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■waved to vein G, then bent inwards and with small dark spot 

 beyond it, angled outwards above and below vein 4, then oblique, 

 sinuous, angled outwards at subniedial fold and with small dark 

 spot bevond it below vein 2 ; subterininal line indistinct, red-brown, 

 slightlv waved, angled outwards at vein 4, then obliquely incurved 

 and wdth narrow brown band beyond it with some greenish scales 

 on it ; a faint oblique dark shade from apex and series of small 

 Ijrown s^jots before termen ; cilia with a line whitish line at base. 

 Hind wing rufous striated with brown ; two indistinct waved 

 brown lines beyond the cell ; postmedial line double, black tilled 

 in with red-brown, arising at vein 6, slightly waved, mcurved 

 between vein 5 and submedian fold, a faint incurved brown shade 

 beyond it arising from apex and with white patch on it at 

 middle. Underside of both wings grey striated with dark brown, 

 a faint dark subterminal shade. 



Ab. 1. gradaia, $ . Fore wing with the costal area tinged with 

 fuscous obliqviely from apex to inner margin before middle. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida, Texas ; Mexico, Cordova {RumeW), 

 4 J , Cuesta de Misantla (TruJiUo), 2 c? , Jalapa (Tnijillo), 1 J ; 

 GUATEMALA (Hodrif/iiez), 1 c? ; Panama, Chiriqui {Champion), 

 2 c?, Grodman-Salvin Coll.; Cuba, Santiago {Schaiis), 2 S ; Haiti 

 (Ttveedie), 4 c? , 2 2 type gradata; Guadeloupe; Grenada 

 {H. H. Smith), 1 c? ; Fk. Guiana ; Beazil, type t cT strigimacula 

 in Mus. Paris, Itaparica {Meade-Waldo), 4 (5" , 1 $ ; Argentina 

 (O. Thom.as), 2 6, 2 $, Mendoza {Baiiie), 1 6- E^-Jt^. 54-62 

 millim. 



8012. Zale terrosa. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 6.). 



Homoptcra terrosa, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 11 (1852) ; Driice, Biol. Centr.-Am., 



Het. i. p. 343. 

 Homoptcra ■posterior, Wlk. xiii. 1060 (1857). 



Homoptcra (jradata, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 343 (iiec Wlk.). 

 Homoptcra exhausta, Druce, Biol. Ceutr.-Ain., Het. i. p. 343 (part.), nee 



Guen. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown, the last with slight 

 dark segmental lines ; palpi irrorated with blackish ; fore tarsi 

 blackish with pale rings. Fore wing grey-brown striated with 

 blackish ; antemedial line indistinct, double, blackish, sinuous and 

 inwardly oblique ; a faint double waved medial line ; a blackish 

 point in middle of cell ; reniform a narrow lunule slightly deHncd 

 by brown, with white strite on its outer edge and white points at 

 lower extremities ; postmedial line black, sinuous to discal fold and 

 angled outwards above vein G, angled outwards above and below 

 vein 4, then oblique and angled outwards below vein 3 and at 

 submedian fold, with a minute brown spot on its outer edge below 

 vein 2, a slight wedge-shaped brown shade beyond it on costal 

 area; subterminal line very indistinct, incurved and with slight 

 dark shade on its outer side below vein 4 ; a series of small black 

 spots l)efore termen, and fine p;tle line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 gre^'-brown, the basal and terminal areas slightly striated with 



