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NOCTCIDiR. 



nervure ; postmedial line blackish defined by white on outer side, 

 bent outw^ards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some 

 pale points beyond it on costa ; a subterraiiial line represented by a 

 series of faint whitish striae defined on inner side by slight dark 

 spots ; a terminal series of slight dark luniiles ; cilia with fine 

 whitish line at base. Hind wang yellowish white, the termen 

 slightly tinged with red-brown ; a terminal series of slight brown 

 luunles ; cilia with a red-brown line through them ; the underside 

 with the costal area slightly tinged and irrorated with red-brown, 

 a brown discoidal spot and traces of a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Brazil, Castro Parana, typef in Coll. D. Jones. Exp. 32 

 miilim. 



Genus EUCROPIA, nov. 



Type, E. 'pallirena. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi upturned, tl:e 2iid joint reaching about 

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons with rounded 

 prominence with vertical ridge at middle ; eyes large, round; antennas of male 

 bipectinate with moderate branches, the apex simple ; thorax clothed chiefly 

 with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests (fore and mid legs 

 wanting); hind tibite moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal 

 series of crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, 

 crennlate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from tipper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hinil wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with tlie cell near 

 base only. 



*3084. Eucropia pallirena. 



Haclena imllirena, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 9 (1874). 



S. Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with some pale 

 rufous ; abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing rufous suffused with 

 fuscous to reniform and below the cell to postmedial line, leaving 

 the inner margin rufous and emitting a fuscous streak from lower 

 angle of cell to termen ; subbasal line waved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line waved, angled inwards on vein 1 and 



Fig. 47. — Eucropia pallirena, ^. 



outwards above inner margin ; claviform short, defined by black : 

 orbicular and reniform well-developed, incompletely defined by 

 black and white scales, the former round, the latter rather concave 

 towards base and with an ochreous lunule on its outer edge ; 

 a fuscous medial line angled at lower angle of cell ; postmedial line 



