362 NOCTUIDiE. 



brown, a terminal series of slight blackish lunules ; cilia ochreous 

 white; the underside ochreous white irrorated with brown, a 

 blackish discoidal spot, curved minutely waved postmedial line, and 

 terminal series of small black lunules. 



Hah. Brazil, Castro Paraiia (Z). Jones), type f $ in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Ecc^. 34 millim. 



Genus GONOPH-ffiA, nov. 



Type, G. villica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd short, porrect ; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antenna of male somewhat laminate and minutely ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without distinct crests ; tibiae 

 smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex some- 

 what produced, the termeu strongly excised below apes and excurved at middle, 

 not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



5552. Gonoplisea villica. 



Tarache villica, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Sec. xxx. p. 159 (190-t). 



(5" . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown with a purplish grey 

 tinge ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen greyer, the 

 tarsi slightly ringed with white. Pore wing dark cupreous brown 

 with a purplish grey gloss except on inner medial and terminal 

 areas; antemedial line indistinct, double, slightly sinuous; orbi- 

 cular faintly defined by brown, round ; reniform faintly defined on 

 inner side only ; traces of a dark medial line, oblique from costa to 



Fig. 110. — Gonophaa villica, c?. |. 



reniform and incurved below the cell ; postmedial line dark, bent 

 outwards below the costa, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 

 and slightly angled outwards at vein 1, some pale points beyond it 

 on costa; subterminal line indistinct, dark, slightly waved, some- 

 what excurved at middle ; a terminal series of faint pale striae. 

 Hind wing cupreous brown, the underside grey irrorated with 

 brown, traces of a curved postmedial line. 



Hab. Beazil, Castro Parana {D. Jones), 1 6 . Exji. 24 millim. 



