PjECtes. 129 



margin boyond miJdle ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia white with 

 a series of brown spots ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, 

 a brown discoidal lunule, indistinct sinuous medial line, double 

 postmedial series of points on the veins, and diffused subtermiual 

 band. 



Hah. CiifADA; U.S.A. {DouhUday), 1 d" , Massachusetts, south to 

 Alabama and west to Illinois and ?iIissouri, E,vp. 34 millim. The 

 specimen was labelled Edema fuscescens, Wlk. type. 



Larva. Yellow-green; stigmatal Jiue fine, yellow, continuous; 

 eight other interrupted waved yellow lines; head and feet green. 

 .Food-plant, Jasmine. 



6351. Piectes lunodas. (Plate CLXXVII. fig. 9.) 



Ingura hmodes, Guen Noct. ii. p. 310 (1852); Druce., BioL-Gentr. Ain., 



Het. i. p. 326. 

 Edema prodacta, Wlk. v. 1031 (1855), var. li. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; frons blackish at sides 

 and with dark bar above ; neck with black ring ; tegulse with 

 brown lines at middle and near tips ; patagia with blackish bands ; 

 pectus whitish, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 grey suffused with brown, whitish at base and with dorsal series of 

 slight black bars and lateral spots, the ventral surface whitish with 

 brown subvontral and ventral streaks. Fore wing grey suffused 

 with brown, an oblique white shade from apex to middle of inner 

 margin ; anteraedial line double, black, obsolescent towards costa, 

 angled outwards below costa and inwards on vein 1 to near base, a 

 whitish patch before it below the cell ; two dark discoidal points ; 

 medial line slight, dark, bent outwards beyond the cell, then inwards 

 and dentate; postmedial line double, black, obsolescent towards 

 costa, bent outwards below costa, then oblique to vein 6 where it is 

 obtusely angled outwards, then incurved and slightly excurved at 

 vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa and black streaks 

 above and below vein 6 ; a series of slight black lunules just before 

 tormen, reduced to points on the white apical patch, and a fine 

 terminal line ; cilia intersected with blackish and with white patch 

 below apex. Hind wing brown, the interspaces of basal half 

 whitish, the veins with dark streaks, a black postmedial striga at 

 inner margin and two towards tornus ; cilia white with a series of 

 brown spots ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a dark 

 discoidal lunule, sinuous medial lino, double postmedial series of 

 points on the veins, and diffused subterminal line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida {Schaus), 1 $ ; Hondtjeas {Dyson), 1 cT , 

 1 2 ; Bahamas, Abaco (BonJiote), 1 $ , Andros (Neville Chamberlain), 

 1 2 ; Jamaica {Gosse), 1 $ ; Cuba, 1 S , Tanamo (Schaus), 1 5 ; 

 Haiii (Tweedie), 1 (5*, 4 2 ; Sta. Lucia (Cowie), 2 $ ; Grenada 

 (H. H. Smith), 3 $ ; Tkinidad, Cuparo, 1 $ ; Brazil, Organ Mts., 

 Tijuca {Wayner), 3 $, Sao Paulo {D. Jones), 1 d" ; Paraguay, 

 Sapucay (Foster), 1 $ . Exjj. 28-34 millim. 



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