G04 NOCTUID.T-:. 



between antenncc black ; antenna) black, ringed with white at base ; 

 teguhv! brownish white tipped with black ; thorax black mixed with 

 wliito, the pectus irrorated with white and the tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen black, whitish at base, with snblatcrai tufts of 

 long while hair, the ventral surface irrorated with white. Fore 

 wing dark purplish grey; subbasal line white, defined on each side 

 by black ])a(chcs below costa and cell, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; 

 antcniodial lino white detincd on each side by black, represented by 

 an oblique striga in cell, an angled mark in submedian interspace, 

 and a medial striga on inner margin ; claviform only defined by a 

 clavate white mark beyond it ; orbicular and reniform greenish 

 white, very large, extending to costa and connected by a streak 

 above median uervure, the former oblique elliptical, the latter with 

 its lower extremity connected with the greenish-white terminal 

 area, which is slightly irrorated with black and strongly angled 

 inwards above and below middle ; postmedial line white defined 

 by black, minutely waved, interrupted, oblique towards costa and 

 below vein 4, some white points on costa beyond it ; subterminal 

 black patches on costa, at middle, and above tornus ; small white 

 patches on inner margin before antemedial and beyond postmedial 

 line ; cilia chequered white and black. Hind wing white, the 

 costal and terminal areas fuscous brown, the latter narrowing to 

 tornus ; cilia intersected with white except towards apex ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with white, a black dis- 

 coidal spot. 



J J ah. Colombia, Honda, 1000' {Wheeler), typo in Coll. Druce. 

 Exp. 36 millim. 



Page 147. *1325 h. Polia hieroglyphera. 



Moma hieroglyphera, Mssn. Stiibel's Eeise, p. 137, pi. v. f. 17 (1890). 



Head and thorax bluish grey ; tegulse with fuscous tips ; patagia 

 and thorax with fuscous patches ; abdomen grey suffused with 

 fuscous. Fore wing grey-white ; a small black spot at base and 

 subbasal spots on costa and inner margin ; an antemedial triangular 

 patch on costa and another below the cell ; claviform represented 

 by a triangular black patch with oblique mark below it on inner 

 margin ; orbicular and reniform only defined by a black spot before 

 them in cell, a triangular patch between them emitting two arms to 

 costa and a triangular patch beyond them ; postmedial line only 

 represented by a striga from costa, a triangular patch before it 

 below the cell, and a conical patch on inner margin ; a V-shaped 

 black mark on costa before apex with a black spot between its arms ; 

 an oblique subterminal black mark at middle and an oblong patch 

 above tornus ; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing white, 

 tlie apical area fuscous, narrowing to a point at vein 1. Underside 

 of fore wing fuscous with some whitish on disk ; hind wing white, 

 with the costal and apical areas fuscous. 



Hah. EcuADORjAntisana, 12,000'. Exp. 3G millim. This species 

 is unknown to me ; structural characters examined by Prof. Karsch. 



