152 NOCTTJID^. 



line Iblaek slightly defined on outer side by wHte, ex curved from 

 below costa to vein 4, then incurved and slightly sinuous, a white . 

 point beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white defined on outer 

 side by some black scales, angled outwards below vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; cilia white, fiery red at base towards apex and 

 with patch of black scales at tornus. Hind wing white suff'used 

 with reddish brown especially on terminal half ; two indistinct 

 curved brown postmedial lines and a terminal line ; cilia white 

 tinged with brown at base ; the underside white irrorated with 

 brown and with traces of curved antemedial, medial, postmedial, 

 and subterminal lines. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with less red. 



Hob. Cape Colony, Deelfontein (Sloggett), 3 J , 1 $ , Annshaw 

 (3Iiss F. Barrett), 2 S , E,osmead (Juby), 1 J. Fxp. 14-16 

 millim. 



5213. Eublemma minima. (Plate CLIII. fig. 9.) 



Micra minima, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 246 (1352). 



Thalpochares pennula, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 12 (1874). 



Thalpocliares carmelita, Morr. Pro,c. Ac. Nat. Sei. Phil. 1875, p. 434 ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 313. 

 Toxophleps pallida, Scbaus, Trans. Am. Enfc. Soc. xxx. p. 160 (1904). 



Head and thorax white ; palpi and antennse tinged with ochreous ; 

 abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous. Fore wing white 

 tinged with ochreous ; the costa brownish towards base ; an 

 indistinct diffused brownish antemedial mark on costa ; an oblique 

 brownish medial band, difi'used on inner side and slightly sinuous 

 on outer ; two black discoidal points ; postmedial line white, 

 excurved below costa and at middle, the area beyond it with a 

 white point on costa ; subterminal line white expanding into a 

 patch at cosia with a dark point on it, excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle and with some black points on its outer edge and more 

 prominent small wedge-shaped spot at submedian fold ; a fine olive 

 terminal line ; cilia white tinged with ochreous. Hind wing 

 white, the terminal area slightly tinged with brown ; a fine dark 

 terminal line ; cilia ochraceous white ; the underside with the 

 costal area slightly irrorated with ochreous, faint traces of a diffused 

 subterminal line, a terminal series of slight dark points. 



Ab. 1. 'pallida. Fore wing more uniformly tinged with greyish. 



Hah. U. S. A. (Doubleday), 1 (^ , Texas, 1 d , Mississippi, Cali- 

 fornia {Walsingham) , 1 c? ; St. Thomas, 1 cJ ; Brazil, Sao Paulo 

 {D. Jones), 2 J, Organ Mts., Tijuca (Wagner), 1 c? ; Paeaghjat, 

 Sapucay (/^osfer), 1 $ ; Argentina, Gran Chaco, Florenzia( Wagner), 

 1 $ , Goya (Perrins), 1 $ ; Cape Colont, Cape Town (Meade- 

 Waldo), 1 c? , 1 $ . Kvp. 14-18 millim. Type t ? pennula in 

 Coll. Kothschild. 



