8G 



noctuid.t:. 



defined by slight dentate dark marks on inner side, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 dark points ; a flesh-coloured line at base of cilia. Hind wing pale, 

 suffused with fuscous brown especially towards termen ; cilia pale, 

 with a brown line through them ; the underside whitish irroratod 

 with brown, a slight discoidal spot and indistinct curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. xiHGENXiNA, Aconcagua {Fitzgerald), 1 5 type. Exp. 

 36 millim. 



Genus CATEPHIODES, nov. 



Tjpe, C. zuelana. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi ujiturned, the 2nd joint nearly reaching 

 vertex of head and smoothly scaled in fronr, the ^rd obliqne, long ; f'rons with 

 slight rounded prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes lai-ge, rounded; 

 antennte of female ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with scales, the pro- and 

 metathorax with spreading crests ; tibia slightly fringed with hair, the inner 

 spurs very long; abdomen with dorsal crests. Fore wing broad, ti-iangular, 

 the termen retracted towards toruus ; Teins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 

 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 obsolescent from just below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



1171. CatepModes zuelana. 



Hadena zuelana, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 143 (1898). 

 Mdia trinidadensis, Kaye, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1901, p. 123, pi. T). f. 3. 



2 . Head ochreous more or less tinged with rufous ; thorax red- 

 l)rown, with some black on extremity of patagia and metathorax ; 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen black-brown, dorsally irrorated 

 with rufous, ventrally with grej- ; the anal tuft ochreous. Fore 

 wing dark brown suffused with rufous, the terminal half m.ore or 

 less suffused with whitish and with some bluish white below costa 

 and between veins 5 and 3 ; subbasal line represented by black 



Fig. 10. — Catepliiodes suelnna, §. 



stria? from costa and coll ; antemedial line black, irregularly sinuous, 

 inwardly oblique ; orbicular and reniform small, defined by black, 

 the former round, the latter indistinctly defined except on inner 

 side ; a waved medial line or dark shade ; postmedial line minutely 

 and irregularly dentate, very strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 incur\ed at discal fold, below vein 4 incurved to below angle of 



