CIRl'HIS, 



55o 



the interspaces except towards costa, the area beyond it rather 

 browner ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia whitish, with two 

 brown lines through them. Hind wing ochreous white, the veins 

 and terminal area tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. Falkland Is. ( IF. F. Dale), 1 S type (^. Vallentin), 3 6 ■ 

 Exp. 36 millim. 



1966. Cirphis remota. 



Leucania remota, Staud. Hamburg. Magalhaeus. iv. p. 71, f. 15 (1899). 



<S . Head and basal part. of tegulse grey mixed with dark brown, 

 the latter with black medial line, their tips and patagia ochreous 

 brown ; thorax grey ; pectus and legs brown and white ; abdomen 

 ochreous brown, the dorsal crest and ventral surface white mixed 

 with dark brown. Fore wing ochreous brown, the costal area 

 suffused with purplish grey to beyond middle ; the median nervuro 

 streaked with grey, expanding between veins 2 and 5, but not 

 extending to terminal area, a patch of grey above middle of vein 1, 

 an oblique shade from apex and some grey on termen ; a black 

 streak below base of vein 1 ; traces of an obliquely curved post- 

 medial series of black points on the veins ; a subterminal series of 

 slight brown streaks in the interspaces ; cilia brown slightly tinged 

 with white. Hind wing ochreous white, the veins and terminal area 

 suffused with bro\yn ; cilia white, with a brown line at base ; the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown. 



Huh. Patagonia, Punta Arenas {J. J. Walter), 1 $ . Exp. 40 

 millim. 



1967. Cirphis guadrannulata. (Plate XCIV. fig. 19.) 



Mamestra quadmnnulata, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 430 ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 127, 



Head black ; frons with lateral grey tufts, a grey band between 

 antenna?; thorax brown, blackish in front, many of the scales 

 tipped with grey ; pectus and legs reddish brown ; abdomen grey- 

 brown with a yellowish tinge, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing 

 pale yellow-brown ; a fuscous tinge along median nervure, extending 

 beyond the cell to costa and submedian fold ; a black streak in base 

 of submedian fold, ending at the claviforra, which is small and 

 defined by white and black scales ; orbicular and rcniform very 

 small, white incompletely defined by black and with red-brown 

 centres, the former elongate, the latter rounded ; subterminal line 

 represented by small indistinct dentate black and white marks 

 above and below vein 5; some small blackish lunules on termen. 

 Hind wing yellowish white, the costal and terminal areas tinged 

 with brown ; the underside with the costal area sparsely irrorated 

 with red-brown. 



The specimens from Mexico and Paraguay have tlus fore wing 

 much more suffused with black. 



Hah. U.S.A., Nebraska, Texas, Colorado, 1 S : Mkxico, Orizaba ; 

 Paraguay, Sapucay {Foster), 1 $ . Exp. 36 millim. 



