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NOCTUIDiE. 



white tinged with brown especially on the veins and terminal area, 

 a brown discoidal spot ; cilia j^ellowish white with ditfused brown 

 line at middle ; ttie underside yellowish white irrorated witli 

 brown, a black discoidal spot, faint curved postmedial line with 

 minute black streaks on the veins, and terminal series of lunules. 



Hab. !S.E. Pkku, Oroya {Ochenden), 1 c? , 1 $ type, Carabaya, 

 St. Domingo. ii>_^;». 30 millim. 



Genus CENTRARTHRA., nov. 



Type, C. furcivitta. 



Proboscis fully developecl ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of frons and fringed with long hair in i'ront, the 3rd i-ather 

 long, porrect ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of female ciliated ; 

 thorax roughly clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax 

 with slight spreading crests ; fore tibisewith curved claw at extremity on inner 

 side, the mid and hind tibise moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



3896. Centrartlira furcivitta, n. sp. 



5 . Head and thorax ochreous mixed with red-bi'own and some 

 fuscous; abdomen ochreous tinged with red-brown. Fore wing 

 ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated with dark brown and 

 black ; a black streak on basal half of median ncr%'ure obscurely 

 forking in base of submedian fold; a faint black streak on ex- 

 tremity of median nervure ; subbasal and antemedial lines repre- 

 sented by a few black scales below costa ; claviform and orbicular 



Fig. 80. — Centrarihra furcivitta, $. 



absent ; reniforra represented by a very slight pale lunule obscurely 

 defined by black scales ; postmedial line obsolete towards costa, 

 very indistinct, minutelj^ dentate and oblique from vein 6 to inner 

 margin ; faint traces of a dark subterminal line excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous whitish 

 suffused and irrorated with brown, especially on terminal area ; 

 the underside whitish irrorated with brown ; a dark discoidal 

 lunule and traces of a diffused postmedial line. 



Hah. Cape Coloxy, Declfontein {Sloggeti), 1 $ type. Exi^. 32 

 millim. 



