PUCIALIA.—GADIRTHA. 33 
with brown, the veins and terminal area darker; a dark striga 
defined on outer side by white from inner margin above tornus, the 
termen irrorated with grey; cilia whitish intersected by fuscous at 
the veins. 
Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz, Misantla (Miller), Exp. 70 millim. 
This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type 
in U.S. Nat. Mus. 
6646. Pucialia similis. (Plate CLXXXIII. fig. 22. 
Gadirtha similis, Druce, A. M. N, H. (7) vii. p. 79 (1901). 
6. Head and thorax grey-white, the head and tegule with dark 
brown mixed, the thorax with a few black scales ; pectus, legs, and 
abdomen greyish suffused with dark brown. Fore wing ochreous 
whitish irrorated and in parts suffused with brown, the terminal half 
slightly darker; a wedge-shaped black-brown patch on costa with 
a slight golden-green spot on it and a streak below median nervure 
defined above by golden green; antemedial line black, double 
towards costa and inner margin, sinuous, very obliquely bent 
inwards to inner margin and with some golden green between the 
lines; orbicular and reniform large, defined by black, the former 
round with faint annulus in centre, the latter elliptical; a faint 
line from middle of costa, oblique to the reniform, double and waved 
from cell to inner margin, with a patch of golden-green scales on 
it in submedian interspace; medial line indistinct, double, highly 
dentate, from beyond upper angle of cell to inner margin; _post- 
medial line black, obliquely excurved from costa to vein 4, bent 
inwards at vein 3 and excurved above vein 1, a black streak beyond 
it at discal fold to near termen and some elongate black and golden- 
green marks above and below vein 7 and from vein 3 to inner 
margin; subterminal line indistinct, double, dentate, crossed by 
black streaks above veins 6 and 4; a fine sinuous black line before 
termen with fuscous streaks beyond it on the veins. Hind wing 
brown with a slight purplish tinge; some pale and blackish striz 
on vein | towards termen and a slight mark at extremity of vein 2; 
the underside irrorated with ochreous, the terminal area darker, a 
faint discoidal bar and traces of a curved postmedial line, 
Hab. Costa Rica, Juan Vinas (Schaus), 1 3; Venezue.a, Merida 
(Briceno), type t d in Coll. Druce. vp. 66 millim, 
Genus GADIRTHA, 
se ~ Type. 
GALEN CANA Kepxate lM ODEGUSI I) cmstes--eeevavesescsens cee covcee seve inexacta. 
Scolopocneme, Feld. Wien. Ent, Mon. vi. p. 37 (1862) ......... inexactd, 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to above 
vertex of head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd long and dilated at extremity ; 
frons smooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antenne of male 
with fasciculate cilia; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the meta- 
VAP 
