334 NOCTUIDA, 
below veins 7 and 5, then waved, a blackish shade from it to termen 
below vein 4; a crenulate blackish line just before termen ; cilia 
chequered brownish and white. Hind wing white, the veins of 
Fig. 122.—Poliothripa ameria, 2. }. 
terminal half and terminal area suffused with brown; a crenulate 
dark terminal line ; cilia chequered brown and whitish; the under- 
side white, the costal area and terminal area to vein 4 slightly 
irrorated with brown. 
Hab. Guaiemata, Volean de Atitlan (Champion), 1 2 type, 
Godman-Salvin Coll. vp. 54 millim, 
Genus PUCIALIA. 
Type. 
Pucialia, Wik. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 25 (1869) ............405 Surcifera, 
Libunea, Wik. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 35 (1869) ............... argented. 
Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to well 
above vertex of head and fringed with hair behind towards extremity, the 
3rd long and dilated at extremity; frons smooth with ridge of hair above ; 
eyes large, round; antenne of female minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed with 
hair and scales mixed, the pro- and metathorax with loose spreading crests ; 
fore tibiz fringed with long hair on both sides, the mid and hind tibie mode- 
rately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Fore wing with 
the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate; veins 
3 and 5 from near angle of cell, 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 
with 8 to forma longareole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from 
angle of cell; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 
8 anastomosing with the cell to middle only. 
A. Hind wing semihyaline whitish. 
a. Fore wing with strong oblique black fascix from base 
of costa and from costa before middle to postmedial 
NITNO peetieers cee tesa dee cacis’s seinen vicar sus sisadinaaeiic caneccemeeaaaes argentea, 
b, Fore wing without oblique black fascie from costa to 
postmedial line. 
a, Fore wing with more or less branching black fascia 
below the cell. 
a*, Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly ex- 
curved to vein 4, then slightly incurved ......... fureifera, 
b°. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique and 
minutely dentate to vein 4, then strongly angled 
AMWANU Sie roccssemesmeenader’ scccmeessecenroenssccemstoses mariva. 
