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NOCTUID.E. 



Genus CATABENA. 



Catabcna, Wlk. xxxii. 631 (1865) 



Turbula, Wlk. Guar. Bndescr. Het. p. 26 (1869) 



Adipsuphanes, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. fcici. i. p. 181 (1873).. 



Type. 

 lineolata. 



lineolala. 

 lineolata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short, porrect ; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennas of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely 

 with scales, the tegulaj produced to a slight dorsal ridge and hood behind, the 

 pro- and metathorax with slight spreading crests; tibia; fringed with long 

 hair on outer side at base ; build slender; abdomen with dorsal crest at base 

 only. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the tenuen obliquely 

 curved and not crenulate ; 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 from middle of d'scocellulars, 

 almost obsolete ; 6, 7 very shortly stalked ; 8 anastomusmg with the cell near 

 base only. 



A. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. 



a. Fore wing with the reniform represented by a minute 



whitish spot csula. 



b. Fore wing with the reniform absent. 



a 1 . Fore wing with the orbicular represented by a slight 



white streak denned by black lineolata. 



bK Fore wing with the orbicular absent vitrina. 



B. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell terens. 



3852. Catabena esula. 



Xylina csula, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 297, pi. 28. f. 1 (1889). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey-white ; frons black ; 

 tcguke with strong black lines at base and middle and slight 

 fuscous line near tips ; fore tibiae and mid tibia) towards base 

 black on outer side ; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the 



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Fig.. 58. — Catabcna csula, $ . \. 



ventral surface whitish. Fore wing brown mixed with grey-while, 

 the veins and discal fold slightly streaked with black; a slight 

 black streak below basal half of cell; antemedial line dentate wit It 

 a. long tooth below costa, then almost obsolete ; orbicular repre- 

 sented by a minute elongate white spot on the discal blackish 

 streak ; reniform a minute whitish spot ; postmedial line defined 

 by whitish on outer side towards costa, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, almost obsolete, oblique below vein 4; 

 the interspaces of terminal area with slight dark streaks ; a fine 

 waved black terminal line; cilia brown mixed Avith grey. Hind 



