246 Mr. Warren on the Pyralidina collected 



men in ^ rather long, witli anal tuft. Neuration : Fore wing, 

 cell two-thirds the length of the wing ; first subcostal at two-thirds 

 of the cell, the next three on one stem starting from the upper 

 angle of the cell, the second and third running short to the costa 

 out of the fourth ; the fifth, much curved at its origin, also from 

 upper angle of the cell, upper radial from below the end ; first 

 median branch at two-thirds ; second, third, and lower radial 

 all close together, one above the other, at the lower angle. Hind 

 wing : costal and subcostal united at the base, the costal then 

 straight to the apex ; the subcostal with two branches ; first 

 median branch only a short way before the end of cell ; second 

 and third on a short common stem from the lower angle ; radial 

 curved from the same point ; disco-cellular invisible. 



The genus has affinities with Chabora, Wlk., also from 

 S. America, and with Rhcesena divisalis, Wlk., from 

 S. Africa, and R. transcissa, Wlk., from Australia ; while 

 Plusiodonta anartoides, Wlk., xxxiii., p. 843, is still more 

 closely related, but differs by its much longer palpi. 



27. Parachabora abydas. 



Noctua abydas, H.-S., Samml. Auss. Eur. Schm., ii., 

 fig. 565. 



Omiodes ? tortola, Feld., Eeise Nov., pi. 120, fig. 9. 



One S' , R. Solimoes, near Santa Cruz, Dec. 9th, 1874. 



Herrich-Schaffer's type, evidently a ? , was from 

 Venezuela ; Felder's, a <? , from French Guiana. I think 

 there can be no doubt that both figures are intended to 

 depict the same insect. In the absence of any previous 

 description I append the following : — 



Fore wing a mixture of pinkish and tawny, tinged in certain 

 lights with violet and bronzy, especially towards the hind margin ; 

 all the markings very indistinct ; the first line runs obliquely from 

 the costa to the middle, then straight to the inner margin, the basal 

 area enclosed being browner than the central, which is more pink, 

 but with the two stigmata indistinctly tawny brown ; second line 

 fine, dark, a little denticulated and incurved below the reniform 

 stigma ; hind margin bm-nished, with the submarginal line faintly 

 perceptible. Hind wing pearly white, with the veins towards the 

 hind margin, and the hind margin itself broadly, fuscous, the latter 

 fading off towards the anal angle. Fringes of fore wing dark 

 bronzy ; of the hind vnng white. Palpi pinkish grey, the third 

 joint darker ; head and thorax and the anal tuft in the S" orange- 

 tawny ; abdomen greyish ochreous, paler beneath. Under side of 



