NO. 2089. NOCTUID MOTHS PROM TROPICAL AMERICA— 8CHAV8. 487 



line, and another from termen slightly incurved. Hind wings 

 bright brown shading to white at base. Fore wings below duller 

 brown; a white subterminal hne from costa to vein 5, then outbent. 

 Hind wings below^ brown, shading to white on inner margin; a white 

 streak from base, through cell and betw^een veins 4 and 6 to termen; a 

 white line below vein 8; a dark point on discocellular ; a faint post- 

 medial and subterminal line. 



Expanse. — 21 mm. 



Habitat. — Rockstone, Essequebo River, British Guiana. 



Type.— C&t. No. 16528, U.S.N.M. 



PHUPHENA COSTATA, new species. 



Female. — Palpi brown. Head buff brown. Collar buff shaded with 

 brown, tipped behind with white. Thorax dark browm. Abdomen 

 grayish brown . Fore wings brown, and purphsh brown ; costal margin 

 broadly buff in front, whitish behind; some fuscous scaling on brown 

 space, forming indistinct fine fines; orbicular large outbent, outlined 

 in roseate white, the inner edging continued below cell to fold; reni- 

 form broad, similarly outlined and containing a white spot behind; 

 a minutely lunular fuscous brown outer fine ; some darker subterminal 

 shading outwardly followed by filacine brown. Hind wings dark 

 grayish brown; a fuscous spot on discocellular. Hind wings below 

 whitish irrorated with brown; a fuscous discal spot; a post medial 

 line, and terminal shading. 



Expanse. — 21 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Jean, Maroni River. 



Type.— Cat. No. 16529, U.S.N.M. 



CHYTONIX COMMIXTA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi and head mottled brown and white, the joints of 

 palpi tipped v.dth white. Collar and thorax similar, but also mottled 

 with dull green. Abdomen above lilacme brown. Fore wings 

 filacine gray; a green shade at base of cell, along submedian, between 

 veins 3 and 4 close to cell, and terminally, also a green stroak beyond 

 cell; a subbasal black fine across costa, and a short streak on median; 

 the green shade in ceU limited by a creamy buff lunule; antemedial 

 line indicated by some black scaling and a whitish shade from median 

 to inner margin; orbicular oblique across cell, touching a roimd spot 

 at vein 3, both creamy buff and containing some dark green scaling; 

 reniform white, linear at middle, containing dark green lines in ends, 

 suffusing with a white fine on costa; a fuscous shade from costa 

 mediafiy, outbent across orbicular, outcurved between veins 5 and 3, 

 then wavily inbent; postmedial line black, deeply lunular dentate, 

 shaded with white outwardly, especially from below vein 3 ; the sub- 

 terminal lilacme gray shade partly interrupted by the terminal gi'een 



