XANTUOPASTIS. 



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moderately hairy ; abdomen without crests, with lateral fringes of hair. Fore 

 wing broad, the apex rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; G from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 auastomosiing with 8 to form tlie areole; 11 from cell. 

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

 discocellulars ; 0, 7 shortly strilked ; 8 anastomosing with tlie cell near base. 

 In an abnormal specimen veins 7, 8 and 8, 9 of the fore wing are stalked. 



1S05. Xanthopastis timais. 



Tlwlmna timais, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 148, pi. 275. B (1782); Hiibn. 



Ziitr. iii. p. 39, ff. .'389, 590; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 180. 

 Thaloena amaryliidis, Sepp, Ins. Surinam, i. p. 63, pi. 28 (1848). 

 Philochrysa regnairix, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 339, pi. 8. f. 4 



(1863). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black or dull brown, some of the 

 hairs of head and thorax tipped with white. Fore wing pink, 



Fig. 131. — Xanthopastis timais, J. \. 



the costal edge black ; more or less developed black patches at base 

 of costa and inner margin, with some yelloAv beyond them below 

 costa and a streak below cell ; an interrupted waved antemedial 

 black line, angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1, often with 

 a yellow spot before it below costa ; medial area with the cell 

 filled in with black, sometimes extending to costa and submedian 

 fold and to base on costal area and in cell ; orbicular and renifonu 

 with black centres and orange annuli, the former rather elongate 

 elliptical, the latter large and rather irregular ; a double postmedial 

 series of small black spots, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; a terminal series of alternating black and 

 yellow patches, with a series of black spots on their innor side 

 diminishing towards costa ; a terminal series of deep black striae ; 

 cilia black. Hind wiug fuscous black, sometimes with a series 

 of pale points at base of cilia ; the underside with the cell and 

 area below it slightly paler, traces of a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida (Thaxter), 1 c? , 1 5 ; Mexico, Durango 

 (Becker), 2 J, Jalapa {Tnijillo), 1 cJ , 1 5 , Guerrero (//. Smith), 

 1 (S ; Guatemala (Eodriguez), 2 ,5 ; Costa Rica (Zurcher), 1 c? , 

 San Francisco, {Itogers) 1 5? (Van Patten) 1 J; Panama, Jiugaba 

 {Champion), 1 c^ , 1 2 , Godmau-Salvin Coll., La Chorrera {Dolhj- 

 Tijlor), 2 S ; Jamaica (Gosse, Kaye), 2 c? , 4 5 ; Haiii (Tweedie), 

 ]. d" , 2 $ ; St. Lucia {Maj. Cowi'e), 1^,3$; St. Vincent (H. H. 

 Smith), 1 2 ; Bakbados {Frampton), 1^,1$; Trinidad {Broad- 

 way), 1 2 ; Br. Guiana, Demerara (Genman), 1 2 ; Brazil (Z)o7i?'?i)» 



