CRINODES.—RHUDA. 247 
legs pale greyish-brown. Female similar to the male, but lighter in colour. Expanse, ¢, 2? inches; 
Q , 3¢ inches. 
Hab. Guatemata, Panima in Vera Paz (Champion). 
This fine insect is very distinct from all the other described species of the genus, the 
primaries being very differently coloured. 
OPHITIS. 
Ophitis, Felder, Reise d. Nov. Lep. t. 97. f. 10, Erkl. der Taf. 75 bis 107, p. 7 (1874). 
Felder founded this genus upon a single species, O. magnaria, from Guiana; I have 
now to add a second from the State of Panama. Ophitis appears to be closely allied to 
Dudusa, Walker, a genus containing a single species, from North China. 
1. Ophitis cyllota, sp.n. (Tab. XXV. fig. 14.) 
Primaries of a uniform fawn-colour, thickly irrorated with dark brown scales (especially near the outer 
margin), and with two indistinct whitish lines at the end of the cell; secondaries reddish fawn-colour, 
thickly irrorated with dark brown and whitish scales near the anal angle and along part of the inner 
margin, a small black streak at the anal angle; the underside of both wings pale fawn-colour, thickly 
speckled with dark brown scales: head and thorax brownish fawn-colour; abdomen above pale greyish, 
the base brownish fawn-colour, each segment broadly banded with black, the anus yellowish fawn-colour, 
beneath dark brown; antenne, palpi, and legs brown. Expanse 4 inches. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 
One specimen. This insect is allied to O. magnaria, Felder, from which it is at once 
distinguished by the uniform colour of the primaries, and the entire absence of the 
black margin from the secondaries, and also by the black bands on the abdomen; it 
moreover differs in many of the minor markings on the primaries, 
RHUDA. 
Rhuda, Walker, Cat. xi. p. 621. 
Walker founded this genus upon a single species, R. basifera, from Rio Janeiro, and 
placed it in the Noctuide; it appears to me to belong to the Notodontide, and I 
accordingly place it in that family. 
1. Rhuda splendens, sp. n. (Tab. XXV. fig. 13, 2.) 
Primaries greenish-brown, with a silvery-white crescent-shaped mark extending from near the base to the 
apex, where it is widened into a broad patch, and an uneven waved line from near the anal angle to the 
end of the cell; secondaries reddish-brown, palest from the base to about the middle, and with a darker 
mark at the anal angle, the fringe pale brownish-yellow ; the underside of the primaries pale greenish- 
brown, with the outer margin pale cream-colour, that of the secondaries pale cream-colour, shaded with 
brown along the costal margin: head and tegule greenish-brown ; thorax greenish-brown, brown in front; 
palpi and legs brown; abdomen above and beneath pale reddish-brown; antenne dark brownish-black. 
Expanse 13 inch. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 
One example. This beautiful species is very distinct; the specimen was probably 
