218 N0CTUIDJ3. 



brown ; three indistinct sinuous brown lines beyond the cell ; post- 

 medial line double, black, arising at vein 7, the inner line sinuous, 

 the outer slightly angled outwards at discal fold, then incurved to 

 submedian fold ; a series of minute black spots before termen and 

 fine pale line at base of cilia ; the underside whitish striated with 

 broAvn, a slight dark subterminal shade. 



Ab. 1. posterior. Wings suffused in parts with greyish fuscous. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa {TrujiUo, Hoege), 5 c? , 2 5 , Coatepec 

 {Brooke), 1 $ , Tabasco, Teapa (if. H. Smith), 1 5 , Tamaulipas, 

 Zampico (i2/c7iff?Y?sci?i), I $ ; GtUATemala, Coatepec {Champion), 

 1 c? ; Nicaragua, Chontales {Janson), 1 $ ; Costa Eica, Van 

 Patten, 1 S; Panama, Chiriqui {Champion), 8 6,5 5, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. ; Jamaica {Gosse, Kaye), 1 c? , 2 2 f "typ^ posterior, 

 Hope {Kaye), 1 § ; St. Vincent, 2 ? ; Dominica, 1 d ; Grenada 

 {H. H. Smith), 1 c?, 2 $; Trinidad, Ij, 1 $; Beazii,, 

 Amazons, Breves {Austen), 1 5, Itaparica {Meade- Waldo), 1 c^ , 

 1 $; Paraguay, Sapucay {Foster), 3 c?, 4 $; Argentina 

 {O. Thomas), 1 d • ^^vp. 40-56 millim. 



*8013. Zale grata. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 7.) 



TmIc grata, Dogu. Het. Nouv. Am. Sud, vi. p. 13 (1912), 



5 . Head and thorax rufous with some black-brown scales ; 1st 

 and 2nd joints of palpi with some black at sides and whitish in 

 front ; tarsi Avith greyish rings ; abdomen dorsally pale rufous 

 with fine blackish segmental lines. Fore wing rufous sparsely 

 irrorated with black-brown, the basal area rather darker, the ter- 

 minal half paler ; subbasal line double, brown, smuous, from costa 

 to submedian fold, some pale green scales beyond it on subcostal 

 and median nervures ; antemedial linq treble, brown, waved, rather 

 inwardly oblique ; a yellow-gTeen streak on inner margin from it to 

 the subterminal line ; a minute black spot in middle of cell ; reni- 

 f orm a narrow lunule, yellow-green slightly defined by brown ; a 

 treble waved brown medial line, excurved to median nervure, then 

 oblique ; postmedial line black-brown slightly defined on outer side 

 by ochreous, oblique to vein 6, incurved at discal fold, slightly 

 angled outwards at veins 4, 3, then incurved and slightl}- angled 

 outwards at vein 2 ; a red-brown patch on postmedial costal area 

 with some pale points with dark streaks between them at costa ; sub- 

 terminal line double, black-brown, with spots on its inner side above 

 and below vein 7 and below vein 4 ; a yellow-green band on its outer 

 edge from vein 7 to inner margin, incmwedto vein 4 where it is angled 

 outwards, then again incurved, some yellow-green scales before the 

 spot above vein 7 ; a slight crenulate black-brown line before termen 

 angled inwards to minute spots defined on outer side by whitish in 

 the interspaces. Hind wing pale grey-brown with a reddish tinge 

 and slight dark irroration ; three indistinct sinuous brown lines 

 beyond the cell ; postmedial line slight, blackish, sinuoiis, arising at 

 vein 6 ; subterminal line double, brown, somewhat diffused, slightly 

 incmwed below vein 5 and defined on outer side by a narrow jellow- 



