374 NOCTUIDE. 
tinged with brown. Fore wing silvery white; some black points 
at base; silvery blue streaks in base of submedian fold and above 
base of inner margin, black at extremities; a waved black subbasal 
line from costa to just above inner margin ; a large rufous patch 
on middle of costa, defined on inner side by the antemedial line, 
which is angled outwards on subcostal nervure and ends at sub- 
median fold ; medial black strize from cell and vein 1 ; a quadrate 
black spot in middle of cell and obliquely curved discoidal 
bar, with two slight oblique marks beyond it; postmedial line 
irregularly waved, oblique from costa to vein 6, then inwardly 
oblique to vein 2, retracted to cell then excurved and angled inwards 
in submedian fold, a brown patch beyond it from costa to vein 6, 
constricted at middle and with oblique bar from its lower edge ; 
subterminal line rather slight and punctiform, angled outwards at 
vein 7 and inwards below veins 7 and 3, some brown beyond it at 
apex and an oblique streak from it to termen above tornus; a 
terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale fuscous. 
Hab, Costa Rica, Juan Vinas; Panama, Cana Minor (T'ylecote), 
1 9 type. xp. 30 millim, 
*6695. Eleognatha purpurascens. (Plate CLXXXIYV. fig. 9.) 
Eleognatha purpurascens, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) vi. p. 180 (1910). 
g. Head and tegule ochreous brown mixed with black, 
thorax ochreous brown mixed with purplish grey; palpi in 
front and pectus white, the mid tarsi black above; abdomen 
white dorsally tinged with grey, the basal crest brown. Fore wing 
silvery purplish grey ; a metallic green patch at base of inner area 
defined by whitish ; a tuft of red-brown scales ringed with whitish 
at middle of cell and a minute discoidal tuft; postmedial line 
bent outwards and almost obsolete below costa, then black with a 
patch of rufous and white beyond it and some white before it and 
incurved to vein 6, then indistinct, irregularly dentate, and very 
oblique to inner margin before middle, towards which it has some 
slight rufous suffusion beyond it, some short black streaks beyond 
it on costa and three streaks below costa; subterminal line formed 
of small whitish Junules with slight dentate black marks before 
them below veins 7, 6, bent inwards below vein 3 and ending at 
tornus ; a terminal series of small black spots defined on inner side 
by whitish. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins and terminal 
area slightly tinged with brown. 
Hab. §.K. Perv, La Oroya (Ockenden), type t ¢ in Coll. Druce. 
Exp. 34 millim. 
6696. Eleognatha melanosticta. 
Eleognatha melanosticta, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) vi. p. 179 (1910). 
Head and thorax white mixed with chocolate-brown ; palpi with 
the 2nd joint chocolate-brown at sides ; fore and mid tarsi blackish 
ringed with white ; abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with brown, 
