408 NOCTUID.-E. 



area brownish ; the underside Avith the veins and marginal areas 

 irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal luniile. 



H(th. Bolivia, Tacora, 12,000 feet, type t in Mus. Berlin. Exp. 

 30 milliin. 



1815. Strigania calligrapta. 



l^eitria calligrapta. Bull. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 118. 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous with some black scales ; abdomen 

 ochreous irrorated with dark brown. Fore winf? ochreous, irrorated 

 and ]ai'j;ely suffused with dark brown ; subbasal line represented by 

 ochreous strite from costa aud cell, the former defined on inner 

 side, the latter on both sides by black ; antemedial line double, 

 dark brown filled in with ochreous, angled outwards below costa, 

 oblique below cell, and strongly bent inwards to inner margin ; 

 elaviform well-developed, reddish brown defined by dark brown and 



Fig. 137. — Slrigania calligrapta, J. \. 



with an ochreous patch between it and postmedial line; orbicular 

 and reniform with reddish centres and ochreous annuli defined by 

 dark brown, the former very oblique elliptical, the latter slightly 

 angled inwards on median nervure ; postmedial line double, filled in 

 with ochreous, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, ex- 

 curved to vein 4, then oblique, some pale points beyond it on costa; 

 the veins with slight dark streaks defined by ochreous, the median 

 nervure and veins 6, 4, 3, 1 on postmedial area more strongly 

 defined, those on each side of veins 4, 3 indenting the ochreous 

 subterminal line, which is angled outwards at vein 7, defined on 

 inner side by some dentate dark marks extending to its outer side 

 at middle ; a terminarseries of small dark lunules ; cilia ochreous, 

 with a red-brown line through them. Hind Aving whitish suffused 

 with fuscous brown, especially on terminal half; cilia ochreous, 

 with a red-brown line through them ; the underside ochreous 

 irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal bar. 



Hob. Chili {Edmonch), 1 d" type. Exp. 36 millim. 



Genus GRAPHANIA, nov. 



Type, G. dinjungens. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed wilb hair 

 in front, the 3rd porrect ; frons with truncate conical prominence with 

 cx3rneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded ; head and thorax clothed with 

 hair and hair-lil;e scales, the pro- and metathorax with slight spreading crests ; 



