214 KOCTUIDiE. 



5 . Thorax and abdomen tinged with red-brown ; wings tinged 

 with red-brown and prominently striated with dark brown ; fore 

 wing with the postmedial line filled in with blackish. 



Hal. U.S.A., Florida; Mexico, Jalapa {Trujillo), 2 S 

 GrUATEMALA {Roclriguez), 1 c?, Yolcan de Atitlan {Champion) 

 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Ecuador, 1 S ; Brazil, Amazons 

 Para, 1 6 type vernifera ; Rio Janeiro {Dolirn, Browne'), 2 $ 

 Tijuca {Wagner), 1 <S ; Paraguay, Sapucay {Foster), 5 c? , 6 § 

 I][v2J. 48-56 millim. Type f <S jprivata in Mus. Oxon. 



8008. Zale pachystrigata, n. sp. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 1 cJ , 2 $ .) 



Homoftera viridisquama, Drucc, Eiol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 344 (part.), 



nee Wlk. 

 IIoino2)iera edusa, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. 1. p. 342 (part.), necDrury, 



(S . Head and thorax pale grey mixed with brown and some pale 

 rufous ; tegulse with black line near base ; pectus pale rufous ; 

 fore and mid tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen grey tinged 

 with rufous and irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey-white 

 tinged in parts with rufous and striated with brown ; antemedial 

 line donble, blackish filled in with rafous, angled outwards below 

 costa, then oblique and sinuous to inner margin near base ; reni- 

 form very indistinctly defined, with some rufous before it and 

 above it on costa ; postmedial line black, oblique and waved to 

 above vein 6, then bent inwards, angled outwards above and below 

 vein 4, then oblique and angled outwards in the interspaces, a small 

 brown spot on its outer side below vein 2 ; a conical red-brown 

 patch beyond it on costal area ; a narrow incurved dark brown band 

 from termen at vein 4 to inner margin before tornus with a faint 

 greenish grey tinge on its outer side ; a series of small red-brown 

 spots before termen ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 grey-white faintly tinged with rufous and striated with brown ; 

 the median nervure and vein 1 slightly streaked with grey-green 

 and irrorated with black scales ; the antemedial area with traces of 

 three double waved lines, the postmedial area with two similar 

 lines ; postmedial line double, black, minutely waved, incurved 

 between discal and submedian folds, followed by a diffused sinuous 

 grey-green band ; a series of slight red-brown spots before tei-men ; 

 cilia with a fine pale line at base. Underside grey tinged and 

 striated with brown, a slight postmedial line and sub terminal 

 shade, 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen with dark brown mixed ; wings 

 almost entirely suffused with dark brown and striated with black, 

 the terminal area paler except towards costa. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa {TrvjiUo), 1 S type, Mexico City 

 (Hoeqe), 1 $ ; GtUATEMAUA, Cerro Zimil {Champion), 1 $, Grod- 

 man-Salvin Coll. Exp. 48-58 millim. 



