464 N0CTUI1).15. 



white, irrorated and the terminal area suffused with black, a small 

 discoidal spot, waved i)ostmedial line, and line terminal line. 



IJah. SiKHiM (/v>(ywf«), type t § in Coll. Elwes. jE'a7j.;j4 millim. 



Genus SCRIPTANIA, nov. 



Tvpp, 'S'. mich(Blseni. 



Proboscis fully deyeloped ; palpi oblique, fringed with long hair in front ; 

 frons smooth ; eyes overhung by long cilia; antenna of male ciliated; head 

 and (liorax clothed with rough hair and scales; tlie pro- and metathorax with 

 spreading cre>ts ; abdomen with dorsal crests on first segment. Fore wing 

 with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from lO 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 11 from cell. HiTid wing with veins 

 '6, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the ceil near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform conjoined syzi/gia. 



B. Fore wing with tlie orbicular and reniform separate. 



a. Fore wing with the reniform angled inwards on median 



nervure vorcleoiscjuldi. 



b. Fore wing with the reniform not angled inwards on median 



nervure luk-hcehcni. 



1810. Scriptania syzygia, n. sp. (Plate XCI. fig. 11.) 



$ . Head and thorax clothed with white, reddish brown, and 

 black scales and hair; tegula? with two black lines, patagia edged 

 with blackish ; pectus and legs rufous, the tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen rufous, the dorsal crest rufous. Fore wing white with a 

 purplish tinge, mostly irrorated and sufl'used with dark brown ; a 

 black streak below base of cell interrupted by the subbasal line, 

 which is double, filled in with white, interrupted and bent outwards 

 at cell and ending at submedian fold, dentate black marks beyond 

 it below cell and above inner margin ; anetmedial line double filled 

 in with white, oblique, slightly angled outwards below costa and 

 above inner margin and inwards on vein 1 ; claviform small, white 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform whitish, tinged with 

 brown at centre and defined by black, the former oblique, irregularly 

 elliptical, open above, the latter angled inwards on median nervure 

 and fondling the former ; postmedial line defined by white on outer 

 side, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 6, then minutely 

 dentate, inwardly oblique to inner margin near antemedial line; 

 postmedial area purplish white except at costa, on which are some 

 white points ; subterminal line white, defined on inner side by a 

 series of small dentate dark marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 dentate to tornus at veins 4 and 3, the area beyond it dark brown 

 exce])t at apex ; cilia pale brown intersected by white, a dark 

 brown line at base and brown tips. Hind wing reddish brown, the 

 cilia whitish with a brown line at base ; the underside greyish 

 thickly irrorated with brown, a small discoidal lunulo and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Patagonia, Magellan, Punta Arenas {J. J. Walker), 1 5 

 type. Exp. 32 millim. 



