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then an incurved double line slightly angled inwards a1 submedian 

 fold ; an indistinct double irregularly waved medial line; a narrow 

 oblique dark brown band from costa above end of" cell to inner 

 margin with a small obscure bilobed discoidal mark on it; post- 

 medial line double, minutely waved, excurved from below costa to 

 angle of cell then confluent with the outer edge of the oblique band ; 

 the postmediaJ area with double irregularly waved oblique line; a 

 subterminal line formed of small spots defined by red-brown, rather 

 triangular towards costa, then rounded and excurved below vein 4 

 and with dark point on its inner edge at diseal fold, connected with 

 a series of small triangular brown spots on termen and eilia. Hind 

 wing semihyaline yellowish white. 



Ilah. Costa Rica, Tuis; Trinidad; Colombia, Canauche; 

 Venezuela, Valencia; Surtxam, Maroewym Valley, type t 6 in 

 Coll. Rothschild; Brazil, Up. Amazons, Fonte Boa, Codajas ; 

 Ectjadok, Pambilan, S. Javier, Salidero ; Peri', Chanchamayo, Rio 

 Dagua. E.cp. 36 millim. 



1510 c. Halisidota texta. 



Charidea texta, Herr.-Schaff, Aussereur. Schmett. f. 281 (1855) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Lep. Het. p. 208. 

 Halisidota thyophora, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 140 (1S9G). 

 Halisidota tucumana, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 280 (1909). 

 Halisidota distincta, pallida. Eotlis. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 58 (1910). 



6 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale yellow ; antenna) with the 

 branches reddish brown ; vertex of head with slight brown streak ; 

 tegulae with brown points ; patagia with oblique brown streaks at 

 base. Fore wing pale yellow ; a double curved irregularly waved 

 subbasal brown line from costa to submedian fold; a brown ante- 

 medial band from costa to median nervure and a double maculate 

 line from cell to inner margin ; an indistinct oblique double macu- 

 late medial line ; a double discoidal bar and slight double line 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin, with traces of a brown- 

 irrorated band beyond it from costa to inner margin ; postmedial 

 area with obliquedouble waved line; a subterminal double maculate 

 line with dark point on its inner edge at diseal fold, and connected 

 with a terminal series of brown points. Hind wing semihyaline 

 yellowish white. 



2 . Somewhat paler and with the fore wing rather broader. 



Sab. Mexico, 1 $; Braztl, Espiritu Santo, 1 £, Castro 

 Parana (L>. Jones), 1 d , 1 $ ; type t 6 pallida in Coll. Eothschild ; 

 Peru, Callao (J. J. Wall-er), 2 tf,4 $; Argentina (Leech), 

 1 8, 1 $, Tucuman (Monefli), type f <S tucumana in ('oil. 

 Rothschild, Buenos Ayres ( Wilkinson). 1 $ . Exp. 36—16 millim. 



Larva. Pale yellow with brushes of long ^yellow hair. 



Cocoon. Pale yellow with long pointed tuft of yellow hair on 

 dorsum, brownish at tip. 



