120 NOCTFID-iE. 



area suflFascd with bluish white towards apex and with a scries of 

 fine blaclc lunulas just before termen ; the extremities of veins with 

 black streaks intersecting the cilia which have a fine whitish line 

 at base. Hind wing white, the terminal area suffused with brown, 

 the veins bajj^ond the lower angle of cell slightly streaked with 

 brown ; a medial, two postmedial and two subterminal black striae 

 at inner margin ; some dark strias just before termen and a fine 

 terminal line ; cilia white ; the underside with the costal and ter- 

 minal areas irrorated with brown, a dark bar from middle of costa, 

 double postmedial series of slight points, and series of points just 

 before termen. 



Hub. U.S.A., Colorado, California, 1 (S ^'jpe. Exp. ,32 millim. 



6347. Psectes acutangnla, n. sp. (Plate CLXXVII. fig. 5.) 



c? . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with white; palpi white 

 in front and with some black at sides ; frons with lateral black 

 spots ; antennee with the basal joint white and white bars on shaft ; 

 neok with black ring ; tegulae with brown lines at middle and tips ; 

 patagia with curved black streak ; pectus white ; tarsi fuscous 

 ringed with white ; abdomen red-brown mixed with white, the basal 

 segment Avhitish, black segmental lines except on basal segment, 

 the ventral surface white with subventral series of small black spots 

 and two red-brown streaks. Pore wing grey suffused with purple- 

 brown ; subbasal line represented by white striae from costa and in 

 cell; some white at base and a fascia below the cell extending to 

 the antemedial line, which is double, black filled in with white, 

 obsolescent towards costa, angled outwards below costa, then ex- 

 curved and strongly angled inwards at vein 1 ; medial area suffused 

 with white except on costal area and just beyond antemedial line ; 

 orbicular and reniform white defined by brown, the former small, 

 round, with rufous point in cell, the latter with rufous striga in 

 centre ; medial line bent outwards beyond the cell, then bent in- 

 wards and dentate; postmedial line double, black filled in with 

 white, obsolescent towards costa, bent outwards below costa, oblique 

 to vein 6 where it is acutely angled outwards, then incurved and 

 sinuous, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line 

 indistinct, whitish, irregularly dentate, crossed by black streaks 

 above and below vein 6, the lower extending almost to postmedial 

 line ; the apex white ; a black point before termen below apex 

 followed by a series of lunules slightly defined by white ; a fine 

 brown terminal line; cilia chequered with white towards apex and 

 with fine white lines at base and near tips. Hind wing brown, the 

 interspaces of basal half whitish ; a brown postmedial striga at 

 inner margin and two towards tornus ; a series of slight brown 

 striae just before termen ; cilia white with brown spots at base ; 

 the underside white, the costal and terminal areas suffused with 

 brown, a sinuous brown medial line and double postmedial series of 

 minute streaks on the veins. 



Hab. B-i-UAJiAs, JNassau (BonJiote), 2 (T type. E.vjj. 30 millim. 



