236 NOCTUlDiE. 



3854. Catabena vitrina. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 15.) 



Laphygma vitrina, Wlk. xi. 718 (1857). 



Ccdlierqes divisa, HeiT.-Schiiff. Zool.-inin. Corresp.-blatt. Regensb. 18B8, 



p. 147. 

 Adipso-phanes terminellus, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. 132 (1883) ; Smith, Cat. 



JNoct. N. Am. p. 194. 

 Homokadena Candida, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Miis. xxii. p. 478 (1900); Dyar, 



Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 124. 



J. Head and thorax white faintly tinged with rufous; frons 

 with strong black bar above ; tegulae with two faint brown lines 

 and slight black-brown dorsal streak ; upper edge of patagia and 

 metathorax with some black scales ; mid tibise with black streak 

 at base, the tarsi ringed with black ; abdomen white slightly 

 tinged with brown on dorsum, the anal tuft with ochreous. Fore 

 wing white faintly mottled with yellow-brown and with slight 

 dark irroration, the median nervure and extremity of subcostal 

 nervure streaked with black, the terminal area suiSused with 

 brown ; subbasal line represented by a very oblique black striga 

 from costa, the antemedial line by an oblique striga from costa and 

 two points on vein 1 ; orbicular and reuiform absent; traces of a 

 diffused waved oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line slight, blackish and bent outwards below 

 costa, then represented by two black streaks beyond the cell and 

 below vein 4 by an incurved series of black points ; traces of a 

 white subterminal line excurved at middle and bent outwards to 

 tornus ; the terminal area with series of black streaks in the 

 interspaces, above and below vein 5 extending to well before 

 subterminal line ; cilia fuscous intersected with white at base, 

 brown at tips. Hind wing hyaline white ; the termen suffused 

 with fuscous at apex, the extremities of veins streaked with fuscous 

 and a narrow terminal line from apex to vein 2 ; cilia white, 

 fuscous at apex. 



2 . Fore wing with si-rong black streak along median nervure 

 and vein 4 from base to subterminal line. 



Ab. 1. Fore Aving more uniform bluish grey-white without brown 

 suffusion on terminal area, the male with hardly a trace of black 

 streak on median nervure, the female with slight black streak. — ■ 

 Bahamas, Cuba. 



Hab. U.S.A., Texas, Kerrville, 2 (5^ , 3 ?, San Antonio, 2 $, 

 Arizona, Huachuca Mts., 1 5; Bahamas, Abaco (Bonhote), 1 §; 

 Cuba, Santiago (Schaiis), 2d, 2 $; Haiti (Ttveedie), 3 ,5 type; 

 Gr-enada (H. H. Smith), 1 S • i^^p. 24-26 millim. 



3855. Catabena terens. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 16.) 



Laphygma terens, Wlk. xi. 720 (1857). 



Fore wing grey-whito mixed with brown ; palpi with brown 

 marks at sides of 2nd and 3rd joints ; frons with black bar above; 

 teguljB with black line near base and white line near tips ; fore 



