360 NOCTTT1TXE. 



costal area with black patch with some pale points on costa ; a 

 subterminal series of slight black points, incurved below vein 3; 

 a terminal scries of minute black lunules ; cilia pale at base, 

 brownish at tips. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with brown ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules ; the underside whitish 

 tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated with brown, a blackish 



discoidal spot. 



Hub. Brazil, Castro Parana (D. Jones), type t d in U.S. Nat. 



Mus. Exp. 22 millim. 



5549. Mictochroa thermoptera. (Plate CLIX. fig. 21.) 

 Mictochroa thermoptera, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) iii. p. 461 (1909). 



Head and thorax deep blood-red mixed with some yellowish ; 

 antenna? blackish ringed with white towards base ; abdomen 

 brownish with white segmental lines and the crests blood-red; 

 pectus and legs whitish tinged with red, the tarsi black ringed with 

 white ; ventral surface of abdomen red. Fore wing deep red to 

 the postmedial line and on costal area to the subterminal line, the 

 basal inner area and terminal area yellowish suffused with red ; 

 Bubbasal line indistinct, pale, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line whitish, angled outwards below costa, excurved 

 below the cell and angled inwards at vein 1 ; claviform represented 

 by a faint pale lunule at its extremity; orbicular with whitish 

 annulus defined by deep red, small, round ; reniform with pale 

 centre defined by red and white annulus defined by deep red, 

 narrow, bar-shaped ; medial line indistinct, deep red, oblique from 

 costa to lower angle of cell, then slightly incurved and sinuous ; 

 postmedial line double filled in with whitish, bent outwards below 

 costa, incurved at discal fold where there is a small dentate black 

 mark before it, incurved and somewhat dentate below vein 4, with 

 some whitish suffusion beyond it ; the postmedial costal patch with 

 some white points on costa ; subterminal line very indistinct, 

 whitish, minutely waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and 

 with minute black points before it below veins 7 and 5 ; a terminal 

 series of black points; cilia deep red with a series of black points 

 at tips. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown ; a terminal 

 series of slight black lunules ; cilia blood-red ; the underside white 

 tinged with red and irrorated with black, a black discoidal spot, 

 crenulate postmedial line, and terminal series of small lunules. 



llab. Peru, S. Domingo {Ockenden), 1 $. Exp. 3 28, § 

 34 millim. Type f J in Coll. Druce. 



550. Mictochroa triangularis. (Plate CLIX. fig. 22.) 



Tarache triangularis, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 158 (1904). 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous and 

 mixed with a few black scales: tarsi brown ringed with ochreous. 

 Fore wing chocolate-brown, the costal area ochreous tinged with 



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