331 
Gcomctridae of the Argentine Repuhlic. 
Mr. A. F. Bayne discovered Cataseia carnea on his first 
visit to Puente del Inca, of which some account is given 
in Trans. City Lond. Ent. Soc., xii, 70-72. It was flying 
over some low, thorny bushes at dusk, in company—as was 
subsequently made out—with a species of Chrismoj^teryx 
and perhaps some other Geometrids. 
227. Gnophos (?) OREAS (Prout), nov, sp. 
(Plate XLVIII, fig. 9.) 
5. 30 mm. Head, body and wings grey, upper surface of wings 
coarsely speckled with brownish fuscous, the markings somewhat 
ill-defined and mostly diffuse, formed by accumulations of the fuscous 
speckling. Forewing with a fine, curved line from one-fifth costa to 
one-fourth inner margin ; an ill-defined median band from before 
one-half costa to about one-half inner margin, narrowed at costa, 
absorbing in its distal part the large but very ill-defined dark cell- 
spot ; a second, somewhat narrower band proximally to the pale 
dentate subterniinal; the ill-defined beginning of a postmedian at 
costa midway between the bands ; a terminal dark line ; fringe dark- 
marked at the vein-ends. Hind wing with a somewhat dentate 
median line, accompanied proximally by an ill-defined band con¬ 
tinuing that of forewing and absorbing the cell-spot ; subterminal 
line and its accompanying band nearly as in forewing. Underside 
more weakly dark-speckled, both wings with large, roundish dark 
cell-spot and dark submarginal band ; terminal dark line distinct. 
Cacheuta, January 12, 1904 (W. M. Bayne). Type in 
coll. L. B. Prout. 
Evidently rather closely related to Gnophos insolita 
(Warr.) * and chanehani (Dogn.) f, forming with them a 
compact group which may provisionally—after Warren— 
be treated as a section of Gnophos, Tr. = Scotopterix, Hiib., 
with veins SC^-^ coincident, as in Sienalcidia, etc. The 
termen is less crenulate than is typical, the $ antenna 
bipectinate with long pectinations, but the wing-form and 
pattern and the absence of fovea in $ distinguish them 
from Stenaleidia. The frons is less protuberant than in the 
European species which I have studied, but if the con¬ 
stitution of the genus as given in Hampson’s “ Moths of 
* Scotopterix insolita, Warr., Nov. Zool., viii, 479 = Cyniatopliora 
{!) fumigrisea, Dogn., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1, 211 (nov. syn.). 
f Cymatophora Ci) chanehani, Dogn., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., xlviii, 
364. 
