EAMPHIA. 161 



line red-brown, sinuous, defined on Inner side by black below 

 vein 5. 



Hah. GuATEMAi/A, Cerro Zunil {Ghampion), 1 c? , Volcan de 

 Atitlan {Champio^i), 1 $ type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 

 48 millim. 



Genus EAMPHIA. 



Type. 

 Itamphia, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 142 (1852) alhizona. 



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

 of head and broadly fringed with scales in front, the 3i-d very lono- and dilated 

 into a knob at extremity; fi'ons smooth, witli slight lateral tufts of hair 

 above; eyes large, round; antenuEe of male with very short slender branches 

 ending in pairs of bristles, serrated towards extremity, of female with 

 bristles and cilia; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and without 

 crests, the patagia broadly dilated with scales at extremity ; tibiae smoothly 

 scaled, tlie fore and mid tibiae with slight tufts of scales on outer side near 

 base, the fore tibiaj not spined, the hind tibiae spined between the mid and 

 hind spurs only; abdomen with dorsal series of large crests. Pore wino- 

 with the costa highly arched towards apex which is rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved, crenulate; the cell short; veins 3, 4 from angle: 5 from just 

 above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areola; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one-tliird length of 

 wing; vein 3 frotn before angle; 4, 5 from angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



7950. RampMa albizona. 



Noctua alhizona, Latr. in Humb. & Bonpl. Rec. ii. p. 136, pi. 43. ff. •^, 6 

 (1817), $; Feld, Reise Nov. pi. ill. f. 5; Druu-e, Biol. Geatr.-Am., Het. 

 i. p. 367. 



Bamphia evinga, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 143 (1852), (^ . 



Itamphia mnarygma, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 141 (1852), 5* 



Brujas basicincta, VVlk xiv. 1251 (1858), cJ. 



Syrnia transacta, Wlk. xiv. 1278 (1858), $. 



Latebraria quadriplaga, Wlk. xiv. 1284 (LS58), c?. 



S ■ Head, thorax, and abdomen deep red-brown with a few 

 minute white scales ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with red-bi'own. Fore wing red-brown suffused 

 with dark greyish brown and irrorated with a few minute wliite 

 scales to the postmedial line ; subbasal line black, excurved below 

 costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line black, forming 

 a small spot at costa, then sinuous, bent inwards in cell, strong 

 and oblique from median nervure to vein 1 ; traces of a small 

 orbicular defined by blackish ; reniform a small blackish spot 

 defined at sides by pale reddish ; an indistinctly treble diffused 

 blackish sinuous medial line strongly incurved below vein 4 ; 

 postmedial line very indistinct, double, minutely waved, incurved 

 below vein 4; a conical blackish patch on postmedial part of 

 costa with some pale points on costa; subterminal line very 

 indistinct, double, dark, sinuous, bent outwards to apex ; a series 

 of slight brown lunules before termen defined on outer side by 

 whitish to discal fold and at submedian fold. Hind wing red- 



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