CH ABU ATA. 



*1506. ChaMata velutina. 



2 07 



Leucania velutina, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 480 (1900), 



nee Ev. 

 Leucania lutina, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxv. p. 176 (101)2) ; Dyar, 



Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 161. 



$ . Head and thorax reddish luteous suffused with red-brown ; 

 palpi reddish grey above, deep velvety brown at sides ; thorax with 

 the disk carneous ; abdomen luteous suffused with carmine-red, dark 

 brown ventrally. Fore wing reddish luteous suffused with red- 

 brown, especially beyond the middle ; a diffused purplish streak 

 along vein 1 ; traces of the subbasal line ; antemedial line single, 

 yellowish, somewhat oblique from costa to median nervure, then 

 slightly angled and inwardly oblique ; orbicular moderate, rather 

 irregular, w ith yellowish annulus ; reniform well developed, oblique 

 oblong, defined by yellow at sides, ill-defined above and below ; an 

 indistinct medial shade from cell to inner margin : postmedial line 

 pale, defined on each side by darker brown, angled outwards below 

 costa, then oblique ; subterminal line yellowish, irregular, defined 

 on inner side by some small indistinct dark spots ; the terminal 

 area rather paler than ground-colour ; cilia rusty red. Hind wing 

 semihyaline, pale tinged with pink, the terminal area suffused with 

 fuscous ; cilia fuscous intersected with pink. Underside of fore 

 wing brown tinged with pink, a blackish discoidal spot and post- 

 medial line ; hind wing with the costal and apical half of outer 

 areas irrorated with pink, a narrow discoidal spot and interrupted 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida. Exp.2>d miWiva. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



1507. Chabuata albicosta. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 13.) 



Aletia albicosta, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 97(1882). 



Leucania pall idlcodu, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 276 (1894). 



Head and thorax bright rufous ; some black scales near upper 

 edge of patagia ; abdomen brown tinged with purplish red, paler at 

 base. Fore wing bright rufous irrorated with black, and with 

 numerous brown striae ; the costal edge whitish ; the veins usually 

 finely streaked with white ; a white point at lower angle of cell 

 with more or less fuscous beyond it ; orbicular and reniform in- 

 distinct, small, ochreous, the former round ; postmedial line repre- 

 sented by a curved series of black points on the veins ; subterminal 

 line very obscurely defined by the area beyond it being slightly 

 darker, arising obliquely from apex, excurved at middle ; cilia 

 whitish at tips. Hind wing pale tinged with fuscous brown, the 

 veins and terminal area suffused with brown ; cilia pinkish, whitish 

 at tips. Underside of fore wing with the median nervure and base 

 of veins arising from it streaked with fuscous ; hind wing pale, the 

 costal and terminal areas tinged with purplish red and irrorated 



