444 NOCTUIDJE. 



1 $; Cuba, Santiago (Schaus), 3 c? , 1 $ ; Haiti (Tweedie), 2 J, 



2 § tjpe spilomda; Grenada {H. H. Smiili), 5 c5' , 6 $ ; Paraguay, 

 Sapucay (Foster), 1 <j" , 1 $ . A'-jTp. 20-26 millim. 



4138. Micrathetis dasarada. 



Thalpochares dasarada, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 498, pi. 95. 

 f. 28 (1898). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale oclireous slightly tinged with 

 olive-brown ; palpi brownish ; fore legs brownish, the tarsi brown 

 ringed with ochreous. Fore wing pale ochreous slightly irrorated 

 with brown, the costal edge rufous to postmedial line ; the inner 

 area suffused with olive-brown to the postmedial line which is 

 defined by olive-brown on inner side ; a slight black point at 

 middle of cell and black discoidal point ; postmedial line pale 

 ochreous with fine brown line on outer edge, oblique, slightly 

 incurved below vein 5 ; subterminal line indistinct, whitish defined 

 by brown on inner side, oblique, arising from apex where there is 

 an oblique whitish fascia above it, a terminal series of black points ; 

 cilia ochreous with a rufous line through them, blackish at apex. 

 Hind wing white slightly tinged with ochreous ; a fine brownish 

 terminal line ; cilia with a faint brownish line through them ; the 

 underside with the costa tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated 

 with brown, a terminal series of black points. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing tinged with rufous instead of olive-brown. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing much whiter with hardly any rufous or olive 

 suffusion. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing with minute more or less incomplete black 

 discoidal annulus. 



Bab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), 1 $ , Atoyac {II. H. Smith), 1 2 , 

 Teapa (H. II. Smith), 7 d -, type ; Guatemala, S. Gerouimo (Cham- 

 pion), 3 5 , El Repose (Champion), 1 S ■, Cubilguitz (Champion), 

 1 2 ; Costa E,ica, Irazu (liogers), 5 S ; Panama, Chiriqui (liihhe), 

 1 5 , Godman-Salvin Coll., Cana Mines (Tylecote), 1 J ; Jamaica, 

 Constant Springs (Walsingham), 1 cJ , 3 $ , Moneague (Coc^-grtZZ), 

 1 (S (EendalT), i $ ; Cuba, Santiago (Schaus), 1^,4$; Br. Guiana, 

 Bartica (Kaye), 1 5 ; Surinam, Paramaribo (Bohrn), 1 S ; Brazil, 

 Itaparica (Meade- Waldo), 2 cJ , 1 ? , Organ Mts., Tijuca (Wagner), 

 1 2 , Ptio Janeiro, 4 S • Exp. 14-22 millim. 



Genus STYGIATHETIS, nov. 



Type, S. onus. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of 

 head and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd long, oblique ; frons 

 with short truncate conical prominence with raised edges ; eyes large, round ; 

 anteunEe of male fasciculate ; thorax clothed with long hair and hair-like scales 

 and without crests ; tibias fringed with rather long hair; abdomen clothed with 

 rough hair and with lateral fringes of hair but without crests, the claspers of 

 male large. Fore wing narrow, the costa and inner margin subparallel, the 



