PHUPHENA. 595 



area rather paler, the medial area rather darker; antemedial line 

 strong, dark brown defined by whitish on inner side, oblique, 

 straight; orbicular absent; reniform very faintly defined by brown 

 and with slight red-brown luuule in centre ; postmedial line strong, 

 dark red-brown defined by whitish on outer side, slightly excurved 



Fig. 153. — Phuphena fusi'peimis, (^ . }. 



below costa, then very obliquely incurved and bent outwards to 

 inner margin ; subterminal line strong, dark red-brown, diffused on 

 inner side, oblique, straight; a terminal series of dark red-brown 

 strise ; cilia pale reddish at base, dark red-brown at tips. Hind 

 wing whitish strongly suffused with cupreous brown, the terminal 

 area deep red-brown ; cilia whitish with, a red-brown line through 

 them ; the underside white tinged with rufous and irrorated with 

 red-brown except on inner area. 



Hah. Brazil, Eio Janeiro, type f in Mus. Oxon. ; Sao Paulo 

 (D. Jones), 2 cJ . J^^y- 30 millim. 



3465. Phuphena diagona, n. sp. (Plate CXXI. fig. 21.) 



Head and thorax bright rufous ; antennae ringed with white ; 

 tegulse tipped with white; palpi whitish in front; pectus whitish ; 

 legs pale rufous ; abdomen whitish suffused with rufous and with 

 brown segmental lines. Fore wing greyish tinged with rufous and 

 thickly irrorated with chocolate-brown; a diffused chocolate-brown 

 subbasal band from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line chocolate-brown 

 defined by white on inner side, inwardly oblique, straight; orbicular 

 represented by a pinkish-white bar across cell ; reniform with brown 

 centre and pinkish-white annulus defined at sides by brown, open 

 above and below; an outwardly oblique chocolate-brown band from 

 middle of costa to inner margin at postmedial line, which is chocolate- 

 brown defined by white on outer side, arising from below costa, 

 slightly excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a faint whitish sub- 

 terminal band angled outwards at vein 4, defined on inner side by 

 a slight chocolate-brown line expanding into spots below costa and 

 at middle; a chocolate-brown terminal line slightly defined by 

 whitish on inner side ; cilia whitish tinged with rufous and with 

 red-brown line through them. Hind wing whitish strongly suffused 

 with cupreous red; traces of a discoidal striga and curved postmedial 

 line ; a red-brown terminal line ; cilia white tinged with rufous ; 

 the underside white tinged with red and irrorated with red-brown 



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