12G noctuib.t;. 



7903. Nymbis jaliscana. (Plate CCXXIV.' fig. 19.) 



Vhurysjaliscana, Schtuis, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p, 83 (1901). 



Poaphda ainplissima, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 3S2 (part.\ nee 



Wlk. 

 Phnri/s dissocians, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ain., Het. i. p. 386 (nee Wlk.). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown -with a slight reddish 

 tinge. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and slightly irrorated 

 with dark brown ; a small round black spot above inner margin 

 before the antemedial line, which is whitish, arising at upper angle 

 of cell and obliquely incurved to inner margin before middle, 

 defined on outer side by black-brown, broadly below the cell ; two 

 dark discoidal points ; two indistinct obliquely incurved brown lines 

 beyond the cell ; postmedial line whitish, arising from costa towards 

 apex and obliquelj" incurved ; a broad band of black-brown suffusion 

 beyond it ; traces of a waved subterminal line Avith a series of 

 blackish points at the veins ; the terminal area rather greyer with 

 slight brown suffiision at middle of termen and a terminal series of 

 minute black points. Hind wing grey suffused with brown ; an 

 indistinct pale postmedial line and faint dark subterminal shade ; 

 a terminal series of minute black points ; the underside with the 

 hair on basal and inner areas tinged with rufous. 



2 . Suffused with pale red-brown ; fore wdng without the black 

 spot above inner mai'gin, the antemedial line slightly defined on 

 otiter side by red-brown, almost erect and slightly sinuous, white 

 points in middle of cell and on discocellulars, a sinuous medial line, 

 the two lines beyond the cell very indistinct, excurved below costa, 

 then waved and less oblique, the postmedial line ochreous, oblique 

 and slightly incui'ved, with deeper red-brown suffusion beyond it. 



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 Jalisco, Giierrero, Dos AiToyas {H. H. Smith), 1 c? , Godman- 

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7904. Nymbis copiola. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 20.) 



Mods copiola, Giieii. Noct. iii. p. 310 (1852). 

 Mods notescevs, Wlk. xiv. 1490 (1858). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey-brown, the last with 

 the ventral surface brownish white. Fore wing whitish tinged and 

 irrorated with, brown ; the costa suffused with brown tow^ards base ; 

 faint dark subbasal bars from costa and cell ; antemedial line 

 whitish defined on outer side by diffused black-brown, slightly 

 incurved and somewhat angled outwards at the veins ; an indistinct 

 sinuous medial line ; reniform whitish, very ill-defined, with black 

 on its inner and outer sides at discal fold and a diffused black fascia 

 from its outer edge to the postmedial line ; a very indistinct waved 

 dark line just beyond the cell ; postmedial line indistinct, blackish, 

 bent inwards at vein 6 to beyond the reniform, then oblique to 

 inner maro'in, some dark brown suffusion beA'ond it extending to 



