ZALE, 213 



is. Hind wing with the subtermirial line not 



defined on inner side by a rufous band ... curema. 

 b^. Fore wing grey suffused with red-brown. 

 a". Fore wing of male with the terminal area 

 irrorated with white and with white spot 



above tornus duplicata. 



J5, Fore wing of male with the terminal area 

 not irrorated with white and without 



white spot above tornus bethunei. 



c*. Fore wing dark purplish grey with some red- 

 brown in submedian and discal folds only . squaimdaris. 

 '. Fore wing with the subbasal and antemedial lines 

 slight and obsolescent. 



a?. Fore wing with the medial shade distinct largera. 



63. Fore wing with the medial shade indistinct ... oUiqua. 



8007. Zale exhausta. (Plate CCXXVIII. fig. 19 d , 20 ? .) 



Hmnoptera exhausta, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 14 (1852). 

 Homoptera vernifera. Wlk. xv. 1798 (1858). 

 Homo'ptera privata, Wlk. xxxiii. 883 (1865). 



Homoptera viridans, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 344 (part.), neo 

 Guen. 



(S . Head, tegulse, and prothorax"pale rufous, the rest of thorax 

 grey- white ; antennae brown ; tegulae with black line near base ; 

 palpi blackish at sides, the extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints 

 whitish ; Irons with slight lateral black bars ; pectus and legs 

 Avhite tinged with rufous, the tarsi black ringed with whitish ; 

 abdomen grey-white tinged with brown except at base, the 2nd 

 segment with small dorsal black spot. Fore wing grey-white 

 faintly striated with brown ; the basal area suffused with red- 

 brown ; traces of a double sinuous blackish subbasal line from 

 costal to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, blackish, 

 inwardly oblique, sinuous ; reniform faintly defined by brown and 

 tinged with red-brown, a patch of red-brown suffusion above it on 

 costa ; postmedial line black, oblique and sinuous to above vein 6, 

 bent inwards at vein 6, angled outwards above and below vein 4, 

 then oblique and angled outwards in the intersj^aces, a conical patch 

 of red-brown suffusion beyond it on costal area with some white 

 points on costa ; subterminal line indistinctly double, brownish and 

 slightly waved, excurved at middle and with a rather dentate brown 

 mark beyond it on vein 4 extending to termen ; a series of slight 

 blackish lunules before termen. Hind wing grey-white faintly 

 striated with brown ; a double sinuous black postmedial line filled 

 in with red-brown and with some red-brown beyond it, the inner 

 line arising at vein 7, the outer at discal fold, incu.rved between 

 vein 5 and submedian fold, a greenish grey patch beyond it between 

 veins 4 and 2 ; slight terminal blackish marks at submedian fold 

 and tomus ; the underside mottled with brown, an indistinct 

 sinuous postmedial line, diffused subterminal line, and series of 

 black points before termen. 



