82 NocxriD.T^. 



then oblicnu' ; iiostincdial area tinged with red-brown from eosta to 

 vein 2 ; traces of a waved subterniinal line with a series of black 

 jioints ])eyond it on the veins and an oblique dark sliade from apex; 

 the terminal area tinged with red-bi-own from a])ex to below vein 3; 

 a fine waved dark temiinal line. Hind wing ochreous tinged with 

 rufous ; a rather diffused brown line from costa beyond middle to 

 above tornus ; a dark suV)termiual shade, diffused to termen on 

 apical area ; a dark terminal line ; cilia yellowish. Underside of 

 both wings ochreous tinged with rufous excej)t on terminal areas ; 

 fore wing with broad dark subtenninal shade from costa to vein 2. 



Ah. 1. d • Fore wing suffused with violaceous grey, the lines of 

 medial area very indistinct, the black spot above inner margin 

 touching the antemedial line. 



Ab. 2. c? . Fore wing greyer, the hind wing rather browner. 



Ab. 3. 2 • Fore wing without the black spot above inner margin 

 before the antemedial line, a diffvised fuscous patch above middle 

 of iimer margin. 



Ab. 4. 5. Fore wing redder brown ; hind wing rather browner. 



Ab. 5. $ . The type. Similar but fore wing with the ante- 

 medial line almost obsolete. 



Jlab. Mexico, Guerrero, Venta de Zopilote (H. If. SmifJi), 

 1 $, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Cuba, Santiago (ScJuius), 1^,2$; 

 Sta. Lucia (Cowie), 1 d, 2 2 ; St. Vixcext ( H. H. Smith), 

 1 d ; Geexada (ff. H. SmitJi), 2 $ ; Hab. lux.. 1 $ tvpe. Ej-jj. 

 42-52 miUim. 



7852. Mocis marcida. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 18.) 



Be7ni(/ia marcida, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 317 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 3G4. 

 rimo-ysperlata, Wlk. xiv. 1480 (1858), 



c? . Head and thorax whitish tinged with red-brown ; tegular 

 white at i\\m ; a curved wliite line across patagia and ])rothorax ; 

 pectus and legs ochreous suffused with red-brown ; abdomen pale 

 ochreous. Fore wing ochreovis whitii^h tinged with red-brown and 

 slightly irrorated with dark brown ; the cosfcil edge brown ; sub- 

 ba.sal line slight, brown, from costii to suhmedian fold ; antemedial 

 line slight, red-brown defined on inner side )>y whitish, excurvcd 

 below costi\, then obli(iue and slightly incurved, a small black spot 

 before it above inner margin ; orbicular a minute wliite sjxit 

 delined by brown ; reniforni defined by broAvn and with ciu'ved 

 brown line in centre, large ; an indistinct sinuous dark medial line, 

 doid)le and diffusi'd towards innci- margin ; ])ostni('dial line red- 

 brown, excurvcd below costa, then obliquely incurved to suhmedian 

 fold where it is bent inwards, tlien cm-ved ujjwai'ds to lower edge of 

 reniforni and down to suhmedian fold, then excurvcd, a diffused 

 hrown shade Ijcyond it from costa to suhmedian fold ; faint traces 

 of a pale waved sul)terminal line with a series of black ]wints 

 beyond it on llic veins; a fine slightly waved dark terminal line; 

 cilia dni'k brown at ti])s except towards tcM'nu'U. Hind winy 



