480 NOCTriD^. 



with a red striga from it and some red and black scales below the 

 cell ; antemedial line very indistinct, whitish, waved, with black 

 points on costa and vein 1 and red point on median nervure ; 

 orbicular and reniform with very indistinct white annuli, the 

 former round, the latter constricted at middle and slightly angled 



Fig. 136. — Chlorhoda metacausta, <S . f. 



inwards on median nervure, an oblique black and red band between 

 them from costa to vein 2, a red poiut in latter above median 

 nervure and two red points beyond its lower extremity; postmedial 

 line very indistinct, whitish, with black point at costa, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then with series of black points beyond it, 

 oblique below vein 4, some whitish points with slight blackish 

 streaks between them beyond it on costa; subterminal line very 

 indistinct, whitish, dentate, with red marks with some black scales 

 on them below vein 7 and at middle and inner margin ; a terminal 

 series of black points ; cilia pale red. Hind wing pale blood-red. 

 Underside of both wings whitish suffused with blood-red. 



Jfab. Cuba, Baracoa (Schaus), 3 J , 3 $ type. Exp. 26-32 

 millim. 



Genus CHAMYRIS. 



Type. 



Chaynyns, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 225 (1852) cerintha. 



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

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennae of male minutely ciliated : thorax clothed entirely with 

 large scales, the prothorax without crests, the mesothorax with slight paired 

 crests, the metath<>rax with spreading crests; tibiie moderately fringed with 

 hair; abdomen with dorsal series of crests, the crest on 4th segment very large. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen oblique from vein 4 to tornus 

 and not erenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from up;ier angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 1] from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 almost fully developed from well below 

 middle of dicocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



5727. Chamyris cerintha. 



Acontia cerintha, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 3. p. 240 (1825) ; Herr.-Schaff. 

 Schmett. Eur., Noel, f. 446 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 301. 



Head and thorax yellow-brown mixed with some black, blue- 

 grey and whit e scales ; palpi white at base ; tegulae with black band 

 near base defined by blue-grey above; pectus and legs white mixed 



