188 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



these spots are short white marks. The legs and under surface of 

 thorax blackish-gray, and whitish in the middle. Anterior wings 

 are brown in the greater part, separated by an exceedingly irregu- 

 lar outline from a black costal portion covered with dispersed pale- 

 blue scales, and which is dilated from the costa into an angular 

 basal, a large nearly square median, and an apical irregularly-oval 

 patch ; the brown portion has two broad dilations toward the 

 costa, both extending to the sub-costal nerve. The median black 

 patch contains a small white discal dot, and is edged beneath and 

 behind by pale-brownish. The post-apical nervule and sub-costo 

 inferior are pale-colored, and toward the termination of medio- 

 central and posterior nervules are four small black spots, two on 

 either side of each. The fringes are brown, broadly spotted with 

 black. Posterior wings are pale-brownish and grayish from the 

 middle to the base, with a large black patch at base, two central 

 black bands, and between the latter and the former an oblique 

 demi-line ; a moderate, black marginal band, having a bluish one 

 in its centre. The fringes black, spotted with brown. 



Honduras-. 



Clemens. 



7. M. cingulata Linn. SpJniix drurcei, Donovan. SpJiinx convohuli, 

 Drury. Figured in Drury, 1, pi. 25. Cram. pi. 225. Sm. Abb. 1, 

 pi. 32. 



. Head, ends of palpi and thorax cinereous, with a brownish tinge; 

 palpi white beneath, prothorax with two blackish lines and tcguloe, 

 with one central and one on superior margin of the same hue ; me- 

 tathoracic tufts black, with a few bluish scales. Abdomen brown- 

 ish cinereous, with large rose-colored lateral patches, separated by 

 black bands. Anterior wings grayish-l)rown, with a grayish spot 

 at base, irregular dark-brown angulated lines crossing the disk, 

 and discal spot whitish, ringed with blackish ; three dark-brown 

 lines curving across the middle of the nervules, and bordered pos- 

 teriorly with brownish-gray, in which the last line is produced into 

 points on the nervules ; a row of dark-brown circlets on the poste- 

 rior nervules, with a line of the same hue in post-apical interspace 

 extended to the tip, and streaks of the same hue in the central and 

 posterior interspaces. Posterior wings rosy toward the base, with 

 a central black band. and black demi-line above it, a grayish space 

 posteriorly, and a broad marginal cinereous band, bordered above 

 with black. Legs cinereous, thorax and abdomen beneath white. 



