370 AUCTIADj;. 



prey irrorntod with -whito ; tcf,'iiUr! yellow; abdomen dorsally 

 crimson, irroraled with dark scales. Fore wing fuscous grey 

 irrorated with while; postmedial white patches on costa and 

 inner margin. Hind wing suffused with crimson, with a terminal 

 grev hand. 



Jlith. Tatagoxia, Carmen, Exp. 20 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



*781. mice plumhea. (Plate XXIX. fig. 4.) 



Cisthene plumbea, Stretch, Ent. Am. i. p. 102 (1885); Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 289. 



S . Head and thorax fuscous, almost entirely suffused with 

 white ; abdomen crimson, the ventral surface grey. Fore wing 

 fuscous suffused with white ; a somewhat triangular spot on inner 

 margin towards tornus. Hind wing brownish fuscous with a 

 slight grey tinge ; a pale crimson patch on inner area extending up 

 to the cell, its outer edge curved from lower angle to termen above 

 tornus. 



llah. U.S.A., Texas, in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exjj. 22 millim. 



782. Illice tyres. 



Lithosia tyres, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., llet. ii. p. 400, pi. 78. f. 14(1897). 



S . Head, thorax, and fore wing grey, strongly irrorated with 

 black ; abdomen pale crimson. Fore wing with obscure ante- 

 medial black line from cell to inner margin, acutely angled on 

 vein 1 ; an irregular white band just beyond middle, dentate 

 on inner and outer sides below costa and diffused inwardly on 

 inner area ; some diffused subterminal dark patches. Hind wing 

 pale crimson, with blackish apical patch narrowing to vein 2. 



Ilab. GrATEMALA, Duciias {Champion)^ 1 cf type; Xic.vragua, 

 Chontales {Janson), 1 J , Godman-Salvin Coll. Kip. 22 millim. 



*783. Illice ditrigona. (Rate XXIX. fig. 8.) 

 M(epha ditrigona, Scbaus, J. N. Y. Ent. See. vii. p. 215 (1899). 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange ; frons, antenna?, 

 shoulders, and a patch on thorax blue-black ; legs banded with 

 blue-black. Fore wing orange, suffused with purplish fuscous ; 

 the basal half with orange fascia below costa and broader fascia 

 below cell reaching the inner margin at base ; postmedial tri- 

 angular orange patches on costa and inner margin, nearly conjoined. 

 Hind wing orange, with apical black patch narrowing to vein 2. 



$ . Fore wing with the ground-colour darker, the markings pale 

 yellow, the postmedial patch on inner margin more rounded and 

 widely separated from the costal patch. 



Iliih. J5kaz]l, Xovo Friburgo, 1 J , 1 5 typef in Coll. Schaus. 

 Eap. 20 millim. 



