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extended into a point; it chiefly differs in the very indistinct grey, not white undulate line. Expanse of 
wings: 18 mm. Mexico (Jalapa). 
0, holophaea Hmps. (51 k) is as large as the preceding species, but much more monotonously dark, holophaea. 
strewn almost entirely black, both the transverse lines rather indistinct, double, not filled lighter, instead of 
the reniform macula with two white dots surrounded by a hardly darker colour, at the cell-end, the fine 
undulate line quite dark. Hindwing light brown, darkened at the margin. Argentina. 
0. amazonica Warr. ( — apicata Schs.) (51 k) is quite different, the forewing greenish-white, scantily amazonica 
strewn with brown, a brown triangular spot at the base of the costal margin and a large red-brown spot at 
the apex, with quite indistinct transverse lines, the anterior one punctiform, without any maculae; undulate 
line feebly shaded with brown inside. Hindwing light brown. Brazil (Castro: Amazons). 
43. Genus: A myna Guen. 
This peculiar genus comprises somewhat larger dark species with very broad wings, a developed pro¬ 
boscis, erect palpi broadly scaled in front, with a long terminal joint, and a smooth frons; thorax scaled, 
tuftless, abdomen with tufts on the first rings; forewing with an areole and a regular Noctuid neuration, 
the median radial vein of the hindwing feebly developed. Beside numerous Indian species, a few American 
species are also known, most of which occur also in North America. 
A. bullula Grt. (= tecta Drc., mexicana Strd.) (51 k). Eorewing copper-red, strewn with dark, more bullula. 
greyish-brown in the marginal area, with indistinct dentate transverse lines bordered with whitish, the maculae 
surrounded by whitish, the reniform maculae 8-shaped, the with a deep fovea instead of the ring-macula, 
an oblong fovea below the median vein; undulate line dark with a small whitish apical spot behind it. — As 
Grote’s original description only refers to specimens with a white reniform macula, those lacking the white 
colour must be named: — concolorata B. & Benj. Alabama, Texas, Mexico, Guatemala. concolorata 
A. octo Guen. (= stricta Wkr., flavigutta Wkr. , perfundens WJcr., cephusalis Wkr., colon Gum., vexa- ocio. 
bilis Wallgr., inornata Wkr., obstructa Wkr., stigmatula Snell., albigutta Wkr., bavia Fldr., undulifera Btlr., 
tecta Grt., monotretalis Mab., supplex Swinh., rufa BethBale.) (51 1). Forewing greyish-brown, more or less 
tinted reddish, with indistinct dentate transverse lines bordered with whitish, the strangulated reniform macula 
surrounded with whitish, the whitish undulate line being brown inside. A cosmopolitan species (cf. Vol. XI, 
p. 272) occurring also in America from Kansas and Texas to Paraguay and Argentina as well as in Jamaica, 
Grenada, and Trinidad. A variable species: — The form with a white-filled reniform macula is called axis axis. 
Guen. (511). f. orbica Mrr. are specimens in which the marginal area is more intensely suffused with red- orbica. 
brown, and in f. Seucospila Wkr. the forewings are quite red-brown. 
A. amplificans Wkr. ( = impedita Wkr.) (51 1) is the largest and strongest species with narrower fore¬ 
wings, copper-brown with black notched transverse lines, the reniform macula filled with white below; the 
ring-macula is indicated by 2 black dots; the dark undulate line is removed inwards at the apex, where there 
are 2 thicker black dots. Hindwing greyish-brown. Mexico to Venezuela. 
A. tristis Drc. (51 1) is similar, with somewhat broader wings, more greyish-brown with a greasy lustre, 
the surroundings of the reniform macula very indistinctly marked by a few small white scales, the transverse 
lines hardly bordered with whitish. Hindwing greyish-brown. Mexico *). 
44. Genus: Rryococlia Hmps. 
Distinguished from the preceding genus by a rounded frontal projection with a horny plate below it 
and large loose tufts on the prothorax and metathorax, the abdomen scaled almost in its whole length, the 
middle radial branch on the hindwing stronger and arising below the centre. Hampson presumes lepidulci Grt. 
to be the type of the genus, which species we have already described as Agriopodes (p. 31) to which genus it 
has been placed recently. We mention here also some tropical species which have meanwhile been described 
to belong to this genus. 
B. pictula Schs. (51 1) has sap-green forewings, the centre of the costal margin strewn with white, with pictula. 
indistinctly double transverse lines filled with whitish, and a quadrangular black spot between the maculae 
which are surrounded with white and exhibit some carmine scales at their inverted margins; the whitish un¬ 
dulate line likewise shows carmine scales and is inwardly shaded with blackish-brown forming a spot below 
the costal margin. Hindwing greyish-brown. Brazil. 
B. poasina Schs. (51 1). Forewing dark brown with a black median area and double black transverse poasina. 
lines filled with yellowish reddish-grey; a lead-coloured spot in the cell and another one below it, bordered 
*) teratophora H.-S. has already been dealt with in the genus: Agriopodes (cf. p. 32) where it is better ranged. 
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leucospila. 
ampli¬ 
ficans. 
tristis. 
