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with purplish grey ; subbasal line grey, from costa to submcdian 

 fold ; antemedial line defined by grey on inner side, olilique from 

 costa to median nervure, then excurved ; claviform obsolete ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by grey, the former elliptical, the 

 latter constricted at middle ; an oblique dark line from lower angle 

 of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line defined by grey on outer 

 side, bent I outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white with some grey 

 suffusion on inner side, excurved below costa and at middle ; a fine 

 dark terminal line. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins and 

 marginal areas tinged with reddish brown ; cilia white with a brown 

 line through them ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with red-brown. 



Hah. U.S.xi., E. Florida {Douhleday), 1 J type, Texas, 1 J , 

 1 $ , types coiistipata and innexa; Mexico, Jalapa (TrujiUo), 2 5 ; 

 GuATEiiALA (Rodriguez), 1 c? Godman-Salvin Coll. Ea^y. 30 millim. 



1394. Poliadatis. 



Celcsna datis, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xiii. p. 359 (1894) ; id. Biol. Centr.- 



Am., Het. ii. p. 478, pi. 93. f. 13. 

 Hadena tepeca, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. See. xxi. p. 228 (1894); Druce, 



Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 487. 

 Mamestra seminar/a, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. See. xxi. p. 227 (1894) ; 



Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ara., Het. ii. p. 476. 

 Hadcna viqas, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. See. xxi. p. 229 (1894) ; Druce, 



Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 488. 

 Celcena qiiadrillneafa, Dnice, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 479 (nee Grote). 



S . Head and thorax oraiige-red mixed with black : tegulae with 

 medial black line ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous. 

 Fore Aving orange-red irrorated with black, the veins streaked with 

 blackish ; subbasal line double, black, waved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold where it emits a streak to base and a slight spur on 

 outer side ; antemedial line double, the inner line indistinct, oblique 

 from costa to su])mcdian fold and slightly angled inwards on vein 1; 

 claviform moderate, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform small, 

 indistinctly defined by black and with brownish centres, the former 

 round; an obscure medial shade angled outwards on median nervure; 

 postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa and oblique 

 below vein 4, defined hy whitish on outer side towards inner 

 margin ; subterminal line only defined by a blackish patch beyond 

 it on costa; a black streak in terminal part of submcdian fold ; cilia 

 fuscous, with a whitish line through them. Hind wing white, the 

 costa and termen tinged with fuscous ; the underside with the costal 

 area irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and postmedial series of 

 short streaks on the veins. 



5 . Thorax grey and brown; fore wing grey suffused with fuscous 

 brown, some orange-red at base and in discal and submedian folds. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (TrtijiUo), 4 c? , 1 $ type, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll., types t tepeca and seminaria in Coll. Schaus, Las Vigas, type f cJ 

 viijas in Coll. bchaus. Exp. 28 millim. 



