CHRYSOECIA. NICAKA. 183 



4538. Chrysoecia scira. 



Anthaecia scira, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 301, pi. 28. f. 5 (1889). 



2 • Head brown ; tegulge and patagia orange-fulvous ; thorax 

 whitish ; pectus and legs tinged with ochreous, the fore legs brown, 

 the tarsi brown with pale rings ; abdomen brown, the ventral 

 surface whitish tinged with ochreous. Fore wing olive-fulvous, 

 the medial area suffused with brown from costa to submedian fold, 

 the terminal area creamy white, the inner half of basal area, the 

 medial area towards costa and inner margin and beyond the cell 

 irrorated with silvery blue ; antemedial line silvery blue, oblique 



Fig. 66. — Chrysoecia scira, §. \. 



from costa to submedian fold, angled inwards on vein 1 and 

 excurved above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform olive-fulvous, 

 indistinctly defined, the former round with silvery blue spot in 

 centre, the latter with silvery blue line in centre ; postmedial line 

 represented by the curved waved edge of brown area from costa to 

 vein 2, with silvery blue point on costa and double oblique stria?, 

 from inner margin, defined by an olive-fulvous band on outer side. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish at tips ; the underside 

 whitish suffused and irrorated with brown. 



Hab. Mexico, Guerrero (H. II. SmitJi), 1 $ type, Godmau-Salvm 

 Coll. Exp. 34 millim. 



Genus NICARA. 



Type. 

 Nikara, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 126 (1882) castanea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, short, the 2nd joint broadly 

 scaled, the 3rd minute ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male 

 minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 

 crests ; tibiaa fringed with rather long hair on outer side ; abdomen without 

 crests. Fore wing rather short and broad, the apex rounded, the termen 

 obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



4539. Nicara castanea. 



Nikara castanea, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 126, pi. 4. f. 24 (1882) ; Hrnpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 233. 



S . Head and thorax dark brown irrorated with blue-grey; 

 tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen dark brown. Fore wing dark 



