392 NOCTUID.E. 



black, a medial black bar from eosta, the subterminal band 

 indistinctly double. 



Ab. 1. gracilis. Hind wing whiter, the inner half suffused with 

 blackish between the medial and subterminal bands. 



5 . Abdomen with the dorsal area black, the crests black at base, 

 white at tips, the yellow at sides ending at 3rd segment, then the 

 sides black. Hind wing with fuscous suffusion in submedian 

 interspace except at base and termen, the bands broad and distinct. 



Hah. Mexico, 1 S type, Coatepec (Brooks), 1 J , Guerrero, 

 Amula {H. H. Smith), 1 5, Godman-Salvin Coll., Cuernavaca, 

 Guadalajara ; ? Colombia. Mrj). c? , 42-48, $ , 68 millim. 

 Types t hivaria and gracilis in Mus. Oxon, the locality " India " 

 for the latter is an error. 



8209. Lichnoptera albidiscata. (Plate CCXXXV. 

 figs. 11 c?, 12 $.) 



PantJica cdhidiscata, Dogii. Het. Nouv. Am. Sud, vi. p. 14 (1912). 



S • Head and thorax white tinged with yellow ; antennae black 

 with a black spot between their bases ; palpi black, the extremities 

 of 1st and 2nd joints white ; tegulse with some black at base and 

 black band near tips ; patagia with three oblique black bands ; pro-, 

 meso-, and metathorax with paused black spots ; pectus with brown 

 mixed ; legs banded black and white ; abdomen black-brown with 

 some whitish at base, the anal tuft white with a black spot, the 

 ventral surface white with small brown spots on medial segments. 

 Fore wing white thickly irrorated with red-brown, the medial area 

 more suffust^d with red-brown except in submedian interspace ; 

 a small black spot at base of costa ; a subbasal white sti'iga 

 from costa defined at sides by blackish and small black spot below 

 the cell ; antemedial line blackish defined on mner side by white, 

 waved, some blackish befoi-e and beyond it at costa ; orbicular a 

 small black annulus with white centre ; reniform a white lunule 

 obscurely defined by brown ; a waved blackish medial line ; the 

 terminal half of costa with alternating black and white marks ;' 

 postmedial line blackish, waved, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal 

 line whitish, defined on inner side by dentate black marks, large 

 above and below veins 6 and 2, and on outer side by a very slight 

 red-brown shade, oblique ; a terminal series of triangular black 

 spots ; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing cupreous 

 brown, the inner area darker, a faint dark subtermmal shade with 

 the area beyond it paler except towards tornus ; cilia chequered 

 black and white except at tornus. Underside of fore Aving with the 

 basal half suffused with brown, a brown postmedial shade, excurved 

 below costa and incurved beloAv vein 4, some dentate subterminal 

 marks above middle and towards tornus ; hind wing Avith the costal 

 and terminal areas paler, a blackish bar from middle of costa and 

 curved postmedial and subterminal shades from costa to vein 2. 



