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running oblique!}- to apex and the terminal area fuscous ; the 

 median nervure and base of vein 1 streaked with ochreous ; 

 veins 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 on terminal area blackish defined by ochreous 

 streaks ; a black streak below base of cell and an oblique streak 

 above inner margin near base ; claviform with ochreous annulus 

 defined by black and with a black patch below its inner side ; 

 orbicular and reniforra with ochreous or blackish centres and 

 whitish annuli defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, and 

 produced along median nervure to. become more or less strongly 

 confluent with the narrow reniform ; an irregular oblique ochreous 

 band from apex to inner margin beyond middle intersected by the 

 streaks on the veins ; the subterminal line represented by a series 

 of ochreous points on small dentate black marks in the interspaces ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia ochreous, with two 

 brown lines through them. Hind wing whitish, the veins, inner 

 area, and terminal half suffused with fuscous ; cilia ochreous white, 

 with a brown line through them ; the underside whitish irroratcd 

 with fuscous except on disk, a small discoidal lunule. 



2 . Head and fore wing more uniformly suffused with fuscous. 



Hab. Chili (Edmonds), 2 J , 1 5 type. Exp. 32-34 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennte of male ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with terminal whitish bnnd sa-ipfa. 



B. Fure wing without terminal white band calligrapta. 



*1814. Strigania scripta. 



Mamestra scripta, Mssn. Stiibel's Reise, p. 141, pL vi. f. 14 (1890). 



S . Head and thorax pale ochreous with some fuscous and brown 

 hair mixed ; patagia with white streak and some black scales near 

 edges ; abdomen pale ochreous, tinged with brown towards ex- 

 tremity. Fore wing pale ochreous, the interspaces mostly suffused 

 with brown ; subbasal line represented by patches of black scales 

 below costa and cell, the latter crossed by an oblique whitish striga ; 

 antemedial line represented by two patches of blackish scales below 

 costa and by a whitish line from cell to inner margin, strongly 

 angled on vein 1 and defined by black on outer side in submedian 

 interspace and on inner side below vein 1 ; claviform incompletely 

 defined by black and with oblique whitish fascia above and beyond 

 it; orbicular and reniform whitish with brown centres open above 

 and below, defined by a V-shaped black mark between them and an 

 inverted V before orbicular, connected by a whitish streak on 

 median nervure, continued on veins 3, 4 to subterminal line ; post- 

 medial line minutely waved, black defined by a whitish band on 

 outer side connected with apex by an oblique whitish fascia, oblique 

 from costa to vein 6 and from vein 4 to inner margin ; subterminal 

 line represented by a series of black wedge-shaped marks with 

 whitish lunules on them ; a terminal whitish band ; cilia whitish, 

 ochreous at base. Hin:l wi ng ochreous white, the veins and terminal 



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