116 NOCTTJID.E. 



striga from costa and short streak below the cell ; antemedial line 

 represented by a small black spot on costa and oblique line from 

 cell to inner margin ; a rather conical silvery white patch in end 

 of cell from subcostal nervure defined by black at sides and below ; 

 an oblique waved black line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line arising below costa, black slightly defined by whitish 

 on outer side, minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4 ; some white 

 points on postmedial part of costa with slight blackish streaks 

 between them ; subterminal line only defined by the contrast 

 between the postmedial and terminal areas, excurved at middle and 

 incurved in submedian interspace ; a small black spot on termen 

 below vein 7 ; cilia black at tips. Hind wing white, the base of 

 inner margin slightly tinged with brown ; a faint discoidal point 

 and sinuous postmedial line ; a black striga on termen at diseal 

 fold ; the underside with the costal area sparsely irrorated with 

 black and with diffused dark patches at base and middle, the 

 discoidal spot and postmedial line distinct. 



Hob. Colombia, type f § in Coll. Druce, San Antonio (Palmer), 

 3 , 1 § . Exp. 28 millim. 



B. (Cyathissa). Fore wing with vein 7 from before 10; 

 tibiae not so strongly fringed with scales. 



a. Fore wing with the costal half of medial area suffused 



with black. 



a 1 . Fore wing suffused in parts with grey-green percara. 



b l . Fore wing suffused in parts with reddish ochreous... quadrate. 



b. Fore wing with the patch at middle of costal area 



slightly defined by black. 

 a 1 . Fore wing suffused in parts with reddish ochreous... ocfo-accrt. 

 &'. Fore wing suffused in parts with blue-grey pallida. 



4448. Emarginea percara. 



Bryophila percara, Morr. Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 213 (1874) ; Smith, 

 Cat, Noct. N. Am. p. 50. 



3 • Head pure white ; palpi except at tips, sides of frons and 

 antennae except basal joint black ; thorax white tinged with 

 grey-green, the tegulae edged with black, the metathoracic crest 

 with paired black patches ; pectus and legs black and reddish 

 brown, the fore and mid tibiae with white patches, the hind tibiae 



Fig. 34. — Emarginea percara, 3 • {• 



with white ring at middle and tips, the fore and mid tarsi with the 

 1st and 3rd joints white, the hind tarsi with the 1st three joints 

 white tinged with rufous ; abdomen white suffused with yellowish 



