ZALE. 221 



pale line at base. Underside whitish striated with brown ; fore 

 wing with blackish point in middle of cell, small discoidal spot, 

 and oblique postmedial line ; hind wing with small black discoidal 

 lunide, sinuous postmedial line, and slight subterminal shade ; 

 both wings with series of black and white points before termen. 

 Hah. Haiti {Tweedie), 1 $ type. Exp. 46 millim. 



8017. Zale rufosa, n. sp. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 11.) 



2 . Head and thorax bright rufous slightly mixed with brown, 

 pectus whitish tinged with inifous ; tarsi blackish ringed with 

 white ; abdomen rufous with slight dark segmental lines, the 

 ventral surface whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing bright 

 iiifous, the basal area suffused with red-bro^^n and slightly 

 irrorated with blackish ; a curved reddish ochreous subbasal line 

 from costa to base below the cell ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 double, reddish ochreous slightly defined b}' blackish, inwardly 

 oblique and sinuous below the cell, the inner line dentate below 

 costa and angled inwards in the cell ; the medial area with three 

 indistinct double sinuous lines, oblique below the cell and vein 4 ; 

 a niinute dark brown spot in luidcUe of cell ; reniform a naiTow 

 lunule faintly defined by brown ; postmedial line indistinctly 

 doul>le, waved to vein 4, then oblique and sinuous, a fuscous brown 

 patch beyond it on costal area with some pale points on costa ; 

 subterminal line double, sinuous, very indistinct to vein 4, then 

 blackish and incurved with leaden fuscous suffusion beyond it ; 

 a series of slight l)lackish points before termen and a terminal 

 series ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing rufous, the 

 medial area suffused with brown, the basal inner area slightly 

 irrorated with black, the terminal area striated with blackish ; 

 four indistinct sinuous dark Hues beyond the cell ; postmedial line 

 double, black, the inner line sinuous, the outer waved, a narrow 

 leaden fuscous band beyond it arising from apex ; a fine pale line 

 at base of cilia ; the imderside brownish white striated with brown 

 except on inner area, a small dark discoidal spot, faint medial line 

 excurved below costa, slightly waved postmedial and subterminal 

 lines, and a series of black points before termen. 



Hab. Jamaica, Cinchona {Kaye), 1 $ type. Exp. 48 millim. 



8018. Zale sexplagiata. (Pkte CCXXIX. fig. 12.) 



Hom&ptera sexplagiata, Wlk. xiii. 1064 (1857). 



Homoptera marginalis, Dnice, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 343 (ncc Wlk.). 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with some whitish ; palpi brownish 

 grey irrorated with l)lack ; frons with blackish lateral bars ; pectus 

 and legs grey mixed with brown, the tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; 

 abdomen pale nifous with a small dorsal whitish spot on 

 2nd segment, the crests dark brown at tips, the ventral surface 

 brownish white. Fore wing l)right rufous irrorated with a few 



