412 



NOCTTJlDiE. 



shaped white mark between cell and angle of antemedial line, 

 defined by black on outer side ; orbicular and reniform white with 

 greyish centres and defined by black, the former rather small, round, 

 the latter narrow, open above and somewhat angled inwards on 

 median nervure, a greenish-black patch and black streak between 

 them in cell ; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then 



Fig. 139. — Hypnotype placens, 5- r- 



dentate, oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line represented by twa 

 dentate black marks below costa and a series of dentate and lunulate 

 marks just before termeu from vein 6 to tornus, largest at middle 

 and above tornus ; cilia grey mixed with white and fuscous. Hind 

 wing white, the costal area and termen and veins of terminal area 

 brown ; cilia white with brown line through them from apex to 

 vein 2 ; the underside with postmedial series of short brown streaks 

 on the veins showing through to upperside. 



Hah. Colombia, Bogotii (Stevens), 1 5 type. Exp. 46 millim. 



Genus SYMPISTIS. 

 Sympistis, Kiibn. Yerz. p. 261 (1827) 



Type. 



melaleuca. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2Dd joint fringed wiih long 

 hair in front, the 3rd small ; irons smooth ; eyes small, reniform ; antennae of 

 male typically minutely ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with rough scales 

 and hair and without crests ; pectus and legs clothed with long hair ; abdomen 

 clothed with long hair and without crests. Fore wing short, triangular, the 

 termen evenly curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of disco- 

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



Sect. I. Antennae of male with fasciculate cilia. 



A. Fore wing with triangular black mark on basal inner area con- 



taining a hooked ochreous-white mark pessota. 



B. Fore wing without black patch and white mark on basal inner 



area. 



a. Fore wing with prominent black-brown postmedial baud iofn. 



b. Fore wing without postmedial band ■ fortis. 



*2606. ? Sympistis pessota. 



Miselia pessota, Meyr. Trans. N. Z. Inst. xix. p. 29 (1886) ; Hudson,^ 

 N. Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 6, pi. v. f. 26. 



S . Head deep fuscous ; thorax deep fuscous irrorated with white ;. 

 tegulse ochreous brown with a black transverse line ; abdomen 



