164 



XOCTUIDJE. 



rt'd-brown. lliml wing pale golden yellow ; the underside yellowish 

 •white, the cotstal and terminal areas broadly irrorated with rod- 

 brown. 



Jlah. Mexico, Cueriuivaca ( //. //. Smith), 1 J type, Diirango 

 {Becker), 1 $, Godiuau-Salvin Coll. Exp. 6 34, $ 30 millim. 



€. Palpi of innle normal. 



a. (Lfitcocosma). Vertex of head of iimle witli a cleft corneous ridge clorlied 

 wllli scales; abdomen clothed with woolly pile; fore and hind wings 

 with the basul half clothed v=ith woolly hair above. 



4512. Elydna reclusa. 



Prodenia reclusa, Wlk. Joiirn. Linn. Soc. vi. p. 185 (1802) ; Ilmpsn. Moi lis 



Ind. ii. p. 2(J4. 

 Amphipi/ra agroioides, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. 1880, p. 77, pi. fi. f, 0. 

 liadinacra thoracica, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. '31, i)l. 148. f. 4 (1884). 

 Leurocofmia crres. Burl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 188'>, p. o'.t4, pi. 9. f. 10. 

 Caradrina cutkusa, Hrapsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 71*. pi. 145. f. 1 (1891). 

 Caradrina heliarcha, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 370. 

 Caradrina nnipu7ic(ata, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. -01 (190r>). 

 Caradrina insignifica, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 201 (19UG). 



(S . Head and thorax brownish ochreous irrorated with some 

 black scales ; palpi black at sides, whitish in front and at tips ; 

 antennae with black spot on basal joint behind, the sliaft blacki.sh ; 

 teguke black-brown, ochreous white at base and sides ; abdomen 



Fig. 55. — Elydna reclusa, ^. \. 



black-brown, the extremity and anal tuft whitish ; jjectus, legs, 

 and ventral surface of abdomen Avliitish. Fore wing ochreous 

 tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated with fuscous excejjt 

 on basal area which is thickly clothed with olive-yellow scales ; 

 subbasal line blackisli, minutely waved, from costa to subraedian 

 fold: antemedial line indistinct, double, slightly bent inwards 

 to costa and obsolete towards inner margin ; traces of a minute 

 round orbicular with two black points on its outer edge ; reniform 

 absent; an indistinct diffused slightly curved medial line ; a dark 

 point on costa above end of cell ; postmedial lino indistinctly double 

 filled in with whitish, slightly excurved from costa to vein 4, tlien 

 oblicjue ; subterrainal line absent ; a terminal series of slight black 

 points ; cilia with a pale line at base. Hind wing whitish tinged 

 with brown, the basal area with yellowish, the veins browner ; 

 some brown on middle of inner margin ; cilia yellowish whit<} with 

 a slight brown line through them ; the underside whiter, the costal 

 area irrorated with brown, a small bro\\n discoidal spot, post- 



