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form j'ellow irroratcd with rufous and defined by brown, the 

 former round, the latter with white spots on its annulus ; a medial 

 line oblique from costa to median nervure, where it is angled, 

 then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line waved, bent outwards 

 below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold and strongly below 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line waved, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 

 and escurved at middle. Hind wing pale uniformly suffused with 

 brown ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a discoidal 

 point and slight postmedial series. 



Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca, type f cJ in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 38 

 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennfc of male ciliated. 



A. Fore wing without white subterminal liae. 



a. Fore wing with the ground-colour j'ellow. 



o\ Fore wing with the medial line angled outwards to 



lower angle of cell alala, 



b'. Fore wing with the medial line not angled on median 



nervure azteca. 



b. Fore wing dark brown suffused with red. 



a^. Fore wing with the annulus of reniform yellow caufa. 



b^. Fore wing with the annulus of reniform white leiicopis. 



B. Fore wing with white subterminal line leucogramma. 



1489. Hydrceciodes alala. 



Xanthia alala, Druce, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 514 ; id. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Het. 

 ii. p. 485; pi. 94. f. 11. 



(S . Head and thorax golden yellow mixed with red-brown; 

 abdomen yellow dorsally tinged with pink, the dorsal crest dark at 

 tip. Fore wing golden yellow irrorated with red; a double sinuous 

 subbasal red line from costa to submedian fold, with an oblique 

 highly-waved line beyond it ; a waved antemedial line angled in- 

 wards on subcostal nervure and vein 1 ; claviform defined by red ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by red, the former round, the latter 

 with annulus formed of red-defined spots ; medial line oblique from 



Fig. 50. —Hydracioden alala, J . i- 



costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial lino 

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

 then oblique; subterminal line excurved below costa and at middle, 

 angled inwards at veins 5 and 2, the area beyond it suffused with 

 brown ; the veins with dark streaks towards termen ; a fine dark 

 terminal line. Hind wing pale yellow, the veins towards termen 

 and terminal area tinged with red ; the underside with curved 

 postmedial line. 



