132 NOCTUID^. 



6355. Psectes chlorophora, u, sp. (Plate CLXXVII. fig. 13.) 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous mixed with ochreous and 

 some dark brown 'scales ; pectus yellowish white; tarsi blackish 

 ringed with white ; abdomen with blackish dorsal spots on medial 

 segments placed on pule bars, the ventral surface greenish yellow 

 with subventral black points on 1st and penultimate segments. 

 Fore wing red-brown ; a golden-green patch at base of costa ; 

 antemedial line slight, black towards inner margin, defined on 

 inner side by a golden green band, angled outwards below costa, 

 then siniious : orbicular and reniform with red-brown centres and 

 ochreous annuli slightly defined by blackish, the former small, 

 round, the latter narrow and constricted at middle ; a waved 

 medial line from cell to inner margin, and another waved line 

 from vein 6 be5-ond the cell to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 double with a golden green band on its outer edge, slightly bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, a rather darker triangular patch beyond it on costal 

 urea and some whitish points on costa : subterminal line indistinct, 

 pale, waved, with black streaks beyond it above and below vein 6, 

 angled inwards at discal fold and incurved below vein 3 ; a pale 

 apical patch and a series of blackish striae before termen ; cilia 

 intersected with blackish. Hind wing fuscous brown with some 

 ochreous white at base of inner area; three black striae on inner 

 area towards tornus ; a black terminal line ; cilia ochreous Avhite 

 slightly mixed with red-brown ; the underside ochreous white 

 irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with red-brown, 

 a blackish discoidal lunule, crenulate medial line excurved beyond 

 the cell, double crenulate postmedial line, and indistinct waved 

 subterminal line. 



ffab. W. Colombia, 1 $ type, San Antonio (Palmer), 2 2 • 

 £.rp. 34 millim. 



*6356. Psectes phaeoplaga. (Plate CLXXVII. fig. 14.) 



PcBCies fhcBoplaga, Scbaus, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. xiii. p. 43 (1911). 



(j" . Head and tegulae black-brown ; thorax reddish brown mixed 

 with grey ; pectus red-brown in front, white behind ; fore and 

 mid legs brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; hind legs white 

 irrorated with brown ; abdomen reddish brown irrorated with 

 dark brown, some grey- white at base. Pore wing red-brown 

 mixed with some grey-white ; subbasal line represented by 

 indistinct double dark striae from costa ; antemedial line in- 

 distinctly double filled in with grey, minutely waved ; orbicular 

 and reniform rufous defined by blackish, the former small, round, 

 the latter with whitish annulus and narrowing above ; medial line 

 dark, waved, arising at vein 6 beyond the cell and bent inwards 

 below end of cell ; postmedial line double, filled in with white 

 beyond the cell, oblique to vein 6 where it is slightly angled, and 

 incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa, 



