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and somewhat inwardly oblique ; a faint pale diseoidal bar with black 

 points at its upper and lower extremities ; postmedial line formed 

 by minute brown lunulas faintly defined on outer side by 

 ochreous, oblique to above vein 6, then bent inwards, forming an 

 oblique sinus extending to submedian fold, then bent inwards and 

 upwards to near lower angle of cell and waved to inner margin, 

 a faint brown shade beyond it from costa ; traces of a pale w^aved 

 subterminal line, excurved below vein 7, where there is a dark 

 point on its inner side, and excurved at middle ; a series of black 

 points before termen. Hind wing dull reddish brown ; a slight 

 oblique dark postmedial line from vein 6 to tornus with a blackish 

 shade beyond it, broad at costn, narrowing to a point at tornus ; 

 a series of black points just before termen. Underside pale red- 

 brown with a greyibh tinge ; fore wing with slight postmedial and 

 subterminal lines with blackish patch between them at middle ; 

 hind wing with black diseoidal point, postmedial line waved to 

 discal fold, then oblique, and faint diffused subterminal line. 



Ab. 1. tropicalis. Fore wing with oblique whitish band beyond 

 the medial line defiaed on outer side by rather diffused black. 



Ab. 2. morhillosa. Fore wing wath black suffusion between 

 medial and subterminal lines from below costa to vein 2, tho 

 postmedial line detined by more or less developed serpentine greyish 

 markings. 



Ab. 3. croceimacula. Head, thorax, and fore wing bright deep 

 rufous with a more or less developed orange spot above inner 

 margin on the postmedial line. 



Hub. Mexico, at sea, 1 5, Jalapa (Trujillo, Boe(/e), 3 c? , 3 $ , 

 Durango (Becker), 1 $, Godman-Salvin Coll.; N.W. Coast of 

 America {Kellett 4' Wood), 3 J , 1 $ type detrahens ; Cuba, 

 Santiago (/So/jrtits), 1 c? , Baracoa (Schaus), 2 $ ; Haiti (Tiveedie), 

 1 c? ; St. Vincent,! § iyiie stigmatifera ; G'Rk^a.X)\(II. B. SmitJi), 

 1 c? , 1 5 ; Colombia, Eogotji (Stevens), 1 (^ type conftmdens ; 

 Venezuela, Aroa, 2 2 ; Brazil, Kahia (de la Garde), 1 $ , llio 

 Janeiro, 1 $ type hiteiplac/a, Tijuca (Wac/ner), 1 5; Paraguay, 

 Sapucay {Foster-), 8 c5' , 5 $ ; Argentina, Mendoza (Baiue), 1 cf ; 

 Hab. ign., 1 2 type fugiens. Exp. 50-68 millim. 



7679. Ophisma variata. (Plate CCXIX. fig. 4.) 



Ophisma variata, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii- p. 89 (1901). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen deep red-brown. Fore wing deep 

 red-brown ; antemedial line almost medial, brown slightly defined on 

 outer side by grey, straight and somewhat inwardly oblique ; two dark 

 diseoidal points on faint pale spots ; postmedial line indistinct, brown , 

 waved, oblique and slightly defined on outer side by white to vein 6, 

 then bent inwards, forming an oblique sinus extending to submedian 

 fold, then retracted to lower angle of cell and erect to inner margin, 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa ; a faint pale Avaved 

 subterminal line, excurved below costa ; a series of white and 



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