300 Sir G. F. Hanipson on neio 



edge straight, oblique, the subcostal and median nervures 

 and vein 1 streaked with black. Hind wing uniform black, 

 the underside somewhat brown. 



Hab. Brazil, Castro Parana, 1 J type, type $ in Coll. 

 Schaus. Exp. 28 mm. 



(9 a) Noctuelia auranticeps, sp. n. 



J . Head and tegulae orange, the palpi at tips, frons, and 

 antennae black ; thorax and abdomen glossy blackish brown, 

 the latter with the genital tufts whitish. Fore wing brown 

 with a faint olive tinge, the veins blackish. Hind wing 

 black-brown slightly glossed with silvery blue; the underside 

 more strongly suffused with silvery blue. 



Hab. Peru, Pocuzo, 2 <$ type. Exp. 28 mm. 



(10 a) Noctuelia mesozonalis, sp. n. 



? . Palpi orange, brown at tips ; frons and antennae 

 brown ; vertex of head and base of tegulae orange ; thorax 

 brown ; pectus and legs pale yellow, the fore tibiae with 

 fuscous bands at extremity ; abdomen dorsally brown, with 

 orange sides and pale yellow ventral surface, the extremity 

 brown. Fore wing red-brown with oblique pale yellow 

 medial band expanding somewhat towards costa. Hind wing 

 orange with broad brown terminal band expanding somewhat 

 at discal fold and narrowing towards tornus. 



Hab. Argentina, Florenzia, Gran Chaco (JVagner), 1 ? 

 type. Exp. 22 mm. 



(17 a) Noctuelia annuliferalis, sp. n. 



$ . White ; head tinged with red-brown ; palpi dark 

 brown, white below ; tegulae with brown line at base ; 

 patagia with brown bars ; legs tinged with brown ; abdomen 

 with diffused dark brown segmental lines. Fore wing 

 yellowish white, with red-brown markings filled in with pure 

 white ; a brown point below base of cell and oblique striga 

 from base of costa conjoined by brown suffusion on costa to 

 the brown outline of two conjoined antemedial white spots 

 in and below the cell, the inner rather triangular, the outer 

 round, and each connected with inner margin by a brown 

 line; a rounded white spot defined by brown in end of cell 

 and a quadrate spot below end of cell connected with the 

 inner margin by an oblique brown line; the veins beyond the 

 cell streaked with brown ; a conical postmedial white patch 

 denned by brown from costa to vein 4, its inner denning line 



