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NOCTUID^. 



fascia from it to the reniform which has a cupreous centre and 

 whitish annulus, rather constricted below and with an oblique white 

 shade from it to costa towards apex, a U-shaped dark line defining 

 the orbicular and reniform in cell ; postmedial line white, slight 

 and bent outwards below costa, oblique below the white shade, an 

 oblique white streak from it to termen above tornus in submedian 

 interspace ; subterminal line represented by a white striga from 



Fig. 180. — Chobata discalia, c?. -g. 



costa, then only defined by .a slight dark shade on inner side, 

 angled inwards in discal fold ; a white terminal line with blackish 

 points and strise on termen ; cilia white with a series of brownish 

 spots. Hind wing whitish tinged and the terminal area sufli'used 

 with cupreous brown ; cilia white tinged with cupreous brown at 

 base from apex to vein 2 : the underside whitish, the costal area 

 tinged with brown. 



Hah. Cuba, Santiago (ScJiaus), 5 (5 , 4 5 ; Haiti (Tweedie), 2 J , 

 1 2 , type and type concluchns. Exp. 18-26 millim. 



Genus LOPHOEACHE, nov. 



Type, L. fulvinifa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the ?nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with scales, the 3rd shoit, 

 porrect; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennse of male minutely ciliated; thorax clothed with hair 

 and scales mixed, the prothoras without crest, the metathorax with decumbent 

 crest ; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore 

 wing with the apes rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anas- 

 tomosing with 8 to Corm the areole ; 11 from ceil. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the basal area olive-yellow, the terminal 



area rufous fulcirufa. 



B. Fore wing brownish ochreous, the terminal area dark 



brown eustrotiodes. 



5984. Lophorache fulvirufa, n. sp. 



2 . Head and thorax grey -brown, the patagia yellowish tinged 

 with rufous, pectus and legs ochreous white, the tarsi brownish 



