2(52 
NOCTUIDE. 
inner margin before middle ; postmedial line reddish brown, 
diffused on inner side and defined on outer by diffused white, 
oblique, arising from costa near apex and very slightly in- 
curved below vein 4 ; a faint curved white subterminal line 
from discal fold to inner margin ; a rather punctiform red- 
brown terminal line ; cilia whitish at base, red-brown at 
tips. Hind wing white, faintly tinged and irrorated with 
red-brown ; a red-brown terminal line. Underside white ; 
fore wing suffused with red-brown ; hind wing irrorated with 
red-brown, a brown discoidal striga and slight curved post- 
medial line. 
Hah. Mexico, Guerrero, Qmilteme (H . H . Smith), 1 $ type. 
Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 28 millim. 
Genus LEIOSTOLA, nov. 
Type, L. mollis, Butl. (Poaphila), 111. Het. B.M. iii. p. 28, 
pi. 47. f. 10 (1879). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely 
upturned to about vertex of head, moderately scaled in front 
and fringed with hail' behind towards extremity, the 3rd 
short, porreot, thickly scaled ; frons smooth, with tuft of 
hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male with slight 
bristles and cilia ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales 
and without crests ; tibiae slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen 
smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the 
apex somewhat produced, the termen evenly curved and not 
crenulate ; veins 3 and o from near angle of cell ; 6 from 
below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 1 1 from cell, or 
abnormally 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a minute 
areole with 7 well beyond it. Hind wing with the cell half 
the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed 
from well above angle ; 0, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- 
mosing with the cell near base only. 
Genus RHYNCHODINA, nov. 
Type, R. molybdota. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi downcurved, extending 
about three times length of head, the 2nd joint moderately 
scaled below and fringed with long hair above, the 3rd long 
and fringed with hair above and below ; frons smooth, with 
tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of female 
minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with hair 
and without crests ; tibiae slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen 
with some rough hair at base of dorsum but without crests. 
Fore wing with the apex slightly produced and acute, the 
termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 
from near angle of cell ; (i from below upper angle ; 7 from 
