collected in Chili. 137 



PHAL^NOID^. 



Annaphila, Grote. 

 39. Annaphila fidomnides, n. s. 



Primaries greyish flesh-colour, clouded and striated 

 with olive-brown, the central belt sharply defined, with 

 black edges, its centre flesh-coloured and its borders 

 olive-brown ; in shape it somewhat resembles that of 

 Cidaria jyopulata ; a large tapering subapical costal olive- 

 brown streak ; a marginal series of white-edged black 

 spots ; fringe dark brown, barred with grey between the 

 nervures ; secondaries bright orange-ferruginous ; abdo- 

 minal border speckled with brown ; a series of three 

 unequal black spots between the end of the cell and the 

 abdominal margin, and two more beyond these at the 

 anal angle ; an interrupted black stripe along the outer 

 margin ; fringe dark brown, its outer half spotted with 

 pale brown ; body black, the abdominal segments nar- 

 rowly edged with whitish ; primaries below bright orange - 

 ferruginous ; costa spotted with brown ; apex and outer 

 margin also brown ; an angulated black stripe across the 

 wing at the end of the cell ; fringe nearly as above ; 

 secondaries reddish clay-colour, mottled with black, 

 forming three or four ill-defined parallel bands, two only 

 of which, across the disc, can be clearly discerned ; fringe 

 as above ; body blackish, grey-speckled ; tarsi black, 

 barred with white. Expanse of wings, 20 mm. 



" Las Zorras, in December and January." — T. E. 



Much as this resembles Fidonia in general pattern 

 and coloration, it differs entirely in structure, the body 

 being stouter, the antennae simple, and the palpi very 

 small ; the only genus of Geometrites to which it seems 

 structurally allied is Scordylia, but the pattern is alto- 

 gether dissimilar, and the antennae of Scordi/lia are con- 

 siderably thicker. 



PLUSIID^. 



Plusia, Ochs. 



40. Plusia virgida. 



Plusia virgida, Blanchard, in Gay's ' Fauna Chilena,' 

 vii., p. 84, n. 2 (1854). 



Triphana siqnata, Philippi, ' Linnaea Entomologica,' 

 xvi., p. 293 (1860). . 



Nearly allied to P. divergens of Europe. 



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