CHAEABEA. 375 



*8191. Charadra sudena. 



Chamdra sudena, Siuitb, J. N.Y. Eiit. Soc. xvi. p. 80 (1908). 



Similar to C. deridens but smaller. Fore wing with the lines 

 less strong and without the black centre to the orbicular, the streak 

 connecting the antemedial and medial lines slight and brown or 

 almost obsolete, the subterminal line less irregular. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida, Miami. Exj>. 34-36 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



8192. Charadra nigracreta. (Plate CCXXXIV. fig. 15.) 



Charadra nigracreta, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 17 (1884) ; Druce, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 472. 

 Colocasia rhotana, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xiii. p. 354 (1894); id. Biol. 



Oentr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 461, pi. 91. f. 14. 



Head and thorax white irrorated with dark brown, the dorsum of 

 thorax suffused with dark brown ; a blackish line at tips of tegulse 

 and bar near tips of patagia ; antennae rufous ; palpi black-brown ; 

 frons black-brown at sides ; tarsi banded black-brown and white ; 

 abdomen very dark reddish brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface 

 whitish. Fore wing silvery white irrorated with brown, the veins 

 of terminal half finely streaked with brown ; subbasal black strise 

 from costa and cell ; a dark spot in cell before the antemedial line, 

 which is black, angled outwards below costa and at submedian fold 

 and excmwed above inner margin ; the medial area with triangular 

 black-brown patch from costa to median nervure and the area below 

 the cell suffused with dark brown before the medial line, which is 

 blackish, excurved in the cell and sinuous below it ; orbicular round, 

 white defined by black and with brown point in centre, some rufous 

 beyond it ; reniform defined by black on inner side and very faintly 

 by brown on outer ; postmedial line indistinct, double, brown, bent 

 outwards below costa, then waved, incurved at discal fold, strongly 

 incurved below vein 4, incurved below vein 2, then oblique and 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 1, two oblique blackish strise 

 beyond it from costa ; subterminal line blackish, angled outwards 

 below vein 7, bent inwards at discal fold, then slighter, somewhat 

 waved, excurved at middle and above inner margin ; a red-brown 

 patch at apex ; a terminal series of black striae and small dentate 

 mark below vein 2. Hind wing dark reddish brown, the cilia 

 whitish with a brown line through them. Underside of both wings 

 dark reddish brown with faint discoidal spots and curved postmedial 

 line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the black-brown patch on costal area 

 m.uch less prominent and without the dark brown on inner area. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus, Triijillo), 1 c? , 4 $ , Orizaba ; 

 Guatemala, Cahabon (Champion), 1 d" , Gruatemala City 

 {jRodriguez), 1 $ , Grodman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 38-44 millim. 



