noctii n.r. 
8S 
Hob. Venezuela {Baioden); 1 ; Beazil, Castro Parana in 
Coll. D. Jones ; Paraguay, Sapucav {Foster), 1 <J, 2 ' type. 
Exp. 44, $ 48 millim. 
Genus DRASTERIA. „ 
Type. 
Braste.ria, Hiibn. Verz. p. 280 (1827) graph ica, Hiibn. 
Drasteria eubapta, n.sp. 
Head and thorax creamy white, the tegulse with red- 
brown stripes, the thorax with some red-brown mixed ; 
antennse brownish ; palpi with some red-brown at base of 
2nd joint ; legs tinged with red-brown ; abdomen creamy 
white with faint dorsal ochreous bands. Fore wing creamy 
white tinged in parts with rufous, the basal area largely 
suffused w ith rufous, the postmedia 1 area suffused with rufous : 
subbasal black striae from costa and cell with some red-brown 
irroration beyond them ; antemedial line double, brown 
filled in with rufous, obliquely curved and waved, the inner 
line angled inwards at submedian fold ; some diffused dark 
brown at middle of costa and some rufous at middle of inner 
margin ; reniform with red-brown centre defined by blackish 
and with white annulus faintly defined by rufous, narrow 
above and angled inwards on median nervure ; postmedial 
line black-brown, bent outwards below costa, then oblique 
and angled outwards at veins 0, 4, 3, then retracted with a 
downwards curve to lower angle of cell, then oblique and 
strongly excurvcd in submedian interspace, a faint red-brown 
line beyond it forming a wedge-shaped mark at costa with 
creamy white beyond it ; subterminal line creamy white 
defined on each side by red-brown and with minute black 
points on its inner edge between veins 7 and 2, slightly in- 
curved below costa, then oblique and minutely waved ; a 
blackish brown apical spot and some rufous suffusion at 
middle of termen ; a waved blackish terminal line ; cilia 
chequered white and rufous. Hind wing white ; some red- 
brown on the veins at lower angle of cell and a slight streak 
on vein 2, the inner area faintly tinged with rufous ; a rather 
diffused rufous band from costa towards apex, incurved 
and obsolescent between veins 5 and 2, then bent outwards 
to termen below submedian fold and continued along it tj> 
tornus ; two blackish spots on termen below apex and a black 
spot at middle of termen ; cilia w hite. Underside w hite ; 
fore wing with red-brown discoidal bar continued as an 
oblique shade to the diffused curved postmedial line which 
is almost obsolete except towards costa : hind wing w ith 
faint diffused rufous postmedial shade from costa to \< in f>, 
faint blackish spc>t on termen below apex, and black spot at 
middle of termen. 
