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1433. Opharus astur. 



Noctm astur, Cram. l';i)). Kxot. ii. pi. 12(), B (1779) ; Drucc, Biol. Centr.- 



Am., Het. i. p. W) ; Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 207. 

 Ca rales albicans, Wlk. iii. I'M (1855). 



Carales macniicol/is, Wlk. iii. 730 (1855); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 207. 

 Halisidota 2>iisfu,!ata, Pack. Rep. Peabody Acad. i. p. 6;J(18(i9); Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 211. 



Head and thora.x white ; ])alpi with black patches on the joints and 

 some orange at extremity of 2nd, antennte brown, bhick points on 

 vertex of head, on tcgulte, and two on patagia, shouhlers with black 

 streaks, the patagia and thorax tinged with brown ; legs orange and 

 white with some I'uscous spots ; abdomen orange with dorsal, two 

 lateral, and sometimes a ventral series of black spots. Fore wing 

 white, with pairs of irregular dentate brown lines with brown suffu- 

 sion between them ; a subbasal pair from costa to submedian fold ; a 

 curved antemedial pair, conjoined in cell and submedian fold to 

 the medial pair, which are angled iiiwards to meet them ; a similar 

 band at end of cell from costa to median nervure, where it is joined 

 to the medial and postmedial pairs of lines ; a similar terminal band, 

 narrowing at vein 2 and ending at vein 1 ; short black streaks in 

 and below middle of cell and on the base of veins arising from its 

 angles. Hind wing semihvaline whitish ; a. terminal brown l)and 

 with irregular inner edges narrowing to a point at vein 1, and with 

 some obscure. whitish spots on it between veins 5 and 2. 



Hah. Mexico (SdJIe), 2 cS , Jalapa (Ifoe;/e), 3 c? , 1 ? , Coatepec 

 (Brools), 2 2 ) Vera Cruz, 2 c? , Jalisco {Schamann), 1 $ , Misantla 

 ( Trujillo), 2 J ; Guatemala (^liodriyaez. Champion)., 3 $ ; Costa 

 lliCA (Underwood), 1 5 ; Panama (Chanijnon), 3 5 ; Godraan-Salvin 

 Coll. ; Colombia {Dohni), 1 c? ; Venezuela, 1 d type alhicans : 

 Brazil, 1 2 type maculicoUis, Up. Amazons. Exp. 50-66 millim. 



1434. Opharus polystrigata, n. sp. (Plate XL. fig. 1.) 



9. Whitish; \):\\\n yellow, black at sides towards base: frons 

 and vertex of head with black patches edged with yellow; antenna; 

 yellow ; teguhe and patagia edged with yellow, the former with 

 black patch, the latter irrorated with black ; metathorax edged 

 with yellow and with a black spot ; pectus and legs orange tinged 

 with brown ; abdomen orange with dorsal, lateral, and ventral series 

 of black patches. Fore wing thinly scaled, thickly spotted and 

 Btriated with fuscous brown ; a very obscure subterminal diffused 

 wliitish line ; the termen pale brown with a series of minute striae 

 across the veins. Hind wing semihyaline whitish, the veins brown; 

 the terminal area suffused with brown. 



Hah. IJtiLivi A, Chaoo ((larh mi), 1 J type. Exp. 52 millim. 



(^enus HEMIHYALEA, n..v. 



Type, H. cornea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; ]>alpi obli((ucly upturned, Llie 2iul joint Cringed 

 with hair, the 3rd moderate, naked, porrect ; antonnie long, with moderate 

 branches in male, witlmhort hranches in female ; tibia; with the spurs moderate; 



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