526 NOCTUIDjE. 



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4264 a. Procrateria melanoleuca, n. sp. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 4.) 



2 . Head white ; palpi brown, blackish at tips ; frons and a bar 

 between antennae black : antennas brownish ; tegulse reddish brown ; 

 thorax white with a black band in front ; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 white tinged with reddish brown, the fore tarsi blackish with pale 

 rings. Fore wing white slightly tinged with brown, the apical area 

 suffused with reddish brown ; some black at base of costa followed 

 by a subbasal black striga, then a black band from costa to median 

 nervure constricted at middle ; antemedial line black defined on 

 inner side by white, slightly angled inwards below costa, then 

 obliquely excurved to vein 1 where it is joined by an excurved 

 black line defined on outer side by white from above end of cell, 

 forming a patch at costa with a white spot on it and a patch at 

 junction of the two lines ; orbicular black with white annulus, 

 small, round; reniform and postmedial line obsolete; some black 

 points on postmedial part of costa and a slight black mark on inner 

 margin ; subterminal line pure white defined on inner side by black 

 striae and points which are slight towards costa, and on outer side 

 strongly by black from costa to termen above vein 5, sinuous, bent 

 outwards nearly to termen between veins 5 and 3, where there is 

 some white beyond it ; some black points on middle of termen and 

 a lunule above tornus ; cilia brownish on apical half, white on 

 tornal half. Hind wing white, the termen tinged with brown from 

 apex to vein 3 ; a terminal series of brown striae ; cilia with 

 brownish spots towards apex : the underside with the costal area 

 and terminal area to vein 3 tinged and irrorated with reddish 

 brown, a dark discoidal spot. 



Hab. Peru, Pozuzo, 1 § type. Exp. 32 millim. 



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4293. Namangana morsa. (Plate CXLVIII, fig. 29.) Figured 

 from drawing from type in Coll. J. B. Smith. 



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Genus PH0B0L0SIA. 



Type. 



Phobolosict , Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. x. p. 52 (1908) reincarnata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joiut reaching to vertex of 

 head and fringed with long hair in front coming to a point above, the 3rd joint 

 short and fringed with hair ; frons smooth with tuft of hair ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennae of female minutely serrate ; thorax clothed almost entirely with 

 scales, the metathorax (?) with spreading crest; tibiae slightly fringed with 

 hair; abdomen without crests. Pore wing with the apex somewhat produced, 

 the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from ne;:r angle 

 of cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 



