GONOSTYGIA. — ATIJIiEA. ] 25 



fuscous black slightly mixed with grey ; subbasal line represented 

 l)y brownish-white bars from costa and cell; anteraedial line brownish 

 white, erect, minutely waved : orbicular very small, round, white 

 detined by black ; reniforni white defined by black, rounded above 

 and truncate below ; postmedial hue black defined on outer side 

 by brownish white, broadly diff'used below costa and dentate at 

 middle and vein 1, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 5, 

 then oblique and very minutely dentate, some white points beyond 

 it on costa; subterminal line represented by obliquely placed white 

 points on and below costa and a point at vein 4 ; a series of miuutc 



Fig. 37. — Gonostijgia agonax, 2. \. 



white points just before termen ; cilia white intersected with black 

 at and below apex and at veins 4, 3. Hind wing black with trian- 

 gular white patch in, below and beyond lower end of cell ; cilia 

 white, black towards apex ; the imderside with the costal half 

 irrorated with white, a black discoidal spot incompletely defined by 

 white. 



Ilab. Mexjco, Jalapa (Iloer/e), 1 $ type, Godmau-Salvin Coll. 

 Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus ATIM^A, nov. 



Type, A. picfura. 



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

 vertex of head, the ord moderate or short, porrect ; frons smooth; eyes large, 

 round; antenna? of male minutely serrate and fasciculate; thorax clothed with 

 hair and scales mixed, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with 

 spreading crest; tibic'e moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some 

 rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the costa 

 somewhat excised towards apex which is rounded, the termen obliquely curved 

 and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from up[)er angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 shortly stalked or from angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the crescentic patch on medial area black 



and greatly expanded at upper extremity 'picinra. 



B. Fore wing with the crescentic patch on medial area red- 



brown and slightly expanded at upper extremity crescent tea. 



44G0. Atimsea pictura. 



Timma ■piclura, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 309, f. 240 (1891). 



5- Head, thorax, and abdomen ochrcous tinged with rufous; 

 palpi with the 2nd joint dark brown at sides ; frons with lateral 

 dark bars ; tegula) with strong medial black line. I'ore wing 

 ochreous suffused with rufous and irrorated with dark brown ; 



