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suffusion beyond it ; traces of a double sinuous dark medial line ; 

 raniform black- brown with a slight leaden grey gloss and faintly 

 defined on outer side by whitish ; postmedial line very indistinct, 

 blackish, oblique to vein 7 where it is angled outwards, then in- 

 curved, excurved at vein 4, then oblique and sinuous ; subterminal 

 line black, slightly angled outwards at vein 7, then incurved, angled 

 outwards below vein 4, then strongly incurved and slightly sinuous, 

 defined on outer side by red-brown before the white terminal area ; 

 a fine waved blackish terminal line. Hind wing red-brown tinged 

 with grey and irrorated with dark brown, the terminal area with 

 more or less white striated with brown and suffused with brown at 

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

 medial line slight, blackish, sinuous ; subterminal line black slightly 

 defined on outer side by whitish, obsolescent towards costa, incurved 

 and slightly waved below vein 6, some bro\\m bej^ond it before the 

 Avhite terminal area ; a crenulate black terminal line ; the underside 

 whitish suffused and striated with red-brown, a black discoidal spot, 

 traces of two sinuous medial lines, a sinuous postmedial line, and 

 traces of a subterminal line. 



Ab. 1. Wings without white beyond the subterminal line. 



Hab. U.S.A., Virginia, IST. Carolina, Greorgia, 2 c^ , 2 $ , Florida. 

 Uxjy. 48-54 millim. 



Larva. Ash-grey shaded with white and blackish, the lines black ; 

 subdorsal line double, interrupted on the 4th and 5th somites ; 

 stigmatal line defined above by waved black streaks ; 4th and 5th 

 somites with some yellow in the incisures ; 2nd to 6th somites with 

 some blackish patches ; ventral surface with some white ; 11th 

 somite with pair of oblique dorsal prominences. Food-plants : 

 Calycantlius floridus and Oak. 4. 



8053. Zale horrida. 



Zale horrida, Hiibn. Zutr. Ex. Schmett. i. p. 11, ff. ^31, 32 (1818) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 367. 



Head and thorax fuscous black, the tips of patagia and meta- 

 thorax rufous ; pectus with some grey ; tarsi black ringed with 

 white ; abdomen fuscous tinged with grey. Fore wing fuscous 

 black sparsely irrorated with black-tipped grey scales to the post- 

 medial line and on costal area to the subterminal line, the terminal 

 area rufous finely pencilled with black ; a ciirved rufous subbasal 

 striga from costa ; antemedial line double, black, filled in with 

 rufous at costa, slightly angled outwards below costa and incurved 

 below submedian fold ; traces of two waved medial lines ; reniform 

 slightly defined by black ; postmedial line black, double and filled 

 in with rufous towards costa, oblique and sinuous to below vein 7, 

 incurved at discal , fold, excurved at vein 4, then strongly incurved 

 and slightly sinuous, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line red-brown on a very narrow whitish band, bent inwards 

 from below vein 7 to close to the postmedial line, then defining its 



