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undulate line which is introangular on the folds, there are 2 black spots below the costa] margin and in the 
centre. Hindwing grey, on the veins and margin brownish. Mexico (Tabasco). 
C. bipars Hmps. (501) is nearly the most similar to luda, but the basal area is not dark, but the whole bipam. 
basal half reddish- ochreous, the rest of the wing dark red-brown with a grey reflection; transverse lines double; 
behind the undulate line which is inside shaded with blackish, the marginal area shows a golden gloss. Hindwing 
copper-brown. Argentina. 
C. orthodoxica Dyar (501). Forewing with a light grey gloss, densely strewn with dark, with undulate orihodo- 
curved, below black transverse lines, before the light reniform macula there is a dark spot, before the centre of 
the distal margin a black spot; in the apical end of the costal margin there are small silvery streaks. Hindwing 
brownish-black. Panama. 
C. semipallida Hmps. (501) is very similar to orthodoxica, in the basal half more olive ochreous, outside semipal- 
chocolate brown with a silvery gloss; the reniform macula and the filling of the posterior transverse line silvery 
grey, behind the similarly coloured undulate line there is a copper-red apical spot. Hindwing coppery brown. 
Dominica. 
C. paistion Dyar (50 1). Basal half of forewing light reddish yellow, outside purple brown, inside bordered paistion. 
by a black band; at the distal margin there is a narrow light line. From Panama. 
C. luxuriosa Sm. (501) is very similar to quadrifera, but it lacks the dark inner-marginal spot; forewing luxuriosa. 
greyish-brown, outside mixed with red-brown, slightly strewn with silvery blue, and with double transverse 
lines filled with yellowish and silvery blue, the maculae finely surrounded by black; undulate line composed 
of silvery lunulae being inside bordered with black, behind them a copper-red apical spot. Hindwing copper- 
brown. Arizona, Mexico. 
C. dimidata Sm. (50 1), described as Acontia and by Hampson also regarded as Tarache, is whitish- dimidata. 
ochreous in the basal half cf the forewmg, whilst the distal half is blackish-brown with grey irroration, the two 
colours being separated by the black median line; reniform macula lead-coloured, in a white ring; the black 
postmedian line is outside bordered with silvery grey, and before the subterminal line there is spot-like yellowish- 
white irroration. Hindwing yellowish-brown. Expanse of wings: 16 mm. Arizona. 
C. subterminata Hmps. (50 1). Forewing ochreous brown, in the marginal half darker, dusted with grey, subtermi- 
with an intense red-brown median shadow and fine indistinct double transverse lines; the reniform macula naic 
is a tiny brown spot; the undulate line is composed of a few small black dots near the costal margin and in the 
centre, the latter dots being confluent. Hindwing coppery brownish-grey. Mexico to Colombia. 
C. umbrifera Hmps. (501) is very similar to ochrocraspis, though without the dark inner-marginal spot; umbrifera. 
forewing brownish-grey, strewn darker, with double transverse lines filled with silvery grey; the silvery grey 
undulate line is inside shaded with deep blackish-brown, the marginal area behind it is dusted with red-brown 
excepting the anal angle. Hindwing copper-brown. Paraguay. 
C. nubidice Dyar (50 1). Forewing blackish, mixed with bronze and lead-colour, with very feeble lighter nubldlce. 
crenulate transverse lines and black maculae which are surrounded by light; at the anal angle there is a whitish 
patch and a blackish wedge at the margin behind the cell. Hindwing blackish-brown. Mexico; Guadalupe. 
C. catada Drc. Forewing dark copper-brown, strewn with silvery purple, with black dentate silvery catadci. 
purple transverse lines and similar maculae which are finely surrounded by black; the violet silvery undu¬ 
late line is inwards spotted black; the marginal area is red-brown excepting the anal angle. Hindwing dark 
copper-brown. Mexico. 
C. inquaesita B. db Benj. is a different small species, its exterior resembles more an Ozarba. Forewing inquacsita. 
violettish grey, shaded with brownish and black, in the basal area brown; the brownish anterior transverse line 
is situate in a lilac white antemedian area, in the brown posterior half of the median area a black median line; 
the posterior transverse line is double, black, filled with violettish-white, at the cell-end acutely angled; the 
small reniform macula is violettish-grey, centred with greyish-brown; the subterminal area is dark brown in 
the upper third, outside bordered by the white undulate line which is obsolete below. Hindwing greyish-brown. 
Expanse of wings: 11 mm. Arizona. 
26. Genus : Jlelaineru Hmps. 
Exactly built like Cobubatha, but on the forewing with an accessory cell and the normal Noctuid neu- 
ration. Only 1 species has been described: 
M. velutina Hmps. (50 1) is a small light red-brown insect with a large obliquely quadrangular blackish- velutina. 
brown inner-marginal spot which is bordered by whitish, and a similar, though much smaller triangular spot 
at the costal margin before the apex; the posterior transverse line is rather indistinct, brown, the reniform 
macula represented by a black dot with a Y-shaped marking below it. Before the white undulate line brown 
dusting. Hindwing copper-brown. Colombia. 
