608 noctuidj:. 



two lines widely separated ; orbicular a small round black spot 

 with faint pale annulus ; reniform with some black and rufous in 

 centre and faint pale annulus; a rather oblique black medial 

 shade ; postmedial line rather indistinctly double, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and strongly below 

 vein 4,- some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 rufous denned on inner side by blackish suffusion, angled outwards 

 at vein 7, incurved at discal fold and excurved at middle; a 

 terminal series of black points ; cilia rufous and black. Hind 

 wing -whitish tinged with red-brown ; the underside whitish 

 slightly irrorated with brown, a terminal series of black points. 

 Bab. Tra.nsva.ax, Pretoria (Janse), 1 <f type. Exp. 24 millim. 



*5915. Eustrotia astydamia. (Plate CLXVII. fig. 6.) 

 Tarache astydamia, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. sxi. p. 240 (If 94). 



§ . Head and thorax chocolate-brown irrorated with wbite, the 

 prothoracic crest except at tips and verrex of thorax blackish ; 

 palpi and frons blackish brown; tarsi blackish ringed with white. 

 Fore wing chocolate-brown irrorated and suffused with grey; 

 subbasal line grey, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 brown defined on each side by grey, slightly curved ; orbicular aud 

 reniform with grey annuli, the former round, the latter angled 

 slightly inwards on median nervure ; postmedial line brown defined 

 on earh side by grey, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 5, 

 then incurved; the postmedial area with black-brown wedge- 

 shaped patch from costa to subterminal line at vein 4, with some 

 pale points on costa ; subterminal line grey, incurved at discal 

 fold, excurved at middle, and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules defined by a fine waved grey line. 

 Hind wing cupreous brown, the terminal area rather darker ; a 

 fine dark terminal line ; cilia with a fine pale line at base ; the 

 underside whitish thickly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal 

 spot and curved postmedial line. 



Bab. Beazil, Castro Parana (D. Jones), type t $ in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Exp. 26 millim. 



5916. Eustrotia asteria. 



Tlialpochares asteria, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 497, pi. 95. f. 25 

 (1898). 



§ • Head and thorax red-brown ; pectus whitish ; tarsi brown 

 ringed with white ; abdomen brown, pale at base. Pore wing 

 red-brown, the basal area, the medial area except towards costa, 

 and the apical area irrorated with violaceous white forming small 

 round spots in parts ; a round subbasal white spot in cell ; two 

 obliquely placed white spots before the excurved antemedial series 

 of white points; a round white spot in middle of cell and two 



