TRACnEA. 153 



brownish centre ; an irregularly waved black medial line defining 

 the white patch ; postmedial line double at costa, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, then lunulato, strongly incurved below vein 4, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 whitish, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then strongly in- 

 curved, with diffused black patches beyond it below costa, at middle 

 and in submedian interspace ; a terminal series of small quadrate 

 black spots ; cilia white tinged with olive at base and with black 

 lunules at tips. Hind wing white, the costal and terminal areas 

 broadly black-brown, the inner area black-brown; cilia white 

 mixed with black at tips ; the underside with the costal and terminal 

 areas broadly irrorated and suffused with fuscous, au indistinct 

 discoidal spot, and sinuous postmedial line oblique from costa to 

 vein 6. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the white marks beyond orbicular and 

 below cell replaced by grey. 



Hah. Peetj, Aqualani {Ockenden), 1 (^ , 1 2 type. Exp. 38-44 

 millim. 



2903. Trachea delicata. (Plate CXI. fig. 22.) 



Hadena delicata, Grote, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. v. p. 92 (1874) ; Smith, Oat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 148. 

 Hadena interna, Grote, Check List Noetuidaj, p. 20 (1876). 



Head and thorax deep purple-brown mixed with more or less 

 olive-green at all events on patagia, some of the scales tipjjed with 

 grey; pectus, legs, and abdomen brown mixed with greyish ochreous, 

 the tarsi with pale rings. Fore wing purplish fuscous, the inter- 

 spaces of basal area, the inner mai'gin and the costa towards apex 

 suffused with olive-green ; subbasal line represented by a black 

 striga from costa and two below cell ; antemedial line oblique, 

 w^aved ; claviform defined by diffused black, acute at extremity ; 

 orbicular and reniform with dark centres and green annuli defined 

 by black, the former small, round, the latter large, rather irregular, 

 an oblique purplish-white patch between them from subcostal 

 nervure to vein 2 at postmedial line which is rather indistinct, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, very oblique 

 below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line green slightly defined by black on inner side except towards 

 inner margin, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 and ex- 

 curved at middle, then angled inwards and whitish in submedian 

 interspace ; a terminal series of small blaclt lunules ; cilia fuscous 

 and whitish. Hind wing whitish tinged with fuscous brown, the 

 terminal area fuscous with some whitish on termen from vein 4 to 

 tornus ; a terminal series of dark striae ; cilia whitish with a dark 

 line near base ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, the 

 costal area sufi:used with fuscous, a black discoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial line showing through to uj)perside. 



Ab. 1. interna. With hardly a trace of green. 



