254 NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXVI. 1919. 



74oa. Dinia invittata n. sp. 



Dinia aeagrua Druoe, Biol. Cenlr. Am. Het. i. p. 63 (part) neo Cram. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black, the last with the lateral fringes of hair 

 and the anal tuft except at base crimson, the tegulae and patagia with some 

 metallic blue, and the abdomen with sUght metallic blue dorsal streak on basal 

 segments ; coxae of male white. Forewing hyaUne, the veins, base, and margins 

 black ; a strong oblique black discoidal bar conjoined to the costal fascia ; the 

 terminal band with slightly waved inner edge, slightly widening to apex in 

 male, broadly in female. Hindwing hyaline, the veins and a broad terminal 

 band black, the latter with waved inner edge. 



Hab. Mexico, Guerrero, Tetetlapa (H. H. Smith), 1 J, 1 $ tjrpe, Godman 

 Salvin Coll. Exp. (J 38, $ 40 mill. 



Differs from D. aeagrus in the forewing being without the crimson stripe 

 on inner margin. 



LITHOSIADAE. 



ITolinae. 



%lg. Nola holoscota n. sp. 



$. Head and thorax dark red-brown irrorated with grey-wliite, the palpi 

 slightly irrorated, the antennae blackish ; abdomen grey sutJused with brown ; 

 pectus wliitish at sides ; legs red-brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; ventral 

 surface of abdomen blackish brown. Forewing dark red-brown irrorated with 

 silvery grey ; an indistinct darker brown bar from costa near base ; tufts of 

 raised scales in the cell before middle and in its extremity ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, dark, angled outwards to the tuft of raised scales in end of cell and 

 very oblique towards costa and inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, dark, 

 bent outwards below costa, then very shghtly waved, oblique below vein 4 ; 

 an indistinct, rather diffused, red-brown subterminal Une defined on outer side 

 by silvery grey scales, excurved below costa, then waved. Hindwing grey 

 sufiused with cupreous brown, the cilia red-brown with a fine pale line at base. 



Hab. Natal, Karkloff (Piatt), 1 ? type. Exp. 26 mill. 



NOCTUIDAE. 



Agrotinae. 

 272a. Euxoa albiorbis n. sp. 

 (J. Head and thora.x white mixed with dark brown and red-brown, the 

 tegulae with black line at middle, the patagia with fringe of black scales tipped 

 with white at base ; antennae with the shaft white, the branches brown ; 

 abdomen white suffused with red-brown, leaving white segmental hnes towards 

 extremity ; pectus^ legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white tinged with 

 brown, the tarsi ringed with white. Forewing white mixed with dark brown, 

 sufiused with red-brown except on marginal areas, the terminal area more sufiused 

 with dark brown ; double subbasal black bars filled in with white from costa 

 and cell ; antemedial line double, black tilled in with white, crenulate ; claviform 



