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NOCTUIDJE. 



8444. Mouralia tinctoides, 



Ahrostola tinctoides, Gnen. Noct. ii. p. 323 (1852\ 



Mouralia annulifera, Wlk. xv. 1803 (1858); Druce, Biol. Centr -Am 

 Het. ii. p. 462, pi. 91. f. 10. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown, tlie patagia 

 and sides of metathorax grey mixed with dark brown ; pectus and 

 legs_ brownish grey, the hind tibia? with diffused blackish band, the 

 tarsi banded blackish and whitish ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal 

 tuft and ventral surface whitish mixed with brown. Fore wing 

 fuscous mixed with grey- white ; a pale brown patch on basal costal 

 area; antemedial Hne double, black, the inner hne indistinct, filled 

 m with purple-brown and Avith some purple-brown beyond it, shghtly 

 bent inwards to costa and inner margin ; orbicular, reniform, and a 



Fig. 129. — Mourcdia tinctoides, (^ . }. 



spot below the cell just beyond the former large, rounded, defined 

 by black with slight tufts of raised scales on their edges, their 

 centres grey slightly defined by fuscous ; postmedial line black, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa and oblique to below vein 7, 

 then incurved, excurved double and filled in with whitish below 

 submedian fold, some purple-brown before and beyond it except 

 towards costa and inner margin, some whitish points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line whitish defined on outer side by fuscous 

 and with purplish fuscous suffusion before it except below vein 3, 

 slightly waved, vdth black streaks before and beyond it above 

 veins 7, 6 ; a waved black terminal line ; cilia greyish with a waved 

 fuscous line through them. Hind wing fuscous brown with a 

 cupreous tinge, the interspaces of basal half whitish ; cilia white, 

 tinged with brown at base ; the underside with the costal area 

 brown irrorated with grey to beyond middle, a slight discoidal 

 lunule. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa {Triijillo), 1 $ , ilodman-Salvin Coll. ; 

 Haiti {Ttoeedie), 1 S type annulifera; Brazil, Neue Friburg,- 

 S. Peru, Uruhuasi (Watkins), 1 §; Argentina, Buenos Ayres 

 (Wilkinson), 1 $ . ^a:p. 44 miUim. 



