490 CATALOGUE OF 



9. CoSMIA RESTITUTA. 



Fusca, sublus cinerea ; alee anticce plagis pallidioribus, lineis 

 transversis indislinctis obscure fuscis, maculis costalibus qua' 

 tuor (intermediis magnis) albis ; posticce ciliis testaceis. 



Brown, cinereous beneath. Palpi and antennae tawny. Fore 

 wings paler in some parts of the disk, and with very indistinct 

 transverse dark brown lines ; four white costal spots ; first small, 

 near the base ; second and third large, attenuated hindward ; fourth 

 very small, near the tip. Hind wings with pale testaceous ciliae. 

 Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. Nepaul. Presented by Major-Gen. Hardwicke. 



Genus 5. ATETHMIA. 



Corpus sat validum. Antennae simplices, graciles. Abdomen 

 alas posticas superans. Pedes sat validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus 

 quatuor longis. Alae mediocriter lata? ; anticae apud costam rectae 

 apice acutae, margine exteriore vix obliquo. 



Atethmia, H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 238. 

 Athetmia, Guen. Noct. ii. 12. 



Body moderately stout. Antennae simple, slender. Abdomen 

 extending somewhat beyond the hind wings. Wings moderately 

 broad. Fore wings straight along the costa, acute at the tips; ex- 

 terior border hardly oblique. 



This genus seems to be allied to the Heliothidce, and to the 

 tribe Minores. 



1. Atethmia subusta. 



Mas. Testacea ; alee anticce fasciis quinque subundulatis subne* 

 bulosis fuscis, subtus strigis duabus discalibus nigris ; posticce 

 albidce, testaceo marginatce, subtus fasciis duabus guttularibus 

 nigris. 



Atethmia subusta (Noctua genuina, Heliophila divisata), H'ubn. 

 Samml. Exot. Schmett. ii. 8, 103, f. 205, 206; Verz. Schmett. 

 238, 2368. 



Colombia. 



