384 NOCTUID^. 



inner side by white, waved ; orbicular a minute fulvous annulus 

 with black point on its outer edge ; reniforni narrow defined by 

 fulvous and below by black ; medial line black defined by fulvous, 

 forming a triangular spot at costa, obliquely curved to lower angle 

 of cell, then oblique and waved ; a patch of fulvous, blue-grey and 

 black in lower part of end of cell and between veins 3 and 2, with 

 a small white spot defined by fulvous and black at origin of vein 2 

 and a patch between the antemedial and medial lines from sub- 

 median fold to inner margin ; postmedial line with wedge-shaped 

 black spot defined by fulvous at costa, then fulvous and black, 

 dentate, incurved below vein 4 ; the postmedial area with fulvous, 

 blue-grey and black irroration, and alternating white and black 

 spots on costa ; the terminal area with an ochreous band with some 

 fuscous irroration on it and irregularly dentate inner edge ; a small 

 black spot on costa before apex and terminal series of triangular 

 black spots defined by white. Hind wing fulvous ; a rather diffused 

 sinuous blackish line from costa beyond middle to termen at .vein 1, 

 the area beyond it yellowish with black streaks on the veins. 

 Underside of fore wing with the basal half fulvous with the costa 

 black, the medial line and a discoidal lunule black, the veins beyond 

 the cell with black streaks to the subterminal line ; hind wing with 

 irregularly waved medial line, a black spot on costa beyond the 

 postmedial line. 



5 . Tore wing with the orbicular larger ; hind wing with diffused 

 black medial shade and diffused black postmedial band. 



Hah. Mexico, Cuernavaca ; Colombia, Popayan, Bogota ; 

 Venezuela, Mei-ida, 1 d , 1 $ ; Sueinam ; Peeu, Carabaya, St. 

 Domingo ; Hab. ign., 1 $ type. Exp. S QQ, $ 94-100 millim. 



Fupa. Red-brown covered with spatulate rufous scales tipped 

 with white. 



*8201. Bathyra chavannesi. (Plate CCXXXIII. fig. 16.) 



Panthea chavannesi, Felcl. Eeis. Nov. pi. 101. f. 1 (1874). 



2 • Head and thorax creamy white ; palpi and antennae black ; 

 tegulse with a small dorsal black spot at base, the mesothorax with 

 a pair of black points ; pectus black and white in front, fulvous at 

 sides ; legs black, the mid tibiae and tarsi and the hind tarsi banded 

 with white ; abdomen fulvous orange, a dark brown dorsal stripe 

 with the crests whitish at tips, the extremity dark brown, the anal 

 tuft whitish, the ventral surface dark brown mixed with whitish. 

 Fore wing creamy white thickly irrorated and suffused with grey- 

 black, some fulvous suffusion on subbasal area, in submedian fold 

 and in the cell ; a subbasal black striga from costa defined on each 

 side by white ; antemedial line white, waved, defined on outer side 

 by a black bar from costa with a white patch bej^ond it ; orbicular 

 a small white spot defined by fulvous ; reniform incompletel}'- 

 defined by blackish and with some black in centre, placed on a 



