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NOCTDID^C. 



Genus ^SCHRADIA, nov. 



Tvpe, JE. maminida,. 



Pruboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned and 

 reaching about to vertex of head, moderately fringed with hair in front, tlie 

 3rd long, porrect, and somewhat dilated at extremity ; f'rons smooth, with tuft 

 of hair; eyes large, round; antenn£e of male witli fascicles of long ciiia; 

 thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the prothorax without crest, the 

 metathorax wi:ih slight spreading crest; fore coxte, femora and tibite fringed 

 with long hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the 

 aiiex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from before 

 angle of cell, 5 from just above angle; 6 from upjier angle; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form a long narrow areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell, 6 from just above angle ; 6, 7 froai upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 



6700. ^schradia maminida. 



Apamea mammida, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 477, pi. 93. f. 20 

 (1898). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous mixed with ochreous ; tarsi 

 fuscous ringed with white, Eore wing fuscous brown irrorated 

 with grey ; a small whitish patch at base of costa ; subbasal line 

 double, blackish filled in with whitish, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; 

 antemedial line double, blackish filled in with whitish, minutely 

 waved, slightly angled outwards in submediau fold ; a black point 

 in middle of cell and small double discoidal lunula with rufous 

 marks before them ; postmedial line blackish, defined on each side 

 by ochreous w^hite at costa, strongly bent outwards below costa. 



Fig. 144. — Mschradia mammida, J . 



then defined on outer side by rufous, minutely dentate, strongly 

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

 costa; subterminal line represented by a minutely waved series of 

 faint ochreous white marks with slight black streaks before them in 

 the interspaces ; a series of black points just before termen with 

 slight ochreous white marks before them. Hind wing semihyalino 

 white, the veins and terminal area brown ; cilia white tinged with 

 ochreous at base ; the underside with the costal area siiifused with 

 brown. 



Hab. Guatemala, Yolcan de Atitlan {Cliampion), 1 c? » 1 $ type, 

 Godman-yalvin Coll. ; Costa Kica, San Jose, Juan Vinas. Exp. 30 

 millim. 



