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NOCTUIDiE. 



C. Fore wing with tho stigma below the cell represented by a 



downciu'ved streak feisihameli. 



D. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell faint and 



rounded. 



a. Fore wing without golden cupreous patch beyond the 



oblique antemedial streak egenella. 



b. Fore wing witii golden cupreous patch beyond the oblique 



antemedial streak illusirata. 



8255. Syngrapha gammoides. 



Plusiagammoides, Blanch. Gay's Chile, Zool. vii. p. 84, pi. 6. f. 11 (1852), 5 • 

 Ilasia'cMlensis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 138, S- 



$ . Head and thorax deep red-brown mixed with grey, the 

 tegulae with slight medial dark line and grey tips ; tarsi with pale 

 rings; abdomen grey-brown, the crests chocolate -brown mixed with 

 grey. Fore wing silvery-grey suffused with deep cuprous brown and 



Fig. 108. — Syngra.j)lm gammoides, c? . 



slightly irrorated with blackish, the medial area with a deep cupreous 

 brown patch below the cell ; subbasal line silvery defined on each 

 side by chocolate-brown, sinuous from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial 

 line silvery defined on each side by chocolate-brown, excurved below 

 costa, incurved in cell, then oblique and slightly sinuous ; orbicular 

 with grey outline and its centre defined by chocolate-brown ; an 

 oblique silvery Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its tail dilated 

 into a spot; reniform with silvery outline defined on inner side by 

 chocolate-brown, its centre defined by chocolate-brown and with 

 black marks in its extremities, its outer edge constricted at middle 

 and with black mark beyond it ; postmedial line double, chocolate- 

 brown filled in with silvery-grey, strongly bent outwards below costa, 



