592 



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8M4. Mouralia tinctoides. 



Ahrostola tinctoides, Gnen. Noct. ii. p. 3'23 (1852^. 



Mouralia, animlijera, Wlk. xv. 1803 (1858); Drnco, Biul. Ceutr.-Ain , 

 Hct. ii. p. 462, pi. 91. f. 10. 



Head and thorax i-ed-brown mixed with dark l)rown, tlie pata^ia 

 and sides o£ metathorax grey mixed witli dark l)rown ; pectus a"iid 

 legs brownish grey, the hind "tibia? with diffused Idackish band, the 

 tarsi banded Idaekish and whitish ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal 

 tuft and ventral surface whitish mixed with brown. Fore wing 

 fuscous, mixed with grey-white ; a pale bro\vii patch on basal costal 

 area ; antemedial line double, black, the inner Hne indistinct, filled 

 in -with purple-brown and with some purple-brown beyond it, slightly 

 bent inwards to costa and inner margin ; orbicular, reniform, and a 



Fig. 129.— 3/owra/«a tinctoides, S . \. 



spot below the cell just beyond the former large, rounded, defined 

 hy black with slight tufts of raised scales on their edges, their 

 centres grey slighth' defined by fuscous ; postmedial line black, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa and oblique to belpw vein 7, 

 then incurved, excmwed double and filled in Avith whitish below 

 submedian fold, some purple-brown before and beyond it except 

 towards costa and inner margin, some whitish points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line whitish defined on outer side by fuscous 

 and with purplish fuscous suffusion before it except below vein 3, 

 slightly waved, ^\\i\\ black streaks before and beyond it above 

 veins 7, 6 ; a waved black tenninal line ; cilia greyish with a waved 

 fuscous line through them. Hind Aving fuscous brown with a 

 cupreous tinge, the interspaces of basal half A\hitish ; cilia white, 

 tinged with brown at base ; the underside with the costal area 

 brown u-rorated with grey to beyond middle, a slight discoidal 

 lunule. 



llah. Mexico, Jalapa (Tn/jillo), 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; 

 Haiti {Tweedie), 1 (S iy[iQ anniihfera ; Bbazil, Neue Friburg ; 

 S. Perf, Uruhuasi {Wat kins), 1 $; Argentina, Buenos A}Tes 

 (Will- ill son), I 2- ^^fp- 4 A millim. 



