480 NOCTPID^. 



with a red striga from it and some red and black scales below the 

 cell ; antemedial line very indistinct, whitish, waved, with black 

 points on costa and vein 1 and red point on median nervure ; 

 orbicular and reniform with very indistinct white annuli, the 

 former round, the latter constricted at middle and slightly angled 



Fig. 136. — ChlorJioda metacausta, S- \- 



inwards on median nerv'ure, an oblique black and red band between 

 them from costa to vein 2, a red poiut in latter above median 

 nervure and two red points beyond its lower extremity ; postmedial 

 line very indistinct, whitish, with black point at costa, bent out- 

 wards below costa, thea with series of black points beyond it, 

 oblique below vein 4, some whitish points with slight blackish 

 streaks between them beyond it on costa; subterminal line very 

 indistinct, whitish, dentate, with red marks with some black scales 

 on them below vein 7 and at middle and inner margin ; a terminal 

 series of black poiuts ; cilia pale red. Hind wing pale blood-red. 

 Underside of both wings whitish suffused with blood-red. 



Hah. Cuba, Baracoa (Schaus), 3 c? , 3 $ type. jSa,^). 26-32 

 millim. 



Genus CHAMYRIS. 



Type. 



Chamyris, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 225 (1852) cerintha. 



Proboscis fully developecl ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; antenni^ of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed entirely with 

 large scales, the prothorax without crests, the mesothorax with slight paired 

 crests, the metathorax with spreading crests ; tibia moderately fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests, the crest on 4th segment very large. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen oblique from vein 4 to tornus 

 and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 almost fully developed from well below 

 middle of dicocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



5727. Chamyris cerintha. 



Acovtia cerintha, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 3. p. 240 (1825); Herr.-Schaff. 

 Schmett. Eur., Noct. f. 446 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 301. 



Head and thorax yellow-brown mixed with some black, blue- 

 grey and white scales ; palpi white at base ; tegulae with black band 

 near base defined by bluo-grey above ; pectus and legs white mixed 



