542 NOCTUID^,. 



liyulinc white, the veins and tcrnien down to vein 2 tinged with 

 brown ; the underside witli the costal area tinged with purplish 

 and irrorated with black ; a terminal series of black points from 

 apox to vein 2. 



//(ill. Bk. E. Africa, Eb Urru (Betton), 2 5 ; I*<^atal, Dur})nn 

 (Gooch, Ltii/h), 2 J , 1 $ , type ; Mauritius, Cuerpipe {Tulloch), 

 1 2 • ^-'T- ^^ millim. 



1938. CirpMs latiusciila. ( Plate XCIII. fig. 20.) 



Leucania latiusciila, Herr.-Schaff. Corresp.-Blatt zool. niin. Ver. Regensb. 



1868, p. 148. 

 Hcliophila siihpmidata, Harv. Bull Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 8 (187r)) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 181). 

 Leucania piiticiifcra, Miischl. Ver. z.-b. Wien, 1880, p. 889. 

 Leucania sencs<;evs, Moselil. Abb. Senek. Ges. xvi. p. 1-12 (1890). 

 Leitcania tinilci, Scliaiis, Trans. Am. Ent. Hoc-, xxi. p. 23." (1894). 

 Leucania comflicaia, Streck. Lep. Eiio]). & Het., 8uppl. i. p. 9 (1898). 

 Leitcania mistcca, Sfhaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 1 15 (1898) ; Druce, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 5(')8. 

 Liucania orisaha, Scliaii^, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 115 (1898) ; Druce, Biol. 



Contr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 5(i8. 

 Leucania cxtvncta, Druce, Biol. Cen(r.-Am., Het. i. p. 261 (part.), nee Guen. 



Head and thorax ochieous mixed with fuscous brown ; tegulae 

 with three dark lines ; abdomen ochreous irrorated with brown, 

 the dorsal crest dark. Fore wing pale greyish or ochreous irrorated 

 with black, the veins white irrorated with black defined by fine 

 brown streaks ; the interspaces with fine brown streaks ; the median 

 nervure with slight dark streak; a white point at lower angle of 

 cell and a black point below origin of vein 2 ; a postmedial series 

 of black points, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 very oblique ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semi- 

 hyaline white, the veins and tcrmen irregularly tinged with brown 

 in most specimens ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a terminal series of black points on costal half. 



Ab. 1. Orizaba. Hind wing largely suffused with fuscous. 



Bab. U.S.A., Georgia (Ahhot), 1 cJ , Texas, 1 $ type snb- 

 2ninctata ; Mkxico, Oaxaca, type t c? mistcca in Coll. Schaus, 

 Orizaba, type f c? orizaba in Coll. Schaus, Jalapa {Iloege), 1 S ; 

 Guatemala, Las Mercedes {Chamjiion)^ 1 5 ; Panama, Bugaba 

 (Chamjiion), 1 d ; Beemuda, Challenger Coll., 1 c?, 4 $ ; Jamaica 

 (Kaye), 2 c? , 2 $ ; Cuba ; Porto Bico ; St. Vincent (H. H. Smith), 

 1 (S ; Grenada, 1 c5' ; Barbados {Frawpton), 3 J ; Surinam ; Br. 

 Guiana, Rockstone (Kai/e), 1 S , Potaro R. (Kaye), 2 $ ; Brazil, 

 Castro Parana, type t j tiniln in Coll. Schaus ; Peru, Haunca- 

 hamba, 1 d . Bay. 38-42 millim. 



1939. Cirphis tritonia, n. sp. (Plate XCIII. fig. 21 .) 



Head and thorax brownish ochreous; palpi with some fuscous 

 ficalcs at sides; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing browni.sli ochreous, 

 slightly irrorated with fuscous and with black on costal and inner 



