OLIGIA, 397 



Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous, the inner antemedial area 

 and an oblique postruedial baud from apex to inner margin paler 

 ochreous ; subbasal line represented by a slight oblique striga from 

 costa ; an oblique subbasal band of blackish scales from submedian 

 fold to inner margin ; antemedial line slight, nearly erect from 

 costa to median nervure, angled outwards in submedian fold and 

 oblique to inner margin ; orbicular absent ; reniform represented by 

 an oblique white lunule on a diffused dark patch ; postmedial line 

 slight, faintly defined by ochreous on outer side towards costa, bent 

 outwards below costa, then produced to slight streaks on the veins 

 and defined by the pale baud, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 some minute pale points on postmedial part of costa and a dark 

 rufous patch before the oblique band which is bounded on outer 

 side by the oblique somewhat diffused subterminal line which is very 

 slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a fine dark terminal 

 line. Hind wing pale ochreous slightly tinged with brown ; a fine 

 dark terminal line ; the underside irrorated with red-brown, a some- 

 what diffused curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the white discoidal lunule almost entirely 

 sufl^used with black. 



Hah. Canada, Nova Scotia (Redman), 1 5 type ; U.S.A., Eastern 

 and Middle States, New York, Evans Center ( 6rro^6), 2 c? , 1 $ type 

 marice. Exjp. 22-26 millim. 



*3226. Oligia nyctichroa. (Plate CXVIII. fig. 9.) 



Oligia nyctichroa, ~D. Jones, Ti-ans. Ent. Soc. I'JOS, p. 159. 



6 . Head and thorax fuscous brown ; pectus and legs pale 

 greyish brown, the tarsi fuscous brown with pale rings ; abdomen 

 reddish brown tinged with fuscous. Fore wing dark reddish brown, 

 suffused Avith black on antemedial area, outer half of medial area 

 and terminal area ; an indistinct pale waved subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, waved, erect ; orbicular 

 and reniform small, greyish defined by black, the former indistinct, 

 elliptical, the latter defined at sides only ; a nearly straight blackish 

 medial line ; postmedial line defined by minute whitish marks on 

 each side from costa to vein 6, then double and filled in with 

 greyish, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, 

 incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; the 

 terminal area with diffused blackish streaks in the interspaces ; a 

 terminal series of black points with minute pale striae on their inner 

 side. Hind wing fuscous brown ; a whitish point at tornus with 

 blackish above and below it ; cilia whitish at submedian interspace ; 

 the underside paler suffused with brown, traces of a curved diffused 

 {)0stmedial line. 



Hab, Brazil, Paraiia, E. Paranapanema, type f in Coll. D. Jones. 

 Exp. 24 millim. 



