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cell to inner margin; postinedial line diffused, red-broAvn, bent 

 outwards beloAv costa, then oblique, met at vein 6 by a narrow 

 oblique whitish band from costa near apex Avhich then defines its 

 outer side, a golden cupreous patch be^'^ond it from just below costa 

 to beyond lower angle of cell, then bent outwards to termen below 

 vein 2 ; subterminal line hardly traceable on the golden patch, 

 then brown defined on outer side by whitish ; a fine whitish line 

 just before termen from just below costa, ending on termen at 

 vein 3, Hind Aving whitish, the veins and terminal area cupreous 

 brown ; cilia white ; the underside with the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with brown, a brownish postmedial line from costa 

 to vein 5, and subterminal shade. 



Hah. Panama, Chiriqui (^Oliainpion'), 1 c5' type aheona, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. ; Cuba, San Cristobal. Exp. 36 millim. 



8259. Syiigraplia illiistrata. 



riusia illuHraia, Guen. jS'oft. ii. p. 328 (1852). 



Plusia roxana, DrLice, A. M. N. H. ((>) xiii. p. 362 (1894) ; id. Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Het. ii. p, 503, pi. 96. f. 11. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grej mixed with brown. Fore 

 Aving grey suffused Avith pale brown and slightly irrorated with 

 dark broAvn ; a faint grey subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; ante- 

 m.edial line indistinct, grey, angled iuAA^ards in cell and oblique 

 beloAV the cell, an obliquely curved silvery-AAdiitish shade beyond 

 it arising in end of cell and with oblique golden cupreous patch 

 beyond it in submedian interspace ; orbicular with faint whitish 

 outline, constricted at middle ; a faint whitish rounded stigma 

 below the cell ; reniform faintly defined by whitish, constricted at 

 middle and produced at upper extremity ; two faint whitish 

 medial lines from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line silvery- 

 whitish, bent outwards beloAv costa, then oblique, interrupted above 

 vein 4 by a deep golden cupreous Avedge-shaped jj^tch arising 

 below apex and from termen at vein 2 and extending to lower 

 angle of cell, met at vein 5 by a silvery- white shade from apex ; a 

 white subterminal line from vein 2 to tornus. Hind wing whitish 

 tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area broAvn ; cilia Avhite ; 

 the underside with faint postmedial line. 



Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 $ type roxana, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. ; Haiti ; Brazil, Espiritu Santo, 1 $ . Exp. 36-40 

 millim. 



Genus PLUSIOPALPA. 



Type. 



Plusiopalpa, HoU. Psyche, vii. p. 9 (1894) adrasta. 



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

 of head and with a tuft oC hair behind at extremity, the 3rd rather long and 

 triangularly fringed vyith hair in front and behind ; frons smooth with large 

 tuft of hair; eyes large, round ; antennas of male minutely ciliated; thorax 

 clothed with hair and scales mixed, the metathorax with large divided crest ; 



