80 xoctuid.t;. 



an indistinct dark postmedial line incurved in submedian inter- 

 space, and a dark subterminal shade ; a fine dark terminal line ; the 

 underside pale rufous to beyond middle. 



5 . Redder ; fore wing with the antemedial line more incurved 

 and without black spot before it ; underside of hind wing ochreous, 

 the basal costal area tinged with rufous, a slight postmedial line 

 and subterminal shade from costa to vein 2. 



Hah. GrUATEMALA, type t d" alipes in Coll. Rothschild ; Jamaica 

 {Gosse),l Si Cinchona {Kaye), 1 $; Haiti (Tweedie), 1 c^ , 

 1 $ type remanens. JExp. 52-60 millim. 



7849. Mods cubana, n. sp. (Plate C(JXXIIT. fig. 15.) 



S • Head and thorax grey mixed with veddi.sh brown ; pectus 

 and the fringes of hair on hind legs rufous ; abdomen ochreous 

 tinged with rufous, the ventral surface rufous. Fore wing grey 

 tinged with rufous and irrorated with red-brown ; a subbasal 

 brown striga from costa ; antemedial line red-brown defined on 

 inner side by ochreous, slightly excurved below costa, then oblique, 

 a small black spot before it above inner margin ; a minute white 

 spot defined by brown in middle of cell ; renifonn faintly defined 

 by brown and with some fuscous in centre ; medial line indistinct, 

 dark, obliqvie to median nervure, then inwardly oblique and with 

 some fuscous suffusion above inner margin ; postmedial line red- 

 brown, oblique and sinuous to above vein 6, then inwardly oblique 

 to submedian fold where it is bent inwards, then curved upwards 

 and sinuous to lower edge of reniform and down to submedian fold 

 where it is again bent outwards ; the postmedial area suffused with 

 deep red-brown towards costa ; traces of a waved subterminal line 

 with a series of black points beyond it on the veins ; a fine waved 

 dark terminal line ; cilia dark red-brown, except at base, from apex 

 to vein 2. Hind wing ochreous tinged with rufous ; a slight dark 

 line from costa beyond middle to above tornus, excurved in sub- 

 median interspace ; a dark subterminal shade, extending to termen 

 on apical area ; a fine waved dark terminal line ; cilia with a dark 

 line at middle from vein 5 to submedian fold ; the underside pale 

 rufous, the terminal area irrorated with brown from apex to sub- 

 median fold. 



$ . Head, thorax, and fore wing more suffused with red-brown, 

 the last without the black spot above inner margin before the 

 antemedial line ; hind wing with the postmedial line and subterminal 

 shade more distinct ; imderside of both A\dngs yellow tinged with 

 rufous and irrorated with brown except on inner area ; fore "wing 

 with dark postmedial line and subterminal shade except on inner 

 area ; hind wing with dark postmedial line from costa to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. $ . Fore wing yellower, the markings of both wings less 

 distinct. 



Hah, Cuba, Santiago (Schcms), 5 c? , 4 $ type. IJjjj. 40-48 

 millim. 



