TALARA. 381 



808. Talara ditis. 



Mmpha ditis, Butl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 38.5 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 291. 



Oransje ; palpi, antenna?, tegulae, and pafcagia tinged with scarlet ; 

 extremities of tibine and tarsi ringed with black. Fore wing with 

 the veins streaked with scarlet ; diffused black streaks on base of 



ccsta and subcostal nervure 

 and some diffused scales 

 before the fine medial black 

 line, which is angled out- 

 wards below costa and on 

 median nervure and inwards 

 in subraedian fold, theu 

 bent outwards to inner mar- 

 gin ; the postmedial line 



'Pig.lQb.— Talara ditis, S . I- waved and produced to a 



tooth above vein 5 ; a sub- 

 terminal series of small diffused spots, curved from costa to vein 5, 

 then almost conjoined to the postmedial line. Hind wing tinged 

 with crimson. 



Hah. Brazil, Espiritu Santo, t^-pe S •, Sao Paulo (Jones), 3 cj" , 

 2$. Exi). 14-16 millim. 



*809. Talara barema. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 21.) 



Talara barema, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 149 (1896). 



S . Head and thorax whitish tinged with brown ; abdomen 

 j^ellow. Fore wing whitish, suffused with brown and irrorated with 

 black ; a patch of blackish suffusion in and below cell just beyond 

 middle, and traces of a similar patch beyond the discocellulars. 

 Hind wing pale yellow. 



Hah. Brazil, S^^o Paulo (Jones), 1 S type in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 

 18 millim. 



*310. Talara leucocera. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 22.) 



Talara leucocera, Druee, A. M. N. H. (7) iii. p. 467 (1899). 



S . Head and thorax- yellowish white tinged with brown ; antennae 

 almost white ; abdomen crimson. Fore wing pale ochreous, irrorated 

 and suffused with red-brown ; traces of a dark discoidalspot. Hind 

 wing pale crimson. 



Hah. Brazil, Espiritu Santo, 2 cJ, type f in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 

 18 millim. 



811. Talara niveata. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 28.) 

 Cisthene niveata, Butl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 384 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 289. 



S . Head and thorax white, with some fuscous on frons, tegulae, 

 thorax, and shoulders ; palpi and fore legs fuscous ; abdomen pale 



