500 XOCTUIDJS. 



4302. Namangana charada. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 14.) 

 Verigca charada, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 100 (190G). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; tarsi with 

 slight pale rings ; abdomen grey- brown, whitish at base. Fore 

 wing red-brown thickly irrorated with grey and fuscous, the veins 

 slightly streaked with grey ; subbasal line faint, double filled in 

 with grey, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double rilled in 

 with whitish, bent inwards at subcostal nervure, oblique to sub- 

 median fold, then inwardly oblique ; orbicular and rcnifortn with 

 greyish aunuli slightly defined by brown, the former small, ir- 

 regularly rounded, the latter narrow, constricted at middle and 

 slightly angled inwards on median nervure, connected with costa by 

 an oblique whitish bar; postmedial line brown defined by whitish 

 on outer side, exctuwed from just below costa to vein 4, then 

 oblique; some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line 

 indistinct, pale, slightly defined by brown on inner side, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; a fine waved brown terminal line with 

 dark points in the interspaces ; cilia with a fine white line at base. 

 Hind wing greyish suffused with brown ; a fine waved brown 

 terminal line ; cilia white tinged with brown except at base ; the 

 underside grey- white with some dark irroration, the costal half 

 tinged with rufous, a slight discoidal spot, curved postmedial line 

 from costa to vein 4, and terminal series of slight lunules. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus), 1 § . Exp. 33 millim. Type f rf 

 in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



Genus CARB0NA. 



Type. 



Carhona, Schaus, Pr, U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 102 (190G) obscura. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of head and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd moderate, 

 porrect ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna; of male ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed with scales and hair mixed, the pro- and metathorax with spreading 

 crests ; tibia moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some rough hair at 

 base but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind Ming with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; f> obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 0, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near ba.-e 

 only. 



4303. Carbona obscura. 



Carhona obscura, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 102 (1900). 



Head and teguke black-brown slightly mixed with grey, the 

 tegulse tipped with white; thorax greyish tinged with red-brown, 

 the metathoracic crest large, black, with metallic scales in it ; le<;s 

 fuscous brown, the tarsi slightly ringed witli whitish ; abdomen 

 dark greyish brown. Uore wing greyish suffused with red-brown, 

 the inner area from beyond antemedial line suffused with black- 



