274: NOCTUIDJE. 



*]520. Chabnata noctuiformis. (Plate XC. fig. 3.) 



Orthodes iioctuifomus, Gueu. ined. 



2 . Head and thorax reddish brown tinged ■with j)urplish brown ; 

 abdomen ochreous, dorsally sufl'used with fuscous, the basal crest 

 grey-tipped. Fore wing pale purplish brown, thickly irrorated 

 with fuscous ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antcraedial line douVde, the inner obliquely curved, 

 the outer irregularly waved, indistinct ; clavitbrm absent ; orbicular 

 round, hardly defined except by an ochreous annulus above ; 

 reniform narrow, oblique, ochreous white, the centre defined by 

 brown and with a black point in its lower part; a medial line 

 oblique from costa to lower angle of cell where it is angled ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, double, the inner line minutely dentate 

 and with series of black and grey points on it, bent outwards 

 below costa and oblique below vein 4, the area beyond it slightly 

 darker to the subterminal line, which is very indistinct, pale, with 

 a prominent black spot on it below vein 7 and slight points at 

 middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a series 

 of slight points just before termen connected by a fine waved line; 

 cilia crcnulate. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia ochreous ; the 

 underside grey thickly irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal 

 spot and slightly sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Beazil, New Friboiirg, type t 5 in Coll. Oberthiir. Exp. 

 60 millim. 



*1521. Chabuata sateintioides. (Hate XC. fig. 4.) 



Orthodes satellifioides, Guen. Noct. i. p. 372 (1852). 



§ . Head and thorax purple-grey ; abdomen brown. Fore wing 

 purple-grey ; subbasal line absent ; two brown well-separated 

 antemedial lines, the inner most prominent and diffused ; claviform 

 and orbicular absent ; a diffused brown medial shade ; reniform 

 represented by a small somewhat quadrate ochreous-white spot ; 

 two well-separated postmedial lines, excurved from costa to vein 4, 

 then incurved, the area beyond it tinged with brown to the sub- 

 terminal line, which is angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a series of greyish points just before termen ; cilia 

 strongly crenulate. Hind wing reddish brown, a fine pale line at 

 base of cilia ; tlie underside grey strongly irrorated with brown, a 

 small discoidal annulus and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Brazil, New Fribourg, type f 5 in Coll. Oberthiir. Exp. 

 50 millim. 



Genus LASIANOBIA, nov. 



Type, L. lauta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with long hair 

 in front ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded, o\erhung by long cilia ; antennse 

 of male minutely gerrate and fasciculate ; head and thorax clothed witii hair 

 and hair-like scales, the pro- and luelathorax with spreading crests; fore tarsi 



