100 



NOCTUID.E. 



Hub. Brazil, Castro Parana (D. Jones), type f 5 in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Exp. 40 millim. 



*4423. Macapta nebula. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 24.) 



Kohlera nebula, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 99 (1908). 



S . Head and thorax bright rufous, the scales tipped with white ; 

 tarsi slightly ringed with white ; abdomen white tinged with rufous, 

 the basal crest dark ; the ventral surface deep rufons. Fore wing 

 bright rufous irrorated with whitish, the costal edge darker ; an 

 indistinct rufous subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial 

 line double, very minutely waved ; claviform small, faintly defined 

 by rufous ; orbicular and reniform defined by rufous, the former 

 elliptical ; an oblique rather diffused rufous medial line from cell 

 to inner margin ; postmedial line double, the outer line indistinct, 

 the inner strong, filled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa, 

 then oblique, slightly incurved below vein 4, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; two well separated, minutely waved, rather 

 diffused subterminal rufous lines, the outer slightly excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; termen and cilia deep rufous, the latter with 

 whitish line at base and whitish tips. Hind wing pure white, the 

 costal area slightly tinged with brown; a waved blackish terminal 

 line and the cilia tinged with fuscous from apex to vein 2 ; the under- 

 side with the costal area thickly irrorated with rufous, a blackish 

 discoidal point and slight postmedial line on costal area. 



2 . Hind wing entirely suffused with brown, the basal area rather 

 paler. 



Bob. Brazil, Castro Parana in Coll. D. Jones. Exp. S 36, 

 $ 40 millim. 



4424. Macapta mursa. 



Fagitana mursa, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 236 (1894). 



c? . Head and thorax bright rufous to purplish brown, irrorated 

 with white ; palpi with some blackish scales at base ; tarsi ringed 

 with white ; abdomen pale rufous, the basal crest with some blackish 



Fig. 26. — Macapta mursa, $ . \. 



scales, the ventral surface deep rufous. Fore wing bright rufous 

 to purplish brown irrorated with dark rufous and white; subbasal 

 line represented by slight double striae from costa : antemedial line 

 indistinct, double, rufous, slightly curved ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by rufous, the former round, the latter open above and 

 below ; a slight striga from middle of costa ; postmedial line brown, 



