148 NOCTUID. 
whitish spot between veins 3 and 2, traces of a waved greyish line 
beyond it ; a series of black striz defined on inner side by grey just 
before termen, placed rather in echelon. Hind wing hyaline, the 
veins and a rather broad terminal band black ; cilia fuscous and 
whitish ; the underside with fuscous mark at middle of costal area. 
2. Hinder part of thorax grey with black streaks on upper edge 
of patagia; abdomen grey, tinged with brown towards extremity 
and with black dorsal bar on 3rd segment ; fore wing grey irrorated 
with purple-brown, a purple-brown patch at base of costa, another 
on costal half of medial area and a band beyond postmedial line, the 
claviform and orbicular distinctly defined by yellow and black, the 
reniform with yellowish annulus. 
Hab. W. Coast or America (//.M.S. ‘ Herald *), Ld 3 Mexico, 
Jalapa (Trujillo), 5 9; Cosra Rica (Underwood), 1 g, 1 2; 
Panama, Chiriqui (Champion),2 2, Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Jamatca 
(Gosse), 1 gS type phryganealis, Moneague (Walsingham), 1 3, 
1 2; at sea 100 miles N.E. of S. Grorera CHALS. § Alert), eos 
Exp, 40-48 millim. 
6373. Stictoptera clara. 
Noctua clara, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 133, pl. 358. f. I. (1781). 
Stictoptera diaphana, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 53 (1852). 
Stictoptera subaurata, Wk. xiii. 1132 (1857). 
Stictoptera phraganoides, Wik. xv. 1812 (1858). 
Nagara steirialis, W\k. xxiv. 1879 (1865). 
¢ . Head and thorax dark red-brown with a purplish gloss ; pectus 
and hind legs greyish ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests blackish, 
the ventral surface grey. Fore wing dark red-brown with a 
purplish grey gloss; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, from 
costa to vein 1; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved ; medial 
line blackish, angled outwards below subcostal nervure and at 
vein 1; a slight curved red-brown line before it representing the 
outer edges of claviform and orbicular; reniform defined at sides by 
red-brown ; posimedial line double, strongly bent outwards below 
costa, inwardly oblique to vein 3, then incurved and angled outwards 
at vein 1; subterminal line dentate, black defined on outer side by 
a series of rufous spots; a series of black-brown strix slightly de- 
fined on inner side by grey just before termen, placed somewhat in 
echelon. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and a broad terminal band 
black-brown. : 
@. Thorax with grey mixed; fore wing much more variegated 
with pale red-brown, the inner area and bands beyond the ante- 
and postmedial lines darker, the line defining the claviform and 
orbicular black, a whitish spot beyond the subterminal line between 
veins 3 and 2. 
Ab. 1. phryganoides. Fore wing much greyer. 
Hab. Br. Guiana, Potaro R. (Kaye), 2 $, 3 9, Rockstone 
(Kaye), 1 9, Demerara (Rodway), 2 9 ; Braz, Amazons, Para 
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