190 



NOCTCID.E. 



with fuscous. Fore wing whitish almo-t wholly tinged with pale 

 rufous, the antemedial area irrorated with a few black scales, the 

 terminal halt' of costal area suffused with fuscous ; subbasal and 

 antemedial lines and orbicular absent ; an indistinctly double medial 

 line, black towards costa and below vein 2, reddish at middle and 

 excurved at median nervure, with a faint reddish line beyond it 



Fig. 36. — Matopo neotropicalis, <$. 



from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; reniform represented by 

 a faint whitish lunule defined by reddish ; traces of a minutely 

 waved whitish postmedial line excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 the veins and interspaces of terminal area with dark streaks, the 

 interspaces between veins 4 and U with double streaks meeting 

 towards base so as to form elongate V-shaped marks ; a terminal 

 series of black points with streaks beyond them intersecting the 

 cilia, which are brown and white. Hind wing pure white ; the 

 underside with the costal edge dark brown. 



Hah. Brazil, Castro Parana, type f J in Coll. D. Jones. Exp. 

 34 millim. 



Genus DELTA. 



Delta, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 263(1891) 



Trichorhisa*, Hinpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. v. p. 13 (1905) 



Type. 

 stolifera. 



petcrsoi i. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely porrect, reaching to just beyond frons, 

 the 2nd joint rather broadly fringed with hair below, the 3rd short ; frons smooth, 

 with riages of hair at middle and above ; eyes large, round ; antenna; of male 

 ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the tegulse produced to a 

 dorsal ridge, the thorax with divided ridge-like crest; tibia 1 fringed with long 

 bair on outer side ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore 

 wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved 

 and orenulafe ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle ot cell ; 5 obsolescent from just 

 below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the reniform expanding below and extending 

 to well below cell. 



a. Fore wing with the reniform angled inwards on median 



nervure goniosema. 



b. Fore wing with the reniform not angled inwards on 



median nervure. 

 a 1 . Fore wing with the antemedial line obsolete in sub- 

 median interspace intermedia. 



* The characters were taken from a specimen with the head of another 

 species stuck on. 



