SAFTA. — ZALE. 207 



a terminal series o£ M'hitish points and fine waved line at base of 

 cilia ; the underside grey tinged and thickly irrorated with brown, 

 an indistinct brown discoidal annulus Avith faint line from it to 

 inner margin, an indistinct postmedial line, and faint diffused 

 subterminal line. 



Hah. Mexico, Vera Cruz, Paso San Juan {Schaiis), type f 2 

 in U.S. Nat. Mus. JEiy. 42 millim. 



8004. Safia minax. (Plate CCXXVIII. fig. 18.) 



Coxina minax, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 298 (1852); Dnice, Biol, Centr.-Am., Het. 

 i. p. 341. 



$ . Head, thoiux, and abdomen dark brown mixed with grey, the 

 last with small white spot at middle of dorsum ; palpi and legs 

 black-brown mixed with grey, the tarsi ringed with whitish. Fore 

 wing dark brown irrorated with grey and black and tinged in ])arts 

 with reddish ; double black subbasal striae from costa ; antemedial 

 line double, blackish, diffused, waved ; an indistinct waved dark 

 medial line ; reniform defined on inner side by white points above 

 and below and on outer by a white sti'iga expanding into a small 

 spot at its lower extremity ; postmedial line black, defined on each 

 side by whitish at costa, bent outwards below costa, then slightly 

 sinuous, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, an indistinct 

 maculate dark line beyond it and some white points on costa ; 

 subterminal line slight, whitish, somewhat sinuous, excurved below 

 vein 7 ; a series of slight black points before termen and a waved 

 blackish terminal line interrupted by white points at the inter- 

 spaces ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing brown ; a faint 

 dark minutely waved postmedial line from vein 4 to tomus, slightly 

 defined on outer side by grey, and a similar subterminal line ending 

 on termen at vein 1 ; a waved blackish terminal line and whitish 

 line at base of cilia ; the imderside grey- white irrorated with brown, 

 a small dark discoidal spot with pale centre, traces of a sinuous 

 medial line, a minutely waved postmedial line, faint waved 

 subterminal line, and terminal series of black points. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (ScJmtis), 1 $ , Yucatan. Uccp. 36 

 millim. 



Genus ZALE. „ 



Type. 



Zale, Hiibn. Yerz. p. 274 (1827).. horrida. 



Phoeoci/ma, Hiibn. Verz. p. 275 (1827) lunata. 



Oinopterus, Boisd. Guer. Icon. Reg. Anim. p. 522 (1829), non 



descr lunata. 



Xylis, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 7 (1852) setipes. 



Homoptera, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 8 (1852) lunata. 



Ypsia, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 16 (1852) , arugivom. 



Anthracia, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 18 (1852) ; nee Hiibn coracias. 



Fseiida.nthracia, Grote, Bull. Buff. Sac. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 46 



(1874) coracias. 



Nephelina, Kirby, Allen's Nat. Libr. v. p. 130 (1897) edusa. 



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

 vertex of head and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd long; frons smooth, with 



