ANTAPLAGA. 385 



. Fore wing with the terminal half not suffused with 



brown. 

 a 1 . Fore wing witli ante- and postmedial black lines. 

 a 2 . Fore wing with subtertninal series of small black 

 spots. 

 a 3 . Fore wing pale yellow, the medial area white. ... hachita. 



b 3 . Fore wing wholly white scxseriata. 



h". Fore wing without subterminal series of small black 



spots biundulalis. 



b l . Fore wing without ante- and postmedial black lines. 



a'- 1 . Hind wing white tinged with ochreous thoracica. 



h 2 . Hind wing suffused with fuscous. 

 a 3 . Fore wing tinged with yellow. 



a 4 . Head aRd thorax entirely orange-yellow ; fure 



wing suffused with olive-brown subfumosa. 



b 4 . Head and thorax with white mixed ; fore wing 



not suffused with olive-brown dulcita. 



3 . Fore wing pure white pyroncea. 



*4840. Antaplaga pyralina. (Plate CXLV. fig. 18.) 



Tarache pyraUna, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 159 (1904). 



c£ . Head and thorax white largely mixed with dark olive-brown ; 

 palpi white at base, brown at tips ; tarsi brown ringed with white ; 

 abdomen brown with slight whitish segmental rings, the anal tuft 

 ochreous at extremity. Fore wing silvery greenish white irrorated 

 with black-brown ; the costal edge brown towards base ; ante- 

 medial line black-brown defined by white on inner side, dentate ; 

 orbicular a small round silvery-white spot defined by black; reniform 

 a white bar with black line in centre ; medial line black-brown, 

 oblique from costa to reniform, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial 

 line black-brown defined by silvery white on outer side, minutely 

 dentate, oblique towards costa, angled inwards in discal fold and 

 oblique below vein 5, followed by a white point on costa and oblique 

 white bar towards apex; obliquely placed subterminal white spots 

 below veins 7 and 6, a spot below veiu 4, and curved band from 

 vein 3 to tornus; a black terminal line with series of small white 

 lunules before it ; cilia chequered brown and white. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with brown ; a curved white postmedial band, 

 expanding to inner margin ; a subterminal series of white spots 

 from vein 4 to tornus ; a fine dark terminal line with series of 

 slight whitish points before it ; cilia white intersected with brown ; 

 the underside white, the veins brownish especially towards termen, 

 a small blackish discoidal lnnule, diffused sinuous postmedial line, 

 diffused waved subterminal band, black terminal line, and blackish 

 spot just below apex. 



Hah. Mexico, Guadalajara (ScJiaus), typet cS iii U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 Exp. 3G millim. 



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