SAFT.V. — ZALE. 207 



a tenniiial series of whitisli points ami fine waved line at base o£ 

 cilia ; the underside grey tinged and thiekly ii-rorated with brown, 

 an indistinct brown discoidal annulus with faint line from it t<i 

 inner margin, an indistinct postmedial line, and faint diffused 

 subterminal line. 



Hah. Mexico, Vera Cruz, Paso San Juan {ScJiaus), type f ? 

 in U.S. Nat. Mus. Uwp. 42 millim, 



8004. Safia rninax. (Plate CCXXVIII. fig. 18.) 



Coxina vibiax, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 298 (1852); Dnice, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. 

 i. p. 341. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with grey, the 

 last with small white sjwt at middle of dorsum ; palpi and legs 

 black-brown mixed with grey, the tarsi ringed with whitish. Fore 

 wing dark brown irrorated with grey and black and tinged in parts 

 with reddish ; double black subbasal striae from costa ; antemedial 

 line double, blackish, diffused, waved ; an indistinct waved dark 

 medial line ; reniform defined on inner side by white points above 

 and below and on outer b}" a white striga expanding into a small 

 spot at its lower extremity ; postmedial line black, defined on each 

 side by whitish at costa, bent outwards below costa, then slightly 

 sinuous, incvu'ved at discal fold and below vein 4, an indistinct 

 maculate dark line beyond it and some white points on costa ; 

 subterminal line slight, whitish, somewhat sinuoi;s, excurved below 

 vein 7 ; a series of slight black points before termen and a Avaved 

 blackish terminal line interiaipted by white points at the inter- 

 spaces ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing brown ; a faint 

 dark minutely waved postmedial line from vein 4 to tomus, sliglitly 

 defined on outer side by grey, and a similar subtenninal line ending 

 on termen at vein 1 ; a waved blackish terminal line and whitish 

 line at base of cilia ; the underside gTcy-white irrorated with brown, 

 a small dark discoidal spot with pale centre, traces of a sinuous 

 medial line, a minutely waved postmedial line, faint waved 

 subterminal line, and terminal series of black points. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaits), 1 $ , Yucatan. ^.r^>. 36 

 millim. 



Genus ZALE. rv 



Tvpe. 



Zale, Iliibn. Verz. p. 274 (1827) kornda. 



I'hoeocijma, Hiibn. Verz. \>. 27o (1827) lunala. 



Oinoptcrus, Boisd. Guer. Icon. Reg. Aniiii. )■>. r)22 (1829), won 



descr luncita. 



A'l/lif. Guen. Noct. iii. p. 7 {I8r>2) sc/i/>cs. 



Homoptera, Guen. JCoc-t. iii. p. 8 (1852) Innafa. 



3'/7,s7V7, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 1(>(1852) ariif/hio.^a. 



Aiithracia, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 18 (1852) ; nee Iliibn coracicis. 



Psendaiifkracia, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 46 



( 1 874) coracias. 



Nephe/ina, Kirby, Allen's Nat. Libr. v. p. 130 (1897) edi(sa. 



Proboscis fully cleveloped ; palpi upturned, tiie 2nd joint reacliing to about 

 vertex of head and r.uther bruadly scaled, the 3rd lung; frons sniootli, with 



