ECESELIA. 69 



angle of cell, the two latter rather large and black ; a prominent 

 elongate triangular black patch at base of costa, and a somewhat 

 quadrate patch at middle ; the ante- and postmcdial lines line, 

 black, the former dentate, the latter bent outwards from below 

 costa to vein 3, and slightly angled below costa and at vein 5, then 

 with a line parallel to its inner side ; an irregular subterminal line 

 retracted to costa and angled below costa and at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing white, suffused with fuscous 

 towards termen, or wholly fuscous. 



. Ah. 1. f/aniha. Head, thorax, and fore wing whiter with hardly 

 any fuscous irroration. 



Hah. Brazil, Sao Paulo, type t, Castro Paraiia, 1 $ , type f tjaruha 

 in Coll. Schius. Kc/j., J 18, § 22 millim. 



142. Eceselia minuscula. (Plate XX. fig. IG.) 



Nola minuscula, Zell. Verb, zool.-bot. G-es. Wien, -xxii. p. 455 (1872); 



Kirbv, Oat. Het. j). 371. 

 Ko/afitscula, Grote, Papilio, i. p. 76 (ISSl). 

 Nola pafma, Di-iice. Biol. Oentr.-Ain., Het. i. p. 140 (part). 

 Nolaph)/lla, Dyar. J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 43 (1898). 

 Meganola minor, Dyar, Can. Ent. 1899, p. (H. 

 Meganola conspicua, Dyar, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 43 (1898). 



Grey, tinged with brown and irrorated with black; palpi blackish 

 at sides. Fore wing often sutfased with brown and more or less 

 strongly irrorated with fuscous ; tufts of brownish scales near base 

 and at middle and upper angle of cell ; two black points on base of 

 costa and a slight streak below it ; the antemedial black line angled 

 outwards in cell, then oblique ; a triangular blackish patch on 

 middle of costa ; the postmedial line strongly excurved from below 

 costa to vein 3, and with an obscure line parallel to its inner side ; 

 an indistinct irregularly dentate subterminal line with some black 

 points at the veins, strongly retracted to costa ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing pale brownish fuscous ; vein 4 absent 

 or on a long stalk with 3. 



Ab. 1. fuscula = conspicaa. Usually larger; fore wing with the 

 ground-colour browner. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, 3 c? , 3 $ , Zell. Coll. ; Colorado, 2 c? , 2 2 , 

 type fuscula, Grote Coll. ; California ; Arizona (S'rJiwarz), 1 J , 

 cotype minor; Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 2 J, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll.; Panama, Chiriqui. VErp. 24-30 millim. Types f ^>7iyZ?rt and 

 conspicua in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



Subsp. 1. Hind wing white, the apex only tinged with fuscous. 

 Hah. Bolivia, Chaco, 2 (S . 



Larva, Dyar, Can. Ent. 1899, p. 61. 



Stage III. Pale yellowish, with a point on somite 7; head 

 •4 millim. 



Stage IV. Head pale testaceous, width "8 millim. ; body flattened ; 

 warts large, in three rows, the 4th concealed ; pale greenish, shaded 

 with white and brown ; a dorsal brown patch on somite 7 ; sub- 



