666 NOCTtJiD.1;. 



red-brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing red-brown 

 suffused with purplish grey on inner half to postmedial line, the 

 terminal area yellowish white tinged with rufous; an elliptical 

 yellowish-white subbasal patch from costa to median nervure ; 

 antemedial line very obscure, rufous, oblique to median nervure, 

 then erect; a truncate conical white patch from middle of costa to 

 median nervure ; orbicular and reniform very indistinct, silvery 

 grey, small, round ; postmedial line with whitish striga from costa, 

 then very indistinct, oblique to submedian fold below orbicular, 

 then outwardly oblique ; traces of an oblique whitish subterminal 

 line between veins 6 and 2 ; a terminal series of slight dark points 

 defined by whitish on inner side. Hind wing whitish, the veins 

 and termen tinged with red-brown ; cilia whitish with a brown line 

 through them. 



5 . Head, thorax, and fore wing to postmedial line darker and 

 tinged with black-brown. 



Hah. Mexico, Vera Cruz (Rimieli), 1 S ; Guatemala, S. Gero- 

 nimo {Champion), 1 $ type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. S 22, 

 $ 24 millim. 



6008. Heliocontia margana. 



Pyralis margana, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 257 (1794), S- 



Grapholita subapicana, Wlk. xxviii. 387 (1863), ?. 



Agrophila rudisana, Wlk. xxxiii. 776 (1865). 



Spragueia sordida, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 217 (1882) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 305. 

 Bpragtida canofusa, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1898, p. 247, pi. 17. f. 4, $ . 

 Spragtieia tarasca, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 164 (1904). 



J . Head and thorax yellow slightly mixed with rufous ; palpi 

 white, brown at tips ; antennae brown ; pectus and legs white, the 

 fore tibise and the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen rufous 

 with white segmental lines, the ventral surface white. Fore wing 

 bright rufous, the costal area ochreous yellow slightly irrorated 



Fig. 188. — Heliocontia margana, J. f. 



•with rufous to beyond middle, extending at base to below the cell ; 

 subbasal line represented by a slight rufous spot in cell ; a slightly 

 curved yellowish-white antemedial line defined on outer side by a 

 Tufous band ; orbicular a small round blackish spot slightly defined 

 by white, the reniform a small blackish mark defined by white, its 



