622 AGAIIISTID^. 



brown discoidal lunulc, the grey-brown area shading into dark 

 brown towards the grey patch. Hind wing grey-brown, with a 

 yellow patch on basal area extending from inner margin to subcostal 

 nervure and to beyond the cell, its outer edge rounded ; a yellow 

 and dark brown subterminal lunule in submedian interspace. 

 Underside of fore wing with diffused yellow fascia along median 

 nervure. 



Hah. Brazil, Sta. Catherina (ScJimidt), 1 $ type. Ea^p. 52 

 millim. 



Genus TUERTA. 



Type. 



Tuerta, Wlk. Proc. N. H. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 346 (1869) chri/socklora. 



Misa, Karsch, Ent. Nacb r. 1895, p. 349 memnonia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 Avitb hair in front, the 3rd roughly scaled ; frons with truncate conical 

 prominence with raised rim at extremity ; antennae nearly simple and slightly 

 dilated towards extremity ; tibiai fringed with hair above ; abdomen with dorsal 

 crests except on terminal segments. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areole; 7 from beyond the areole, 11 from end of cell. Hind wing with 

 vein 2 from towards angle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Sect. I. (7\certa). Frontal prominence with its lower edge produced to a 

 point. 



A. Fore wing whitish irrorated with chocolate platensis, 



B. Fore wing olive-green, with the inner and terminal areas 



chocolate, 

 a. Fore wing with the inner edge of terminal band angled 



at middle chrysochlora. 



h. Fore wing with the inner edge of the terminal band 



obliqu e liturata. 



158. Tuerta platensis. 



Kuthisanotia 'platensis. Berg, An. Soc. Argent, xiii. p. 172 (1882) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 39. 



<5 . Head and thorax clothed with chocolate and grey hair ; tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white ; abdomen yellow mottled with rufous, 



Fig. 273. — Tuerta platensis, (^ . \. 



the base and yentral surface whitish, the dorsal crests dark. Fore 

 wing whitish, thickly irrorated with chocolate-brown ; a white fascia 



