17- NOCTUIDJD. 



tinged with red at base ; the underside yellowish white, the apical 

 area tinged with red, a terminal series of minute black points from 

 apex to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing ochreous suffused and irroratecl with rufous 

 and slightlj^ with ])ink on basal aiea. 



Ab. 2. margaritce. Abdomen irrorated with fuscous leaving 

 whitish segmental lines ; fore wing irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. Mkxjco, Jalapa {Trvjillo), 1 5 , Vera Cruz {H. H. Smith), 

 1 cT type ; Guatemala (Rodriguez) , 1 o , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; 

 Bahamas (Bonhote), 1 5; Jamaica, Runaway liny {Wcdshigham), 



1 S; Cuba ; Haiti {'J'lveedie), 1 c? ; Sta, Lucia, 1 $ : Sx. Vincent 

 (H. II. Smith), 1 (S ; Grenada (H. H. Smith), o $ type rosescens ; 

 TiUNiDAD (Kage), 1 $ ; Venezuela, 1 c^* ; Br. Guiana, Potaro ll. 

 {Kaye), \ 'J , 2 $ , Bartica {Kaye), 1 J , 1 2 ! Humnam ; Brazil, 

 Organ Mts., Tijuca {Wagner), 2 $ ; Uruguay. Kvi). 18- 

 28 millim. 



5249. EuWemma obliqualis. (Plate CLIII. tig. 27.) 



Phalcena obliqualis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 3. 2. p. 224 (179t). 



Anthophila Jlavimicincta, Wlk. xsxiii. 801 (18G5); Smitb, Cat. Nuct. N. 



>m. ]). 313. 

 Trotkisa pallescens, Herr.-Sohaff. Corresp.-blatt. zool.-min. Ver. Regeiisb. 



xxii. 15. 1.54 (18ti8). 

 Micra stalii, Wllgrn. CEfv. Vet.-Akad. Foi-b. 1871, p. 916. 

 Tara-c/ie patida, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pbil. 1875, p. 69. 

 Tarache pairueUg, Grote, Cnn. Ent. viii. p. 27 (1876). 

 Xanthoptera laphyra, Druee, Biol. Ceiitr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 498 (part,). 



Head and teguloe white ; thorax and abdomen white tinged with 

 ochreous. Fore wing white tinged with yellow ; medial line 

 acutely angled outwards below costa where it is met by an 

 oblique white line from apex to middle of inner margin with a 

 band of rufous suffusion before it and rufous suffusion beyond it, 

 the terminal area and cilia fierj^ red ; an indistinct postniedial line, 

 angled outwards below costa then oblique ; traces of a s"bterminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing yellowish white, the termen 

 tinged with fiery red ; cilia white faintly tinged with red at base ; 

 the underside white, the apical area tinged with red. 



Ab. 1. 'patrueUs. Fore wing with indistinct obliiiue antemcdial 

 line, 



Ab. 2. patida. Fore wing paler, the terminal area less strongly 

 suffused with red. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing yellower with less rufous suffusion, the 

 markings indistinct, the subterminal series of black points 

 prominent. 



Ab. 4. Fore wing nearly uniformly suffused with brownish 

 ochreQus. 



Hah. U.S.A., Alabama, 1 $ , type pa<r?^g^'s Texas, Bastrop Co., 



2 c^, Tiger Hill, 1 $ ; Mexico, Jalapa (TrujiUo), 1 2, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll.; Panama, La Chorrera {Dolby-Tyler), 1 c^ ; Bahamas, 



