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NOCIUIDJE. 



3854. Catabena vitrina. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 15.) 



Laphygma vitrina, Wlk. xi. 718 (1857). 



Callierqes divisa, Herr.-Scha.ff. Zool.-min. Corresp.-blatt. Regensb. 18(>8, 



p. 147. 

 Adipsophanes termincllus, Grote, Can. Eut. xv. p. 132 (1883); Smith, Cat. 



Noct. K Am. p. 194. 

 Homohadena Candida, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 478 (1900); Dyar, 



Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 124. 



J 1 . Head and thorax Avhite faintly tinged with rufous ; frons 

 with strong black bar above; teguloe with two faint brown lines 

 and slight black-brown dorsal streak; upper edge of patagia and 

 inetathorax with some black scales ; mid tibiae with black streak 

 at base, the tarsi ringed with black ; abdomen white slightly 

 tinged with brown on dorsum, the anal tuft with ochreous. Pore 

 wing white faintly mottled with yellow-brown and with slight 

 dark irroration, the median nervure and extremity of subcostal 

 nervurc streaked with black, the terminal area suffused with 

 brown ; subbasal line represented by a very oblique black striga 

 from costa, the antemedial line by an oblique striga from costa and 

 two points on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform absent; traces of a 

 diffused waved oblique line from lower anjile of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line slight, blackish and bent outwards below 

 costa, then represented by two black streaks beyond the cell and 

 below vein 4 by an incurved series of black points ; traces of a 

 white subterminal line excurved at middle and bent outwards to 

 tornus ; the terminal area with series of black streaks in tho 

 interspaces, above and below vein 5 extending to well before 

 subterminal line : cilia fuscous intersected with white at base, 

 brown at tips. Hind wing hyaline white; the termen suffused 

 with fuscous at apex, the extremities of veins streaked with fuscous 

 and a narrow terminal line from apex to vein 2 • cilia white, 

 fuscous at apex. 



5 . Fore wing with strong black streak along median nervure 

 and vein 4 from base to subterminal line. 



Ah. 1. Fore wing more uniform bluish grey-white without brown 

 suffusion on terminal area, the male with hardly a trace of black 

 streak on median nervure, the female with slight black streak. — ■ 

 Bahamas, Cuba. 



Hob. U.S.A., Texas, Kerrville, 2 rf , 3 $, San Antonio, 2 2, 

 Arizona, Huachuca Mts., 1 5; Bahamas, Abaco (Bonhote), 1 <j> ; 

 Cuba, Santiago (Schaus), 2d 1 , 2 £ ; Haiti (Tweedie), 3 J type; 

 Grenada (II. II. Smith), 1 J . Exp. 24-20 millim. 



3855. Catabena terens. (Plate CXXVIII. flg. 16.) 



Laphygma terens, Wlk. xi. 720 (1857). 



Fore wing grey-white mixed with brown ; palpi with brown 

 marks at sides of 2nd and 3rd joints ; frons with black bar above; 

 tegulae with black line near base and white line near tips ; fore 



