380 ARCXIAD.E. 



Head, tliorax, and abddineii black-brown ; vertex of head and a 

 etripe on tegula' and tliDinx orange; tarsi with the 1st joint 

 whitish. Fore wing orange ; the costa streaked with black towards 

 base ; the intersijaces sutl'nscd with fuscous ; the terminal third 

 strongly sufl'used with black ; veins 5 and (i streaked with orange. 

 }liiid wing black-brown. 



Antenna) with the shaft strongly dilated with scales. 



Uab. roKio Rico, typo famuta in Coll. Staudinger ; Brazil, 

 Espiritu Santo, 1 $ type, Sao Paulo {Jones), 1 J . Exp. 18 millim. 



8ii7. Lycomorphodes sordida. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 31.) 



Lcptidulc sorditla, JJutl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 369 ; Druce, Biol. Centr.- 



Ani., Het. i. p. 138; Kirby, Cat. liet. p. 3iK). 

 Talara coccinea, Druce, Hiol. Ceiitr.-Aia., llet. i. p. 125 (uec Butl.). 



cJ . Head and thorax orange ; palpi, frons, antennae, and stripes 

 on teguUc and patagia black ; legs blackish, the 1st joint of mid and 

 hind tarsi whitish ; abdomen blackish, the genital tufts ochreous. 

 Fore wing orange, the termen slightly tinged with black or with 

 prominent dentate marks. Hind wing fuscous, with orange fascia 

 on costa to near apex and a slight streak on median nervure, 

 or orange with dittustd fuscous streaks on inner and terminal 

 areas. 



2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing orange-red, the last with the 

 interspaces tinged with fuscous and with blue-black spot on middle 

 of costa. 



Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz (//. H. Smith), 1 c? ; Guatemala, 

 Caldera (Champion), 1 J , 1 § ; Costa Rica {Underwood),! $ ; 

 Panama, Rugaba (67<«mji?'o/i) 1 c? , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Colombia, 

 Sta. Marta {Bouchard), i d type. Ex-j^j., cS 20-22, $ 26 millim. 



Genus TALARA. ^ 



Type. 



Talara, Wlk. xxxv. 1891 (186(5) 7negaspila. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending just beyond the frons; 

 antenna' of male ciliated; tibia' with the spurs nu)derate ; abdomen clotlied 

 with rough hair. Fore wing long and narrow ; vein 2 from beyond middle of 

 cell; 3 from well before angle; 4,6 from angle or separate; 6 from behiw 

 upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10 free; 11 anastomosing with 12. Hind wing 

 with vein 2 from well beyond middle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle or stalked ; 

 abrent ; 6, 7 coincident ; 8 from or from beyond middle of cell. 



Sect. I. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked. 



A. Fore wing yellow, with ante- and postmedial black lines, 



the veins streaketl with crimson ditis. 



B. Fore wing williout transverse lines. 



a. Hind wing yellow barema. 



b. Hind wing crimson leucocera, 



c. Hind wing with the basal lialf crimson, the terminal 



half fuscous; fore wing white niveata. 



d. Hind wing wholly fuscous cinerea. 



