HALISIDOTA. 167 



antemcdial lines ; throe irregular oblique postmedial lines, and a 

 more prominent lunulate subterminal line ; a slightly darker fascia 

 in discal fold. Hind wing very pale yellow. 



llnb. Brazil, Jx'opuldiMa, iiio Janeiro, 1 $ , Castro Parana, 1 S > 

 1 2 , Sta. Catherina ; Eolivia, Chaco. Exp., d 40, $ 44 millim. 



*lol4. Halisidota ochracea. 



Hnlmdofa ochracea, Moschl. Verb, zool.-bot. Oes. Wien, xxiii. p. 337, 

 pi. 18. f. 28 (1883) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 208. 



$ . Head and thorax orange ; abdomen rather paler. Fore wing 

 orange ; the medial area with lour indistinct minutely waved lines ; 

 three fine postmedial lines excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; traces of a subterminal series of dentate marks. Hind 

 wing pale yellow. 



Hah. Surinam, type f $ in Coll. Staudinger. Exp. 40 millira. 



1515. Halisidota acuta, n. sp. (Plate XLI. fig. 21.) 



(S . Ochreous ; frons with blackish spots ; branches of antenna; 

 brown ; tarsi tinged with fuscous above ; abdomen dorsally suffused 

 with fuscous brown except at base. Fore wing irrorated with 

 fuscous ; a black point at lower angle of cell ; very obscure post- 

 medial and subterminal series of dentate spots with dark points on 

 them ; the apex somewhat produced and acute and the termen 

 oblique. Hind wing semihyalino ochreous white, the inner area 

 clothed with pale reddish hair ; an obscure diffused fuscous strongly 

 crenulate line with a more distinct lunulo below vein 2. 

 Hah. Brazil, Sta. Catherina, 1 cJ type. Exp. 52 miUim. 



1516. Halisidota annulosa. (Plate XLI. fig. G.) 



Halisidota annulosa, Wlk. iii. 738 (ISrifj) ; Xirby, Cat. Het. p. 208. 

 Halisidota nireigutta, Wlk. vii. 1709 (1856); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ain., 

 Het. ii. p. 373 (part.) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 210. 



Yellow ; head and thorax slightly marked with brown ; abdomen 

 whitish below. Fore wing with fine irregularly brown lines, disposed 

 somewhat in pairs meeting on the veins and forming series of annu- 

 late, lunulate and irregular marks, the anfemedial line defined on 

 outer side by a brownish mark from costa to median nervure ; an 

 almost straight oblique medial line with a silvery white point beyond 

 it at lower angle of cell ; a subterminal dark point above vein 5. 

 Hind wing yellowish white ; veins 4, 5 from cell or shortly stalked, 

 or in one specimen strongly stalked and on right side crossing each 

 other before reaching termen ; 8 absent or as a short spur. 



Hah. ^[i;xico. Tabasco, Dos Arroyos {If. IT. Smith), 1 c? , Tres 

 Marias Is. {Fonrr), 1 2 , Jalapa (//oc;/^), 1 J , (Jodman-Salnn Coll. ; 

 Vknf.zuela, 1 cJ type; Amazons, Pani, 1 $ . Exp., c^ 32, $ 30-10 

 millim. 'i'ype niveirjulta in Mus. Oxon. 



