228 NOCxiriD^. 



terminal area tinged with I'ufous : the underside with the costal 

 and terminal areas tinged with yellowish and slightly irrorated with 

 rufous, a slight red-brown postmedial mark on costal area. 



Hah. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), 3 d , 1 $ type, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus ESCARIA, ,_ 



Type. 

 Escaria, Grote, Papilio, ii. p. 186 (1882) dauda. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi obliquelj porrect, short, the 2nd joint 

 moderately fringed with hair; Irons with long corneous heart-shaped process 

 ■with raised edges and corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antennae 

 of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; 

 tibije slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with 

 the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; yeins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; G from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 

 8 to form the areole; ll from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



8845. Escaria clauda. 



Escaria clauda, Grote, Papilio, ii. p. 186 (1882); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 302. 



Head and thorax reddish ochreous mixed with black ; tarsi 

 blackish with pale rings ; abdomen reddish ochreous. Fore wing 

 ochreous irrorated with rufous and some blackish ; subbasal line 

 blackish, excurved below costa and cell, angled inwards in cell and 

 ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line with double black spots at costa, 

 then blackish defined on inner side by ochreous, waved, angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; claviform a small blackish mark ; orbicular 



Fig. 53.— Escaria clauda, c?. |. -~ 



small, round, ochreous defined by some black scales ; reniform an 

 ochreous bar defined by some black scales ; postmedial line blackish 

 slightly defined on outer side by ochreous, bent outwards below 

 costa, then incurved, slightly excurved at median nervules, then 

 incurved and somewhat dentate, some slight pale points beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line pale defined on inner side by rufous, 

 oblique towards costa, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a 

 fine black terminal line ; cilia fuscous mixed with some ochreous 

 and with a slight dark line at middle. Hind wing ochreous tinged 

 with brown especially on terminal area ; a slight discoidal spot, 



