106 NOCTUID^. 



before apex crossed by the diifused pale postmedial line wliicli is 

 olili(iue from costa to below vein 7 near termeii, then defined by 

 red-brown on inner side, very oldicjue to below vein 2, then less 

 oblique ; a lirown sublcrniinal f-hade from vein li to inner margin, 

 oliliqiie to below vein 'J; a fine rcd-l)rowii tirniinal line; eilia 

 yellowish. Hind winji; ochreous almost wholl)' sutVuscd with red- 

 brown ; an indistinct curved ochreous postmedial line; a fine red- 

 brown terminal line; cilia yellow ; the underside yellow, the inner 

 half whitish to near tornus, the a])ical area sliglitly irrorated with 

 brown, an indistinct postmedial line from costa to vein 4, oblique 

 to discal t\)ld where it is angled ; a fine red-brown terminal line. 



J/((lj. Mkxico, Guerrero, Amula (//. J/. I'Smilh), 1 (S type, 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. Bxj). 42 millim. 



4433. Stibadium curiosa. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 30.) 



Sfi/iadrum citriofio/i, yeinu. V-aIaV.o, in. p. 141 (1883); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 262. 



Head and thorax white and dark brown mixed ; antennae white 

 ringed with brown; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen whitish 

 tinged witli brown. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and irro- 

 rated with white scales, the medial area blackish except towards 

 costa before the postmedial line which has a semicircular black-brown 

 patch beyond it on costa ; antemedial line white, almost straight 

 and erect ; orbicular and reniform defined by white, the former very 

 oblique elliptical, tlie latter with straight inner edge, its outer edge 

 excised at middle and produced at lower extremity ; postmedial line 

 white slightly defined on each side by dark brown, oblique from 

 costa to vein G, obliquely excurved to vein 3, then oblique ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, whitish, slightly defined on inner side by 

 dark brown, excurved from the costal patch to vein 3, then incurved ; 

 a sliiiht dark terminal line; cilia white with a diifused black-brown 

 line through tlieni. Hind wing white slightly irrorated with brown, 

 the terminal area thickly irrorated except towards tornus ; the 

 underside -white, the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated 

 with brown. 



Ilah. U.S.A., Arizona; Mexico, Guadalajara (^Wifn<s), 1 (j" , 2 5 . 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



*4434. Stibadium ochoa. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 31). 



Stibadium odwa, Barnes, Can. Ent. xxxvi. p. 241 (1904). 



Head iron-grey, the palpi chestnut-brown ; thorax chestnut- 

 brown ; abdomen pale ochreous brown. Pore wing pale ochreous 

 tinged with olive-green and chestnut-brown especially on medial 

 area in and below cell, irrorated with violaceous scales especially 

 on basal and costal areas ; antemedial line dark olive-green, very 

 obli(|ue from costa to submedian fold where it is acutely angled, 

 then inwardly obli(|ue ; orbicular and reniform faintly defined by 

 dark olive, the former round ; a dark olive medial shade, oblique 



