498 SUPPLEMENT. 
collar, tegule, and thorax dark grey, the abdomen brown, the anal tuft yellowish-brown. . Expanse 
1 inch. ‘ 
Hab. Muxico, Jalapa (IZ. Trujilio). 
A very variable insect, of which we have received numerous specimens from Jalapa. 
18. Thalpochares (?) dasarada, sp.n. (Tab. XCV. fig. 28.) 
Primaries very pale fawn-colour, darker from the middle to the base, a narrow pale line crossing the wing from 
the costal to the inner margin, the marginal line pale, the fringe pale fawn-colour ; secondaries white, 
slightly dusky at the apex and round the outer margin: head, thorax, and abdomen pale fawn-colour, 
the antenne brown, the legs white. Expanse ? inch. 
Hab. Mexico, Presidio de Mazatlan (forrer), Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in 
Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guaremaua, San Gerénimo and Cubilguitz in Vera Paz, 
El Reposo (Champion); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers) ; 
Panama, Chiriqui (ibe). | 
Varies considerably in colour and in the distinctness of the lines crossing the 
primaries. Some specimens have a small black dot at the end of the cell. We figure 
an example from Teapa. 
XANTHOPTERA (I. p. 315). 
Xanthoptera nigrofimbria (I. p. 316). 
To the localities given, add :—Costa Rica, Candelaria Mts. (Underwood). 
2. Xanthoptera laphyra. (Tab. XCVI. fig. 2.) 
Xanthoptera laphyra, Druce, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 517’. 
Primaries yellowish-brown, with a pinkish tinge from the base to the middle, and crossed from the costal to 
the inner margin by five very indistinct pale brown lines, the costal margin from the base to near the apex 
bordered with primrose-yellow, the fringe yellowish-brown : secondaries yellowish-white, darker round the 
outer margin, the fringe whitish-brown ; the underside of both wings pinkish-white: head and front of 
the thorax primrose-yellow, the rest of the thorax and the abdomen yellowish-brown, the antenne and 
~ legs pale brown. Expanse ? inch. 
Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith!); Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, in 
mus. Staudinger). 
It is possible that this insect may prove to be referable to the following species, 
X. alboflava, Walk., but it does not agree with the description. 
3. Xanthoptera (?) alboflava. 
Xanthoptera (?) alboflava, Walk. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3) i. p. 92 (1862) *. 
Hab. Honvvras!, 
ANTHOPHILA (to follow the genus Xanthoptera, I. p. 316). 
Anthophila, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Europ. iv. p. 93 (1816); Treitschke, Schmett. Europ. v. 3, 
p. 273; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 825. | 
