128 NOCTUID.!?;. 



costa and slightly angled inwards at vein 1, sometimes with pnlo 

 curved mark before it below the cell; orbicular and reniform small 

 pale marks, the former round with rufous point in centre, the latter 

 with rufous lunule in centre ; medial line indistinct, bent outwards 

 beyond the cell, then oblique, dentate ; postmedial line double, black, 

 bent outwards below costa, obliqne to vein 6 where it is obtusely 

 angled outwards, then incurved and slightly excurved at vein 4, 

 some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line greyish, 

 waved, excurved at middle, then incurved, a black spot beyond it 

 below vein 7; a series of slight black lunules just before termen and 

 a fine terminal line ; cilia brown intersected with blackish. Hind 

 wing brown, the interspaces of basal half pale, the median nervure 

 and veins beyond the cell streaked with blackish ; a postmedial dark 

 striga at inner margin and two towards tornus ; cilia white with 

 brown spots ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a sinuous 

 brown medial line and double postmedial series of minute streaks on 

 the veins. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujilh), 1 (^ , 2 5 ; Honduras (Miller), 

 1 J, 1 $ type; Costa E,ica, E. Sucio (Rogers), 1 c? ; Panama, 

 Chiriqui (Champion), 2 c? , at sea off Panama (J. J. Walker), 1 J, 

 Godman-8alvin Coll.; Br. Guiana, Eockstone (Kaye), 1 c? , 1 2 ; 

 Brazil, Eio Janeiro, 1 S ; Paraguay, Sapucay (Foster), 2 § . Exp. 

 24-32 miUira. 



6350. Pffictes delineata. (Plate CLXXYII. fig. 8.) 



Ingicra delineata, Gnen. Noct. ii. p. 311, pi. 14. f. 9 (1852); Smith, Cat. 

 Nout. N. Am. p. 240. 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with brown ; frons 

 with dark spots at sides and bar above ; neck with black ring ; 

 tegulse with brown lines at middle and near tips ; patagia with dark 

 band at middle; tarsi brown with pale rings, ; abdomen with the 

 b;,ise whitish and with dark scales on dorsum at extremities of the 

 segments. Fore wing grey suffused with brown ; subbasal line 

 represented by a dark striga from costa ; antemedial line double, 

 black, obsolescent towards costa, excurved from below costa to vein 1 

 Avhere it is acutely angled inwards, a curved whitish mark before it 

 below the cell ; two slight dark discoidal points ; medial line slight, 

 dark, bent outwards beyond cell, then inwards to below cell and 

 dentate; postmedial line double, black, obsolescent towards costa, 

 bent outwards below costa, then obliqvie to vein 6 where it is 

 obtusely angled outwards, then incurved and slightly excurved at 

 vein 4 and submedian fold, some slight whitish points beyond it 

 on costa; subterminal line indistinct, greyish, irregularly waved, 

 excurved at middle and angled inwards below vein 2, crossed by 

 black streaks above and below vein 6 ; a series of slight black 

 lunules just before termen and a fine terminal line ; cilia intersected 

 with blackish and with fine whitish line at base. Hind wing brown, 

 the interspaces of basal area whitish ; two slight dark striae at inner 



