216 KOCTUID^. 



double oblique sinuous brown subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold with some greenish grey beyond it in cell and black striae on 

 costa ; antemedial line double, blackish filled in with red-brown, 

 inwardly oblique and slightly sinuous, some greenish grey suffusion 

 beyond it on inner area and as streaks on subcostal and median 

 nervures ; a black point in middle of cell ; reniform a diffused 

 ochreous spot defined on inner side by a slight curved black line ; 

 postmedial line black, oblique and sinuous to above vein 6, incurved 

 at discal fold, angled outwards above and below vein 4, then 

 oblique and angled outwards in the interspaces, a small brown 

 spot on its outer edge below vein 2 ; the termmal area more 

 ochreous with a conical red-brown patch on postmedial pai-t of 

 costa with whitish points on the costa ; subtenninal line brownish 

 defined on outer side by grey-green, angled outwards at vein 4 

 Avhere there is a small dentate blackish mark from it to termen ; a 

 series of small red-brown spots before termen. Hind wing ochreous 

 tinged with red-brown and faintly striated with brown ; the median 

 nervure and vein 1 streaked with grey-green ; two indistinct waved 

 brown lines beyond the cell ; postmedial line dotible, black filled in 

 with red-brown, the inner line sinuous, the outer slightly waved 

 towards costa and inner margin, incurved between discal and sub- 

 median folds, a grey-green band beyond it with some blackish 

 towards apex and tornus ; a series of small red-brown spots before 

 termen. Underside of both wings grey mottled and striated mth 

 dark brow^n, an indistinct dark postmedial line and rather diffused 

 subterminal line. 



Sah, Mexico, Jalapa {Tntjillo), 1 S, Vera Cruz, Cordova 

 (Siimeli), 1 § ; Guatemala, Zapote {Champion), 1 $ ; Costa 

 KiCA, Sta. Clam Valley (ZiircJier), 1 c? , Candelaria Mts. {Under- 

 tvood), 1 c? ; Panama, Chiriqui {Chanqyion, Sibbe), 3 $ , Godman- 

 Salvin Coll.; Vejs^ezuela, 1 J; Bkazil, Amazons (Wallace), 1 $ 

 type viridisquama, Sao Paulo (Z). Jones), 2 c5' ; Paraguat, 

 Sapucay (Foster), 1 $ . Exjj. 48-60 millim. 



8011. Zale fictilis. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 5.) 



Homoptcra fictilis, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 10 (1852). 

 Homoptera guadulpensis, Giien. Noct. iii. p. 10 (1852). 

 Homoptera airigimacida, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 11 (1852). 

 Homopiera gradata, Wlk. xiii. 1060 (1857). 



Homoptera exhausta, Driice, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 343 (neo Guen). 

 Homopiera viridisquama, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 3i4 (part.), 

 nee Wlk. 



Head and thorax rufous ; tegulse with black line near base ; 

 antennae brown ; fore and mid tarsi black, ringed with white ; 

 abdomen pale rufous with slight fuscous bands on two terminal 

 segments, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing rufous striated 

 with brown ; a slight obliquely curved dark subbasal line from 

 costa to vein 1 near base ; antemedial line indistinctly double, 

 obhque from cell to inner margin near base ; reniform very 

 obsemrely defined by red-brown ; postmedial line slight, black, 



