222 NOCTUIDiK, 



black scales, the costa with slight dark strise ; suhbasal line slight, 

 whitish, oblique, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line indistinct, brown defined on outer side by whitish, excurved 

 below median nervure, then inwardly oblique and slightly incurved 

 at vein 1 ; the medial area with three very indistinct double 

 sinuous lines, oblique below the cell and vein 4 ; a small white mark 

 at middle of costa ; reniform a narrow lunule faintly defined by 

 brown ; postmedial line slight, blackish, white on costal area, 

 minutely waved to vein 6, then bent inwards, excurved above and 

 below vein 4, then oblique and slightly sinuous, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line double, very indistinct and 

 waved to vein 4, then incurved, violaceous white patches beyond it 

 from below apex to above vein 4 and froin vein 3 to above tornus ; 

 a series of minute brown spots before termen. Hind wing bright 

 rufous, the inner margin whitish ; three indistinct waved brown 

 lines beyond the cell; postmedial line slight, double, blackish, 

 minutely waved ; the terminal area violaceous white from vein 6 

 to tornus ; a series of minute brown spots before termen ; cilia 

 with a fine pale line at base ; the underside whitish in'orated with 

 brown, a small blackish discoidal spot, rather diffused postmedial 

 and subterminal lines, and a series of blackish points before 

 termen. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing without white patches on terminal area. 



Ab. 2. Both wings Avithout white patches on terminal area. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida, Miami; Guatemala, Las Mercedes 

 {Champion), 2 d" , 1 $ , Volcan de Atitlan {Champion'), 1 $ ; 

 Panama, Chiriqui, 3 d , 3 § , G-odman-Salvin Coll. ; Cuba, 

 (Schatis), 1 $ ; Brazil, Amazons, Para, 2 c? type. Mtj). 40-52 

 millim. 



8019. Zale salicis. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 13.) 



Homoptera salicis, Bebr, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 28 (1870), $; Siuitb, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 370, 

 Homoptera rose, Bebr, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 28 (1870), c?; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 369. 



S • Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some grey ; tegulse 

 Avith black line near base ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with 

 rufous, the fore and mid tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 pale rufous, the ventral surface whitish tinged with rufous. Fore 

 wing rufotis with some grey mixed and slightly irrorated with 

 black, the terminal area striated Avith broAvn ; antemedial line 

 indistinctly double, blackish defined on outer side by grey, sinuous 

 and oblique from costa to inner margin near base ; the medial area 

 with traces of double oblique sinuous lines; reniform a very 

 faintly defined narroAv lunule, produced at upper extremity and 

 angled inwards on median nervm-e, a white point at its lower 

 extremity ; postmedial line black, Avaved to above vein 6, then 

 bent inwards, excurved above and below vein 4, then oblique and 



