10 ARCTIADiE. 



Genus ROBINSONIA. 



Type. 



Robinsonia, Grote, Pi-oc. Ent. Soc. Pbilad. v. p. 241 (1865) formula. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi short, obliquely upturned ; antennae of male 

 serrate and fivsciciilate ; tibi« with the spurs short ; abdomen dorsally clothed 

 with rough hair towards base. Fore wiug with vein 3 from before angle of 

 cell; 4, 5 from angle; (i from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 7 being given 

 off before 10 ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 stalked, 4 absent ; 

 (i, 7 shortly stalked.; 8 from middle of cell. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with the apex })roduced, the termen oblique, especially 

 in cJ. 



A. Fore wing white, with brown costal fascia and basal 



mark only sabata. 



B. Fore wing brown, with triangular white jaatch extending 



to apes grotei. 



C. Fore wing brown, with two white spots below apex. 



a. Fore wing with triangular white spot beyond the 



cell. 

 a}. Fore wing without subterminal white streaks or 



spots deiopea. 



h^. Fore wing with subterminal white streaks or 

 spots. 

 «-. Fore wing with elliptical white patch below the 



cell polyplagia. 



b'-. Fore wing with triangular white patch in and 



below the cell sanea. 



b. Fore ^ving with elliptical white spot beyond the cell, fiavomarginuta. 



c. Fore wing with three white spots beyond the cell 



between veins 2 and 6 lefaivrei. 



*1195. Robinsonia sabata. 



Robmsonia sabata, Druce, A. M. K H. ((>) xvi. p. 36 (1895); id. Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 390, pi. 77. f. 5. 



5 . Head and thorax yellow-brown; palpi and antennae blackish; 

 trons and vertex of head with white patches, the latter yellow 

 behind ; tegulae and patagia with white patches ; fore legs brown, 

 mid and hind legs white ; abdomen orange with dorsal series of 

 white points, the ventral surface white. Fore wing pure white 

 with yellow-brown costal fascia, tapering to a point at apex and at 

 base expanding into a triangular spot with a white point on it. 

 Hind wing pure white. 



Hah. Bk. Honduras, Belize {Sir A. Moloney), type $ in CoU. 

 Druce. Exp. 52 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



1196. Robinsonia grotei. 



Eob'msonia grotei, Schaus, Can. Ent. xxvii. p. 61(1895); Druce, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 390, pi. 77. f. 2. 



Head and thorax pale brown ; tips of palpi and frons white ; 

 vertex of head orange ; tegula), patagia, and metathorax with large 

 white patches; pectus white, orauge in front; legs white and 



