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vein 2 to medial line ; the extremity of median nervure and bases 

 of veins 3, 4 to postmedial line streaked with ochreous ; reniform 

 slightly defined by black and by ochreous on inner side, its upper 

 extremity very strongly produced, defined by ochreous below and 

 with slight ochreous streaks on it on veins 7, 6 ; a slight medial 

 line from vein 5 beyond lower angle of cell, angled inwards to the 

 claviform in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1 ; postmedial 

 line double filled in with yellowish, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, then oblique, sinuous ; a broad oblique pale patch from apex 

 to middle of postmedial line, whitish on apical area, rufous on post- 

 medial area ; a slightly curved whitish subterminal line from the 

 pale patch to submedian fold, where it is angled inwards, with black 

 streal<s before it in the interspaces, short above, longer below, and 

 with a series of yellowish and black striae beyond it ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules ; cilia yellowish mixed with brown, 

 intersected with whitish and with a dark line through them. Hind 

 wing hyaline white, the veins brownish towards termen, the apex 

 tinged with brown ; a brown 'terminal line from apex to vein 2 ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a terminal 

 series of small black lunules from apex to vein 2. 



Hab. U.S.A., Massachusetts, Distr. of Columbia, 2 J , Illinois, 

 Georgia, 1 c? , 2 $ , Texas; Mexico, Jalapa(^oe^e, Trujillo), 1 c?, 

 2 5, Presidio {For7'er), 1 S, Coatepec {BrooTcs), 1 J, Yucatan 

 (Gaumer), 1 §, San Bias {Walker), 1 $ ; Gttatesiala, Pantaleon 

 {Champion), 1 S , Cerro Zunil {Champion), 1 c? , Coatepeque {Cham- 

 pion), 1 (S , Vera Paz {Champion), 1 J; ISTicaeagpa, Chontales, 

 {Janson), 1 <^ ; Br. Honduras, Cayo {Blancaneau), 1 2 ; Costa 

 E,iCA, Candalaria Mts. {Underwood), 1 cJ , 2 $; Panama, Chiriqui 

 {Champion, Hibbe), 2 2 , Bugaba {Champion,), 1 d" , 1 $ , Godman- 

 Salvin Coll., Cana Mines {Tylecote), 1 $ ; Jamaica, Moneague 

 {Walsingham), 1 J, Runaway Bay {Walsingham), 1 d , Castleton 

 {Kaye), 1 cJ; St. Lucia {Cowie), 1 J , 2 $ ; St. Vincent {H. H. 

 Smith), 1 5 ; Grenada (H. H. Smith), 2 5 ; Cuba ; Haiti {Tweedie), 

 1 5 ; Barbados {Frampton), 1 c? , 1 $ ; Brazil, Amazons, Para, 

 ]. S 1 Sao Paulo {Jones), 2 $ ; Argentina, Goya {Perrins), 1 S i 

 {Thomas), 2 S • Exp 42-52 millim. 



Larva. Head reddish, black in front, the V-mark over clypeus 

 contrasted. Body robust, joints 5 and 12 enlarged; brown, finely 

 longitudinally strigose ; subdorsal line yellowish white, with a row 

 of black wedge-shaped marks above it ; lateral area pale on its 

 upper half, dark below, a black spot on joint 5 ; substigmatal band 

 obsolete.— H. G. D. 



3860. Prodenia pulchella. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 17.) 



Laphygma pulchella, Herr.-Schaff. Zool.-min. Corresp.-blatt. Eegensb. 



1868, p. 116. 

 Prodenia exquisita, Moschl. Abh. Senck. Gea. xiv. p. 41, pi. f. 23 (1884). 



Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous ; palpi with some 

 black on 2nd and 3rd joints behind ; frons with dark bar above ; 



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