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NOCTXJID^. 



white points be5fond it on costa ; the subterminal line represented 

 b}' a series of white points, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle, with a snuill dentate black sjiot before the point above 

 vein 5 ; a tine pale line at base of cilia, which are pinkish. Hind 

 wing ochreous brown, paler towards base and inner margin ; cilia 

 pinkish ; underside pale, the costal and terminal areas suffused 

 with pinkish brown, a slight discoidal point and sinuous postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Brazil, New Fribourg, type f in Coll. Oberthiir. Exp. 

 44 millim. 



*1517. Chabuata ampla. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 19.) 

 Chabuata ampla, Wlk. xiv. 1034 (1857). 



2 . Head and thorax fuscous brown, the scales tipped with grey ; 

 abdomen grey-brown with a slight ochreous tinge. Fore wing 

 fuscous brown suffused with silvery grey ; faint traces of a curved 

 autemcdial line ; orbicular hardly visible, round, with a deep red 

 point on its upper edge ; reniforra an ochreous spot with points 

 above and below it and some deep red on its edges ; an indistinct 

 dark medial line oblique from costa to lower angle of cell ; post- 

 medial line represented by a faint double curved series of dark 

 points ; subterminal line only represented by some red scales and a 

 spot above vein 6 ; a slight series of points just before termen. 

 Hind wing fuscous ; the cilia ochreous white ; the underside 

 ochreous white thickly irrorated with brown, a discoidal point 

 and sinuous punctiform postmedial line. 



Hab. Brazil, type t j in Mus. Oson. Exp. 54 millim. 



1518. Chabuata major. 



Noctua major, Guen. Noct. i. p. 3.34 (1852). 

 Graphiphora maja, Wlk. x. 401 (1856). 



Head and thorax dull red-brown, deep red-brown, purple-brown, 

 or olive-brown, sometimes slightly irrorated with white, and the 

 dorsal crests sometimes pale rufous ; spurs ringed with white ; 

 abdomen ochreous or grey-brown, the anal tuft rufous. Pore wing 

 red-brown or dull brown suffused with greyish or purplish; an 

 indistinct, double, waved subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; an indistinct double, minutely waved antemedial line, bent 

 inwards to costa and incurved in cell ; orbicular round with very 

 indistinct grey annulus, sometimes with grey points at sides ; 

 reniform with obscure grey annulus, sometimes with four white 

 points on its edges, the outer part of centre with grey or olive 

 lunule ; medial shade usually distinct, oblique from costa to median 

 nervure ; postmedial line more or less distinctly double, dentate 

 and with series of black points on outer line, excurved from costa ' 

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

 subterminal line indistinct, pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and 



