2.70 UTHOSIAD.E. 



Halisidota distincta, merulamaUs, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 58 (1910). 

 A form with the oblique medial hand of fore wing more distinct. 

 Argentina, Salta (Steinbach), type f $ in Coll. Rothschild. 



1482 a. Halisidota distincta. 



Halisidota distincta, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 280 (1909), & xviii. pi. b. 

 f. 31. 



Head and thorax pale yellow with a slight reddish tinge ; frons 

 with hlack bar above ; antennae with black streak on base of shaft ; 

 thorax with some dark brown just behind teguhe and a dorsal 

 fascia ; fore tibia? and tarsi dark brown, the mid and hind tibiae 

 with dark brown spots, the tarsi ringed with brown and black at 

 extremities; abdomen pale ochreous dorsally tinged with rufous. 

 Fore wing pale yellow, the veins streaked with orange and irrorated 

 with brown, a black streak on inner margin except towards base ; 

 a faint waved rufous subbasal line with black striae on it, angled 

 outwards below costa and ending at vein 1, double except at costa ; 

 a double antemedial line rilled in with rufous, broader towards costa 

 and excurved below costa ; a double waved medial line, incurved 

 below the cell; a black discoidal mark, narrow above and with 

 whitish lunule in centre ; connected with a rufous mark on costa 

 and with an oblique maculate line from it to inner margin ; a double 

 oblique irregularly dentate postmedial line with black point on the 

 outer line at discal fold; a double waved subterminal line with 

 black spot on the inner line at discal fold ; cilia with a series of 

 small black spots, wholly black towards tornus. Hind wing seini- 

 hvaline vellowish white. 



Hab. Venezuela,! $ ; Pebtj, Carabaya, Aguahm(Ockenden), 

 type t d, $ in Coll. Rothschild. Exp., 6 54, $ 56 millim. 



Subsp. brunnescens, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 280 (1909). 

 Similar, but fore wing with the markings stronger and more 

 rufous, the fascia on inner margin rufous. 



Ih,h. Peeu, Huancabamba, Cerro de Pasco (Boettger), type t 



d , $ in Coll. Rothschild. Exp., 6 48, $ 50 millim. 



*1482 b. Halisidota dognini. 

 Halisidota dognini, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 50G (1910), & xix. pi. 5. 

 i. L8. 



Head and thorax yellow tinged with fulvous in front ; palpi with 

 black streaks on Lst and 2nd joints behind and point on 3rd joint; 

 frons with lateral black bars': vertex of head with black streak ; 

 antemwe brownish; tegulaewith small black spots, the patagia with 

 spots near base and tips; legs banded with black ; abdomen ochreous 

 yellow with lateral, sublateral, and ventral black points on medial 

 segments. Fore wing yellow tinged with orange especially on 

 costal and inner margins and the veins, and with numerous small 

 Mack spots and stria; representing the lines; a cpiadrate patch of 



