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ci. Fore wing not suffased with leaden grey or silvery green. 



a-. Fore wing irrorated with ilesh-pink caniitincta. 



h'-. Fore wing red-brown suffused with blackish aleuca. 



Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique from eosta to 



above inner margin, where it is angled. 

 a}. Fore wing with black streak from lower angle of reni- 



forra to termen connecta. 



A'. Fore wing without black streak from reniform totermen. 

 a?. Fore wing without white patch on reniform or dark 



patcJi on postmedial part of eosta ivfuaa. 



i^ Fore wing with white patch on reniform and dark 



patch on postmedial part of eosta poliomera. 



Fore wing with the antemedial line evenly curved minthe. 



3054. Cropia cedica. 



Noctua cedica. Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 42, pi. 310. f. E (1782) . 

 Heterochroma rivulosa, Moschl. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxsii. p. 355 



(1882). 

 By&ps oninthe, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 322 (part.). 



5 . Head and thorax blackish, brown mixed with red-brown ; 

 tarsi banded with blackish ; abdomen fuscous brown, tlie crests 

 rufous, the anal tuft ochreous at base, rufous at tip, the ventral 

 surface ochreous. Fore wing red-brown irrorated with dark brown, 

 a small white spot at base ; subbasal line double, blackish, minutely 

 waved, from eosta to submedian fold, followed by a broad white 

 band with some fuscous on it, from eosta to just below vein 1, its 

 edges waved, contracting towards eosta and with a small deep 

 black spot on its inner edge above vein 1 ; antemedial line double, 

 blackish, tilled in with white below the cell, excurved below eosta, 

 then oblique, angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform re- 

 presented by a slight brown mark ; orbicular and reniform with 

 slight ochreous annuli defined by brown, the former narrow, con- 

 stricted at middle, medial line oblique from eosta to median nervure, 

 then inwardly oblique and angled outwards above inner margin ; 

 the veins of medial area finely streaked with white on inner half ; 

 postmedial line double, dark at eosta, bent outwards below cosra, 

 then white, oblique to below vein 7, incurved at diseal fold and 

 below vein 4, some white suft'usion beyond it with dark spots on it 

 above and below veins 5 and 2 and some white points on eosta ; an 

 indistinct pale waved subterminal line incurved at diseal fold ; a 

 terminal series of small black spots iu the interspaces and white 

 points on the veins. Hind wing deep reddish brown with white 

 striga on vein 1 above tornus, white patch at tornus and slight 

 white marks on termen before the series of black striae ; cilia 

 ochreous and brown, white at tornus ; the underside yellowish 

 white irrorated with dark brown, an oblique antemedial line, black 

 discoidal lunula, irregularly crenulate postmedial line, and diffused 

 subterminal line. 



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