356 NOCTTJID^. 



b^. Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved to 



lower edge of reniform caierva. 



b. Fore wing with the basal half deep red thermoptera, 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line bent outwards below 



costa, then nearly straight and oblique triangtdaris. 



C. Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly angled out- 



wards at vein 6, then bent inwards to lower edge of 



reniform angularis. 



*5543. Mictochroa farona. (Plate CLIX. fig. 16.) 

 Microcodia, farona, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 151 (1904). 



cJ . Head and thorax ochreous mixed with black-brown ; 2nd 

 joint of palpi blackish at sides and with pale ring at extremity ; 

 frons blackish at middle; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen 

 ochreous white irrorated with black. Fore wiug ochreous tinged 

 with rufous and largelj^ suffused and irrorated with black except on 

 postmedial area ; subbasal line represented by double black strios 

 from costa ; antemedial line oblique, waved, double and filled in 

 with ochreous at costa, with a broad band of white suffusion 

 beyond it from cell to inner margin ; orbicular and reniform with 

 rufous centres and white annnli defined by black, the former rather 

 triangular, the latter somewhat constricted at middle ; postmedial 

 line black defined by white tinged with rufous on outer side, double 

 towards costa, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 6, 

 slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved and sinuous below vein 4, 

 some white points beyoud it on costa on a triangular blackish 

 patch ; subterminal line white defined by black suffusion on inner 

 area and on outer side except at apex, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and inwards at discal fold, then waved and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia blackish with 

 whitish lines at base and middle; Hind wing white tinged with 

 ochreous and slightly irrorated with brown especially at termen ; 

 traces of a sinuous postmedial line ; a terminal series of slight 

 black lunules ; cilia white with a brown line through them ; the 

 underside ochreous white irrorated with black-brown, a black dis- 

 coidal spot and waved postmedial line. 



Eal. Brazil, Sao Paulo {B. Jones), type t cJ in U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 Eicjo. 34 millim. 



*5544. Mictochroa harmonica. (Plate CLIX. fig. 17.) 

 Mictochroa harmonica, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) iii. p. 461 (1909). 



c? . Head and thorax rufous mixed with some black and white 

 scales ; palpi black, the tips of joints pale rufous ; tibiae and tarsi 

 black ringed with whitish ; abdomen greyish thickly irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing brassy yellow tinged with rufous, irrorated 

 with black and some white ; the veins black irrorated with white, 

 the medial area with black-brown suffusion in, beyond, and below 

 end of cell ; a curved subbasal white striga from costa with small 



