RCRIPTANTI. 465 



1811. Scriptania nordenscjoldi. 



Mamestra nordenscjoldi, Staud. Hamburg. Magalhaens. iv. p. 68, f. 7 

 (1899;. • 



Head and thorax white mixed with black ; tegulae and patagia 

 with black line near edges ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdo- 

 men fuscous grey. Fore wing grey-white irrorated and suffused 

 with fuscous, the end of cell and area beyond and below it and 

 the terminal area except towards apex more strongly suffused ; 

 subbasal line represented by oblique double black striae from costa 

 and cell filled in with white ; antemedial line defined by whitish on 

 inner side, waved, angled strongly outwards above inner margin ; 

 claviform large, fuscous defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 grey with whitish annuli defined by black, the former irregularly 

 rounded, the latter angled inwards on median nervure ; traces of a 

 medial line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line defined by 

 whitish on outer side, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, 

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

 beyond it ; veins 7, 6, 4, 3 defined by whitish, indenting the sub- 

 terminal line, which is represented by a series of small white spots 

 on dentate black marks, angled outwards at veins 7, 4, 3 ; the 

 apex and a terminal line grey; cilia fuscous and grey. Hind wing 

 fuscous, the cilia white at tips ; the underside whitish irrorated 

 with brown, a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Patagonian Andes, Val de Lago Elanco, 4 J i 1 $ > Punta 

 Arenas. Exp. 36 millim. 



*1812. Scriptania michselseni. 



Acjrotis mich(Bheni, Staud. Hamburg. Magalhaens. iv. p. 60, f. 13 (1899). 



S • Head and teguloe dark brown mixed with grey ; patagia and 

 thorax grey with seven brown stripes ; abdomen with the basal 



'Fig.Vib. — Scriptania micJicBlseni, (^ . \, 



half grey, the terminal half red-brown. Fore wing purplish grey- 

 brown, the veins streaked with whitish ; black patches in interspaces 

 of basal area, traversed by the white subbasal line, which is repre- 

 sented by an obliciue striga from costa and an inwardly oblique 

 striga from median nervure, the patch above inner margin extend- 

 ing to near antemedial line, which is whitish, strongly angled 

 outwards below costa and above inner margin and with small 

 wedge-shaped black patch before it above vein 1, and one beyond it 



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