17- N0CTUID.3E. 



tinged with red at base ; the underside yellowish white, the apieal 

 area tinged with red, a terminal series of minute black points from 

 apex to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. Pore wing ochreous suffused and irrorated with rufous 

 and slightly with pink on basal aiea. 



Ab. 2. margaritce. Abdomen irrorated with fuscous leaving 

 whitish segmental lines ; fore wing irrorated with fnscous. 



Hub. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 § > Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith), 

 1 <$ type; Guatemala (Rodriguez), 1 o, Godman-Salvin Coll.; 

 Bahamas (Bonhote), 1 5; Jamaica, Runaway Bay (Wahingham), 

 1 S ; Cuba ; Haiti (Tweedie), 1 £ ; Sta. Lucia, 1 $: St. Vincent 

 (H. II. Smith), 1 S ; Grenada (II. H. Smith), ;j 2 type rosescens; 

 Tbinidad (Kaye), 1 $ ; Venezuela, 1 tf ; Br. Guiana, Potato 11. 

 (Kaye), \ <$ , 2 2 > Bartica (Kaye), 1 J, 1 $; Surinam; Brazil, 

 Organ Mts , Tijuca (Wagner), 2 § ; Uruguay. Exp. 18- 

 28 millim. 



5249. Euhlemma obliqualis. (Plate CL11I. fig. 27.) 



Vhalatui obliqualis, Pabr. Ent. Syst. o. 2. p. -J-J4 (1791). 



Anthcphila flammicincta, Wlk. xxxiii. 801 (1865); Smith, Gat. Nock N. 



Mn. p. '6VS. 

 Trotkisa pallescens, Ilerr.-Seliaff. Corresp.-blatt. zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. 



xxii. p. 154 (18(38). 

 .V/o-m sfa&Y, Wllgrn. GEfv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1871, p. 916. 

 Tarache patula, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 69. 

 Turache patruelis, Grote, Can. Ent. viii. p. 27 (1876). 

 Xantkoptera laphyra, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 498 (part,). 



Head and tegulae white; thorax and abdomen white tinged with 

 ochreous. Fore wing white tinged with yellow ; medial line 

 acutely angled outwards below costa where it is met by an 

 oblique white line from apex to middle of inner margin with a 

 band of rufous suffusion before it and rufous suffusion beyond it, 

 the terminal area and cilia fiery red ; an indistinct postmedial line, 

 angled outwards below costa then oblique; traces of a subterminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing yellowish while, the termen 

 tinged with fiery red ; cilia white faintly tinged with red at base ; 

 the underside white, the apical area tinged with red. 



Ab. 1. patruelis. Fore wing with indistinct oblique antemedial 

 line. 



Ab. 2. patula. Fore wing paler, the terminal area less strongly 

 suffused with red. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing yellower with less rufous suffusion, the 

 markings indistinct, the subterminal series of black points 

 prominent. 



Ah. 4. Fore wing nearly uniformly suffused with brownish 

 ochreous. 



Hub. U.S.A., Alabama, 1 $ » type patruelis Texas, Bastrop Co., 

 2 #, Tiger Hill,] $> ; Mexico, Jala pa (Trujillo), 1 $, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll.; Panama, La Chorrera (Dolby-Tyler), 1 £ ; Bahamas. 



