354 NOCTUIDJ?. 



apex and to inner margin before postmedial line, and the terminal 

 area suffused with cupreous brown ; subbasal line represented by 

 double dark striae from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, double 

 filled in with whitish, angled outwards in submedian fold and 

 inwards on vein 1 ; claviform represented by an oblique dark bar 

 at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli 

 defined by black-brown, both oblique and constricted at middle ; 

 traces of a medial line, oblique from costa to the reniform and 

 sinuous below the cell ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish 

 on costal half and yellowish on inner half, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some slight whitish points 

 beyond it on costa ; an oblique white subterminal band, the slight 

 white subterminal line arising from it at vein 5 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of small blackish lunules ; a fine white 

 line at base of cilia. Hind wing reddish brown ; cilia whitish 

 mixed with brown ; the underside greyish irrorated with brown, a 

 slight discoidal spot and traces of minutely waved postmedial and 

 subterminal lines. 



Hab. Brazil, Sao Paulo (D. Jones), 1 $ . Exp. 2S millim. Type | 

 in U.S. Xat. Mus. 



*5541. Paracodia praxina. (Plate CLIX. fig. 14.) 



Tarache praxina, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 159 (1904). 



2 . Head and thorax ochreous white tinged with rufous ; palpi 

 with some brown at sides ; fore legs tinged with brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous white irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing yellowish white 

 suffused and irrorated with olive- brown ; an antemedial whitish 

 band defined on each side by brown scales, inwardly oblique and 

 waved to vein 1, then excurved above inner margin ; claviform a 

 whitish patch defined by brown at extremity and extending to cell; 

 orbicular and reniform whitish with faint rufous centres, the former 

 rather elliptical, the latter dilated above and constricted at middle, 

 a blackish patch between them ; an oblique brown line from lower 

 au^le of cell to inner margin ; a narrow whitish postmedial band, 

 defined on each side by brown, bent outwards below costa, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 6 and oblique below vein 4; some white 

 striae beyond it from costa ; a narrow whitish subterminal band, 

 oblique from costa to vein just beyond postmedial band, excurved 

 at vein 5, then oblique; a terminal series of slight brown stria?; 

 cilia whitish with brown line through them, the tips chequered 

 with brown. Hind wing yellowish white faintly tinged with 

 brown ; a terminal series of brown striae ; the underside sparsely 

 irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal spot, curved postmedial 

 line, and traces of diffused subterminal line. 



Hab. Brazil, Castro Parana {I). Jones), type f $ in U.S. Xat. 

 Mus. Exp. 30 millim. 



