HELIOCONTIA. 665 



defined by pale yellow, the rest of wing bright rufous overlaid by 

 some long yellowish scales and shading to yellow on terminal area 

 except at apex and with oblique diffused yellow patch from middle 

 of costa ; traces of a pale postmedial line very strongly incurved 

 from vein 6 to submedian fold, then oblique to tornus ; cilia yellow 

 tinged with rufous at apex and towards tornus and with blackish 

 patch just above middle. Hind wing dark reddish brown, the cilia 

 yellowish white with a brown line near base ; the underside 

 yellowish grey, the costal area irrorated with brown except 

 towards base, the termen suffused with brown, a brown discoidal 

 spot. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen darker ; fore wing with the 

 antemedial area darker or blackish, the overlying scales yellowish 

 white ; hind wing darker. 



Hah. Mexico, Tabasco {H. H. Smith), 1 c? , 1 ? ; Panama, 

 Chiriqui (Champioyi), 1 (S , 1 2 ■> ^odman-Salvin Coll. ; Venezuela, 

 Aroa, 1 2 ' ^^- GruiANA, St. Jean Maroni (Schaus), 1 c? ; Beazil, 

 Amazons, R. J nt&hi (Trail), 1 5 type marmorea, Espiritu Santo, 1 S , 

 1 2 , Organ Mts., Tijuca (Wagner), 1 d' , 2 $ , Eio Janeiro, 1 c? , 

 3 $ , Petropolis (Doer), 1 c? , Sao Paulo (D. Jones), 2 J ; Argen- 

 tina, Gran Chaco, Plorenzia (Wagner), 1 cJ, 1 $. Exp, 16-20 

 millim. 



*6006. Heliocontia pyralidia. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 32.) 



Tar ache pyralidia, Schaus, J. N.Y. Eut. See. vi. p. 117 (1898). 



(S . Head and tegulie white suffused with rufous ; thorax bright 

 rufous ; pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae and the tarsi rufous 

 ringed with white ; abdomen whitish suffused with rufous leaving 

 white segmental lines. Fore wing with the basal area rufous 

 irrorated with white, with a white subbasal patch on costa ; ante- 

 medial line white, curved, from submedian fold to inner margin ; 

 medial area white irrorated with rufous except towards costa, a 

 rufous point on middle of costa; orbiealar absent; reniform very 

 indistinctly defined and with rufous lunule in centre ; postmedial 

 line slight, white, defined on each side by rufous suff'usion, excurved 

 from costa to vein 7, then incurved ; terminal area yellow tinged 

 with red ; a slight rufous terminal line with some white before it 

 at middle ; cilia rufous. Hind wing ochreous white. 



Hah. Mexico, Oaxaca (Schnvs), type t d in U.S. jSTat. Mus. 

 Eccjp. 22 millim. 



6007. Heliocontia valena. 



Acontia valena, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. p. 307 pi. 28 f 21 



(1889). 



S . Head and thorax red-brown tinged with purplish grey ; 

 pectus and legs ochreous white tinged with red-brown ; abdomen 



