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terminal half. Fore wing riif ous suffused with red-hrown and some 

 fuscous and slightly irrorated with blackish, the costal area darker, 

 the inner antemedial area and the terminal area above and below 

 middle reddish ockreous ; an indistinct double sinuous subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line indistinct, double, 

 sinuous, inwardly oblique ; an indistinct treble oblique sinuous 

 medial line ; a small black spot in middle of cell ; reniform faintly 

 defined by blackish and whitish striae, narrow; postmedial line 

 blackish, slightly bent outwards below costa, then waved, incurved 

 at discal fold and oblique below vein 4, a slight dark shade beyond 

 it ; a faint pale waved subterminal line slightly defined by brown and 

 on outer side by whitish spots below veins 7, 4 and 2, a dark fascia 

 beyond it on vein 4 ; a series of small dark spots before termen 

 from apex to vein 4, then a series of striae. Hind wing rufous 

 suffiised with red-brown and slightly irrorated with black ; an 

 indistinct slightly waved antemedial line and two lines beyond the 

 cell ; postmedial line double, black, waved, arising at vein 6, a 

 leaden fuscous jmtch beyond it at middle with streak on vein 4 to 

 termen ; a series of small dark spots before termen ; the underside 

 ochreous with discoidal lunule defined by brown, two sinuous 

 postmedial lines and subterminal shade. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing with white patch instead of fuscous bej^ond 

 the postmedial line. 



Hah. Mexico, Cuesta de Misantla {Trujillo), 1 $ ; Hondueas 

 (Di/son), 1 5 type; Guatemala, Zapote {Champion), 1 cJ , 1 ?, 

 Volcan de Atitlan {Champio'ii), 1 5; Costa Eica, Candelaria Mts. 

 ( Underwood), 1 5 ; Panama, Chiriqui (Bibhe), 1 c? , Grodman- 

 Salvin Coll. Mvp. 52-58 millim. 



b. {Xylis.) Fore wing of male with the termen evenly curved. 



8006. Zale setipes. 



Xylis seti'pes, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 7, pi. 15. f. 6 (1852); Driice, Biol. Centr.- 



Am., Het. i. p. 341. 

 Homoptera peruncta, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 9 (1852). 

 Homoftera ustipennis, Wlk. xiii. 1071 (1857) ; Driice, Biol. Centr.-Ain., 



Het. i. p. 342. 

 Letis incipiens, Wlk. xiv. 1266 (1858). 

 Hoinoptera csmona, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 344, pi. 31. f. 3 



(1889). 



S • Head and thorax fuscous brown with a slight greyish tinge ; 

 palpi with whitish rings at base and extremity of 3rd joint ; pectus 

 and hind legs brownish grey, the tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen fuscous blown with an ochreous brown dorsal patch on 2nd 

 segment, the ventral surface greyer. Fore wing fuscous brown with 

 a greyish tinge, the inner antemedial and terminal areas ochre'^us 

 tinged with red-brown ; subbasal line blackish, sinuous, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line blackish, double at costa, 

 sinuous to median nervure, then inwardly oblique ; a black point in 

 middle of cell ; reniform defined by blackish and Avith some white 



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