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NOCTUIDiE. 



defined by slight dentate dark marks on inner side, slightiy angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 dark ])oiiits ; a flesh-coloured line at hase of cilia. Hind wing pale, 

 siifl'used with fuscous brown especially towards ternien ; cilia pale, 

 with a brown line through them ; the underside whitish irrorated 

 with brown, a slight discoidal spot and indistinct curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Argentina, Aconcagua {Fitzgerald), 1 $ type. Exp. 

 36 millim. 



Genus CATEPHIODES, nov. 



Type, C. aiielana. 



Proboscis fully clevelopod ; palpi upturned, the 2ncl joint Jiearly reaching 

 vertex of head and smootlily scaled in front, tbe 3rd obliqne, long ; frons with 

 slight rounded proniinence with corneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded; 

 antenna3 of female ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with scales, the pro- and 

 met.ithorax with sjjreading crests; tibiae slightly fringed with hair, the inner 

 spurs very long; abdomen witli dorsal crests. Fore wing broad, triangular, 

 the termeu retracted towards tornus ; 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; 5 obsolescent from just below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



1171. Catephiodes ziielana. 



Hadena zuelana, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 143 (1898). 

 JEdia trinidadensis, Kaye, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1901, p. 123, pi. 5. f. 3. 



5 . Head ochrcous more or less tinged with rufous ; thorax red- 

 brown, with some black on extremity of patagia and metathorax ; 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen black-brown, dorsally irrorated 

 with rufous, ventrally with grey ; the anal tuft ochreous. Fore 

 wing dark brown suffused with rufous, the terminal half more or 

 less suffused with whitish and with some bluish white below costa 

 and between veins 5 and 3 ; subbasal line represented by black 



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Fig. 10. 



-Catephiodes zuelana, 2 • 



striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line black, irregularly sinuous, 

 inwardly oblique ; orbicular and reniform small, detined by black, 

 the former round, the latter indistinctly defined except on inner 

 side ; a waved medial line or dark shade ; postmedial line minutely 

 and irregularly dentate, very strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 incurved at discal fold, below vein 4 incurved to below angle of 



