BAKATHRA. 11 



Genus BARATHRA. ,„ ^ 



Type. 



Barafhra, Hiibn. Verz. p. 218 (1827) brassicce. 



Copimamestra, Grote, A. M.N. H. (5) xi. p. 54 (1881^) hransicce. 



Proboscis fully develcpecl ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2ncl joint fringed 

 ■with hair, the ^rd short; frons smooth; eyes large, round, not ciliated; 

 anteniite of male minutely ciliated ; tibia; fringed with hair, the fore tibia with 

 long curved claw on outer side ; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, 

 the pro- and uietathorax with spreading crests ; abdomen with doi'sal series of 

 crests, the one on basal segment large. Fore wing with the termen crenulate ; 

 veins 3, .5 from close to angle of cell ; (5 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with cell near base. 



A. Fore wing with the subterminal line prominently defined by 



whitish on inner side conjigurata. 



B. Fore wing with the subterminal line not defined by whitish 



on inner side. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular indistinct and ill-defined ... cvrialis. 



b. Fore wing with the orbicular distinctly defined by black... brassies. 



1132. Barathra configurata. 



Mamestra configurata, Wlk. ix. 234 (1856) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. 



i. p. 272, pi.' 26. f. 20. 

 Copimmmstra occidenta, Grote, A. M. N. H. (5) xi. p. 54 (1883) ; Smith, 



Cat. JN'oct. N. Am. p. 113. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; tarsi with whitish 

 rings ; abdomen grey-brown, the dorsal crests darker. Fore wing 

 grey-brown irrorated with fuscous, the inner area and the area just 

 before subterminal line pale olive-brown; a small white-tipped dark 

 fan of scales at base ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antcmedial line double, waved, nearly erect ; 

 claviform rather small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 large, defined by black, the former irregularly rounded, with brown 

 centre and jjale annulus, the latter with brownish centre and white- 

 spotted annulus; postniedial line indistinct, double, minutely 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold 

 and strongly below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line strong, wliite, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 dentate at veins 4, 3, some black stria; belbre it on the olive band, 

 especially between veins 3 and 1, the area beyond it with blackish 

 streaks in the interspaces; a terminal series of black lunulos ; cilia 

 blackish, with white line at base and intersected with white. 

 Hind wing whitish, the veins and terminal area fuscous brown ; a 

 dark terminal line ; cilia whitish, with brown line near base ; the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, 

 a dark discoidal spot. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Denver, 1 2 , Durango (Oslar), 1 d" , 

 3 2 5 J^cw Mexico ; ]\Ikxico (Doiibledaij), 1 S type, Mexico City 

 (Hocge), 1 $, Godman-Salvin Coll, Kqi. 40-44 millim. 



