V2i NOCTUrD.E. 



♦4458. Bryolymnia picturata. (I'lutc CXL. fig. 14.) 



Catymnia pictunita, Scliuus, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. xxi. p. '238 (1894). 



$ . Head and tliorax black mixed with white ; antenna? ringed 

 with white ; pectus and legs whitish mixed with brown, the tarsi 

 black ringed with white ; abdomen white tinged with rufous, 

 ventrallv irrorated with brown. Fore wing pale olive-green ; the 

 basal area almost entirel)" suflf'used with black to the black ante- 

 medial line : which is excurvcd in cell and submedian fold and bent 

 inwards to inner mar.i:;in ; the stil)basal line represented by an 

 ochreous striga Irom costa ; medial costal area ochreous ; the clavi- 

 form represented by a small blackish mai k at its extremity ; 

 orbicular white defined by black, small, irregular ; reniforra defined 

 by black except above, the upper part yellowish, the lower part 

 white with black sjjot in centre, verj- strongly constricted at middle; 

 an olive-brown medial shade irrorated with black and with black 

 spots at costa and inner margin ; postmeilial line double, black, the 

 inner line strong, expanding at discal fold into a wedge-shaped mark 

 to reniform, the outer line slight, minutely waved, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 6 and inwards in submedian fold, a blackish patch 

 beyond it on costal area irrorated with white ; subterminal line 

 slight, blackish, oblique to vein 7, excurvcd below vein 7 and at 

 middle and with a blackish bar beyond it between veins 7 and 4 ; 

 a slight black terminal line ; cilia che(]uered white and black. 

 Hind wing whitish tinged wdth ochreous brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous ; a slight discoidal striga; a fine black terminal 

 line; cilia white wdth a blackish line near base; the underside 

 W'hite, the costal and terminal areas irrorated wdth black especially 

 at apex, a blackish shade from middle of costa, discoidal spot and 

 diffused sinuous postmedial line. 



Huh. Mexico, Las Tigas (Schuus), type t 5 in U.S. A^at. Mus. 

 E.iji. '30 millim. 



Genus GONOSTYGIA, nov. 



Type, G. arfonax. 



rroboseis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the iiiid joint rciicliing 

 about to middle of frons and fringed with long hair in frout, the ord moderate, 

 porrect ; frons smooth with tuft of hair ; eyes moderate, round ; antennse of 

 female ciliated ; thorax clotlied with hair and scales mixed, the tibijE fringed 

 with long liair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with ihe 

 apex somewhat produced, the termen excised from below apex to middle and 

 from !niddle to toriius ; veins 3 and 5 from nc;ir angle of cell ; (> from below 

 upper angle; 7,8,9 stalked; 10,11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 u])per angle; 8 anastomo:ing with the cell near base only. 



4459. Gonostygia agonax. 



Annrta aqonax, Druce, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 51.T ; id. Biol. Cent r. -Am., Ilet. 

 ii. p. 490, pi. 94. f. -12. 



$. Head and tliorax fuscous black slightly mixed with grey ; 

 tarsi whitish ; abdomen fuscous black paler at base. Fore wing 



