270 



NOCTUID.??. 



with brown ; a waved dark terminal line ; cilia oclireoiis white with 

 a brown line through them and brown tips ; the underside with the 

 costa and terminal area irrorated with brown. 



Hah. EcuADOK, Sarayacu {Buckley), type t S in Coll. Druce ; 

 Peru (Simons), 1 $ . Exj). 58 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennse of female almost simple. 



3882. Stauropides persimilis, n. n. 



Antachara superba, Druce, A. M. N. H. (G) xiii. p. 361 (1894), $ ; id. 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 484, pi. 94. f. 6. 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale blue-green, the edges 

 of tegulte and patagia and the metathorax with some rufous and a 

 few black scales ; i)alpi ochreous white, blackish above ; pectus and 

 legs ochreous white slightly tinged with rufous ; abdomen ochreous 

 white slightly irrorated with dark brown and with the crests on 

 basal segments rufous. Fore wing very pale blue-green ; a very 

 oblique black streak from base of costa to median nervure and 

 another on and above inner margin before the antemedial line which 

 is represented by black points on costa, median nervure, and vein 1 ; 

 orbicular with very faint white annulus except on outer side where 

 it is defined bv black and with a white and black bar below it from 



Fig. 72. — Stauropides persimilis, J. \. 



cell to submedian fold, a rufous band beyond them from costa to 

 submedian fold, with waved inner edge towards costa and below 

 vein 5 confluent with the rufous terminal area ; reniform rufous 

 defined by black on inner side, undefined on outer; a blackish fascia 

 below vein 2 from the medial line to termen ; postmedial line 

 represented by a brown striga from costa, then almost obsolete to 

 vein 6, indistinct and dentate to submedian fold, then almost obsolete ; 

 an oblique dark streak from termen below vein 4 to vein 2 with 

 pale green patch beyond it ; a series of dark strife just before 

 termen. Hind wing semihy aline white, the termen irrorated with 

 red-brown ; the underside with the costa and termen slightly 

 irrorated with red-brown. 



ITah. Costa Rica, Santa Clara (ZvrcJier), 1 5 , Godman-Salvin 

 Coll.; Tkinidad (/m^/e), 1 c? • Ea-p. c? 46, 5 58 millim. 



