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terminal half. Fore wing rafous suffused with recl-hrown and some 

 fuscous and slightly irrorated with blackish, the costal area darker, 

 the inner anteniedial area and the terminal area above and below 

 middle reddish ochreous ; an indistinct double sinuous subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, double, 

 sinuous, inwardly oblique ; an indistinct treble oblique sinuous 

 medial line ; a small black spot in middle of cell ; renifonn faintly 

 defined by blackish and whitish stria?, naiTow ; postmedial line 

 blackish, slightly bent outwards below costa, then Avaved, incurved 

 at discal fold and oblique below vein 4, a slight dark shade beyond 

 it ; a faint pale waved subterminal line slightly defined by brown and 

 on outer side by whitish spots below veins 7, 4 and 2, a dark fascia 

 beyond it on vein 4 ; a series of small dark spots before teniien 

 from apex to vein 4, then a series of striae. Hind wing rufous 

 suffused with red-browni and slightly irrorated with black ; an 

 indistinct slightly waved antemedial line and two lines beyond the 

 cell ; postmedial line double, black, waved, arising at vein G, a 

 leaden fuscous patch l^eyond it at middle with streak on vein 4 to 

 termen ; a series of small dark spots before termen ; the underside 

 ochreous with discoidal lunule defined by brown, two sinuous 

 postmedial lines and subterminal shade. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing with white patch instead of fuscous beyond 

 the postmedial line. 



Hah. Mexico, Cuesta de Misantla {Trujillo), 1 $; Hoxdubas 

 {Dyson), 1 $ type; Guatemala, Zapote {Chanqnon), 1 J, 1 $, 

 Yoican de Atitlan (Champion), 1 $ ; Costa Eica, Candelaria Mts. 

 ( Underwood), 1 5 ; Paxama, Chiriqui (B/'bhe), 1 d , Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. Ea-}). (52-58 millim. 



b. {Xylis.) Fore wing of male with the termen evenly curved. 



8006. Zale setipes. 



Xylis setipes, Guen. Noet. iii. p. 7, pi. 15. f. (1852); Druce, Biol. Centr.- 



Am., Ilet. i. p. 341. 

 Homcqytera i^nrunda, Guen. Noet. iii. p. 9 (1852). 

 Homoftcra ustijicnnis, Wlk. xiii. 1071 (1857} ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., 



Het. i. p. 342. 

 Letis incipiens, Wlk. xiv. 1266 (1858). 

 Homoptera mmona, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ara., Het. i. p. 344, pi. 31. f. 3 



(1889). 



J . Head and thorax fuscous brown with a slight greyisli tinge ; 

 palpi with whitish rings at base and extremity of 3rd joint ; pectus 

 and hind legs brownish grey, the tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen fuscous blown with an ochreous brown dorsal patch on 2nd 

 segment, the ventral surface grej'er. Fore wing fuscous brown with 

 a greyish tinge, the inner antemedial and terminal areas ochreous 

 tinged Avitli red-brown ; subbasal line blackish, sinuous, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line blackish, double at costa, 

 sinuous to median nervvire, then inwardly oblique ; a black point in 

 middle of cell ; reniform defined by blacki.sh and with some white 



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