382 
NOC’Tl' 1DJ.. 
one-third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully- 
developecl from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 
8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Genus LOPHUDA, nov. 
Type, L. purpuraria, Dogn. ( Margiza ), Het. Nouv. Am. 
Sud. viii. p. 72 (1914). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 
2nd joint reaching to far above vertex of head, moderately 
scaled in front and fringed with hair behind except towards 
base, the 3rd long and tufted with scales in front and behind 
except at tip ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above ; eyes 
large, round ; antennae of male with bristles and cilia ; thorax 
clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests ; 
tibiae slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests 
on two basal segments. Fore wing with the apex somewhat 
produced, the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 
from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 
anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind 
wing with the cell about half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 
from angle of cell ; 5 fully developed from well above angle ; 
0, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 
base only. 
Genus NAZUDA. 
Nnzuda, Walk, xxxiii. 1117(1805) 
Type. 
leucospila, Walk. 
Nazuda phcenicistes, n. sp. 
$. Head and thorax purplish red ; abdomen whitish with 
a purplish red patch at base of dorsum ; antennae whitish 
ringed with brown ; palpi white at tips ; pectus and legs 
white, the fore and mid legs purplish red in front*; ventral 
surface of abdomen white tinged with purplish red. Fore 
wing purplish red with slight dark irroration ; antemedial line 
indistinct, grey, waved, a paler patch with a yellowish tinge 
beyond it on inner area ; reniform greyish indistinctly defined 
by brown ; a faint slightly waved greyish postmedial line, 
incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; 
traces of a sinuous greyish subterminal line ; a series of 
black points before termen. Hind wing purplish red ; a 
slight dark point at lower angle of cell ; a faint curved 
minutely waved brown postmedial line slightly defined on 
outer side by whitish ; a series of black points just before 
termen. Underside whitish suffused with red except on 
inner area of fore wing and slightly irrorated with brown. 
Hah. Bahamas, Nassau (Sir G. Carter), 1 $ type. Exp. 
30 millim. 
