NEOMILICHIA. 



519 



pectus and legs whitish, fore legs suffused with brown, hind tibiae 

 irrorated with brown and with dark spots near base and extremity 

 and on spurs, the tarsi with dark bands ; abdomen ochreous white 

 dorsally suffused with brown, ventrally irrorated with brown. Fore 

 wing brown suffused with purple and slightly irrorated with greyish; 

 subbasal line represented by slight double dark striae from costa ; 

 antemedial line very indistinct, double at costa, oblique to submedian 



Fig. 140. — NeomUichiacaternauUi, J. I!. 



fold, then erect ; orbicular with traces of a dark annulus, round ; reui- 

 form small with rufous centre and indistinct diffused black outline 

 obscured by the diffused medial line, which is oblique from costa to 

 lower angle of cell, then incurved ; postmedial line double filled in 

 with greyish, the outer line indistinct except at costa and with 

 series of black points on it, bent outwards below costa, slightly 

 incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, some pale points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line defined by dark suffusion on 

 its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved and slightly 

 dentate at middle ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia 

 with series of minute white points at base. Hind wing white with 

 terminal brown band from apex to vein 2, in female wholly tinged 

 with brown, the terminal area darker ; cilia yellowish white ; the 

 underside white, the costal and terminal areas, except towards 

 tornus, tinged with ochreous and irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal point, postmedial sinuous line with minute dark streaks 

 on the veins, and terminal scries of small black lunules. 



Ah. 1. fuscata. Fore wing with inverted comma-shaped white 

 mark in centre of reniform. 



Hub. Venezuela (Dyson), 1 $ type fervens ; Br. Guiana, Rock- 

 stone (Kaye), 1 § ; Brazil, Amazons, II. Madeira, Statoro ('frail), 

 2 $, B. Xegro, Marapata (Trail), 1 S type fuscata, B. Jutahi 

 (Trail), 1 2, B. Burus, Baricatuba (Trail), 1 g type dmtilineata. 

 Exp. 22-28 millim. 



Sect. II. Hind tibia? of male with the inner spurs very long. 



4242. Neomilichia hylea. 

 Noctua hylea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 48, pi. 312. f. E (178i')- 



Head and thorax yellow tinged with rufous and mixed with 

 brown \ sides of palpi and irons brown ; fore legs brown ; abdomen 



