418 NOCTUIDiE. 



wing orange with rather broad black terminal band expanding 

 somewhat at apex and toruus. Underside of lore wing with 

 the basal costal area orange, a broad oblique postmedial orange 

 band from below costa to below vein 2, rounded below. 



Ab. 1. Underside of fore wing with yellow spot in end of cell. 

 - — Mexico. 



Hab. U.8.A., Arizona, Huachuca Mts. (Oslar), 1 c? , 3$ ; 

 MEiico, Jalapa {TrujiUo}^ 1 d ; Guatemala, Volcan de Atitlan 

 (Champion), 1 d , type cedessa, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 36- 

 50 millim. 



4888. Gerra aelia. 



Diamuna cslia, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 034, pi. 30. fi'. 23, 24 



(1889). 



d . Head, tegula), pectus, and legs chocolate-brown mixed with 

 some white hairs ; thorax rufous; abdomen dark brown, the crests 

 with purplish scales mixed, the ventral surface with some grey 

 hairs, lore wing chocolate-brown irrorated with blue-white 

 especially on the costal area, veins, and beyond the cell ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, double filled in with olive-brown, oblique, 

 waved; orbicular and reiiiform olive-brown defined by chocolate- 

 red, the former rounded, the latter with chocolate lunule on 

 discocellulars ; postmedial line chocolate defined by olive-brown 

 outer side, oblique from costa to vein 4, then inwardly oblique 

 and sinuous ; an indistinct diffused curved subterminal chocolate 

 line and a somewhat lunulate terminal line ; cilia olive-brown 

 intersected with whitish. Hind wing orange, with broad black- 

 brown terminal band expanding somewhat at costa and inner 

 margin and with slightly waved inner edge ; cilia olive-brown 

 with a slight pale line at base. Underside of fore wing with some 

 orange on base of costa, a white spot in end of cell, and oblique 

 white postmedial band from below costa to vein 2. 



Bab. Panama, Cliiriqui (Champion), 1 c5' type, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Exp. 38 millim. 



Genus GERRODES, nov. 



Type, G. hnr/ipcs. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect to just beyond frons, the 

 2nd joint fringed with ioiig hair in front, the 3rd short ; frons with long 

 truncate conical process with raised edges and corneous plate below it ; eyes 

 large, round; antenuje of male somewhat laminate and ciliated ; thorax clothed 

 with hair only, the extremities of patagia with thick tufts of upturned hair, 

 the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with siireading crest; tibial 

 fringed with long hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing 

 with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; vein 3 

 from near angle of cell ; 5 from well above angle ; 6 from U]3per angle ; 9 from 

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

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 6 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



