CHABUATA. 261 



1497. Chabuata fistula. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 9.) 



Tricholita fistula, Harv. Can. Eiit. x. p. 56 (1878) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 173. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; abdomen brown 

 mixed with grey, the base pale. Fore wing dark brown with a 

 reddish tinge, the costal and inner areas and veins suft'iised with 

 grey ; traces of a snbbasal line from costa to snbmedian fold ; an 

 indistinct waved antemedial line angled outwards above inner 

 margin ; traces of a small claviform stigma edged with brown ; 

 orbicular a small brown annulus ; reniform a lunule formed of small 

 white spots, with a spot before it in lower angle of cell ; traces of a 

 medial line oblique from costa to median nervure where it is angled ; 

 postmedial line somewhat dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal 

 line ochreous and brown, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle ; a fine dark terminal line; cilia mixed with grey and 

 with white points at end of veins. Hind wing whitish irrorated 

 with brown, the terminal half suffused wath brown, more uniformly 

 suffused in female ; cilia white at tips ; the underside pale with the 

 costal and terminal areas thickly irrorated with brown, a dark 

 discoidal point and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, California, Sanzalito, 1 (5 , 2 5 type, 

 Arizona. Exp. 34 millim. 



1498. Chabuata mutina. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 10.) 



Apamea mutina, Sehaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 238 (1894) ; Druce, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 477. 



2 . Head and thorax brown, very thickly irrorated with white ; 

 abdomen grey-brown irrorated with grey. Fore wing dull brown, 

 very thickly irrorated with white ; faint traces of the antemedial 

 line ; reniform absent or represented by an elliptical white mark, 

 its lower part broken up into three small spots ; postmedial line 

 very faint, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, faint traces of the subterminal line. Hind wing white, 

 the veins brownish, the marginal areas broadly irrorated and 

 suffused with brown ; the iinderside white irrorated with browa 

 especially on marginal areas, a discoidal point and indistinct curved 

 postmedial line. 



J . Anal tuft mostly ochreous ; fore wing with indistinct oblique 

 grey lino from costa before apex. 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba, 1 <$ , type t ? in Coll. Sehaus. Exp. 32 

 millim. 



*1499. Chabuata inconspicua. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 11.) 



Tricholita inconspicua, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. 129 (1883) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 173. 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous mixed with brown ; abdomen 



