o 



60 NOCTUID^. 



inner margin ; subterminal line diffused, rufous, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and middle, then incurved. Hind wing reddish brown ; 

 the underside whitish tinged with brown, a slight brown discoidal 

 lunule, and indistinct rather diffused obliquely curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hub. Brazil, Castro Parana {D.Jones), type f <j> in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Exp. 20 millira. 



5S40. Hyperstrotia flavipuncta. 

 Erastria flavipuncta, Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 524. pi. 53. f. 3. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey tinged with brown ; 

 palpi fuscous; tarsi fuscous slightly tinged with white. Fore 

 wing pale purplish grey, almost wholly suffused with rufous to the 

 medial line, the termen slightly tinged with rufous ; subbasal line 

 represented by an oblique minutely dentate black striga from costa 

 and dentate striga from cell ; a large triangular grey patch on 

 inner area before the antemedial line, with some black scales on 

 its inner and upper edges ; antemedial line black, oblique, waved, 

 defined by white on inner side from submedian fold to inner 

 margin ; claviform an elliptical yellowish white spot ; orbicular 

 and renif'orm absent; medial line black, minutely waved, oblique, 

 and followed by a white shade from costa to lower angle of cell ; 

 postmedial line defined by white on outer side, indistinct from 

 costa to lower angle of cell, bent outwards below costa, then 

 followed by minute black points on the veins, excurved to vein 5, 

 then incurved to lower angle of cell, then more distinct and 

 sinuous to inner margin ; faint traces of a subterminal line angled 

 outwards at vein 7 ; a terminal series of slight dark points. 

 Hind wing greyish wholly suffused and irrorated with brown ; 

 a faint discoidal spot ; cilia white with a faint brown line through 

 them ; the underside ochreous white irrorated with brown, a black 

 discoidal spot and diffused sinuous postmedial line. 



Hob. Japan, Yokohama (Pryer), 1 S type. Exp. 36 millim. 



5841. Hyperstrotia nacroplaga. (Plate CLXV. fig. 23.) 



Karavt/a microplaga, Hinpsn. J. Eoiub. Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii. p. 646 

 (11107). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white faintly tinged with brown ; 

 palpi black at sides except towards tips ; frons with lateral black 

 points : antennae blackish ringed with white towards base ; a 

 brown line behind tegulae ; abdomen with the basal crest tipped 

 with black. Fore wing white tinged with brown, the medial area 

 with conical pale yellow patch tinged with rufous on inner area 

 just extending into cell, the terminal area suffused with rufous; 

 a fine black subbasal line, oblique from costa to median nervure, 

 incurved in submedian interspace and angled outwards at vein 1 ; 



