TEICHESTEA. 9 



metatborax with spreading crests ; tibia; fringed witb hair ; abdomen with 

 dorsal crests. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 disc-ocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with black spot in discal fold beyond subterminal 



line nigropuncia. 



B. Fore wing without black spot beyond subterminal line. 



a. Fore wing with the antemedial line excurved from cell to 



inner margin arbiiticolens. 



b. Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique, waved 



throu ghout anthophila. 



1129. Trichestra nigropuncta. 



Celcena nigrojntncta, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 479, pi. 93 f. 25 

 (1898). 



S. Head and thorax pale purplish red-brown irrorated with 

 black ; sides of palpi and frons black ; antennae blackish ; patagia 

 olive-green on onter edge ; legs banded with black ; (abdomen 

 wanting). Fore wing rufous ; the basal area olive-green, the base 

 itself suffused with black ; subbasal line ill-defined, double, black 

 filled in with white, waved from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, double, waved ; claviform and orbicular 

 absent ; reniform a rather irregular white bar defined by black ; a 

 black medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then 

 sinuous ; postmedial lino double, the two parts widely separated, 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; subterminal line white, angled outwards at vein 7, then 

 incurved, and with a very prominent black lunule on its outer edge, 

 then excurved, approximated to termen, somewhat dentate aud 

 defining the slight black terminal lunules ; cilia oiive-greeu, mostly 

 black at tips, Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia ochreous with 

 a dark line through them ; the underside pale red-brown irrorated 

 with dark brown, a slight discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 c? type, Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 E.vj). 26 millim. 



1130. Trichestra arbuticolens. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 23.) 



Celana arbuticolens, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 121. 



$ . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with black ; tarsi with 

 pale rings ; abdomen grey with fuscous irroration. Fore wing red- 

 brown with some dark irroration ; the cell suffused with purple- 

 brown ; the veins with dark streaks and some white irroration ; 

 subbasal line represented by double black striae from costa and 

 median nervure with an oblique ochreous striga across the cell just 

 beyond it ; antemedial line double, bent inwards in cell, then 



