24 G NOCTUID^. 



distinctcrpst.thpmetntliornx with spreading crest; tibifc moderately fringed with 

 liair ; abduiiMMi without crests. Fore wiiitr with the apex somewhat pi-odiiced, 

 t)io terinen obliquelj- curved and not creuiilate; vi-ins .'} and f) IVoin near angle 

 of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 nreole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with reins '6, i from angle of cell; 5 

 obsolescent from just below middle of discoccUulars; (3, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing yellowish white. 



a. Fore wing without conical brown spot on middle of inner 



margin ohtusa. 



b. Fore wing with conical brown spot on middle of inner 



margi n perjla va. 



B. Hind wing dark brown. 



a. Fore wing bright yellow demo. 



h. Fore wing oehrcous tinged with rufous procula. 



c. Fore wing deep rufous umbria. 



4625. Stiriodes obtusa. 



Met(yponia ohinsa, Herr.-Schiiff. Aussereur. Schmett. p. 68, f. 210 (1853) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 316. 

 Metopmia obtusula, Zell. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxiii. p. 204, pi. '6. f. 2 



(1873). 



Head and tegiilaD rufous ; thorax j-ellow, rufous in front and 

 beliind ; pectus and legs yellow suffused with rufous : alid'jnieii 

 yellow tinged with rufous. Fore wing briglit yellow tinged with 

 rufous except on terminal area, the base of costal area rufous ; a 

 rufous antemedial spot on cost a and dark point in submedian fold ; 

 a rather triangular red-brown spot on middle of costa extending 

 into upper part of cell, an oblique red-brown bar from lower angle 

 of cell to submedian fold and a spot on inner margin ; postniedial line 

 represented by a small red-brown spot on costa, a point further 



DB 



Fig. 100. — Stiriodes obtusa, J, \. 



from base in discal fold and a point in submedian fold ; a sub- 

 terminal red-brown spot on costa and a series of small spots from 

 discal fold to inner margin, excurved at vein 4. Hind wing 

 ochreous white slightly irrorated with brown : traces of a diffused 

 brown medial line from subcostal nervure to inner margin, an 

 oblique postmedial line arising from vein 6 and an indistinct 

 diffused subterrainal line. Underside of fore wing suffused with 

 red-brown except apical part of costal area, the terniiuiil and inner 

 areas ; hind wing white irrorated with brown, the costal area yellow, 



