322 noctuid^:. 



area black-brown irrorated with grey, the antemedial area brownish 

 ochreons, the rest of wing rufous suffused in parts with black ; two 

 slight antemedial black stria? from costa ; a curved black medial 

 line slightly angled inwards in cell ; an elliptical silvery purple 

 discoidal spot with dark centre and defined by blackish on inner 

 side ; post-medial line double filled in with silvery purple, excurved 

 from below costa to discal fold, then incurved and interrupted at 

 submediau fold, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line silvery purple defined on each side by black suffusion, angled 

 inwards and interrupted at discal andsubmedian folds ; a fine black 

 terminal line ; cilia blackish finely pencilled with grey. Hind wing 

 dark cupreous brown with a fine pale line at base of cilia. Under- 

 side of fore wing brown, the inner area white, ante- and postmedial 

 ochreous white annuli on costa, the latter with a point beyond it and 

 small spot towards apex ; hind wing with the basal area irrorated 

 with ochreous white, a large discoidal ochreous white annulus and 

 subterminal series of small spots. 



Hob. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 5 type, Godman-Salvin Coll. ; 

 Argentina, Goya (Perrens), 1 $ . Exp. 14-16 millim. 



5494. Cobubatha goyanensis, n. sp. (Plate CLVIII. fig. 20.) 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown tinged with grey ; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white irrorated with 

 brown, the tibiae and tarsi banded with brown. Fore wing yellowish 

 suffused with rufous, the base black-brown tinged with grey, the 

 costa with alternating black -brown and whitish streaks ; postmedial 

 line brown with rufous suffusion before it, obliquely downcurved 

 from costa to vein 6, then oblique and slightlv bent outwards to 

 inner margin ; subterminal line black, ratner diffused on outer side, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards in discal 

 fold, defined on outer side by silvery scales; a rather punctiform 

 black terminal line ; cilia blackish mixed with grey. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown with a rufous gloss ; the underside whitish tinged 

 with fuscous, the costal area yellowish tinged with rufous, the 

 postmedial area with blackish suffusion from costa to vein 4, a 

 blackish discoidal spot and postmedial line excurved from costa 

 to vein 4, a black terminal line with some white before it. 



Hah. Argentina, Goya Corrientes {Perrens), 1 J type. Exp. 

 14 millim. 



5495. Cobubatha balteata. (Plate CLVIII. fig. 21.) 



Tripudia balteata, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 489 (1900); Dyar 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 212. 



<$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey thickly irrorated with brown 

 tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen with the crest on 4th 

 segment black. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with brown ; i 



