256 NOCTUIDiR. 



3045. Speocropia scriptura. 



Hadena scrip/iira, Wlk. xv. 1723 (1858). 

 Ayina transvcTsalis, Wlk. xv. 1734 (1858). 



(S . Head and thorax pale rufous with a few hlack scales ; patagia 

 tipped with blaclv ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen greyish 

 tinged with rufous and fuscous. Fore wing pale rufous irrorated 

 with fuscous ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submediaii 

 fold where it is connected with base by a black streak ; some 

 blackish suffusion on basal inner area ; antemedial line double, the 

 outer line prominent, slightly angled outwards below costa, oblique 

 to submedian fold, where it is connected with postmedial line by a 

 black streak, then bent inwards to inner margin ; claviform defined 

 by black, short, acute at extremity ; orbicular and reniform pale 

 rufous defined by blackish, the former round ; medial line repre- 

 sented by some dark suffusion from costa to reniform ; postmedial 

 line double, slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely 







Fig. 38. — Speocrojna scriptura. 



dentate, obliquely excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa; the veins of terminal area with slight 

 dark streaks and with black streaks in the interspaces above veins 

 5, 3 and 1, the last strongest ; subterminal line pale, slightly defined 

 on inner side by fuscous suffusion and excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle ; a terminal series of black points connected by a fine 

 waved line ; cilia chequered rufous and fuscous. Hind wing brown 

 ■with a rufous tinge, the basal and inner areas slightly paler ; an 

 indistinct curved postmedial line and fine waved black terminal 

 line ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irro- 

 rated with brown, a small discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, 

 and diffused subterminal line. 



2 . Fore wing with the black markings stronger, especially the 

 streaks in interspaces of terminal area. 



Bab. Haiti (Tweedie), 2^,22, Type and type transversalis ; 

 Dominica {Elliott), 1 $ . Exp. 36-46 millim. 



3046. Speocropia trichroma. (Plate CXIV. fig. 24.) 



Hadena trichroma, Herr.-Schiiff. Corresp.-blatt. Eegens. 1868, p. 116. 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with red-brown and olive-green 

 and irrorated with black ; palpi blackish above ; tarsi banded with 



