374 NOCTUIDiE. 



tinged with brown. Fore wing silvery white ; some black ])oiiits 

 at base ; silvery blue streaks in base of submedian fold and above 

 base of inner margin, black at extremities ; a waved black subbasal 

 line from costa to just above inner margin ; a large rufous patch 

 on middle of costa, defined on inner side by the antemedial line, 

 •which is angled outwards on subcostal nervure and ends at sub- 

 median fold ; medial black strise from cell and vein 1 ; a quadrate 

 black spot in middle of cell and obliquely curved discoidal 

 bar, with two slight oblique marks beyond it ; postmedial line 

 irregularly waved, oblique from costa to vein 6, then inwardly 

 oblique to vein 2, retracted to cell then excurved and angled inwards 

 in submedian fold, a brown patch beyond it from costa to vein 6, 

 constricted at middle and with oblique bar from its lower edge ; 

 subterminal line rather slight and punctiform, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and inwards below veins 7 and 3, some brown beyond it at 

 apex and an oblique streak from it to termen above torntis ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale fuscous. 



Hah. Costa KicA, JuanVinas; Pajn'ama, Caua Wiuov {Tyhcoie), 

 1 $ type. Exp. 30 millim. 



*6695. Elgeognatlia purpurascens. (Plate CLXXXIV. fig. 9.) 



Elceognatha purpurascens, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) vi. p. 180 (1910). 



cJ . Head and tegulse ochreous brown mixed with black, 

 thorax ochreous brown mixed with purplish grey ; palpi in 

 front and pectus white, the mid tarsi black above ; abdomen 

 white dorsally tinged with grey, the basal crest brown. Fore wing 

 silvery purplish grey ; a metallic green patch at base of inner area 

 defined by whitish ; a tuft of red-brown scales ringed with whitish 

 at middle of cell and a minute discoidal tuft; postmedial line 

 bent outwards and almost obsolete below costa, then black with a 

 patch of rufous and white beyond it and some white before it and 

 incurved to vein 6, then indistinct, irregularly dentate, and very 

 obliqu.e to inner margin before middle, towards which it has some 

 slight rufous suffusion beyond it, some short black streaks beyond 

 it on costa and three streaks below costa ; subterminal line formed 

 of small whitish lunules with slight dentate black marks before 

 them below veins 7, 6, bent inwards below vein 3 and ending at 

 tornus ; a terminal series of small black spots defined on inner side 

 by whitish. Hind wing semihyaliue white, the veins and terminal 

 area slightly tinged Avith brown. 



Hah. S.E. Pketj, La Oroya (Ockenden), typef S iii Coll. Druce. 

 E.vp. 34 millim. 



6696. Elseognatha melanosticta. 



ElcBognatlm melatiosticfa, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) vi. p. 179 (1910). 



Head and thorax white mixed with chocolate-brown ; palpi with 

 the 2nd joint chocolate-brown at sides ; fore and mid tarsi blackish 

 ringed with white ; abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with brown. 



