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Show 86.] LEPIDOPTERA O F M H O W . 439 The spots on the female are generally smaller than those on the male. Expanse of wings 1 ^ inch. June and July. 47. DABARITA ICTERICA, n. sp. (Plate XL. fig. 8.) Head thorax, antennae, and fore wings pale reddish yellow, top of head and collar whitish ; fore wings with two outwardly oblique, thin, yellowish, slightly sinuous lines, rather close together, the first -just before the middle, the second beyond the middle; the basal half of the wing the darkest, caused by numerous latitudinal brick-dust coloured minute regular lines or striguhe, diffuse and terminating between the two lines. Abdomen pale dirty straw-colour ; hind wings white, semidiaphanous; underside white, shining. Expanse of wings 1 ^ inch. June. 48. ICHTHYURA RESTITURA. Ichthyura restitura, Walker, xxxii. 433 (1865). October. 49. ORiESIA EMARGINATA. Noctua emarginata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 240. October. LlMACODHLE. 50. MlRESA ALBIPUNCTA. Nyssia albipuncta, Herr.-Schaff. Lep. Exot. Sp. Ser. i. f. 179. October. 51. CANDYBA PUNCTATA. Candyba punctata, Walker, vii. 1761 (1856). Belgorcea subnotata, Walker, xxxii. 497 (1865). June. Walker's type of C. punctata is said to have come from Central Brazil, but the types of the above two species are identical. 52. NATADA BASALIS. Natada basalis, Walker, v. 1110 (1855). June and July. 53. PARASA LEPIDA. Phalama-Noctua lepida, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 50, pi. 130. f E (1779). September. 54. APHENDALA TRIPARTITA. Aphendala tripartita, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 376. June and July. |
