12S 
NOCTUID.E. 
inwards and somewhat bidentate at discal fold, angled outwards 
at vein 4, then indistinct, incurved and sinuous, the postmedial 
area with alternating black and white streaks on costa and a 
red-brown patch below the costa with a black mark on it 
before the subterminal line, which is very faint, white, slightly 
defined on each side by red-brown, waved, excurved below 
vein 7 and at middle, and with black point on its inner side 
below vein 7 ; a slight crenulate blackish terminal line with 
black points at the interspaces. Hind wing white, the terminal 
area cupreous red-brown except towards tornus ; a rather 
punctiform brownish postmedial line with small black spot 
above inner margin ; an indistinct slightly waved brown 
subterminal line from vein 4 to tornus ; a waved blackish 
terminal line ; cilia with fine white line at base, chequered 
red-brown and white at tips. Underside of fore wing red- 
brown irrorated with white, the inner area whitish, a curved 
brown postmedial line ; hind wing with the costal area irrorated 
with red-brown, a small discoidal spot, the postmedial line 
distinct and waved. 
Hab. Venezuela, Esteban Valley, Las Quiguas, 1 $ type. 
Exp. 32 millim. 
Genus DYOPS. 
Type. 
Dyops, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 283 (1852) ocellata, Stoll. 
Arvaduca, Walk. Char. Undescr. Lep. Het. p. 27 (1869) .. ocellata, Stoll. 
Dyops cuprescens, n. sp. 
Head and thorax dark brown ; pectus and legs grey tinged 
with red-brown, the fore tibiae and the tarsi banded with black ; 
abdomen dark brown with a greyish gloss, the ventral surface 
grey-brown with sublateral and ventral black-brown streaks. 
Fore wing dark red-brown finely irrorated with blue-white 
scales to the subterminal line except in upper part of submedian 
interspace which is paler red-brown, the terminal area with 
a golden gloss ; two subbasal black striae from costa and a small 
spot below the cell ; antemedial line double, blackish, the 
lines well separated, sinuous, incurved above vein 1 ; reniform 
obscurely defined by dark brown, elliptical ; a sinuous dark 
brown medial line ; postmedial line double, blackish, dentate, 
excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, 
greyish defined on inner side by dark brown, waved, excurved 
below vein 7 and at middle and ending at tornus, a small 
black ocellus with two white points in centre beyond it between 
veins 4 and 3 ; a series of black striae just before termen. Hind 
wing dark brown with a cupreous gloss ; traces of a sinuous 
pale postmedial line defined on each side by dark brown from 
vein 3 to tornus ; two small black ocelli before termen between 
