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B. Fore wing with the veins narrowly streaked with white. 



a. Fore wing with the postinedial Une strongly excurved 



from below eosta to vein 4. then oblique dissecta. 



b. Fore wing with the postmedial line raoderaiely excurved 



from below costa to vein 4, then incurved. 

 a^. Fore wing with the veins defined by pale streaks on 



postmedial area reticulata. 



i\ Fore wing with the veins not defined by pale streaks 



on postmedial area texturata. 



C. Fore wing with the veins not streaked with white, the 



terminal area whitish uimfera. 



1424. Hadena graminea. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 8.) 



Dargida graminea, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 231 (1894). 



c5' . Head and thorax pinkish white ; palpi rufous ; frons with 

 rufous bar above ; tegulae with three rufous lines ; patagia edged 

 with rufous and black above ; pectus rufous ; abdomen ochreous 

 white, the dorsal crest rufous, the anal tuft ochreous, the ventral 

 surface suffused with rufous. Fore wing yellowish white largely 

 suffused with purplish pink, and with patches of red-brown between 

 the markings except on costal and inner areas; subbasal line re- 

 presented by an oblique striga from costa slightly defined by black, 

 and a very oblique striga from cell to vein 1 strongly defined hy 

 black ; antemedial line indistinct on costal area, angled inwards on 

 medial nervure, then white, very oblique to middle of vein 1 where 

 it meets the postmedial line, a white streak below median nervure 

 and vein 4 from it to subterminal line ; orbicular and reniform very 

 narrow, with rufous centres and white annuli defined by black, the 

 former very oblique, open above and below, the latter inwardly 

 oblique, pointed above and open below ; postmedial line white, bent 

 outwards below costa, oblique to vein 5, then inwardly oblique to 

 join the antemedial line at vein 1, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; an oblique white band from apes, at vein 5 joining the 

 postmedial line ; a fine sinuous white subterminal line angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; termen white, with a fine 

 pink terminal line ; cilia whitish, with a strong brown line through 

 them. Hind wing yellowish white. 



Hab. Brazil, Castro Parana, 1 S , type t S in Coll. Schaus. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



1425. Hadena procincta. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 9.) 



Eupsephopactes prorinctus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 13S, pi. iv. 

 f. G (1873) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 170. 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with pale purplish red-brown ; 

 frons with blackish bars ; tegulae with black and white lines ; 

 patagia whitish edged by black and purplish brown ; tarsi blackish 

 ringed with white ; abdomen brownish ochreous, the anal and lateral 

 tufts with a rufous tinge. Fore wing brown, the marginal areas 

 greyish i)urple, the inner margin fawn ; the veins dark defined by 



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