246 noctttidjE. 



distinct crest, themetatborax with spreading crest ; tibia; moderately fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen witbout crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced, 

 the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle 

 of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 

 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing yellowish white. 



a. Fore wing without conical brown spot on middle of inner 



margin obtusa. 



b. Fore wing with conical brown spot on middle of inner 



margin perfiava. 



B. Hind wing dark brown. 



a. Fore wing bright yellow demo. 



b. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous procida. 



c. Fore wing deep rufous umbria. 



4625. Stiriodes obtusa. 



Metoponia obtusa, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. p. 68, f. 210 (1853) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 316. 

 Metoponia obtusula, Zell. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxiii. p. 204, pi. 3. f. 2 



(1873). 



Head and tegulae rufous ; thorax yellow, rufous in front and 

 behind ; pectus and legs yellow suffused with rufous ; abdomen 

 yellow tinged with rufous. Pore wing bright yellow tinged with 

 rufous except on terminal area, the base of costal area rufous ; a 

 rufous antemedial spot on costa and dark point in submedian fold ; 

 a rather triangular red-brown spot on middle of costa extending 

 into upper part of cell, an oblique red-brown bar from lower angle 

 of cell to submedian fold and a spot on inner margin ; postmedial line 

 represented by a small red-brown spot on costa, a point further 



Fig. 100. — Stiriodes obtusa, $ 



from base in discal fold and a point in submedian fold ; a sub- 

 terminal red-brown spot on costa and a series of small spots from 

 discal fold to inner margin, excurved at vein 4. Hind wing 

 ochreous white slightly irrorated with brown ; traces of a diffused 

 brown medial line from subcostal nervure to inner margin, an 

 oblique postmedial line arising from vein 6 and an indistinct 

 diffused subterminal line. Underside of fore \ring suffused with 

 red-brown except apical part of costal area, the terminal and inner 

 areas ; hind wing white irrorated with brown, the costal area yellow, 



