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postmedial costal area suffused with dark brown ; an obliquely- 

 incurved dark brown shade from middle of termen to inner margin 

 before tornus. 



Ab. 4. Wings greyish nearly tuiiformly suffused with black- 

 brown. 



Hab. Canada, Montreal {Gaulfield), 1 5, Ontario, London 

 {Beed), 1 $ , OriUia {BusJi), 1 $ , Manitoba, Winnipeg {Wallis), 

 2 d" , 4 $ , Cartwright, Br. Columbia, Kaslo, Eossland, Arrowhead 

 Lake, Vancouver I., cotypes f c? $ nor da in Coll. W. Barnes ; 

 U.S.A., east of Rocky Mts. {BoiMeday), 6 c? , 7 $ type involuta. 

 New York, Center {Bailey), 1 <S ', Albany {Bailey), 1 $ , 

 Florida, Arizona. Exp. 46-52 millim. 



*8035. Zale excellens. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 10.) 

 Homoptera excellens, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) x. p. 510 (1912). 



S ■ Head and thorax bright rufous ; palpi black-brown at sides ; 

 antennae black-brown ; tarsi brown with slight pale rings ; abdomen 

 pale grey-brown with darker iiToration, the ventral sm-faee tinged 

 with rufous. Fore wing rufoiis mixed with violaceous gi'ey and 

 slightly irrorated with black, the terminal area violaceous grey ; 

 subbasal line rather diffused, blackish, angled outwards below costa 

 and ending at submedian fold, some blackish suffusion below it on 

 inner area ; antemedial line indistinctly double, minutely waved, 

 excurved below the costa and cell, some violaceoiis grey suffusion 

 bey^ond it ; a black point in middle of cell and ill-defined brassy 

 green discoidal lunule irrorated with brown, a double sinuous red- 

 brown medial line, angled outwards at veins 2 and 1, and an indis- 

 tinct curved dentate red-brown line bey^ond the cell ; postmedial 

 line blackish, oblique, sinuoiTs and defined on outer side by whitish 

 to below vein 7, incurved at discal fold, angled outwards at vein 4, 

 then incmwed, waved, and indistinctly double towards inner margin, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line red-brown 

 defined on outer side by diffused brassy green, incurved to below 

 vein 4 where it is angled outwards and has a small dentate black 

 spot before it, then again incurved ; a series of black points before 

 termen with a larger point at submedian fold; cilia red-brown. 

 Hind wing greyish suffused with rufous, the basal area rather paler; 

 three indistinct minutely waved brown lines on medial area ; post- 

 medial line blackish, slightly sinuous, obsolescent towards costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinctly double, red-brown, sinuous, defined on 

 outer side by diffused brassy green with violaceous white suffusion 

 beyond it ; a series of black points, except towards apex, before 

 termen and a striga towards tornus ; a fine whitish line at base of 

 cilia ; the underside paler irrorated with dark brown, a small black 

 discoidal spot, two waved medial lines, and a crenulate postmedial 

 line. 



Hab. Costa Rica, Juan Vinas {ScJiaus), type f d in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Exp. 48 millim. 



