372 yocTViDJE. 



black at base and above and with two oblique black lines filled in 

 with reddish brown near tips ; metithorax mostly black ; tiirsi 

 ringetl with black-brown ; abdomen grey suffused with brown and 

 Avith some yellowish at sides at base. Fore wing bluish grey 

 suffused with brown, the inner half and outer part of medial area 

 darker ; oblique subbasal black stria? from costa and cell ; ante- 

 medial line black, angled outwards below costa and at submedian 

 fold, then oblique and forking al)Ove inner margin, connected by 

 a black streak in submedian fold with the slightly sinuous blackish 

 medial line which is angled inwards at submedian fold ; orbicular 

 reddish brown defined by black, rather elongate ; reniform a narrow 

 red-brown lunule defined by black on inner side and by bro\\n on 

 outer; j^stmedial line blackish, almost obsolete to vein 4, then 

 incurved and waved ; subterminal line blackish slightly defined on 

 outer side by whitish, oblique towards costa, dentiite above and 

 below vein 6, then obsolescent and slightly waved to vein 2 where 

 it is bent inwards ; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with 

 black, a black terminal line. Hind wing yellow, the terminal area 

 fuscous, broadly at costa, narrowing to a jx)int at tomus ; a minute 

 discoidal spot ; cilia fuscous intersected with white ; the underside 

 with the costal and terminal areas grey irrorated with fuscous, a 

 small blackish discoidal spot and postmedial shade ending at 

 tornus. 



2 ■ Fore wing with whitish patch beyond the renifonii and the 

 postmedial line defined on outer side by whitish. 



Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, Cochise Co., Palmerlee, 1 d ; Guatejiala, 

 (xuatemala Citv {Eoilriguez), 1 5 tyjie, Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 E.V2). 6 42, $'46 millim. 



8188. Charaira nitens. (Plate CCXXXIV. fig. 13.) 



Charadra ni/ciis, Scliaus, A. M. iS. H. (S) vii. p. 49 (1911). 



Head and thorax silvery white mixed Avith some red-brown and 

 irrorated with black ; antenna? red-brown ; tegulje Avith blackish 

 medial band ; patagia with two blackish bars towards tips ; jxilpi 

 black at sides except at tips ; tarsi banded black and white ; abdo- 

 men fuscous brown, the crests black at base, grey at tips, the 

 extremitj^ and ventral surface grey. Fore wing silvery white largely 

 suffused with reddish l)rown and iiTorated with black, the veins of 

 terminal half with fine dark streaks, a diffused black-brown patch 

 on costal half of medial area with the area beyond it white, a black- 

 brown a])ical patch ; subbasal black bars from cosfci and cell ; ante- 

 medial line black with some dark suffusion before its cosfcil half, 

 angled outwards below costa and oblique below submetlian fold 

 where it is connected by a curved black streak with the medial line, 

 which is blackish and somewhat obli<pic and sinuous ; orl)icidar 

 defined by blackish, round; reniform a very narrow lunule defined 

 by blackish ; postmedial line indistinctly double, blackish filled 

 in with white, bent outwards below cost;i, then waved, stronuflv 



