164 NOCTUIDJG. 



red-brown. Hind wing pale golden yellow ; the underside yellowish 

 white, the costal and terminal areas broadly irrorated with red- 

 brown. 



Hub. Mexico, Cuernavaca (H. H. Smith), 1 6 type, Durango 

 (Becker), 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. <S 34, $ 36 millira. 



C. Palpi of male normal. 



a. {Leucocosmia). Vertex of bead of male with a cleft corneous ridge clothed 

 with scales; abdomen clothed with woolly pile; fore and hind wings 

 with the basal half clothed with woolly hair above. 



4512. Elydna reclusa. 



Progenia reclusa, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. p. 185 (1862) ; Hmpsn. Moths 



Ind. ii. p. 2(54. 

 Ampkipyra agrotoides, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. 1880, p. 77, pi. 6. f, b. 

 Badinacra thoracica, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 31, pi. 148. f. 4 (1884). 

 Leucocosmia ceres, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1880, p. 394, pi. 9. t". 10. 

 Caradrina cuthusa, Hmpsn. 111. Hefc. B. M. viii. p. 79. pi. 14o. f. 1 (1891). 

 Caradrina hrtiarcha, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 370. 

 Caradrina unipunctata, Betb.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 201 (1900). 

 Caradrina insignifica, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 201 (1906). 



<S . Head and thorax brownish ochreous irrorated with some 

 black scales ; palpi black at sides, whitish in front and at tips ; 

 antennas with black spot on basal joint behind, the shaft blackish ; 

 tegulse black-brown, ochreous white at base and sides; abdomen 



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Eig. 55.— Elydna reclusa, tf. \. 



black-brown, the extremity and anal tuft whitish ; pectus, legs, 

 and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Pore wing ochreous 

 tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated with fuscous except 

 on basal area which is thickly clothed with olive-yellow scales ; 

 subbasal line blackish, minutely waved, from costa to submedian 

 fold : antemedial line indistinct, double, slightly bent inwards 

 to costa and obsolete towards inner margin ; traces of a minute 

 round orbicular with two black points on its outer edge ; reniform 

 absent • an indistinct diffused slightly curved medial line ; a dark 

 point on costa above end of cell ; postmedial line indistinctly double 

 filled in with whitish, slightly excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; subterminal line absent ; a terminal series of slight black 

 points ; cilia with a pale line at base. Hind wing whitish tinged 

 with brown, the basal area with yellowish, the veins browner ; 

 some brown on middle of inner margin ; cilia yellowish white with 

 a slight brown line through them ; the underside whiter, the costal 

 area irrorated with brown, a small brown discoidal spot, post- 



