4(54 K0CTUID.15. 



white, irroratcd and the terminal area suffused with black, a small 

 discoidul sj)ot, waved jiostmedial line, and fine terminal line. 



JJah. SiKniii(7vj)?/i-'<'«), type t § in Coll. Elwes. ii'a^:*. 34 millim. 



Genus SCRIPTANIA, nov. 



Type, iS. michcBlseni. 



Proboscis fully developed ; piilpi oblique, fringed with long hair in front ; 

 frons snmotb ; eyes overhung by long cilia; antenute of male ciliated; bead 

 and tliorax clothed with rough hair and scales; the pro- and inctathorax with 

 spreading cre>ts ; abdomen witii dorsal crests on first segment. Fore wing 

 with veins o ami 5 from near angle of cell; G from upper angle; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 11 from cell. Hind wiug with veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolesf^ent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle; 8 anastoiudsing witli the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform conjoined syzygia. 



B. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform separate. 



a. F'ore wing with the reniform angled inwards ou median 



nervure nordcnscjoldi. 



b. Fore wing with the reniform nut angled inwards on median 



nervure mickalseni. 



1810. Scriptania syzygia, n. sp. (Plate XCI. fig. 11.) 



5 . Head and thorax clothed with white, reddish brown, and 

 black scales and hair; tegulae with two black lines, patagia edged 

 with blackish ; pectus and legs rufous, the tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen rufous, the dorsal crest rufous. Fore wing white with a 

 purplish tinge, mostly irrorated and sufluscd with dark brown ; a 

 black streak below base of cell interrupted by the subbasal line, 

 which is double, filled in with white, interrupted and bent outwards 

 at cell and ending at submedian fold, dentate black marks beyond 

 it below cell and above inner margin ; anetmedial line double filled 

 in with white, oblique, slightly angled outwards below costa and 

 above inner margin and inwards on vein 1 ; claviform small, white 

 defined by Ijlack ; orbicular and reniform whitish, tinged with 

 brown at centre and defined by black, the foimer oblique, irregularly 

 elliptical, open above, the latter angled inwards on median nervure 

 and touching the former ; postmedial line defined by white on outer 

 side, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein G, then minutely 

 dentate, inwardly oblique to inner margin near antemcdiul line; 

 postmedial area purplish white except at costa, on which are some 

 white points ; siibterminal line white, defined on inner side by a 

 series of small dentate dark marks, angled otitwards at vein 7 and 

 dentate to tornus at veins 4 and 3, the area beyond it dark brown 

 except at apex ; cilia pale brown intersected by white, a dark 

 brown line at base and brown tips. Hind wing reddish brown, the 

 cilia whitish with a brown line at base ; the underside greyish 

 thickly irrorated with brown, a small discoidal lunulo and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hub. Patagonia, Magellan, Punta Arenas (J. J. WaUcer), 1 § 

 type. Exji. 32 millim. 



