428 
NOCTUIDJ:. 
the ceil to lower angle, then oblique, postmedial line excurved 
below costa and at middle, incurved at discal fold and below 
vein 4, an oblique diffused fuscous subterminal line, all the 
lines obsolescent on inner area ; hind wing ochreous white 
irrorated with dark brown, a slight discoidal spot, somewhat 
sinuous medial and postmedial lines and a strong subterminal 
line. 
Hah. Peru, Yahuarmayo, 1 $ type. Exp. 40 millim. 
Genus BENDIS. 
Bendis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 269 (1827) irregularis, Hiibn. 
Lesmone, Hiibn. Verz. p. 340 (1827) porcia, Stoll. 
Azatha, Walk. xv. 1534 (1858) m arcellina, Stoll. 
Trama, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 13 (1875) 
nee Heyd. Hem. 1837 detrahens, Walk. 
Lepidotrama, Cockerell, Ent. News Philad. xiv. p. 182 
(1903) detrahens, Walk. 
Bendis umbrifera, n. sp. 
Head and tegulse red -brown ; thorax and abdomen 
purple-grey ; pectus and legs red-brown. Fore wing purple- 
grey, the basal half and costal area irrorated with red-brown ; 
a curved red-brown subbasal striga from costa ; antemedial 
line red-brown, angled outwards below costa, strongly bent 
inwards in the cell, then waved ; a minute chocolate-brown 
spot in middle of cell ; reniform defined by chocolate-brown, 
narrow ; an indistinct sinuous red-brown medial line ; post- 
medial line chocolate-brown, oblique towards costa, then 
inwardly oblique and irregularly waved , some white points 
beyond it on costa ; a strong oblique chocolate-brown shade 
from apex to tornus, diffused on outer side to near termen at 
middle ; a series of minute black-brown spots just before 
termen and a terminal series of black-brown striae. Hind 
wing purple-grey tinged with red-brown except on terminal 
area, the postmedial area suffused with chocolate-brown 
diffused to near termen at middle ; an oblique red-brown 
medial line from discal fold to inner margin, defined on outer 
side by whitish ; an indistinct double dentate chocolate- 
brown subterminal line from vein 7 to inner margin, some- 
what excurved at middle ; a series of minute black-brown 
spots just before termen and a terminal series of black-brown 
striae ; cilia whitish at tips. Underside purple-grey suffused 
with red-brown ; both wings with small white discoidal 
spot and curved red-brown postmedial line slightly defined on 
oiiter side by grey. 
Hab. Br. Guiana, Bartica (Kaye), 1 q type. Exp. 40 
millim. 
