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rufous, the inner half whitish, a small black discoidal spot, minutely 

 waved postmedial and subterminal lines with black points at discal 

 fold, and terminal series of black stria?. 



Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 J type, Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Exp. 16 millim. 



5489. Cobubatha quadrifera. 



Erastria quadrifera, Zell. Verb, zool.-bob. Ges. Wien, xxir. p. 425, pi. 12. 



f. 2 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 315. 

 Eustrotia catiena, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 313, pi. 29. f. 9 (1889). 



Head, tegulse, and patagia purplish grey mixed with brown, the 

 tegul^ with pale medial line, the dorsum of thorax black-brown ; 

 pectus and legs white tinged with brown, the tarsus fuscous ringed 

 with white ; abdomen grey, the crest on 4th segment black, the 

 ventral surface white. Fore wing purj)lish grey irrorated and in 

 parts suffused with red-brown, a rather oblique quadrate chocolate- 

 brown patch on inner medial area ; a minute brown spot below the 

 cell before the faint red-brown antemedial line which is angled 

 inwards in cell and outwards in submedian fold,' then oblique ; a 

 small oblique U-shaped black mark in upper extremity of cell; 



Fig. 93. — Cobuhatha quadrifera, (^ . |. 



postmedial line indistinct, double, oblique from costa to vein 6, 

 then inwardly oblique and very minutely waved, some red-brown 

 suffusion beyond it on costal area with white striae from costa ; 

 subterminal line blackish, with slight black streak before it below 

 costa, excurved below vein 7, very indistinct below vein 4 and 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; a fine terminal black line slightly 

 defined on inner side by white ; cilia brown finely striated with 

 grey. Hind wing reddish brown, the cilia whitish at tips ; the 

 underside white irrorated with brown, a discoidal bar, indistinct 

 sinuous postmedial and subterminal lines, and fine black terminal 

 line. 



Hab. U.S.A., Missouri, Texas {MesU), 2 ? , Dallas (Boll), 1 ? 

 type, Kerrville, 1 J ; Mexico, Vera Cruz {H. H. Smith), 2 J , 1 $ , 

 Guerrero (H. H. Smith), 1 c5' , 1 ? type catiena. Tabasco (//. II. 

 Smith), 2 2 , Morelos (II. H. Smith), 1 5 , Jalapa {Tntjillo, Schaus), 

 1 cJ, 2 5, Presidio (Forrer), 1 <S , Godmau-Salvin Coll.; Panama, 

 La Chorera {Dolby -Tyhr), 1 c? , 1 $ ; Colombia, Sta. Marta 

 {Bouchard), 1 c? ; Jamaica, Constant Springs (Walsingham), 1 <S , 



