusia fratella, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 161 (1874); Smith,

Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 252.

Head and thorax brown mixed with grey-white; tarsi brown

ringed with white; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the crests

browner, the ventral surface whiter. Fore wing grey suffused with

cupreous brown and slightly irrorated with black, the medial area

with a patch of deeper cupreous brown below the cell and the sub-

terminal area deeper cupreous brown; subbasal line indistinct,

silvery defined on each side by brown and with black striga before

it below the cell, sinuous, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line

indistinct, double, cupreous brown, angled outwards below costa,

then waved; orbicular indistinctly defined by whitish, oblique

V-shaped; an oblique silvery V-shaped stigma below the cell, with

a small elliptical spot beyond its lower extremity ; reniform with

faint pale outline, constricted at middle and with black striga in

upper extremity ; an indistinct diffused brown medial line, oblique

to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique; postmedial line

indistinct, double, cupreous brown, bent outwards below costa, then

oblique and minutely waved, slightly excurved below vein 2, a pale

grey shade beyond it and some white points on costa ; subterminal

line brown defined on outer side by pale grey and with a dark

streak before it below vein 6, slightly waved, bent outwards at

vein 7 and angled below veins 4and 3; a fine lunulate dark terminal

line defined on inner side by pale grey except at apex ; a fine white

line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish suffused with cupreous

brown, the terminal area cupreous brown ; an indistinct postmedial

PHYTOMETRA. 543

line ; cilia white chequered with brown from apex to vein 2; the

underside white irrorated with brown, the terminal area more

suffused with brown.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma forming a Y-mark.

Ab. 2. Fore wing with the tail of the stigma much reduced.

Hab. U.S.A., New York, Mlinois, 1 ¢, Florida (Doubleday),

1 2 type, Texas, 1 S type fratella, Dallas (Boll), 13, 29,

Nebraska, Colorado, Boulder (Cockerell), 1 36, New Mexico,

Roswell (Cockerell), 1 9, Arizona, Nogales (Oslar), 1 3,8 2 ;

Mexico, Jalapa (Lrujillo), 1 3,3 9, Vera Cruz, Atoyac (Schu-

mann), 13,19, Durango (Becker), 1 3, Cuernavaca, Misantla

(Prajtllo), 13, 1 Q, Orizaba (Godman), 1 9, Mexico City

(Hoege), 1 5 ; GuareMata Crry (Redriguez), 1 3, Cerro Zunil

(Champion), 1 3 ; Costa Rica, Rio Sucio (Rogers), 1 ¢ ; Ber-

mupA, Challenger Coll.,1 5 ; Jamatca, Cinchona (Faweett, Kaye),

136,19; Venezveta (Dyson),23,19. Hp. 30-44 milhm.

8375. Phytometra purpureofusa. (Plate CCX XXVIII. fig. 28.)

Plusia purpurcofusa, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 570 (1894).

Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with purplish grey, the

tegule bright rufous with grey lines at middle and tips ; palpi and

legs chocolate-brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen greyish

suttused with red-brown, the crests chocolate-brown. Fore wing

silvery purple-grey suffused in parts with chocolate-brown and

irrorated with black, the medial area with deep chocolate-brown

patch below the cell; subbasal line represented by an obliquely

curved grey striga from costa; antemedial line grey defined on

each side by chocolate-brown, angled outwards below costa and

inwards in cell, then obliquely curved; orbicular with diffused

ereyish outline and its centre defined by chocolate-brown, narrow,

oblique; an oblique U-shaped silvery-white stigma below the cell

with small spot beyond its lower extremity; reniform with grey

outline and its centre defined by chocolate-brown with black marks

in its extremities, its inner edge oblique, its outer constricted at

middle ; postmedial line double, chocolate-brown filled in with grey,

strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly

waved, angled inwards at vein 2, some whitish points beyond it on

costa and some golden cupreous before it below vein 2; subterminal

line chocolate-brown with some chocolate-brown suffusion on its

inner side from below costa to vein 4, then a slight dentate shade

well before it to inner margin, the line excurved below veins 7, 4, 3;

the termen pale greyish flesh-colour with a bright rufous shade

before it from apex to vein 2; a fine rufous terminal line. Hind

wing whitish tinged with cupreous brown, the terminal area

cupreous brown ; cilia whitish faintly chequered with red-brown ;

the underside white tinged and irrorated with red-brown, diffused

brown postmedial and subterminal lines.

Hab. Stxurm Trper, Yatung (Hobson), 7 5, 22; Srknim

(Moller), 2 3. Kxp..42 millim. Type + d in Coll. Rothschild.

54.4 NOCTUID!.

8376. Phytometra dudgeoni,n.sp. (Plate CCXXXVIIL fig. 29.)

6. Head and thorax rufous mixed with ochreous whitish, the

tegule and patagia grey at tips; abdomen ochreous tinged with

rufous, the crests chocolate-brown at tips. Fore wing bright

rutous suffused with metallic gold except a patch on medial area

below the cell and the terminal area except towards tornus; sub-

basal line represented by an obliquely curved rufous striga from

costa; antemedial line indistinctly double, rufous, exeurved below

costa and cell and somewhat oblique; orbicular with very slight

greyish outline, oblique and somewhat quadrate; a small oblique

brillant silver Y -shaped stigma below the cell, its tail very short;

reniform with hardly traceable pale outline, very small and strongly

constricted at middle; postmedial line indistinct, double, rufous,

incurved below vein 4 to below end of cell, then oblique ; subter-

minal line hardly traceable, rufous, excurved below vein 7 and

slightly below veins 4 and 3. Hind wing ochreous tinged with

cupreous red-brown; a faint oblique postmedial line and subter-

minal shade; the underside slightly irrorated with red-brown and

with slight discoidal spot.

Hab. Buuran (Dudgeon), 1 3 type. Hap. 44 millim.

* 8377. Phytometra limata. (Plate CCX XXVIIL. fig. 30.)

Plusia imata, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 50 (1911).

d. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey-brown, the tegulez

slightly tinged with rufous and tipped with grey. Fore wing

purplish grey irrorated with brown, the inner half of medial area

brown with a cupreous gloss; a diffused oblique cupreous brown

subterminal shade; subbasal line brown defined on outer side by

whitish, oblique, sinuous, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line

brown defined on outer side by whitish, oblique, shghtly curved

inwards to inner margin; orbicular and reniform with whitish

annuli defined by brown, the former elliptical, the latter open above

and below, its outer edge indented; the stigma below the cell

silvery-white, Y -shaped filled in with grey, small and with its tail

slightly lobed; postmedial line brown defined on inner side by

white, oblique, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line

grey defined on inner side by brown, excurved below vein 7, then

oblique ; a brown line slightly defined on outer side by white before

termen from costa to below vein 4; a fine black terminal line.

Hind wing grey suffused with brown ; cilia whitish ; the underside

white tinged and irrorated with brown, a diffused curved brown

postmedial line and faint subterminal shade.

Hab. Costa Rica, Juan Vinas (Schaus), type + d in U.S. Nat.

Mus. Hap. 44 millim.

PHYTOMETRA. 545

8378. Phytometra jessica.

Plusia jessica, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 201 (1878); id. Ill. Het. B.M.

iii, p. 22, pi. 46. f. 6; Hinpsn. Moths Ind. 11. p. 568.

Plusia serena, Butl. A. M. N. H. (8) iv. p. 368 (1879).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey; tarsi ringed with

white; abdomen pale red-brown, the crests deep red-brown. Fore

wing purplish grey suffused with red-brown and irrorated with

blackish, the medial area with a patch of deep chocolate-brown

below the cell; subbasal line represented by silvery strize from costa

and cell defined on each side by black below the costa and on lower

side below the cell; antemedial line silvery defined on each side by

‘chocolate-brown, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, then

oblique and sinuous, a black mark before it at inner margin;

orbicular small, narrow and oblique, chocolate-brown with silvery

outline; an oblique silver Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its tail

somewhat dilated at extremity; reniform with slight silvery out-

line, strongly constricted at middle and with slight black marks in

its four extremities ; postmedial line double, chocolate-brown filled

in with silvery, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and

minutely waved, slightly below submedian fold, some white points

beyond it on costa; subterminal line black-brown defined on inner

side by chocolate-brown suffusion, excurved below veins 7, 4, 3; a

waved chocolate-brown shade beyond it from apex to vein 2; a

terminal series of slight blackish lunules. Hind wing ochreous

suffused with cupreous red-brown, the terminal area rather darker ;

traces of a postmedial line between veins 5 and 2; cilia with a fine

pale line at base; the underside rather paler with indistinct

postmedial line.

Hab. Javan, Tokio (Maries), 1 2, Yokohama (Jonas, Pryer),

23,4 9, type and type serena; Punsan, Simla (Harford),13,

1 2, Dalhousie (Harford), 1 9 ; Assam (Badgley),1 3. Hap.

30-34 millim.

8379. Phytometra bella.

Plusia hella, Christ. Stett. Ent. Zeit. xlviii. p. 164 (1887); id. Rom. Mém.

v. p. 36, pl. 2. f. 7; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 239.

Head and thorax white mixed with pale brown; abdomen white

suffused with brown. Fore wing white suffused in parts with pale

red-brown and slightly irrorated with brown, the medial area with

a pale red-brown patch below the cell; subbasal line with double

white striz from costa filled in with black-brown and white striga

from cell defined on inner side by black-brown; antemedial line

white defined on each side by red-brown, angled outwards below

costa, then bent inwards, obliquely curved below the celland angled

outwards below submedian fold; orbicular with white annulus,

oblique elliptical; an oblique silvery-white Y-shaped stigma below

_ the cell, its tail dilated at extremity; reniform with white annulus,

its centre defined by dark brown, strongly constricted at middle;

an indistinct diffused brown medial line, rather oblique and slightly

VOL. XIII. 2N

546 NOCTUIDE.

sinuous below the cell; postmedial line double, red-brown filled ia

with white, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and shghtly

sinuous; subterminal line white defined on imner side by rather

diffused dark brown, waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle

and strongly angled inwards at discaland submedian folds, a reddish

brown shade beyond it; a terminal series of dark strize defined on

inner side by white except towards apex and tornus; cilia chequered

white and red-brown. Hind wing whitish suffused with red-brown

with a golden gloss; cilia white with a red-brown line through

them; the underside white irrorated with pale brown, diffused

oblique postmedial and subterminal lines.

Hab. W.Turxesran, Turcomania, Askhabad,1 ¢,19. Kzp.,

3 30, 2 32 millim.

8380. Phytometra pasipheia. (Plate CCX XXVIII. fig. 31.)

Plusia pasipheia, Grote, Bull. Buf. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 146, pl. iv. f. 1

(1873) ; Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pl. ix. f. 14; Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 256.

Head and thorax yellowish suffused with rufous, the tegulze at

tips and patagia above edged with white; the metathoracie crest

tipped with white; pectus and legs whitish tinged with rufous;

abdomen yellowish tinged with rufous, the crests rufous and white

at tips. Fore wing whitish tinged and irrorated with red-brown,

the medial area bright rufous below the cell, the terminal area

suffused with rufous with a golden gloss; subbasal line represented

by a curved whitish striga from costa; antemedial line silvery-

white, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, inwardly

oblique below the cell; orbicular defined by whitish, narrow, oblique

elliptical; an oblique silvery-white Y-shaped stigma below the cell,

its arms separating widely, its tail narrow; reniform slightly

defined by whitish, its outer edge constricted at middle ; postmedial

line silvery-white slightly defined on outer side by red-brown with

a whitish shade beyond it, bent outwards below costa, then oblique

and almost straight, some whitish points beyond it on costa; sub-

terminal line indistinct, red-brown, excurved below ves 7, 4 and 3

and bent inwards at vein 2, a narrow whitish band before the

slight lunulate brown terminal line, the whitish forming a. tri-

angular patch below vein 2. Hind wing yellowish white tinged

with rufous, the terminal area suffused with red-brown with a

cupreous gloss; cilia white with a shght red-brown line through

them; the underside yellow tinged with rufous especially on

terminal area.

Hab. U.S8.A., California, 2 3 type (Walsingham),1 2. Hap.

36 millim.

*8381. Phytometra sansoni. (Plate CCXX XVIII. fig. 32.)

Autographa sansoni, W. Dod, Can. Ent. xlii. p. 349 (1910).

3. Head and thorax deep red-brown mixed with dark brown and

purplish grey; spurs and tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen

PHYTOMETRA. 547

brown irrorated with grey, the sides yellowish towards base, then

purplish red. Fore wing dark brown suffused in parts with purple

and slightly striated with grey; pale golden subbasal striz from

costa and cell, the former with a whitish striga beyond it; ante-

medial line pale golden defined on inner side by rufous, then by

grey, oblique from costa, interrupted in cell and obliquely curved

from cell to inner margin; the stigma below the cell pale golden,

Y-shaped with long curved tail and fulvous streak below it;

orbicular defined by grey and by pale golden below, narrow, oblique,

constricted at middle; reniform defined at sides by black and pale

golden, its outer edge strongly indented; postmedial line pale

golden, defined on outer side by rufous then by purple, bent out-

wards below costa, then oblique and sinuous below vein 2;

subterminal line blackish, excurved below vein 7 and at middle

and slightly angled inwards in submedian fold, with slight golden

suffusion before it below veins 38, 2; a terminal series of brown

strie defined on inner side by a slight golden line; cilia witha

series of black points at base. Hind wing yellow with broad black

terminal band; cilia ochreous with a blackish line through them ;

the underside irrorated with fuscous except below the cell, a

blackish discoidal spot, a diffused ochreous subterminal line defined

on inner side by blackish and on outer by brownish, angled out-

wards at discal fold.

Hab. Canava, Alberta, Banff, type + 3d in Coll. U.S. Nat. Mus.

Exp. 40 millim.

8382. Phytometra exquisita.

Plusia exquisita, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 110. f. 30 (1874).

Head and thorax rufous mixed with white and some black scales ;

tegule with black medial line and blue-black and white tips;

pectus and legs white mixed with red-brown, the tarsi ringed with

white; abdomen orange-yellow suffused with rufous, the crests deep

rufous with some blackish at base and white tips, the ventral

surface white with sublateral series of black striz. Fore wing red-

brown mixed with silvery-grey and irrorated with black; subbasal

line black defined on outer side by white, red and silvery-blue,

sinuous, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black defined

on inner side by white and in submedian interspace by silvery-blue

and some red, waved, incurved in cell; orbicular defined by silvery-

white except above, oblique U-shaped ; an oblique U-shaped silvery-

white stigma below the cell, its lower extremity conjomed to an

elliptical silvery-white spot, a slight white mark between its arms;

renitorm faintly defined by black and white scales, its outer edge in-

dented at middle; postmedial line black defined on outer side by

creamy-white with red marks on it except between veins 4 and 2

and silvery-blue below costa and from vein 4 to inner margin, slightly

bent outwards below costa, then sinuous, excurved below veins 7

and 6 and angled outwards at veins 3 and 1, some white points

beyond it on costa; subterminal line black defined on outer side by

2N2

HAS NOCLUID ©.

creamy-white followel by rafous, the creamy-white forming a patch

in submedian interspace, the line excurved below costa and crenu-

late below vein 4; a terminal series of slight black lunules; cilia

with a waved dark line near base, the tips chequered brown and

whitish. Hind wing orange, the terminal area black-brown ; cilia

orange with a rather maenlene black-brown line through Traret

Underside of fore wing brown with some orange in, below, and

beyond the cell; hind wing with the costal area ir Ported arth Enon.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with - the stigma below the cell filled in with

white and its whole outer edze confluent with the spot.

Ab. 2. Fore wing with the orbicular also filled in with white.

Hab. TRANSVAAL, Pretoria (Distant), 1 3S, Johannesburg

(Cregoe), 1 6,1 2; Navan, Newcastle, 1 ¢, Northdene, 1 ¢ ;

Basurortanp, Maseru (Crawshay), 1 ¢ ; Oranee BR. Conony,

Bloemfontein (Hekersley), 1 2 ; Carge Cotony, Transkei (diss

F. Barrett), 1 6, 9 9; Banucnrstan, Quetta (Nurse), 1 2.

Exp. 34-A0 millim.

$383. Phytometra somivitta.

Plusia semivitta, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 63, pl. 6. f. 13.

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with red-brown, the

tegulee oe brown before the tips which are grey, the patagia Sone

oblique red-brown shade. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with

red-brown, the medial area below the eel suffused with red-brown ;

cavenne Hel line red-brown defined on inner side by whitish, angled

outwards below costa, obsolete in cell, inwardly oblique below the

cell; an oblique red-brown shade across end of cell; an elongate

very oblique silvery stigma below the cell, angled inwards on

median nervure to the antemedial line, somewnat constricted at

middle and pointed at extremity ; postmedial lime red-brown defined

on outer side by whitish, arising just below costa, oblique, very

slightly ineurved below vein 4; an oblique red-brown shade from

apex to vein 4 just beyond the postmedial line; subterminal line

whitish defined on inner side by red-brown, from vein 4 to immer

margin; a whitish line defined on inner side by red-brown marks

before termen from below apex to vein 3. Hind wing whitish

suffused with red-brown, the terminal area red-brown; a slight

sinuous postmedial line; cilia whitish with a brown line through

them; the underside white thickly irrorated with red-brown, the

postmedial line distinct.

Hab. Stxutm (Moller), 2 3, 2 9 type; Assam (Badgley),

1 9, Naga Hills (Doherty), 1 9. Exp. 36 millim.

8384. Phytometra purissima. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 1.)

Plusia purissima, Butl. 4. M. N. H. (8) i. p. 202 (1878).

Head and thorax grey-white mixed with red-brown, the tegule

with red-brown line near tips, the patagia with oblique red-brown

PHYTOMETRA. 549

shade near tips, the metathoracie crest chocolate-brown at tips;

abdomen grey-white mixed with red-brown, the basal crest choco-

late-brown tipped with white. Fore wing violaceous white irrorated

with reddish brown, the medial area below the cell suffused with

olive-brown and the postmedial area below vein 4 tinged with olive ;

an obliquely curved subbasal red-brown striga from costa; ante-

medial line chocolate-brown defined on inner side by white, angled

outwards below costa, interrupted in celland oblique below the cell;

an oblique red-brown shade across end of cell and a small wedge-

shaped chocolate-brown spot above lower angle; the stigma below

the cell composed of two obliquely placed silvery spots defined by

chocolate-brown, the basal spot narrow, the other elliptical; post-

medial line chocolate-brown defined on outer side by white, strongly

bent outward and almost obsolete below costa, then oblique and

very slightly incurved below vein 4, a faint reddish tinge before it

below vein 2; subterminal line white defined on inner side by

brown, arising at vein 7, obliquely curved to vein 5, then straight,

an olive shade beyond it between veins 7 and 3; a whitish line

defined on inner side by chocolate-brown before termen from apex

to vein 2; a fine chocolate-brown terminal line; cilia chocolate-

brown at tips. Hind wing whitish suffused with red-brown, the

terminal area red-brown, an indistinct sinuous postmedial line;

cilia white with a brown line through them; the underside white

urorated with red-brown, a brown discoidal striga, distinct post-

medial line and subterminal shade.

Hab. Javan, Tokio (Maries), 1 9, Yokohama (Jonas, Pryer),

3 ¢ type; Correa, Gensan (Leech), 1 2 ; C. Cura, Ship-y-Shin,

1 6; W. Cutwa, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 g¢, Omei-shin, 1 9,

Kwei-chou, 1 ¢, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 9, Huang-ma-chang

(Pratt), 1 3, Moupin (Avicheldorf), 1 3. Exp. 80-36 millim.

8385. Phytometra tetragona. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 2.)

Plusia tetragona, Wik. xii. 9382 (1857); Hmpsn Moths Ind. ii. p. 574;

Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 182.

Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with red-brown. Fore

wing white slightly irrorated with red-brown, the medial area below

the cell chocolate-brown ; antemedial line chocolate-brown defined

on inner side by white, faint and angled outwards below costa,

obsolete in cell, then oblique and curved inwards to inner margin ;

an oblique red-brown shade from costa across end of ceil; a very

oblique silvery-white stigma below the cell, its upper edge indented

at middle; postmedial line chocolate-brown defined on outer side

by white, arising below costa, oblique, very slightly incurved below

vein 4; subterminal line white defined on inner side by brown,

arising at vein 7, obliquely curved to vein 5, then almost straight ;

a white line defined on inner side by brown suffusion before termen

from apex to vein 2; cilia red-brown at tips. Hind wing whitish

suffused with red-brown, the terminal area red-brown ; an indistinet

postmedial line ; cilia white with a red-brown line near base; the

550 . NOCTUID®.

underside white irrorated with red-brown, a brown discoidal striga,

distinct postmedial line, and subterminal shade.

Hab. “Inpta,” typey 2 im Mus. Oxon.; Punsas, Kulu

(Hocking), 2 2, Deyra Dhun, 2 ¢. Hxp. 36 millim.

8386. Phytometra anda.

Plusia anda, Druee, P. Z. 8. 1890, p. 518; id. Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii.

p. 503, pl. 96. f. 10.

3. Headand thorax grey-white mixed with red-brown ; abdomen

erey suffused with red-brown, the crests black-brown, grey at tips.

Fore wing pale violaceous grey tinged with red-brown and irrorated

with dark brown, the veins with slight dark streaks; the end of

cell, medial area below the cell and postmedial area towards inner

margin suffused with deep golden brown ; subbasal line shght, dark

brown defined on outer side by whitish, from costa to submedian

fold ; antemedial line dark brown defined on outer side by whitish,

oblique and almost straight; orbicular a small triangular grey spot

defined by dark brown; a small U-shaped silvery stigma filled in

with silver and with its inner arm produced to a streak below

median nervure, with a round spot beyond its lower extremity ;

reniform with slight silvery outline and blackish brown marks in

its extremities, its outer edge strongly indented at middle where

there is some dark brown beyond it; postmedial line dark chocolate-

brown defined on outer side by whitish, excurved to vein 4, then

oblique; subterminal line chocolate-brown slightly defined on outer

side by whitish, arising below costa, shghtly excurved at vein 6

then oblique; a chocolate-brown line before termen from costa to

vein 2, with a narrow violaceous white band beyond it before the

fine chocolate-brown terminal ine. Hind wing reddish brown, the

basal and costal areas whitish; cilia whitish with a brown line

through them; the underside whitish tinged with brown.

Hab. GuateMata Crry (Rodriquez), 1 S type Godman-

Salvin Coll. Hap. 40 millim.

*8387. Phytometra orbifer.

Plusia orbifer, Guen. Vinson’s Voyage 4 Madagascar, Annexe F, p. 47,

pl. vi. f. 3 (1865).

¢. Head and thorax red-brown, the tegule with blackish tips, a

blackish line across prothorax; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing

dvep chocolate-red to the postmedial line except the costal area

which is pinkish grey from near base to near apex, the terminal

area fuscous brown with a pinkish grey spot on termen at discal

fold and a triangular patch in submedian interspace; subbasal line

pale golden-yellow, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line

pale golden-yellow, obsolete towards costa, oblique and sinuous from

cell to inner margin; orbicular pale golden-yellow, round; a

U-shaped stigma below the cell silvery with golden edges and with

PHYTOMETRA. 551

a similar large elliptical spot below it; reniform pale golden yellow

with its centre defined by brown, constricted at middle ; postmedial

line pale golden yellow, slightly waved, its inner edge dentate

towards costa and at submedian fold, oblique, incurved at vein 1.

Hind wing brownish grey with a diffused dark postmedial shade.

Hab. Madagascar. Hap. 50 millim. This species is unknown

to me.

8388. Phytometra parabractea, n. sp. (Plate CCX XXIX. fig. 3.)

3. Head and thorax purplish red-brown slightly mixed with

grey, the palpi, tegule, and dorsal crest in front fiery red, the tegulz

tipped with grey; pectus, femora, and tibie below fiery red;

abdomen yellow tinged with red-brown, the crests red-brown. Fore

wing purplish pink suffused with red-brown and striated with dark

brown, the medial area below the cell deeper red-brown ; a curved

subbasal red-brown striga defined on outer side by whitish from

costa ; antemedial line brown defined on inner side by silvery-white,

angled outwards below costa, retracted in cell, then oblique;

orbicular oblique elliptical, defined by a curved silvery streak below ;

a large oblique golden stigma below the cell, rounded at extremity

and with its inner edge indented at middle; some dark suffusion in

upper end of cell; reniform defined by dark brown:and with a

silvery striga at lower inner extremity, oblique, its outer edge

somewhat indented at middle; a dark line from lower angle of cell

to inner margin, excurved round the stigma ; postmedial line double,

red-brown, strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique, bent

outwards below vein 2; subterminal line red-brown, excurved at

vein 7 and slightly angled outwards below veins 4 and 3; a rather

diffused red-brown line before termen from apex to vein 2; a fine

brown terminal line. Hind wing yellowish suttused with red-brown,

the veins and terminal area dark red-brown ; a dark postmedial line ;

cilia reddish brown. Underside reddish yellow irrorated with

brown ; fore wing with the disk suffused with brown; both wings

with dark postmedial line and subterminal shade.

Hab. W. Cuina, Wa-shin (Pratt), 1 ¢, Pu-tsu-fang, 1 ¢o

type. Hxp. 4448 millim.

8389. Phytometra bractea.

Noctua bractea, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 314 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii.

p. 161 (1787); Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 110. f.1; Hibn. Eur. Schmett.,

Noct. f. 279; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. 2. p. 26, pl. 134. f. 1; Frr. Neue Beitr.

pl. 47. f. 3; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 106; John, Rey. Russ.

Ent. viil. p. 215, ff. 1,2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 2387.

Noctua securis, Vill. Linn. Ent. pl. 5. f. 10 (1789).

Head and thorax purplish red-brown, the tegule tinged with

fiery red and with some grey at tips; palpi fiery red; abdomen

yellow tinged with fiery red, the crests red-brown. Fore wing

purplish red-brown striated with dark brown, the medial area

552 NOCTUIDZ.

below the cell chocolate-brown; orbicular hardly traceable except

below where it is defined by a slight curved silvery streak, oblique

elliptical ; a large metallic golden stigma below the cell, its inner

extremity angled inwards on median nervure and its lower extremity

produced to a rounded lobe to near the postmedial line; reniform

faintly defined by red-brown, its inner edge straight, its outer

slightly indented at middle; postmedial line indistinctly double,

red-brown, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, very slightly

waved and excurved below vein 2; an oblique chocolate-brown

shade from apex to below vein 5; subterminal line chocolate-brown,

excurved below costa and angled outwards below veins 4.and 3; the

termen pinkish with a fine brown terminal line; cilia with a fine

pale Ime at middle. Hind wing yellowish suffused with red-brown,

the terminal area red-brown; cilia yellowish tinged with red-

brown. Underside yellow tinged with red; fore wing with the

disk suffused with brown ; hind wing irrorated with brown, a slight

discoidal striga, diffused postmedial line, and faint subterminal

shade.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma slightly produced at lower

extremity.

Hab. Britary, Leech Coll.; FRrancr, Sand Coll.; Gurmany,

Zeller and Frey Colls.; Austria; Huneary; SwitzERLAND, Frey

and Leech Colls.; Irany, Courmayeur (Hampson); RUMELIA ;

Scanpinavia; Russta, Leech Coll., St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll.,

Urals; ARMENIA; W. TurKEsTAN, Issyk-Kul; W. Srperta, 1 6,

Altai; E. Turxesnan, Thian Shan. Hap. 40-50 millim.

Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 157; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 111, pl. 241.

io Bho

Pale green; dorsal and spiracular lines white; head marked with

brown. Food-plants, Hupatorium and Urtica.

8390. Phytometra metallica. (Plate CCX XXIX. fig. 4.)

Plusia bractea, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soe. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 72 (1874), nee

Schiff.

Plusia metallica, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 311 (1875) ;

Ottolengui, J. ‘N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 68, pl. vii. f.7; Smith, Cat. Noct.

N. Am. p. 248,

Plusia scapularis, H. Kdw. Papilio, i. p. 197 (1882); Smith, Cat. Noct. N.

Am. p. 253.

Plusia lenzii, French, Can, Ent. xxi. p. 161 (1889); Smith. Cat. Noct. N.

Am. p. 253.

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some grey; palpi, tegule

at base, and thoracic crest in front bright rufous; pectus and legs

rufous; abdomen yellowish tinged with rufous, the crests rufous

tipped with grey. Fore wing purplish pink slightly striated with

brown, the medial area below the cell chocolate-brown with some

bright rufous beyond and below the stigma, the subterminal area

with a golden gloss except at inner margin, the veins beyond the

cell with slight dark streaks; antemedial line represented by an

PHYTOMETRA. 553

oblique red-brown striga from costa and an obliquely curved line

from cell to inner margin ; orbicular represented by a minute golden

streak above median nervure ; an oblique golden stigma below the

cell expanding into a rounded lobe at extremity; reniform faintly

defined by brown, oblique and slightly constricted at middle ; post-

medial line indistinct, red-brown, excurved below costa, oblique to

vein 2, then excurved; an oblique red-brown shade from apex and

small rufous patch at tornus; a fine dark terminal line. Hind

wing yellow suffused with red-brown especially on terminal area ;

cilia yellow tinged with rufous. Underside yellow irrorated with

red-brown ; fore wing with a large patch of brown suffusion beyond

and below the cell from vein 4 to inner margin, the veins of terminal

area streaked with brown.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with some gold scales on the ante- and post-

medial lines towards inner margin, the stigma below the cell shghtly

angled inwards on inner margin and with more rufous below and

beyond it.—Kaslo.

Hab. Canapa, Br. Columbia, Kaslo (Cockle), 1 9; U.S.A.,

Washington, California, Mendocino, 1 d type, Siskiyou. Hap.

40-42 millim.

8391. Phytometra excelsa. (Plate CCX XXIX. fig. 5.)

Plusia exceisa, Kretschmar, Ber]. Ent. Zeit. vi. p. 135, pl. 1. f. 5 (1862);

John, Rev. Kuss. Ent. viii. p. 220, ff. 3, 4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 237.

Plusia metabractea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 190.

Head and thorax purplish red-brown mixed with some grey, the

palpi, tegule, and thoracic crest in front tinged with fiery red, the

tegule grey at tips; pectus and legs ochreous tinged with red-

brown, the pectus fiery red in front; abdomen yellow tinged with

red-brown, the crests red-brown. Fore wing purplish grey suffused

with red-brown and striated with dark brown, the medial ‘area

below the cell deep golden brown; subbasal line red-brown defined

on outer side by whitish, angled inwards in cell and ending at

vein 1; antemedial line brown defined on inner side by silvery-

white, angled outwards below costa, retracted in cell, then oblique ;

orbicular oblique elliptical, defined below by a curved ‘silvery streak ;

a large oblique silvery stigma below the cell, rounded at extremity ;

reniform with faint pale outline and its centre defined by some dark

brown marks, a silvery striga at its lower inner extremity, somewhat

constricted at middle; a dark line from lower angle of cell to inner

margin excurved beyond the stigma; postmedial line double, dark

brown, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and bent outwards

below vein 2; an oblique chocolate-brown shade from apex to vein 4;

subterminal line dark brown, excurved at vein 7 and angled out-

wards below veins 4 and 3; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing

yellow suffused with reddish brown, the veins and terminal area

red-brown, an oblique brown postmedial line. Underside reddish

yellow slightly irrorated with brown; fore wing with the disk

554 NOCTUIDE.

suffused with brown; both wings with postmedial line and faint

subterminal shade.

Hab. Russia, St. Petersburg, Urals; W. Siperta, 1 Q, Zeller

Coll, Altai; E. Srperta, Amurland, 1 ¢, Ussuri; Japan, Tokio

(Maries), 1 @ type metabractea; W. Cuina, Nitou,1 ¢. Hap.

42-50 millim.

8392. Phytometra emula.

Noctua emula, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 314 (1776): Hiibn. Beitr. Schmett.

ii. 2, p. O1, pl. 3. f. T (1791); id. Hur. Schmett., Nuct. f. 280; Dup. Lép.

Fr, vii. 2. p. 28, pl, 135. f. 2; John, Rev. Russ. Ent. viii. p, 223, ff. 5, 6;

Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 237.

Noctua lumina, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 161 (1787).

Noctua chrysomelas, Borkh. Eur, Schmett. iv. p. 778 (1792).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey, the tegule except

at tips and the thoracie erest in front rufous; pectus and legs

ochreous whitish tinged with rufous; abdomen ochreous white

tinged with brown, the crests chocolate-brown and grey. Fore

wing whitish tinged with red-brown and irrorated with chocolate-

brown, the medial area below the cell deep chocolate-brown with

some fulvous before the postmedial line, the veins beyond the cell

with slight dark streaks, the terminal area whiter with a slight

silvery gloss; a curved subbasal red-brown striga from costa defined

on outer side by whitish; antemedial line represented by a double

oblique red-brown striga filled in with whitish from costa and an

oblique chocolate-brown line defined on outer side by silvery-white

from cell to inner margin ; orbicular represented by a minute silvery

streak defined below by red-brown above median nervure; a large

oblique silvery stigma below the cell, its extremity shghtly bent

outwards and produced to a rounded point; reniform with slight

silvery annulus defined by chocolate-brown and its lower part filled

in with chocolate-brown, narrow, oblique, its outer edge indented at

middle; an oblique chocolate-brown shade from costa to the reni-

form ; postmedial line double, chocolate-brown filled in with silvery-

white towards inner margin, bent outwards below costa, excurved

to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line chocolate-brown, excurved

below vein 7, slight and oblique below discal fold, a redder brown

patch beyond it from just below costa to vein 6; a chocolate-brown

terminal line. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins

and terminal area suffused with brown; a dark brown terminal

line; cilia yellowish white tinged with rufous. Underside yellowish

white irrorated with brown; fore wing with the disk suffused with

brown.

Ab. 1. Fore wing uniformly tinged with pinkish, the stigma

below the cell with a faint golden tinge.—Carinthia.

Hab. Germany, Bavarian Alps; Austrian Aups, Zeller and

Leech Colls., Carinthia, Frey Coll., Styria; SwitzERLAND; ARMENIA,

Langodecki. xp. 38-40 millim.

PHYTOMETRA. 555

8393. Phytometra argyrodonta. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 6.)

Plusia argyrodonta, Hmpsn. A. M, N. H. (8) v. p. 482 (1910).

3. Head and thorax brown mixed with grey-white; abdomen

ochreous. Fore wing grey suffused with cupreous brown and

slightly striated with black; subbasal line represented by double

curved black strie from costa and oblique white striga from cell

defined on each side by black, rather diffused on outer side; ante-

medial line double, black filled in with whitish; obsolete on costal

half and oblique from cell to inner margin; the stigma below the

cell oblique V-shaped, silvery-white filled in with brownish white,

its inner arm sinuous; reniform defined at sides by silvery-white

and black, constricted at middle and slightly angled inwards above

median nervure; postmedial line double filled in with whitish,

oblique from costa to submedian fold, then bent outwards, some-

what dentate towards costa; subterminal line slight, whitish

defined on inner side by fuscous suffusion, slightly imeurved at

discal fold and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3; a faint

whitish line before termen and fine black terminal line; cilia

white, mixed with brown at tips. Hind wing pure white; a fine

brown terminal line; the underside with the costal area slightly

irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and postmedial series of

minute streaks on the veins.

Hab. Navat, Maritzburg, 1 3 type. Hxp. 40 millim.

*8394. Phytometra v-minus.

Plusia v-minus, Oberth. Et. Ent. x. p. 27, pl. 3. f. 12 (1884); Staud. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 239.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with grey ;

antenne at base whitish with dark rings; pectus and legs mostly

erey. Kore wing pale cupreous brown slightly irrorated with dark

brown and mostly suffused with dark red-brown, the base greyish ;

subbasal line indistinct, pale, excurved and slightly defined on each

side by brown from costa to median nervure, then with slight black

bar on its inner side and ending at vein 1; antemedial line pale

defined on each side by brown, diffused on outer side below costa

and cell, exeurved below costa, then incurved to median nervure,

then obliquely excurved and not quite reaching inner margin;

orbicular a small oblique V-shaped mark with brown centre and

slight grey annulus, a small V-shaped silver mark below it, below

the cell; reniform narrow with slight silvery annulus, open above,

strongly constricted at middle and with slight black marks on its

outer edge; a brown shade below the cell to postmedial line, an

irregular oblique medial shade from costa to lower angle of cell ;

postmedial line pale defined on each side by brown, bent outwards

below costa, oblique to vein 2, then nearly erect, with an oblique

whitish shade beyond it from costa to vein 3; subterminal line

556 NOCTUIDE.

black-brown, defined on inner side by dark brown suffusion

expanding into a patch at middle, slightly incurved below costa,

then excurved, angled inwards at discal fold, excurved at middle

and ending at tornus; a fine black terminal line curved inwards to

costa and with whitish line on its inner side expanding into a patch

towards tornus; cilia whitish with slight brown line near base on

apical half and brownish tips. Hind wing ochreous white tinged

with rufous, a diffused oblique postmedial line not reaching inner

margin, the terminal area dark brown, broad at costa and narrowing

to tornus; a fine dark terminal line; cilia white with brown tips

towards apex; the underside whitish suffused and irrorated with

rutous, diffused oblique medial and postmedial lines, the terminal

area suffused with brown.

Hab. KE. Stperta, Amurland, Pokrofka, in Coll. Piingeler,

Ussuri. Harp. 36 millim.

8395. Phytometra tancrei. (Plate CCXXXIX. fic. 7.)

Plusia tancrei, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 628, pl. 6. f. 14 (1895); id. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 239.

3. Head and thorax white mixed with pale brown; abdomen

with the basal segments white with the crests brown and white,

the terminal segments fuscous brown with the anal tuft white.

Fore wing violaceous white tinged in parts with brown and

irrorated -with a few black scales, “the medial area below the cell

and the terminal area with a pale olive-golden gloss; a subbasal

brown striga from costa defined on each side by white; antemedial

line double, brown filled in with white, angled outwards below

costa and inwards at median nervure, then excurved; orbicular an

oblique brown bar defined by white ; an oblique silvery V-shaped

stigma below the cell filled in with white; reniform narrow with

<whiie annulus and its centre defined by brown, somewhat produced

at upper extremity and angled inwards on median nervure; a

rather diffused brown medial line, obliquely incurved to lower

angle of cell, then oblique and sinuous; postmedial line double,

brown filled in with white and defined on outer side by white, bent

outwards below costa, then oblique, sinuous, some white points

with brown between them beyond it on costa; subterminal line

brown slightly defined on outer side by white towards costa and

inner margin, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a brown

terminal line defined on inner side by a narrow violaceous white

band except towards apex where it is reduced to a fine line incuryed —

to costa; cilia white with a brown line near base and chequered

with brown at tips. Hind wing grey-brown with a slight golden

‘loss; an indistinct oblique dark postmedial line and subterminal

shade; cilia brown at base, white at tips; the underside white

irrorated with brown, a medial brown shade, diffused postmedial

line excurved below costa, then incurved and ending at tornus, and

a subterminal shade.

Hub. Vinnr, Kuku-Noor, Amdo, Sining, 1d. Hap. 34 millim.

PHYTOMETRA. Hi/

8396. Phytometra ochreata.

Plusia ochreata, W\k. xxxiii. 839 (1865); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 72,

pl. 151. f. 4; Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 573.

Plusia cornucopia, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 72, pl. 6. f. 3 (1880).

Head and thorax purplish brown mixed with some grey-white,

the vertex of head, tegul, and thoracic crest in front tinged with

fulvous; abdomen yellowish tinged with brown, the crests tipped

with dark brown and white. Fore wing purplish suffused in parts

and irrorated with red-brown, the terminal area suffused with

golden cupreous except towards tornus; a subbasal rufous striga

defined on outer side by silvery-white from costa; antemedial line

fine, silvery-white defined on each side by rufous, angled outwards

below costa, strongly incurved in cell, then oblique ; orbicular

defined by silvery-white, narrow, oblique elliptical; a narrow

elongate oblique silvery-white V-shaped stigma below the cell

extending to the postmedial line; reniform with slight white

annulus, narrow, somewhat angled inwards on median nervure;

postmedial line red-brown slightly defined on outer side by white,

oblique to discal fold, then inwardly oblique and bent outwards

below submedian fold, some white points beyond it on costa; sub-

terminal line dark red-brown, excurved below vein 7, incurved and

somewhat diffused on inner side at diseal fold, and slightly angled

outwards below veins 4 and 38. Hind wing purplish brown, the

basal and costal areas yellowish white tinged with brown; the

underside purplish grey thickly irrorated with brown, a slight

brown postmedial line and diffused subterminal line.

Hab. Japan, Yokohama (Pryer), 1 3; CorEa (Leech), 1 9;

HonGKoNG (J. J. Walker), 1 3; Formosa, Takow (Hobson),

1 6; Punsaz, Simla, Deyra Dhun, 1 5d; Assam, Khisis, 1 ¢,

Niigas ; TBemeunm, Caleutta, 1 9; MLcamavg, Nilgiris {CEvennpSo% J

6, 1 9; Travancors, Pirmid (M/s. Imray), 1 9; Crynon,

3,1 92 type; Penane (Ridley), 1 3; JonHorn (Ridley) il 6s

SINGAPORE (Medley), 3 3; CELEBES ; QUEENSLAND, Brisbane

(hier), & Cre LdnF I 24-28 millim.

8397. Phytometra transfixa. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 8.)

Abrostola transfixa, Wk. xii. 884 (1857).

Habrostola commidendri, Wollast. A. M. N. H. (5) iii. p. 230 (1879).

Head and thorax brown mixed with grey, the tips of tegule

and dorsum of thorax red-brown, the teoulze with black medial

line and the patagia with curved black line near base; tibize at

extremities, the spurs and tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen orey

suffused with red-brown, the crests dark brown “andl erey, the

ventral surface grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing purplish

erey tinged with red-brown and striated with blackish ; subbasal

line Amehle. brown and execurved from costa to a curved Tblelk line

from base of subcostal nervure to vein 1, where it is met by an

558 NOCTUID B.

oblique black line from the cell; antemedial line double, black,

angled outwards below costa and at median nervure, then oblique

and sinuous; orbicular with yellowish white outline and its centre

defined by rufous, very narrow and oblique; a very narrow oblique

and elongate yellowish white V-shaped stigma below the cell,

extending to just beyond the postmedial line, its arms filled in

with white; reniform defined by black, narrow, its inner edge

slightly indented above and its upper extremity slightly produced ;

postmedial line double, brown, the outer line black towards inner

margin, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and minutely

waved to submedian fold, then excurved, some whitish points

beyond it on costa; subterminal line fine, black, dentate, with

black streaks before it below veins 5 and 4, and angled mwards

at vein 2 and submedian fold; a waved black terminal line. Hind

wing brown with a cupreous gloss, the interspaces of basal half

whitish ; cilia white with a series of brown spots; the underside |

white irrorated with brown, the costal and terminal areas greyish,

a slight brown discoidal bar and rather diffused postmedial and

subterminal lines.

Hab. Sv. HenEena (Wollaston), 2 5, 3 9 type commidendri ;

Br. E. Arrica, Eb Urru (Betton), 1 2, Machakos (Crawshay),

1 3, 1 9; Ruopxsta, Bulawayo (Marshall), 2 9; TRANSVAAL,

Pretoria (Distant), 1 9, Johannesburg (Distant), 1 5, 1 9;

Natat, Durban (Guweinzius), 1 6, 2 9 type; Mauritius,

Curepipe (Tulloch), 1 9. Hap. 34-42 millim.

Larva. Green with fine partly confluent -sinuous white subdorsal

lines interrupted by the minute white warts, each with a dark hair;

spiracular line narrow, yellowish white; head yellowish green

sparsely dotted with black; two pairs of ventral claspers. Food-

plant, Commidendron robustum. Pupates in a cocoon of white silk.

8398. Phytometra arachnoides. (Plate CCX XXIX. fig. 9.)

Plusia arachnoides, Dist. Entom. xxxiy. p. 235 (1901).

Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey-white, the

tegule at middle and tips and the prothorax with white lines ;

abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown, ventrally irrorated with

brown. Fore wing grey suffused with cupreous red-brown and

slightly irrorated with dark brown, the veins streaked with white ;

antemedial line double, white, angled outwards on median nervure,

then oblique; orbicular defined by silvery-white, narrow, oblique ;

an elongate oblique V-shaped silvery-white stigma below the cell

with oblique white streak from below costa through the orbicular

to between its arms; reniform slightly defined by white and

strongly constricted at middle ; postmedial line double, white,

bent outwards below costa, obliquely curved to vein 4, then

almost obsolete and incurved to vein 2 and angled inwards in

submedian fold to below the V-shaped stigma and angled outwards

on vein 1; subterminal line white, excurved to vein 4 where it is

PHYTOMETRA. 559

angled inwards, angled outwards below veins 4, 3, 2 and ending at

tornus; a fine white line before termen except towards tornus ;

cilia white with some dark brown scales. Hind wing with the

basal half whitish, the veins tinged with brown, the terminal half

brown; cilia white with a brown line through them; the underside

white, the costal area irrorated with brown, the terminal area

suffused with brown, a brown discoidal striga and oblique

postmedial line.

Hab. Transvaan, Pretoria (Distant), 1 2 type, Johannesburg

(Cooke), 13. Hap. 32-36 millim.

8399. Phytometra aranea.

Plusia aranea, Hmpsn. Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 112, pl. iv. f. 20 (1909).

Head and thorax chocolate-brown mixed with grey-white ;

antennze white, ringed with brown towards base; tarsi ringed with

white; abdomen white tinged with brown, the crests dark brown

and white. Fore wing glossy chocolate-brown thickly irrorated

and striated with white and some blackish scales, the apical area

from beyond the oblique white shade and down to vein 2 with less

white; antemedial line fine, white, excurved to median nervure,

then inwardly oblique; orbicular defined by white, narrow, oblique ;

the stigma below the cell fine, silvery-white, oblique elongate

V-shaped, an oblique white shade from the antemedial line at sub-

costal nervure to between its arms; reniform with fine white outline,

slightly angled inwards on median nervure and its outer edge

indented at middle; postmedial line fine, white, bent outwards

below costa, slightly incurved from below vein 7 to vein 3, then

somewhat oblique, some white points beyond it on costa; the veins

of terminal area with fine white streaks; subterminal line fine,

white, minutely dentate, excurved below costa and angled outwards

to near termen below veins 4 and 3; a fine white line just before

termen; cilia white mixed with some brown and with a waved

white line through them. Hind wing white tinged with brown,

the veins and terminal half suffused with brown; cilia white with

a brown line through them; the underside white irrorated with

brown and with diffused postmedial and subterminal lines.

Hab. Ucanna, Ruwenzori (Wollaston), 1 9 type; TRANSVAAL,

White R. (Cooke), 1 3. Hxp. 30 millim.

8400. Phytometra tetrastigma. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 10.)

Plusia tetrastigma, Hmpsn. A. M.N. H. (8) vy. p. 431 (1910).

@. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with grey-

white. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated and striated with dark

brown, a large triangular patch of dark red-brown extending

obliquely from apex below costa into the end of cell and down to

vein 2; traces of a sinuous grey subbasal line from costa to vein 1

and of a sinuous grey antemedial line; an oblique silvery stigma

560 NOCTUID ®.

formed by a minute silver lunule above median nervure towards

end of cell, a round spot below median nervure almost or quite

touching an elliptical spot with another round spot below it;

reniform faintly defined by grey and strongly constricted at middle ;

postmedial line very slight and indistinet, grey, sinuous, angled

inwards in submedian fold below the silvery stigma ; the veins of

terminal area slightly streaked with grey; a fine waved grey sub-

terminal line and fine waved grey line just before termen. Hind

wing whitish suffused with reddish brown especially on terminal -

area; cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; the underside

whitish irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with

brown, a brown discoidal lunule and faint subterminal shade.

Hab. Transvaat, White R. (Cooke), 1 9; Narat, Durban

(Bell-Marley), 1 9 type. Hap. 34 millim.

8401. Phytometra disticta, n. sp. (Plate CCX XXIX. fig. 11.)

@. Head and tegulee pale red slightly irrorated with brown, the

antenne whitish tinged with brown; thorax pale red-brown mixed

with whitish ; abdomen whitish tinged with pale red-brown. Fore

wing whitish tinged with pale red and striated with red-brown ;

to)

antemedial line red-brown defined on inner side by whitish, angled

outwards below costa, incurved and almost obsolete in cell, en

oblique; two obliquely placed silver points defined by red-brown

below the cell; a red-brown discoidal patch; a diffused red-brown

medial line, oblique to the reniform and inwardly oblique below it ;

postmedial line red-brown, bent outwards and almost obsolete below

costa, incurved below vein 4:; subterminal line red-brown, excurved

below vein 7, then oblique and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3;

a fine waved red-brown terminal line. Hind wing whitish suffused

and irrorated with pale red-brown; a fine red-brown terminal line;

cilia white faintly tinged with red; the underside white tinged

with pale red, a slight brownish discoidal lunule, indistinct diffused

postmedial line, and diffused waved subterminal line.

Hab. PExv, Callao (J. J. Walker), 1 9 type. Hxp. 36 millim.

8402. Phytometra hampsoni. (Plate CCX XXIX. fig. 12.)

Plusia hampsont, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 586. :

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with whitish

and some black; palpi black-brown, the extremities of Ist and 2nd

joints ochreous ; frons with lateral black bars; tibiee black-brown

at base, the sears black-brown ringed with ante: abdomen with

the crests blackish at tips. Fore wing golden brown with a few

black strize; subbasal line white, sinuous, from costa to vein 1;

antemedial line white, incurved in cell and angled outwards at

median nervure, then oblique, sinuous; orbicular with whitish

centre defined by black and white annulus, round; reniform

blackish with grey-white annulus, elliptical; a small round white

PHYTOMETRA. 561

spot defined by blackish at origin of vein 2; the orbicular and

reniform with blackish bars above them from costa and the latter

with oblique dark shade from it to inner margin; postmedial line

white, slightly bent outwards below costa, then somewhat sinuous,

excurved to vein 4, then incurved, a sinuous white shade beyond it

and some black points on costa; subterminal line white, excurved

to termen below vem 7 and to near termen at middle, ending at

tornus, some black-brown beyond it at apex; a terminal series of

smal] black lunules defined on inner side by white; cilia chequered

dark brown and whitish. Hind wing fuscous brown ; an indistinct

dark postmedial line with shght greyish mark beyond it at tornus ;

eilia chequered whitish and brown; the underside ochreous white

striated with dark brown, a blackish discoidal spot on an oblique

dark shade, postmedial line strong, excurved and waved towards

costa, a subterminal shade towards. apex and a terminal series of

minute black lunules.

Hab. W. Cuina, Pu-tsu-fang, 1 ¢ type. Hyvp. 38 millim.

8403. Phytometra emichi.

Plusia emichi, Rehfr. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1873, p. 569; Stndf,

Rom. Mém. vi. p. 666, pl. 15. f. 5; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 286.

Plusia paulina, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 310 (1891); id. idom, v. pl. 2. f. 3.

Head and thorax rufous mixed with white; antennze white,

ringed with brown towards base; abdomen white tinged with

rufous, the crests red-brown and white. Fore wing with the basal

area pale yellow irrorated with pale red-brown and bounded by the’

white antemedial line, which is shghtly angled outwards below costa

then oblique; the rest of wing chestnut-brown sparsely irrorated

with white; the stigmata defined by fine white lines, the orbicular

small, oblique elliptical, the stigma below the cell large, oblique

elliptical, the reniform slightly angled inwards on median nervure,

its outer edge constricted at middle ; postmedial line double, whitish,

the outer line indistinct except at inner margin, angled outwards

below costa, then oblique; fait traces of a sinuous subterminal

line; a brown terminal line defined on inner side by white ; cilia

with a white line near tips. Hind wing whitish suffused with

rufous; cilia white at tips; the underside white tinged with

rufous.

Ab. 1. paulina. Smaller ; fore wing browner and with the. basal

area brown, the white lines more distinct; hind wing browner with

whitish medial band.—Palestine.

Hab. ArmEnta; Asta Minor, Taurus, 1 ¢, 192; PAestine.

Hep. 26-32 millim.

8404. Phytometra dorsiflava.

Plusia dorsiflava, Stndf. Rom. Mém, vi. p. 666, pl. 15. f. 6 (1891); Stand.

Cat. Lep. pal. p. 237.

$. Head and thorax pale chestnut mixed with grey-white ;

VOL. XIII. 20

562 NOCTUID ®.

pectus and legs white ; abdomen white slightly tinged with rufous,

the crests with more rufous. Fore wing pale chestnut irrorated with

white, more thickly on costal area, the inner area with yellowish

white suffusion to the postmedial line, extending to the cell on

antemedial area ; subbasal line fine, white, curved, from costa to

vein 1; orbicular defined by white, oblique elliptical; a round

stigma defined by white below the cell; renitorm with fine white out-

line, figure-of-eight-shaped ; postmedial line indistinct, fine, white,

excurved below costa and oblique below vein 4; an indistinct:

somewhat dentate white subterminal line; a brown terminal line ;

cilia white and rufous at tips. Hind wing ochreous suffused with

pale chestnut; cilia white mixed with rufous; the underside white

tinged with pale rufous.

Hab. Asis Minor; Mesopotamia, 1 S$. Hap. 32 millim.

*8405. Phytometra maria. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 13.)

Plusia maria, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 311 (181); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 236.

6. Head and thorax rufous mixed with white ; abdomen white

tinged with rufous, the crests rufous tipped with white. Fore

wing bright rufous irrorated with white, the veins and submedian

fold slightly streaked with white; a broad inwardly oblique white

antemedial band with yellowish shade at middle, its edges rather

diffused; the stigmata defined by white, the orbicular rather

elongate elliptical, the stigma below the cell oblique elliptical, the

reniform constricted at middle ; a broad oblique postmedial white

band with yellowish shade at middle, its edges rather diffused ;

subterminal line slight, white, exeurved to vein 4, then incurved ;

a fine white line just before termen ; cilia with white line near tips.

Hind wing ochreous white suffused with red-brown ; a faint dif-

fused whitish postmedial line ; cilia white at tips; the underside

white irrorated with red-brown, a red-brown postmedial shade.

Hab. Syria, Mardin; PaLEstrne in Coll. Piingeler. Hap. 30

millim.

8406.. Phytometra augusta. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 14.)

Plusia augusta, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 309, pl. 4. f. 5 (1891); id. Cat. Lep. pal.

p. 236.

®. Head and thorax white slightly mixed with pale brown ;

abdomen white tinged with brown. Fore wing very pale cupreous

brown irrorated with white and with the veins white; subbasal line

indistinct, fine, white, from costa to vein 1; an inwardly oblique

white antemedial band, rather diffused on imner side; orbicular

defined by white, small, oblique elliptical; a rather oblique ellip-

tical stigma defined by white below the cell; reniform with fine

white outline, strongly constricted at middle ; an inwardly oblique

white postmedial band with a slight brownish line at middle; a

fine white ine just before termen ; cilia white and cupreous om

PHYTOMETRA. 563

at tips. Hind wing white suffused with pale cupreous brown

except the costal area; an indistinct whitish postmedial line ; cilia

white with rufous line near base; the underside white tinged with

brown, the terminal area suffused with brown.

Hab. Kuvurpistan; Syria, Antioch; Mesopotramra, 1 9.

Exp. 26 millim.

8407. Phytometra variabilis.

Noctua variabilis, Piller, Iter. Slav. Prov. p. 70, pl. 6. f. 3 (1788); Staud.

Cat. Lep. pal. p. 236.

Noctua itlustris, Raby. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 164 (1787); Hubn. Eur, Schmett.,

Noct. f. 274; Frr. Beitr. pl. 65; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. 2. p. 10, pl. 133. f. 1.

Noctua cuprea, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 199, pl. 110. f. 4 (1787).

Plusia sergia, Oberth. Kt. Ent. x. p. 27, pl. 3. f. 9 (1884).

Plusia uralensis, Staud. Rom. Mém. vi. p. 538 (1892), nec Ev.

Plusia mongolica, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 236 (1901).

Head, thorax, and abdomen olive-brown mixed with grey-white ;

the tegule yellowish except at tips, which are white; patagia with

oblique white lne at middle and wh:te tips. Fore wing olive-

brown mixed with greyish, the veins slightly streaked with whitish;

subbasal line whitish, obliquely curved, from costa to submedian

fold; the base of inner margin pink; antemedial line whitish,

angled outwards and rather diffused below costa, angled inwards on

median nervure, then oblique defined on outer side by chocolate-

brown and with a pink line before it; orbicular defined by silvery-

white, oblique elliptical; the stigma below the cell defined by

silvery-white, oblique conical; reniform with slight white outline,

oblique, its outer edge indented at middle, some pink suffusion

beyond it ; a red-brown medial shade from costa to median nervure

and a diffused oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner margin;

postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with white, bent out-

wards below costa, then oblique and defined on outer side by pink,

slightly incurved below vein 4; subterminal line white, defined on

inner side by red-brown, curved, slightly exeurved below submedian

fold and with a golden-brown patch before it, some golden-brown

beyond it at apex and middle ; a white terminal line; cilia with a

white line at middle. Hind wing pale purplish red-brown ; cilia

white at tips and with a slight whitish line at base. Underside

pale yellow irrorated with brown; fore wing suffused with brown

except the costal and terminal areas; hind wing with diffused

brown postmedial line and subterminal shade.

Ab. 1. sergia. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines

filled in with pink except at costa, the medial area suffused with

pink below and beyond the cell.—Germany ; E. Siberia.

Ab. 2. mongolica. Smaller and paler; fore wing with hardly

any pink.—Carinthia, Urga.

Hab. 8. Brirvain; Iretann; France, Leech Coll., Pyrenees ;

S. Germany, Zeller and Leech Colls; Austria, Carinthia, Zeller

Coll.; Huneary, Leech Coll.; Swirzernanp, Zeller, Frey, and

Leech Colls. ; Irany; Rumeia ; Frytanp ; Russia, St. Petersburg,

202

564: NOCTUID 2.

Urals ; Armenta; Moncorta, Urga; EH. Srperta, Amurland,

Ussuri. Hap. 34-46 millim.

Larva. Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 108; Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 269;

Hffm. Raup. p. 133, pl. 35. f. 6.

Green with a broad dorsal dark stripe and lateral stripe. Food-

plant, Aconitum lycoctonum. 5-7.

8408. Phytometra modesta.

Noctua modesta, Hibn. Beitr. Schmett. i. p. 3, pl. 1. f. A (1786); id.

Eur, Schmett., Noct. f. 354; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. 2. p. 13, pl. 138. f. 2;

Frr. Neue Beitr. pl. 424; Friv. Magyar. Tudom. Akad. Evkon. xi. iv.

pl. 7. f. 7 (1866); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 236.

Noctua cuprea, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 199, pl. 110. f. 3 (1787).

Plusia viridis, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 286 (1901).

Head and thorax brown mixed with grey-white; tegule ochreous

at base and with white tips; prothorax with a white line; fore

tibize rufous in front; abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown, the

crests rufous tipped with white, the ventral surface white. Fore

wing olive-brown mixed with grey-white, the veins finely streaked

with white, the medial area suffused with purplish red-brown

except the outer half below vein 4; subbasal line white, oblique,

from costa to vein 1; antemedial line double, silvery-white, angled

outwards below costa and inwards at median nervure, then oblique

and defined on outer side by chocolate-brown ; orbicular and the

stigma below the cell defined by silvery-white, oblique elliptical ;

reniform chocolate-brown slightly defined by white, small and

almost interrupted at middle; an oblique whitish line from lower

angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line double, bent out-

wards and almost obsolete below costa, then white, oblique and

slightly incurved below vein 4; subterminal line white, slightly

curved, ending at tornus, a golden-brown patch before it at mner

margin and some golden-brown beyond it at apex and middle; a

white terminal line; cilia with a white line at middle. Hind wing

pale purplish red-brown ; cilia white at tips. Underside ochreous ;

fore wing suffused with brown except costal area; hind wing

irrorated with brown, a diffused postmedial line and subterminal

shade. :

Ab. 1. viridis. Paler and greener; fore wing with hardly any

red-brown shades.—Asia Minor; Syria.

Hab. France, Paris; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Avsrrta;

Huneary, Leech Coll.; Swirzmrtanp, Frey Coll.; Russa,

Urals; ArmentTA; Asta Minor, Taurus; Syria, 3 9; W. TuR-

KESTAN, Ala Tau; EH. Srperta, Dahuria, Ussuri. Exp. 30-40

millim

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 268; Hffm. Raup. p. 133, pl. 85. f. 7.

Pale bluish grey irrorated with black and white. Food-plant,

Pulmonaria officinalis. 5-6.

PHYTOMETRA, 565

8409. Phytometra uralensis.

Plusia uralensis, Hy. Bull. Mose. 1842, iii. p. 553, & 1857, i. p. 106; Dup.

Lép. Fr., Suppl. iv. p. 522, pl. 90. f. 3; Herr.-Schaff. Kur, Schmett. 1.

p- 400, Noct. f. 268; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 236.

Plusia uraliensis, Frr. Neue Beitr. v. p. 11, pl. 389. f. 4 (1842).

3. Head, tegule, prothorax, and base of patagia pale rufous,

the rest of thorax brownish grey, the tegule at tips and an oblique

line across patagia brownish grey; pectus in front pale rufous ;

abdomen brownish white, the crests rufous except at tips. Fore

wing pale brownish grey, the medial area except beyond the cell,

the postmedial area towards inner margin, and the terminal area

towards apex and at middle golden-rufous ; antemedial line silvery-

white, angled outward below costa and obliquely curved below the

cell; the stigmata brownish grey with silvery-white annuli, the

orbicular oblique elliptical, the stigma below the cell oblique

V-shaped, the reniform slightly constricted at middle and angled

inwards. on median nervure, the area beyond it tinged with pink ;

postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with silvery-white,

excurved to vein 4, then obliquely incurved, the area beyond it

tinged with pmk; subterminal line silvery-white defined on inner

side by red-brown, curved to submedian fold, then excurved to

tornus; a silvery-white terminal line; cilia with fine red-brown

and whitish lines. Hind wing whitish tinged with red-brown, the

terminal area rather browner, an indistinct brown postmedial line ;

the underside whiter, a slight brown discoidal lunule.

Hab. Russta, Urals, 1 3, Zeller Coll. Hap. 40 millim.

8410. Phytometra siderifera.

Plusia siderifera, Kv. Bull. Mosc. 1856, i. pl. 3. f. 4, & 1857, i. p. 104.

Piusia beckeri, Staud. Stett. Mnt. Zeit. 1861, p. 288; Mill. Icones.. ii.

p. 175, pl. 70. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 236.

Plusia ttalica, Staud. Wnt. Nachr. vuti. p. 293 (1882); Calb. Iris, i. p. 258,

oll, 2 sr, 25,

Plusia calberle, Stndf. Stett. Hut. Zeit. 1884, p. 199.

Head and thorax fulvous red mixed with yellowish ; the tegule,

patagia, and thoracic crests at tips white; abdomen white tinged

with fulvous red, the crests fulvous red tipped with white, the anal

tuft fulvous red. Fore wing fulvous red, the basal area paler and

irrorated with white; subbasal line white, oblique, from costa to

vein 1; antemedial line double, silvery-white, angled outwards

below costa and inwards on median nervure, then oblique and

slightly angled outwards at vein 1; orbicular with pale rufous

centre and silvery-white annulus, oblique elliptical; an oblique

silvery-white U-shaped stigma below the celi filled in with choco-

late-brown; reniform chocolate-brown with sheht white annulus,

strongly constricted at middle; postmedial line double, silvery-

white, obliquely excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved,

obseured by fulvous red between veins 4 and 3; subterminal line

silvery-white, obliquely curved from costa to vein 2, then excurved

566 - NOCTUIDE.

to tornus and with a cupreous red patch before it, a cupreous red

patch beyond it at middle; a fine violaceous white line just before

termen ; cilia deeper fulvous red at apex, middle, and tornus. Hind

wing yellowish tinged with red, especially on terminal area; cilia

with a fine pale line at base and whitish tips; the underside yellow.

Ab. ttalica. Fore wing slightly paler ; hind wing yellow.

Hab. Ivany, Gran Sasso; Russta, Sarepta, Zeller, Frey, Leech,

and D’Emmich Colls.; Asta Mrvnor, Pontus, Taurus; W. TurKE-

sTaN, Ala Tau. Hap. 32-34 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur p. 268; Hffin. Raup. p. 133.

Bluish green variegated with yellowish. Food-plant, Rindera

tritaspis.

*8411. Phytometra inconspicua. (Plate CCX XXIX. fig. 15.)

Plusia inconspicua, Greeser, Berl. Ent. Zeit. xxxvili. p. 815 (1892); John,

Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxxix. p. 253, pl. xiv. f. 23; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal.

p. 236.

Head pale rufous; tegule pale rufous, whitish at tips; thorax

brownish white, the patagia at base and metathoracie crest at sides

pale rufous; pectus pale rufous and white; legs whitish irrorated

with brown; abdomen whitish suffused with brown, the crests and

anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing whitish tinged with olive-brown,

the medial area rufous; a curved subbasal white striga from costa ;

antemedial line white, angled outwards below costa and inwards in

cell, then oblique; orbicular defined by red-brown, rounded; a

rather reniform stigma defined by red-brown below the cell ; reniform

defined by red-brown, oblique, oblong; postmedial line white, slightly

angled outwards below costa, oblique to vein 4, then incurved ;

subterminal line white defined on inner side by pale brown and

with rufous pateh before it on inner area, slightly excurved to

vein 8, then incurved; a brown terminal line; cilia rufous. Hind

wing reddish brown, the cilia rufous; the underside white tinged

with brown, a diffused brown postmedial line and faint subterminal

shade.

Hab. W. Turxestan, Issyk-Kul in Coll. Piingeler, Alexander

Mts. Hep. 42 millim.

*8412. Phytometra generosa.

Plusia generesa, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 380, pl. 6. f. 8 (1900); id. Cat. Lep. pal.

p- 236

3. Head and thorax yellow-brown; palpi, pectus, legs, and

abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale red-brown, the area from

before the antemedial to the medial line and the terminal area

olive-brown, with a golden gloss beyond the middle; subbasal line

double, brownish, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line double,

brown, slightly excurved below costa and submedian fold; orbicular

defined by brown, round; the stigma below the cell defined by

brown, elliptical; reniform very faintly defined and with an olive-

PHYTOMETRA. 567

brown patch beyond it before the postmedial line; medial line

brown, excurved at median nervure, then oblique ; postmedial line

double, brown filled in with olive, slightly excurved from costa tu

vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line brown defined on inner

side by pale red-brown suffusion, slightly excurved at middle; the

veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks; a brown terminal

line; cilia chequered brown and olive. Hind wing ochreous

suffused with brown especially on terminal half, an indistinct post-

medial line ; cilia ochreous ; the underside yellow with large dis-

coidal spot, postmedial and subterminal lines, and dark terminal

line.

Hfab. Asts Minor, Taurus, Zeitun. Exp. 38 millim. This

species is unknown to me.

$413. Phytometra cashmirensis. (Plate CCXX XIX. fig. 16.)

Huchalcia cashmirensis, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 876; Hmpsn. Moths Ind.

li. p. 579; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 2386.

3. Head and thorax whitish tinged with olive-brown, the

tegulz with red-brown line near tips, the patagia and metathorax

suffused with red-brown ; antennz rufous; abdomen whitish suf-

fused with rufous. Fore wing olive-white, tinged with rufous

especially on medial area and irrorated with dark brown ; an indis-

tinct whitish subbasal line from costa to vein 1; antemedial line

whitish, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, then oblique

and slightly excurved at vein 1; stigmata defined by whitish, the

orbicular oblique elliptical, the stigma below the cell U-shaped, the

reniform oblique, some deeper red-brown between orbicular and

reniform ; postmedial line whitish slightly defined on each side by

brown, oblique to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line whitish,

very slightly excurved below costa and incurved below vein 4,

ending at tornus, a slight fulvous mark before it at inner margin ;

a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing red-brown ; cilia

with a whitish line at base; the underside yellowish white, the

costa and inner margin tinged with rufous, a slight dark discoidal

lunule and diffused postmedial line except towards costa.

Hab. WKasumir, Barra Larcha (McArthur), 3 3, Goorais

Valley (Leech),1 3. Hap. 32 millim.

8414. Phytometra herrichi.

Plusia renardi, Led. Verh, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, v. p. 112 (1855); Herr.-

Schaff. Neue Schmett. p. 26, f. 128 (nec Ev.).

Plusia uralensis, Bellier, Ann, Soc, Ent. Fr. 1859, p. 192, pl. 5. ff. 7,8

(nec Hv.),

Plusia herrichi, Staud. Stett, Ent. Zeit. 1861, p. 288; id. Cat. Lep. pal.

Plusia eversmanni, Staud. Ivis, ix. p. 372, pl. 4. f. 6 (1896).

Plusia bellieri, Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 269 (1900).

@. Head and thorax pale rufous; abdomen grey tinged with

brown, the crests pale rufous. Fore wing pale brownish grey, the

568 NOCTUID®.

medial area, the postmedial area towards inner margin, and the

terminal area towards apex and at middle golden-rufous, the inner

area towards inner margin and the areas beyond the reniform and the

postmedial line tinged with pmk; subbasal line white defined on

inner side by rufous, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line silvery-

white, angled outwards below costa and obliquely curved below the

cell; orbicular with silvery-white annulus, round ; a U-shaped silvery-

white stigma below the cell; reniform shghtly defined by silvery-

white and somewhat constricted at middle; postmedial line rufous

filled in with white, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal

line white, curved, erect towards tornus; a fine brown terminal line

with a white line before it; cilia white and brown. Hind wing

whitish suffused with purplish brown, the basal and costal areas

whiter; a brown postmedial line with a whitish band beyond it; a

fine brown terminal line with a whitish line before it; cilia white

tinged with brown; the underside white tinged with rufous, a

slight brown discoidal striga, rather diffused postmedial line, a faint

subterminal shade.

Ab. 1. eversmanni. Paler ; fore wing with hardly any rufous or

pink suffusion.

Ab. 2. belliert. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell more

rounded.—Basses Alpes.

Hab. S.K. France, Alps; ArmMEnta; W. TurKestan, Saraws-

chan, Issyk-Kul, Ala Tau; W. Sreerta, Altai; H. TurKesran,

Tli; Moncorta, Urga; E. Srperta, Dahuria, Kentei, 1 9. Hap.

34 millim.

8415. Phytometra renardi. (Plate COXXXIX. fig. 17.)

Plusia rediardi, Ev. Bull. Mose. 1844, iii. p. 595, pl. 15. ff. 2a, 6, & 1857,

i. p. 107; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 236.

2. Head and thorax whitish suffused with pale rufous; pectus

aud legs whitish; abdomen whitish tinged with brown, the crests

pale rufous. Fore wing white tinged with pink, the medial area

- except its outer part from costa to vein 4, the postmedial area

towards inner margin, and the terminal area towards apex and at

middle golden-rufous, the outer part of postmedial area and the

rest of terminal area browner; subbasal line whitish defined on

inner side by rufous, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line whitish,

angled outwards below costa, then oblique; orbicular with silvery-

white annulus, round; a silvery-white U-shaped stigma below the

cell; reniform with faint pale annulus, its lower part defined by

silvery-white, very, narrow and strongly constricted at middle ;

postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with pinkish white,

slightly angled outwards below costa, then oblique and very slightly

incurved below vein 4; subterminal line white, curved, erect from

vein 2 to tornus; a fine brown terminal line defined on inner side

by a white line; cilia white slightly mixed with brown. Hind

wing whitish suffused with golden brown, the terminal area browner,

a rather diffused brown postmedial line ; a fine brown terminal line

PHYTOMETRA. 569

islinedl on inner side by a white line; cilia white; the underside

white tinged with brown, the postmedial line more distinct and

curved, a faint salem! shade.

Hab. Moncouta, Urga, 1 9; HE. Steperia, Dahuria. Hap. 30

millim.

8416. Phytometra consona.

Noctua consona, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 163 (1787); Hibn. Beitr. Schmett.

iii. p. 15, pl. 2. f. K; id. Kur, Schmett., Noct. f. 273; Dup. Lép. Fr.

vii. 2. p. 15, pl. 183. f. 3; Frr. Neue Beitr. ili. pl. 214; Staud. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 236.

Head and thorax brown mixed with grey, the head darker;

antennze white; tegule ochreous at base and with white tips;

patagia with white lines at middle and tips; pectus and legs

whitish suffused with red-brown; abdomen whitish tinged with

red-brown, the crests chocolate-brown. Fore wing olive-brown

mixed with grey-white, the basal half of medial area suffused with

chocolate-brown, the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with

whitish ; a slight oblique white subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ;

antemedial line double, silvery-white, indistinct towards costa,

angled outwards below costa and inwards on median nervure, then

oblique and the outer line produced to a shght streak on vein 1;

orbicular defined at sides by silvery-white, narrow, oblique and

rather sinuous; a U-shaped silvery-white stigma below the cell;

renitorm with very shght silvery annulus, oblique and very strongly

constricted at ranidldlle = ; postmedial ne double, silvery-whitish,

arising close to the subterminal line, slightly excurved below costa,

incurved below discal fold ; enliven line silvery-whitish, in-

curved below vein 6 and ending at tornus, a chocolate-red patch

before it at inner margin, a chocolate-red patch beyond it at mindle

intersected by a short white streak on vein 4, veins 3 and 2 also with

white streaks; cilia with a fine whitish line towards tips. Hind

wing ochreous white suffused with brown especially on terminal

area; an indistinct brown postmedial line defined on outer side by

whitish ; an indistinct sinuous whitish subterminal line ending on

termen at submedian fold ; a fine whitish terminal line; cilia hits

tinged with rufous and with a series of brown spots at base; the

underside ochreous, a slight brown discoidal point, oblique diffused

postmedial line, and Henees of a subterminal shade.

Hab. GERMANY, Saxony, Zeller, Leech, and Sand Colls.;

Avusrria, Tirol, Frey Coll.; Hungary; Burearta; S. Russia;

ArmeEnta; Asta Minor, Pontus, Taurus. Hp. 28-38 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 268; Hffm. Raup. p. 183, pl. 35. f. 5.

Green, the subdorsal area whitish, a whitish lateral stripe ; head

brown. Food-plant, Lycopsis pulla. 5, 7, 8.

570 NOCTUID2.

8417. Phytometra albavitta. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 18.)

Antographa albavitta, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Hnt. Soc. x. p. 75, pl. viii. f. 8

(1902); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 200.

Behrensia hutsonii, Smith, Psyche, xi p. 60 (1904).

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen white slightly mixed with reddish

brown. Fore wing white suffused with pale rufous especially on

medial and postmedial areas, and with slight black irroration ; sub-

basal line represented by a slight black spot below costa ; antemedial

line blackish defined by white on inner side, the black obsolete on

costal area and the white strongly bent outwards, excurved from

costal nervure to above inner margin where it is incurved, and with

small black spot before it; a U-shaped white mark below middle of

cell; orbiculaar and reniform small, defined by white, the former

oblique V-shaped, open above, the latter narrow, the area between

them rather darker; postmedial line indistinct, brownish defined by

white on outer side, excurved below costa, then incurved, excurved

at vein 4, then strongly incurved, a dark-irrorated mark beyond it

at lower angle of cell ; subterminal line white, strong, excurved to

vein 6, then incurved, two rufous spots beyond it between veins

5 and 3; a slight brown terminal line ; cilia white with some dark

irroration beyond the rufous spots. Hind wing white suffused with

pale brown; a slight brown terminal line; cilia whitish; the

underside with indistinct curved medial line.

Hab. U.S.A., Middle California, San Diego, Arizona, Yuma Co.,

typet ¢ hutsonii in Coll. J. B. Smith. Hap. 80 millim,

8418. Phytometra ampla. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 19.)

Plusia ampia, Wik. xii. p. 910 (1857); Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. x.

p. 73, pl. vil. f. 6.

Plusia alterna, Streck. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1886, p. 178; Smith,

Cat. Noct. N. Am. p, 257.

Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; tegule tinged with

rufous at base and with two dark lines near tips ; mesothorax with

a dark line; the thoracic crest rufous at tip, the metathorax

chocolate-brown ; tarsi dark brown ringed with white ; abdomen

grey-brown, the crests chocolate-brown. Fore wing grey tinged

with brown and irrorated with a few black scales, the medial area

below the cell chocolate red-brown to submedian fold then dark

brown to inner margin ; a curved black subbasal striga from costa ;

antemedial line black-brown, angled outwards below costa, retracted

in cell, then obliquely curved; orbicular faintly defined by silvery-

whitish and the upper edge of centre by dark scales, slightly con-

stricted at middle ; an oblique silvery U-shaped stigma below the

cell, filled in with grey defined by some dark scales, its inner arm

angled inwards on median nervure; reniform with slight silvery

annulus defined at sides by black, narrow, oblique, its outer edge

indented at middle; postmedial line black-brown defined on outer

side by grey, angled inwards below costa, then slightly bent out-

PHYTOMETRA. 571

wards, then oblique and sinuous to lower angle of cell, then obliquely

incurved, slightly angled inwards at vein “9 and to inner margin

which it reaches close to the subterminal line, some pale points

beyond it on costa; subterminal line grey defined on inner side by

brown, rather strongly towards costa, then slightly, incurved below

costa, then dentate, a black mark before it at inner margin and

some dark suffusion at apex. Hind wing reddish brown, the cilia

chequered whitish and brown; the underside whitish tinged and

irrorated with reddish brown, a dark discoidal striga, diffused post-

medial line, and subterminal shade.

Hab. Canapa, Hudson’s Bay, Albany R., St. Martin’s Falls

(Barnston), 1 2 type, Ontario, Orillia (Bush), 1 9, Alberta,

Calgary (Wolley-Dod), 1 3,1 2, High R. (Baird), 25,1 9,

Br. Columbia, Kaslo (Cockle), 1 6; U.S.A., Northern and Eastern

States, Maine, Orono, 1 9, N. York, Albany (H7il/),1 3. up.

38-46 millim.

8419. Phytometra deaurata.

N ee deaurata, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 110. f. 6 (1787); Dup. Lép. Fr.

vii. 2. p. 60, pl. 139. f. 1; Frr. Neue Beitr. pl. 196; Herr.-Schaff. Eur.

Sich, Noct. f. 207 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 235.

Noctua chryson, Borkh, Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 765 (1792).

Nectua aurea, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 288 (1802),

Plusia semiargentea, Alph. Rom. Ménm. v. p. 179 (1889).

Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with yellow; abdomen

ochreous white tinged with rufous, the crests red-brown at tips.

Fore wing bright rufous suffused with metallic gold especially on

medial area and apical part of costal area; subbasal line double,

rufous filled in and defined on outer side by gold, sinuous, from

costa to submedian fold; antemedial line red-brown, angled out-

wards below costa, inwards at median nervure, outwards in sub-

median fold, then oblique ; orbicular and reniform slightly defined

by rufous, the former small, rounded, the latter strongly constricted

at middle, a small U-shaped stigma below the cell faintly defined

by rufous; a faint rufous medial line, angled inwards below

costa, ontinendle to lower angle of cell, then oblique, sinuous; a

faint oblique rufous streak beyond upper angle of cell and faint

rufous streaks on the veins beyond the cell; postmedial line very

oblique rufous and indistinct from costa to vein 7 below apex, then

double, the inner line red-brown, the outer blackish oblique and

slightly sinuous to inner margin ; subterminal line reddish brown,

arising below apex, closely approximated to the postmedial line,

with dark points beyond it below veins 4 and 38 and a red-brown

shade from it at vein 2 to tornus with some gold before it on inner

margin; a fine red-brown terminal line. Hind wing whitish

suffused with red-brown, the terminal area darker red-brown ; cilia

whitish tinged with rufous; the underside paler, a rather diffused

sinuous postmedial red-brown line.

Ab. 1. semiargentea. Fore wing somewhat paler golden; hind

wing darker.—Bokhara.

572 NOCTUID2.

Hab. Germany, Silesia; Ausrrra, Zeller Coll., Tirol, Meran

(Mann), Carniola; Hungary; Swirzerntanp, Frey and Leech

Colls.; Spary, Leech Coll., Andalusia; Iraty; S. Russra, Zeller

Coll.; W. Turkestan, Bokhara; W. Srperia, Altai. Hap. 38—

44 millim.

Larva. Kirby, Butt, & Moths Hur. p, 268; Hffm. Raup. p. 182.

Humped; green with dark green lateral stripes defined by white;

somites 1—4 with subdorsal white bars, the other somites with dark

ereen lunules defined by white. Food-plant, Thalictrum flavum.

5-6.

8420. Phytometra wreoides. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 20.)

Plusia ereoides, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ili. pp. 83, 541, pl. 2. f. 5

(1864); Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pl. vii. f, 3; Smith, Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 247.

Head and thorax pale rufous; tegule brown and white at tips,

the patagia with oblique brown and white line across them and the

area beyond it brown and white, the dorsal crest brown and white

behind; abdomen grey tinged “et rufous, the crests red-brown

and white at tips. Fore wing violaceous pink tinged and irrorated

with rufous, the veins slightly streaked with brown ; subbasal line

red-brown, from costa to vein 1, a red-brown shade beyond it;

antemedial line red-brown, inwardly oblique, slightly excurved

below costa and in submedian interspace; the stigma below the

cell defined by red-brown, oblong and rather inwardly oblique ;

renitorm defined by red-brown, constricted at middle; postmedial

line red-brown, bent outwards below costa, then with silvery-whitish

band on its inner side, inwardly oblique and slightly excurved at

middle; subterminal line rufous, oblique from apex to discal fold

and angled outwards below veins 4: and 3; a fine dark terminal

line. Hind wing whitish suffused with ‘brown ; an indistinct

eurved postmedial line; a fine dark terminal line defined on inner

side by white from apex to vein 2; cilia whitish, intersected with

brown at the veins. Underside sping irrorated sot brown ; fore

wing with the disk suffused with dark brown; hind wing with

dark brown discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line and subter-

minal line diffused in submedian interspace.

Hab. Canapa, Renfrew Co., 4 ¢, Ottawa (Gibson), 36,

Ontario, Orillia (Bush), cis Miberta, Calgary (Wolley-Dod),23,

2 9, High R. (Baird), 1 3, Vancouver I., Cowichan Bay

(Livingstone), dL 26 Or U.S.A. south to Texas and west to

Colorado, New York (Doubleday, Packard, Scudder), 3 3,2 9,

Trenton Falls (Dowbleday),1 3,1 9, ven Center (Grote),23,

192. Hep. 36-42 millim.

- Larva. Thaxter, Psyche, i p. 188.

Pale green marked with ereenish white, humped ; semilooper

spins a white cocoon. ood- plant, Spirea salicifolia.

Pupa. Pale green with large black patches on back.

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PHYTOMETRA. 573

8421. Phytometra masoni.

Plusia masont, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 238 (1894); Druce,

Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 504, pl. 96. f. 12.

6. Head and thorax chocolate-brown mixed with grey-white ;

tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen reddish brown tinged

with grey, the crests dark brown and grey at tips. Fore wing

chocolate-brown thickly irrorated with grey-white; antemedial

line grey-white, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell,

then stronger and inwardly oblique; the stigmata defined by

fine grey-white lines, the orbicular narrow and oblique, the stigma

below the cell bilobate, its outer edge angled inwards on vein 2

and its upper part extending to lower angle of cell; the reniform

with its upper and lower parts produced to poimts, its outer edge

strongly angled inwards at middle; postmedial line grey-white,

bent outwards below costa, then oblique, very slightly sinuous, and

slightly excurved below vein 2, defined on outer side by a narrow

grey-white band arising from apex; the veins of terminal half

with slight whitish streaks; a fine slightly waved whitish sub-

terminal line and a fine crenulate line just before termen. Hind

wing red-brown, the cell and area just below and beyond it

whitish ; cilia white with a red-brown line near base; hind wing

whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with red-brown,

a brownish discoidal striga and diffused postmedial and subterminal

lines.

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 6 $, Godman-Salvin Coll.

Hep. 40 millim.

8422. Phytometra peponis.

Noctua peponis, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 608 (1775).

Plusia agramma, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 327 (1852); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iti.

p. 72, pl. 152. ff. 3,3a@; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 574; Staud. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 239.

Plusia inchoata, Wik. xxxiii. 841 (1865).

Plusia fumifera, Greser, Berl. Ent. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 263 (1889).

Head and thorax grey mixed with brown, the tegulz and dorsal

crest in front tinged with red, the former with grey tips; abdomen

grey tinged with brown. Fore wing grey suffused with brown, the

terminal area with a cupreous tinge except towards tornus; sub-

basal line brown faintly defined on outer side by whitish, from

costa to submedian fold, a patch of brown suffusion beyond it;

antemedial line very indistinct, double, brown filled in with grey,

angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, then oblique, a

dark brown shade beyond it below the cell extending below

vein 2 to the postmedial line; orbicular hardly traceable, with

faint pale annulus, round; reniform with faint pale annulus

and slight dark marks in upper and lower parts, narrow;

postmedial line very indistinctly double, brown, bent outwards

below costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous to submedian fold,

574 NOCTUID 2.

then erect; subterminal line very indistinct, dark, exeurved below

vein 7 and at middle and incurved below vein 3; a narrow pale

terminal band beyond the cupreous suffusion except at apex. Hind

wing greyish suffused with red-brown, the terminal area darker ;

cilia with a fine pale line at base; the underside grey irrorated

with brown, a brown discoidal striga and diffused postmedial and

subterminal lines with a brown band between them except towards

costa, the subterminal line angled outwards at vein 5.

Hab. H. Stperta, Ussuri, type + 2 fumifera in Coll. Piingeler ;

Japan, Tokio (Maries), 1 9, Yokohama (Jonas, Pryer), 1 3,

3 2, Kiushiu, 1 ¢ ; Stxurm; Assam (Badgley), 13 ; Beneat,

Pusa (Lefroy), 1 3 ; Bompay, Kanara (Ward), 1 3 ; CEYLON

(Lempleton), 1 6; Andamans, 1 ¢ ; Java (Horsfield), 4 3,

3 2 type agramma; QUEENSLAND, Moreton Bay (Damel, Diggles),

2 2 type inchoata. Hap. 42-52 millim.

Larva green with lateral black spots, some short pointed black

dorsal spines, stoutest on 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 11th somites; a

prominent white subdorsal and waved lateral line. Food-plants,

Cucurbitacee.

8423. Phytometra hebetata.

Plusia hebetata, Butl. Ill. Het. B.M. vii. p. 71, pl. 131. f. 1 (1889);

Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p, 574.

Head and thorax rufous mixed with violaceous grey, the tegule

with whitish tips; abdomen grey tinged with rufous, the crests

rufous tipped with grey. Fore wing violaceous grey suffused with

rufous, the terminal area with a cupreous tinge except towards apex

and tornus; a slight subbasal line from costa to submedian fold with

a red-brown shade beyond it; antemedial line shght, red-brown

defined on each side by violaceous grey, inwardly oblique, slightly

bent outwards at median nervure, a red-brown shade beyond it;

orbicular with faint whitish annulus, elliptical; reniform faintly

defined by brown, its annulus represented by some white scales, its

outer edge indented at middle; a diffused medial red-brown line,

oblique to lower angle of cell, then sinuous; postmedial line brown

with a red-brown shade before it, bent outwards below costa, then

oblique and sinuous, some white points beyond it on costa ; sub-

terminal line red-brown, defined on outer side by some whitish

scales below vein 3, excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards

below veins 4 and 3; traces of a white line before termen from

apex to vein 2. Hind wing whitish suffused with red-brown, an

indistinct postmedial line and fine pale line at base of cilia; the

underside white tinged with brown, a brownish bar from middle of

costa and diffused postmedial and subterminal lines.

Hab. Javan, Tokio (Mlaries), 1 ¢ ; Punsas, Kulu, Sultanpur

(G. Young, Hocking), 2 5, 2 2 type, Simla (Swinhoe), 1 S.

Hep. 40-52 millim.

PHYTOMETRA. 575

8424. Phytometra erea. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 21.)

Noctua erea, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 271 (1802); Dup. Lép. Fr.

vii. 2. p. 17, pl. 183. f.4; Meigen. Syst. Beitr. Schmett. Hur. iii. p. 250,

pl. 121. f. 5; Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pl. vii. f. 2; Smith, Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 247.

Head and thorax fulvous; patagia brown and grey behind defined

in front by an oblique brown line, the dorsal crest brown and grey

behind; pectus and legs pale yellow tinged with rufous, the fore

legs suffused with brown in front; abdomen pale yellow dorsally

tinged with brown, the basal crest dark brown and grey. Fore

wing purplish pink suffused with red-brown and slightly irrorated

with grey; a slight brown subbasal striga from costa; antemedial

line brown, rather diffused, obliquely curved; reniform indistinctly

defined by brown, its outer edge indented at middle; an indistinct

waved brown medial line; postmedial line indistinctly double,

brown, excurved below costa, then oblique, sinuous and bent

outwards below submedian fold; subterminal line dark brown

defined on inner side by brown suffusion and on outer by some

whitish scales, excurved below costa and angled outwards below

veins 4 and 3, a bright rufous patch on its inner side at inner

margin; a fine brown terminal line. Hind wing whitish suffused

with brown; a brown terminal line; cilia whitish. Underside

yellowish white slightly irrorated with brown; fore wing with

the disk suffused with brown; hind wing w ith slight “brown

subterminal shade.

Hab. Canava, Nova Scotia; U.S.A, E States, south to Florida

and Texas (Doubleday, Grote), 3 5, 2 2, Massachusetts, New

York, Distr. of Columbia, Colorado, New Mexico. Hp. 36-

46 millim.

8425. Phytometra leonina.

Plusia leonina, Oberth. Et. Ent. x. p. 26, pl. iii. f. 11 (1884); Stand. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 237.

Plusia bieti, Oberth. Et. Ent. x. p. 27 (1884).

Plusia humeralis, Butl. Trans. Hint. Soc. 1886, p. 135,

3. Head, tegul, and prothorax ochreous tinged with rufous and

with a few brown scales mixed ; palpi red-brown mixed with whitish ;

thorax brown mixed with grey-white; pectus, legs, and abdomen

ochreous tinged with rufous; the crests red-brown. Fore wing

purplish grey suffused with brown, the medial and postmedial

areas below the cell and vein 3 browner with a slight golden gloss;

subbasal line slight, brown, angled outwards below costa and

ending at vein 1, a brown shade beyond it diffused towards costa ;

antemedial line dark brown, angled outwards below costa, oblique

and diffused below the cell; the stigma below the cell represented

by a slight brown bar ; reniform defined by rather diffused brown,

narrow and lunulate ; a diffused brown medial line, excurved from

costa to vein 4 just beyond lower angle of cell, then oblique ; post-

576 NOCTUID &.

medial line dark brown, angled outwards at vein 7, then oblique

and excurved at middle and below submedian fold; subterminal

line only defined by brown suffusion with a shght golden gloss on

its inner side, oblique, arising from termen below apex, slightly

angled outwards below veins 4 and 8 and excurved at submedian

fold; a diffused golden-brown line before termen from the sub-

terminal line to above vein 8. Hind wing ochreous white suffused

with red-brown especially on terminal area; a sinuous brown post-

medial line and a fine terminal line with ochreous white lunules

before it from apex to vein 2; the underside pale yellow slightly

irrorated with brown; fore wing suffused with brown except the

costal and subterminal areas; hind wing with brown postmedial

line excurved to vein 4, then incurved.

Ab. 1. béet?. Fore wing without the velvety brown shade on

inner area.—W. China.

Hab. Hi. Sreerta, Ussuri; Japan, Yesso (Pryer), 4 3 type

humeralis; W. Cutna, Ta-chien-lu. Wap. 52 millim.

8426. Phytometra chryson.

Noctua chryson, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 446, pl. 141. f. 2 (1789); Staud. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 237.

Noctua orichalcea, Hibn. Beitr, ii. 1, p. 28, pl. 4. f. W (1790); id. Eur.

Schmett., Noct. f. 278; Dup. Lép. Fr. vil. 2. p. 18, pl. 155. f. 1; Steph.

Til. Brit. Ent., Haust. iti. p. 105; Frr. Beitr. 11. pl. 59 (mec Fabr.).

Noctua erifera, Sowerby, Brit. Misc. pl. 29 (1805).

Head and tegule yellow tinged with rufous, the latter red-

brown at tips; thorax dark red-brown mixed with purplish grey ;

pectus and legs yellow tinged with rufous, the fore and mid tibiz

red-brown in front; abdomen yellow tinged with rutous, the

erests and anal tuft at extremity deep red-brown. Fore wing

purple-grey tinged with brown, the medial and postmedial areas

below the cell and vein 3 dark red-brown with a golden gloss,

the veins with shght dark streaks, a metallic golden patch between

veins 7 and 3 from the medial to the subterminal lines; a curved

red-browf subbasal striga from costa ; antemedial line red-brown,

excurved below costa and oblique below submedian fold; reniform

a small lunule faintly defined by red-brown ; a rather diffused red-

brown postmedial line, excurved beyond upper angle of cell, then

oblique and sinuous; postmedial line red-brown with some

violaceous white on it at inner margin, bent outwards below

costa, excurved at vein 7 and middle, then oblique and excurved

at vein 1; subterminal line brownish, arising below costa and

somewhat dentate to vein 2; cilia red-brown at tips. Hind wing

yellowish suffused with rufous especially on terminal area; an

indistinet postmedial red-brown line. Underside yellow slightly

irrorated with brown; fore wing suffused with dark brown except

the costal and terminal areas ; hind wing with dark discoidal point,

postmedial line excurved below costa, and subterminal shade towards

tornus. ;

a i i i

PHYTOMETRA. 577

Ab. 1. Fore wing with the gold patch tinged with green and not

extending to the subterminal line.—Corea.

Hab. Brirarn, Leech Coll.; S. Germany, Zeller Coll.; Austrtra ;

Hunesary; Swirzernanp, Frey and Leech Colls.; Grencn,

Merlin Coll.; Rumenia; Russra, Urals; Arwenta; W. Srperta,

Altai; E. Srperta, Amurland, Ussuri; Japan, Oiwaké (Pryer),

1 @, Tokio (Maries), 1 ¢, Yokohama (Pryer), 1 d ; Corza,

Gensan, 1 9. Hup. 44-58 millim. _

Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 157; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p.97, pl. 240. f. 4;

Hffm. Raup. p. 134, pl. 35. f. 9.

Green ; dorsal line darker and edged with white ; a lateral series

of oblique white streaks ; spiracles white. Food-plant, Hupatorium.

6-7.

8427. Phytometra balluca. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 22.)

Dyachrysia balluca, Geyer, Zutrage, iv. p. 22, ff. 681-2 (1832) ; Ottolengui,

J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. x. pl. vii. f. 9; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 248.

Head, tegule, and prothorax pale rufous; palpi and antenne

brownish grey, the latter with the basal joint white in front,

the tegule brown at tips; thorax grey-brown mixed with white,

the dorsal crest with some rufous in front; pectus and legs —

whitish tinged with brown; abdomen whitish dorsally tinged

with rufous, the crests red-brown tipped with whitish. Fore

wing purplish grey tinged with -red-brown and suffused with

silvery-green except the costal area and cell, the veins finely

streaked with red-brown; a brown subbasal striga from costa;

antemedial line brown, excurved to median nervure where it is

retracted, then oblique; a curved brown discoidal striga with an

oblique brown shade above it from costa; postmedial line golden-

brown, bent outwards below costa, slightly excurved to vein 4,

then slightly incurved; a faint subterminal golden-brown shade,

excurved at vem 7 and below veins 4 and 3; a white line just

before termen with a cupreous brown shade before it from apex to

vein 4. Hind wing red-brown, the cilia brownish white. Under-

side pale yellow; fore wing with the disk suffused with brown ;

hind wing with dark discoidal point, postmedial line excurved

below costa, and subterminal shade towards tornus.

Hab. Cawava, Renfrew Co., 1 3, Nova Scotia (Redman), 1°,

Ontario, Orillia (Bush), 2 9; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, and

Middle States, 1 ¢, 29, Trenton Falls (Doubleday), 13. Kup.

52-60 millim.

Larva. Saunders, Can. Ent. v. p. 11; Lint. Ent. Cont. iii. Rep. N. York

State Cab. xxvi. p. 163.

Yellowish green streaked and spotted with white; sublateral

line greenish white; tubercles green striped with white, small

on thoracic somites, much larger and ten or twelve on each somite

on the abdominal but absent on anal somite, each tubercle with a

single whitish hair. Underside deeper green with a few short

whitish hairs; head shining green with a few whitish hairs. Food-

plant, Hamulus.

VOL. XIII. 2P

578 NOCTUID &.

8428. Phytometra zosim1.

Noctua zosimi, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 651 (1822); Dup. Lép. Fr.,

Suppl. iv. p. 252, pl. 70. f.4; Frr. Neue Beitr. pl. 449. f. 1; Herr.-

Schaff. Hur. Schmett., Noct. f. 208; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 237.

Head and thorax whitish mixed with some chocolate-brown ;

frons rufous; tegule yellowish at base and white at tips, the

patagia and thoracic crest white at tips; fore tibiz chocolate-

brown; abdomen white tinged with brown, the crests chocolate-

brown. Fore wing whitish tinged with red-brown especially on

costal area and in end of cell, the area below and beyond the cell

to the postmedial line suffused with brilliant greenish gold; sub-

basal line slight, brown, sinuous, from costa to vein 1; antemedial

line brown, excurved to median nervure, where it is retracted, then

oblique with some cupreous brown before it and slightly retracted

to inner margin; orbicular defined by brown, round; the stigma

below the cell defined by brown, U-shaped; reniform defined by

brown and with brown striga in centre; postmedial line brown,

obliquely excurved to below vein 3, then incurved with some

cupreous brown before it and a golden patch tinged with cupreous

brown beyond it; the veins of terminal area streaked with brown ;

subterminal line red-brown, almost obsolete except from costa

to vein 6 and slightly excurved below costa; a fine red-brown

terminal line; cilia intersected with red-brown at the veins. Hind

wing whitish tinged with red-brown especially on terminal area; a

rather diffused brown postimedial line; cilia brownish white inter-

sected with brown at the veins. Underside ochreous white; fore

wing suffused with brown except at costa; hind wing with the

postmedial line more distinct.

Hab. ? Ausrrta, Galicia; Jrany, Piedmont; ? RuMmELtA ;

Russta, Urals, Zeller and Frey Colls.; W. Srperta, Altai, 1 2 ;

E. Srperta, Amurland, 1 g,3 9, Ussuri; Japan, Hakodaté, 1 9,

Yokohama (Pryer), 26,192. Hxp. 36-46 millim.

8429. Phytometra chrysitis.

Noctua chrysitis, Linn, Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 513 (1758) ; Esp. Schmett. iv.

pl. 109. ff. 1-5 ; Sepp, Ins. i. (5) p. 7, pl. 1. ff. 7-12; Hubn. Eur. Schmett.,

Noct. ff. 272, 662-3; Donovan, Brit. Ins. iv. pl. 187; Dup. Lép. Fr.

vii. 2. p.21, pl. 134. f.3; Frr. Beitr. pi.89; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust.

ili. p. 105 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 287.

Plusia nadeja, Oberth. Et. Ent. v. p. 84, pl. 3. f. 10 (1880).

Plusia guncta, Tutt, Brit. Noct. iv. p. 25 (1892).

Plusia disjuncta, Schultz, Iilustr. Zeitsch. Ent. vy. p. 349 (1900).

Plusia scintillans, Schultz, Intern. Ent. Zeit. i. p. 32 (1907).

Plusia aurea, Huene ? ined., Schultz, Intern. Ent. Zeit. 1. p. 32 (1907).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with purplish grey, the vertex

of head, tegule towards tips, and thoracic crest in front rufous ;

teguie at tips and an oblique line across patagia white ; abdomen

erey tinged with red-brown, the crests dark brown tipped with

white. Fore wing red-brown suffused with purplish grey and

PHYTOMETRA. 579

slightly irrorated with dark brown; subbasal line dark brown, from

costa to submedian fold; a broad antemedial greenish metallic gold

band defined on outer side by a dark brown line; orbicular defined

by dark brown, oblique elliptical ; the stigma below the cell defined

by dark brown, elliptical; reniform defined by dark brown, narrow

and with a curved striga on discocellulars ; an indistinct sinuous

brown medial line, excurved below the cell; postmedial line dark

brown, excurved below costa, then oblique and sinuous; post-

medial area greenish metallic gold except at costa, extending

to just beyond the subterminal line, which is brown, excurved at

middle and with a cupreous brown patch beyond it at inner

margin; the veins of terminal area streaked with brown; a fine

brown terminal line; cilia intersected with brown at the veins.

Hind wing red-brown, the cilia rufous. Underside ochreous irro-

rated with brown ; fore wing suffused with dark brown except the

costal and terminal areas ; hind wing with slight discoidal lunule,

postmedial line excurved below costa, and rather diffused sub-

terminal line except towards costa.

Ab. 1. disjuncta. Fore wing with the bands brilliant metallic

gold.

Ab. 2. seintillans. Paler; fore wing with the bands silvery-blue.

Ab. 3. guncta. Fore wing with the bands greenish gold and con-

joined by a broad fascia in submedian interspace.

Ab. 4. aurea. Similar, but the bands brilliant gold.

Ab. 5. nadeja. Similar, the bands silvery-blue and conjoined by

a fascia, the bands broader and the postmedial band extending to

tornus.—K. Siberia ; Japan.

Hab. Brrrarn, Leech Coll.; France; Germany, Zeller, Frey,

and Leech Colls.; Austrra; Hungary; Swirzernanp; Spatn,

Moncayo (Chapman); Russta, St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll. ;

ArMENTA; Asta Minor, Pontus, Bithynia; Syria; W. &

EK. Turkestan; KE. Srperra; Amurland, 1 ¢; Japan, Hakodaté

Clpias, Jha), 3 8, i 2, Woo (Wares, 2 5 Whildko

(Maries), 1 3, Chiuzenji (Lewis), 1 ¢ , Yokohama (Lew7s, Leech,

Manley), 3 3; Cora, Gensan (Leech), 1 29; W.Cutna, Pu-tsu-

fang, 1 3, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt),1 2. Huxp. 34-44 millim.

Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 156; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 100, pl. 241.

f.1; Hffm. Raup. p. 134, pl. 35. f. 8. ;

Green with six white marks above on each somite; lateral line

slender, white; a subspiracular series of white points; head green.

Food-plants : Lamium, Urtica, Arctium, ete. 7 and 9-4.

8430. Phytometra florina. (Plate CCXXXIX fig. 23.)

Plusia florina, Guen. Noct. il. p. 836 (1852).

3. Head, tegule, pro- and mesothorax fiery red mixed with

yellowish ; patagia and metathoracic crest rufous with some grey

at tips, the former with an oblique grey line across them ; pectus,

legs, and abdomen yellowish suffused with rufous, the last with

21 2

580 NOCTUID &.

the crests tipped with grey. Fore wing rufous tinged with grey

and striated with red-brown, the terminal area Gmerallie gold

shghtly striated with rufous, emitting from its imner edge on

inner half an oblique wedge- -shaped patch to median nervure, Gere

it extends from the antemedial line to beyond vein 2 and into the

middle of cell as a triangular patch; an indistinct double sinuous

subbasal line from eosin to submedian fold; antemedial line in-

distinetly double, red-brown, angled ouminmands below costa, then

oblique and angled inwards on median nervure; orbicular repre-

sented by the triangular golden patch, faintly defined by red-

brown; reniform faintly defined by red-brown; postmedial line

red-brown, oblique and slightly sinuous to below end of cell, then

retracted to median nervure at outer edge of orbicular, then

interrupted by the golden area and oblique to inner margin ;

subterminal line indistinct, reddish brown, exeurved below vein 7

and at middle, and angled inwards at discal and submedian folds ;

the termen suffused with rufous; cilia whitish mixed with rufous

and with a rufous line near base. Hind wing whitish suffused

with rufous ; the underside white tinged with rufous, an indistinct

brownish postmedial line.

Hab. Mapacascar, Betsileo (Cowan), 1 3. Hap. 36 milli.

8431. Phytometra orichalcea.

NM ae orichalcea, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 607 (1775); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii.

573.

Noa chrysitina, Martyn, Peyehes pl. 21 f. 56 (1797); Moore, Lep. Ceyl.

Tie Fo TO) yoy WEP th 7

Noctua aurifera, Hibn. Eur. Sehmett., Noct. f.463 (1822) ; Dup. Lép. Fr.

vii. 2. p. 24, pl. 134. £.2; Err. Neue Beitr. pl. 509. ff. 1, 2; Staud. Cat.

Lep. pal. p. 237.

Head and thorax rufous, the tegule at tips, the patagia and

thoracic crest behind red-brown irrorated with grey; tegule with

a slight brown line near base; antenne whitish ringed with

brown ; pectus and legs red-brown, the tarsi ringed with white ;

abdomen whitish suffused with rufous. Fore wing purplish

erey suffused with red-brown and striated with dark brown, the

postmedial area brilliant metallic gold from just below costa to

submedian fold above which it emits an oblique fascia to median

nervure on which it extends from well before the orbicular

to beyond origin of vein 2; orbicular defined by silvery-grey,

rounded ; reniform faintly defined by silvery-grey, its outer edge

strongly indented at middle; postmedial line sight, double, rede

brown, filled in with grey, bent outwards below costa, then oblique

and slightly sinuous, retracted at vein 5, interrupted at the golden

fascia and bent outwards above inner margin; an indistinct

oblique waved red-brown subterminal line ; a fine waved red-brown

line before termen defining the golden area; a fine red-brown

terminal line. Hind wing dark cupreous red- brown, the inter-

spaces of basal half white; cilia whitish with a brown line through

them ; the underside white irrorated with red-brown, the terminal

PHYTOMETRA.—PALEOPLUSTIA. 581

area grey suffused and irrorated with dark brown, a slight dark

discoidal lunule and waved postmedial and subterminal lines.

Hab. Brivratin; France; S. Germany; Spain; Azores,

Horta Fayal (J. J. Walker), 1 3; Maverra (Wollaston),

Zeller and Leech Colls., 4d, 3 2; Canarizs, 1 9, Leech Coll.,

Teneriffe (Gomez, Walsingham), 3 d ; Ascension (Conry), 1 9 ;

St. HELENA (Wollaston, Gillespie), 7 $ ; Gotp Coast, Accra

(Sir G. Carter), 1 9; Axysstnta (Drake-Brockman), 1 3;

SoMALILAND (Drake-Brockman), 1 2 ; Br. H. Arrica, Nairobi

(Anderson), 1 2, Machakos (Crawshay), 3 3, Kikuyu (Betton),

1 2, Naitolia (Betton), 1 5, Kb Urru (Betton), 1 3, N. Kavi-

rondo (Neave), 1 ¢, 8S. Kavirondo (Neave), 1 9, 8. Kakumega

Forest (Weave), 1 5 ; Ucanpa, Entebbe (Wollaston), 1 3,

Ruwenzori (Wollaston), 1 3; N. Ruopmsta, Serenje Distr.

(Weave), 2 3; Masnonatann, Salisbury (Marshall), 3 S;

Ruopesia, Bulawayo (Jlarshal/), 2 3; Transvasat (Rose), 1 3,

Pretoria (Distant), 1 3, 2 2, Johannesburg (ose), 15; Narat,

Malvern (Aarshall), 1 9, Durban (Burrows, Bowker, Leigh),

56,22; Basurotanp (Crawshay), 1 3 ; Cape Cotony, Gra-

hamstown, 1 9; Mapacascar; Mauritius (Pfeiffer, Manders),

2 2; C. Cura, Shanghai, 2 9; Kasumir (Nurse), 1 9, Kylang

(McArthur), 1 9, Karakorum (Leech), 1 9, Goorais Valley

(Leech), 1 S, Narkundah (McArthur), 1 9, Kutie Pass

(McArthur), 1 3; Punsas, Kulu, Sultanpur (G. Young), 1 6,

Dalhousie, 1 d, Kasauli (Barrow), 2 3, 1 2, Thundiani ( VYer-

bury), 1 2, Campbellpur (Yerbury), 2 3, 1 2, Dharmsila

(Hocking),3 3,192, Manpuri, 1 d, Allahabad, 1 2, Wuzeerabad

(Hearsey), 1 3 ; Stxkuim (Dudgeon), 2 3 ; Assam (Badgley),

1 Q, Silhet (Stainsforth), 1 3, Shillong (Parish), 1 3,19;

Berneat, Chausa (Betton), 1 3, Pusa (Lefroy), 1 2 ; Manpras,

Nilgiris (Hampson), 2 3 ; TRavancorz, Pirmad (I/s. Imray),

1 6,19; Inpra, type in Banksian Coll.; Ceynton, 1 ¢ ; Java

(Horsfield), 2 6, 1 92; N. Guinea, Sojeri, 1d. Hap. 38-

48 millim.

Larva. Bluish green with a few short dorsal hairs; slender

dorsal white lines and a prominent lateral line. Food-plant,

Coreopsis.

Genus PALHOPLUSIA, nov.

Type, P. venusta.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to middle

of frons and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd short ; frons smooth, with

large tuft, of hair; eyes large, round, overhung by long cilia; antennz of male

ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair only, the metathorax with large divided

crest ; tibie fringed with rather long hair; abdomen with dorsal ridges of hair

on basal segments but 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 {rom upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ;

11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from

angle; 5 fully developed from well above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle;

8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

582 NOCTUID®.

8432. Paleoplusia venusta. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 24.)

Plusia venusta, Wik. xxxiii. 836 (1865); Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ens. Soc. x.

pl. vii. f. 11 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 248.

Plusia striatela, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 194 (1878).

Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; antenne rufous ;

patagia with oblique rufous bars at base edged behind by whitish ;

abdomen ochreous. Fore wing bright rufous; the costal area

ochreous, broadly beyond the cell where it extends to vein 5; the

inner area ochreous, extending to just above vein 1, which is

Fig. 127.—Paleoplusia venusta, g. }.

streaked with rufous, except at base; a silvery-white streak from

below middle of cell to near termen above vein 2; a black point at

upper angle of cell; a fine brown terminal line defined on inner

side by an ochreous line except towards tornus, the rufous curving

upwards on its inner side to below apex; cilia ochreous, the tips

pale rufous. Hind wing ochreous suffused with glossy brown;

a slight ochreous line before the fine terminal brown line; cilia

ochreous; the underside ochreous, the terminal half faintly tinged

with rufous except towards tornus, a slight brown discoidal lunule.

Hab. Canava, Ontario, Orillia (Bush), 1 2 type, Alberta,

Calgary (Wolley-Dod), 2 3; U.S.A., Maine, New York, 2 6,

Distr. of Columbia. Hap. 84-88 millim.

Genus ABROSTOLA.

Abrostola, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 88 (1816), non deser. ; Type.

Steph. We Brit. Hint. hlaust.ail-9ps 00) (1829) ieeeeeeeeseeee eee triplasia,

Inguridia, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 854 (1879) ...... sapawaaie abrostolina.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about

vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd rather long; frons smooth

with large tuft of hair, a flattened tuft of hair between antenne ; eyes large,

round, overhung by long cilia; antenne of male minutely ciliated; thorax

clothed almost entirely with scales, the meso- and metathorax with large

By ts eel eS he

ABROSTOLA. 583

divided crest; tibiz fringed with rather long hair; abdomen with dorsal

series of crests, the crests on lst and 3rd segments larger, lateral fringes of

hair except en basal sezments. 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; slight tufts of raised scales in and below end of cell. Hind wing

with the cell about half length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully

developed from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with

the cell near base only.

A. Fore wing with the antemedial line obliquely curved to

near lower angle of cell, then retracted and hooked

belowatlioncellle ie caso ce cea ceseerersentinctecoe tice nese ssccas formosa.

B. Fore wing with the antemedial line evenly curved.

a. Fore wing with the antemedial line very strongly

OXCUInV essere a cieee arise mea iainatiuteeem se biae sisal dermuscrtaciece ovalis.

b. Fore wing with the antemedial line moderateiy ex-

curved.

a‘. Fore wing with the spot below the orbicular

ROWING! .ccnconcsaaoossce00de soooadaDbeDoANSoodOBDGODRRODOR urentis.

b'. Fore wing with the spot below the orbicular more

G[WEUFALE, coocnacacacec0090909 900000 sgodononUDRodoQ0O9D00000000 tripartita.

C. Fore wing with the antemedial line incurved in the cell.

a. Fore wing with the postmedial line closely approxi-

mated to the upper extremity of reniform............... asclepiadis.

6. Fore wing with the postmedial line produced to well

beyond upper extremity of reniform ............-.....++ triplasia.

D. Fore wing with the antemedial line incurved in the cell

and at vein 1.

a. Fore wing without oblique whitish shade from apex.

a‘, Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved above

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bl, Fore wing with the postmedial line not excurved

above inner margin.

a2, Fore wing not mostly suffused with fuscous, the

spot below the orbicular round ...........--.ss0000 triopis.

U2, Fore wing almost entirely suffused with fuscous,

the spot below the orbicular oblique elliptical... abrostolina.

b. Fore wing with oblique whitish shade from apex.

a, Fore wing with the stigmata small, entirely defined

ly LOOK .concoada sovoco bon sc0nsq¢vo0obosavoueDASoeDDeRDKCD0RS canariensis.

b!, Fore wing with the stigmata large, defined by black

TPOWUHS scoccococadns09000200G0b009000000 c000enR0R9C0D0090000000 brevipennis.

#8433. Abrostola formosa. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 25.)

Leptina formosa, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 328 (1865); Ottolengui,

J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. x. pl. ix. f. 13; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 249,

2. Head white; palpi irrorated with brown ; frons with lateral

brown bars; antennz and vertex of head red-brown; thorax red-

brown with some white at sides, the tegule with black medial line ;

pectus and legs white tinged with red-brown; abdomen whitish

dorsally suffused with red-brown. Fore wing pale red-brown, the

basal area, the cell to near extremity, and a patch below its ex-

tremity violaceous white faintly tinged with red-brown; some

slight black streaks below costa; an oblique antemedial black

striga from costa; the whitish area defined by the diffused red-

brown antemedial line and raised dark scales, slightly angled

584: NOCTVID®.

outwards below costa, obliquely excurved to lower angle of cell,

then curved downwards and hooked below origin of vein 2, then

oblique and sinuous to inner margin near base; reniform with

white annulus and its centre defined by red-brown, concave towards

base, an oblique chocolate-brown shade before it from costa; post-

medial line double, brown filled in with white and defined on outer

side by white, the inner line towards costa and the outer line

towards inner margin darker and more prominent, bent outwards

below costa, then minutely waved, incurved just below vein 3 and

bent inwards to inner margin; subterminal line black-brown,

rather diffused on inner side, evenly curved, the area beyond it

violaceous white with a red-brown line beyond the subterminal line

and a black terminal line; cilia with fine white lines at base and

middle. Hind wing whitish suffused with red-brown, the terminal

area darker; cilia brown at base, white at tips; the underside

whitish tinged with red-brown, traces of a curved postmedial line

and a fine dark terminal line.

Hab. U.S.A., Maine, Massachusetts, New York in Coll. W.

Barnes, New Jersey. Hap. 36 millim.

Larva. Kearfott, Ent. New Philad. xv. p: 301.

Head small, each somite increasing in height, the anal somite

three or four times height of head and vertical behind; pea-green

with waved white dorsal stripe and each somite with white band.

Food-plant, Vaccinium. Spins a loose cottony cocoon. 5.

8434. Abrostola ovalis. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 26.)

Abrostola ovalis, Guen. Noet. ii. p. 822, pl. 11. f. 11 (1852); Smith, Cat.

Noct. N. Am. p. 246.

3. Head and tegule brown mixed with grey, a black bar

between antennee, ihe tegule with black line near base and some

black scales at tips ; patagia pinkish white edged with red-brown

above and with red-brown bar at middle; thorax ochreous white ;

peetus in front and legs brown, the tarsi with pale rings; abdomen

brown mixed with grey, some ochreous hair at base of sides, Fore

wing with the basal area pinkish white irrorated with red-brown

and with sight red-brown subbasal marks below costa and cell and

on vein 1; antemedial line double, the outer line black, the inner

red- brown, ‘strongly and evenly excurved ;_ orbicular, reniform, and

a spot below the former large, defined by black and with raised

black scales on their edges, the orbicular “oblique and open above

and below, the reniform elliptical; postmedial line double, in-

distinct to vein 5, then the inner line black, the outer red-brown,

strongly bent outwards below costa, slightly waved to vein 5, then

oblique, excurved below submedian fold, some grey points with

blackish streaks between them beyond it on costa and a whitish

patch on inner area; subterminal line indistinct, greyish, minutely

dentate; a black terminal line. Hind wing with the basal half

whitish suffused with brown, the terminal half brown; cilia white

ABROSTOLA. 585

with some brown at base; the underside ochreous white, the

costal area irrorated with brown, the terminal area brown, a dark

disecoidal lunule.

Hab. Canava; U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York (Doubleday),

1 S type, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Hp. 36 millim.

8435. Abrostola urentis. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 27.)

Abrostola urentis, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 822 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am;

p. 246. 5

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey; black bars above

frons and between antennz; tarsi blackish ringed with white;

abdomen grey mixed with brown, the crests blackish. Fore wing

brown mixed with grey; subbasal line blackish, from costa to

submedian fold; antemedial lne black defined on inner side by

red-brown, slightly and evenly excurved; orbicular, reniform, and a

spot below the former large, defined by black and with some raised

scales on their edges, the orbicular and spot below it oblique and

open above and below; postmedial line double, indistinct to vein 3,

then the inner line black and the outer red-brown, bent outwards

below costa, then shghtly sinuous to vein 4, then slightly incurved,

some whitish points with dark streaks between them beyond it on

costa; subterminal line grey defined on each side by brown, with

slight double dentate black mark before it below costa and some

black beyond it at apex and above tornus, minutely dentate; a

black terminal line and dark line near base of cilia. Hind wing

with the basal half whitish suffused with brown, the terminal half

dark brown; cilia white with some brown at base; the underside

white irrorated with brown on costal half, the terminal area

suffused with brown except towards tornus, a slight brown dis-

coidal lunule and traces of diffused waved postmedial and sub-

terminal lines.

Hab. Canapa, Renfrew Co. (Grote), 1 3, Nova Scotia

(Redman), 1 9, Manitoba, Winnipeg (Wallis), 2 9, Van-

couver I. (Livingston), 1 3,1 2; U.S.A., south to Distr. of

Columbia, Middle and Central States, 4 ¢, Massachusetts, Beverly,

1 9, New York, Albany (H7l/), 1 3, Trenton Falls (Doubleday),

1 3,1 9 type. Hxp. 30-34 millim.

8436. Abrostola tripartita.

Noctua tripartita, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 414 (1767); Staud. Cat. Lep.

pal. p. 235.

Noctua asclepiadea, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 169. ff. 4, 5 (nee Schiff).

Noctua triplasia, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 269 (nec Linn.).

Noctua urtice, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f.625 (1818); Frr. Neue Beitr.

pl. 287.

Head and thorax black-brown mixed with red-brown and white ;

black bars above frons and between antenne; tegule white edged

with black-brown and with curved black-brown line at middle;

586 NOCTUID&.

palpi, pectus, and legs reddish brown, the tarsi black rmged with

white; abdomen reddish brown with some whitish hair at base,

the crests black-brown. Fore wing dark reddish brown, a patch of

white suffusion on inner area before the antemedial line and the

inner half of terminal area suffused with white; subbasal line

blackish, waved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line

indistinctly double, the inner line brown, the outer black, evenly

excurved ; orbicular, reniform, and a spot below the former large,

defined by black with some raised scales on their edges, the

orbicular and spot below it open above and below, the latter

oblique quadrate; postmedial line double, the inner line black,

shght to vein 3, then strong, the outer brown, slightly bent

outwards below costa, oblique to discal fold, incurved below vein 5

and excurved on inner area, some greyish points with dark streaks

between them beyond it on costa and a white line on inner area;

subterminal line white slightly defined on each side by brown,

with double dentate black mark before it below costa and some

black beyond it at apex, minutely waved; a waved black terminal

line. Hind wing with the basal half whitish suffused with red-

brown, the terminal half red-brown; cilia white with some red-

brown at base; the underside white irrorated with brown, the

terminal area brown, a small brown discoidal lunule.

Hab. Briratn, Leech Coll.; Francr; Germany, Zeller, Frey,

and Leech Colls.; Austria; HunGary; SwitzERLAND; SPAIN,

Castile, Bilbao; N. Ivary, Courmayeur (Hampson); ARMENIA;

Asta Minor, Pontus; W. Turkestan, Tarbagatai; W. SIBERIA,

Altai; E. Srperta, Amurland. wp. 34-38 millim.

Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 160; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 187, pl. 244.

f.1; Hffm. Raup. p. 182, pl. 35. f. 1.

Pale green mixed with whitish on dorsum ; dorsal series of darker

elliptical marks ; subdorsal series of oblique darker streaks; lateral

line white connected on 4th to 6th somites by white lines with the

dorsal area; 11th somite with two dorsal prominences; Ist two

pairs of prolegs smaller. Food-plants: Urtica, Hpilobium, ete.

8-9.

8437. Abrostola asclepiadis.

Noctua asclepiadis, Schiff, Wien. Verz. p. 91 (1776); Hibn. Eur. Schmett.,

Noct. f. 627; Frr. Neue Beitr. pl. 286; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 235.

Abrostola jagowi, Bartel, Iris, xvii. p. 16V (1904).

Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with whitish; black

bars on frons and between antenne; tegule edged with black in

front and at middle; prothorax with pair of small blackish spots ;

palpi, pectus in front, and legs dark brown, the tarsi ringed with

white ; abdomen brown mixed with whitish, the crests blackish.

Fore wing brown glossed with grey, the basal area ochreous tinged

with pink and white with slight dark subbasal marks; antemedial

line double, the outer line black, the inner red-brown, slightly

excurved below costa and evenly excurved below subcostal nervure ;

ABROSTOLA. 587

orbicular, reniform, and a spot below outer edge of former large,

defined by black with some raised scales on their edges and slight

greyish centres; postmedial line double, the inner line brown to

vein 5, then black, the outer red-brown, bent outwards below costa,

then slightly sinuous to vein 5, then incurved and excurved above

inner margin, some greyish points beyond it on costa and a whitish

line on inner area; subterminal line whitish with two slhght black

streaks before it below costa and slight black streaks beyond it on

the veins, minutely dentate; a black terminal line; cilia pale

reddish brown chequered with blackish at tips. Hind wing with

the basal half whitish suffused with brown, the terminal half

brown; cilia white tinged with red-brown; the underside with the

basal area whiter, the costal area tinged with red-brown, a small

brown discoidal lunule.

Ab. 1. yagovt. Fore wing with the basal area not tinged with

pink and without dark marks.—Hngadine.

Hab. France, Sand Coll.; Drnwarxk, Gotland; GERMANY,

Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Austria; HUNGARY; SWITZERLAND,

Zeller Coll., Engadine; N. Iraty; Danmaria; S.W. Russia ;

E. Stperra, Ussuri; Japan. Hap. 36-40 millim.

F pee Kirby, Butt. & Moths Hur. p. 267; Hffm. Raup. p. 182, pl. 34.

Bluish white with numerous black dots and a yellow lateral

stripe; 1st two pairs of prolegs smaller. Food-plant, Cynanchum

vincetoxicum. 5-6.

8438. Abrostola triplasia.

Noctua triplasia, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 517 (1758) ; Esp. Schmett. iv.

pl. 169. ff 1-3 ; Hibn. Eur. Schinett., Noct. f. 626; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. 1.

p- 486, pl. 182. f. 1; Frr. Nene Beitr. pl. 285; Led. Wien. Ent. Mon.

vy. pl. 2. f. 2 (1861); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 239.

Plusia clarissa, Staud. Tris, xii. p. 881 (1899),

Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with ochreous white ;

black bars on frons and between antenne; tegule edged with

black ; prothorax with pair of small black spots; palpi, pectus, and

Fig. 128.—Abrostola triplasia, G. }.

legs dark brown; abdomen dark brown with some ochreous white

at base, the erests blackish. Fore wing brown with a greyish

gloss, the basal area pale reddish brown; antemedial line black

588 NOCTUIDE.

defined on inner side by red-brown, slightly excurved below costa

and evenly excurved below subcostal nervure ; orbicular, reniform,

and a spot below outer edge of former large, defined by black and

with some raised scales on their edges; postmedial line reddish

brown and indistinct to vein 5, then black defined on outer side by

red-brown, strongly bent outwards below costa, then incurved,

excurved above inner margin, some grey points beyond it on costa

and a whitish line on inner area; subterminal line represented by a

series of black points on the veins with slight whitish streaks

before them and three black streaks below costa, and by a blackish

bar defined on inner side by white towards tornus; a fine black

terminal line; cilia with a dark line near base. Hind wing with

the basal half whitish suffused with brown, the terminal half

brown ; cilia white with slight brown spots near base; the under-

side with the basal half whiter, the costal area irrorated with

brown, a slight brown discoidal spot.

Ab. 1. clarissa. Much paler and greyer.—Asia Minor, Syria.

Hab. Brrrain, Leech Coll.; France; GErmany, Zeller, Frey,

and Leech Colls.; Austria, Zeller Coll.; HunGary ; SwItZERLAND,

Frey Coll.; Spain; Iranry; AnGErIA; GREECE; BaLKAN STATEs ;

ScANDINAVIA; Russta, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; ARmEntTA; Astra

Minor, Pontus, Taurus, Antioch, Bythinia; Syria, Mardin ;

W. Sreerta; E. Srperta, Amurland, Ussuri; Japan, Hakodaté,

1 S, Tokio (Maries),1 3,1 2, Oiwaké (Pryer), 1 2, Yokohama

(Pryer), 1 3; W. Cutna, Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 2 3, Pu-tsu-fong,

1 3,1 9, Moupin (Kricheldorf),1 3. Hap. 34-40 milli.

Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 160; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 140, pl. 244.

f. 2: Hffin. Raup. pl. 34. f. 18.

Olive-green or purplish brown; dorsal line pale, interrupted by

pale-edged dark blotches on somites 4, 5 and 11; lateral series of

pale oblique streaks; spiracular line ochreous white; 11th somite

with pair of dorsal prominences ; head pale greyish ochreous

freckled with brown; the Ist two pairs of prolegs smaller. Food-

plants: Urtica, Humulus, Lamium, ete. 7-9.

8439. Abrostola anophioides. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 28.)

Abrostola anophioides, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 148 (1882); Hmpsn. Moths

Ind. ii. p. 577. :

3g. Head and thorax brown mixed with purplish grey ; pectus

ochreous behind; abdomen brown mixed with grey, the lateral

fringes of hair and anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing fuscous brown

tinged with purplish grey, the basal area with an ochreous tinge ;

subbasal line slight, dark, waved, from costa to submedian fold ;

antemedial line black defined on inner side by red-brown, excurved

below costa, then sinuous; orbicular, reniform, and a rounded spot

below the outer edge of former large, defined by black and with

raised scales on their edges ; postmedial line indistinct and reddish

brown to vein 8, then black defined on outer side by red-brown,

strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique and sinuous to

ABROSTOLA. 589

vein 3, then incurved and excurved below submedian fold, some

greyish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, pale

slightly defined on outer side by blackish, minutely dentate, with

three short black streaks before it below costa ; a terminal series

of slight dark lunules. Hind wing with the basal half white, the

veins and inner margin tinged with brown; the terminal half

fuscous brown; the underside with the costal area suffused with

brown, a blackish discoidal spot.

@. Abdomen with the lateral frmges and anal tuft not ochreous;

hind wing with the basal area suffused with brown.

Hab. Sixuim (Magee, Moller), 1 3,19 type. Kxp. S 36,

8440. Abrostola triopis. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 29.)

Abrostola triopis, Wmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 344 (1902).

Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey-white, the vertex

of head and tegule ochreous and red-brown; palpi black-brown,

white in front; pectus black-brown in front; tarsi blackish ringed

with white; abdomen grey-brown with some white hair at base of

sides, the ventral surface white irrorated with brown. Fore wing

grey suffused with dark brown; subbasal line shght, double, red-

brown, curved, from costa to median nervure; antemedial line

double, the inner line red-brown, the outer black, shghtly angled

outwards below costa and incurved at vein 1; orbicular, reniform,

and a spot below outer edge of former large, grey defined by black

with some raised scales on their edges, their centres slightly defined

by brown; postmedial line double, the inner line black, the outer

red-brown, bent outwards and obsolescent below costa, then oblique

and slightly sinuous to vein 3 and excurved above inner margin,

some grey points beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish defined

on each side by rather diffused dark brown, waved; a waved black

terminal line. Hind wing with the basal half white tinged with

brown and with the veins brown, the terminal half dark cupreous

brown ; cilia white slightly tinged with brown; the underside white,

the veins and costal area irrorated with brown, the terminal area

suffused with brown, a small dark discoidal spot and rather diffused

sinuous postmedial line.

Hab. Br. EH. Arrica, Eb Urru (Betton), 3 2; ZuLvuLann,

Tugela R. (Reynolds), 1 9; Navan, Durban (Bowker, Ross,

Innes, Leigh), 1 3, 6 9 type; Care Conony (Drege), 1 9.

Hep, 28-36 millim.

8441. Abrostola abrostolina. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 30.)

Inguridia abrostolina, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 854 (1879).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown; pectus and

hind legs with some grey; tarsi black-brown ringed with whitish;

590 NOCTUID A.

abdomen dark brown tinged with grey. Fore wing dark brown

mixed with red-brown and grey; an indistinct curved greyish

subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line black

defined on inner side by red-brown, slightly angled outwards below

costa, then sinuous and slightly angled inwards on vein 1; orbicular,

renitorm, and a spot below outer edge of former large, grey with

some dark brown in centres, defined by black and with some raised

scales on their edges; postmedial line double, the inner line black,

the outer red-brown, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved

to discal fold, then oblique, some greyish points beyond it on costa ;

subterminal line grey defined on each side by diffused brown.

somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a black terminal

line. Hind wing dark brown with a cupreous ‘gloss ; cilia white,

tinged with brown at apex; the underside with the basal half

whitish suffused with brown, a slight dark discoidal lunule and

curved postmedial line.

Hab. Japan, Oiwaké (Pryer), 1 9, Yokohama (Pryer), 3 3,

5 2 type, Kiushiu, 1 9. Hap. 26-32 millim.

8442. Abrostola canariensis, n. sp. (Plate CCX XXIX. fig. 31.)

3. Head and thorax grey mixed with some blackish, the vertex

of head, tegule, and dorsum of thorax ochreous and rufous; palpi

and pectus in front black-brown; tarsi blackish ringed with white;

abdomen fuscous and grey, some white hair at base of sides, the

crests black, the anal tuft reddish ochreous, the ventral surface

white irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey suffused with brown;

subbasal line slight, black, waved, from costa to vein 1; antemedial

line double, the inner line red-brown with a reddish tinge before it,

the outer black, sinuous; orbicular, reniform, and a spot below

outer edge of former rather small, pale grey defined by black with

some raised scales on their edges, their centres defined by fuscous ;

postmedial line double, the inner line black expanding into a small

spot below vein 2, the outer red-brown, bent outwards and obso-

lescent below costa, then sinuous and somewhat oblique, some grey

points beyond it on costa; an oblique white shade from apex

defined below by fuscous; subterminal line whitish, minutely

waved, somewhat excurved below costa and at middle; a sinuous

black terminal line ; cilia fuscous at tips. Hind wing whitish with

the veins brown ; an oblique brown postmedial line; the terminal

area suffused with brown; cilia white with a brown line through

them ; the underside white, the veins, costal and terminal areas

irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial

line excurved below costa.

Hab. Canartzs, Teneriffe (W. White), 1 3, Sta. Cruz (Wal-

singham), 1 3 type. Hap. 34 millim.

ABROSTOLA.—MOURALIA. 59OL

8443. Abrostola brevipennis. (Plate CCXX XIX. fig. 32.)

Aylina brevipennis, Wik. xv. 1734 (1858).

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous and some dark

brown ; tegule with black bars at middle; palpi blackish at sides ;

legs with blackish mixed, the tarsi black ringed with whitish ;

abdomen ochreous brown, the basal crest black. Fore wing red-

brown with an ochreous tinge, suffused in parts with fuscous ;

antemedial line double, the inner line red-brown with some blackish

suffusion before it, the outer fine, black, excurved and slightly

waved, some black beyond it in submedian interspace ; orbicular

and reniform large, incompletely defined by black and with some

raised scales on their edges, some fuscous in centre of former and

inner part of latter ; the spot below the cell defined by three poimts

of raised black sonlee: some blackish suffusion on medial part of

costa and between the stigmata; postmedial line very mdistinct

to vein 3, then fine, black, sinuous, strongly bent outwards below

costa, then somewhat dentate to vein 3, the costa beyond it with

ochreous points with black streaks between them; an oblique

ochreous fascia from apex defined below by diffused blackish,

continued as a slightly curved shade to above inner margin beyond

the postmedial line, with shght black spots on the veins at middle

and two short black streaks below apex; a fine waved black

terminal line. Hind wing with the basal half whitish tinged with

brown and with the veins brown, the terminal half brown with a

eupreous gloss; cilia whitish, brown at base except towards tornus;

the underside with the basal half white irrorated and suffused with

brown, a brown discoidal bar and rather diffused postmedial line

excurved below costa. —

Ab. 1. Fore wing more uniformly suffused with fuscous.

Hab. Br. KE. Arrica, Eb Urru (Betton), 1 2, E. Quaso

(Betton), 1 9, Munisu (Ld. Delamere), 1 3, Nairobi (Anderson),

24; Transvaat, White R. (Cooke), 1 ¢, Narat, Victoria Distr.

(Gooch), 1 3, Durban (Gueinzius, Clark), 13,19 type. Evp.

28-86 millim.

Genus MOURALIA. eae

Mowunavian Wlkoy~ S03) (S58) eaassseeeseaseea eee se seieee eerie tinctoules.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex

of head and moderately scaled, the drd long; frons smooth, with tuft of hair

above; eyes large, round, overhung by long cilia; antennee of male ciliated ;

thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, the pro- and metathorax with

spreading crests; tibiz moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal

series of small crests. Fore wing with the costa arched towards apex which

is somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved, 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; small tufts of raised scales in and

below the cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from Bnet of cell; 5 fully developed

from well above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell

near base only.

592 NOCTUID ©.

8444. Mouralia tinctoides.

Abrostola tinctoides, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 323 (1852).

Mouralia annulifera, Wik. xv. 1803 (1858); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am.,

Het. ii. p. 462, pl. 91. f. 10.

Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown, the patagia

and sides of metathorax grey mixed with dark brown ; pectus and

legs brownish grey, the hind tibie with diffused blackish band, the

tarsi banded blackish and whitish ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal

tuft and ventral surface whitish mixed with brown. Fore wing

fuscous mixed with grey-white ; a pale brown patch on basal costal

area; antemedial line double, black, the inner line indistinct, filled

in with purple-brown and with some purple-brown beyond it, sightly

bent inwards to costa and inner margin; orbicular, reniform, and a

Fig, 129.— Mowralia tinctoides, $. +.

spot below the cell just beyond the former large, rounded, defined

by black with shght tufts of raised scales on their edges, their

centres grey slightly defined by fuscous; postmedial line black,

strongly bent outwards below costa and oblique to below vein 7,

then incurved, excurved double and filled in with whitish below

submedian fold, some purple-brown before and beyond it except

towards costa and inner margin, some whitish points beyond it on

costa; subterminal line whitish defined on outer side by fuscous

and with purplish fuscous suffusion before it except below vein 3,

slightly waved, with black streaks before and beyond it above

veins 7, 6; a waved black terminal line; cilia greyish with a waved

fuscous line through them. Hind wing fuscous brown with a

cupreous tinge, the interspaces of basal half whitish; cila white,

tinged with brown at base; the underside with the costal area

brown irrorated with grey to beyond middle, a slight discoidal

lunule.

Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 9, Godman-Salvin Coll. ;

Harri (Lweedie), 1 3 type annulifera; Brazin, Neue Fribureg ;

S. Perv, Uruhuasi (Watkins), 1 2; ArcEentrna, Buenos Ayres

(Wilkinson), 19. Hxp. 44 millim.

EPISEMA. 593

Genus EPISEMA.

Episema, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p.65 (1816), non descr. ; Type.

MreitySchmetiqbiuns ver Cs) pple (US2o) eee seer eeeseeeees ceruleocephala.

Diloba, Boisd. Ind. Meth, p. 88 (1840) .........:..ccseeeeeeees ceruleocephala.

Proboscis aborted, small; palpi porrect, the 2nd joint extending to just

beyond the fronsand fringed with long hair above and below, the 3rd moderate;

frons smooth, with large tuft of hair; eyes large, round, overhung by long

cilia; antenns of male bipectinate to apex with rather long branches, of

female minutely serrate, with tufts of hair from basal joint and between and

behind their bases; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the prothorax

with slight crest, the metathorax with large crest; tibie and the tarsal joints

fringed with long hair; abdomen with ridges of hair and lateral tufts of hair

but without distinct crests, the anal tuft in female large. 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 the cell about half the

length of wing; vein 3 from before angle; 5 fully developed from above

angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

8445. Episema ceruleocephala.

Bombyx ceruleocephala, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x p. 504 (1758); Esp.

Schmett. iii. pl. 58. ff. 1-4; Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Bomb. f. 196; Dup.

Lép. Fr. vi. p. 187, pl. 85. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 168.

Diloba armena, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur. ii. p. 76 (1871).

Diloba bipartita, Str.nd, Arch. Natury. Christian, xxv. no. 9, p. 12

(1903).

Diloba orbimaculata, Strand. Arch. Naturv. Christian. xxv. no. 9, p. 12

(1903).

Diloba separata, Schultz, Soc. Ent. xxii. 52 (1907).

Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey-white; tegule

red-brown, the tips white with some dark brown before them;

Fig. 130.—Hpisema ceruleocephala, $. }.

antennze with the shaft whitish; abdomen reddish brown, the anal

tuft with some grey. Fore wing purplish red-brown tinged with

grey, the medial area rather darker, the base and terminal area

VOL. XIII. . 2Q

594: NOCTUID&.

ereyer; a dark brown streak above base of vein 1 and a streak on

inner margin except towards base ; antemedial line dark brown,

strongly excurved below costa and submedian fold and slightly

ineurved at vein 1; orbicular and reniform white: with greenish

blue centres, the former conjoined to a similar spot below the cell

and forming a figure-of-eight-shaped mark, also connected with

the reniform which is connected with the costa by a white patch;

postmedial line dark brown, strongly bent outwards below costa,

then double and slightly oblique to vein 4, then single, very

oblique, and waved, some white strize with dark streaks between

them beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish, waved, angled

outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3; a waved dark brown terminal line;

cilia grey intersected with dark brown at the veins. Hind wing

white tinged and irrorated with brown especially in female, the

veins and a discoidal spot brown; a chocolate-brown streak in

extremity of submedian fold and on the cilia beyond it; the

underside with the discoidal spot more distinct, a postmedial line

excurved to vein 5, then obliquely incurved.

Ab. 1. armena. Paler, the fore wing grey.

Ab. 2. bipartita. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform

separate.

Ab. 3. orbimaculata. Fore wing with a small round white mark

before the orbicular.

Hab. Briraty, Leech Coll., Ireland (Salvage); France;

GERMANY, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Austria; Huneary ;

SWITZERLAND; Ivary; Marra (B.-Pletcher); Greece; BaLkan

STATES; SCANDINAY TA; Russta, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; ARMENTA ;

ASTA Mryor, Pontus ; Syrta. Exp. 38-46 millim.

Larva. Meyr. Lep. Brit. p. 56; Barrett, Brit. Lep. iii. p. 177, pl. 115. f.2

Blue-grey; dorsal line yellow, interrupted; spiracular line yellow;

warts lacks Food-plants, Hawthorn and Blackthorn. 4-6.

SPECIES OMITTED. =

Plusia dispellens, Wik. xxxill. 838 (1865). Type lost.. Ceylon.

hildebranti, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 892 (1891).

Madagascar.

» tncompta, Wlk. Char. Undeser. Het. p. 40 (1869).

Tvieylosiay enc: poe Jalelos sean,

incrassata, Herr. Schiff. “Corresp.. -blatt. zool.-min. Ver.

Regensb. xxi. p. 184 (1868). P = ae bimacu-

Tee soc. ie) @ulbas

litterata, Pag. Jahrb. Nass. Ver. xl. p. 137 (1888).

Amboina.

melanocephala, Moschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxiii.

p. 297, pl. xvi. f.11 (1884). ? = Phytometra lambinena

Cape Colony.

modesta, W\k. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 40 es Type

lost.. aie ake dohotapeie ogee seen tve gene ~) Benue

temper ata, “Wik. Char. Undescr. Het. p: AL (1869).

_ MPype losb: Vines vedo oe ten ee aae ene ee ela ear ora

ALPHABETICAL INDEX,

[Synonyms are printed in é¢adics. |

abeluxalis (Hormisa),

108.

abeona (Plusia), 436.

ablusa (Phytometra),

475.

ablusa (Plusia), 475.

Abrostola, 582.

abrostolina (Abrostola),

589.

abrostolina (Inguridia),

589.

abrostoloides (Plusidia),

450

abrota (Phytometra),

493.

abrota (Plusia), 493.

abscisa (Safia), 194.

abscondens (Caenipeta),

254.

abscondens (Hypogram-

modes), 204.

Acanthodelta, 12.

acatharta (Eleeodes),

307.

accentifera (Phytometra),

492,

accentifera (Plusia), 492.

acharia (Noctua), 195.

acharia (Safia), 193.

acronyctuides (Audela),

367.

acronyctoides (Diph-

thera), 367.

acrosticta (Pericyma),

318.

acuta (Baratha), 84.

acuta (Phytometra), 499,

acuta (Plusia), 499.

acutaria (Ligia), 114.

acutata (Trigonodes), 27.

adjuncta (Plusia), 484.

admonens (Phytometra),

520.

admonens (Plusia), 520.

adrasta (Plusia), 438.

adrasta (Plusiopalpa),

438.

adscripta (Plusia), 517.

adusta (Cenurgia), 68.

adusta (Poaphila), 68.

adversa (Litosea), 69.

emona (Homoptera), 208,

209.

emula (Noctua), 430,

054.

zmula (Phytometra),

odd.

senea (Safia), 335.

zeneofusa (Phytometra),

459.

@ncofusa (Plusia), 459.

golia (Cenipeta), 256.

zolia (Hypogrammodes),

256.

@rea (Noctua), 575.

zrea (Phytomtra), 575.

zreoides (Phytometra),

a72.

ereoides (Plusia), 572.

erifera (Noctua), 576.

@eruginosa (Ypsia), 229,

zruginosa (Zale). 229,

agnata (Plusia), 484,

Agnomonia, 151.

agonia (Parachalciope),

agrammma (Plusia), 573.

Agrapha, 452.

agrapta (Phurys), 108.

agricola (Drasteria), 71.

agualaniata(Phytometra),

516,

agualaniata (Plusia),

516.

ain (Noctua), 414.

ain (Syngrapha), 414.

ainu (Moma), 379.

alaica (Plusia), 408.

Alamis, 297.

albavitta (Autographa),

570.

albavitta (Phytometra),

570

albicincta (Alamis), 301.

albidens (Mepa), 298.

albidens (Pericyma), 298,

309

albidentaria (Acidalia),

309.

albidentaria (Pericyma),

albidiscata (Lichnoptera),

392.

albidiscata (Panthea),

392.

albidiscata (Safia), 192.

albidiscata (Yrias), 192.

albidula (Homoptera),

2277.

albidula (Zale), 227.

albifissa (Chalctope), 36.

albiflos (Homoptera

333.

albiplaga (Trisuloides)

344,

albitessellata (Trisu-

loides), 348.

albizona (Noctua), 161.

albizona (Ramphia), 161.

albofasciata (Homoptera),

234.

albopunctella (Cutina),

157.

2q2

albostriata (Bhytometra),

496.

albostriata (Plusia), 496.

aleyona (uclidisema),

43,

alcyona (Grammodes),

43.

alepica (Plusia), 538.

algirie (Cerocala), 279.

alias (Autographa), 424,

alias (Syngrapha), 424.

alipes (Remigia), 79.

altera (Autographa), 429.

altera (Syngrapha), 429.

alterna (Huclidia), 95.

alterna (Mocis), 95.

alterna (Plusia), 570.

alticola (Caloplusia), 407.

alticola (Plusia), 407.

alvina (Moeis), 132.

alypophanes (Remigia),

144.

amabilis (Ophisma), 334.

anarygma (Ramphia),

161.

anata (Homoptera), 188,

219

amata (Safia), 188.

amazonica (Laceru), 180.

amazonica (Safia), 180.

amella (Campometra),

188.

‘amella (Safia), 188.

amideta (Anua), 335.

ammonia (Phalena), 18.

ampla (Phytometra),

570.

ampla (Plusia), 570.

amplissima (Poaphila),

118, 126.

amurica (Plusia), 535,

Anacronicta, 339.

anargyra (Plusia), 475.

ancora (Noctua), 539.

anda (Phytometra), 550.

anda (Plusia), 550.

anfractuosa (Ophiusa),

27:

angolensis (Chalciope),

833.

angulidens (Plusia), 427.

angulidens (Syngrapha),

427.

angulosa (Huclidia), 54.

angulum (Phytometra),

471.

angulum (Plusia), 471.

anilis . (Argyrostrotis),

anilis (Noctua), 156.

Anisoneura, 260.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

annetta (Moeis), 192.

annetta (Remigia), 102.

annexa (Muclidia), 48.

annexa (Huclidimera),

annulifera (Mouralia),

592.

Anophiodes, 332.

anophioides (Abrostola),

588.

Anthracia, 207.

antica (Homoptera), 303.

antillesia (Mocis), 79.

Anydrophila, 264.

aperta (Homoptera), 183.

aperta (Safia), 185.

aquamarina (Huelidia),

arachnoides

metra), 558.

arachnoides (Plusia),

558.

aranea (Phytometra),

559.

aranea (Plusia), 559.

arhosi (Gaujonia), 386.

arbosioides (Gaujonia),

386.

archesia (Phalena), 91.

arctica (Autographa),

426.

arctica (Synerapha), 426,

arcuata (Nymbis), 116.

arcuata (Phurys), 116.

arenosa (Clytie), 294.

arenosa (Grammodes),

argenteo-guitata (Plusia),

517.

(Phyto-

argentifera(Phytometra),

489.

argentifera (Plusia), 489.

argyritis (Noctua), 444.

argyrodonta (Phyta-

meira), 055.

argyrodonta (Plusia),

555.

argyrosigna (Phyto-

metra), 515.

argyrosigna ~ (Piusia),

515

Argyrostrotis, 151.

armena (Diloba), 593.

artica (Plusta), 432.

asclepiadea (Noctua), 585.

asclepiadis (Abrostola),

586.

asclepiadis (Noctua), 586.

asseverans (Phurys), 108.

- associata (Remigia), 91.

atrata (Plusia), 410.

atrifrons (Lichnoptera),

OUT.

atrifusa (Homoptera),

B05.

atrifusa (Pericyma), 305.

atritincta (Homoptera),

229.

Attatha, 8.

Audela, 365.

augusta (Phytometra),

augusta (Plusia), 562.

aurantiaca (Huchidia), 53.

aurantiaca (Omorphina),

403.

aurata (Chrysoptera),

444

aurata (Plusta), 444.

aurea (Noctua), 571.

aurea (Plusia), 578.

aurifera (Noctua), 580.

auruuia (Mocis), 152.

aurosignata (Phalena),

australis (Zale), 237.

Autographa, 404.

Avatha, 68.

azteca (Hudrecia), 163.

azteca (Safidia), 163.

baboont (Plusia), 473.

bahamica (Mocis), 81.

balluca (Dyachrysia),

577.

balluca (Phytometra),

- O77.

balnearia (Cortyta), 317.

balnearia (Polydesma),

ol7,

baltica (Plusia), 535.

barata (Safia), 195.

barata (Vrias), 195.

Baratha, 76.

bartholomeii (Plusia),

535.

basicincta (Brujas), 161.

basigera (Phytowetra),

486.

basigera (Plusia), 486.

basilans (Phurys) 108.

basileuca (Poaphila), 121.

Bathyra, 382.

beckeri (Piusia), 565.

bella (Phytometra), 545,

bella (Plusia), 545.

belliert (Plusia), 567.

~ benenotata (Hypoglau-

citis), 288.

benenotata (Pandesina),

288,

benesignata (Homoptera),

238.

benesignata (Zale), 238.

bengalensis (Noctua),

484.

benitensis (Grammodes),

benitensis (Parachal-

ci pe), 37.

beta (Leucanitis), 284.

bethunet (Pheocyma),

240.

bethunei (Zale), 240.

bidens (Safia), 199.

bidens (Xylis), 199.

biett (Plusia), 575.

bifusciata (Celiptera),

110.

bifasciata (Noctua), 19.

bifusciata (Remigia),

Oil

biyutta (Nymbis), 128,

biguita (Phurys), 128.

bigutta (Plusia), 514.

biloba (Phytometra), 512.

biloba (Plusia), 512,

bimaculata (Phytometra),

590, 594.

bimaculata (Plusia), 530.

binaria (Parachalciope),

36.

binaria (Trigonodes), 36.

binotula (Plusia), 522.

bipartita (Diloba), 593.

bipartiia (Phy tometra),

482.

bipartita (Plusia), 482.

bipunctata (Focillidia),

149

bipunctata ( Thermesia),

149.

bisinuata (Huclidisema),

41.

bisinuata (Gramimodes),

bistrialis (Agriphila),

114.

bistrialis (Doryodes),

114.

bistriga (Phurys), 109.

bistrigata (Phurys), 111.

bistrigata (Ptichodes),

111.

boisdeffrei (Grammodes),

24.

boisdeffrer (Ophiusa), 24.

bonaerensis (Phyto-

metra), 511.

bonaerensis « Plusia), 511.

_ borea (Plusia), 416.

borealis (Plusia), 431.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

brachychaleea (Phyto-

metra), 481.

bractea (Noctua), 551.

bractea (Phytometra),

551.

bractea (Plusia), 552.

brassice (Phytometra),

467.

brassice (Plusia), 467.

brevicornis (Hlaodes),

358.

brevicornis (Xanthia),

358.

brevipennis (Abrostola),

591.

brevipennis(Homoptera),

brevipennis (Xylina),

591.

bruma (Safia), 185.

brunca (Safia), 173.

brunca (Yrias), 173.

bucetum (Argyrostrotis),

152:

bucetum ( Celiptera), 152.

buchholzi ( Plusia), 484,

buretica (Plusia), 534.

cabylaria (Leucanitis),

280.

cades (Safia), 205.

cades (Selents), 208.

ceca (Grammodes), 17.

cxlata (Cerocala), 268,

Crnurgia, 69.

cerulea (Drasteria), 49,

exrulea (Huclidimera),

ceruleocephala (Bombyz),

593

cxruleocephala (Epi-

sema), 593.

calberle (Plusia), 565.

c-album (Tambana), 356.

c-album (Trisuloides),

396.

calceolaris (Phytometra),

490,

colceolaris (Plusia), 490.

calida ( Chaleiope), 142.

californica (Phytometra),

540.

californica (Plusia), 540.

caliginea (Aplectoides),

352.

caliginea (Trisuloides),

392,

Calocasia, 360.

Caloplusia, 405

calycanthata (Phalena),

246,

597

ealycanthata (Zale), 24

Calyptis, 138.

caminata (Campometra),

186.

caininata (Safia), 186.

campanilis (Plurys),

112.

Cunpometra, 165.

camptogamma (Plusio-

palpa), 438.

camptogamma

chrysia), 438.

camptesema (Phyto-

metra), 523.

canariensis (Abrestola),

590.

candida ( Celiptera), 128.

candida (Nymbis), 128.

canescens (Cortyta), 321.

carolina (Phurys), 113.

cashinirensis (Huchalcia),

567.

cashmirensis

metra), 567.

Catephiodes, 332.

catocalina (Tambana),

(Poly-

(Phyto-

eatocalina ee)

42, 346.

eee il,

caudata (Phytometra),

489

caudata (Plusia), 489.

Cauninda, 76.

c-aureuin (Chrysoptera),

442,

c-aureum (Phalena), 442.

cavillator (Dipktera), 391.

cavillator (Lichnoptera),

391.

cavillator (Panthea), 393.

cebese (Phytometra), 495.

cebeana (Phytometra),

ae);

celia (Phalena), 184.

celia (Safia), 184.

Celiptera, 130.

celsa (Plusia), 422.

celsa (Syngrapha), 429

cephise (Chalciope), 30.

cephise (Noctua), 30.

Cerveala, 268.

certa (Plusia), 406,

chalcedona (Phytometra),

464. ;

chalcedona (Plusia), 464.

Chaleiope, 26.

chalciptera (Noctua), 19.

chaleopasta (Phyto-

inetra), 456.

chalcopasta (Plusia), 496.

598

chalcytes (Noctua), 484.

chalcytes (Phytometra),

484,

chalcytis (Noctua), 484.

chalsytis (Plusia), 515.

chalybeata (Safia), 190.

champa (Moma), 378.

champa ab. diffusa

- (Moma), 378.

champa var.

(Moma), 379.

Charadra, 371.

chavannesi (Bathyra),

384.

chavannesi (Panthea),

384.

cheiranthi (Noctua), 450.

cheiranthi (Plusidia),

450.

chilensis (Plusia), 434.

chillagoes (Plusia), 460.

chionosticta (Gono-

dontodes), 146.

christophi (Leucanitis),

283.

Chrysaspidia, 452.

chrysitina (Noctua), 580.

chrysitis (Noctua), 578.

chrysitis (Phytometra),

578.

Chrysodeiais, 452.

chrysomelas (Noctua),

554.

chryson (Noctua), 571,

576. ;

chryson (Phytometra),

576

ainu

Chrysoptera, 439.

chrysostigma {Omor-

phina), 403.

ciliaris (Plusia), 477.

cilipes (Dugaria), 309.

cinerea (Homoptera), 232,

333.

cingularis (Noctua), 21.

cingulifera (Homoptera),

246

cingulifera (Zale), 246.

circulifera (Acronycta),

373.

circumflexa (Noctua), 432,

514.

circumflexa (Syngrapha),

432.

circumscripta (Phyto-

metra), 465.

cimcwmscripta

465.

elarei (Phytometra). 528.

clarci (Plusia), 528.

(Plusia),

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

clarissa (Plusia), 587.

clementi (Grammodes),

16.

Clytie, 289.

coactilis (Phurys), 121.

codo (Celiptera), 137,

339

cenobita (Bombyx), 366.

cceenobita (Diphthera),

366.

ccenochroa (Safia), 173.

cerulea (Trisuloides),

343.

ceruleotineta (Safia),

196.

coherens (Plusia), 484.

Colbusa, 11.

collata (Remigia), 84.

collateralis (Plusia), 494.

colorado (Pheocyma),

245.

colorado (Zale), 245,

cometephora (Celiptera),

comma (Plusia), 469.

commidendri( Habrostola),

557.

compar (Trigonodes), 28.

complacens (Hypetra),

63.

complens (Hypextra), 59.

concha (Noctua), 442.

conjigurata (Homoptera),

219.

configurata (Zale), 219.

confusa (Hypogramma),

confusa (Hypogram-

modes), 255.

confusa (Phytometra),

confusa (Plusia), 473,

514.

congenita (Grammodes),

18.

consona (Noctua), 569.

consona (Phytometra),

569.

consors (Euelidia), 52.

conspicua (Drasteria), 48.

contempta (Argvro-

strotis), 155.

contempta (Poaphiia),

155.

contexta (Phytometra)>

510.

contexta (Plusia), 510.

contigua (Charadra),

373.

continua (Alamis), 801.

continua (Phurys), 335.

contraria (Cerocala),

278.

contraria (Poaphila),

278.

convalescens (Czenurgia),

67.

convalescens (Drasteria),

67, 68.

conveniens (Remigia), 84.

cooma (Grammodes), 20.

copiola (Mocis), 126.

copiola (Nymbis), 126.

coracias (Anthracia), 232.

coracias (Zale), 232.

cornelia (Acronicta), 345.

cornelia (Trisulvides),

345.

cornix (Anthracia), 232.

cornucopie (Plusia), 557.

Cortyta, 312.

corusca (Phytometra),

529.

corusca (Plusia), 529.

corvus (Pseudanthracia),

23).

corvus (Zale), 231.

coryli (Bombyx), 361.

coryli (Calocasia), 361.

costifera (Homoptera),

333.

crassipalpus (Plusia),

On. :

crassiuscula (Czenurgia),

73.

crasstuscula

metra), 73.

crespula (Yrias), 535.

crestonion (Grammodes),

44,

Crochiphora, 108.

Cropia, 384.

cruegert (Homoptera),

99)

(Phyto-

cruegeri (Pericyma), 299.

cubana (Mocis), 80.

culta (Plusia), 522.

cumanita (Chalciope), 33.

cumamita (Cuneisigna),

38.

Cuneisigna, 31.

cuprea (Noctua), 563,

564.

cupreomicans (Phiyto-

metra), 464.

cupreomivans (Plusta),

464.

curema (Pheocyma), 289.

curema (Zale), 259.

curvifera (Hypetra), 63.

curvilinea (Grammodes),

22.

cuspidea (DPrastcria), 51,

cuspidea (Huclidia), 52.

cuspidea (Gonospileia),

Gutinat 157.

Cy mosafia, 158.

dalei (Phytometra), 521.

dalet (Plusia), 621.

dasynota (Acheu), 252.

dasynota (Lolnaodes),

252.

daubei (Phytometra),

477.

daubet (Plusia), 432,

ATT.

deawrata (Noctua), 571.

deaurata (Phytometra),

o7vl.

decessa (Homoptera), 198,

194, 206.

decessa (Safia), 193.

declarans (Homoptera),

227.

declarans (Zale), 227.

decora (Charadra), 389.

decora (Lichnoptera),

389.

deleta

155.

deleta (Poaphila), 155.

deliana (Phalena), 27.

delineosa (Homoptera),

305.

delinguens (Ophiusa), 84.

delta (Euclidisema), 4+.

delta (Ophiusa), 44.

deltifera (Parachalciope),

(Argyrosiotis),

delunaris (Clytie), 296.

delunaris (Pseudophia),

296.

Demas, 360.

demera (Placonia), 169.

demera (Safia), 169.

demonstrans (hemigia),

93.

dentata (Huclidia), 52.

dentata (Gonospileia), 52.

dentifera (Chalciope), 36.

dentilinea (Phurys), 127.

depauperata (Plusia),

410

deridens (Charadra), 373.

deridens ( Diphtera), 373.

detersa (Homoptera), 507.

detersa (Perivyima), 307.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

detersa (Remigia), 84.

detrusa (Plusia), 410.

devergens (Caloplusia),

407.

devergens (Noctua), 407.

devia (Clytie), 290.

devia (Pandesma), 290.

Diachrysia, 452.

diagonalis (Cznurgia),

71.

diagonalis (Euclidia), 71.

diagramma (Ophiusa),

dod.

diapera (Cortyta), 314.

diasema (Autographa),

416.

diasema (Plusia), 416.

diasema (Syngrapha),

416.

dichora (Plusiopalpa),

438.

diffluens (Mocis), 86.

diffluens (femigia), 81,

84, 86, 127.

diffundens (Argyros-

trotis), 153.

diffundens (Hypetra), 91.

diffundens ( Mocis), 153.

digona (Ophiusa), 334.

Diloba, 593.

dimera ( Celiptera), 130,

dimera (Nymbis), 130,

diminuta Plusia), 491.

dinawa (Plusia), 484.

diodonta (Safia), 198.

Diphtera, 369.

Diphthera, 365.

Diplocyma (Mocis), 101.

discios (Mocis), 104.

discios (Ophiusa), 10+.

discisigna (Homoptera),

208.

discisigna (Zale), 208.

discissa (Remigia), 136.

discolor (Hypeetra), 63.

discolor (Noctua), 53.

discrepans (Remigia), 95.

disjuncta (Chalciope), 26.

disjuncta (Homoptera),

309.

disjuncta (Plusia), 578.

dispar (Cortyta), 315.

dispar (Gonodontodes),

147.

dispar (Noctwa), 147.

dispar (Pericyma), 315.

dispellens (Plusia), 594.

dispulsa (Charadra),

376.

disseverans (Mocis), 83.

599

disseverans (Remigia),

dissocians (Phurys), 126.

dissocians (Poaphila),

110.

distalagma (Phytometra),

480.

disticta (Phytometra),

560.

distilla (Campometra),

188.

distincta (Cenurgia), 74.

distincta (Clytie), 293.

distincta (Drasteria), 74.

distincta (DPseudophia),

293.

distriga (Acanthodelta),

13.

ditrigona (Chalciope),

39.

divaricata (Homoptera),

203.

divaricata (Safia), 203.

divergens (Noctua), 408.

dives (Phytometra), 526.

dives (Plusia), 526.

dividaa (Poaphila), 335.

divisa (Hypeetra), 334.

divisa (Themma), 115.

dohertyt (Pterocheta), 60.

dolosa (Mocis), 95.

dolosa (Plecoptera), 95.

dorfmeisteri (Phyto-

metra), 467.

dorfimeistert (Plusia),

467.

dorsiflava (Phytometra),

561.

dorsiflava (Plusia), 561.

Doryodes, 113.

dulitans (Huclidia), 23.

dudgeoni (Phytometra),

544.

Dugaria, 297.

dukinfieldia (Homoptera),

232.

duplicata

240.

duplicata (Zale), 240.

durfa (Achaea), 333.

dyari (Euclidia), 70.

dyaus ' Plusia), 522.

(Homoptera),

echinocystis (Plusia\, 467.

edusa (Homoptera), 214,

edusa (Noctua), 223.

edusina (Homoptera), 229,

edusina (Zale), 229.

egena (Plusia), 435.

600

egena (Syngrapha), 435.

egenella (Plusia), 436.

egenella (Syngrapha),

Aé

ekeiket (Plusia), 482.

Eleeodes, 356.

electa (Calocasia), 363.

electa (Demas), 363.

electaria (Doryodes), T7.

electaria (Mocis), 77.

elongatus (Litomitus),

136.

Elydnodes, 399.

emathion (Euclidisema),

emathion (Grammodes),

43.

emichi

561.

emichi (Plusia), 561.

eminens (Safia), 204.

endomelas (Safia), 168.

Enmonodia, 334.

entoxantha (Moma), 319.

entoxantha (Trisuloides),

349.

Hosphoropteryx, 446.

Epicausis, 337.

epigea (Plusia), 421.

epigea (Syngrapha), 421.

Episema, 593.

epsilon (Plusia), 425.

equatorialis (Sypna), 249.

equatorialis (Sypnoides),

249

(Phytometra),

erasa (Argyrostrotis),

154

erasa (Poaphila), 154.

_/frcheia, 332.V

/Erebus, 331. yA

erechtea (Czenurgia), 71.

erechtea (Phalena), 71.

erecta (Chalciope), 41.

erecta (Euclidisema), 41.

eremochroa (Cortyta),

318. .

eremochroa (Homoptera),

318.

erichto (Drasteria), 73.

eriosoma (Plusia), 484.

erubescens (Poapluia),

335.

escondida (Mocis), 101.

escondida (Phurys), 101.

esculeata (Ophisma), 354.

esmeralda (Plusia), 444.

ethiopica (Attatha), 10.

ethiopica (Hypetra),

Eubolina, 324,

Huchaicia, 452.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

Huclidia, 50.

euclidica (Colbusa), 11.

euclidicola (Fodina), 35.

euclidicola (Parachal-

ciope), 05.

Huclidimera, 45.

euclidioides (Gram-

modes), 23.

Buclidisema, 40.

eugenia (Plusia), 450.

eugrapha (Phytometra),

474.

eversmannt (Plusia), 567.

evinga (Ramphia), 161.

exarata (Polydesma), 310.

excellens (Gramimodes’,

15.

excellens (Homoptera),

235.

excellens (Zale), 235.

excelsa (Autographa),

427.

excelsa (Phytometra),

553.

excelsa, (Plusia), 553.

excelsa (Syngrapha),

27.

exclusiva (Grammodes),

exhausia (Homoptera),

DNB}, NG), ZA

exhausta (Zale), 213.

expectans (Achea), 63.

explanata (Huelidia), 46.

exportata (Trigonodes),

exquisita. (Phytometra),

547.

exquisita (Plusia), 547.

exscindens (Remigia), 84.

extrahens (Plusia), 468.

extrema (Huclidia), 46.

falcifera (Plusia), 419.

falcifera (Syngrapha),

419.

_falcigera (Plusia), 419.

Jascialis (Noctua), 53.

fasciolata (Cortyta), 316.

Jjasciolata (Pericyma),

O15.

feisthameli (Plusia), 436.

feisthameli (Syngrapha), -

436

felina (Lichnoptera), 389,

390, 391.

Feronia (Cenipeta), 256.

feronia (Hypogram-

modes), 206.

festata (Phytometra),

508.

JSestata (Plusia), 508.

Sestuce (Noctua), 507.

festucze (Phytometra),

507.

fictilis (Homoptera), 216.

fictilis (Zale), 216.

figurata (Poaphila), 335.

flagellum (Phytometra),

541.

flagellum (Plusia), 541.

flavago (Noctua), 444.

flavala (Acronycta), 350.

flavala (Trisuloides), 350.

flavicornis (Calocasia),

362.

lavicornis (Demas), 362.

finvistriaria (Crochi-

phora), 112.

flavistriaria

112:

flexa (Nymbis), 127.

flexa (Phurys), 127.

florina (Pbytometra),

579.

lorina (Plusia), 579.

fluctwaris (Noctua), 223.

focillatrix (Homoptera),

333.

Focillidia, 148.

formosa (Abrostola), 583.

formosa (Leptina), 583.

fortalitium (Czenurgia),

(Phurys),

Sortalitium (Noctua), 66.

fortatilium (Noctua), 66.

JSortificata (Noctua), 53.

fracta (Phytometra), 459.

fracta (Plusia), 459.

Jratella (Plusia), 542.

fraxini (Catocala), 330.

fraxini ab. sternecki

(Catocala), 3309.

Srontalis (Ophiusa), 63.

frugalis (Mocis), 87.

Jrugalis (Noctua), 87.

frustulum (Celiptera),

136.

fuliginosa (Homoptera),

220,

fuliginosa (Zale), 220.

Sumata (Euclidia), 58.

Jumifera (Plusia), +10,

578.

furcifera (Mecodina), 35.

furcifera (Phytometra),

473.

furcifera (Plusia), 473.

furcilla (Diphthera),

368.

furcilla (Platycerura),

368.

Fuscilineata (Celiptera),

119

fuscilineata (Nymbis),

iG),

fuscipalpis (Poaphila),

330.

Juscipennis (Tambana),

393.

Jutilis (Huclidia), 48.

futilis (Huclidimera), 48.

galactea (Zale), 215.

galbanata (Homoptera),

228.

galbanata (Zale), 228.

gamma (Noctua), 538.

gamma (Phytometra), -

538.

gamma (Plusia), 472,

539.

gammaloba

inetra), 463.

ganmaloba (Plusia), 463.

gammina (Plusia), 538.

Sees (Plusia), 434,

534.

(Phyto-

gammoides (Syngrapha),

434.

garnoti (Nymbis), 123.

garnoti (Phurys), 1238.

Gaujonia, 389.

geminipuncta

metra), 520.

geminipuncta (Plusia),

520

(Phyto-

generosa (Phytometra),

566.

generosa (Plusia), 566.

gentilis (Pseudophia),

297.

gentilitia (Ophiusa), 294.

geometrica (Grammodes),

18.

geometrica (Noctua), 18.

gerda (Pbytometra), 455.

gerda (Plusia), 455.

gigantea (Diphthera),

369.

gigantea (Platycerura),

369.

glans (Phurys), 112.

glauca (Hypogram-

modes), 258.

glauca (Noctua), 258.

glauca (Trisuloides), 354.

glaucinans (Alamis), 308.

claucinans (Pericyma),

303.

glaucofascta (Cropia), 59.

glaucoides (Canipeta),

299.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX,

glaucoides (Hypogram-

modes), 259.

glyphica (Gonoapileia),-

52,

glyphica (Noctua), 52.

Gnamptonyx, 286.

Gonodontodes, 146.

Genospileia, 50.

gorilla (Phytometra),

497.

gorilla (Plusia), 497.

gracilis (Moma), 391.

gracilis (Lseudophia),

291.

gradata (Homoptera),

216.

Grammodes, 13.

grammoides (Plusia),

5384.

graphica (Plusia), 432.

grata (Zale), 218.

gratiosa (Homoptera),

308.

gregais (Remigia), 91.

grenadensis (Focillidia),

150.

grisea (Cortvta), 322.

grisea (Diphthera), 367.

grisea (Panthea), 367.

grisea (Polydesma), 322

griseicilia (Plecopte-

rodes), 143.

griseicilia (Remigia), 143.

griseomaculata (Hype-

tra), 334.

grisescens (Celiptera),

134.

grisescens (Mocis), 134.

grenlandica (Plusia),

432.

groenlandica(Syngrapha),

432.

g-rosewm (Plusia), 478.

guadulpensis (Homo- -

ptera), 216.

guapila (Campometra),

196

guapila (Safia), 196.

guayaquilata (Safia), 171.

guenei (Remigia), 335.

gulo (Lichnoptera), 394.

gutta (Plusia), 513, 514.

gypsochroa (Moma), 379

haife (Clytie), 292.

haife (Pseudophia), 292.

hamifera (Plusia), 522.

hampsoni (Phytometra),

560.

hampsont (Plusia), 560,

601

hebetata (Phytometra),

574.

hebetata (Plusia), 574.

helata (Pheocyma), 240.

helveola (Phurys), 117. _

helvina (Nymbis), 117.

helvina (Phurys), 117,

IS), NA,

hemichalcea

metra), 466.

henudelta (Trigonodes),

(Phyto-

herbarum (Phurys), 110.

herbarum (Poaphila),

herbicola (Argyrostro-

tis), 153.

herbicola _ (Poaphitla),

herrichi (Phytometra),

567.

herrichi (Plusia), 567.

heterochroa —_ (Pleco-

pterodes), 142.

heterochroa (kengia),

142.

hexastylus (Remigia), 83.

hildebrauti (Plusia),

594

hochenvarthi (Calo-

plusia), 408.

hochenwartht (Phalena),

408.

Homoptera, 207.

Homopyralis, 333.

honratht (Diphthera),

345.

hoplitis (Grammodes), 43.

horrida (Zale), 247.

humeralis (Plusia), 575.

humilis (Plusia), 468.

hutsonti (Behrensia), 570.

Hypetra, 58.

hypocyanea

neura), 260.

Hypoglaucitis, 287.

Hypogrammodes, 253.

hypophea (Alamis), 001.

hyppasia (Chalciope), 27.

hyppasia (Noctua), 27.

(Aniso-

ibona (Ophisma), 334.

idonea (Calyptis), 138,

idonea (Nectua), 138.

lgnea eee 409.

agnea (Vlusia), 409.

illudens (Diphtera), 394.

illudens (Lichnoptera),

394.

illunaris (Clytie), 291.

602

iliunaris (Noctua), 291.

illustrata (Cerocala), 270.

illustrata (Plusia), 437.

illustrata (Syngrapha),

437.

illustris (Noctua), 563.

imitatrix (Anydrophila),

267.

imitatrix (Palpangula),

267.

imminua (Huclidisema),

41.

imminua (Grammodes),

immunis (Phurys), 106.

immunita (Huclidiz), 54.

impar (Cortyta), 317.

impartialis (Hubolina),

320.

impressa (Remigia), 73.

impulsa (Phytometra),

487.

impulsa (Plusia), 487.

inacuta (Trigonodes), 28.

inchoata (Plusia), 573.

incipiens (Letis), 209.

includens (Avatha), 63.

includens (Plusia), 522.

incompleta (Plusia), 4165.

incompta (Plusia), 504.

inconcisa (Remigia), 91.

inconspicua (Hypopyra),

ot.

inconspicua (Phyto-

metra), 566.

inconspicua (Plusia),

566.

inconspicua (Safia), 835.

incrassatia (Piusia), 594.

indenta (Remigia), 84.

indicator (Phytometra),

78.

indicator (Plusia), 478.

indigna (Plusia). 494.

infanta (Calocasia), 364.

infanta (Demas), 364.

infausta (Mamestra), 358.

infausta (‘Lrisuloides),

303.

infecta (Celiptera), 109.

infecta (Phurys), 109.

inferna (Mocis), 98.

inferna (Remigia), 98.

inficita (Nymbis), 120.

inficita (Phurys), 120.

infligens (Homoptera),

303.

infrequens (HHypoglau-

citis), 289.

in frequens

289.

(Orthosia),

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

ingenua (Charadra), 373.

Inguridia, 582.

iniqua (Nymbis), 121.

énnata (Plusia), 469.

ino (Attatha), 9.

tno (Noctua), 9.

inornata (Mocis), 99.

eS ( Lrigonodes),

insana (Cerocala), 270,

anil

insana

270.

inscripta (Noctua), 535.

insolita (Plusia), 541.

insuda (Pheocyma), 233.

insuda (Zale), 233.

insularia (Doryodes), 114.

insulsa (Grammodzs), 96.

integerrima (Homoptera),

188.

integra (Plusta), 484.

intenta (Homoptera),

246.

intercalaris (Czenurgia),

70.

intercalaris

(Grammodes),

(Huclidia),

interrogationés (Noctua),

430.

interrogationis (Syn-

grapha), 430.

interscalaris (Plusia),

532.

intracta (Plusia), 520.

intractata (Plusia), 443.

involuta (Homoptera),

23450:

ota (Noctua), 534, 635.

iota (Phytometra), 530.

irresoluta (Lthubuna),

201.

irresoluta (Safia), 201.

irrorata (Poaphila}, 153.

isosceles ( Trigonodes), 43.

italica (Plusia), 565.

iter (Calyptis), 140.

jagowi (Abrostola), 586.

jaliscana (Nymbis), 126.

jaliscana (Phurys), 126.

jauata (Geometra), 332.

janisca (Homoptera),

232.

janisca (Zale), 232.

jessica (Phytometra),

545.

jessica (Plusia), 545.

judicans (Ophiusa), 96.

jugalis (Remigia), 91.

jugis (Nymbis), 124.

Jugis (Phurys), 124, 125.

juncta (Plusia), 578.

justa (Grammodes), 17.

Juvenilis (Agnomonia),

juvenilis (Leucomelas),

kahbylaria

280.

kalitura (Plusia), 480.

kebee (Plusia), 495.

kebeana (Polychrisia),

499.

(Leucanitis),

laba (Cymosafia), 159.

tuba (Focilla), 159.

labrosa (Phytometra),

630.

labrosa (Plusia), 580.

lena (Matigramina),

S24).

lanigera (Epicausis), 337.

largera (Pheocyma), 242.

largera (Zale), 242.

laticlavia (Plusia), 486.

latifera (Graminodes),

333.

latipes (Remigia), 73, 84.

laurena (Canipeta), 178.

laureum (Plusia), 492.

lavendula (Phytometra),

454.

lavenduia (Plusta), 454.

laxa (Mocis), 103.

laxa (Phurys), 103.

lectula (Phytometra),

480.

lectula (Prodenia), 480.

lenzti (Plusix), 562.

leonina (Phytometra),

O79.

leonina (Plusia), 575.

Leucanitis, 279.

leucomelana (Panthea),

367.

Leucomelas, 44.

leucopis (Safia), 182.

leucoplaga( Campometra),

187.

leucoplaga (Safia), 187.

leucoptera (Curtyta),

315.

leucoptera (Hypetra),

15.

levina (Celiptera), 335.

levina (Mocis), 131,

134.

levina (Phalwna), 132.

lichenodes — (Graphi-

phora), 400.

Lichnoptera, 388.

ligilla (Alamis), 303.

lima (Phurys), 110.

limata (Phytometra),

544.

limata (Plusia), 544.

limbirena (Phytometra),

472, 594.

limbirena (Plusia), 472.

limbosa (Buclidia), 333.

linearis (Noctua), 19.

lineata (Pseudophia),

270.

lineolaris (Noctua), 125.

lineolaris (Nymbis), 125.

lineosa (Homoptera),

236.

Litomitus, 130.

Litosea, 65.

litterata (Phalena), 46.

litterata (Plusia), 594.

livarta (Diphtera), 391.

livida (Drasteria), 49.

livida (Phytometra), 457.

livida

457.

Uccuples (Plusia), 515.

longicornis — (Phyto-

metra), 488.

longicornis (Plusia), 488.

longiplaga (Parachal-

ciope), 37.

lucasi (Chaleiope), 31.

lucasti (Trigonodes), 31.

lucilia (Safia), 335.

lucimargo (Homoptera),

334.

ludifica (Moma), 380.

ludifica (Noctua), 380.

lumina (Noctua), 554.

(Plusiotricha),

lunata (Noctua), 228,

475.

lunata (Phalena), 215.

lunata (Phytometra),

475.

Junata (Zale), 223.

lunifera (Pheocyma),

236, 246.

lunifera (Zale), 236.

lunulifera (Ophisma),

334,

luteifascia (Trisuloides),

B40,

lutescens (EH]modes), 359.

lutescens (Noctua), 359.

lutosa (Chaleiope), 333.

lycopodia (Chalciope), 87.

lydia (Homoptera), 384.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

maccvoodi (Ulothri-

chopus), 330.

macrogamma

metra), 531.

macrogamma (Plusia),

531.

macrosema

331.

macrostidsa (Hypztra),

(Phyto-

(Tolna),

magalhaensi (Huclidia),

67.

magnifica (Drasteria),

131.

mahura (Chalciope), 39.

mahura (Parachalciope),

mandarina (Noctua),

532.

mandarina (Phyto-

metra), 532.

mandarina (Sypna), 250.

mandarina (Sypnoides),

250.

mapongua (Plusia), 525.

mappa (Phytometra),

mappa (Plusia), 583.

marcida (Mocis), 82.

marcida (Remigia), 82.

marginalis (Homoptera),

221), 223.

maria (Phytometra),

562.

maria (Plusia), 562.

marmorifera (Diphtera),

396.

marmorifera

ptera), 396.

masaiea (Cerocala), 278.

mascara (Campometra),

(Lichno-

mascara (Safia), 198.

masoni (Phytometra),

573.

masont (Plusia), 573.

Matigramma, 326.

maxima (Lrigonodes), 30.

mayert (Ophiusa), 91.

megaloba (Phytometra),

518.

megaloha (Plusia), 518.

mezas (Mocis), 79.

megas (Iremigia), 79.

Megistoclisma, 55.

melanocephala, (Plusia),

melanotica (Demas),

361.

melicerta (Acheza), 332.

Melipotis, 532.

605

mellifiua (Caradrina),

142.

melliflua (Plecopterodes),

142.

mendax (Alamis), 305.

mendax (Pericyma), 305.

mensuralis (Remigia),

86.

mensurata (Phurys),

335.

meretricia (Campometra),

181

meretricia (Phytometra),

487

meretricia (Plusia), 487.

meretricia (Safia), 181.

meroleuca (Safia), 202.

metabractea (Plusia),

553.

metaleuca (Attatha), 11.

metaleuca (Mati-

gramina), 329.

metaleuca (Pericyia),

308.

metallica (Phytometra),

552.

metallica (Plusia), 652.

metata (Pheocyma), 239.

metata (Zale), 239.

metaxantha (Chalciope),

314.

metaxantha (Cortyta),

314.

metopis (Safia), 179.

mi (Kuclidimera), 46.

mi (Phalena), 46.

micadina (Chrysoptera),

441.

microgamma (Noctua),

415.

microgamma (Syn-

grapha), 415.

microgonia (Chalciope),

25)

microgonia (Gram-

modes), 25.

micropis (Hypogram-

modes), 257.

microstigma (Phyto-

metra), 477.

microstigma (Plusia),

AT7.

mikadina (Plusia), 441.

minax (Coxina), 207.

minax (Safia), 207.

minerca (Homoptera),

234.

minerea (Zale), 234.

minna (Ophisma), 334.

minor (Safia), 190.

minta (Safia), 190.

604:

mirifica (Anydrophila),

266.

mirifica (Huclidia), 266.

Mocis, 76.

moderata (Grammodes),

144,

moderata (Pleco-

pterodes), 144.

modesta (Noctua), 564.

modesta (Plusia), 594.

modesta (Phytometra),

564,

Mepa, 297.

mesta (Lichnoptera),

399

moestinides (Lichnoptera),

mollis (Safia), 1&9.

mollis (Yrias), 189.

molybdopasta (Pleco-

pterodes), 145.

molybdopasta (Remigia),

145.

Moina, 376.

Momine, 328. :

monaxa (Nymbis), 129.

monaxa (Phurys), 129.

moneta (Chrysoptera),

44,

moneta (Noctua), 444.

mongolica (Plusia), 563.

monodon (Plusia), 541.

monogramma (Plusia),

5309.

monoplaneta (Para-

chalcivpe), 39.

montana (Celiptera), 118.

montana (Nymbis), 118.

meee (Chrysoptera),

mor igera (Deva), 445.

morio (Agonista), 339.

mortuorum (Plusia), 423.

moses (Hypoglaucitis),

288

snoupinensis (Aplectoides),

301.

Mouralia, 591.

moxa (Nymbis), 127.

moxa (Phurys), 127.

multilinea (Reniyia),

116.

munda (Cerocala), 273,

munda (Mocis), 81.

munda (Remiyia), 81.

mundicolor (Grammodes),

mundula (Drasteria), 71.

munita (Gonospileia), 54.

munita (Noctua), d+.

mus (Calocasia), 364.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

mus (Diloba), 364.

mutans (Plusia), 473.

mutuaria (Mocis), 96.

mutuarta (Remigia), 6.

mutuata (Remigia), 91.

mya (Noctua), 527.

mygdon (Huclidisema),

42,

myydon (Noctua), 42.

m an (Chalciope),

mati (Scodionyx),

285.

muysticus (Scodionyx),

280.

nabatza (Clytie), 296.

nabatea (Pseudophia),

296.

nadeja (Plusia), 578.

napellt (Noctw), 444.

narrata (Poaphila), 71.

navilla (Nymbis), 129.

navilla (Phurys), 129.

nebuligera (Pseudophia),

95,

Nephelina, 207.

mi, deserticola (Plusia),

469.

nt (Noctua), 468.

ni (Phytometra), 468.

nichollae (Phytometra),

510.

nigra (Tambana), 353.

nigracreta (Charadra),

300.

nigrescens (Barydia),

201.

nigrescens (Moma), 382.

nigrescens (Safia), 201.

nigricans (Homoptera),

230

meri (Phytometra),

518

nigriluna (Plusia), 518.

nigrimacula (Ophiusa),

OG:

nigrisigna (Phytometra),

536.

nigrisiqna (Plusia), 536.

nigrisigna (femiyia),

95.

ningi (Ophisma), 334.

nitens (Charadra), 372.

nitida (Aplectoides), 351.

nitida (Matigramima),

326.

nitida (Moma), 352.

nitida (Trisuloides),

8ol.

niviplaga (Homoptera),

334,

noctar (Safia), 206.

noctar (Yrias), 206.

Noctuide, 1.

Noctuine, 334, 335,

noctuoides (Hypztra),

norda (Pheocyma), 234.

notata (Noctua), 9.

notescens (Mocis), 126.

novaguineana (Hypeetra_

novenaria (Thyas), 335.

novita (Noctua), 334.

neu (Plusiw), 410.

nu (Rachiplusia), 410.

nubila (Abrostola), 496.

numeria (Peosina), 255,

nyctichroa (Safia), 206.

Nyumbis, 115,

obligata (Phurys), 123.

obliqua (Homoptera), 242,

obliqua (Zale), 242.

obscura (Aplectoides),

354.

obscura (Campometra),

191

obscura (Plusia), 532.

obscura (Safia), 191.

obscura (Trisuloides),

354,

obscurata (dAnisoneura),

263.

obsita (Homoptera), 334.

obsolefacta (Safia), 167.

obsolefactur (Campo-

metra), 167.

obsvlescens (Moma), 377.

obsoleta (Argyrostrotis),

156.

obsoleta (Gnamptonyx),

287.

obsoleta (Poaphila), 156.

obstans (Cuneisigna), 32.

obstans (Trigonodes), 52.

obtusisigna (Phyto-

metra), 479.

obtusisigna (Plusia), 479.

obversa (Poaphila), 110.

ocellata (Grammodces),

15.

ochrea (Drasteria), 73.

ochreata (Phytometra),

507.

ochreata (Plusia), 557.

ochroargyra (Huplexia),

307.

octoscripta (Plusia), 425,

ee as

octoseripta (Syngrapha),

ALD:

octosignata (Plusia), 425

oculata (Gramimodes), 15.

oculicola (Grammodes),

15.

ogovana (Plusia), 473

olearos (Safia), 181.

omega (Argyrogramma),

465.

omicron (Autographa),

Omopterus, 207.

Omorphina, 403.

onerata (Cropia), 59.

oo (Noctua), 465.

00 (Phalena), 522.

oo (Phytometra), 522.

Ophisma, 334.

oppia (Ceroeala), 21.

oppia (Pseudophia), 272.

optabilis (Phurys), 121.

opulenta (Ophisma),

334,

orbifer (Phytometra),

550.

orbifer (Plusia), 550.

orbiinaculata (Diloba),

593.

orichalcea (Noctua), 576,

orichaleea (Phytometra),

580

orientalis (Cerocala), 277.

ornata (Phytometra),

528.

ornata (Plusia), 528.

ornatissima (Phyto-

metra), 515.

ornatissina (Plusia), 515.

orontes (Agnomonia),

333.

orophila (Plusia), 416.

orophila (Syngrapha),

416.

OANA (Autographa),

426.

ou (Phytometra), 542.

ou (Plusia), 542.

ovalis (Abrostola), 584.

ovalis (Phurys), 111.

oxygramma (Auto-

grapha), 494.

oxygramma (Phyto-

metra), 494.

oxygramma (Plusia), 496.

pacalis (Argyrostrotis),

153.

_pacalis (Poaphila), 153.

pachystrigata (Zale), 214.

ALPHABETICAT INDEX.

pacifica (Homoptera),

78.

pacifica (Safia), 178.

Paleoplusia, 581.

palestinensis (Gram-

modes), 20,

palestinensis(Leucanttis),

25.

palata (Charadra), 370.

palata (Diphthera), 370.

pallida (Autographa),

425.

pallida (Cymosafia),

08.

pallidior (Mocis), 132.

pallidipennis (Tambana),

303.

pallidipennis (Trisu-

loides), 353.

palligera (Deva), 449.

palligera (Pseudeva),

449.

Paichrysia, 452.

pannosa (Phytometva),

519.

pannosa (Plusia), 519

pannosa (Sypna), 250.

pannosa (Sypnoices),

Panthea, 365.

pee (Anisoneura),

papuensis (Lrisuloides),

340.

parabractea (Phyto-

metra), 551.

Parachalciope, 35.

paraguayica (Mocis), 90.

parallela (Plusia), 494.

parallelaris (Noctua), 19.

Parallelia, 334.

parilis (Autographa), 404.

parilis (Noctua), 404.

pascuala (Placonia), 166.

pascuala (Safia), 166.

pasiphea (Phytometra),

546.

pasipheia (Plusia), 546.

pata (Charadra), 371.

pata ( Trisulodes), 371.

patabilis (Poaphila), 71.

patefacta (Plusia), 432.

paulina (Plusia), 561.

pavona (Drasteria), 105.

pectinata (Remigia), 75.

pedatis (Plusia), 412.

pedalis (Rachiplusia),

412

Pelamia, 76,

pellita (Remigia), 91.

penna (Homoptera), 236.

605

penna (Zale), 236.

peponis (Noctua), 573.

peponis (Phytometra),

573.

percontationis (Plusia),

535.

percontatrix

534.

perfinita (Ophisma), 334.

Pericyma, 297.

(Plusia),

per gsm (Matigramma),

- 329.

perlata (Phurys), 82.

permissa (Phytometra),

497.

permissa (Plusia), 497.

permixta (Safia), 183.

perplexa (Poaphila), 112.

persinuosa (Mocis), 98.

persinuosa (Remigia), 98,

perspicua( Poaphila), 112.

persubtilis (Remigia), 83.

pertusa (Mocis), 132.

pertusa (Plusia), 522.

peruncta (Homoptera),

209.

pheeochroa (Safia), 172.

pheocyma (Cortyta),

321.

pheograpta (Zale), 225.

pheoleuca (Homopter a),

334.

phasianoides (Mocis), 76.

phastanoides (Pelamia),

phocea (Phytometra),

458.

phocea (Plusia), 458.

phocina (Phytometra),

493.

Pheocyma, 207.

Phurys, 105.

Phytometra, 452.

Phytometrine, 401.

picta (Leucanitis), 282.

picturata (Safia), 203.

placata (Poaphila), 155.

placida (Phytometra),

460.

placida (Plusia), 460.

placida (Safia), 335.

Placonia, 165.

plagiata (Poaphila), 335.

Platycerura, 365.

Plecopterodes, 141.

plenipennis (Homoptera),

229,

plumbea (Plataplecta),

345,

plumbea (Trisuloides),

340.

606

plumipes (Homoptera),

301,

Plusia, 452.

Plusidia, 450.

Plusiopalpa, 437.

Plusiotricha, 452.

Poaphila, 151.

Polychrysia, 439.

polycyima (Cortyta), 320,

polycyma(Hypoglaucitis),

320.

polygramma (Pericyma),

dll.

polyphenaria

loides), 346.

portlandia (Diphthera),

369

(Trisu-

portlandia (Panthea),

369.

‘posterior

PALE

(Homoptera),

postistrigaria (Hntomo-

gramma), 330.

preusta (Safia), 335.

precationis (Phytometra),

524.

precationis (Plusia), 524.

primulina (Lichnoptera),

39d.

pritanis (Phalena), 334.

privata (Homoptera),

2138.

problematica (Trigonodes),

31.

procumbens

ptera), 334.

Prodotis, 13.

profesta (Cortyta), 323.

profesta (Pericyma), 323.

prolixa (Nymbis), 122.

prolixa (Phurys), 122.

promptella (Tunza), 115.

(Homo-

propinquilinea = (Calo-

casia), 363.

propinguilinea (Cha-

radra), 363.

propugnata (Mocis), 102.

propugnata (Remigia),

protea (Noctua), 535.

psectrocera (Phyto -

metra), 453.

Pseudanthracia, 207.

Pseudathyrma, 58.

Pseudeva, 447.

pseudochaleytes (Phyto-

metra), 528.

pseudogamma

metra), 539.

pseudogamma (Plusia),

539.

(Phyto-

ADPHABETICATL INDEX.

Pseudophia, 239.

Pterocheta, 58.

pterylota (Phytometra),

452.

pterylota (Plusia), 452.

pulcherrima (Gram-

modes), 16.

pulchra (Plecopterodes),

145,

pulchrina (Noctua), 584.

pulchrina (Phytometra),

dd.

pulera (Noctua), 145,

pulverilinea (Mati-

gramma), 327.

punctularis (Noctua), 84.

purgata (Cenurgia), 67,

69, 108.

purissima (Phytometra),

548.

purissima (Plusia), 548.

purpureofusa (Phyto-

metra), 543.

purpurcofusa (Plusia),

543.

purpurigera (Deva), 448.

purpurigera (Pseudeva),

448

pusilla (Chalciope), 29.

pusilla (Grammodes). 29,

putnami (Phytometra),

509.

putnami (Plusia), 509.

putrescens (Hrehus), 223.

pygaria (Lrisuloides),

339.

pyrenaica (Syngrapha),

428.

pyropia (Phytometra),

517

pyropia (Plusia), 517.

pythion (Panthea), 394.

gquadrifilaris (Agno-

monia), 156.

quadrifilaris (Argyro-

strotis), 156.

quadriplaga (Latebraria),

161.

quadriplaga (Plusia),

404.

quesita (Grammodes),

questionis (Noctua), 484.

questions (Plusia), 465.

Rachiplusia, 410.

rada (Microphisa), 283.

radapicta (Leucanitis),

282.

ramifera (Mocis), 100.

Ramphia, 16],

rectangula (Plusia), 423.

rectangula (Syngrapha),

43,

rectivia (Parallelia), 332.

reducens (Agunista), 330.

refracta (Mocis), 109.

regalis (Attatha), 8.

regalis (Hypercompa), 8.

regia (Huctidia), 49.

regia (Huclidimera), 49.

remanens (Remigia), 79.

Remigia, 76.

remigiana (Cortyta), 312.

remigina (Huclidia), "15.

remigina (Remigiodes),

79.

Remigiodes, 74.

remigioides (Celiptera),

remigioides (Ophiodes),

31.

renardi (Phytometra),

568.

renardi (Plusia), 567,

568.

renifera (Gaujonia), 387.

repanda (Mocis), 84.

repanda (Noctwa), 84.

reticulata (Plusia), 475.

retrahens (Homoptera),

334,

revoluta (Poaphila), 335.

revulsa (Bolina), 278.

rhigodora (Zale), 225.

rhodochrysa (Plusia), 467.

rhopalesema (Phyto-

metra), 513.

rhotana (Colocasia), 375.

Rhubina, 165.

ribbei (Megistoclisma),

56.

ribbet (Nyctipao), 56.

rivulata (Chalciope), 34.

rivulata (Cuneisigna),

roda (Euclidia), 283.

roda (Leucanitis), 283.

rogationis (Plusia), 522.

rosacea (Cortyta), 320.

rosacea (Pericyma), 320.

rosacea (Spirama), 331.

rose (Homoptera), 222.

roxana (Plusia), 437.

rubt (Homoptera), 244.

rubi (Zale), 244.

rubiata (Pheocyma), 243.

rubiata (Zale), 243,

rubida (Phytometra),

491

rubidus (Autographa),

491,

rubigera (Pseudeva),

449,

rubrosuffusa

gramma), 327.

rufescens (Anua), 331.

ruficolora (Cortyta), 324.

ruficolora (Homoptera),

324,

r wine (Campometra)

66.

(Mati-

ee (Safia), 166.

rufitincta (Lichnopter a),

393.

rafosa (Zale), 221.

ruinosa (Hypetra), 59.

runica (Ceenurgia), 67.

runica (Kuclidia), 67.

russea (Plusia), 539.

rutila (Plusia), 445.

rutilifrons (Phytometra),

517.

rutilifrons (Plusia), 517.

sahena (Homoptera), 219.

svbena (Zale), 219.

subouraudi (Anydro-

phila), 267.

sahouraudi (Palpangula),

267.

sacceni (Synerapha), 417.

sackenit (Plusia), 417.

sacra (Pericyma), 323.

Safia, 165, 335.

Safidia, 163.

sagata (Bathyra), 383.

sagata (Diphtera), 383.

salebrosa (Anisoneura),

263.

salicis (Homoptera), 222

salicis (Zale), 222.

salmus (Opbiusa), 334.

sana (Ceroca!a), 271.

sancta (Clytie), 291.

sancta (Pseudophia), 291.

sansoni (Autoyrupha),

546

sansoni (Phytometra),

546.

saunderstti (Homoptera),

223.

scandulata ( lOO par):

310.

scandulata

310.

scapwaris <Plusia), 552.

(Per oH)

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

scapulosa

270, 278.

scapulosa (Noctua), 273.

schalisema (Phytometra),

537.

schlumbergert

nitis), 284.

scintillans (Plusia), 578.

Scodionyx, 285.

scotorrhiza (Clytie), 290.

scotorrhiza (Pseudophia),

290.

secundaria (Plusia), 489.

securts (Noctua), 551.

selecta (Plusia), 421.

selecta (Syngrapha),

421

(Cerocala),

(Leuca-

ait.

selene (Placonia), 335.

semiargentea (Plusia),

571.

semicuprea (Calyptis),

139.

semicuprea (Plusia), 159.

semivitta (Phytometra),

548.

semivitta (Plusia), 548.

separabilis (Homoptera),

171.

separabilis (Safia), 171.

separata (Diloba), 593.

sequistriaris(Agnomonia),

156.

serena (Plusia). 545.

sergia (Plusia), 563.

serica (Trisuloides), 342.

sesquistria (Leucanitis),

sestertia

525.

sestertia (Plusia), 525

setipes (Xylis), 209.

setipes (Zale), 209.

sevastina (Noctua), 531.

sexplagiata (Homoptera),

221.

sexplagiata (Zale), 121.

sica (Chrysoptera), 440.

sica (Plusia), 440.

siculifera (Plusia), 467.

siderifera (Phytometra),

565.

siderifera (Plusia), 565.

stgnata (Noctua), 491.

signata § (Phytometra),

491.

(Phytometra),

signata (Triphena), 406.

significans (Plusia), 468.

simiola (Anydrophila),

265.

simiola (Palpangula),

265.

607

simplex (Plusia), 419.

simplicior (Homoptera),

167, 168.

simplicior (Safia), 167.

simplicissima (Auto=

grapha), 420,

simpticiss!ma

grapha), 420.

smithi (Epicausis), 337.

smithit (Daphneura),

338.

snovi (Syngrapha), 418.

snowti (Plusia), 418.

sobria (Microphysa), 73.

sobria (Remigia), 335,

socors (Cenurgia), 67.

socotrensis (Cerocala),

»)

a“

sokotrensis (Cerocala),

(Syn-

solida (Autographa), 511.

solita (Homoptera), 303.

spadaria (Doryodes), 115,

speciosa (Autographa),

420.

speciosa (Syngrapha),

420.

sphingotdes (Anisoneura),

spissa (Dipthera), 396.

spissa (Lichnoptera),

396.

splendida (Chrysoptera),

443.

splendida (Deva), 443.

spoliata (Plusia), 475.

squalens (Pericyma), 308.

sguamularis (Noctua),

241,

squamularis (Zale), 241,

stigmata (Hypeetra), 60,

stolida (Grammodes), 21,

stolida (Noctua, 21.

striatella (Plusia), 582.

strigumacula (Homoptera),

216.

strigulaturia (Hrastria),

stupida (Euclidia), 22.

stylobata (Homoptera),

188.

subenescens (Ophiusa),

subchaly ybea (Abrostola),

496.

subchalybeea

metra), 496.

subflava (Trisuloides),

348.

sublimis (Caenipeta), 177.

sublimis (Safia), 177.

(Phyto-

608

sublucida (Hypogramma),

204.

sublunaris (Clytie), 295.

sublunaris (DPsewdophia),

295.

subocellata (Cwnipeta),

subocellata (Hypogram-

modes), 258.

subrosea (Homoptera),

169.

subrosea (Safia), 169.

subsidens (Phytometra),

ATO.

subsidens (Plusia), 470.

subtilis (Remigita), 8+.

subvaria (Cenipeta), 200.

subvaria (Safia), 200.

sudena (Charadra), 375.

surena (Plusia), 430.

surena (Syngrapha), 430.

surrufula(Argyrostrotis),

152

sturrufula (Celiptera),

182.

swinhoei (Ophiusa), 324.

sylvarum (Argyrostro-

tis), 154.

sylvirum (Poaphila),

154

synethes (Plecopterodes),

143.

Syngrapha, 412.

Sypnoides, 248.

syrdaja (Clytie), 293.

syrdaja (Pseudophia),

293.

syriaca (Clytie), 294.

syriaca (Ophiusa), 294.

Tambana, 339.

tancrei (Phytometra),

556.

tancret (Plusia), 556.

tarara (Mamestra), 358.

tarassota (Phytometra),

473.

tarsalis (Fuclidia), 333,

tehuelcha (Huclidia), 67.

Telesilla, 402.

teligera (Nymbis), 119.

teligera (Phurys), 119.

temperata (Plusia), 594.

tephrina (Huclidia), 108.

teretilinea (Phurys), 335.

termina (Pheocyina),

330.

terrena (Homoptera),

334

terrosa (Homoptera), 21

terrosa (Zale), 217.

terrulenta (Clytie), 297.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX,

tervulenta (Pseudophia),

297.

tetragona (Phytemetra),

549.

tetragona (Plusia), 549.

tetraspila (Capnodes),

145.

tetrastigma (Phyto-

metra), 559.

tetrastigma (Plusia),

texana (Focillidia), 148.

texana (Mocis), 83.

texana (Remiyia). 83.

teatilis (Nym'vis), 121.

Themma, 113.

thericles (Celiptera), 135.

thericles (Thermesia),

1365.

thermochroa (Safia), 197.

thyatyroides (Eosphoro-

pteryx), 446.

eve ‘yroides (Plusia),

£46,

Heelan (Plusia), 408.

tinctoides (Abrostola),

592.

os (Mouralia).

tog ey (Anaitis), 69.

togataria (Cenurgia),

69.

J Tolnaodes, 252.

torpida (Remigia), 96.

trabea (Deva), 444.

trailii (Homoptera), 193.

transacta (Syrnia), 161.

transbaikalensis (Plusia);

431.

transfixa

496, 557.

transfixa (Phytometra),

557.

(Abrostola),

translata (Remigia), 87.

triangulum (Noctua), 42.

Trichosea, 376.

trifasciata (Catephia),

93.

trifasciata (Mocis), 93.

trigoniferaa (Hypetra),

63.

Trigonodes, 26.

trigonometrica (Para-

chaleiope), 38.

triloba (Speiredonia),

331.

triopis (Abrostola), 589.

triquetra (Gonospileia),

triquetra (Noctua), 53.

tripartita (Abrostola),

089, j

tripartita (Noctua), 585.

triplasia (Abrostola),

587.

triplasia (Noctua), 585,

587.

tristicula (Huclidia), 52.

Trisuloides, 339, 400.

Tunza, 113.

turbida (Homoptera),

300.

turbida (Pericyma), 300.

typinota (Plusia), 432.

u-aureum (Plusia), 424,

432,

u-aureum (Syngrapha),

424.

u-brevis (Plusia), 530.

umbrina (Alamis), 301.

umbrina (Pericyma),

wmbripennis (Ypsia),

230.

umbrosa (Calocasia),

Ral, ©

umbrosa (Demas), 361.

undata (Mocis), 91.

undata (Noctua), 91.

undifera (Mocis), 101.

undularis (Noctua), 230.

undularis (Ypsia) 231.

undularis (Zale), 230,

333,

uniforms (Homopter a),

246.

unilineata (Homoptera),

- 99

unilineata (Zale), 226

uralensis (Phytometra),

uralensis (Plusia), 563,

565, 567.

wraliensis (Plusia), 565.

urentis (Abrostola), 585.

urtice (Noctua), 585.

ustipennis (Homoptera),

209.

ustipennis (Xylis), 208.

vaccinit (Plusia), 424.

v-alba (Autographa), 429.

v-alba (Syngrapha), 429.

ualicie (Aypogramma),

303.

valina (Celiptera), 135.

valint (Mocis), 135.

vampyrus (Noctua), 230.

v-argenteum (Noctua),

27.

y-argenteum

metra), 527.

wariabilis (Heliothis), 144,

(Phyto-

variabilis (Noctua), 563.

variabilis (Phytometra),

563.

variana (Autographa),

425.

variegata (Carea), 400.

variegata (Hlydnodes),

400.

variegata (Tambana),

347.

yariegata

347.

variolosa (Ophiusa), 132.

yau-nigrum (Gaujonia),

(Trisuloides),

v-aureum (Plusia), 534.

velata (Ophisma), 91.

venusta (Paleoplusia),

582.

venusta (Plusia), 582.

vermiculosa (Cerocala),

275.

vernifera (Homoptera),

213.

verruca (Noctua), 465.

verruca (Phytometra),

4695.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

verticillata (Plusia), 484.

vetusta (Cortyta), 318.

vetusta (Polydesma), 318.

vilis (Gnamptonyx), 286.

vilis (Homoptera), 286.

vinculum (Phurys), 105.

violascens (Phytometra),

476.

virbia (Phalena), 91.

virescens (Hlaodes), 357.

virescens (Hremobia), 357.

virginaria (Biston), 370.

virginaria (Diphthera),

370.

virgula (Caloplusia), 406.

virgula (Plusia), 406.

viridans Homoptera), 213,

DB.

viridans (Zale), 215, 334.

viridis (Plusia), 56+.

viridisigma (Plusia), 421.

viridisiguata (Plusia),

viridisgxamata (Homo-

ptera), 214, 215, 216.

vitiensis (Mocis), 89.

609

y-minus (Phytometra),

555.

u-minus (Plusia), 555.

weymert (Demas), 361.

woodii (Homoptera), 246.

Aylis, 207.

xylomiges (Remigia),

330.

yavapat (Pheocyma),

244,

yavapai (Zale), 244.

yendola (Alamis), 307.

Ypsia, 207.

Zale, 207.

zeta (Autographa), 425.

zeuzeroides(Anisoneura),

262.

zosime (Noctua), 578.

zosimi (Phytometra),

578.

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14 coloured Plates. [With Sys tematic and Alpha-

betical Indexes.] 1898, Svo. 1. 5s,

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY).

Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum—continued,

Vol. XXVITI. Catalogue of the Chenomorphe (Paia-

medez, Phoenicopteri, Anseres), Crypturi, and Ratitz.

By T. Salvadori. Pp. xv., 636. 19 coloured Plates.

[With Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1895,

svo. L/. 12s.

[ Nomen-

A Hand-list of the Genera and Species of Birds.

clator Avium tum Fossilium tum Viventium.] Ey R

Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D. :-—

[With Systematic and Alpha-

Wools Vin Sep xes: One:

betical Indexes.] 1909, 8vo. lJ.

General Index to . . Volumes I-V. Edited by

W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. Pp. v., 199. 1912, 8vo. 10s.

Edition on large paper, printed on one

Nas atoll) Uh,

side only. Pp. v., 388.

List of the Specimens of Birds in the Collection of the

British Museum. By George Robert Gray :—

Part III., Sections III.and IV. Capitonide and Picide.

Pp. 1387. [With Index.] 1868, 12mo. 1s. 6d.

Part IV. Columbe. Pp. 73. [With Index.] 1856,

12mo. 1s. 9d. .

Part V. Galline. Pp. iv., 120. [With an Alphabetical

Index.] 1867, 12mo. Is. 6d.

Catalogue of the Birds of the Tropieal Islands of the Pacific

Ocean in the Collection of the British Museum. By

Pp. 72. [With an

George Robert Gray, F.L.8., &c.

Alphabetical Index.] 1859, 8vo. 1s. 6d.

Catalogue of the Collection of Birds’ Eggs in the British

Museum (Natural History) :—

Vol. I. Ratita. Carinate (Tinamiformes—Lariformes).

By Hugene W. Oates. Pp. xxiii., 252. 18 Coloured

Plates. [With Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes. ]

1901, 8vo. 17. 10s.

Vol. II. Carinate (Charadriiformes—Strigiformes). By

Pp. xx., 400. 15 Coloured Plates.

Eugene W. Oates.

| With Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1902

Svo. 17. 10s.

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Catalogue of the Collection of Birds’ Eggs in the British

Museum (Natural History)—continued.

Vol. III. Carinate (Psittaciformes — Passeriformes)

By Eugene W. Oates and Capt. Savile G. Reid.

Pp. xxiii., 349. 10 Coloured Plates. [With Syste-

matic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1903, 8vo. 10. 5s.

Vol. 1V. Carinate (Passeriformes continued). By

Eugene W. Oates, assisted by Capt. Savile G. Reid.

Pp. xvili., 352. 14 Coloured Plates. [With Syste-

matic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1905, 8vo. 12. 10s.

Vol. V. Carinate (Passeriformes completed). By W.

R. Ogilvie-Grant. Pp. xxiii.,547. 22 Coloured Plates.

[With Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1912,

Svo. 2/. Ts. 6d.

REPTILES.

Catalogue of the Tortoises, Crocodiles, and Amphisbeenians

in the Collection of the British Museum. By Dr. J. E.

Gray, F.R.S., &c. Pp. viii. 80. [With an Alphabetical

Index.] 1844, 12mo. Is.

Catalogue of Shield Reptiles in the Collection of the British

Museum. By John Edward Gray, F.R.S., &c.:—

Appendix. Pp. 28. 1872, 4to. 2s. 6d.

PartII. Hmydosaurians, Rhynchocephalia,and Amphis-

benians. Pp. vi., 41. 25 Woodcuts. 1872, Ato.

as. 6d.

Hand-List of the Specimens of Shield Reptiles in the

British Museum. By Dr. J. KH. Gray, F.R.S., F.L.S., &c.

Pp. iv., 124. [With an Alphabetical Index.] 1873,

8vo. 4s,

Catalogue of the Chelonians, Rhynchocephalians, and

Crocodiles in the British Museum (Natural History).

New Edition. By George Albert Boulenger. Pp. x., 311.

73 Woodcuts and 6 Plates. [With Systematic and

Alphabetical Indexes.] 1889, 8vo. 15s.

Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural His-

tory). Second Hdition. By George Albert Boulenger :—

Vol. Il. Iguanide, Xenosauride, Zonuride, Anguide,

Anniellide, Helodermatide, Varanide, Xantusiide,

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). Il

Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum—continued.

Teiide, Amphisbenide. Pp. xiii, 497. 24 Plates.

{With Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1885,

Svo. 1,

Vol. III. Lacertide, Gerrhosauride, Scincide, Anelytro-

pide, Dibamide, Chameleontide. Pp. xii.,575. 40

Plates. [With a Systematic Index and an Alphabetical

Index to the three volumes.|] 1887, 8vo. 1/. 6s.

Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural

History). By George Albert Boulenger, ¥.R.S., &c, :—

Vol. 1., containing the families Typhlopide, Glauconiidx,

Boide, Ilysiide, Uropeltide, Xenopeltide, and Colu-

bride aglyphee (part). Pp. xiii., 448: 26 Woodcuts

and 28 Plates. [With Systematic and Alphabetical

Indexes.] 1893, 8vo. 1/. 1s.

Vol. IL, containing the conclusion of the Colubride

aglyphe. Pp. xi., 382: 25 Woodeuits and 20 Plates.

[ With Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1894,

dvo. 17s. 6d.

Vol. I1I., containing the Colubridz (Opisthoglyphe and

Proteroglyphz), Ambiycephalide, and Viperidee.

Pp. xiv., 727: 37 Woodeuts and 25 Plates. [With

Systematic Index, and Alphabetical Index to the 3

volumes.| 1896, 8vo. li. 6s.

Catalogue of Colubrine Snakes in the Collection of the

British Museum. By Dr. Albert Giinther. Pp. xvi., 281.

[With Geographic, Systematic, and Alphabetical Indexes. |

1858, 12mo. 4s.

BATRACHIANS,

Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia in the Collection of the

British Museum. By Dr. Albert Giinther. Pp. xvi., 160.

12 Plates. [With Systematic, Geographic, and Alphabetical

Indexes.] 1858, Svo. 6s.

FISHES,

Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum. Second

Kdition. Vol. I. Catalogue of the Perciform Fishes in the

British Museum. Vol. I. Containing the Centrarchide

Percide, and Serranidse (part), By George Albert

Boulenger, F.R.S. Pp. xix.,394. Woodeuts and 15 Plates.

[With Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1895, 8vo. °

15s.

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Catalogue of Lophobranchiate Fish in the Collection of the

’ British Museum. By J.J. Kaup, Ph.D., &c. .Pp. iv., 80.

4 Plates. [With an Alphabetical Index.] 1856, 12mo. 2s,

Catalogue of the Fresh-water Fishes of Africa in the

British Museum (Natural History). By G. A. Boulenger,

F.R.S. :—

Vol. I. Pp. xi. 373: 270 text-figures. [With Syste-

matic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1909, imp. 8vo.

If. 12s. 6d.

Vol; 1. Pp. xii) 9292) (382) text-tgures...)i[iWitk

Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1911, imp.

8vo. 20. ds.

MOLLUSCA.

Guide to the Systematic Distribution of Mollusca in the

British Museum. Part Il. By John Edward Gray, Ph.D.,

F.R.S., &¢. Pp. xii., 230. 121 Woodcuts. 1857, &vo. 5s.

Catalogue of Pulmonata, or Air Breathing Mollusca, in the

Collection of the British Museum. Part I. By Dr. Louis

Pfeiffer. Pp. iv., 192. Woodcuts. 1855, 12mo. 2s. 6d.

Catalogue of the Auriculide, Proserpinide, and Truncatellide

in the Collection of the British Museum. By Dr. Louis

Pfeiffer. Pp.iv., 150. Woodcuts. 1857, 12mo. ls. 9d.

List of the Mollusca in the Collection of the British Museum.

By John Edward Gray, Ph.D., F.R.S., &c. :—

Part II. Olivide. Pp. 41. 1865, 12mo. 1s.

Catalogue of the Conchifera, or Bivalve Shells, in the

Collection of the British Museum. By M. Deshayes :—

Part I. -Venerids, Cyprinids, Glauconomide, and

Petricolade. Pp. iv., 216. 1853, 12mo. 3s.

Part II. Petricoladze (concluded); Corbiculadze Pp.

217-292. [With an Alphabetical Index to the two

parts.] 1854, 12mo. 6d.

BRACHIOPODA.

Catalogue of Brachiopoda Ancylopoda or Lamp Shells in the

Collection of the British Museum. [Issued as “ Catalogue

of ‘the Mollusca, Part IV.”)] Pp. iv., 128. 25 Woodcuis.

[With an £ Alphabetical Index. | 1853, 12mo. 3s.

POLYZOA.

Catalogue of Marine Polyzoa in the Collection of the British

Museum. Part III. Cyclostomata. By George Busk,

F.R.S. Pp. viii. 39. 38 plates. [With a Systematic

Index.] 1875, 8vo. 5s.

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 13

CRUSTACEA.

Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in

the Collection of the British Museum. By C. Spence Bate,

E-R:S., &c. Pp. iv., 399. 58 Plates. [With an Alpha-

betical Index.] 1862, 8vo. 11. 5s.

ARACHNIDA.

Descriptive Catalogue of the Spiders of Burma, based upon

the Collection made by Eugene W. Oates and preserved in

the British Museum. By T. Thorell. Pp. xxxvi., 406.

[With Systematic List and Alphabetical Index.] 1895,

dvo. 10s. 6d.

INSECTS.

Coleopterous Insects.

Nomenclature of Coleopterous Insects in the Collection of

the British Museum :—

Part VII. Longicornia, I. By Adam White. Pp. iv.,

174. 4 Plates. 1853, 12mo. 2s. 6d.

Part VIII. Longicornia, IT. By Adam White. Pp. 237.

6 Plates. 1855, 12mo. 3s. 6d.

Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Coleoptera in the

Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Lycide. By

Charles Owen Waterhouse. Pp. x., 83. 18 Coloured

Plates. [With Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes. ]

1879, 8vo. 16s.

Catalogue of the Coleopterous Insects of Madeira in the

Collection of the British Museum. By T. Vernon

Wollaston, M.A., F.L.S. Pp. xvi., 234: 1 Plate. [With

a Topographical Catalogue and an Alphabetical Index.]

1857, Svo. 3s.

Catalogue of the Coleopterous Insecis of the Canaries in the

Collection of the British Museum. By T. Vernon

Wollaston, M.A., F.L.8. Pp. xiii, 648. [With Topo-

graphical and Alphabetical Indexes.|] 1864, Svo. 10s. 6d.

Catalogue of Halticide in the Collection of the British

Museum. By the Rev. Hamlet Clark, M.A., F.LS.

Physapodes and (Cidipodes. Part I. Pp. xii, 301.

Frontispiece and 9 Plates. 1860, 8vo. 7s.

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Catalogue of Hispide in the Collection of the British

Museum. By Joseph S. Baly, M.E.S.,&c. Part I. Pp.x.,

ae 9 Plates. [With an Alphabetical Index.] 1858,

vo. 6s.

Hymenopterous Insects.

Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the

British Museum. By Frederick Smith. 12mo. :—

Part II. Apide. Pp. 199-465. 6 Plates. [With an

Alphabetical Index.] 1854. 6s.

Part III. Mutillidz and Pompilide. Pp.206. 6 Plates.

1855. 6s.

PartIV. Sphegide, Larride,and Crabronide. Pp. 207-

497. 6 Plates. [With an Alphabetical Index.] 1856.

6s.

Part V. Vespide. Pp.147. 6FPlates. [Withan Alpha-

betical Index.] 1857. 6s.

Part VII. Dorylide and Thynnide. Pp. 76. 3 Plates.

[With an Alphabetical Index.] 1859. 2s.

List of Hymenoptera, with descriptions and figures of the

Typical Specimens in the British Museum. Vol. L.,

Tenthredinide and Siricide. By W. F. Kirby.

Pp. xxviii., 450. 16 Coloured Plates. [With Systematic

and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1882, 8vo. 1d. 18s.

A Revision of the Ichneumonide, based on the Collection in

the British Museum (Natural History). With descriptions

of new Genera and Species. By Claude Morley, F.Z.S.,

F.E.S. :—

Part I. Tribes Ophionides and Metopiides. Pp. xi.,

88: 1 Coloured Plate. [With Systematic and Alpha-

betical Indexes.] 1912, 8vo. 4s.

Part II. Tribes Rhyssides, Echthromorphides, Anoma-

lides, and Paniscides. Pp. viii, 140. 1 Coloured

Plate. [With Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes,

&e.| 1918, 8vo. ds. 6d.

Dipterous Insects.

A Monograph of the Culicids, or Mosquitoes. Mainly com-

piled from the Collections received at the British Museum

from various parts of the world in connection with the

Investigation into the cause of Malaria conducted by the

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 15

Colonial Office and the Royal Society. By Fred. V.

Theobald, M.A., &c. :—

Vol. III. Pp. xvii., 359: 17 plates, 1 diagram, and 193

illustrations in text. 1903, 8vo. 11. 1s.

Vol. IV. Pp. xix., 639: 16 plates and 297 text-figures.

[ With Index.] 1907, 8vo. 1U. 12s. 6d.

Vol. V. Pp. xv., 646: 6 plates and 261 text-figures.

[ With Index.] 1910, 8vo. 1/. ds.

Handbook of the Tsetse-Flies [Genus Glossina]. By Ernest

Edward Austen. With 10 coloured plates and 24 text-

figures, by A. J. Engel Terzi, and 1 map. Pp. x., 110.

[ With Index.] 1911, roy. 8vo. 5s. 6d.

Illustrations of African Blood-sucking Flies other than

Mosquitoes and Tsetse-Flies. By Hrnest Edward Austen,

with coloured figures by Grace Edwards. Pp. xv., 221:

13 coloured plates, 3 text-figures. 1909, roy. 8vo.

li. 7s. 6d.

Lepidopterous Insects.

Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalene in the British

Museum. By Sir George F. Hampson, Bart. :—

Vol. I. Catalogue of the Syniomide. Pp. xxi., 559:

285 woodcuts. [With Systematic and Alphabetical

Indexes.] 1898, Svo. lds.

——Ailas of 17 Coloured Plates, Svo. 15s.

Vol. II. Catalogue of the Arctiade (Nolinz, Litho-

Siane). Pp. xx., 589: 411 woodcuts. [With Syste-

matic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1900, Svo. 18s.

Atlas of 18 Coloured Plates (xviii—xxxv.), 8vo. 15s.

Vol. ITI. Catalogue of the Arctiade (Arctiane) and

Agaristide. Pp. xix., 690: 294 woodcuts. [With

Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1901, 8vo. 15s.

Atlas of 19 Coloured Plates (xxxvi.—liv.), 8vo. 16s.

Vol. 1V. Catalogue of the Noctuide [Agrotine]. Pp.

xx., 689: 125 woodcuts. [With Systematic and

Alphabetical Indexes.] 1903, 8vo. 15s.

——aAtlas of 23 Coloured Plates (lv.-lxxvii.), vo. 16s.

Vol. V. Catalogue of the Noctuide [Hadenine]. Pp.

xvi., 634: 172 woodcuts. [With Systematic and

Alphabetical Indexes.] 1903, Svo. 15s.

— Atlas of 18 Coloured Plates (1xxviii.—xcv.), 8vo. 15s.

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Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phaleenzee—continued.

Vol. VI. Catalogue of the Noctuidee [Cuculliane]. Pp.

xiv., 532: 172 woodcuts. [With Systematic and

Alphabetical Indexes.] 1906, 8vo. 15s.

——Atlas of 12 Coloured Plates (xevi—cvii.), 8vo. 10s.

Vol. VII. Catalogue of the Noctuide [Acronyctine].

Pp. xv., 709: 184 woodcuts. [With Systematic and

Alphabetical Indexes.| 1908, 8vo. 17s.

——-Atlas of 15 Coloured Plates (cviii—cxxii.), Svo. lds.

Vol. VIII. Catalogue of the Noctuide [ Acronyctine, IT. ].

Pp. xiv., 583: 162 woodcuts. [With Table of the

Phylogeny of the Acronyctine, and Systematic and

Alphabetical Indexes.| 1909, 8vo. 15s.

Atlas of 14 Coloured Plates (exxiiil—cxxxvi.), 8vo.

is:

Vol. IX. Catalogue of the Noctuide [Acronyctine, III. ]

Pp. xv., 552: 247 woodcuts. [With Table of the

Phylogeny of the Acronyctine, and Systematic and

Alphabetical Indexes.] 1910, 8vo. 15s.

— Atlas of 11 Coloured Plates (cxxxvii.—cxlvii.), Svo.

12s.

Vol. X. Catalogue of the Noctuide [Hrastriane].

Pp. xix., 829: 214 woodcuts. [With Table of the

Phylogeny of the Erastriane, and Systematic and

Alphabetical Indexes.] 1910, 8vo. 1/.

—— Atlas of 26 Coloured Plates (cxlviii—clxxiii.). 1911],

Svo. 11.

Vol. XI. Catalogue of the Noctuide [Sub-families

Euteliane, Stictopterine, Sarrothripine, and Acon-

tiane.| Pp. xvii, 689: 275 woodeuts. [With

Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1912, 8vo. 14.

——Atlas of 16 Coloured Plates (clxxiv.—cxci.), 8vo.

is. 6d:

Vol. XII. Catalogue of the Noctuide [Sub-family

Catocaline, part]. Pp. xiii., 626: 134 woodcuts.

[With Table of the Phylogeny of the Catocalinz, and

Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1913, Svo.

17s. 6a.

——Atlas of 30 Coloured Plates (excii-cexxi.), 8vo.

1. 5s.

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 17

Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera

“ in the Collection of the British Museum :-—

Part V. By Arthur Gardiner Butler. Pp. xii., 74.

78-100 Coloured Plates. [With a Systematic Index.]

1881, 4to. 27. 10s.

Part VI. By Arthur Gardiner Butler. Pp. xv., 89.

101-120 Coloured Plates. [With a Systematic Index. ]

1886, 4to. 20. 4s.

Part VII. By Arthur Gardiner Butler. Pp. iv., 124.

121-188 Coloured Plates. [With a Systematic List. ]

1889, 4to. 27.

Part VIII. The Lepidoptera Heterocera of the Nilgiri

District. By George Francis Hampson. Pp. iv., 144.

139-156 Coloured Plates. [With a Systematic List. ]

1891, 4to. 20.

Part 1X. The Macrolepidoptera Heterocera of Ceylon.

By George Francis Hampson. Pp. v., 182. 157-176

Coloured Plates. [With a General Systematic List of

Species collected in, or recorded from, Ceylon.] 1893,

Ato. 21, 2s.

Catalogue of the Collection of Palearctic Butterflies formed

by the late John Henry Leech, and presented to the

Trustees of the British Museum by his Mother, Mrs. Hliza

Leech. By Richard South, F.H.S. Pp. vi., 228. 2 Coloured

Plates. With a Portrait and Biographical Memoir of Mr.

Leech. 1902, 4to. 1.

Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera described by Fabricius in

.- the Collection of the British Museum. By Arthur Gardiner

Butler, F.L.S., &c. Pp. iv., 308. 3 Plates. 1869, 8vo. 7s. 6d.

List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the

.. Collection of the British Museum. By Francis Walker.

12mo. :—

Part XXVIII. Tortricites and Tineites. Pp. 287-561.

1863. As.

Part XXXI. Supplement. Pp. 1-321. 1864. 5s.

Part XXXIII.— —-— Part 3. Pp. 707-1120.

1865. 6s.

Neuropterous Insects.

Catalogue of the Specimens of Neuropterous Insects in the

*. Collection of the British Museum. By Dr. H. Hagen.

Part I, Termitina. Pp. 34. 1858, 12mo. 6d.

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Orthopterous Insects.

Catalogue of Orthopterous Insects in the Collection of the

British Museum. PartI. Phasmide. By John Obadiah

Westwood, F.L.S., &c. Pp. 195. 48 Plates. [With an

Alphabetical Index.] 1859, 4to. 3/.

Catalogue of the Specimens of Blattariz in the Collection of

the British Museum. By Francis Walker, F.L.S., &c.

Pp. 239. [With an Alphabetical Index.] 1868, 8vo.

ds. 6d. f

Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the

Collection of the British Museum. By Francis Walker,

F.L.S., &c. :—

Part 1I. Locustide (continued). Pp. 225-423. [With

an Alphabetical Index.] 1869, 3vo. 4s. 6d.

Part ITI. Locustidz (continued).—Acridide. Pp. 425-

604. [With an Alphabetical Index.] 1870, 8vo. 4s.

Part IV. Acridide (continued). Pp. 605-809. [With

an Alphabetical Index.] 1870, 8vo. 6s.

Part V. Tettigide.—Supplement to the Catalogue of

Blattariz.—Supplement tothe Catalogue of Dermaptera

Saltatoria (with remarks on the Geographical Distri-

bution of Dermaptera). Pp. 811-850; 43; 116.

[ With Alphabetical Indexes.] 1870, svo. 6s.

Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. By W. F. Kirby :—

Vol. I. Orthoptera Huplexoptera, Cursoria, et Gres-

soria. (Forticulide, Hemimeride, Blattide, Mantide,

Phasmide.) Pp. x., d5U1. [With Index.] 1904,

dSvo. 10s.

Vol. If. Orthoptera Saltatoria, Part I. (Achetide et

Phasgonuride.) Pp. viii., 562. [With Index.] - 1906,

Svo. lds.

Vol. III. Orthoptera Saltatoria, Part I]. (Locustide

vel Acridiide.) Pp. vii., 674. [With Index.] 1910,

ovo. 1.

Homopterous Insects.

A Synonymic Catalogue of Homoptera. Part I. Cicadide

By W. L, Distant. Pp. 207. [Index.] 1906, Svo. 5s.

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 19

VERMHES.

Catalogue of the Species of Entozoa, or Intestinal Worms,

contained in the Collection of the British Museum. By

Dr. Baird. Pp. iv., 132. 2 Plates. [With an Index of

the Animals in which the Entozoa mentioned in the

Catalogue are found, and an Index of Genera and

Species.] 1853, 12mo. 2s.

Catalogue of the Chetopoda in the British Museum (Natural

History). A. Polycheta: Part I—Arenicolide. By J.

H. Ashworth, D.Sc. Pp. xii., 175. 15 Plates, 68 Text-

figures. [With Systematic and General Indexes, List of

ema Ures, Description of Plates, &c.] 1912, roy. 8vo.

l. 7s. 6d.

ANTHOZOA.

Catalogue of Sea-pens or Pennatulariids in the Collection of

the British Museum. By J. E. Gray, F.R.S., &c. Pp. iv.,

40. 2 Woodcuts. 1870, 8vo. Is. 6d.

Catalogue of Lithophytes or Stony Corals in the Collection

of the British Museum. By J. H. Gray, F.R.S., &e.

Pp. iv., 51. 14 Woodeuts. 1870, 8vo. 3s.

Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British

Museum (Natural History) :—

Vol. I. The Genus Madrepora. By George Brook.

Pp. xi., 212. 35 Collotype Pilates. [With Systematic

and Alphabetical Indexes, and Explanation of the

Plates.] 1893, 4to. 10. 4s.

Vol. II. The Genus Turbinaria; the Genus Astraopora.

By Henry M. Bernard, M.A. Cantab., F.L.S., F.Z.8.

Pp. iv., 106. 30 Collotype and 3 Lithographic Plates.

[With Index of Generic and Specific Names, and

Explanation of the Plates.] 1896, 4to. 18s.

Vol. III. The Genus Montipora; the Genus Anacro-

pora. By Henry M. Bernard, M.A., &c. Pp. vii., 192.

30 Collotype and 4 Lithographic Plates. [With Syste-

matic Index, Index of Generic and Specific Names,

and Hxplanation of the Plates.] 1897, 4to. 1/. 4s.

Vol. IV. The Family Poritide. I.—The Genus

Goniopora. By Henry M. Bernard, M.A. Pp. viii.,

206. 12 Collotype and 4 Lithographic Plates. [With

Index of Generic and Specific Names, and Explanation

of the Plates.] 1903, 4to. 1.

Vol. V. The Family Poritide. II—The Genus Porites.

Part I.—Porites of the Indo-Pacific Region. By

Henry M. Bernard, M.A. Pp. vi., 303. 35 Plates.

[With Index of Generic and Specific Names and

Explanation of the Plates.] 1905, 4to. 1/. 15s.

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Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British

Museum (Natural History)—continued.

Vol. VI. The Family Poritide. I1.—The Genus Porites.

Part II.—Porites of the Atlantic and West Indies, with

the European Fossil Forms. The Genus Goniopora,

a supplement to Vol.ITV. By Henry M. Bernard, M.A.

Pp. vi., 173. 16 Collotype and 1 Lithographic Plates.

[With Index of Generic and Specific Names, and

iixplanation of the Plates.] 1906, 4to. 17.

BRITISH ANIMALS.

Catalogue of British Birds in the Collection of the British

Museum. By George Robert Gray, F.L.8., F.Z.8., &c.

Pp. xii., 248. [Witha List of Species.] 1863, 8vo. 3s. 6d.

Catalogue of the British Species of Pisidium (Recent and

Fossil) in the Collections of the British Museum (Natural

History), with Notes on those of Western Hurope. By

B. B. Woodward, F.L.S., &c. Pp. ix., 144. 30 Plates.

[ With Bibliography and Index.] 1913, 8vo. 10s. 6d.

Catalogue of British Hymenoptera in the Collection of the

British Museum. Second edition. Part I. Andrenide

and Apide. By Frederick Smith, M.H.8S. New issue

Pp. xi. 236. 11 Plates. [With Systematic and Alpha-

betical Index.] 1891, 8vo. 6s.

Catalogue of British Fossorial Hymenoptera, Formicide, and

Vespide in the Collection of the British Museum. By

Frederick Smith, V.P.H.S. Pp. 236. 6 Plates. [With an

Alphabetical Index.] 1858, 12mo. 6s.

Catalogue of British Hymenoptera of the Family Chalcididee

By Claude Morley, F.2Z.8., F.E.8S. Pp. 74. [Index.]

1910, 8vo. 3s. 6d. -

Illustrations of British Blood-sucking Flies, with notes by

Ernest Edward Austen, Assistant, Department of Zoology,

British Museum (N.H.). Pp. 74. 34 Coloured Plates.

1906, roy. 8vo. ll. ds.

A Catalogue of the British Non-parasitical Worms in the

Collection of the British Museum. By George Johnston,

M.D., Hdin., F.R.C.L., Hd., Lu.D., Marischal Coll., Aber-

deen, &. Pp. 365. Woodcuts and 24 Plates. [With an

Alphabetical Index.] 1865, 8vo. 7s.

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 21

Catalogue of the British Hchinoderms in the British Museum

(Natural History). By F.Jeffrey Bell, M.A. Pp. xvii., 202.

Woodcuts and 16 Plates (2 Coloured). [With Table of

Contents, Tables of Distribution, Alphabetical Index,

Description of the Plates, &c.] 1892, 8vo. 12s. 6d.

List of the Specimens of British Animals in the Collection

of the British Museum; with Synonyma and References

to figures. 12mo.:—

Part V. Lepidoptera. By J.F. Stephens. 2nd Edition.

Revised by H. T. Stainton and H.Shepherd. Pp. iv.,

2242 el Soonmelisn 9a:

Part VI. Hymenoptera. By F.Smith. Pp.134. 3851. 2s.

Part VII. Moilusca, Acephala and Brachiopoda. By

Drake Crayeu epedives Loman Looe nosetod.

Part VIII. Fish. By Adam White. Pp. xxiii., 164.

(With Index and List of Donors.) 1851. 3s. 6d.

Part XI. Anoplura, or Parasitic Insects. By H. Denny.

Ppa velar So eae alist

Part XII. Lepidoptera (continued). By James F.

Stephens. Pp.iv., 54. 1852. 9d.

Part XIII. Nomenclature of Hymenoptera. By

Frederick Smith. Pp.iv., 74. 1853. 1s. 4d.

Part XIV. Nomenclature of Neuroptera. By Adam

White. Pp. iv., 16. 1853. 6d.

Part XV. Nomenclature of Diptera, I. By Adam

White. Pp. iv., 42. 1853. Is.

Part XVI. Lepidoptera (completed). By H.T. Stainton.

Pp. 199. [With an Index.] 1854. 3s.

PLANTS.

Illustrations of Australian Plants collected in 1770 during

Captain Cook’s Voyage round the World in H.M:S.

“ Hndeavour.” By the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks,

Bart., K.B., P.R.S., and Dr. Daniel Solander, F.R.S.

[Being a series of lithographic reproductions of copper-

plates engraved after paintings by F. P. Nodder, James

Miller, J. F. Miller, and John Cleveley.] With Introduc-

tion and Determinations by James Britten, ¥'.L.S., Senior

Assistant, Department of Botany, British Museum :—

Part I.—I101 Plates, with 31 pages of descriptive text.

1900, fol. 17. ds.

Part IIl.—142 Plates (pls. 101-243), with 41 pages of

descriptive text (pp. 35-75). 1901, fol. 17. 15s.

22 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE

Illustrations of Australian Plants &¢.—continued.

Part III.—77 Plates (pls. 244-318, 45a, and 122), with

26 pages of descriptive text, including Index to the

whole work (pp. 77-102),and 3maps. 1905, fol. 1. 5s.

Catalogue of the African Plants collected by Dr. Friedrich

Welwitsch in 1853-61 :—

Vol. I. Dicotyledons. By William Philip Hiern, M.A.

ELS. &C. -—

Part I. [Ranunculacez to Rhizophoracee.] Pp.

xxvi., 5386. [With Portrait of Dr. Welwitsch.

Introduction, Bibliography, and Index of Genera. |

1896, 8vo. 7s. 6d.

Part If. Combretacee to Rubiacex. Pp. 337-510.

| With Index of Genera.] 1898, &vo. 4s.

Part III. Dipsaceze to Scrophulariacee. Pp. 511-

784. [With Index of Genera.] 1898, 8vo. 5s.

Part IV. Lentibulariaceze to Ceratophyllew. Pp. 785-

1035. [With Index.] 1900, 8vo. 5s.

Vol. Il. Monocotyledons, Gymnosperms, and Crypito-

zams :—

Part I. Monocotyledons and Gymnosperms. By

Alfred Barton Rendle, M.A., D.Sc., F.L.S., Assis-

tant, Department of Botany. Pp. 260. [With

Index of Genera.] 1899, 8vo. 6s.

Part II. Cryptogamia. Pp. 261-566. [With Table

of Errata, and General Index to the whole work. |

1901, 8vo. 6s.

Maseulan eeu ... By William Carruthers, F.R.S.

Mosses sh -. ,, Antony Gepp, M.A., F. L, Ss.

Hepatics ... ee .. ,, EF. Stephani.

Marine Algz

900 » Mthel S. Barton.

Freshwater Algee ..

1) 2 We West) PAWS), and, &:

West, B.A.

Diatomacese 3 --- », Thomas Comber, F.L:S.

Lichenes ... Sate .. », H. A. Wainio.

Fungi -. ,, Annie Lorrain Smith,

Mycetozoa ... », Arthur Lister, F.R.S.

Catalogue of the Plants collected ae Mr. and) Mrs. PB. A.

Talbot in the Oban District, South Nigeria. By A. B.

Rendle, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., Eh. G. Baker, F.L.S., H. F.

Wernham, B.8c., 8. Moore, F.L.S., and others. Pp.x., 157 :

17 Plates. [With Index and List of Plates.] 1913, Svo. 9s.

Flora of Jamaica, containing descriptions of the Flowering

Plants known from the Island. By William Faweett,

B.8e., F.L.S., ete., and A. B. Rendle, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.,

F.L.S., etc. Vol.1. Orchidacee. Pp. xx., 150: 32 Plates.

[With Index of Genera and Species. ] 1910, 8vo.

10s. 6d.

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 23

Synopsis of the British Basidiomycetes: a Descriptive

Catalogue of the Drawings and Specimens in the Depart-

ment of Botany, British Museum. By Worthington George

Smith, F.L.8S. Pp. 531. 5 Plates and 145 Figures in

Text. [With Index.] 1908, 8vo. 10s.

A Monograph of the British Lichens : a Descriptive Cata-

logue of the Species in the Department of Botany, British

Museum. Part II. By Annie Lorrain Smith, F.L.S.

Pp. [viii.,] 409: 59 Plates. [With List of Plates, Glossary,

and Index.] 1911, 8vo. 1J.

A Monograph of the Mycetozoa: a Descriptive Catalogue

of the Species in the Herbarium of the British Museum.

By Arthur), Master; F-.R.S., W.L.S. Second LEHdition,

revised by Gulielma Lister, F.L.S. Pp. 302. 201 Plates

(120 coloured). 56 Woodcuts. [With Indexes, Biblio-

eraphy, Glossary, etc.] 1911, 8vo. 1/. 10s.

List of British Diatomacez in the Collection of the British

Museum. By the Rev. W. Smith, F.L.S., &c. Pp. iv., 55.

1859, 12mo. Is.

FOSSILS.

Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum

(Natural History). By Richard Lydekker, B.A., F.G.S8.:—

Part I. Containing the Orders Primates, Chiroptera,

Insectivora, Carnivora, and Rodentia. Pp. xxx., 268.

33 Woodcuts. [With Systematic and Alphabetical

Indexes.] 1885, 8vo. 5s.

Part II. Containing the Order Ungulata, Suborder

Artiodactyla. Pp. xxii., 324. 39 Woodecuts. [With

Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1885, 8vo. 6s.

Part III. Containing the Order Ungulata, Suborders

Perissodactyla, Toxodontia, Condylarthra, and Ambly-

poda. Pp.xvi.,186. 30 Woodcuts. [With Systematic

Tdex, and Alphabetical Index of Genera and Species,

including Synonyms.] 1886, 8vo. 4s.

Part IV. Containing the Order Ungulata, Suborder

Proboscidea. Pp. xxiv., 235. 32 Woodcuts. [With

Systematic Index, and Alphabetical index of Genera

and Species, including Synonyms.] 1886, 8vo. 5s.

Part V. Containing the Group Tillodontia, the Orders

Sirenia, Cetacea, Hdentata, Marsupialia, Monotremata,

and Supplement. Pp. xxxv., 345. 955 Woodcuts.

[With Systematic Index, and Alphabetical Index of

Generaand Species, including Synonyms. | 1887, 8vo. 6s.

Catalogue of the Fossil Birds in the British Museum (Natural

History). By Richard Lydekker, B.A. Pp. xxvii., 368.

75 Woodeuts. [With Systematic Index, and Alphabetical

Index of Genera and Species, including Synonyms.] 1891,

Svo. 10s. 6d.

24 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE

Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British

Museum (Natural History). By Richard Lydekker, B.A.,

F.G.S. :—

Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia,

Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Pro-

terosauria. Pp. xxviii., 309. 69 Woodeuts. [With

Systematic Index, and Alphabetical Index of Genera

and Species, including Synonyms.] 1888, 8vo. 7s. 6d.

Part II. Containing the Orders Ichthyopterygia and

Sauropterygia. Pp. xxi., 307. 85 Woodcuts. [With

Systematic Index, and Alphabetical Index of Genera

and Species, including Synonyms.] 1889, 8vo. 7s. 6d.

Part III. Containing the Order Chelonia. Pp. xviii.,

239. 53 Woodcuts. [With Systematic Index, and

Alphabetical Index of Genera and Species including

Synonyms.| 1889, 8vo. 7s. 6d.

Part IV. Containing the Orders Anomodontia, Ecaudata,

Caudata, and Labyrinthodontia; and Supplement.

Pp. xxiii, 295. 66 Woodcuts. [With Systematic

Index, Alphabetical Index of Genera and Species,

including Synonyms, and Alphabetical Index of Genera

and Species to the entire work.] 1890, 8vo. 7s. 6d.

A descriptive Catalogue of the Marine Reptiles of the

Oxford Clay. Based on the Leeds Collection in the

_ British Museum (Natural History), London. By C. W.

Andrews, D.Sc., F.R.S. :—

Part I. Families Ophthalmosauride, Klasmosauride.

Pp. xxiii, 205: 94 Text-figures, 11 Plates. [With

Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes, List of [lus-

trations, Explanations of Plates, &c.] 1910, 4to. ll. 5s.

Part II. Families Pliosauride, Teleosauride, and

Geosauride. Pp. xxiv., 206: 73 Text-figures, 14

Plates. [With Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes,

List of Illustrations in Text, Explanations of Plates,

&¢.| 1913, 4to. 1/. ds.

Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural

History). By Arthur Smith Woodward, LLD., F.R.S.,

E.G.S., &c. :-—

Part I. Containing the Elasmobranchii. Pp. xlvii.,

A474. 13 Woodcuts and 17 Plates. [With Alphabetical

Index, and Systematic Index of Genera and Species. ]

1889, 8vo. 17. 1s.

Part II. Containing the Elasmobranchii (Acanthodii),

Holocephali, Ichthyodorulites, Ostracodermi, Dipnoi,

and Teleostomi (Crossopterygii and Chondrestean

Actinopterygii). Pp. xliv., 567. 58 Woodcuts and

16 Plates. [With Alphabetical Index, and Systematic

Index of Genera and Species.] 1891, 8vo. 1/. Is.

BRITISH MUSHUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 25

Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural

History)—continued,

Part III. Containing the Actinopterygian Teleostomi —

of the Orders Chondrostei (concluded), Protospondyli,

Aetheospondyli, and Isospondyli (in part). Pp. xlii.,

044, 45 Woodcuts and 18 Plates. [With Alphabetical

Index, and Systematic Index of Genera and Species. }

1895, 8vo. 12. 1s.

Part IV. Containing the Actinopterygian Teleostomi of

the Suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi,

Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii,

and Anacanthini. Pp. xxxix., 636. 22 Woodcuts

and 19 Plates. [With Alphabetical Index, and

Systematic Index of Genera and Species.] 1901,

Svo. 1. Is.

A descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of the

Faytim, Hgypt. Based on the Collection of the Hgyptian

Government in the Geological Museum, Cairo, and on the

Collection in the British Museum (Natural History),

London. By C. W. Andrews, D.Sc. Pp. xxxvii., 324:

98 Text Figures and 26 Plates. [With Systematic and

Alphabetical Indexes.] 1906, 4to. 1/. 15s.

Systematic List of the Hdwards Collection of British Oligocene

and Hocene Mollusca in the British Museum (Natural

History), with references to the type-specimens from

similar horizons contained in other collections belonging

to the Geological Department of the Museum. By Richard

Bullen Newton, F.G.S. Pp. xxviii., 365. [With table of

Families and Genera, Bibliography, Correlation-table,

Appendix, and Alphabetical Index.] 1891, 8vo. 6s.

Catalogue of Tertiary Mollusca in the Department of Geology,

British Museum (Natural History). Part I. The Austra-

lasian Tertiary Mollusca. By George F. Harris, F.G.S., &c.

Pp. xxvi., 407. 8 Plates. [With Table of Families, Genera,

and Sub-Genera, and Index.] 1897, 8vo. 10s.

Catalogue of the Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum

(Natural History) :—

Part I. Containing part of the Suborder Nautiloidea, con-

sisting of the families Orthoceratide, Endoceratide,

Actinoceratide, Gomphoceratide, Ascoceratide,

Poterioceratids, Cyrtoceratide, and Supplement. By

Arthur H. Foord, F.G.S. Pp. xxxi., 344. 51 Woodeuts.

[ With Systematic Index, and Alphabetical Index of

Genera and Species, including Synonyms.| 1858,

Svo. 10s. 6d.

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Catalogue of the Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum

(Natural History )—continued.

Part II. Containing the remainder of the Suborder

Nautiloidea, consisting of the families Lituitide,

Trochoceratidz, Nautilide, and Supplement. By

Arthur H. Foord, ¥.G.S. Pp. xxviii., 407. 86 Wood-

cuts. [With Systematic Index, and Alphabetical

Index of Genera and Species, including Synonyms. |

1891, 8vo. 15s.

Part III. Containing the Bactritide, and part of the

Suborder Ammonoidea. By Arthur H. Foord, Ph.D.,

¥.G.8., and George Charles Crick, A.R.S.M., F.G.S.

Pp. xxxiii., 303. 146 Woodcuts. [With Systematic

Index of Genera and Species, and Alphabetical Index. ]

1897, 8vo. 12s. 6d.

List of the Types and Figured Specimens of Fossil Cephalopoda

in the British Museum (Natural History). By G. C. Crick,

F.G.S. Pp. 103. [With Index.] 1898, 8vo. 2s. 6d.

A Catalogue of British Fossil Crustacea, with their Synonyms

and the Range in Time of each Genus and Order. By

Elenry Woodward, (WE -RIS() Pps tose): (\\atcoeeam

Alphabetical Index.] 1877, 8vo. 5s.

Catalogue of the Fossil Bryozoa in the Department of

Geology, British Museum (Natural History):—

The Jurassic Bryozoa. By J. W. Gregory, D.Sc., F.G.S.,

F.Z.S. Pp. [viii.,] 239 : 22 Woodeuts and 11 Plates.

[ With List of Species and Distribution, Bibliography,

Index, and Explanation of Plates.} 1896, 8vo. 10s.

The Cretaceous Bryozoa. By J. W. Gregory, D.Sce.,

F.R.S., &c. :—

Vol. I. Pp. xiv., 457: 64 Woodcuts and 17 Plates.

[With Index and Explanation of Plates.] 1899,

° Svo. 16s.

Vol. 11. Pp. xlviii., 346. 75 Woodcuts and 9 Plates.

[With List of Localities, Bibliography, Subject

and Systematic Indexes, and Explanaticn of

Plates.] 1909, 8vo. 13s.

Catalogue of the Blastoidea in the Geological Department of

the British Museum (Natural History), with an account of

the morphology and systematic position of the group, and

a revision of the genera and species. By Robert Etheridge,

jun., of the Department of Geology, British Museum

(Natural History), and P. Herbert Carpenter, D.Sc., F.R.S.,

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 20

F.L.S. (of Eton College). Pp. xv.,322. 20 Plates. [With

Preface by Dr. H. Woodward, Table of Contents, General

Index, Explanations of the Plates, &c.] 1886, 4to. 1/. 5s.

The Genera and Species of Blastoidea, with a List of the

Specimens in the British Museum (Natural History). By

F. A. Bather, M.A., F.G.S., of the Geological Department.

Epa x0. NVOOdCtty OID. eVvio" aS.

Catalogue of the Paleozoic Plants in the Department of

Geology and Paleontology, British Museum (Natural

History). By Robert Kidston, F.G.S8. Pp. viii., 288.

ee a list of works quoted, and an Index.] 1886,

VO. OS.

Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the Department of

Geology, British Museum (Natural History). By

A. C. Seward, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., University Lecturer

in Botany and Fellow of Emanuel College, Cambridge :—

Part I. The Wealden Flora. Part I. Thallophyta—

Pteridophyta. Pp. xxxviii., 179. 17 Woodcuits and

11 Plates. [With Alphabetical Index, Explanations

of the Plates, &c.] 1894, Svo. 10s.

Part II. The Wealden Flora. Part ll. Gymnosperme.

Pp. viii., 259. 9 Woodeuts and 20 Plates. [With

Alphabetical Index, Explanations of the Plates, &c.]

1895, 8vo. 15s.

Part III. The Jurassic Flora. Part I. The Yorkshire

Coast. Pp. xii., 341. 53 Woodcuts and 21 Plates.

[ With Alphabetical Index, Explanations of the Plates,

&e.]| 1900, 8vo. 17.

Part IV. The Jurassic Flora. I[1.—Liassic and

Oolitic Floras of England (excluding the Inferior

Oolite Plants of the Yorkshire Coast). Pp. xv., 192.

20 Woodecuts and 13 Plates. [With Alphabetical

Index, Explanations of the Plates, &c.] 1904, 8vo. 10s.

Catalogue of the Fossil Plants of the Glossopteris Flora in

the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural

History). Being a Monograph of the Permo-carboniferous

Flora of India and the Southern Hemisphere. By KH. A.

Newell Arber, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S. Pp. Ixxiv., 255: 51

Text-Figures and 8 Plates. [With Bibliography and

Alphabetical Index.] 1905, 8vo. 12s. 6d.

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GUIDE-BOOKS, ETc.

General Guide to the British Museum (Natural History),

Cromwell Road, London, S.W. Thirteenth Edition. With

58 text-figures, 2 plans, 2 views of the building, and an

illustrated cover. Pp. x., 121. 1913, 8vo. 3d.

Guide to the Specimens illustrating the Races of Mankind

(Anthropology), exhibited in the Department of Zoology,

British Museum (Natural History). Second KHdition.

[By R. Lydekker, F.R.S.] Illustrated by 16 Figures.

Pp. 35. 1912,8vo. 4d.

Guide to the Galleries of Mammals (other than Ungulates)

in the Department of Zoology of the British Museum

(Natural History). Highth Edition. Pp. 101. 52

Woodcuts and 4 plans. Index. 1906, 8vo. 6d.

Guide to the Specimens of Great Game Animals (Ungulata)

exhibited in the Department of Zoology, British Museum

(Natural History). Second Hdition. [By R. Lydekker,

F.R.S.] Pp. 95. 53 Text and other figures. With list

of Horns, Antlers and Tusks, and Index. 1913, 8vo. Is.

Guide to the Elephants (Recent and Fossil) exhibited in

the Department of Geology and Paleontology in the British

Museum (Natural History). [By Dr. C. W. Andrews,

pen Illustrated by 31 text-figures. Pp. 46. 1908,

vo. 6d.

Guide to the Specimens of the Horse Family (Kquide)

exhibited in the Department of Zoology, British Museum

(Natural History). [By R. Lydekker, F.R.S.] Pp. 42.

26 Figures. 1907, 8vo. 1s.

Guide to the Domesticated Animals (other than Horses)

exhibited in the Central and North Halls of the British

Museum (Natural History). Second Kdition. [By R.

Lydekker, F.R.S.] Illustrated by 25 Figures. Pp. 56.

[ With table of Contents, List of Illustrations, and Index. ]

1912, Svo. 6d.

Guide to the Whales, Porpoises, and Dolphins (order Cetacea)

exhibited in the Department of Zoology, British Museum

(Natural History). [By R. Lydekker, F.R.S.] Illustrated

by 33 Figures. Pp. 47. [With Index.] 1909, 8vo. 4d.

Guide to the Gallery of Birds in the Department of

Zoology, British Museum (Natural History). [By W. R.

Ogilvie Grant.] Second Edition. Pp. iv., 228. 25 Plates,

and 7 Illustrations in text. [With Index.] 1910, 4to.

2s. 6d

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 29

_ Guide to the Gallery of Birds in the Department of Zoology

British Museum (Natural History). [By W. R. Ogilvie

Grant. ] :-—

Part I. General Series. Pp. 149. [With Index.]

1905, 4to. 6d.

Part II. Nesting Series of British Birds. Second

Hdition. Pp. 62. 4 Plates. [Index.] 1909, 4to. 4d.

Guide to the Gallery of Reptilia and Amphibia in the

Department of Zoology of the British Museum (Natural

History). [By R. Lydekker, F.R.S.] Illustrated by

76 text and other Figures. Second Edition. Pp. iv., 85.

[ With Table of Contents and Index.] 1913, 8vo. Is.

Guide to the Gallery of Fishes in the Department of Zoology

of the British Museum (Natural History). [By Dr. W. G.

Ridewood.| Illustrated by 96 Figures. Pp. v., 209.

[With Preface by Sir E. Ray Lankester, Table. of

Classification, and Index.] 1908, 8vo..1s.

Guide to the British Vertebrates Exhibited in the Depart-

ment of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).

[By W. P. Pyeraft.]) Pp. iv., 122. 26 Text-Figures,

1 Plan. [With Index.] 1910, 8vo. 1s.

Guide to the exhibited series of Insects in the Department

of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History). By C. 0.

Waterhonse. Second Edition. Pp. 65: 62 text- and full-

page Illustrations. [With Table of Contents and Index. ]

1909, 8vo. Is.

Guide to the Crustacea, Arachnida, Onychophora and My-

riopoda exhibited in the Department of Zoology, British

Museum (Natural History). (By W. T. Calman, D.Sc.,

A.S. Hirst, and F. J. Bell.) Pp. 183: 90 Text-Figures.

[With Table of Contents and Index.] 1910, 8vo. 1s.

Guide to the Sheli and Starfish Galleries (Mollusca, Polyzoa,

Brachiopoda, 'Tunicata, Echinoderma, and Worms),

Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).

Fifth Edition. Pp. iv., 183. 125 Woodcuts, Plan, and

Indexes. 1908, 8vo. 6d.

Guide to the Coral Gallery (Protozoa, Porifera or Sponges,

Hydrozoa, and Anthozoa) in the Department of Zoology,

British Museum (Natural History). Second LHdition.

Pp. [iv., 8] 73. 90 Illustrations, Plan, and Index.

1907, 8vo. 1s.

A Guide to the Fossil Mammals and Birds in the Department

of Geology and Paleontology in the British Museum

(Natural History). Ninth Edition. [By A. 8. Woodward,

LL.D., F.R.S.] Pp. xvi. 100. 6 Plates, 88 Text-Figures.

[ With List of Illustrations, Table of Stratified Rocks, and

Index.| 1909, 8vo. 6d.

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A Guide to the Fossil Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fishes in

the Department of Geology and Paleontology in the

British Museum (Natural History). Ninth Edition. [By

A. 8S. Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S.] Pp. xviii. 110. 8 Plates

and 116 Text-Figures. [With Table of Contents, Lists of

Illustrations, Geological Time-Scale, and Index.] 1910,

Svo. 9d.

A Guide to the Fossil Invertebrate Animals in the Depart-

ment of Geology and Palzontology in the British Museum

(Natural History). [By F. A. Bather, D.S¢., F-R.S.]

Second Edition. Pp.x.,183. 7 Plates and 96 Text-Figures.

[With List of Illustrations, Geological Time-scale, and

iimdlex.4) ALOE Siosdlis:

A Guide to the Mineral Gallery of the British Museum

(Natural History). Eleventh Hdition. Pp. 32. Plan.

GUMS vostas

The Student’s Index to the Collection of Minerals, British

Museum (Natural History). Twenty-fourth Edition.

Pp. 36. [With a Plan of the Mineral Gallery.] 1911.

8vo. 2d.

An Introduction to the Study of Minerals, with a Guide to

the Mineral Gallery of the British Museum (Natural

History). By L. Fletcher, M.A., ¥.R.S. Thirteenth Hdition.

Pp. 123. 41 Woodecuts. [With Plan of the Mineral

Gallery and Index.] 1910, 8vo. 6d.

An introduction to the Study of Rocks and Guide to the

Museum Collection. Fourth Edition. By L. Fletcher,

M.A., F.R.S. Pp. 155. [With Plan of the Mineral Gallery,

Table of Contents, and Index.] 1909, 8vo. Is.

An Introduction to the Study of Meteorites, with a List of the

Meteorites represented in the Collection. By L. Fletcher,

M.A., F.R.S., &. Tenth Edition. Pp. 120. [With a Plan

of the Mineral Gallery, and an Index to the Meteorites

represented in the Collection.] 1908, 8vo. 6d.

List of British Seed-plants and Ferns exhibited in the

Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History).

[By A. B. Rendle, D.Sc., F.R.S., and J. Britten, F.L.S.]

With table of Sequence of Orders, and Index of Genera.

Pp. 44. 1907, 8vo. 4d.

Guide to Sowerby’s Models of British Fungi in the De-

partment of Botany, British Museum (Natural History).

Second Edition, revised. By Worthington G. Smith, F.1.S.

Pp. 85. 91 Woodcuts. [With Table of Diagnostic

Characters, Glossary, and Index.] 1908, 8vo. 4d.

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History). Pp. 24: 2 Plates, containing 28 coloured

fioures ; 4 text-Figures. 1910, 8vo., 1s.

Guide to the British Mycetozoa exhibited in the Department

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Lister, F.R.S.] Third Edition, revised. Pp. 49. 46

Woodeuts. Index. 1909, 8vo. 3d.

SPECIAL GUIDES.

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- Pp. 19. 4 Plates. 1909, 8vo. 4d.

No. 4.—Memorials of Charles Darwin: a Collection of

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Origin of Species.” (Second Hdition.) [By W.G. Ride-

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Flight. Pp. viii., 80. 1 Plate, 44 Text-figures. [With List

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR COLLECTORS.

Handbook of Instructions for Collectors, issued by the

.’ British Museum (Natural History). With Illustrations.

Third Edition. Pp. 144. Index. 1906, 8vo. Is. 6d.

Instructions for Collectors :—

No. 1.—Mammals. Fourth Edition. Pp. 8. Text illust.

1912, 8vo. 3d.

No. 2.—Birds and their Eggs. Fifth Edition. Pp. 13.

6 Text-figures. 1912, 8vo. 3d.

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No. 4.—Insects. Fifth Edition. Pp. 11. Text illust.

1911, 8vo. 3d.

No. 5.—Diptera (Two-winged Flies). Third Edition.

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No. 6.—Mosquitoes (Culicidz). [Third Hdition.] Pp. 8.

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No. 1.—The House-Fly as a Danger to Health. Its Life-

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