Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus 



Vol. I MARCH. 1913 No. 3 



TWO NEW NOCTUIDS FROM FRENCH GUIANA 



{Lepidoptera, Noctuida) 

 By WILUAM SCHAUS 

 Celiptera thericles, new species. 



9 . Palpi brownish grey irrorated with white. Frons brown ; vertex 

 mottled pale bistre grey and brown ; head behind dark brown. Collar 

 dark brown mottled with bistre, edged with white behind. Body and 

 wings pale bistre ; thorax irrorated with white, the patagja crossed by 

 a dark brown line ; abdomen irrorated with white on basal segment 

 otherwise with a few darker irrorations. Fore wings : a small dark 

 brown spot on costa at base ; a similar subbasal fascia to fold, divided by 

 a fine white line ; a fine white eintemedial line, vertical, outbent below 

 submedian, inwardly edged with dark brown, outwardly more broadly 

 so edged, and cut by the pale veins ; a black point as orbicular ; 

 reniform large, whitish, finely edged with pale brown, and containing a 

 dark line ; postmedial line pale olive brown, outcurved close to reniform, 

 iunular beyond cell, incurved below reniform, outcurved above submedian, 

 inangled on it, preceded by a fine parallel line from cell to inner margin, 

 and followed by a narrow darker shade, and a white line beyond it from 

 vein 3 to fold, outangled on vein 2 ; a fine whitish outer line, outbent 

 and preceded by a rust streak on costa, deeply Iunular to vein 6, thicker, 

 reddish brown between 6 and 5, and followed by a black spot, below 

 vein 6 straight to fold, and inangled on submedian, inwcirdly edged 

 throughout by a fine brownish shade ; a subterminal brown line from 

 apex, close to outer line below vein 6, but str«dght to inner margin, fol- 

 lowed by black points on veins ; a dentate whitish grey marginal shade ; 

 a terminal yellow white line. Hind wings : a medial and two postmedial 

 fuscous lines ; a fine white outer line, inwardly edged with brown ; ter- 

 minal space fuscous grey ; a darker subterminal line, followed by black 



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