GF.REA. 417 



shoulders with orange patches ; abdomen black-brown wilh some 

 metallic blue scales in the dorsal crests. Fore wing chocolate- 

 brown irrorated with blue-white and metallic silvery blue scales ; 

 a very indistinct rufous antemedial line, oblique to snbmedian fold, 

 then angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; 

 orbicular and reniform denned by rufous and with some metallic 

 blue scales in centres, the former round, the latter rather irregular, 



and with a faint yellowish patch beyond it; postmedial line indis- 

 tinct, minutely waved, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique, 

 closely approximated to the subterminal liue, which is irregularly 

 sinuous, dark, defined on outer side by bright rufous suffusion, then 

 by a slight pale band ; a faint pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 orange-yellow with broad dark brown terminal band with minutely 

 waved inner edge ; cilia greyish at tips. Underside of fore wing 

 with some orange at base and a wedge-shaped postmedial patch 

 from below costa to just below vein 2. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa ( Truj Mo, Iloege), 2 C? , 2 5 , Guerrero (H. H. 

 Smith), 1 J , 1 $, Patycuaro (Goclman), 1 $ type adrasta, Orizaba 

 (Flohr), 1 2 Grodman-Salvin Coll., hab. ign., 1 J type. Exp. 42- 

 48 millim. 



4887. Gerra sevorsa. 



Fenaria sevorsa, Grote, Papilio, ii. p. 132 (1S82) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. 



p. 195 ; Kirby, Oat. Lep. Het. p. 39. 

 Diamuna csdessa, Druce, J3iol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 334, pi. 30. ff. 21, 22 



(1889). 



Head and thorax chocolate-brown mixed with whitish scales ; 

 tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen black-brown, the dorsal 

 crests with some metallic scales, the anal tuft with some grey. 

 Fore wing chocolate-brown irrorated with bluish white and some 

 metallic silvery scales, a diffused whitish patch beyond the cell 

 from costa to vein 3; antemedial line indistinct, oblique, waved; 

 orbicular and reniform olive-brown with some metallic scales in 

 centres, the former defined by chocolate-red, round, the latter 

 defined by red on inner side only ; postmedial line very indistinct, 

 diffused, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 traces of a pale waved subterminal line with rufous marks before 

 and beyond it in the interspaces, somewhat incurved at discal 

 fold and below vein 3 ; cilia with a slight pale line at base. Hind 



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