CHRYSOKCIA. NICARA. 



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4538. Chrysoecia scira. 



Antho'cia scira, Driice, Biol. Ceatr.-Am., Het. i. p. 301, pi. 28. f. 5 (1889). 



5 . Head brown ; tegnloe and patagia orange-fulvous ; thorax 

 "whitish ; pectus and legs tinged with ochreous, the fore legs brown, 

 the tarsi brown with pale rings ; abdomen brown, the ventr.il 

 surface whitish tinged with cchreous. Fore wing olive-fulvous, 

 the medial area suffused with brown from costa to submedian fold, 

 the terminal area creamy white, the inner half of basal area, the 

 medial area towards costa and inner margin and beyond the cell 

 irrorated with silvery blue ; antemedial line silvery blue, oblique 



Fig. 6G. — Chrysoecia scira, §. }-. 



from costa to submedian fold, angled inwards on veiu 1 and 

 excurved above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform olive-fulvous, 

 indistinctly defined, the former round with silvery blue spot in 

 centre, the latter with silvery blue line in centre ; postmedial line 

 represented by the curved waved edge of brown area from costa to 

 vein 2, with silvery blue point on costa and double oblique stria? 

 from inner margin, defined by an olive-fulvous band on outer side. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish at tips ; the underside 

 whitish suffused and irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Mexico, Guerrero {H. H. 'Smith), 1 5 type, Godmau-Salvin 

 Coll. Exp. 34 millim! 



Genus NICAEA. 



Type. 



Xikara, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 120 (1882) cashmea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, short, the 2nd joint broadly 

 scaled, the 3rd minute; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded; antenna of male 

 minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 

 crests ; tibia fringed with rather long hair on outer side ; abdomen without 

 crests. Fore wing rather short and broad, the apex rounded, the ternien 

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

 fi from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form theareole; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 fi"om upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near buso only. 



4530. Nicara castanea. 



Nikara castanea, Moore, Lej). Atk. p. 12(), pi. 4. f. 24 (1882) ; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Tnd. ii. p. 233. 



S. Head and thorax dark brown irrorated with blue-grey; 

 tarsi with pale rings; abdomen dark brown. Fore wing dark 



