PACHIDOTA. 



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A. Fore wing grey-purple. 



a. Abdomen orange at base. 



a)-. Abdomen witlnJiit blaek dorsal bands iodea. 



h^. Abdomen with black dorsal bands saduca. 



h. Abdomen black at base alhiceps, 



B. Fore wing orange. 



a. Abdomen with dorsal black patch striata. 



b. Abdomen without dorsal black patch nervosa. 



1351. Pachydota iodea. 



Phegopf era iodea, Jlerr.-SAmlY. Aussercur. Schmett. f. 432 (1855) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 207. 

 Psetidapistosia saduca, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 381 (part.) 



Head and thorax black ; vertex of bead wbite ; coxa) orange ; 

 abdomen orange, with dorsal series of black patches from 2iid 

 segment diminishing to extremity, a lateral series of spot.s, the 



Fig. 69. — Pachydota iodea, (^. \. 



ventral surface black. Fore wing grey-purple ; oblique olive-brown 

 subbasal and antcraedial bands : an oblique postmedial band ex- 

 panding into a large discoidal patch and conjoined beyond end of 

 cell to a band from vein 5 to inner margin ; a wedge-shaped band 

 from costa before apex to below vein 4 ; an apical patch with a 

 sinuous line from it to vein 3 ; a curved mark above tornus. Hind 

 wing brown, the area in, below, and just beyond the cell semi- 

 hyaline, the inner area orange. 



Hah. ^Iexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 $, Godmau-Salvin Coll.; 

 Jam.mc.4. (Martin), 1 d" , 1 $ • B.vp. G2 millim. 



1352. Pachydota saduca. 



Psctidapistosia saduca, Druce, A. M. N. II. ((i) xv. j). 4G (1895), 2 ', id- Biol, 

 Cenlr.-Am , Het. ii. p. 381, pi. 76. f. 2. 



9 . H<;ad and thorax black ; vertex of head white ; coxa) orange ; 

 abdomen orange with black bands, the hair on dorsum from 2nd to 

 4th segment black, the ventral surface black. Fore wing greyish 

 purple ; subbasal and antemedial oblique olive-brown bands ; two 

 postmedial bands conjoined at lower end of cell, where the 2nd is 

 angled outwards ; a sinuous band from costa before apex to tornus, 

 excurved at middle and expanding at costa and tornus ; a terminal 



