600 



NOCTUID^. 



postmedial Hue very iudistinet, dentate, with a prominent black 

 spot on it at costa and a series of black points on its inner side 

 between vein 6 and submedian fold, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some white points on costa 

 towards apex ; the subterminal line defined by a browniish patch ou 

 its inner side at costa, then represented by a series of small black 

 and white spots, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. 

 Hind wing pure white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with red. 



Hah. Chile (Edmonds), 1 J type in Coll. Druce. Exp. 46 

 millira. 



Genus HYPOXESTIA, nov. 



Type, H. dilatata. 



Proboscis fully developed : palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly scaled and 

 i-eaching vertex of head, the 3rd naked, moderate ; frous smooth ; ejes large ; 

 antennas of male with cilia and bristles ; head and thorax clothed with hair 

 and scales, the latter with ridge-like dorsal crest ; fore tibia; broadly fringed 

 with hair on outer side, mid and hind tibia? spined. Fore wing broad, the 

 apex somewhat produced ; veins 3 and 5 from close to 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 f]'om angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



1044. Hypoxestia dilatata. 



Mesogona dilatata, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 364 (1879). 



Head and thorax deep red-brown ; legs darker brown ; abdomen 

 brown mixed with grey, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing pale 

 red-brown with a purplish tinge ; a subbasal rufous line from costa 

 to submedian fold, angled outwards below costa ; a minutely waved 

 somewhat oblique antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform defined 



Fig. 1U3. — Hypoxestia dilatata, ^ • !• 



by rufous, large, the former greyish, the latter dark, the cell before 

 and between them deep rufous : a deep rufous band before the 

 postmedial line, which is minutely dentate, excurved from costa to 

 vein 4, then oblique ; a slightly sinuous rufous subterminal line 

 with the area beyond it rather darker ; a fine crenulate terminal 

 line. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia ochreous. Underside of 

 fore wing rufous, with the disk fuscous ; hind wing ochreous, with 

 the costal area rufous. 



