1»S NOCTUID^. 



jtost medial liuo very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique and with short dark streaks beyond it on the veins, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line absent. Hind 

 win<? jialo jjurjdish i)ink : the underside pinkish suffused with white, 

 the apical area pinker, a slijj;lit discoidal spot and postmedial series 

 of minute streaks on the veins. 



llah. Bkazil, Castro Paraiia {D. Jones), 1 c? • Exj). 32 millira. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male minutely serrate. 



A. Fore wing without white streak beyond lower angle 

 of cell. 



a. Fore wing with white discoidal bar dilated below carnescrns. 



b. Fore wing without white clisi'oidal bar. 



a'. Fore wing with pure white spot in lower part of 

 renifoi'iii. 

 «-. Fore wing with fascia below base of cell and the 



orbicular and reniforni yellow suffused with red. lunda. 

 h'-. Fore wing without fascia below base of cell, the 

 orbicular and renifurm not yellow suffused 



with red niveignita. 



h'. Fore wing witiiout white spot in lower part of 

 reniforni. 



a-. Fore wing with the postmedial line double iidmla. 



h-. Fore wing with the postmedial line single. 



a''. Fore wing with the po>tniedial line bent out- 

 wards below costa and oblique below yein 4. 

 «•*. Fore wing without series of black points 



beyond post medial line vmrsa. 



li^. Fore wing witii series of black points beyond 



postmedial line marginata. 



b^. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurred 



from costa to vein 4, then oblique holophtea. 



13. Fore wing with short white streak beyond lower angle 

 of cell. 



a. Fore wing with the white streak beyond lower angle of 



cell single alhivitta. 



b. Fore wing with the white streak beyond lower angle of 



cell double dileiica. 



4420. Macapta carnescens. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 21.) 



Nakapta carnescens, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. sxx. p. 99 (1906). 



Head and thorax bright rufous, a few of the scales tipped with 

 white ; abdomen whitish suffused with rufous, the basal crests pure 

 white. Fore Aving bright rufous with a cui)reous gloss; an 

 indistinct dark antemedial line incurved in cell, then oblique and 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular absent ; rcniform a puie white 

 narrow oblique bar somewhat dilated below ; a faint difl'used 

 obliqtae line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 fine, minutely dentate and produced to short streaks on the veins, 

 e.xcurvcd to vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line absent ; a fine dark terminal line. Hiiid 

 wing entirely suffused with glossy brown ; cilia pale red-brown ; 



