PTJCIALIA. GADIETHA. 339 



with brown, tTie veins and terminal area darker ; a dark striga 

 defined on outer side by white from inner margin above tornus, the 

 termen irrorated with grey ; cilia whitish intersected by fuscous at 

 the veins. 



Hah. Mexico, Vera Cruz, Misantla (Midler). Evp. 70 millira. 

 This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type 

 in U.S. Nat. Mas. 



6646. Pucialia similis. (Plate CLXXXIII. fig. 22.) 



Gadirtha similis, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) vii. p. 79 (1901). 



(S . Head and thorax grey-white, the head and tegulse with dark 

 brown mixed, the thorax with a few black scales ; pectus, legia, and 

 abdomen greyish suffused with dark brown. Pore wing ochreous 

 whitish irrorated and in parts suffused with brown, the terminal half 

 slightly darker ; a wedge-shaped black-brown patch on costa with 

 a slight golden-green spot on it and a streak below median nervure 

 defined above by golden green ; antemedial line black, double 

 towards costa and inner margin, sinuous, very obliquely bent 

 inwards to inner margin and with some golden green between the 

 lines; orbicular and reniform large, defined by black, the former 

 round with faint annulus in centre, the latter elliptical ; a faint 

 line from middle of costa, oblique to the reniform, double and waved 

 from cell to inner margin, with a patch of golden-green scales on 

 it in subraedian interspace ; medial line indistiuct, double, highly 

 dentate, from beyond upper angle of cell to inner margin ; post- 

 medial line black, obliquely excurved from costa to vein 4, bent 

 inwards at vein 3 and excurved above vein 1, a black streak beyond 

 it at discal fold to near termen and some elongate black and golden- 

 green marks above and below vein 7 and from vein 3 to inner 

 margin ; subterminal line indistinct, double, dentate, crossed by 

 black streaks above veins 6 and 4 ; a fine sinuous black line before 

 termen with fuscous streaks beyond it on the veins. Hind wing 

 brown with a slight purplish tinge ; some pale and blackish striae 

 on vein 1 towards termen and a slight mark at extremity of vein 2 ; 

 the underside irrorated with ochreous, the terminal area darker, a 

 faint discoidal bar and traces of a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Costa KtcA, Juan Vin as (/Sc/irtMs), 1 S ; Venezuela, Merida 

 (Briceno), type f d" in Coll Druce. Ex2y. 66 millim. 



Genus GADIRTHA. 



Type. 



Gadirtha, Wlk. xiii. 1102 (1857) ijicmcta. 



Scolopocneme, Felcl. Wien. Ent. Mon. vi. p. 37 (1862) inexacta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; pulpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to above 

 vertex of head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd long and dilated at extremity ; 

 frons smooth, with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennse of male 

 with fasciculate cilia; tliorax clotlied almost entirelv with scales, the meta- 



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