222 xocTi'TD.i:. 



black scales, the costa with slight dark stria? ; subbasal line slight, 

 whitish, oblique, sinuous, from costa to subiuedian fold ; antemedial 

 line indistinct, brown delined on outer side by whitish, excurved 

 below median nervure, then inwardly oblique and slightly incurved 

 at vein 1 : the medial area with three verv indistinct double 

 sinuous lines, oblique below the cell and vein 4 ; a small white mark 

 at middle of costa ; reniform a narrow lunule faintly defined by 

 brown ; postmedial line slight, blackish, white on costal area, 

 minuteh" waved to vein 6, then bent inwards, excurved above and 

 below vein 4, then oblique and slightly sinuous, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line double, very indistinct and 

 waved to vein 4, then incurved, violaceous Avhite patches be^'ond it 

 from below apex to above vein 4 and from vein 3 to above tomus ; 

 a series of minute brown spots before termen. Hind wing bright 

 rufous, the inner margin whitish ; three indistinct waved brown 

 lines beyond the cell; postmedial line slight, double, blackish, 

 minutely waved ; the terminal area violaceous white from vein 6 

 to tornus ; a series of minute brown spots before termen ; cilia 

 with a fine p.ile line at base ; the underside whitish in'orated with 

 brown, a small blackish diseoidal spot, rather diffused postmedial 

 and subterminal lines, and a series of blackish points before 

 termen. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing without white patches on terminal area. 



Ab. 2. Both wings without white patches on terminal area. 



Hnh. U.S.A., Florida, Miami ; Guatemala, Las Mercedes 

 {Champion), 2^,1$, Volean de Atitlan {Champion), 1 $ ; 

 PAXA;NrA, Chiriqui, 3 J , 3 $ , Grodman-Saivin Coil. ; Cuba, 

 {Schaus), 1 5 ; Brazil, Amazons, Para, 2 S type. Exp. 40-52 

 millim. 



8019. Zale salicis. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 13.) 



Homopfera salicis, Bebr, Trans. Am. Eiit. Soc. iii. p. 28 (1870), $ ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p 370. 

 Ho/iiopfera rosrp, Behr, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 28 (1870), (^ ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 369. 



J . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some grey ; teguLne 

 with black line near base ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with 

 rufous, the fore and mid tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 pale rufous, the ventral surface whitish tinged with rufous. Fore 

 wing rufous with some grey mixed and slightly irrorated with 

 black, the terminal area striated with brown ; antemedial line 

 indistinctly double, blackish defined on outer side by grey, sinuous 

 and oblique from costa to inner margin near base ; the medial area 

 with traces of double oblique sinuous lines ; reniform a veiy 

 faintly defined narrow lunule, })roduced at upper extremity and 

 angled inwards on median nervure, a white point at its lower 

 extremity ; postmedial line black, waved to above vein G, then 

 bout inwards, cxcm'ved above and below vein 4, then oblique and 



