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P. japyx Sells. (51 a) shows monotonously blackish-brown forewings with a silky gloss, the inner margin japyx. 
broadly dusted with dark grey, with fine transverse lines scarcely visible on the dark ground, without maculae, 
the fringe white at the apex; hindwing blackish-brown, a small spot and the fringe at the anal angle whitish- 
grey. Costa Rica. 
P. circumcincta Dyar (51 b) exhibits the cliscal and submedian folds on the $ hindwing modified as circum- 
deep pocket-shaped folds, as in the following Angitia tiresias. Forewing olive brown with strong black 
transverse lines which are united at the inner margin, the posterior line dentate and finely doubled; maculae 
light surrounded by grey, inconspicuous. Subterminal area narrowly grey, shaded with black. Hindwing 
blackish-brown. Panama. 
33. Genus: Angitia Wkr. 
Of exactly the same structure as Parangitia, but the forewing shows an areole and thus the typical 
Noctuid neuration; distal margin as a rule slightly concave below the ap?x and projecting somewhat angularly 
below it. A great number of tropical species have been described from America. 
A. tiresias Drc. (51 b). A with the modification on the hindwing described in Parangitia circumcincta. tiresias. 
Fore wing dark red-brown, mixed with yellowish-grey, with black somewhat spotted transverse lines and 3 
small black maculae surrounded with whitish; blackish spots behind the whitish undulate line in the centre 
and at the anal angle. Hindwing coppery brown with a white submedian fold. Guatemala to Brazil. 
A. medioplica Hmps. shows a similar fold through the lower cell-end of the forewing to the margin as medioplica. 
on the hindwing of tiresias, whereby the veins are somewhat curved. Forewing red-brown, mixed with whitish, 
with double brown transverse lines filled with whitish, an oblicpie whitish costal-marginal shadow behind the 
anterior line, and a large greyish-white spot in the median and postmedian areas extending from the cell to 
below the submedian fold; reniform macula laterally bordered with blackish-brown with a white dot above, 
the undulate line whitish, spotted blackish-brown inside. Hindwing whitish, dusted with red-brown, with 
small brown, white-pupilled marginal spots. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. Brazil. 
A. ithaca Drc. (51 b) has normally shaped wings as all the following species. Forewing dark red-brown, ithaca. 
strewn with yellowish-white, with indistinctly double dentate transverse lines filled with yellowish, maculae 
with yellowish rings; an 8-shaped yellowish spot before the dentate median line below the cell, small black 
sagittate spots before the yellowish undulate line. Hindwing coppery brown. Guatemala and Panama. 
A. thacia Schs. (51 b) is similar to ithaca but marked white on a brown ground, with single transverse thacia. 
lines bordered with white on the averted sides, the white-edged reniform macula interrupted by a light brown 
shadow, the light spot below the cell is absent; some blackish-brown streaks in the upper half of the white- 
scaled subterminal area and whitish double spots between and below them. Hindwing brown. Costa Rica. 
A. flavidorsum Hmps. Forewing red-brown, strewn with yellow especially in the costal-marginal flavidorsum. 
portion, with a yellow, outside black basal spot, the double blackish-brown transverse lines filled with yellow, 
the maculae surrounded with yellow, white dots at the reniform macula above and below; dark brown shading 
before the interrupted yellow undulate line and small sagittate spots in the centre, a yellow spot behind it on 
the discal fold. Hindwing red-brown with yellow fringe. Expanse of wings: 30 mm. Panama, British Guiana. 
A. caliginosa Schs. (51 b) has dark brown forewings shaded with blackish, the dark basal area bordered caliginosa. 
by the greyish-brown double anterior transverse line, the double posterior line being blacker, filled with reddish- 
yellow; the reniform macula is a reddish-yellow dot; darker undulate lines quite indistinct, forming a spot 
subcostally. Hindwing blackish-brown. Costa-Rica. 
A. ligneola Schs. (51 b). Forewing reddish-yellow, dusted with brown, bordered in the basal area by a ligneola. 
velvety black line which terminates near the centre of the inner margin; the ring-macula is a dark dot, the 
reniform macula large, oval, greyish-white; the posterior brown indistinctly double transverse line is finely 
dentated and fused with a large blackish-brown spot in the centre of the distal margin, another spot is at the 
anal angle; apex grey; hindwing blackish-brown. Costa Rica. 
A. mesoscofa Hmps. (51 b) is one of the largest species, red-brown, darkened in the median and marginal mesoscota. 
areas, with double dentate transverse lines filled with whitish, the maculae surrounded with whitish; small 
darker spots before the dentate indistinct whitish undulate line. Hindwing coppery brown. Trinidad. 
A. grandis Schs. (51 b) is likewise very large. Forewing dark brown with a broad blackish postmedian grandis. 
shadow in which a double velvety black transverse line is indistinctly visible, 2 black streaks behind it to the 
centre of the margin, whitish scales before it in the lower half, apex dusted with grey. Hindwing blackish- 
brown. Costa Rica. 
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