Mil K\ I 111 IIS. 4-13 



4137. Micrathetis triplex. 



Laphygma triplex, Wlk. xi. 721 (1857). 



Laphygma spilomela, Wlk. xxxii. 648 (1865). 



1 1 -liquid contraria, Herr.-Schaff. Zool.-min. Corresp.-blatt. Regensb. xxii. 



p. 153(1868). 

 Caradrina conviva, Harv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 6 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. \. 



Am. p. 196. 

 Caradrina subaquila, Harv. Can. Ent. x. p. 57 (1878); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. I'M. 



Head and thorax white tinged with yellow and irrorated with a 

 few black scales ; palpi with t lie 2nd joint black at sides ; tibiae and 

 tarsi blackish above ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with fuscous. 

 Fore wing yellowish white tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated 

 with fuscous ; the basal area with three black points on median 

 nervure ; antemedial line represented by an indistinct double 

 curved series of black points ; orbicular represented by a minute 



Fig. 123.— Micrathetis triplex, J. |. 



black point ; reniform with black lunule in centre and pale annulus 

 slightly defined by black ; medial line diffused, black and oblique 

 from costa to reniform, very faint from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line represented by a double curved series of 

 black points ; subterminal line defined by dark suffusion on inner 

 side, minutely waved, arising from below apes, incurved at discal 

 fold and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; cilia fuscous. Hind wing semihyaline white ; a slight 

 dark terminal line from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the 

 costal area tinged with ochreous and irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing pale grey ; hind wing greyish, the terminal 

 area tinged with brown. 



Ab. 2. subaquila. Head, thorax, and fore wing much more strongly 

 suffused with rufous. 



Ab. 3. Head, thorax, and fore wing suffused with dark brown. 



Bab. U.8.A., Texas, 3 cS , 1 $ , types conviva and subaquila, Cali- 

 fornia (D' Urban), 1 <$ ; Mexico, Guerrero (If. H. Smith). 1 $ , Presidio 

 (Forrer), 1 J , 2 § , Yucatan (Gaumer), 1 5 ; Honduras ( Dyson, Robert- 

 son), 1 J , 1 2 type ; Guatemala, Champerico (Champion),! 3, Vera 

 Paz (Champion), 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Panama, La Chorrera 

 (Dolby -Tyler), 1 c? ; Bahamas, Nassau (Bonhole), 1 $ , Abaeo 

 (Bonhote), 1 $ ; Jamaica (Kaye), 1 d , Runaway Bay ( Walsingham), 



