HALISIDOTA. 285 



Subsp. 1. schausi meridensis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 285 (1909), 



& xvii.pl. 11. ft 23, 24. 

 Much darker; fore wing with the subtemiinal band less inter- 

 rupted. 



TEah. Venezuela, Merida, type t in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Subsp. 2. fumosa, Schaus, A. M. N. II. (8) ix. p. 38 (1912 . 

 Similar to meridensis, but the hind wing tinged with brown. 

 -ETflJ. Costa Ri< a: W. Chlumiiia, R. Dagua, 1 c? . 



Subsp. 3. schausi tucumana, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 2 

 & xvii. pi. 11. ff. 16, 17. 



Paler; fore wing with the subterminal band entire; hind wing 

 seinihyaline white. 



II >h. Argentina, Tucuman (Steinbach), type to*,? in Coll. 

 Rothschild. 



1497 «r. Halisidota steinbachi. 



// ilisidota steinbacJii, Roth-. Nov. Zo 1. xvi. p. 283 1909) & xvii pi 11 

 ft. 25. 2-'.. 



c? . Head and thorax pale ochreous tinged with grey-brown; 

 palpi orange at side< with grey patches edged with Mark at base of 

 1st and 2nd joints, the latter black above and at extremity, the 3rd 

 joint grey and black at base; frons with lateral triangular black 

 patches: antennae blackish, orange towards base; patagia with 

 black streak towards outer edge; femora orange above, the tibia? 

 and tarsi and the hind femora with grey and black hands ; abdomen 

 orange, the ventral surface ochreous white with lateral series of 

 black stri;e. Fore wing ochreous white tinged with brown : sub- 

 basal and antemedial black-irrorated patches from c^sta to median 

 nervure conjoined to a wedge-shaped patch below the cell, edo-ed 

 with black and the veins on them streaked with black: a minute 

 antemedial black-edged spot on vein 1 ; a medial band edged bv 

 black lines and with the veins on it streaked with black, its inner 

 edge bent inward- at subcostal nervure and angled inwards at sub- 

 median fold and to inner margin, its outer edge sinuous ; a black- 

 edged patch from costa to lower angle of cell, with black streaks 

 on it below costa and the discocellulars and extremity of median 

 nervure black, its edges somewhat angled outwards below costa : 

 postmedial line tine, black, angled outwards at the veins, incurved 

 at diseal fold and below vein 1 : a black-edged subterminal band 

 angled outwards at the veins and incurved at diseal and submedian 

 folds. Hind wing semihyaline yellowish, the inner margin more 

 orange, two small brown-edged spots on apical part of termen. 



II, >h. Argentina. La Rioja (Gi comelli), 1 c " . Tucuman 

 x type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild, Salta. Exp. -31 millim. 



1407 l>. Halisidota schausi. 



Halisidota schausi, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvi. , xvii pi 11 



ff. 21. L'2. 



Differs from II. cincfipes in the head, thorax, and abdomen 

 being paler ; fore wing whitish buff, the subterminal band always 



