838 noctuid.'f:. 



forms a whitish mark irrorated with black, thon ohlique and 

 sinuous to toruns, some short black streaks be3-ond it towards apex ; 

 a series of prominent black points just before tcrmen forming two 

 strire above toruus. Hind wino; white, the veins and marginal areas 

 slightly tinged with brown ; the underside with brown patch on 

 costa before apex. 



Hah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro {E. Wilson), 1 2 ty\)e. Exp. 44 

 millim. 



n644. Pucialia rectilinea. (Plate CLXXXIII. fig. 7.) 



Pucialia rectilinea, Dogn. M{§ni. Soc. Ent. Belg. xviii. p. 153(1910). 



"Head and thorax dark brown mixed with greyish ; pectus and 



mid and hind legs brownish white ; abdomen greyish suffused with 



brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing grey-white almost 



entirely suffused with dark purplish brown and slightly irrorated 



with black ; an oblique straight black antemedial line defined on, 



inner side by whilish ; an oblique black striga at upper angle of 



cell and point at lower on slight whitish marks ; postmedial line 



double, filled in with whitish and defined on inner side by whitish, the 



inner line prominent and black, slightly excurved below eosta, then 



straight and erect, a dark shade beyond it defined on outer side by 



white suffusion, obliquely incurved below vein 4 ; a series of strong 



black striae before termen defined on inner side by white ; a fine 



black terminal line. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown 



especially towards termen, the veins of terminal area streaked with 



brown. 



Ilah. Fr. Guiana, St. Jean Maroni (/Sf7?/'nr«), 1 S, St. Laurent 

 ]\Iaroni, type t 5 in Coll. Dognin. E.vp. 44 millim. 



*6645. Pucialia purissima. (Plate CLXXXVI. fig. 15.) 



Iscadia 'purissima, Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mas. xxxviii. p.- 252 (191 1). 



5 . Head and thorax white irrorated with a few black scales ; 

 tegulae brownish ; abdomen grey, the basal crest brown and white. 

 Fore wing white with stripe of raised scales ; the basal costal area 

 blackish ; a patch of yellow-green scales below median nervure 

 before the antemedial line, which is black, inwardly oblique to sub- 

 median fold where it is angled inwards, then double filled in with 

 green and bent inwards to inner margin, a semicircular black mark 

 bej'ond it on inner area ; orbicular a black point ; reniform in- 

 completely defined by black, elliptical ; postmedial line black, strong 

 and oblique to vein 6, below vein 4 slightly incurved, and at vein 3 

 angled inwards towards lower angle of cell, then obliquely excurved, 

 ^a series of green and yellow patches beyond it in the interspaces 

 defined on outer side by a waved grey line ; a strong black streak 

 on vein 6 from termen to the postmedial line with a slight waved 

 streak above it ; subterminal line indistinct, white defined on outer 

 ^ide by brown suffusion; a fine waved black terminal line; cilia 

 intersected with black at the veins. Hind wing whitish suffused 



