94 NOCTUIDJE. 



dark, dentate and produced to black points on the veins, excurved 

 from costa to vein 4, then incurved, an oblique white bar beyond 

 it from costa ; cilia tipped with white except at apex and middle. 

 Hind wing pale red with slight dark terminal line ; cilia yellow ; 



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Fig. 23. — Geroda cornifera, S • \- 



the underside whitish tinged and irrorated with red, a black dis- 

 coidal lunule, curved dentate postmedial line, and terminal series 

 of stria? from apex to vein 4. 



Hab. ignotus (? Brazil), 1 S type. Exp. 34 millim. 



*4414. Geroda excisa. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 17.) 



Macapta excisa, D. Jones, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 159. 



cJ . Head and thorax bright rufous, some of the scales tipped 

 with white, pectus and legs with grey mixed ; abdomen grey mixed 

 with brown. Fore wing with the termen slightly excurved at 

 middle ; rufous tinged with grey especially on costal area and 

 slightly irrorated with fuscous, the costa with series of minute 

 white streaks ; a subbasal white point in cell ; antemedial line 

 fuscous, oblique, very slightly waved, bent inwards to inner 

 margin ; claviform and orbicular absent ; reniform small with red- 

 brown centre and white annulus slightly defined by blackish ; post- 

 medial line fuscous, very minutely waved, oblique from costa to 

 vein 7, excurved to vein 5, then incurved, a series of black points 

 beyond it on the veins ; an indistinct dark subterminal line diffused 

 on inner side, incurved below vein 3. Hind wing fuscous brown, 

 the costal area whitish to beyond middle ; cilia white ; the 

 underside whitish suffused with rufous and irrorated with fuscous 

 except on inner area, a slight dark discoidal spot and postmedial 

 dentate line produced to black points on the veins. 



Hab. Brazil, Bahia in Mus. Oxon., Sao Paulo, type t in Coll. 

 D. Jones. Exp. 24 millim. 



*4415. Geroda leucocycla. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 18.) 



Geroda leucocycla, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) iii. p. 460 (1909). 

 5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen bright rufous ; tarsi ringed with 



