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1 140. Craterestra lucina. 



Stibera lucina, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 296, pi, 27. f.27 (1889). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with whitish ; tarsi banded 

 with black ; abdomen red-brown, dorsally suffused with black. 

 Foi'e wing pale grey-browu suffused in parts with purplish brown, 

 the area between the antemedial and medial lines strongly suffused ; 

 a double, waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a 

 double antemedial line angled outwards below costa, then strongly 

 excurved ; claviform defined by black, very short and broad ; 

 orbicular and reniform with pale brownish centres and grey annuli, 

 the former defined by black, rather pointed above and dilated 

 below, the latter very indistinct ; a waved medial line ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below 



Fig. 8. — Cratcredra lucina, J. }• 



costa and strongly incurved below vein 4, some pale points on 

 costa beyond it ; subtermiual line pale, defined on inner side by a 

 series of slight dark marks, and with some fuscous suffusion beyond 

 it; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown ; the underside ochreous whitish irrorated with dark brown, 

 the basal area suffused with fuscous except towards costa, a black 

 discoidal lunule, a diffused fuscous subterminal band. 



Hah. Mexico, Tabasco, Jalapa (TrujiUo), 1 $, Teapa (FT. If. 

 Smith), 1 (3*, type, Godman-Salvin Coll. E.i'23., d 36, 2 40 

 millim. 



1141. Craterestra niveopicta. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 26.) 



Perigea niveopicta, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 124, J. 

 Periffea florinda, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 125, d". 



Head and thorax purplish brown mixed with some black, some 

 of the scales tipped with grey ; tarsi black with whitish rings ; 

 abdomen brown, whitish at base. Fore wing brown irrorated with 

 black and grey, and with a purplish gloss ; subbasal line double, 

 waved, from costa to vein 1, but interrupted in cell : antemedial 

 line double, irregularly waved, oblique ; claviform short and broad, 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and 

 white annuli defined by black, the former round, the latter open 

 above and below and with some blackish streaks from it to post- 

 medial line ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line defined 



