554 



noctuid.t:. 



1903. Cirphis inconspicua. (Plato XCIV. fig. 10.) 



Lencania incon^piitta, Ilerr.-ScliaH'. Corresp.-Blatt zool.-min. Ver. Regcnsb. 



18G8, p. 148. 

 Lcuvania c.vtivctn, Dnice. Biol. Centr.-Am.. Het. i. p. 201 (part.), ncc Giioii. 

 Leucania goiifa, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Aiii., Het. i. p. 12(12 (part.), hoc Wlk. 



Head and thorax ochreous ; palpi with some dark scales ; tegnUe 

 tipped witli purplish brown ; dorsal crests of thorax and abdomen 

 tijtped with l)rown : abdomen ochreous, dorsally tinged with fuscous 

 except at base and extremity. Fore wing ochreous sparsely irrorated 

 with black scales ; a black point in lower angle of cell and a fuscous 

 mark beyond it ; traces of a post-medial line dentate and produced 

 to black points on the veins; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing semihyaline white ; the underside with the costal area 

 liuged with ochreous and irrorated with a few brown scales, a 

 terminal series of black points from apex to vein 2. 



ILib. Mexico, Jalapa {Truj'dlo), 1 $ ; Panama, Chiricpii (Cham- 

 pion), 1 c?5 Godman-Salvin Cull.; Jamaica; Cuba, 1 d" , 1 2 i 

 Brazil, Eio Janeiro, 1 J , 1 $ ; Pakaguat, Sapucay (Foster), 1 J . 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



*1964. Cirphis mocoides. (Plate XCIV. fig. 17.) 

 Lmcania mocoides, Dogn. Ann. Soc. Eat. Belg. xli. p. 245 (1897). 



S . Head and thorax clothed with rufous and ochreous hair ; 

 abdomen rufous dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous 

 (suffused with fttscous, leaving an ochreous fascia in discal fold from 

 middle of cell to near termen, bent upwards below apex ; a narrow 

 blackish streak below the cell to origin of vein 2 ; a postmedial series 

 of black points in the interspaces, exctirved from costa to vein 4, 

 then oblique ; a terminal series of black points from below apex to 

 vein 2 ; the termen grey with a fine terminal black line ; cilia 

 ochreous, with a black line throtigh them. Hind wing semihyaline 

 ochreotis white, the inner and terminal areas tinged with brown ; 

 cilia white ; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated 

 with brown. 



Nab. Ecuador, Loja, type t d , in Coll. Dognin. E,vp. 36 millim. 



1965. CirpWs falclandica. (Plate XCIV. fig. 18.) 

 Leucania fallduadica, Butl. A. M. X. II. (fi) xii. p. 208 (1893). 



cJ . Head, thorax, and abdomen ])ale brown mixed with whitish ; 

 tegula? with the basal half whitish, followed by a black line. Fore 

 wing pale brown ; subbasal and antemedial black points below 

 costa ; a diffused black streak below base of cell ; a diffused ante- 

 medial black ])atch above inner margin ; a diffused streak in lower 

 end of cell and })eyond the cell above vein 4, expanding into a spot 

 in end of cell ; terminal half of median nervure and vein 1 and the 

 veins beyond the cell streaked with whitish ; a rather ill-defined 

 dentate postmedial lino, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique ; a subterminal series of dilfuscd black spots in 



