NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXV. 1918. 115 



abdomen rufous mixed with whitisli and banded with red-brown ; pectus and 

 ventral surface of abdomen whiti.sh mixed with red-brown, the legs red-brown 

 mixed with black-brown, the tarsi black-brown ringed with rufous. Forewing 

 whitish suffused with rufous and slightly irrcrated with dark-brown, the costa 

 with series of dark brown marks to near apex ; the base more strongly suffused 

 with rufous ; a waved red-brown subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; a waved 

 dark-brown antemedial line, produced on inner side to short streaks on the 

 veins ; claviform represented by a dark point at its extremity ; orbicular slightly 

 defined by dark brown, elongate and extending to the reniform, with a dark 

 streak in centre ; reniform with black-brown centre and whitish aimulus dt fined 

 on inner side by black-brown, a small black-brown spot beyond it at discal fold ; 

 traces of an oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner margm ; postmedial 

 line represented by a double series of minute black-brown spots, excurved to 

 vein 2 and incurved in submedian interspace ; a black-brown patch on costal 

 area with some pale points at costa before the subterminal line, which is very 

 indistinctly represented by a somewhat double series of black-brown scales ; a 

 diffused black-brown patch before termen at discal fold ; a terminal series of 

 small black spots and a series of blackish spots near base of cilia. Hindwing 

 semihyalme white with a faint yellowish tinge, the costa towards apex and the 

 inner area tinged with brown, a slight brownish discoidal spot ; a terminal series 

 of black lunules to vein 2 and bar at submedian interspace ; cilia with a brownish 

 line near base to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal area ochreous irrorated 

 with a few black scales, a small black discoidal spot, oblique postmedial bar 

 from costa and series of points on the veins to vein 2. 



Hah. Peru, Acopampa (Watkin.s), 1 S type. Exp. 34 mill. 



Hadeninae. 



1131^. Trichestra molybdesis n. sp. 



?. Head and thorax black mixed with some whitish, the tegulae olive- 

 yellow with some black scales at edge, the patagia olive-yellow with some black 

 scales and edged with black ; abdomen black-brown with some whitish scales ; 

 antennae black ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen dark brown mixed 

 with some white, the tarsi black-brown ringed with white. Forewing black- 

 brown suffused with leaden grey, the costal area and the submedian fold and 

 inner margin to the subterminal line with diffused olive-yellow fasciae ; a waved 

 black subbasal line from costa to vein 1, double at costa and below submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line black, slightly waved to median nervure, then excurved ; 

 claviform olive-yellow defined by black at extremity, extending to median 

 nervure ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former round and touch- 

 ing the antemedial line, the latter white tinged with yeUow, its centre olive- 

 yellow with some black scales, some olive-yellow before and beyond it ; postmedial 

 line black, bent outwards to slightly beyond, the re.iiform and touching its upper 

 and lower extremities, oblique and sinuous below the cell and with patches 

 oUve-yeUow in the interspaces before and beyond it, some oUve-yeUow points 

 before and beyond it ; a subterminal series of olive-yellow spots in the inter- 

 spaces with diffused black scales on their inner side ; ciUa dark brown mixed 

 with whitish and with line whitish line at middle. Hindwing white the veins 

 and marginal areas irrorated with dark bro\\n ; cilia white mixed with dark 



