136 NOCTLID.B. 



and legs more ochreous ; abdomen brown mixed with greyish. 

 Fore wing brownish gvey iiTorated with dark brown ; sub})asal line 

 blackish defined on outer side by grey, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line whitish with a dark brown band on its outer 

 side, oblique and slightly sinuous, confluent on inner side wnth a 

 black spot defined by whitish above inner margin ; a white point in 

 middle of cell ; reniform slightly defined by blackish, elliptical, a 

 blackish discoidal striga near its inner edge, confluent with a 

 rounded spot slightly defined by blackish and with pale annulus 

 below angle of cell, its outer edge slightly indented at vein 2 ; 

 postmedial line blackish and bent outAvards below costa, then mfous 

 defined on each side by reddish ochreous and slightly incurved, an 

 incurved blackish shade bej'ond it arising fi'om costa towards apex 

 followed by a series of black points in the interspaces from below 

 vein 7 to inner margin ; a fine waved brown terminal line. Hind 

 wing reddish brown with slight dark irroration except towards 

 base ; postmedial line pale, slightly incurved at middle, then 

 excurved to tornus and defined on inner side by a brown line ; the 

 tennen greyish except towards apex ; a fine waved brown terminal 

 line ; the underside reddish brown, a slight sinuous dark postmedial 

 line and subterminal shade. 



Hah. Mexico, Guadalajara (ScJiai/x), type f $ in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. jE'.r^j. 46 millim. 



7918. Celiptera frustulum. 



Celiptera /rus/idum, Gueii. Xoct iii. p. 308 (1852); Smith, Cat. Jsoct. 



N. Am. p. 35.5. 

 Litomitus elovgafus, Grote. Proe. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. ^o, pi. 2. 



f. fi(18fi4). 

 Bemigia ducisfa, Wlk. xxxiii. 1009 (186.5). 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale gi'ey-brown, the palpi, 

 frontal tuft, and legs tinged with fuscous. Fore wing pale grey- 

 brown with slight dark irroration ; an oblique black subbasal bar 

 from costa with sliglit line from it to submedian fold ; an oblique 

 rather triangular black spot defined by whitish above inner margin 

 before the antemedial line which its apex quite or almost touches ; 

 antemedial line wliitish incompletely defined on outer side by black, 

 oblique, slightlv excurved below costa and incurved at vein 1 ; a 

 miimte white point in middle of cell ; reniform with slight pale 

 annulus defined by red-brown, elli})tical, two oblique strije above it 

 from costa ; a faint annulus below end of cell with black points on 

 its inner and outer sides at vein 2 and a slight waved line from it 

 to inner margin ; an indistinct very oblique dark line beyond the 

 cell from costa to vein 7, then waved to inner margin and closely 

 approximated to the postmedial line, which is dark brown, bent 

 outwards below costa and very slightly angled inwards at vein 7, 

 then defined on inner side by whitish and on outer side by reddish 

 ochreous and oblique to inner margin, a dark shade beyond it 

 running obliquely to apex ; traces of a pale dentate subterminal 

 line with a series of black points nu the veins ; a fine frrnulate 



