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8009. Zala galactea, n. sp. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 3.) 



Homoptem viridans, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 344 (part.), nee 



Giien. 

 "Hoinoptera vlrldisquama, Druce, B:ol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 344 (part.), 

 iiec Wlk. 



_ Head, tegular, and prothorax rufous, the rest of thorax grey 

 tinged with rufous ; antennae brown ; tegulas with black line near 

 base ; frons with black lateral bars ; pectus and legs whitish tino-ed 

 with rufous, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen whitish 

 tinged with rufous, a small dorsal black spot on 2nd segment and 

 spot at base of anal segment. Fore wing white tinged with nifous 

 and striated with red- brown, the basal area suffused with red-brown 

 with slight greenish suffusion beyond it ; traces of a double sinuous 

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

 blackish, inwardly oblique and slightly sinuous ; a brown point in 

 middle of cell ; reniform faintly defined by brown and with some 

 red-brown suffusion above it on costa ; postmedial line black, 

 oblique and sinuous to above vein 6, bent inwards at vein 6, ano-led 

 outwards above and below vein 4, then incurved, angled outwards 

 in the interspaces and with small brown spot on it below vein 2, a 

 conical red-brown patch beyond it on costal area with some whitish 

 points at costa ; subterminal line slight, brown, dentate, defined on 

 outer side by grey-green ; a faint waved red-brown line before 

 termen. Hind wing creamy whitish faintly striated with red- 

 brown ; faint greenish streaks on median nervure and vein 1 ; 

 postmedial line double, black, sinuous, filled in with red- brown and 

 with some red-brown suffusion beyond it, followed by a diffused 

 greenish band from vein 6 to tornus where there is a small dark 

 spot ; the underside mottled with brown, a sinuous postmedial 

 line, diffused subterminal line, and series of black points before 

 termen. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa {Triijillo), 1 S type, Atoyac, Vera Cruz 

 (^Schumann), 1 5; Panama, Chiiiqui (^Champion), 1 c? , Grodman- 

 Salvin Coll. ExiJ. 56-60 millim. 



8010. Zale viridans. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 4.) 



Thalcena lunafa, Oi'ain. Pap. Esot. iv. p. 38, pi. 308. f. (nee Drury). 

 Homoptera viridans, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 13 (1852). 



Homoptera viridisquama, Wlk. xv. 1797 (1858); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Het. i. p. 344. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; tegulse with a 

 black line near base ; palpi with the basal joint black, the 2nd 

 and 3rd irrorated with black ; frons with lateral black bars ; pectus 

 and legs brownish white, the latter irrorated with brown, the fore 

 and mid tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown with 

 slight blackish segmental lines, the 2nd segment with small dorsal 

 black spot, the ventral surface brownish white. Fore wing ochreous 

 tinged with red-brown and faintly striated with brown ; a slight 



