48 NOCTUID^. 



costa and more strougly below coll and above inner margin ; the 

 orbicular and reniform represented by small brown spots with rufous 

 points round them, the latter with rufous mark just before it on 

 costa ; an oblique minutely-waved medial line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, angled inwards at vein o aiid incurved below vein 4, 

 Avith rufous suffusion on its outer edge on costa extending to apex ; 

 a curved subterminal series of points; cilia pinkish. Hind wing 

 white ; the veins brownish ; a dark discoidal point ; the inner 

 margin fuscous ; the terminal area broadly black with nearly 

 straight inner edge ; the veins towards tei men streaked with red • 

 cilia pink. Underside of fore wing with the orbicular, reniform, 

 a streak below middle of cell, and a diffused postmedial band black ; 

 hind wing with the terminal area purplish pink. 



Hah. Natal, Ivarkloof {Marshall), 1 § . Exp. 34 millim. 



59. Chloridea chilensis, n. sp. (Plate LV. fig, 24.) 



S . Head and thorax ochreous strongly tino;ed with crimson, and 

 the hairs tipped with grey ; tibiae and tarsi tinged with pink ; 

 abdomen ochreous, the dorsal crest at base pink. Fore wing olive 

 ochreous; the costal area pink, with some ochreous and brown 

 points on costa ; a dark subbasal point below the cell ; autemedial 

 jioints in submedian fold and on vein 1 ; the orbicular a small 

 dark spot ; reniform somewhat quadrate; a curved postmedial series 

 of dark points ; a more or less distinct subterminal puuctiform line, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal 

 series of dark points ; cilia pink. Hind wing pale ochreous ; the 

 ^ eius streaked with brown ; the terminal area broadly fuscous with 

 diffused inner edge ; cilia ochreous. Underside of fore wing with 

 the orbicular, reniform, and postmedial band fuscous. 

 5 . Hind wing almost wholly suffused with fuscous. 

 Hah. Chili, Coquimbo (J, J. Wall-er), 2 J, 1 § type, Ed-p. 

 430 millim. 



60, Chloridea virescens. 



Xoctua virescens, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 21G (1781) ; Smith, Cat Noct U S 



p. 2GS. 

 Phalana rhe.via. Smith & Abb. Ins. Georgia, ii. p. 199, pi. 100 (1792) ■ 



Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 298. 

 Aspila subflexa, Giien. Noct. ii. p. 175 (1852). 

 Xanthia viridesceiis, Wlk. x. 465 (1856). 

 Xanthia prasina, Wlk. x. 465 (1856). 

 Xanthia. pyraloides, Wlk. x. 466 (1856). 

 Aspila tergcmina, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 55 (1874). 

 HeliotJiis spcctanda, Streck. Lep. Rliop. & Ilet. p. 122 (1875). 

 Chloridea molochitina, Berg, Ann. Soc. Arg. xiv. p. 282 (1882). 

 Chloridea distincta, Schans, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 117 (1898). 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with green ; palpi and antenna; 

 whitish irrorated with red ; frons ochreous ; pectus and leo's 

 ochreous white, the tibiae and tarsi tinged with red ; abdomen 

 ochreous, the ventral surface Avhitish. Fore wing pale ochreous tino-ed 



