SYXGRAPIIA. PLUSIOPALPA. 437 



cfll to inner margin ; postiuedial line diffused, red-brown, bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique, met at vein 6 by a nari'ow 

 oblique wliitish band from costa near aj^ex which then defines its 

 outer side, a golden cupreous patch beyond it from just below costa 

 to beyond lower angle of cell, then bent outwards to termen below 

 vein 2 ; subterminal line hardly traceable on the golden patch, 

 then brown defined on outer side by whitish ; a fine whitish line 

 just before terraen from just below costa, ending on termen at 

 vein 3. Hind Aving whitish, the veiiLS and terminal area cupreous 

 bi'own ; cilia white ; the underside with the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with brown, a brownish jx)stmedial line from costa 

 to vein 5, and subterminal shade. 



Hah. Paxama, Chiriqiii (Chrimpion), I c? type aheona, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. ; Cuba, San Cristobal. Exi). 3G millim, 



8259. Syngrapha illustrata. 



Pliisia illustrata, Giien. Noet. ii. p. 328 (18521. 



rittsia ro.vana, Druce, A. ^\. N. II. (H) xiii. p. 302 (189i) ; id. Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 503, pi. 06. f. 11. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with brown. Fore 

 wing gi'ey suffused with pale brown and slightly irrorated with 

 dark brown ; a faint grey .subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, grey, angled inwards in cell and oblique 

 below the cell, an obliquely curved silvery-whitish shade beyond 

 it arising in end of cell and with oblique golden cupreous patch 

 bevond it in submedian intersj^ace ; orbicular with faint whiti.sh 

 outline, constricted at middle ; a faint whitish rounded stigma 

 below the cell ; reniform faintly defined by whitish, constricted at 

 middle and produced at upper extremity ; two faint whitish 

 medial lint^s from, cell to inner margin ; jxistmedial line silvery- 

 whitish, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, intennipted above 

 vein 4 by a deep golden cupreous wedge-shaped patch arising 

 below ajjex and from termen at vein 2 and extending to lower 

 angle of cell, met at vein 5 by a silvery-white shade from apex ; a 

 white subterminal line from vein 2 to tornus. Hind wing whitish 

 tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area brown ; cilia white ; 

 the underside with faint postmedial line. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Tnijillo). 1 $ type roxana, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. ; Haiti ; Brazil, Espiritu Santo, 1 ? . Exp. 30-40 

 juillim. 



Genus PLUSIOPALPA. 



Type. 



Pliisiopalpa, IIoll. Psj-chi?, vii. p. 9 (1804) adrasta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joinf reaching to vertex 

 of head and with a tuft of hair behind at extremity, the 3rd rather long and 

 triangularly fringed willi liair in front and beliind ; frons smooth with large 

 tuft of hair; eyes large, round: antenntc of male minutely ciliated; thorax 

 clothed with hair and scales mixed, the metathorax with large divided crest; 



