35S noctuidjE. 



and white annulus, some black on its outer edge and on inner 

 edge of reniform, which is white with brownish centre, some- 

 what constricted at middle and angled inwards on median nervure ; 

 an indistinct oblique waved medial line ; postmedial line double, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold, strongly 

 incurved and minutely waved below vein 4, some black and white 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish slightly 

 defined by black on inner side, with diffused black patch before it 

 below costa and beyond it at discal fold, excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle, then incurved and waved, angled inwards at discal fold ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia grey with blackish 

 medial line and black and white chequered tips. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown, the cilia pale brown with dark medial line and 

 whitish tips ; the underside greyish thickly irrorated and suffused 

 with brown, a black discoidal spot and faint minutely crenulate 

 postmedial line. 



Hub. Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers), 5 J type, Candelaria Mts. 

 {Underwood), 1 rf , 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 26 millim. 



5546. Mictochroa parigana. (Plate CLIX. fig. 18.) 



Mkroccrtia parigana, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 151 (1904). 



S . Head and thorax whitish mixed with cupreous brown and 

 dark brown ; fore and mid tibice and tarsi banded with blackish ; 

 abdomen white irrorated with brown. Fore wing rufous irrorated 

 and in parts suffused with dark brown ; subbasal line represented 

 by a whitish striga from costa ; antemedial line brown defined by 

 w hire on inner side, incurved at vein 1 ; claviform represented by 

 a curved white and brown mark at its extremity ; orbicular and 

 reniform with reddish centres with some white on them and white 

 annuli defined by brown, the former round, the latter constricted 

 at middle ; medial line represented by a dark mark on costa and a 

 sinuous line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double 

 filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, then very minutely 

 waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white and blackish 

 spots beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white defined on inner 

 side by slight dentate black marks, dentate, angled inwards at 

 discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series of slight red-brown 

 lunules ; cilia white mixed with red-brown. Hind wing white 

 irrorated with brown ; traces of curved postmedial and subterminal 

 lines ; a fine dark terminal line ; the underside white irrorated 

 with pale crimson and rod-brown, the terminal area suffused •with 

 brown, a slight discoidal lunule and rather diffused curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hab. Brazil, Castro Parana (D. Jones), 1 J . Exp. 28 millim. 



