248 KOCTTJIDJE. 



slight brown suffusion at middle ; subbasal line represented by 

 double dark striae from costa ; an indistiuet oblique pale line from 

 subcostal nervure at antemedial line to vein 1 ; antemedial line* 

 indistinctly double filled in with whitish, minutely waved, oblique 

 below submediau fold ; claviform hardly traceable ; orbicular 

 represented by a quadrate whitish patch with oblique pale rufous 

 bar on it at middle and fine oblique line near outer edge ; reniform 

 defined by a whitish and blackish bar on inner edge, otherwise 

 faintly defined by rufous, its upper extremity strongly produced to 

 a point, filled in with pale yeliow ; an indistinct oblique waved 

 brown line from vein 5 beyond the cell to inner margin; post- 

 medial line double filled in with whitish, strongly bent out- 

 wards and obsolescent below costa, then oblique, minutely waved 

 and incurved at discal fold, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, white, from veins 7 to 2, slightly 

 excurved at middle ; a brown point on costa just before apex ; a 

 terminal series of small triangular brown spots and fine waved black 

 terminal line; cilia red-brown intersected with pale yellow and 

 with fine yellowish line at base. Hind wing semihyaline white; 

 a terminal brown line from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the 

 costa slightly irrorated with black except at base, a terminal series 

 of black points from apex to vein 2. 



2 . Fore wing with the medial area brown, tinged with ochreous 

 at inner margin only, the median nervure and veins arising from it 

 streaked with white, the orbicular and reniform much more dis- 

 tinctly defined, the postmedial area rather darker and the terminal 

 area rufous except at apex and tornus. 



Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Tmtjillo), 5 J. 2 $, Cordova (Rumeli), 

 1 $ , Presidio (Forrer), 1 J , 1 £, Mexico City (ffoege), 1 S , 

 Coatepec (Brooks), 1 c? , Durango (Becker), 1 J , 1 $: Guatemala 

 (Rodriguez), 1 $ , Vera Paz (Champion), 2 3 : Costa Rica, Cande- 

 laria Mts. (Underwood), 1 J . Irazu (Ror/ers), 1 2 ; Panama, Pugaba 

 (Champion), 1 $, Godraan-Salvin Coll.; Jamaica (Kaye), 1 6 ; 

 Cuba, Santiago (Schaus), 1 3, Matanzas (Schaus), 1 $; Haiti 

 (Tweedie), 3 $ type variolosa ; St. Lucia (Cowie), 1 $ ; Br. Guiana, 

 ])emerara (Jenman), 1 J; Brazil, Amazons, Para, 1 3; Paraguay, 

 Sapucay (Foster), 4 J , 2 2 5 Argentina (Thomas), 1 6 , Goya 

 (Perrins), 3 d , 1 $ , Biojo (Giacomelh), 1 3 . Exp. 40-50 millim. 



3864. Prodenia ornithogalli. (Plate CXXVIIT. fig. 39.) 



Prodenia ornithogalli, Guen. Noct. i. p. 163 (1852). $: Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. IB!). 

 Prodenia eudiopta, Gruen. Noct. i. p. 164 (1852), 3; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 



Am. p. 170. 

 Prodenia flavimedia, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 274 (1874). 

 Prodenia lineatclla, Harv. Bull, Buff Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 275 (1874). 

 Prodenia commelinee, Riley, 3rd Bept. Ins. Mo. p. 113, f. 48 h (1871); 



Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 268 (part.), nee Smith & Abbot. 



J . Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with rufous ; palpi 

 with brown patch at side cf 2nd joint, the 3rd joint black at base ; 



