334 NOCTUID^. 



represented by a blackish striga from costa and oblique line from 

 vein 1 to inner margin ; postmedial line double at costa and on 

 inner half, defined by white on outer side forming a diffused patch 

 below vein 4, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 6 

 and very strongly incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line whitish, dentate, angled inwards at 

 discal fold and oblique below vein 4, defined on inner side by slight 

 somewhat dentate black marks and with dentate black mark beyond 

 it at discal fold ; a terminal series of black Innules. Hind wing 

 black-brown with a slight pale mark at tornus with blackish points 

 above and below it ; cilia ochreous ; the underside whitish tinged 

 with rufous and irrorated with brown, traces of a discoidal luuule 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Panama, La Chorrera (Dolby -Tyler), 1 5 type ; Tkinidad 

 (Hart), 1 5 . Ex2). 30 millim. 



5512. Drobeta delectans. <Plate CLVIII. fig. 28.) 



Diantkoecia delectans, Wlk. xi. 605 (1857). 



J . Head and thorax ochreous grey mixed with fuscous ; tarsi 

 banded with blackish ; abdomen ochreous, the crests blackish, the 

 extremity tinged with rufous. Pore wing brownish ochreous 

 irrorated with black, the cell on medial area and the postmedial 

 area except towards costa suffused with leaden fuscous, an oblique 

 patch of black suffusion before the postmedial line from costa to 

 vein 4 ; subbasal line represented by double brown striae from 

 costa ; antemedial line double, the inner line indistinct, the outer 

 black, angled inwards below the cell, then excurved, some blackish 

 suffusion before it above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform 

 absent ; a black medial line, excurved at middle, then incurved ; 

 postmedial line double, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique 

 to vein 6, then dentate, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 very indistinct, pale, dentate with a dentate black mark beyond it 

 at discal fold : a terminal series of black striae. Hind wing brown, 

 darker towards termen ; a pale bar at tornus ; cilia ochreous 

 brown ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a slight dis- 

 coidal lunule and curved crenulate postmedial line. 



Hal. Brazil, Amazons, Santarem (Bates), 1 (^ • Exp. 30 

 millim. 



*5513. Drobeta perplexa. (Plate CLVIII. fig. 29.) 

 Angitia perplex a, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 165 (1904). 



(S . Head and thorax ochreous white tinged with rufous ; abdo- 

 men brownish ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 whitish. Pore wing red-brown mixed with some ochreous, the base 

 ochreous except towards inner margin ; a rather diffused indistinct 

 dark subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line black, 

 strong, slightly excurved below costa, then inwardly oblique ; 



