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NOCTUID.^. 



whitisli spot between veins 3 and 2, traces of a waved greyish line 

 beyond it ; a series of black strine defined on inner side by grey just 

 before termen, placed rather in echelon. Hind wing hyaline, the 

 veins and a rather broad terminal band black ; cilia fuscous and 

 whitish ; the undei'side with fuscous mark at middle of costal area. 



2 . Hinder part of thorax grey with black streaks on upper edge 

 of patagia ; abdomen grey, tinged with brown towards extremity 

 and with black dorsal bar on 3rd segment ; fore wing grey irrorated 

 with purple-brown, a purple-brown patch at base of costa, another 

 on costal half of medial area and a band beyond postmedial line, the 

 elaviform and orbicular distinctly defined by yellow and black, the 

 leiiiform with yellowish annulus. 



Nab. W. Coast op America {I/. M.S. ^Herald'), 1 cJ ; Mexjco, 

 Jalapa {Trujillo), 5 § ; Costa Uica ( Underwood), 1 J , 1 $ ; 

 Panama, Chiriqui {Champion), 2 5 , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; JAMAieA. 

 {Gosse), 1 S type pliDiqnne.cdis, Moneague (Walsim/ham), 1 J', 

 1 $ ; at sea 100 miles >s".E. of S. Georgia {U.M.8. '■'Alert'), 1 ? . 

 Exp. 40-48 millim. 



6373. Stictoptera clara. 



Nochia clara, Oram. Pap. Exot. ir. p. 133, pi. 358. f. I. (1781). 

 Stictoptera dkifliana, Giien. Noet. iii. p. 53 (1852). 

 Stictoptera, suhaura.ta, Wlk. xiii. 1132 (18.57). 

 Stictoptera phraganoides, Wlk. xv. 1812 (1858). 

 Kagara stei^-ialis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1379 (1865). 



S . Head and thorax dark red-brown with a purplish gloss ; pectus 

 and hind legs greyish ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests blackish, 

 the ventral surface grey. Fore Aving dark red-brown with a 

 purplish grey gloss ; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, from 

 eosta to vein 1; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved ; medial 

 line blackish, angled outwards below subcostal nervure and at 

 vein 1 ; a slight curved red-brown line before it representing the 

 outer edges of elaviform and orbicular; reni form defined at sides by 

 red-brown ; postmedial line double, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, inwardly oblique to vein 3, then incurved and angled outwards 

 at vein 1 ; subterminal line dentate, black defined on outer side by 

 a series of rufous spots ; a series of black-brown striae slightly de- 

 fined on inner side b}' grey just before termen, placed somewhat in 

 echelon. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and a broad terminal band 

 black-brown. 



2 . Thorax with grey mixed ; fore wing much more variegated 

 with pale red-brown, the inner area and bands beyond the ante- 

 and postmedial lines darker, the line defining the elaviform and 

 orbicular black, a whitish spot beyond the subterminal line between 

 veins 3 and 2. 



Ab. 1. phryganoides. Fore wing much greyer. 



Hnh. Be. Guiana, Potaro R. (Km/e), 2 d", 3 $, Eockstone 

 (Knye)^ I o ^ Demerara {Rodivay), 2 § ; Brazil, Amazons, Para 



