Atocis. 87 



before it above inner margin ; a minute white spot defined by 

 brown in middle of cell; reniform defined by dark brown and 

 with cvu'ved dark striga in centre ; two brown medial lines curving 

 apart in the cell on each side of the orbicular, approximated below 

 the cell, then again curving apart ; a brown annulus below end of 

 cell and two slight oblique waved lines beyond the cell; post- 

 medial line dark brown, excurved below costa, then oblique and 

 very slightly sinuous, a patch of red-brown suffusion beyond it 

 at middle; a patch of chocolate-brown suffusion on costal area 

 before the indistinct double dentate subterminal line with black 

 points on the outer line at the veins ; a red-brown mark at 

 apex and a triangular patch at middle of terminal area ; a fine 

 waved dark terminal line ; cilia red-brown, paler towards tornus. 

 Hind wing reddish brown, the terminal half greyer ; a slightly 

 sinuous brown postmedial line ; a rather diffused double sub- 

 terminal line expanding into a diffused patch on a^Hcal area ; 

 a fine waved dark terminal line ; cilia rufous ; the miderside 

 grey tinged with rufous, a diffused dark postmedial line bent 

 inwards to costa and subterminal shade incurved below costa. 

 2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing rather more rufous. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with small black spot above inner margin 

 before the antemedial line. 



Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz, Atoyac (II. II. SmifJi), 1 c? , 1 ?, 

 Morelos, Cuernavaca {II. 11. Smith), 1 S, Guerrero, Sierra 

 Colorada (H. H. Smith), 1 2 , Tabasco, Teapa (//. H. Smith), 

 1 c? , 1 5 , Jalapa (TnijiUo), 1 S , Cordova, San Lorenzo {Trujillo), 

 1 $ ; Guatemala, S. Geronimo {Champion), 1 6, Zapote 

 {Champion), 1 c? , El Tumbidor {Champion), 1 5, Las Mercedes 

 {Champion), 1 6, San Isidro {Champion), 1 S , Vera Paz, 

 Pancina {Champion), 1 6 , Volcan de Atitlan {Champion), 1 $, 

 Guatemala City {Bodriguez), 1 6 ; Honduras {Dyson), 1 $ 

 type menstiralis ; Costa Rica, Rio Sucio {Bof/ers), 1 d ; 

 Panama, Chiriqui {Champion), 1 6, Godman-Salvin Coll.; 

 Haiti {Tweedie), 1$; Teinidad {Rarf), 1$; Colombia, 

 Sierra del Libano {H. H. Smith), 1 5 ; Venezuela, 1 ? ; Br. 

 Guiana {Boherts), 1 5 , Demerara {Bodway), 1 d , 1 $ ; Brazil, 

 Espiritu Santo, 1 6 ; Paraguay, Sapucay {Foster), 2 6 ■ JSa-p. 

 4-0-48 millim. 



Larva. D- Jones, I'r. Liverp. Soe. xxxvi. p. ;576 (1882). 



Food-plant, " Capim " grass. 1. 



7857. Mocis frugalis. 



Noctua fruqalis, Fabr. Syst. Eat. p. 601 (1775) ; Moore, Lep. Cevl. iii. 



p. 190, pi. 172. ff. 4, 4a; Hmpsn. Moths Iiid. ii. p. 527. 

 Chalciope lycopodia, Geyei-, Hiibner's Zutr. v. p. 25, ff. 897, 898 (1832). 

 Bemigia trandaia, Wlk. xxxiii. 1015 (18G5). 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed wdth some grey ; pectus 

 and femora wdth ochreous hair ; legs greyish brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous suft'used with brown. Fore wing greyisli oclnvous tinged 



