May 1894." 



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Xaxia, Guen. 



49. yV. xa)ithodei-a, sp. nov. ^. Palpi 

 pale gray, head whitish, collar and patagia 

 reddish-veliow, upper side of thorax brown, 

 upper side of abdomen fuscous, lower side of 

 thorax and abdomen fuscous, legs con- 

 coloroLis. The primaries are reddish, 

 glossed with purple and marked on the outer 

 and inner margin with yellowish. Tliev are 

 crossed by a number of obscure and fine 

 waved lines. The secondaries are uniformly 

 fuscous. The fringes are paler, marked with 

 whitish near the outer angle. On the under 

 side, both wings are pale cinereous, the 

 primaries having the inner margin whitish 

 and the outer margin above the inner angle 

 slightly clouded with fuscous. There are a 

 few obscure whitish subapical points forming 

 an incomplete submarginal series in the 

 primaries. Both wings have an obscure 

 discal spot and the secondaries are crossed 

 by curved and regularly crenulate obscure 

 lines, of which the submarginal line is the 

 most distinct. Expanse, 45 mm. 



50. ^V. debilis, sp. nov. $. Allied to 

 A'', senior. Walk., but smaller and much 

 paler. In N. senior the outer third is dark 

 succeeded on the margins by a whitish area. 

 In N. debilis the outer third of the wing is 

 very little darker than the rest of the wing, 

 and on the under side the lines, which 

 traverse the wings in N. senior are much 

 paler. The expanse of uings in ^V. senior is 

 from 55 lo 60 mm. In Ihe case of N. debilis 

 it is only about 40 mm. 



This maybe a small and light colored form 

 of .A'', senior, but its fades is difterent. though 

 it is very hard to define in words just wherein 

 the difference consists. It seems to be 

 common and constantly occurring in the 

 same localities and at the same time of vear 

 with Walker's species. 



51. .,V. miiltilinea/a, f-p. nov. J. Palpi, 

 Iront. and collar rufous. Upper side of 



thorax and abdomen fuscous. Lower side 

 of abdomen fuscous; lower side of thorax 

 paler. The legs are dark fuscous, the tarsi 

 ringed with yellowish-white. The primaries 

 are lilacine-brown, crossed by a multitude of 

 dark brown lines, which in strong sunlight 

 show a coppery lustre. Below the apex 

 these lines coalesce and enclose a sublriangu- 

 lar paler area, at the outer extremity of 

 which is a coppery red spot. The second- 

 aries are dark fuscous on the outer margin, 

 which is defined by a fine narrow waved line. 

 At the anal angle are a couple of dark lines 

 alternating with pale gray lines running 

 inwardly toward the middle of the wing. 

 On the under side, the wings are dark 

 fuscous, laved with grayish on the outer 

 margin and at the base, and crossed bv a 

 multitude of fine crenulate lines defined out- 

 wardly by hastate pale grayish or pale red- 

 dish markings, the reddish tint prevailing 

 toward the costa in both wings. The apical 

 extremity of the costa in the primaries is 

 reddish touched with a number of minute 

 light dots. Expanse, 3S mm. 



52. iV. iiifirma, sp. nov. $. Body and 

 legs uniformly pale fawn. Upper side of 

 primaries and secondaries fawn. Both wings 

 are sprinkled with small dark cinereous 

 scales, and are traversed by a somewhat 

 broad irregularly curved submarginal band 

 of ferruginous. Both are further marked b\ 

 obscure and irregularlv curved and broken 

 sub-basal, median, and limbal transverse 

 lines. On the under side, the primaries 

 are fuscous with the outer margin uni- 

 formly paler. The dark aiea is traversed 

 by a curved limhal and a curved submarginal 

 line. The secondaries are fuscous like the 

 primaries, but the outer pale margin is not 

 so light as in the primaries. These wings 

 have a distinct discal dot and are crossed by 

 four or five parallel curved transverse lines. 

 Expanse, 35 mm. Habitat Benita. Taken 

 in November. 



