340 NOCTUID/E. 



5521. Parangitia cana. (Plate CLIX. fig. 3.) 

 Parangitia cana, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) iii. p. 464 (1909). 



$ . Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous and mixed with 

 some dark brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen whitish tinged with 

 rufous, the tarsi brownish with pale rings. Fore wing pale rufous 

 irrorated with dark brown, the medial area and postmedial area, 

 except towards costa, suffused with grey -white ; an indistinct 

 blackish subbasal lino from costa to median nervure ; traces of an 

 oblique antemedial line, slightly angled outwards in submedian 

 fold ; orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli, the former 

 round, connected by a curved black mark below the cell and with 

 quadrate black spot between them ; a medial dark striga from 

 costa and incurved line from the black mark below the cell to 

 inner margin ; a blackish patch beyond the reniform before the 

 postmedial line, which is double, excurved and minutely dentate 

 from costa to vein 4, then incurved and bent outwards to inner 

 margin, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 whitish, incurved below costa, angled inwards at discal fold where 

 there is a blackish patch beyond it, incurved and minutely waved 

 below vein 3 ; a terminal series of blackish striae ; cilia chequered 

 rufous and blackish. Hind wing cupreous brown, the terminal 

 area darker ; cilia with pale rufous line at base ; the underside 

 whitish tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown, a brownish 

 bar from middle of costa and curved minutely waved postmedial 

 line. 



Hob. Peru, S. Domingo (Ockenden), type f $ in Coll. Druce. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



5522. Parangitia grisescens, n. sp. 



eta delectans, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 310 (nee Wlk.). 



3 . Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous, the latter 

 irrorated with black ; tegulae with black medial line ; tarsi banded 

 with brown; abdomen whitish suffused with rufous. Fore wing 





Fig. 102. — Parangitia grisescens, J. |. 



whitish Buffused with rufous and irrorated with black ; subbasal 

 line represented by a slight blackish striga from costa; antemedial 

 line double, black filled in with whitish, the inner line indistinct, 

 slightly sinuous, angled outwards above inner margin ; claviforni 



