Mocis. 87 



before it above inner margin ; a niinnte wliite s})ot defined bv 

 brown in middle of cell ; reniform defined by dark brown and 

 with cm'ved dark striga in centre ; two brown medial lines curving 

 apart in the cell on each side of the orbicular, approximated below 

 the cell, then again cm'ving apart ; a brown annulus below end of 

 cell and two slight oblique waved lines beyond the cell ; post- 

 medial line dark brown, excurved below costa, then oblique and 

 very slightly sinuous, a patch of red-brown suffusion beyond it 

 at middle ; a patch of choeolatc-brown suffusion on costal area 

 before the indistinct double dentate subterminal line with black 

 points on the outer line at the veins ; a red-brown mark at 

 apex and a triangular patch at middle of terminal area ; a fine 

 waved dark terminal line ; cilia red-brown, paler towards tornus. 

 Hind wing reddish brown, the terminal half greyer ; a slightly 

 sinvious brown ])Ostmedial line ; a rather diffused double sub- 

 terminal line expanding into a diffused patch on apical area ; 

 a fine waved dark terminal line ; cilia rufous ; the underside 

 grey tinged with rufous, a diffused dark postmedial line bent 

 inwards to costii and subterminal shade incurved below costa. 

 2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing rather more rufous. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with small black spot above inner margin 

 before the antemedial line. 



Kfib. Mexico, Vera Cruz, Atoyac {R. H. Smith), 1^,1 $ , 

 Morelos, Cuernavaca (//. H. Smith), 1 d" , Guerrero, Sierra 

 Colorada (H. II. Smith), 1 5, Tabasco, Tea pa (//. H. Smith), 

 1 c? , 1 2 , Jala pa (^TnijiUo), 1 6 , Cordova, San Lorenzo (Trifjillo), 

 1 2 ■) GrUATEMALA, S. Grcronimo {Champion), 1 6, Zapote 

 (Champion), 1 c? , El Tumbidor {Champion), 1 $, Las Mercedes 

 (Champion), 1 6, San Isidro (Champion),! 6, Vera Paz, 

 Pancina (Champion), 1 S, Volcan de Atitlan (Chajnpion), 1 $, 

 Guatemala City (Rodriguez), 1 6 ; Hondi-eas (Dyson), 1 $ 

 type mensaralis ; Costa Rica, Kio Sucio (Rogers), 1 c? ; 

 Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 1 6, Godman-Salvin Coll.; 

 Haiti (Ticeedie), 1 $; Trinidad (Hart), 1 $; Colombia, 

 Sien-a del Libano (H. H. Smith), 1 $ ; Venezuela, 1 $ ; Bb. 

 Guiana (Roberts), 1 $ , Demerara (Rodicay), 1 d , 1 $ ; Bkazil, 

 Espiritu Santo, 1 6 ; Paeaguay, Sapucay (Foster), 2 6 . Exp. 

 40-48 millim. 



Liarva. D- Jones, I'r. Liver]). Soe. sxxvi. p. 376 (1882). 



Food-plant, " Capim '' grass. 1. 



7857. Mocis frugalis. 



Koctua fruqatis, Fabr. Syst. Eat. p. 601 (1775); Moore, Lep. Coyl. iii. 



p. 190, pi. 172. ff. 4, An ; Hmpsn. Mollis Iiid. ii. p. 527. 

 Chalriopc lycopodia, Geyer, niibner's Zutr. v. p. 25, ff. 897, 898 (1832). 

 Remigia translala, Wlk. xxxiii. 1015 (1805). 



Head and thorax reddish l)ro\vn mixed with some grey ; ])ectus 

 and femora with oehreous Imir; legs gi'cyish brown; alxlomen 

 uchreo\is suffused with brown. Fore wing greyish ochreous tinged 



