HBLIOCONTIA. 667 



lower part reduced to a point ; an oblique medial brown striga 

 from costa and curved line from cell to inner margin ; a small tri- 

 angular white patch on costa towards apex, the postmedial line 

 arising from it and represented by an oblique black striga to lower 

 part of reniform and an outwardly oblique brown line from just 

 below the cell to inner margin with some greyish suffusion beyond 

 it ; a terminal series of black points except towards apex and 

 tornus, defined on inner side by white striae ; cilia red-brown at 

 base, with dark line at middle, the tips white on apical half, blackish 

 on inner half. Hind wing whitish, the veins, costal area, and 

 termen suffused with red-brown ; cilia white with a brown line 

 near base ; the underside whitish, the .costal area suffused with 

 brown, a slight discoidal striga. 



2 . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; fore wing 

 dark brown irrorated with grey, a slight white streak on middle of 

 costa and the triangular white patch before apex, the lines and 

 stigmata obscured ; hind wing uniformly suffused with dark brown. 



Bab. U.S.A., Texas ; Bahamas (Sir 6. Carter), 1 d" ; Jamaica 

 (Gosse), 1 S , Kingston (CocJcereU), 2 S, 1 $> Constant Springs 

 ( Walsingham), 1 J ? ^ $ ; Cuba, Santiago (Schaus), 4 c?, 12; 

 Haiti (Tweedie), 3 J , 1 $ , types suhapicana and rudisana ; St. 

 Croix [Hedeynann), 1 S ; Gkenada, Mt. Gay {H. H. Smith), 1 cJ , 1 § 

 ij-pe canofusa ; Barbados (Fraw?^iow), 1 (5"; Panama (J^ J. WalJcer), 

 1 §; Colombia, Sta. Marta {Bouchard), 2 (S ; Brazil, Bahia {Old- 

 field TJiomas), 1 S , Sao Paulo {D. Jones), 3 $ ; Pabaguat, Sapucay 

 {Foster), 1 $ ; Aegentina, Goya {Perrens), 1 S , Sta. Pe ( Wagner), 

 1 (S 5 Gran Chaco, Plorenzia {Wagner), 3 $ . Exp. 16-20 millim. 

 Type t tarasca in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



6009. Heliocontia perstructana. 



AgropMla perstructana, Wlk. xxxiii. 774 (f865), (S . 



Agrophila phcenna, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 303, pi. 28. f. 8 



(1889), c?. 

 Agrophila mata, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 491, pi. 94. f 27 



(1898), $ . 



S . Head and thorax ochreous suffused with rufous ; palpi 

 whitish, the third joint fuscous behind ; frons whitish with fuscous 

 bar above ; antennae blackish ; meso- and metathorax with black 

 patches ; pectus and legs whitish, the tibiae and tarsi banded black 

 and white ; abdomen ochreous white with dorsal brown bands. 

 Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous except at costa ; subbasal 

 line represented by an oblique black striga from costa and spot in 

 cell ; a blackish streak above base of inner margin hooked at ex- 

 tremity ; antemedial line represented by a black bar from costa and 

 line from cell to inner margin with rufous band before it ; orbicular 

 and reniform small, rounded, black defined by yellowish ; a medial 

 black spot on costa; the medial area below the coll leaden black 



