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NOCTUID^. 



below the costa whicli is black with some rufous points ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, pale with some whitish points on it towards 

 costa, defined on inner side by a short black streak below costa and 

 by some fuscous points below the black patch, slightly excurved at 

 middle and angled inwards at vein 2 ; an obliqtie black striga from 

 apex and a terminal series of black and white points. Hind wing 

 greyish sufi'ased with fuscous brown, the terminal area rather 

 darker; cilia rufous, blackish at base and tips; the underside 

 whitish suffused with rufous and irrorated \uth black, a diffused 

 black antemedial line, black discoidal spot, crenulate postmedial 

 line, diffused subterminal line, and terminal lunulate line. 



Hah. Br. E. Apeica, Kiku3'u (Crawshai/), 1 c? type. Exp. 

 32 millim. 



5700. Ozarba amazonia. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 3.) 



Erastria amazonm. Warp. Trans. Enfc. See. 1889, p. 229. 

 Photedes apicata, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. sxx. p. 156 (1904). 



P . Head and tegulse red-brown ; palpi with the extremities of 

 2nd and 3rd joints pale ; frons pale with dark bar ; thorax greenish 

 white, the tarsi banded with brown ; abdomen whitish suftused 

 with brown except at base. Fore wing greenish white, irrorated 

 with a few brown scales ; the base of costa red-brown followed by 

 a subbasal triangular brown patch ; some brown at base of inner 

 margin ; antemedial line represented by an oblique series of slight 

 brown points ; orbicular and reniform absent ; some brown points 

 on medial part of costa ; postmedial line double at costa, oblique to 

 vein 4 and with oblique brown bar before it beyond the cell, then 

 obsolete, a large triangular red-brown patch beyond it from costa 

 to vein 4 with some whitish points on costa ; svibterminal line 

 faintly defined b}- brown on inner side, excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of dark points ; cilia red-brown. Hind wing pale 

 brown with terminal series of dark striae ; the underside whitish 

 suffused with bright rufous on costal and terminal areas and irro- 

 rated with a few dark scales, a dark discoidal spot and diflused 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Brazil, Amazons, R. Jutahi {Trail), 1 $ type, Castro 

 Parana, type f $ apicata in U.S. Nat. AIus. Kip. 22 millim. 



5701. Ozarba melagona, n. sp. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 4.) 



S . Head black-brown tinged with rufous ; thorax whitish 

 suftused witb rufous, the tegulae black at base, the fore tibise and 

 the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen greyish tinged with, 

 rufous and irrorated with fuscous, the basal ci'est black. Fore wing 

 whitish suffused with rufous, a blackish patch on postmedial area 

 fiom costa to discal fold ; subbasal line represented by a slight 

 black striga from costa with some fuscous beyond it ; antemedial 

 line very indistinct, double, waved ; a black point in middle of cell 



