540 NOCTCriD-E. 



beyond it on costa : faint traces of a subterminal line, defined on 

 inner side at costa by a brownish shade, bent outwards between 

 veins 7 and 6 and somewhat excurved at middle ; a terminal series 

 of slight dark striae ; cilia reddish at base, whitisli at tips. Hind 

 wing pure white, the termen narrowly tinged with pale red-brown ; 

 cilia white; the underside with indistinct punctiform postmedial 

 line from costa to vein 6. 



$ . Head and thorax dark rufous ; fore wing dark rufous, the 

 medial area suffused with black ; hind wing wholly suffused with 

 brown, the basal area palei\ 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, Huachuca Mts., 1 J , 1 $ • E.vp. 

 '62 millira. 



*4271. Amiana niama. (Plate CXXXVI. fig. )>Q.) 



Amiana niama, Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. vi. p. 105 (1904). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown mixed with greyish. 

 Fore wing black -brown mixed with greyish, the basal area with 

 some reddish ochreous scales and a diffused patch of the same 

 colour at tornus ; subbasal line black, waved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line black, waved ; claviform represented 

 by an ochreous point ; orbicular and reniform small, with pale 

 anuuli defined by black, the former round, the latter strongly 

 constricted at middle ; a blackish medial shade ; postmedial line 

 black defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then sinuous, some white points beyond it on 

 costa; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by blackish, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black 

 striae ; cilia with slight pale line at base. Hind wing black-brown 

 with a pale line at base of cilia ; the underside with three faint 

 dark lines. 



Hah. U.S.xA.., Arizona, Huachuca Mts., Nogales. Eosp. 28 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type 

 in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



Genus CATAMECIA. 



Type. 

 Catamecia, Stand. Iris, x. p. 288 (1897) jordana. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short ; frons with truncate 

 conical prominence with slight raised edges and corneous plate below it ; eyes 

 large, rounded ; antennte of male typically ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly 

 with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibiae slightly 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with 

 the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins Sand 

 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



