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NOCTUlDiE. 



defiiieil by yellow below ; claviform represented by a small black 

 triangle ; orbicular and reuiform purple-grey, forming a V-shaped 

 mark and dotined by black triangles before, between, and beyond 

 them ; an oblique series of wedge-shaped marks from apex to below 

 vein 2, where the mark is bisected by a yellow streak; a series of 

 triangular marks just before termen from vein 6 to above vein 1, 

 where the mark is more elongate ; a fhie terminal line and three 

 lines through the cilia. Hind wing purplish white, the veins and 

 marginal areas suffused with brown ; the underside with the veins 

 and marginal areas irrorated with brown ; a small discoidal spot. 



Ilah. X. I'Kia', Huancabamba, 8000 feet, type t in Coll. Druce. 

 Exjj. 40 millim. 



Genus CONISANIA, nov. 



Type, C. leineri. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, fringed with hair below ; 

 frons witli small rounded prominence ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male 

 ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scules, the pro- and 

 metathorax with spreading crests; fore tibiii; with spine on outer side near 

 extremity, the tarsus with curved claws on each joint, longer towards extremity 

 of joint ; abdomen with dorsal crest on basal segment. Fore wing with veins 

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from 

 angle of cell ; .5 obsolescent from just below angle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle or stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



1820, Conisania leineri. 



JsoctJia leineri, Frr. Keu. Eeitr. Schmett. ii. p. 145, pi. 184. f. 3 (1831); 



Herr.-Schiiff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 102; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 158. 

 Leiicania furcata, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1837, iv. p. 40. 

 Mumesira cervina, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1842, iii. p. 546; Herr.-Schiiff. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. ff. 163-4. 

 Mamesira pomerana, Schulz, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1869, p. 51. 

 Mamedra hovina, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 14. 

 Mamesfra albina, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 254 (1896). 



Head and thorax bright rufous ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen 

 rufous mixed with ochreous. Fore wing bright rufous, the veins 



Fig. 141. — Conisania leineri, (j". 



irrorated with white ; the subbasal line represented by white points 

 on costa and median ncrvure ; the antomedial line indistinct, waved, 

 with white points on costa, median ncrvure, vein 1, and inner 

 margin ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular and reniform with indistinct 

 •white ocelli, the former small, round, the latter narrow with some 



