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to 
NOCTUID#. 
a3, Fore wing with the area beyond subterminal 
line between vein 3 and tornus deep chocolate- 
TPOWD icischccegesecavevccuctcccssssacctnansstanmnmsonces blandula. 
the postmedial area. ‘eg ; 
at, Fore wing with triangular whitish or yellowish 
white patch at middle of inner area...........- ablatrix. 
i+, Fore wing with triangular bright yellow patch 
at middle of inner area ..........++s-sseeeereeecee cupred. 
ct, Fore wing with oblique white band at middle 
Of INNET ALEA .....ceceeeeecese eee eesterserseoeeeses albisecta. 
di, Fore wing without pale triangular patch or 
band at middle of inner area ...............+-- auratrix. 
22, Fore wing with small subterminal blackish spots 
defined by white between veins 6 and 3. 
a3, Fore wing deep chocolate-red ..........s.eseneeeee ees pyrastis. 
73, Fore wing reddish brown mixed with grey ...... Jurcata. 
6219. Eutelia abscondens. 
Penicillaria abscondens, Wik. xv. 1774 (1858); Druce, Biol. Centr-Am., 
Het. i. p 324, pl. 30. f. 3. 
2. Head, tegulie, and front of thorax yale rufous; palpi white 
in front; basal joint of antenne white; tegule slightly edged with 
white, a white line across thorax; the hinder part of thorax deep 
purplish chocolate-brown with some white hair on outer edges of 
patagia: pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae red-brown with a 
white bar, the spurs and Ist joint of tarsi with black rings ; 
abdomen purplish red, the segments edged by fine white lines, 
deeper purple-red lateral patches on Ist three segments, the crests 
blackish, the ventral surface white irrorated with brown, the 
terminal segincpt brown, the medial segments with subventral brown 
points. Fore wing with the costal half pale rufous, the inner half deep 
chocolate red-brown ; subbasal line represented by a slight oblique 
white striga from cell to inner margin, some violaceous suffusion be- 
yond £t to the antemedial line which is slight, oblique and white from 
cell to inner margin, hardly traceable on costal half; medial area with 
veins 2 and | streaked with white ; medial line hardly traceable on 
costal half, white and curved from cell to vein 1, a triangular 
white patch crossed by a brown bar beyond it on inner margin; 
two small brown discoidal spots slightly edged with white; 
postmedial line double, very indistinct on costal area, then filled in 
with white, slightly bent outwards below costa and oblique to vein 
6 where it is angled, then bent inwards, excurved at veins 4, 3, 
and oblique and sinuous to inner margin, an oblique white line 
neyond it from costa to vein 6, a blackish patch edged above and 
at sides by a white hoop below vein 6 and a triangular white patch 
irrorated with brown from vein 3 to inner margin with a faint 
sinuous blackish line on its inner edge; some white points on 
costa towards apex and a triangular greyish white patch on 
termen from apex to below vein 6, with some black points on 
termen; a small black spot edgcd with white on termen below 
