OPHISMA. 539 



between the waved postmedial and subterminal lines except on 

 inner area ; hind wing with blackish discoidal spot and slight 

 waved postmedial and subterminal lines anastomosing below costa. 

 Hah. Cuba, 1 c? ; Haiti (TweecUe), 2 J tj^^e restituta ; 

 Colombia, Bogota (Bircludl), type f c? indistincta in Coll. Druce ; 

 Venezuela, 4 S ; Beazil ; Faeaguay, Sapucay {Foster), 2 J ; 

 Aegenxina (0. Thomas), 1 5 . £'.xy. 46-54 millim. 



Genus OPHISMA. ^^p^ 



Opkisma, Guen. Noel. iii. p. 236 (1852) gravaia. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the ord short or inoderate ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with hair and without crests; tibise fringed with long hair In male, 

 the mid tibite spined, the fore and hind tibia not spined ; abdomen with 

 dorsal ridges of hair on basal segments. Fore wing with the costa highly 

 arched towards apex which is produced and somewhat falcate, the termeu 

 evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 6 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one-third length of wing ; veins 3, 

 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Mid tibia of male dilated with a groove containing a fringe of large 

 scales ; bind tarsi with the 1st joint fringed with hair above. 



A. Hind wing white, the basal and inner areas tinged with 



rufous 7;ff/^csce?is. 



33. Hind wing yellow, the terminal area whitish albitermia. 



C. Hind wing grey-brown cujprizonea. 



7671. Ophisma pallescens. 



Lagoptera pallescens, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 179 (1864). 

 Lagoptera violeita, Pag.Abh. Senck. Ges. xxiii. p. 449, pi. xx. f. 13 (1897). 

 Ophiusa pallida ab. iubploga, Eeth.-Baker, Kov. Zool. xiii. p. 260 (1906). 



S . Head pale fuscous brown ; thorax and abdomen white tinged 

 with rufous. Fore wing creamy white suffused with dull rufous 

 and irrorated with dark brown ; antemedial line pale red-brown 

 and rather diffused, excurved below costa and incurved in cell, 

 then erect ; reniform red-brown, oblique elliptical ; medial line 

 diffused, red-brown, excurved below costa, then obliquely incurved ; 

 postmedial line fine, pale red-brown, slightly waved, excurved 

 below costa, then oblique, and bent outwards to inner margin ; 

 subterminal line whitish, arising from near termen below apex, 

 then incurved, excurved at middle, then again incurved and ending 

 at tornus ; cilia brown. Hind wing white, the basal and inner 

 areas suffused with rufous ; a black subterminal patch from below 

 costa to submedian fold, narrow below, its outer edge excurved and 



