626 AGAKISTID^. 



Eab. U.S.A., N. Mexico, California ; Mexico, Jalapa (Trvjillo), 

 2 (5* , 4 $ ; Guatemala (Rodriguez), 1 2 ; Porto Rico, type t 

 noctuiformis in Coll. Staudinger. Exp., d" 38, $ 44 millim. 



*164. Tuerta rufodiscalis. 



Godasa ritfiodiscalis, Eoths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 47, pi. 14. f. 23 (1896). 



cT . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with a few white scales ; 

 white points on 1st and 2nd joints of palpi, sides of frons, basal 

 joint of antennae, behind the eyes, and on tarsal joints ; abdomen 

 orange, black at base and extremity, and with dorsal and sublateral 

 series of black spots. Fore wing deep chocolate-brown, with some 

 silvery-blue scales on basal area, in and below middle of cell, on 

 and below discocellulars, and forming traces of sinuous postmedial 

 and subterminal lines; a terminal series of white points with 

 larger spot above tornus. Hind wing orange-red, the basal and 

 costal areas black-brown ; a black discoidal bar conjoined to 

 the costal area ; a terminal band broad at costa, narrowing towards 

 tornus. 



Hah. Madagascar, type t c? in Coll. Rothschild. Eocp. 44 millim. 



165. Tuerta memnonia. 



Misa memnonia, Karsch, Ent. Nachr. 1895, p. 356, pi. ii. f. 9. 



5 . Black-brown ; head and tegulse in front brown-red; 3rd joint 

 of palpi, frontal prominence, and antennae black ; metathorax with 

 red patch ; fore coxae red in front ; abdomen with the dorsal tufts 



Fig. 274. — Tuerta memnonia, $. \. 



deep red, the last three segments red above except anal tuft. Fore 

 wing with leaden -silvery spot below base of costa ; a subbasal line 

 from costa to vein 1 ; an antemedial line, very oblique from costa 

 to median nervure where it is strongly angled, then incurved ; a 

 moderately broad oblique yellowish-white medial band ending on 

 inner margin near tornus, with diffused leaden-silvery scales before 

 and beyond it. Hind wing with broad antemedial yellowish- white 



