bblioi oa n \. 



defined by pale yellow, the rest of wing bright rufous overlaid by 

 some long yellowish scales and Bhading to yellow on terminal area 

 except at apex and with oblique diffused yellow patcb from middle 



ista; traces of a pale post medial line very strongly in cm 

 from vein 6 to submedian fold, then oblique to bornae ; cilia yellow 

 tinged with rufous al apex and towards tornffl and with blackish 

 patch just above middle. Hind wing dark reddish brown, the cilia 

 yellowish white with a brown line near base; the underside 

 yellowish grey, the costal area irrorated with brown 

 towards base, the termen suffused with brown, a brown discoidal 



Spi't. 



9. Head, thorax, and abdomen darker; fore wing witli tho 

 antemedial area darker or blackish, the overlying scales yellowi-h 

 'white ; hind wing darker. 



Hub. Mexico, Tabasco (H. II. Smith), 1^,1?; Pawama, 

 ' riqui {Champion), 1 d,l $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Yknizu i \, 

 Aroa, 1 9; Fk. Guiana, St. Jean Maroni (Schaus), 1 ,'; Bhaztx, 

 zons,R. Jutahi( Trail),l 9 type marmorea, Espiritu Santo, 1 J, 

 1 9 , « Irgan Mts., Tijuca ( Wagnef), 1 d , 2 9 , Rio Janeiro, 1 d , 

 3 9, Petropolis (Boer), 1 d, Sao Paulo (I). Jones), 2 rf; Ai 

 tiny. Gran Chaco, Florenzia (Wagner), 1 d, 1 9. Exp. 16-20 

 millim. 



*6006. Heliocontia pyralidia. (Tlate OLXVIII. fig. i 



Tarache pijralhlia, Schaus, J. N.Y. Eiit. Soc. vi. p. 117 (1898). 



3 . Head and teguhe white suffused with rufous ; thorax bright 

 rufous; pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae and tho tarsi rufous 

 ringed with white; abdomen whitish suffused with rufous having 

 white segmental lines. Fore wing with the basal ana rui 

 irrorated with white, with a white subhasal patch on costa ; ai 

 medial line white, curved, from submedian fold to inner margin ; 

 medial area white irrorated with rufous except towan 

 rufous point on middle of costa; orbicular absent; reniform < 

 indistinctly defined and with rufous luuule in centre; postmedial 

 line slight, white, detined on each side by rufous suffusion, ex curved 



m costa to vein 7, then incurved; terminal area yellow til 

 with red; a slight rufous terminal line with some white before it 

 at middle ; cilia rufous. Hind wing ochreous white. 



Hi!,. .Mexico, Oaxaca (ScJuivs), typetd in U.S. Nat. U 

 Sep. 22 millim. 



6007. Heliocontia valena. 



ntia valena, Druce, Biol. CVntr.-Am.. Bet p. 

 389). 



d. Head and thorax red-brown tinged with purplisl 

 pectus and legs ochreous white tinged with red-brown 



