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Decenilipr 19i)4, and Santo Domingo, Carahaya, fioOO ft., wet season, November U)t>l*. 

 (G. R. Ockenden) ; La Merced, fhanchamayo ; Merida, Veneznela fBriceno). 

 IS <?(?, Ill ? ?. 



M. Halisidota underwoodi sjiec. nov. 



?. This s])ecies lias liitlierto liecn mixed np wifii interlineafn, and, more- 

 over, upsets the key to the species in tlie Ihil. Mas. Catalofjiw, for tlie 

 discoidal liand is sometimes joined to the median, forming a V, lint more 

 often not. 



Differs from inti-rliiii'afa below by the whiter ehiy-buff of the abdomen, by 

 a median and two lateral rows of black spots on the abdomen, Viy the ranch broader 

 and more intense black borders to the grey bands on the legs, the more inten.se 

 orange ])ectns. Above the colonr is mnch less bright and greyer than in interUne.atn, 



and the margins to jiatagia, thorax, and tegnlae are dark sage-green. On the 



forewing tlie costal patches are orange with narrow black margins, not black with 

 yellow and black margins as in interlineata ; the discoidal band has a black stigma, 



only not being praeticnlly all black as in ivterlincntu. Hindwing more brownish 



iiyaline bntf, and abdomen .above much deeper orange. 



6. Similar, lint has black margins to the orange patches, and the discoidal luid 

 median liands wider. 



Length of forewing ; 6 30 mm. ; ? 29 mm. 



Hall. .Talapa, Mexico ; Vera Crnz, Mexico ; Orizaba, Mexico, March— Jnne 

 1896 (W. Schaus) ; Tuis, Costa Rica ; San Jose, Costa Rica, May and June 1899 

 (Underwood) ; Chanchamayo, Peru (Schunke) : Rio Hnacamayo, Carabaya, :51imi ft., 

 dry season, Jnne 19II4 (G. R. Ockenden). 



11 cJcf, n ? ?. 



04. Halisidota underwoodi orientalis snbspec. nov. 



i. This is the Eastern form of inideriroodi. It is smaller and paler, and has 

 a larger discoidal stigma. 



?. Similar. 



Length of forewing : S 2.5 mm. ; ? 27'5 mm. 



Ilai). Cai)aro, Trinidad (F. Birch); ditto, December 190.'i (S. M. Kl.ages); 

 Port of Spain and Tabaqnite, Narieva L~)istrict, Central Trinidad (F. Birch) ; 

 British Guiana. 



7 6S, T ??. 



'55. Halisidota schausi spec. nov. 



This has hitherto been confounded with rinrtljii's Grotc. 



tJ. Pectus orange; legs pale orange, banded with greyish white, the bunds 

 edged with darker grey ; head jiale bull' ; tegnlae and patagia iiale bntf, edged with 

 verditer-blue, the latter with a central black streak ; thorax orange with central 



verditer-blue line ; abdomen orange, tip whitish buff. Forewing hyaline whitish 



buff, the ]iatches on costa and discoidal band pale orange, the median, snbterminal, 



and terminal bands pale bnffy brown. Hindwing hyaline cream-yellow on 



abdominal third. 



? . Similar, but discoidal band broken up into five separate spots, and the 

 thoracic stripe and margins verditer-green. 



