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NOCTUIMi. 





fascia from it to the reniform which has a cupreous centre and 

 whitish annulus, rather constricted below and with an oblique white 

 shade from it to costa towards apex, a U-shaped dark line defining 

 the orbicular and reniform in cell ; postmedial line white, slight 

 and bent outwards below costa, oblique below the white shade, an 

 oblique white streak from it to termen above tornus in submedian 

 interspace ; subterminal line represented by a white striga from 



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Fig. 180. — Chobata discalis, J. T . 



costa, then only defined by a slight dark shade on inner side, 

 angled inwards in discal fold; a white terminal line with blackish 

 points and striae on termen ; cilia white with a series of brownish 

 spots. Hind wing whitish tinged and the terminal area suffused 

 with cupreous brown ; cilia white tinged with cupreous brown at 

 base from apex to vein 2: the underside whitish, the costal area 

 tinged with brown. 



Hob. Cuba, Santiago (Sckaus), 5 J,4$; Haiti (Tweedie), 2 tf , 

 1 2 > type and type concludens. Exp. 18-26 millim. 



Genus LOPHORACHE, nov. 



Type, L. fulvirufa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, tbe ?nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of frons aud moderately fringed with scales, tbe 3rd short, 

 porrect; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it ; eyes 

 large, round ; antenna of male minutely ciliated; thorax clothed with hair 

 and scales mixed, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with decumbent 

 crest ; tibias smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore 

 wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; 

 veins 8 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anas- 

 tomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 15, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the basal area olive-yellow, the terminal 



area rufous , fulvirufa. 



B. Fore wing brownish ochreous, the terminal area dark 



brown eustrotiodes. 



5984. Lophorache fulvirufa, n. sp. 



2 . Head and thorax grey-brown, the patagia yellowish tinged 

 with rufous, pectus and legs ochreous white, the tarsi brownish 



