noctuifor- 
mis. 
modest a. 
basipuncta. 
gigas. 
novella. 
syrta. 
minima. 
galibensis. 
1022 UR SI A; KURTIA; ANITA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
134. Genus : Ursia B. & McD. 
Likewise only one very different small species from North America. Antennae bipectinate not quite to 
the tips, palpi diminutive. The narrow forewing with a straight costa has almost the neuration of Goacampa , 
but vein 6 arises almost from the apex of the areole, veins 3 and 4 of the hindwing arise separately and the 
costal vein arises nearer at the centre of the cell. 
Type of genus: U. noctuiformis B. & McD. 
U. lioctuiforniis B. d- McD. (155 a). Forewing grey, striated darker and dusted whitish; a white streak 
extends from behind the lower cell-end almost vertically to the inner margin which is continued towards the 
apex as a dark oblique shadow with some black longitudinal streaks in it before the margin; the area behind 
the white line and the shadow is lighter than the inner part, with small indistinct white internerval spots; 
fringe speckled. Hindwing brownish-grey. Arizona. 
135. Genus: Kurtfa Schs. 
Antennae of with long pectinations as far as the apical fifth, palpi hairy, the long and narrow 
forewing with a convex inner margin and a very oblique distal margin; vein 5 is removed upwards to the upper 
cell-angle, 6 arises behind the middle of the very long areole. Neuration of hindwing as in Goacampa except the 
costal vein which arises in the middle of the cell. Only 1 species. 
Type of genus: K. modesta Schs. 
K. modesta Schs. (155 b). Forewing dark red-brown with indistinct grey internerval streaks, and traces 
of transverse lines at the costal margin; a series of tiny dark spots behind the centre and small black inter¬ 
nerval spots before the margin. Hindwing dull brown. Venezuela. 
136. Genus: Anita Schs. 
Antennae of $ pectinated except the apical fifth, palpi rising with a very short terminal joint. Fore¬ 
wing short and broad with the same neuration as the preceding genus, but the costal vein arises near the base 
of the cell. A small number of tropical species. 
Type of genus: A. basipuncta Schs. 
A. basipuncta Schs. (= costalis Schs., albonubila Dogn .) (155 b). Forewing light brown, whitish above 
the median vein, with a velvety brown basal spot, the veins of the marginal area striped dark brown; a fine 
dot in the upper cell-angle and shadowy traces of a postmedian line. Hindwing light brownish. Venezuela. 
A. gigas Rothsch. is the largest species, near basipuncta , with slate-coloured forewings strewn with 
white at the base and costal margin, the transverse lines scarcely visible in the ground-colour, and with a black 
notched subterminal line. Hindwing brownish-grey. Amazons (Fonte Boa). 
A. norella Schs. Forewing brown, grey in the basal area at the costal margin, mixed w'ith reddish- 
yellow below it, with fine black antemedian and postmedian transverse lines, a stronger median line, of a vel¬ 
vety black colour; a large brown spot in the cell, white vein-dots and a brown shadow behind the postmedian 
line, then follows a whitish-grey transverse area enclosing large black spots; a grey shadow between the base 
of the median nervules. Hindwing dark brown. Expanse of wings: 37 mm. French Guiana. 
A. syrta Schs. Forewing brown with a broad white base of the costal margin and dentate blackish 
transverse lines which are red-brown towards the inner margin, a thick black cellular spot and a red-brown 
cell-end streak; white vein-dots and black streaks are behind the postmedian line; submarginal black spots 
surrounded by whitish, a brown marginal line behind them. Hindwing dark brown. Expanse of wings: 34 mm. 
French Guiana. 
A. minima sp. n. (155b) is the smallest species; forewing brown, base of the costal margin broadly 
tvhite, the white apical third of the costal margin of the shape of a triangle the apex of which extends down 
to vein 2; a broad dark brown band from the first third of the costal margin obliquely to the lower cell-angle 
meets here a similar one in almost a right angle, which extends from the centre of the costal margin to the 
anal angle before which, however, it disappears; a thick black spot in the base of the cell. Transverse lines 
double, notched, black, with black and white vein-streaks behind the posterior line; thick black spots sub- 
terminally in the white area, those between 5 and 7 being situate farther towards the margin; small black vein- 
spots between 4 and 8 behind a fine whitish submarginal line. Hindwing brown, lighter basally. Described 
according to 1 $ from Thomar (Coll. Stgr. in the Berlin Museum). 
A. galibensis Schs. ( — basiplaga Rothsch.). Forewing dark velvety brown in the basal third, light grey 
behind it above the median vein; brown below it, with 2 very deeply notched postmedian transverse lines; 
