CATABENA. — CHIRIPHA. 237 



tibirc on inner side and mid tibia? on outer side at base streaked 

 with black, the tarsi ringed with blackish ; abdomen white dorsally 

 suffused with fuscous brown leaving slight white segmental lines, 

 the anal tuft ochreous. Foro wing grey-white irrorated and in 

 parts suffused with fuscous brown, the veins with slight dark 

 streaks ; subbasal line represented by a very oblique black striga 

 from costa l an oblique black streak above inner margin before the 

 antemedial line, which is represented by an oblique series of short 

 black streaks in the interspaces, with a somewhat whiter patch 

 beyond it from costa to median nervure ; orbicular absent; reni- 

 form a faint whitish patch ; postmedial line blackish and strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, then almost obsolete, dentate and 

 produced to black points on the veins, oblique below vein 4 and 

 with a black spot beyond it in submedian interspace ; subterminal 

 line represented by a minute black streak below apex, brownish 

 spots below veins 7 and 6, with a short black streak below the 

 latter and short black streaks above and below vein 2 ; cilia 

 chequered blackish and white at base, with slight brown medial 

 line and white tips. Hind wing hyaline white with fuscous patch 

 at apex and slight streaks on the extremities of veins ; cilia white, 

 fuscous at apex ; the underside with the costal area slightly 

 irrorated with broAvn towards the apical black patch. 



Hob. Venezuela (Dyson), 1 $ type ; Er\zil, Organ Alts., Tijuca 

 ( Wagner), 1 J, Petropolis (Doer), 2 J, ltio Janeiro, 1 d ; 

 Pakageay, Sapucay (Foster), 1 § ; Peru, Arequipa. Exp. 2U- 

 30 millim. 



Genus CHIRIPHA. 



Type. 



Chiripha, Wlk. ix. 200 (1856) involuta. 



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

 middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair, the 3rd short, upturned ; 

 frons smooth, with ridge of hair above ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna; of male 

 bipectinate with short brandies, the apex serrate ; head and thorax clothed with 

 hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibia: 

 moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with. dorsal crest at base only. Fore 

 wing with the apex rather produced and acute, the termen obliquely curved 

 and slightly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; i) from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below 

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

 near base only. 



385G. Chiripha involuta. 



CMripha involuta, Wlk. ix. 201 (1856) ; Hrnpsu. Moths Ind. ii. p. 230. 



Head and thorax ochreous w T hite mixed with some brown ; palpi 

 brown except 2nd joint in front ; sides of frons black ; tibiae 

 streaked with brown, the tarsi brown with slight pale rings ; 

 abdomen ochreous white suffused and irrorated with brown. Fore 

 wing yellow-brown ; the veins brown defined on each side by 

 white streaks ; a white fascia below costa from base to apex, the 



