412 noctuid.e. 



b ] . Fore wing without medial spot above vein 1. 



a' 2 . Hind wing with three white streaks on underside ... ovata. 

 b-. Hind wing without white streaks on underside. 



a 3 . Ground-colour of wings deep red-brown spadicea. 



b 3 . Ground-colour of wings brick-red Isabella. 



4876. Kliosus leuconoe. 



Pyoiodontis leuconoe, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 107. f. 13 (1874) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Lep. Het. p. 3G. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black irrorated with white ; 

 proboscis yellow ; abdomen with whitish lateral stripes and slight 

 orange streaks towards extremity and- whitish ventral suffusion, 

 the extremity orange. Fore wing deep chocolate-brown irrorated 

 with ochreous white ; two divergent whitish streaks in cell not 

 reaching extremity; an obliquely curved band beyond the cell 

 between veins 7 and 2 divided into spots by the veins. Hind wing 

 ochreous tinged with orange ; the veins black ; a terminal black 

 band expanding on apical area. 



Bab. Colombia, Bogota, 1 $. Exp. 60 millim. Type f in Coll. 

 Bothschild. 



4877. Rhosus pulverosa. 



Ehosus posticus, Wlk. ii. 360 (1854), part. 



Pycnodont is pulverosa, Roths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 98, pi. sv. f. 34 HS96). 



5 . Black ; head, thorax, and abdomen irrorated with ochreous 

 white ; proboscis yellow ; abdomen with the terminal segment and 

 anal tuft orange. Fore wing very strongly irrorated with ochreous ; 

 an oblique elliptical ochreous white spot beyond the cell between 

 veins 7 and 2, with traces of a line beyond it angled at vein 4 and 

 oblique towards costa and inner margin. Hind wing with large 

 ochreous white patch extending from near base to beyond middlo 

 of vein 3 and from subcostal nervure to inner margin, intersected 

 by the dark veins. Underside of fore wing with wedge-shaped 

 whitish mark in cell. 



Bab. Panama, 1 $ ; Venezuela, 1 $ . Evp. 48 millim. 



4878. Rhosus postica. 



Ehosus posticus, Wlk. ii. 360 (1854). 



Melanchroia clavigera, Wlk. ii. 390 (1854). 



Melanchroia ceruginosa, Wlk. ii. 391 (1854). 



Mystrocephala quadrimacula, Herr.-Schiiff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 435 



(1855). 



S . Deep red-brown irrorated with ochreous white scales ; pro- 

 boscis yellow ; coxse ochreous white ; abdomen with lateral line 

 and ventral bands ochreous white, the anal tuft orange. Fore wing 

 with oblique elliptical ochreous white spot beyond the cell between 

 veins 7 and 3 ; cilia tipped with white at apex. Hind wing with 



