CHABUATA. 271 



below costa, exeurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line ochreous defined by red- 

 brown on inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 exeurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown ; the cilia rufous ; the underside pale suffused with 

 purplish red and irrorated with white and fuscous, a more or less 

 developed black streak in cell, prominent discoidal spot and 

 minutely waved postmedial line. 



Hah. Chili (Edmonds), 1 d" , 1 $ type, Mulchen (Elwes\ 1 d • 

 Exj)- 36 millim. 



*1515. Chabuata subsocia. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 17.) 



TcBniocampa subaocia, Wlk. x. 430 (1856). 



J . Head and thorax pale grey-brown ; palpi and frons black at 

 sides ; tegulas rufous at tips ; thoracic crest tipped with rufous ; 

 tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous, the anal tuft pale 

 brownish, the ventral surface ochreous-white tinged with pink. Fore 

 wing pale grey-brown with some dark brown irroration ; an in- 

 distinct double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 some brown on inner margin before the indistinct, double, waved 

 antemedial line, exeurved in submedian interspace, with a black 

 spot on its inner edge on vein 1 and a brown spot before it below 

 vein 1 ; reniform narrow, its edges nearly parallel, open above, 

 with pale annulus and its centre defined by brown, a black point in 

 its lower portion ; postmedial line ill-defined, double, dentate and 

 produced to black points on the veins ; subterminal line pale, 

 defined on inner side by fuscous on costal area, angled outwards at 

 vein 7, then defined on each side by brown, exeurved at middle 

 and with black spot on its outer side above inner margin ; a ter- 

 minal series of small blackish lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown, 

 the cilia ochreous ; the underside pale brownish irrorated with 

 dark brown, a black discoidal. spot and sinuous postmedial line 

 with dark strise at the veins. 



Hab. Brazil, Petropolis. &_^. 44 millim. Type f d in Mus. 

 Oxon. 



*1516. Chabuata albirena. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 18.) 



Noctua albirena, Guen. Noct. i. p. 335 (1852). 



2 . Head and thorax purplish red-brown ; abdomen grey-brown, 

 the ventral surface tinged with ochreous. Fore wing purplisli 

 red-brown; subbasal line indistinct, almost straight, from costa 

 to vein 1 ; a dark shade before the antemedial line, which is in- 

 distinct and waved ; a patch of brown suffusion in, below, and 

 beyond end of cell, with the largo triangular white reniform 

 spot placed on it ; a slight diffused line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line minutely waved, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, exeurved to vein 4, then incurved, some 



