hart Sek ds) BEE te Goats i { it a ite neste Ce rh ~ ood sett peal ped arte gripe Bre orl teeter f Fee ee, LIBRARY OF THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. Ae CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTERA PHALAGN AG IN TUE BRITISH MUSEUM. VOLUME XIII. LONDON: PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES, 1913. (All rights reserved.) CATALOGUE NOC Uo ly 7 IN THE COLLECTION OF THH BRITISH MUSEUM. BY Sir GEORGE F, HAMPSON, Bart. ORNEDRORNE PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES. SOLD BY LONGMANS, GREEN & Co., 59 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.; B. QUARITCH, 11 GRAFTON STREET, NEW BOND STREET, W. DULAU & Co., Lrp., 37 SOHO SQUARE, W.; AND AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) CROMWELL ROAD, S.W. 1913, PRINTED BY ane RED LION COURT, ¢ F al * 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. Pa 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 x1 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 OF 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 Ayal @INEWE) cooosbanonnseadnonesoser 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 ENG! DOWIE ssaonodsncnannabeanodsanoo9ns5 “wT 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 andelaxpelspotqabovertor nus iiecacsee secretes ace eeeeteeeeeeee regalis, 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 HOMIAICIS BNE — soacoacqoccnsa9a000000bvcHcHDEcoDacHdOGCoLonr 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 obsolescemty ceuangeses nesses ensaeeseeeae eases 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. : a2) Hind wines iuscousibnowileeesessseeesee cet eeeeece (PL, VEU sins RIT OUS WEMONY ccoscovosocesazaceasaesscbo08 1, Fore wing with the medial band excuryed in the cell and incurved below it. a?, Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique below (IDI ORME, noonacccovoccondsoodoosoodboodeoosado0cde0a0G00¢ v2, Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved lbellOuP (NS COB coocoadocadsocsncoganonsosoooc0n0005 on0060 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 1 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. c2 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. i) cr 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 p2 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 S 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 TAO MIBOUIENE ooosconosnocceonconnbsbeocds0RSL5G00g00000000 poneot000 ANNEXG. 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. E2 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 WORT OIRED coopcogq00000009890600900000006 pg bossoenocsoonoueSCe so macrostidsa. 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, © 48 millim. 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, VOL. XIiT. E 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 TATE ao900p00000¢080b0009000000s so 5ne00000n 000000 00eRqD0G8q00006 togataria, 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 E2 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. Ss N 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.) ay 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 Be 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). § Ga 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. e 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. i Ws oe 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 96 NOCTUID®. 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 H 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. }- 1 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. it 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. it 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. } 1: 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. S 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 K 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. 2 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 Le 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 i 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 Li 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 <