472 Korn'in.'rc. 



5717. Amyna tristis. 



Chytoryza tristis, Dmce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Ilet. ii. p. 506, pi. 96. f. 18 

 (1898). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown ; tarsi with slight pale 

 rings. Fore wing grey-brown; subbasal line represented by two 

 faint dark striae from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, oblique, 

 waved; clavifonu absent; orbicular represented by a few whitish 

 and dark scales ; reniform very indistinct, its annulus represented 

 by some whitish scales with a black point at its upper extremity 

 and some on its lower edge, constricted at. middle ; an indistinct 

 rather diffused medial line oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, 

 then incurved; postmedial line slightly defined by whitish on outer 

 side towards costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, in- 

 curved below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line very indistinct, dark, slightly defined on outer side by 

 whitish towards costa, excurved below vein 7, then minutely 

 waved; a terminal series of black points; cilia with a slight pale 

 line at base. Hind wing grey-brown, the cilia white with a slight 

 brown line through them ; the underside grey suffused with brown, 

 a small black discoidal spot, minutely waved postmedial line, and 

 terminal series of small black lunules. 



Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Tvvjillo), 1 3,2 $ type, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Exp. 32-34 millim. 



Sect. III. (Ainyiut). Fore wing of male without fovea in cell. 



A. Fore wing with the apex produced, the term en obliquely curved ; hind 

 wing ample and the tornal area dilated. 



5718. Amyna punctnm. 



Noctua punetum, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 3, 2. p. 34 (1794). 

 Noctua cmnulata, Fabr. Ent Syst. 3, 2. p. 47 (1794). 

 Amyna selenampha, Guen. Noct. i. p. 406(1852); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. 



p. 30, pi. 147. ff. 3, 3a ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 250. 

 Alamis spoliata. Wit. xiii. 1050 (J857). 



Hama latipennis, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 169 (I860). 

 Amyna sndrfraeta, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. vi. p. 189 ( 1863). 

 Perigea trivenejxea, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. vii. p. 148 (1863). 

 Perigea urba, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. vii. p. 148 (1863). 

 Haderia latfyennis, Wlk. xxxiii. 738 (1865). 



Perigea natalensis, Wllgrn. Svenek. Vet.-Akad. Handl. v. 4, p. 55 (1865). 

 Hesperimorpha paradoxa, Saalm, Ber. Senck. Ges. 1880, p. 283 , id. Lep. 



Mad'ag. p. 283, £. 145. 



3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish or grey-brown tinged 

 with grey ; palpi whitish, the 2nd joint towards extremity and 3rd 

 joint blackish ; frons whitish below and with blackish bar above, 

 pectus whitish mixed with fuscous, the fore legs blackish, the tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white; abdomen with the anal tuft and 

 ventral surface whitish. Fore wing reddish or grej'-brown tinged 

 with grey, the markings indistinct ; subbasal line represented by a 





