468 NOCTUID^. 



bar beyond it, the reniform narrow, white defined by black and 

 with some crimson before and beyond it ; an indistinct medial line 

 excurved from costa to median nervure, then sinuous ; postmedial 

 line bent outwards and almost obsolete towards costa, then repre- 

 sented by a series of lunnlate black spots with crimson spots beyond 

 them, the black line double to vein 6, incurved below vein 4, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; a large elliptical white subterminal 

 patch from below costa to above vein 5, small spots above veins 3, 2 

 and a larger irregular spot below vein 2 ; some whitish just before 

 termen towards apex followed by a series of crimson spots and a 

 white point above tornus ; cilia red-brown and crimson intersected 

 with white. Hind wing pure white ; the termen suffused with 

 brown from apex to vein 2 and with a brownish mark at vein 1 ; 

 cilia white with series of brown marks to vein 2 and at vein 1 ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with red-brown, a 

 difiused dark bar from costa to middle of cell, small discoidal spot, 

 somewhat diffused minutely waved postmedial line, and terminal 

 series of small lunules, 



Hal). EcuADOK, Loja in Coll. Dognin ; Peru, Punamarca. Exp. 

 44 millim. Thorax much worn in specimen examined. 



3318. Luperina stipata. (Plate CXIX. fig. 16.) 



Hadena stipata, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 64 ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 131. 



Head and thorax greyish ochreous suffused with fuscous brown ; 

 frons with blackish lateral bars ; tegulae with medial black line ; 

 fore tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous white tinged 

 with brown towards extremity, the ventral surface irrorated with 

 brown. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale purplish brown, the 

 veins with slight dark streaks, the median nervure and base of 

 veins 4, 3 streaked with white ; a sinuous black streak below base 

 of cell ; subbasal line represented by some black scales below costa ; 

 a strong black streak above inner margin before the antemedial 

 line, which is almost obsolete and only represented by a few black 

 scales from costa to submedian fold, then stronger, angled strongly 

 inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; claviforni 

 replaced by a strong black fascia from ante- to postraedial lines ; 

 orbicular minute, defined by black, very oblique elliptical ; reniform 

 small defined by black and its centre by blackish, angled inwards 

 on median nervure to below orbicular ; postmedial line indistinctly 

 double filled in with whitish, obsolescent towards costa, bent 

 outwards below costa, oblique to vein 4, then inwardly oblique, 

 some whitish points beyond it towards costa, veins 4, 3 beyond it 

 defined on each side by white streaks to termen ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, ochreous white defined on inner side by dentate blackish 

 marks at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and to termen at 



