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waved to vein 6, then bent inwards and with small dark spot 

 bejond it, angled oiitwards above and below vein 4, then oblique, 

 sinuous, angled outwards at submedial fold and with small dark 

 spot beyond it below vein 2 ; subterminal line indistinct, red-brown, 

 slightly waved, angled outwards at vein 4, then obliquely incurved 

 and with narrow broAvn band beyond it with some greenish scales 

 on it ; a faint oblique dark shade from apex and series of small 

 brown spots before termen ; cilia with a fine whitish line at base. 

 Hind wing rufous striated with broAvn ; two indistinct waved 

 brown lines beyond the cell; postmedial line double, black filled 

 m with red-brown, arising at vem 6, slightly waved, incui'ved 

 between vein 5 and submedian fold, a faint incurved brown shade 

 beyond it arising from apex and with white patch on it at 

 middle. Underside of both wings grey striated with dark brown, 

 a faint dark subterminal shade. 



Ab. 1. gradata, § . Fore wmg Avith the costal area tinged Avith 

 fuscous obliquely from apex to inner margin before middle. 



Sah. U.S.A., Florida, Texas ; Mexico, Cordova (SiimeU), 

 4 J, Cuesta de Misantla (Tri/jilJo), 2 6 , Jalapa (Tn/Jillo), 1 S; 

 GrUATEMALA (Bodrlffuez), 1 cS ; Panama, Chmqui (Champion), 

 2 J , Grodman-Salvin Coll. ; Cuba, Santiago (Schaiis), 2 J ; Haiti 

 (Tweedie), 4 li , 2 § type gradata; Guadeloupe; GkejS^ada 

 {R. H. Smith), 1 d ; Fe. Guiaka ; Beazil, type f 6 strigimacida 

 in Mus. Paris, Itaparica (Meade-Waldo), 4 S , '^ §; Aegentina 

 (O. Thomas), 2 6, 2 ?, Mendoza (Baine), 1 S- Exp. 54-62 

 millim. 



8012. Zale terrosa. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 6.). 



Homoptera terrosa, Gruen. Noct. iii. p. 11 (1852) ; Druce, Biol. Oeutr.-Am., 



Het. i. p. 343. 

 Homoptera posterior, Wlk. xiii. 1060 (1857). 



Homoptera gradata, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ani., Hefc. i. p. 343 (nee Wlk.). 

 Homoptera exhausta, Druce, Biol. Ceutr.-Am., Het. i. p. 343 (part.), nee 



Guen. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-broAvn, the last Avith slight 

 dark segmental lines ; palpi iiTorated Avith blackish ; fore tarsi 

 blackish Avith pale rings. Fore wing grey-broAvn striated AAath 

 blackish ; antemedial line indistinct, dou^ble, blackish, suiuous and 

 inAvardly oblique ; a faint double A\'aved medial line ; a blackish 

 point in middle of cell ; reniform a narroAv lunule slightly defined 

 by broAATi, Avith white striae on its outer edge and Avhite points at 

 lower extremities ; postmedial line black, sinuous to discal fold and 

 angled outAA^ards above vein 6, angled outAvards aboA^e and beloAv 

 vein 4, then oblique and angled outAvards beloAv vein 3 and at 

 submedian fold, Avith a mmute broAvn spot on its outer edge below 

 vein 2, a slight Avedge-shaped brown shade beyond it on costal 

 area; subterminal line A^ery indistinct, incurved and with slighb 

 dark shade on its outer side beloAv vein 4; a series of small black 

 spots before termen, and fine pale Ime at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 grey-broAAm, the basal and terminal areas slightly striated with 



