276 NOCTUID^. 



*3070. Heterochroma albipuncta. (Plate CXV. fig. 4.) 



Heterochroma albijnmcta, D. Jones, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 157. 



S . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with red-brown ; tegulee 

 rufous at base with slight black medial line ; pectus rufous ; the 

 extremities of tibiae and the tarsi ringed with rufous; abdomen red- 

 brown, pale at sides at base. Fore wing purplish fuscous mixed 

 with rufous, irrorated and in parts suffused with black : the base of 

 inner margin pale followed by a black patch with small bluish-white 

 spot on it ; subbasal line represented by indistinct double black 

 strice from costa and cell, with white point beyond it in cell ; ante- 

 medial line double filled in with rufous, waved, somewhat oblique ; 

 the medial area with diffused black-brown fascia above vein 1 with 

 bar from its upper edge between the very ill-defined claviform 

 and a spot beyond it ; orbicular very indistinct, oblique quadrate, 

 defined at sides by black and a few white scales ; reniform very 

 indistinctly defined by black and a few white scales, rather elliptical, 

 with small red spot on inner side of centre and prominent white 

 spot on its outer edge ; a diff'used oblique black medial shade ; 

 postmedial line double filled in with red, bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some 

 white points beyond it on costa : subterminal line represented by a 

 series of small somewhat dentate rufous marks defined on inner 

 side by small dentate black marks and by a black shade at costa 

 and streak below costa, with slight black streaks in the interspaces 

 from it to termen with series of white points on them before termen. 

 Hind wing yellowish white, the costal and terminal areas black- 

 brown with a reddish tinge, the latter with sinuous inner edge with 

 indistinct sinuous postmedial line just before it ; a slight rufous 

 bar with black points above and below it at tornus ; cilia with a 

 fine whitish line at base ; the underside with the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with black, the apical area tinged with red, a black 

 discoidal spot with black bar from costa above it and minutely 

 waved sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Brazil, Castro Parana, type t in Coll. D. Jones. Exp. 

 40 milb'm. 



3071. Heterochroma insignis. (Plate CXV. fig. 5.) 



Hadena insignis, Wlk. xi. 585 (1857). 



Head and thorax purplish red mixed with black-brown ; pectus 

 with some ochreous hair'; tarsi black with ochreous rings ; abdomen 

 dark reddish brown, the sides and ventral surface ochreous white 

 except at extremity. Fore wing deep purplish brown irrorated 

 with black and with slight reddish streaks in discal and submedian 

 folds on postmedial area ; subbasal line black, double, waved, from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, waved, interrupted ; clavi- 

 form represented by an ill-defined black spot ; orbicular ver}^ indis- 

 tinctly defined by black, oblique ; reniform small with rufous centre 

 and slight yellowish annulus indistinctly defined by black ; an 



