48 NOCTUID^. 



costa and more strongly below cell and above inner margin; the 

 orbicular and reniform represented by small brown spots with rufous 

 points round them, the latter with rufous mark just before it on 

 costa ; an oblique minutely-waved medial line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, angled inwards at vein 5 and incurved below vein 4, 

 with rufous suffusion on its outer edge on costa extending to apex ; 

 a curved subterminal series of points ; cilia pinkish. Hind wing 

 ■white ; the veins brownish ; a dark discoidal point ; the inner 

 margin fuscous ; the terminal area broadly black with nearly 

 straight inner edge ; the veins towards tejmeu streaked with red; 

 cilia pink. Underside of fore wing with the orbicular, reniform, 

 a streak below middle of cell, and a diffused postmedial band black ; 

 hind wing with the terminal area purplish pink. 



Hob. Natal, Karkloof {Marshall), 1 § . Exp. 34 millim. 



59. Chloridea cMlensis, n. sp. (Plate LY. fig. 24.) 



^ . Head and thorax ochreous strongly tinged with crimson, and 

 the hairs tipped with grey ; tibiae and tarsi tinged with pink ; 

 abdomen ochreous, the dorsal crest at base pink. Fore wing olive 

 ochreous ; the costal area pink, with some ochreous and brown 

 points on costa ; a dark subbasal point below the cell ; antemedial 

 points in submedian fold and on vein 1 ; the orbicular a small 

 dark spot ; reniform somewhat quadrate; a curved postmedial series 

 of dark points ; a more or less distinct subterminal punctiform line, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal 

 series of dark points ; cilia pink. Hind wing pale ochreous ; the 

 A-eins streaked with brown ; the terminal area broadly fuscous with 

 ■diffused inner edge ; cilia ochreous. Underside of fore wing with 

 the orbicular, reniform, and postmedial baud fuscous. 



2 . Hind wing almost wholly suffused with fuscous. 

 Hah. Chili, Coquimbo {J. J. Wall-er), 2 cJ , 1 $ type. Exi^. 

 36 millim. 



60. Chloridea virescens. 



Noctua virescens, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 216 (1781) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. U.S. 



p. 268. 

 Fhalcena rhexia. Smith & Abb. Ins. Georgia, ii. p. 199, pi. 100 (1792) ; 



Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 298. 

 Aspila subflexa, Gnen. Noct. ii. p. 175 (1852). 

 Xanthia viridescens, Wlk. x. 465 (1856). 

 Xanthia prasina, Wlk. x. 465 (1856). 

 Xanthia pyraloides, Wlk. x. 466 (1856). 

 Aspila ter(fcmina, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 55 (1874). 

 Heliothis speotanda, Streck. Lep. Ehop. & Het. p. 122 (1875). 

 Chloridea molochitina, Berg, Ann. Soc. Arg. xiv. p. 282 (1882). 

 Chloridea distincta, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 117 (1898). 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with green ; palpi and antennae 

 whitish irrorated with red ; frons ochreous ; pectus and legs 

 ochreous white, the tibiae and tarsi tinged with red; abdomen 

 ochreous, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing pale ochreous tinged 



