ZALE. 215 



8009. Zala galactea, n. sp. (Plate CCXXIX. Hg. 3.) 



HomnpfiM-a viridans, Druee, Biul. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 344 (part.), nee 



Giien. 

 Homoptera viridisquama, Driice, Elol. Centr.-Ain., Ilet. i. p. 344 (part.), 



nee Wlk. 



Head, togula^, and ])rotliorax rufous, tho rest of thorax grey 

 tinged with rufous ; antennae hrown ; teguhe with black line near 

 base ; frons with black lateral bars ; pectus and legs whitish tinged 

 with rufous, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen whitish 

 tinged with rufous, a small dorsal black spot on 2nd segment and 

 spjt at base of anal segment. Fore wing white tinged with rufous 

 and striated with red-brown, the basal area suffused with red- brown 

 with slight greenish suifusion beyond it ; traces of a double sinuous 

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

 blackish, inwardly oblique and slightly sinuous ; a brown point in 

 middle of cell ; reniforni faintly defined by brown and with some 

 red-brown suifusion above it on costa ; postmedial line black, 

 oblique and sinuous to above vein 6, bent inwards at vein G, angled 

 outv/ards above and below vein 4, then incurved, angled outwards 

 in the interspaces and with small l)rown spot on it below vein 2, a 

 conical red-brown patch beyond it on costal area with some whitisii 

 points at costa ; subterminal line slight, brown, dentate, defined on 

 outer side by grey-green ; a faint waved red-brovvu line before 

 termen. Hind wing creamy whitish faintly striated with red- 

 bi'ovvn ; faint greenish streaks on median nervure and vein 1 ; 

 postmedial line double, black, sinvious, filled in with red-brown and 

 with some red-brown suffusion beyond it, followed by a diffused 

 greenish band from vein 6 to tornus where there is a small dark 

 spot ; the underside mottled with brown, a sinuous postmedial 

 line, diffused subterminal line, and series of black points before 

 termen. 



Ilab. MKxrco, Jala pa (Tri/jillo), 1 d" type, Atoyac, Vera Cruz 

 (ScJnniiaini), 1 $; PA>AiiA, ('hiri<|ui {Chainpion), 1 o , Crodmau- 

 Salvin Coll. Exp. oG-GO millim. 



8010. Zale viridans. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. -l.) 



Thalcsiia lunata. Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 38, pi. 308. f. C (hoc Dniry). 

 Homopfira viruhnif, Gueu. Nuct. iii. p. 13 (18.12;. 



Homopicra vlridiaqiuujia, \\ Ik. xv. 17'J7 (1858): l")i-iieo, Eiul. Ceiilr.-Aiii., 

 Het. i. p. 344. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; tegula; with a 

 black line near base; ]ial])i with the basal joint black, the 2nd 

 and 3rd irrorated with black ; frons with lateral black liars ; pectus 

 and legs brownish white, the latter ii'rorated witJi lirown, the foro 

 and mid tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown with 

 slight blackish segmental lines, the 2nd segment with small dorsal 

 black spot, the vejitral surface brownish white. Fore wing ocln-eous 

 tinged with red-brown and faintly striated witli brown ; a slight 



