3G0 



NOCTUIDJE. 



fringed with hair at sides. Fore wing with veins 3 and f) from near angle of 

 cell ; from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form tlie areole : 

 11 from cell. 11 ind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 ob.-,olesceQt 

 from middle of discocellulars ; ti, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with subterminal series of small whitish liinules. 

 a. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform distinctly 



defined flavidentula. 



h. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform indistinct ... violaacens. 



B. Fore wing without subterminal series of yelluwish-white 



lunules .' viola. 



*1660. Poliodes flavidentula. 



Mamcstra flavidentula, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xi. p. 230 (1903). 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed with reddish brown ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; frons with black bar above ; tegulae with black 

 medial Hue ; patagia with some black scales near upper edge ; tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen grey mixed with reddish brown and 

 dorsally suifused with fuscous. Fore wing grey slightly irrorated 

 with reddish brown ; subbasal line re])resented by double black strife 

 from costa and cell ; a black streak in base of submedian fold and 



Fig. 95. — Foliodes flavidentula, J. \. 



another on inner margin before the antemedial line, which is 

 double, waved, angled outwards below costa and inwards on vein 1 

 and to inner margin ; claviform large, triangular, finely defined by 

 black; orbicular and reniform large, grey with fine black outlines 

 and reddish centres, the former rounded ; a medial reddish-brown 

 line, oblique from costa to vein 2, then dentate ; postmedial line 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique, and with a V-shaped black mark on its inner side beyond 

 the extremity of claviform, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal "line represented by a scries of small yellowish-wliite 

 lunules defined by dentate black marks on inner side and with 

 black streaks from them to the termiiuil lunules ; cilia grey, with 

 brown lines at base and tips, interrupted at the veins. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with brown, except in interspaces of bascil two- 

 thirds ; cilia white, with brown lino near base ; the underside 

 white, the marginal areas suffused with brown, a black discoidul 

 spot and postmedial sinuous line with dark stria? at the veins. 

 Hah. Chili, type t c? in Coll, Schaus. Exp. 44 millim. 



