6A6 NOCTUID^. 



A. Fore wing suffused with fulvous tigris, 



B. Fore wing purplish white suffused in parts with brown morata. 



5981. Diastema tigris. 



Diastema tigris, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 317, pi. 15. f. 2 (1852). 

 Nipista lineata, Wlk. xii. 800 (1857). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with fulvous ; tarsi 

 brown ringed with white. Tore wing white suffused in parts with 

 fulvous especially on terminal area ; subbasal line fulvous, from 

 costa to submedian fold, with blood-red spots before it below costa 

 and cell ; antemedial line double, fulvous, somewhat oblique and 

 nearly straight from costa to vein 1 where it is angled inwards, 

 with blood-red spots before it below costa, in cell, and above and 

 below submedian fold ; a quadrate blood-red spot in end of cell 

 and a small spot below end of cell, closely followed by the curved 

 medial line forming a spot at costa ; postmedial line double with 



Fig. 179. — Blastema tigris, S • 



another indistinct double line before it, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, somewhat excurved to vein 3, then slightly incurved, 

 some white points with rufous streaks between them beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line whitish with blood-red suffusion before it 

 except at costa and towards inner margin, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle; a terminal series' of minute red points slightly 

 deiined by whitish on inner side. Hind wing yellowish white, the 

 termen tinged with fulvous except towards tornus. 



Hob. Mexico, Presidio {Forrer), 2 c? , Guerrero (ff. IT. Smith), 



1 d , 1 ? , Tabasco (H. H. Smith), 2 J ; Costa Rica, Candelaria 

 Mts. (Underwood), 1 $; Guatemala, S. Geronimo {Champion), 



2 c? , 2 2 ; Panama (J". J. Walker), 1 S , Chiriqui (Eibbe), 1 c? , 

 Godman-Salvin Coll., La Chorrera (Dolby-Tyler), 1 $ ; Grenada, 



3 (^ ; Colombia, Sta. Marta (Bouchard), 1 d ; Venezuela (Dyson), 

 1^)2$ type lineata. Exp. 28-36 millim. 



5982. Diastema morata. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 16.) 



Chytonix morata, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 225 (1894). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen white slightly tinged with 

 ochreous brown. Fore wing white with a purplish tinge, the 

 costal area and the terminal area to vein 3 suffused with cupreous 



