378 NOCTUID A. 
Genus ASCHRADIA, nov. 
Type, 42. mammida, 
Proboscis fully developed; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned and 
reaching about to vertex of head, moderately fringed with hair in front, the 
3rd jong, porrect, and somewhat dilated at extremity ; frons smooth, with tuft 
of hair; eyes large, round; antennz of male with fascicles of long cilia; 
thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the prothorax without crest, the 
metathorax wijh slight spreading crest; fore coxx, femora and tibiw fringed 
with long hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the 
apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from before 
angle of cell, 5 from just above angle; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anasto- 
mosing with 8 to form a long narrow areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 
veins 3, 4 from angle of cell, 5 from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 
8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 
6700. #aschradia mammida. 
Apamea manmida, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het, ii. p. 477, pl. 93. f. 20 
(1898). 
Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous mixed with ochreous ; tarsi 
fuscous ringed with white. Fore wing fuscous brown irrorated 
with grey ; a small whitish patch at base of costa; subbasal line 
double, blackish filled in with whitish, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; 
antemedial line double, blackish filled in with whitish, minutely 
waved, slightly angled outwards in submedian fold; a black point 
in middle of cell and small double discoidal lunule with rufous 
marks before them ; postmedial line blackish, defined on each side 
by ochreous white at costa, strongly bent outwards below costa, 
Fig. 144.—schradia mamnida, $. }. 
then defined on outer side by rufous, minutely dentate, strongly 
incurved below vein 4, some ochreous white points beyond it on 
costa; subterminal line represented by a minutely waved series of 
faint ochreous white marks with slight black streaks before them in 
the interspaces ; a series of black points just before termen with 
slight ochreous white marks before them. Hind wing semihyaline 
white, the veins and terminal area brown; cilia white tinged with 
ochreous at base ; the underside with the costal area suffused with 
brown. 
Hab, Guaremata, Volcan de Atitlan (Champion), 1 3,1 9 type, 
Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Cosra Rica, San José, Juan Vinas. Lay, 30 
millim. 
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