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Show 1899.] OF THE SUBFAMILY PIRAUSTIN.E. 279 SECT. I. Palpi with the 2nd joint fringed with long hair below. A. (Aporodes). Fore wing of male with a slight fovea on underside above base of vein 7. (1) NOCTUELIA FLORALIS Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Europe ; Syria ; Schmett., Pyr. f. 142. Afghanistan 5 Pyralis stygialis Treit. Eur. Schmett. C Asia ; N.W. India-vii. p. 176 (var.). tHerbula meleagrisalis Wlk. xvii. p. 324 (subsp.). Eudorea transversalis Moore, 2nd Yarkand Mission, p. 14. B. (Noctuelia). Fore wing of male with no fovea on underside. Type. (2) NOCTUELIA SUPERBA Frr. 441, p. 101. Armenia; Persia. Anarta melaxantha Koll. Ins. Pers. p. 12. (3) NOCTUELIA VESPERTALIS H.-S. vi. p. 140, ff. 121, 123. S. Europe ; Armenia. (4) NOCTUELIA ALTICOLALIS Christ. Hor. Ent. Boss. xii. p. 268, pl. vii. f. 39. Armenia. (5) NOCTUELIA STAUDINGERI Christ. Hor. Ent. Boss. ix. p. 6, pl. i. f. 3. Persia ; Turkestan. (6)fNocTUELiA OBSCURA AVarr. A.M.N. H. (6)ix. p. 175 (1892). Armenia. SECT. II. (Aporocosmus). Palpi moderately scaled below; fore wing of male with no fovea beyond the cell. (7) NOCTUELIA FLAVICEPS Burin. Bep. Arg. v. p. 425. Argentina. Type of Semniomima, AVarren, A. M. N. H. (6) ix. p. 172 (1892). (8) NOCTUELIA PUELLA Wlk. vii. p. 1647. Brazil. (9)fNocTUELiA POLYSTRIGALIS, n. sp. (1898, Plate L. fig. 24.) Head, thorax, and abdomen black. Fore wing orange, with black streaks on costa, through the cell, in submeclian interspace, and just above inner margin ; the apical area purplish black from two-thirds of costa to tornus. Hind wing purplish black, Avith the costa orange to near apex. Hab. Peru. Exp. 32 mm. (10)*NOCTUELIA LIGATALIS Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 189, pl. 29. f. 11. Mexico. (11) NOCTUELIA COMASTIS Mevr. Trans. Ent. Sec. 1884, p. 33. N. Zealand. fNoctuelia intrudens W7arr. A. M. N. H. (6) ix. p. 175 (1892). (12)fNOCTUELIA THALIALIS AVlk. xviii. 582. U.S.A.; Haiti. fAnthophila peruviana AVlk. xxxiii. 804. tPyralis gelidalis AA7lk. xxxiv. 1229. Emprepes novalis Grote, Can. Ent. 1876, p. 156. Thelcteria costcemaculalis Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxx. 1887, p. 54, pl. 4. f. 6. |