370 



NOCTUID.li:. 



Genus DIPINACIA, nov. 



Type, D. sehin lodes. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi tvitb the ■2nd joint upturned, reaching 

 about t« middle of froiis and moderately scaled, the iird niodei-ate, porrect ; 

 frons with curved corneous plate below and long rather bilobed phite at 

 middle; eyes large, round; antenna; of female ciliated; thorax clothed with 

 scales and hair mixed, the yirothorax without crest, the metathorax with slight 

 spreading crest; tibiis slightly fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenu- 

 late ; veins 3 and o from near angle of cell ; 6 from upjjer angle; 9 (rom lU 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell; .') obsolescent from belnw middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing witli the cell near base only. 



4821. Dipinacia schiniodes. 

 Bipinacia schiniodes, Dogn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. li. p. 239 (1907). 



§, Head and thorax pale ochreou.s ; abdomen ochreotis white 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing yellowish white tinged with olive 

 especially on terniiiial area, the basal inner area faintly linged 

 with rufo'ia ; an indistinct diffused oblique rufous antemedial line 

 from cell to inner margin and with slight olive mark on costa ; post- 

 medial line very indistinct, whitish, excurved from costa to vein 5, 

 then oblique, helow viin .'3 slightly defiiicd by rufous on inner side 



Fig. 168. — Di/jiJiacia scJiiiiiodcs, $. j. 



and with olive mark at inner margin; subterminal line whitish 

 defined by olive suffusion on inner side, slightly incurved below 

 vein 8. Hind wing white .sutTusod with brown except on basal 

 and inner areas ; diffused curved brownish pnstmedial and sub- 

 terminal bands. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous 

 except on inner area ; hind wing white slightly irrorated with 

 brown, a diffused curved ])0straedial line. 



Uab. Argeniixa, La Eioja {Giacomelli), 1 $ , Tucuman, type t 2 

 in Coll. Hognin. Exp. 28 millim. 



Genus CYTOTHYMIA. 



nov. 



Type, C. obsifa. 



Proboscis tuUy developed ; palpi obliquely porrect to just beyond frons 

 and moderately fringed with scales below, the 3rd joint "short ; frons with 

 large round corneous [irominence with raised edges, its lower edge produced 



