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wing white, the veins of terminal area streaked with brown; a 

 fine brown terminal line somewhat diffused at apex ; cilia brown 

 at apex, then Avhite with a slight brown line near base to vein 2 ; 

 the underside with the costa except towards base and upical part 

 of termen irroratcd with brown. 



Hob. Mexico, Tabasco (//. //. Smith), 1 J ty pe, Jalapa ( Trujillo), 

 2 J, Godrnan-Salvin Coll.; Gkenada (H. H. Smith), 2 2. Exp. 

 34 niillim. 



3853. Catabena lineolata. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 14.) 



Catabena lineolata, Wlk. xxxii. 631 (1865); Smith, Cat. JN'oct. N. Am. 



p. 1«J4. 

 Turbula petrisa, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 26 (IS :'.h. 

 Adipsophanes miscellus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 181 (1873). 



6 . Head and thorax white mixed with pale brown ; irons 

 black-brown ; tegulae with black-brown band at base expanding 

 into a triangular patch at middle, a slight medial line and stronger 

 line near tips; abdomen white faintly tinged with brown. Fore 

 wing white, the veins and discal fold streaked with black, the 

 lower part of cell and the interspaces beyond the cell with diffused 

 reddish-brown streaks; a very oblique black striga from base of 

 costa, a black streak in submedian fold to below middle of cell and 

 an oblique streak above inner margin near base ; antemedial line 

 represented by a very oblique black streak from costa to subcostal 

 nervure ; orbicular very narrow and elongate, white defined by 

 black; reniform absent; traces of a waved rufous medial line; 

 postmedial line strongly bent outwards below costa and slightly 

 defined by white on outer side, then obsolescent with black points 

 on the veins, very oblique below vein 4 and bent outwards at 

 vein 1 ; subterminal line hardly traceable, white, dentate ; a 

 terminal series of slight dark lunules ; cilia white mixed with 

 brown. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins of terminal area 

 streaked with brown ; a slight brown terminal line ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with brown, a postmedial series of 

 minute brown streaks on the veins. 



JIab. Canada ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York (Richard), 

 1 S , 1 2 , Evans Center, 1^,22 type miscellus, Congs Springs, 

 1 (S , Pennsylvania, Oregon, Josephine Co., Rouge 11. ( Walsingham), 

 1 6 , 2 2 , California, Sonora Co., Petaluna ( Walsingham), 1 $ , 

 3 $ , Sta. Barbara (tV Urban), 1 <S , 2 $ ; hab. ign., 2 J type and 

 tyipepetrcea. Exp. 28-34 millim. 



Larva. Head small, mottled with brown, leaving three green 

 lines on each lobe. Body cylindrical, slender, the feet of joints 7 

 and 8 small ; green, mottled with brown ; dorsal, subdorsal and 

 substigmatal lines, rather broad, whitish, obscure. Food-plant : 

 Solidago. — H. Gr. 1). 



