356 NOCTUIDA®, 
slight brown and whitish mark in centre, produced to a point on inner 
side ; postmedial line double, purplish red filled in with ochreous, 
slightly bent outwards below costa, then waved, oblique below 
discal fold, an ochreous point beyond it on costa; subterminal 
line ochreous and oblique towards costa, then grey and waved ; 
the apical area with ochreous streaks on veins 8 and 7 and black 
streaks in the interspaces and below them, the streak below vein 8 
extending to the postmedial line. Hind wing dark brown; the 
cilia white at tips; the underside uniform greyish brown. 
Hab. Cosra Rica, Sixola R. (Schaus), type fT Q in US. Nat. 
Mus, LZyvp. 36 millim. 
Secr. III. Antenne of male ciliated, without tuft of hair from basal joint. 
A. Fore wing with subterminal series of small black spots and 
larger spot in submedian interspace. 
a. Hind wing semihyaline, the veins of terminal area and 
the bermeniuscous sree sescentenetee aan a aneceetocce seers nese abseuzalis. 
b. Hind wing uniformly suffused with fuscous brown 
saeies arcuata, 
B. Fore wing without subterminal series of black spots. 
a. Hind wing with the terminal area suffused with fuscous. 
a‘, Fore wing not tinged with crimson. 
a2, Fore wing suffused with dark cupreous brown ; hind 
wing of male uniform fuscous brown ............... metaphed, 
2°, Fore wing pale yellowish brown ; hind wing of male 
semihyaline. 
a*, Fore wing broad, the reniform moderate, ellipti- 
Call Sices- Ratan ca taakicenas Oawstgaman st shiee oncbsemmertees chirica. 
b8, Fore wing narrow, the reniform very large and 
produced to points in front and beliind............ steniptera, 
c?, Fore wing grey suffused with purple-brown ......... area. 
1, Fore wing with the antemedial, postmedial, and 
terminal areas tinged with crimson...................0066 hematopis. 
b, Hind wing with fine terminal black line or series of minute 
streaks, 
a, Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique to sub- 
median fold where it is bent inwards. 
a’, Fore wing suffused with brown and with white 
shade beyond postmedial line ..,...........-..escseeeee jilifera. 
22, Fore wing white slightly irrorated with black ...... stroca, 
)1, Fore wing with the antemedial line erect, slightly — 
excurved below costa and incurved below submedian 
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c', Fore wing with the antemedial line erect to sub- 
median fold, then oblique and waved................00605 leucopis, 
6668. Casandria abseuzalis. 
Motya abseuzalis, Wik. xix. 1022 (1859). 
Lussa nigroguttata, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. 127 (1883); Smith, Cat. Noct, 
N. Am. p. 167. ; 
Pleurasympieza smithii, Méoschl. Abh. Senck. Ges, xvi. p. 147, f. 18 (1890). 
Stictoptera tumidicosta, Hmpsn. Trans, Ent. Soc. 1898, p. 249, pl. 17. f. 5. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with pale rufous; 
palpi with the 2nd joint black above; tegule with black medial 
line and some black at tips; patagia with black medial bars ; fore 
