ILLICE. 371 



' 784, mice petrovna. 

 Cisthene petrovna, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 283 ; id. Am. Lep. pi. ii. f. 4. 



J . Head and thorax grey and black, the tegulae and two spots at 

 back of head yellow ; abdomen orange-yellow. Fore wing grey, 

 the veins streaked with black ; a diffused white subbasal baud with 

 sinuous edges ; a black-edged white medial band expanding above 

 and below middle, and with black discoidal point on it ; a large 

 terminal white spot just below apex, and slight dentate marks 

 on veins 5 to 2. Hind wing yellowish Avhite, the terminal area 

 fuscous, very broadly at costa and narrowing to tornus. 



Hah. Brazil, Petropolis (Djer), 1 S • Exp- 24 millim. Type t 

 in Coll, Schaus. 



785. mice nexa. 



Lifhosia nexa, Boisd. Aun. Soc. Ent. Beige, xii. p. 74 (18i38); Sireti^h, Zjg. 



& Bomb. N. Am. p. 49, pi. 2. f. 11 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 290. 

 Cidhene grisca. Pack. Rep. Peabody Acad. iSci. iv. p. 84 (1872). 

 Pyralidia deserta, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 1U6. f. 23 (1874); Xirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 290. 



(5" . Head and thorax greyish fuscous ; vertex of head and tegulae 

 yellowish white ; abdomen pale yellowish. Fore wing fuscous 

 grey, with small pale yellow patch at base of inner area ; a 

 yellowish slightly oblique postmedial band from vein 5 to inner 

 margin, constricted in submedian fold. Hind wing pale yellow, 

 with large apical fuscous-brown patch extending down to vein 2. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Ij, Grote Coll. Exj^->. 22 millim. 

 Type t deserta in Coll. Rothschild. 



786. mice batialis. (Plate XXIX. fig. 2.) 



mice batialis, Wlk. xis. 1019 (1859). 



Sooparia sfupidalis, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 127 (1862). 



Head and thorax grey, irrorated with black : abdomen whitish. 

 Fore wing grey, irrorated with black ; an irregular diffused black 

 antemedial line angled inwards in cell and outwards on median 

 nervure ; a minutely dentate postmedial line strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, then oblique ; an obscure dentate subterminal line 

 diffused to postmedial line and termen on inner area ; a terminal 

 series of points. Hind wing whitish, the apical area suffused with 

 fuscous. 



Hah. Erazil, Uio Janeiro, 2 c? , 2 9 , Sao Paulo (Jones), 1 c? , 2 $ . 

 Kcp., (S 25, 5 32 millim. Typo and type shqndalis in Mus. Oxon. 



787. mice faustinula. 



Lifhosia faustiimla, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xii. p. 73 (1863) ; Stretch, 



Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 48, pi. 2. f. 10 ; Kirby, Oat. Hot. p. 1^90. 

 Cisthene fusca, Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. JSf. Am. p. 49 (1872). 



Pale grey-brown. Fore wing irrorated with dark scales ; a 

 paler grey postmedial band slightly constricted below costa and 



