MICEATHETIS. 



443 



4137. Micrathetis triplex. 



Lajphygma triplex, Wlk. xi. 721 (1857). 



Laphygma spUomela, Wlk. xxxii. 648 (1865). 



Galgula contraria, Herr.-Schaff. Zool.-min. Corresp.-blatt. E-egensb. xxii. 



p. 153 (1868). 

 Caradrina conviva, Harv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 6 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 



Am. p. 196. 

 Caradrina subaqtiila,, Harv. Can. Ent. x. p. 57 (1878) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 196. 



Head and thorax white tinged with yellow and irrorated with a 

 few black scales ; palpi with the 2nd joint black at sides ; tibiae and 

 tarsi blackish above ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with fuscous. 

 Fore wing yellowish white tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated 

 with fuscous ; the basal area with three black points on median 

 nervure ; antemedial line represented by an indistinct double 

 curved series of black points ; orbicular represented by a minute 



Fig. 123. — Micrathetis triplex, J'. 



black point ; reniform with black lunule in centre and pale annulus 

 slightly defined by black ; medial line diffused, black and oblique 

 from costa to reniform, very faint from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line represented by a double curved series of 

 black points ; subterminal line defined by dark sufi'usion on inner 

 side, minutely waved, arising from below apex, incurved at discal 

 fold and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; cilia fuscous. Hind wing semihyaline white ; a slight 

 dark terminal line from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the 

 costal area tinged with oohreous and irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing pale grey ; hind wing greyish, the terminal 

 area tinged with brown. 



Ab. 2. suhaqaila. Head, thorax, and fore wingmiich more strongly 

 suffused with rufous, 



Ab. 3. Head, thorax, and fore wing suffused with dark brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Te.\as, 3 c? , 1 5 , types conviva and subaquila, Cali- 

 fornia (D' Urban), 1 c? ; Mexico, Guerrero (H. H. Smith), 1 c5' , Presidio 

 {Forrer), 1 cJ , 2 5 , Yucatan ((?o^tr/^er), 1 $ ; Honduras (DysoJi, i2o6eri- 

 son), 1 (5 , 1 5 type ; Guatemala, Champerico {Ghamjnon),! cJjVera 

 Paz {Champion), 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Panama, La Chorrera 

 (Dolby -Tyler), 1 c? ; Bahamas, Nassau {Bonhote), 1 S , Abaco 

 (Bonhote), 1 $ ; Jamaica (Kaye), 1 6 , Runaway Bay (Walsingluoii), 



