624 NOCTUID^. 



b. Head and tegulje not dark red-brown. 



a}. Tegulje black at base, pale at tips hero. 



b^. Tegulas with the tips black or rutous, contrasting. 



«-. Fore wing with black streak below base of 



cell. 



a^. Fore wing with the cell black between the 



stigmata. 



d^. Fore wing with the orbicular V-shaped, 



open above furmalis ab. facula. 



b^. Fore wing with the orbicular I'ounded, 



open above crenulata. 



. . b^. Fore wing with the cell not black between 



the stigmata. 

 a^. Fore wing with the orbicular V-shaped, 

 open above. 

 «■'. Fore wing with the postmedial line 



single, crenulate costata. 



¥. Fore wing with the postmedial line 

 double, minutely waved. 

 a''\ Thorax and fore wing dark purple- 

 brown exsertistigma. 



a-'. Thorax and fore wing pale rufous 



to purplish grey formalis ab. 



i*. Fore wing with the orbicular rounded, 



open above confusa. 



IP-. Fore wing without black streak below base of 

 cell. 

 ci?. Fore wing with the orbicular V-shaped, 



open above formalis. 



b'^. Fore wing with the orbicular rounded, 

 indistinct. 

 a*. Fore wing with the costal area white to 



postmedial line vittifrons, 



b^. Fore wing with the costal area con- 



colorous carissima. 



c^. Teguloe with the tips concolorous. 



d^. Fore wing with the costal area pale to post- 

 medial line. 



a^. Fore wing with the costal area white bimarginalis. 



b^. Fore wing with the costal area pale rufous, totonaca. 

 Ir. Fore wing with the costal ai-ea concolorous. 

 a?. Fore wing with the costal half of medial 



area suffused with black undosa. 



b^. Fore wing with tlie cell black between the 

 stigmata. 

 a*. Fore wing with the orbicular V-shaped, 



open above formalis ab. 



i*. Fore wing with the orbicular rounded. 

 a'\ Fore wing blackish, the stigmata 



white viirabilis. 



//'. Fore wing and stigmata grey-brown... discoidalis. 

 c^. Fore wing with the cell not black between 

 the stigmata. 

 «"•. Fore wing with the terminal area paler 

 than postmedial area. 

 af'. Fore wing with the ground-colour 

 greyish. 

 aP. Fore wing with the lines not marked 

 by black points at costa. Exp. 



30-36 millim placida. 



W. Fore wing with the lines marked by 

 black points at costa. Exp. 40 

 millim variaia. 



