ILLICE. 369 



777. Illice striata. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 8.) 



Cisthene striata, Ottoleng. Can. Ent. xxx. p. 101 (1898). 



Head and thorax fuscous grey ; a slight ring round neck and 

 the upper edge of patagia pink; abdomen crimson, fuscous below 

 to near extremity. Fore wing fuscous, usually with more or less 

 grey suffusion or pale streaks in the interspaces ; a narrow pale 

 crimson streak along inner margin from base to a small postmedial 

 spot ; the costal edge narrowly pinkish. Hind wing pale crimson, 

 with the costal area fuscous ; a large ai)ical fuscous patch, ex- 

 tending to lower angle of cell and vein 2, the cilia fuscous to near 

 toinus. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing with the fuscous on costal and apical areas 

 reduced to a small patch at apex. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with small wedge-shaped postmerlial spot on 

 costa, on underside connected by a line with the spot on inner 

 margin ; hind wing without fuscous on costal area, the terminal 

 band wide at costa, narrowing to a point near tornus.— Colorado, 

 Glen wood Springs {Barnes), Coll. Schaus. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida, Enterprise, 2^,2$, Grote Coll., Miami ; 

 Colorado, Glenwood Springs. Exp, 20-26 millim. 



*778. Illice calochroma. (Plate XXIX. fig. 28.) 



Uipocrifa calochroma, Suell. Bol. Ac. Cordoba, ii. p. 391 (1878) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 291. 



S . Head and thorax fuscous ; palpi except at tips, guise, and 

 tegulse orange ; streaks behind antennae orange-red ; thorax edged 

 with yellow tinged with crimson ; pectus with some crimson in 

 front ; abdomen crimson. Fore wing fuscous, with pale yellow 

 fascia on inner margin rather abruptly narrowing to tornus. Hind 

 wing crimson, with terminal fuscous band broad at costa, narrowing 

 to a point before tornus, its inner edge with a sinus between veins 

 2 and 5. 



Hah. Argentina, Cordoba, 1 J type f in Coll. Snellen. Exp. 

 24 millim. 



779. Illice minuta. (Plate XXIX. fig. 17.) 



Cisthene minuta, Butl. Trans. Eut. Soe. 1877, p. 327 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 289. 



$ . Head and thorax grey ; proboscis and tegulae tinged with 

 pink ; abdomen crimson. Fore wing grey, with white stripe in sub- 

 median fold from base to termen. Hind wing ci'imsou, the costal 

 area and a large apical patch extending down to vein 2 fuscous, 

 the termen and cilia fuscous to tornus. 



Hah. Colombia, Sta. Marta {Botichard), 1 2 type. Exp. 16 

 millim. 



*7S0. Illice? Msigna. 



Cisthene bisiqna, Berg, Acta Acad. Nac. Cordoba, i. p. 75 (1875); Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 289. 



d . Head, thorax, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen fuscous 



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