106 NOCTUID.E. 



before apex crossed by the diffused pale postmedial line which is 

 oblique from costa to below vein 7 near termen, then defined by 

 red-brown on inner side, very oblique to below vein 2, then less 

 oblique ; a brown subterminal shade from vein 3 to inner margin, 

 oblique to below vein 2; a fine red-brown terminal line; cilia 

 yellowish. Hind wing ochreous almost wholly suffused with red- 

 brown ; an indistinct curved ochreous postmedial line ; a fine red- 

 brown terminal line; cilia yellow ; the underside yellow, the inner 

 half whitish to near tornus, the apical area slightly irrorated with 

 brown, an indistinct postmedial line from costa to vein 4, oblique 

 to discal fold where it is angled ; a fine red-brown terminal line. 



Hah. Mexico, Guerrero, Amula (H. H. Smith), 1 d type, 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 42 millim. 



4433. Stibadium curiosa. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 30.) 



Stibadium curiosum, Neum. Papilio, iii. p. 141 (1883); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 26-'. 



Head and thorax white and dark brown mixed ; antennae white 

 ringed with brown ; tarsi ringed with White ; abdomen whitish 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and irro- 

 rated with white scales, the medial area blackish except towards 

 costa before the postmedial line which has a semicircular black-brown 

 patch beyond it on costa ; antemedial line white, almost straight 

 and erect ; orbicular and reniform defined by white, the former very 

 oblique elliptical, the latter with straight inner edge, its outer edge 

 excised at middle and produced at lower extremity ; postmedial line 

 white slightly defined on each side by dark brown, oblique from 

 costa to vein 6, obliquely excurved to vein 3, then oblique ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, whitish, slightly defined on inner side by 

 dark brown, excurved from the costal patch to vein 3, then incurved ; 

 a slight dark terminal line ; cilia white with a diffused black-brown 

 line through them. Hind wing white slightly irrorated with brown, 

 the terminal area thickly irrorated except towards tornus ; the 

 underside white, the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated 

 with brown. 



Hab. U.S.A., Arizona ; Mexico, Guadalajara (JSchaus), 1^,2$. 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



*4434. Stibadium ochoa. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 31). 

 Stibadium ochoa, Barnes, Can. Ent. xxxvi. p. 241 (1904). 



Head iron-grey, the palpi chestnut-brown ; thorax chestnut- 

 brown • abdomen pale ochreous brown. Fore wing pale ochreous 

 tinned with olive-green and chestnut-brown especially on medial 

 area in and below cell, irrorated with violaceous scales especially 

 on basal and costal areas ; antemedial line dark olive-green, very 

 oblique from costa to submedian fold where it is acutely angled, 

 then inwardly oblique ; orbicular and reniform faintly defined by 

 dark olive, the former round ; a dark olive medial shade, oblique 



