658 xoctttip-e. 







ochreous yellow ; claviform, orbicular, and reniform represented by 

 slight black points ; a more or less prominent brown postmedial 

 line, oblique from costa to vein 6 and below vein 5 and slightly 

 sinuous ; a punctiform blackish terminal line ; cilia fuscous mixed 

 with grey. Hind wing whitish tinged witb purplish brown, the 

 basal and inner areas paler ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia 

 whitish ; the underside ochreous white irrorated with brown, a 

 brown discoidal spot and rather diffused curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with some red-brown suffusion below and 

 beyond the cell from origin of vein 2 to postmedial line. 



Hub. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), 1 J, 1 $ , Atoyac (Schumann), 

 1 c? ; Guatemala, S. Geronimo (Champion), 4 J , 3 $ ; Costa Eica, 

 Candelaria Mts. (Underwood), 1 3 ; Panama, Caldera (Champion), , 



1 S , Chiriqui (Ribbe), 1 d , Godman-Salvin Coll., La Chorerra 

 (Dolby-Tyler), 1 3 ; Jamaica (Kaye, Schaus), 2 3 , 2 $ ; Cuba, 

 Santiago (Schaus),' 1 <5 , 4 $ ; Porto Pico ; Grenada (H. H. Smith), 



2 <$, 1 $ ; Trinidad (Hart, Kaye), 2 6 , 1 $ ; Colombia, 1 5 , Sta. 

 Marta (Bouchard), 1 $ ; Brazil. Exp. 20-24 millim. 



5998. Xanthoptera nigrofimbria. (Plate CLXYIII. fig. 25.) 



Xanthoptera nigrofiinbria, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 241, pi. 10. f. 12 (1852); 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 303 ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. 

 p. 316. 



Head and thorax ochreous yellow ; palpi, lower part of frons, 

 and antennae dark red-brown ; pectus and legs whitish mixed with 

 red-brown ; abdomen ochreous irrorated with brown. Fore wing 

 ochreous yellow ; costal edge black towards base ; claviform, reni- 

 form, and sometimes the orbicular, represented by black points ; a 

 fine black terminal line not quite reaching apex or tornus ; cilia 

 black-brown tinged with leaden grey. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 with purple-brown, the basal and inner areas rather paler ; a fine 

 brown terminal line ; cilia white mixed with brown and with brown 

 line through them ; the underside whitish thickly irrorated and 

 suffused with dark red-brown. 



H.i.b. U.S.A., New York,Distr. of Columbia, S. Carolina, Bennetts- 

 ville (Dudgeon), 1 $, Florida, Enterprise, 1 J Missouri, 1 3 , Texas, 

 5 $; Mexico, Guerrero (H. H. Smith), 1 <5 , Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus ERASTRIA. 



Type. 

 Erastria, Ochs. Sckmett. Eur. iv. p. 92 (1816), non descr. ; Treit. 



Schmett. Eur. v. (3) p. 250 (1826) trabealis. 



Emmelia, Hiibn. Yerz. p. 254 (1827) trabealis, 



Agrophila, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 175 (1840) frabeulis. 



Erotyla, Hiibn. Teuk ined trabealis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, extending about the 





