1865.] 253 



base. Three ( ? 9 S ) specimens. Exp. % , 140, 9 1.80 inch. Length 

 of body, % , 0.75, 9 0.85 inch. 



Jlahif at. —Cuha, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad. 



Xumber 185, Foet/'s MSS. Catalogue. 



CARATHIS, nov. gon. 



Wings narrow. Primaries, nearly twice as long as wide ; costa slightly 

 depressed centrally, arcuated apically; apices, prominent. External 

 margin, oblique and moderately sinuate; internal angle, rounded. In- 

 ternal margin, straight. First and second median nervules springing 

 from one point, third a little removed, fourth well removed from third. 

 A discal fold. Secondaries reduced ; costa straight, external margin 

 slightly and gradually excavate before anal angle. The wings are 

 cleanly cut and deprived of fringes. Squammation very close and 

 densely and equally covering all the corporal and alar parts. x\ntennte. 

 short and stout, tapering, provided with very small pectinations, pro- 

 duced from beneath the antennal stem. Head, moderate, pressed 

 against the prothorucic parts. Palpi, prominent, porrect, held free 

 from and exceeding the front. Epicranium, broad. Prothoracic pieces, 

 narrow. Abdomen, moderately stout, closely sealed, exceeding the se- 

 condaries by half its length. Genital organs concealed. Legs, slender, 

 minutely spined on the third tibiie. Maxillaj, moderate. 



Carathis gortynoides. (Plate 4. fig. 8. 'J,.) 



Rich brown. Primaries evenly covered with brown scales, with clus- 

 tered white spots, reminding one of the Noctuid genus Gorti/na. Base 

 with white spots, narrowly divided by brownish scales. Beyond, a yel- 

 lowish transverse line, sending out, at right angles, a short branch along 

 median nervure. Above and below this branch are white spots ; the 

 upper, spherical, the lower, elongate, sub-pyriform, tapering to internal 

 margin. At the extremity of this branchlet a small white spot on the 

 vein. Three prominent costal spots above the discal cell. The first, 

 the largest, white. The middle, outwardly oblique, yellowish, shaped 

 like an abbreviated band. The outer, the smallest, white. Immedi- 

 ately below these, on internal margin, a dark yellowish spot. Termi- 

 nally, an elongated cluster of white spots, narrowly divided by brown 

 scales ; the larger spots placed outwardly, sub-triangulate, fitting into 

 those on the inner side are a series of pale yellowish spots; within these 

 a series of smaller more oval spots. All these spots are more or less 

 united in one specimen. Secondaries, pale blackish-brown ; testaceous 

 along the costa, without markings. Beneath, pale, dull brownish; on 

 the primaries, the white guttations of the upper surface are partially re- 



