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grey with an ochreous tinge, the veins pale. Hind wing and under- 

 side grey tinged with fuscous brown. 



Hub. Mexico, Guerrero, Hidalgo {M.ann Sf Skewes). Exp. 

 38 milliin. This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing 

 from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



*2004 a. Calidota rubrosignata. 



Halesidota rubrosignata, Weym. Iris, xx. p. 28, pi. 2. f. 4 (1907). 



Head and thorax black-brown ; the legs glossed with blue ; 

 abdomen crimson with some black-brown hair at base and blue- 

 blaek dorsal stripe, a lateral series of small spots and the ventral 

 surface blue-black. Fore wing black-brown with metallic blue- 

 green gloss on costal and inner areas; a rather elongate crimson 

 subbasal spot and postmedial wedge-shaped streak just below costa. 

 Hind wing black-brown with a slight blue-green gloss. 



Hal. Venezuela, Merida (Briceno), in Coll. Kothschild. JExp. 

 GS millim. 



2005 a. Calidota clarcana. (Mate LXIV. fig. 31.) 



Calidota clarcana, Dyar, Pi\ U.S. Nat. Mus. li. p, 7 (1917). 



c? . Head and thorax white suffused with brown ; antennae 

 blackish, the basal joint crimson and white with black point on it ; 

 frons and palpi black, the latter crimson and white in front at base; 

 back of head, tegulae, and shoulders with black spots, short black 

 streaks on upper edge of patagia, the metathorax with black spot 

 edged with crimson behind ; pectus white tinged with brown ; 

 coxae crimson with black patches on the fore coxae, the legs black- 

 brown, the tibiae and tarsi ringed with white; abdomen crimson, 

 pale brown at base, and with dorsal and lateral series of black spots 

 except at base, the ventral surface pure white. Fore, wing creamy 

 white thickly irroratedand striated with brown ; two crimson points 

 at base ; some black-brown near base on costa and below the cell ; 

 an oblique antemedial semihyaline white bar from costa to median 

 nervure, narrow across the cell and with crimson streak at costa 

 and a broad black-brown bar on its outer edge, and obliquely-placed 

 semihyaline white spots below the cell and above vein 1 ; a semi- 

 hyaline white mark in upper end of cell with some black-brown 

 before and beyond it, and oblique striga in lower end of cell with 

 bkck-brown spot beyond it ; an irregularly quadrate white post- 

 medial mark on costa with crimson streak at costa followed by a 

 series of irregular partly-conjoined semihyaline white spots excurved 

 below costa, then oblique and defined on outer side by diffused 

 black-brown, rather broadly from costa to vein 3 ; an oblique sub- 

 terminal series of small irregular semihyaline white spots defined on 

 outer side by small black-brown spots in the interspaces ; the 

 termen with series of small brown spots with white centres. Hind 

 wing semihyaline white ; a pale brownish discoidal patch with faint 

 oblique band from it to inner margin ; the terminal area broadly 



