596 NOCTUID^. 



except on inner area, a small discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, 

 and terminal series of slight lunules from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. Br. Guiana, Rockstone (Kaye), 1 d , 1 $ type. Exjo. 

 26 millim 



3466. Phuphena transversa. (Plate CXXI. fig. 22.) 



Perigea transversa, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p, 230 (1894). 



Head and thorax bright rufous ; tegulae faintly tipped with 

 whitish ; pectus whitish ; lesrs pale rufous ; abdomen greyish 

 suffused with rufous, the medial dorsal area black, the ventral 

 surface red, white at base. Fore wing violaceous grey tinged with 

 rufous and with slight dark irroration, the medial and postmedial 

 areas chocolate-brown ; aiitemedial line double filled in with 

 violaceous grey, oblique, straight ; orbicular absent ; reniform with 

 violaceous grey annulus defined by red-brown and with slight grey 

 striga in centre ; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with 

 violaceous grey, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 5, 

 then incurved and bent outwards to inner ma.rgin, some minute 

 white points beyond it on costa ; a subterminal series of small dark 

 brown spots slightly incurved at discal fold and below vein 3 ; a 

 slight chocolate-brown terminal line ; cilia violaceous grey with a 

 chocolate-brown line through them. Hind wing dark red-brown ; 

 cilia violaceous grey with a dark brown line through them ; the 

 underside white, the costal area rufous, the terminal area slightly 

 irrorated with purple-brown, a dark discoidal point, indistinct 

 waved postmedial line, and terminal series of slight lunules from 

 apex to vein 2. 



Hah. Beazil, Sao Paulo (Z>. Jones), 2 S , Castro Parana {D. Jones), 

 1 c? , 2 $ . Exp. 32 millim. Type f in US. Nat. Mus. 



Larva. Pale yellow-green with rather darker dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines ; head ochi'eous ; prologs all fully developed. 



Pupa in a cocoon of silk and grass among leaves. 



Sect. III. Fore wing with the terraeu evenly curved. 



A. Fore wing with the subterminal line white defined on inner 



side by a dark brown band and acutely angled outwards at 



middle _• petrovna. 



B. Fore wing with the subterminal line not white defined on 



inner side by a dark brown band. 



a. Fore wing with the subterminal line entire, angled outwards 



at vein 7 and excurved at middle u-alla. 



b. Fore wing with the subterminal line represented by a series 



of small dark spots. 

 «i. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines strong, 



white paraldla. 



U. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines double, 

 rufous filled in with whitish. 

 a". Fore wing with the subterminal series of spots defined 



by white on inner side tura. 



b'^. Fore wing with the subterminal series of spots not 



defined by white on inner side oUiqua. 



