228 ]vrocTiriB^. 



waved to vein 4, then incurved and with narrow dark hand heyond 

 it suffused with white scales ; a series o£ ohhque dark striae just 

 before termen and a terminal series o£ dark points. Hind wing 

 white tinged with -pale red-hrown except on basal area which is 

 irrorated with a few black scales ; three slightly sinuous brown 

 lines beyond the cell ; postmedial line double, black, slightly 

 excurved below costa, a narrow dark band beyond it suffused with 

 violaceous white and with a series of small black spots on its outer 

 edge ; the terminal area striated with blackish ; the underside 

 white irrorated with pale brown, three faint sinuoiis lines beyond 

 the cell, a waved postmedial line, two faint waved subterminal 

 lines, and a series of blackish points before termen. 

 Hab. Haiti (Tweedie), 1 5 type. Ua-jJ. 40 millim. 



8026. Zale galbanata. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 18 c^ , 19 $ .) 



Homoptera galhanaia, Morr. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 435 ' 

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



S . Head and thorax pale grey mixed with dark brown, the 

 tegulse with blackish lines near base and tips ; palpi blackish ; 

 frons with latei-al black bars ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; 

 abdomen pale grey irrorated with dark brown and with slight dark 

 segmental lines. Fore wing pale grey irrorated with dark brown 

 and suffused in parts with reddish brown, the terminal area striated 

 with blackish ; a slight curved black subbasal striga from eosta ; 

 antemedial line black, inwardly oblique, sinuous, a faint sinuous 

 whitish line before it and a paler band beyond it ; an oblique 

 dentate black medial line with a diffused dentate brown line 

 beyond it ; reniform a narrow lunule slightly defined by black ; 

 postmedial line double, the inner line black, the outer brown, 

 excurved below costa, incurved at discal fold, excurved at vein 4, 

 then oblique and slightly sinuous ; subterminal line double, brown, 

 oblique from near apex to vein 6, then closely approximated to the 

 postmedial line, excurved at vein 4, then incurved and slightly 

 sinuous ; terminal area bluish white except at apex and middle. 

 Hind wing pale grey tinged with brown and slightly irrorated 

 with black, the terminal area sti-iated with brown ; three sinuous 

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

 outer line somewhat incurved below vein 6, a faint brown line 

 beyond it, below discal fold defined on outer side by white followed 

 by blue-grey ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a 

 blackish diseoidal striga with faint bar above it from costa, a 

 sinuous postmedial line and faint subterminal line. 



$ . Wings more uniform grey with hardly any brown shades ; 

 fore wing without the blue-white on terminal area. 



Hal. Canada, Manitoba, Winnipeg (WalUs), 4 6, 20 $; 

 U.S.A., Eastern and Southern States to Texas and West to Colorado, 

 Nebraska, Kansas, Ncav Mexico. E.v]j. 40-44 millim. 



