ANTAPLAGA. 385 



. Fore wiug with the terminal half not suffused witli 



brown, 

 a^. Fot-e wing with ante- and postmcdial black lines. 

 a'^. Fore wing witli subtoruiinal series of snuill black 

 spots. 

 a^. Fore wing pale yellow, the medial area white. ... hachita. 



b^. Fore wiug wholly white .. scxseriuta. 



h^. Fore wiug without subteruiiual series of small blaek 



spots biiindulalis. 



i'. Fore wing without ante- and postmedial black lines. 



a'. Hind wing white tinged with ochreous thoracica. 



b-. Hind wing suffused with fuscous. 

 a?. Fore wing tinged with yellow. 



«■'. Head and thorax entirely orange-yellow; fore 



wing suffused with olive-brown sahfwmosa. 



6*. Head and thorax with white mixed ; fore wine 



not suffuaed with olive-brown diilcUa. 



3. Fore wing pure white pyroncBa, 



*4S40. Antaplaga pyralina. (Plate CXLV. fig. 18.) 



Tarache pyralina, Schaus, Trans. Am. Eat. Soc. xxx. p. 159 (1904). 



(S . Head aud tho7-ax white largely mixed with dark olive-brown ; 

 palpi white at base, brown at tips ; tarsi brown ringed with white ; 

 abdomen brown with slight whitish segmental rings, the anal tuft 

 ochreous at extremity. Fore wing silvery greenish white irrorated 

 with black-brown ; the costal edge brown towards base ; ante- 

 medial line black-brown defined by white on inner side, dentate ; 

 orbicular a small round silvery-white spot defined by black; renit'orm 

 a white bar with black line in centre ; medial line black-brown, 

 obii(iue from costa to reniform, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial 

 line black-brown defined by siJvery white on outer side, minutely 

 dentate, oblique towards costa, angled inwards in discal fold and 

 oblique below vein 5, followed bj^ a white point on costa and oblique 

 white bar towards apex ; obliquely placed subterminal white sjiots 

 below veins 7 and (!, a spot below vein 4, and curved band from 

 vein 3 to tornus ; a black terminal line with scries of small white 

 lunules before it ; cilia chequered brown and white. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with brown ; a curved white postmedial baud, 

 expanding to inner margin ; a subterminal series of white spots 

 from vein 4 to tornus ; a fine dark terminal line with series of 

 slight whitish points before it ; cilia white intersected with brown ; 

 the underside white, the veins brownish especially towards termen, 

 a small blackish discoidal lunule, diffused sinuous postmedial lino, 

 diffused waved subterminal band, black terminal line, and blackish 

 spot just below apex. 



Hah. Me.\:ico, Guadalajara (Schaus), typef cS in U-B. Nat. Mus. 

 Exj). '3(i millim. 



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