244 AECTIAD^. 



511. Cisthene lunaris. (Plate XX Y. fig. 11.) 



Cisthene Itmaris, Wlk. sxsi. 241 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 294. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow ; antennae black ; 

 tibise and tarsi tinged with fuscons. Fore wing pale yellowish 

 fnscons ; the inner margin orange-yellow ; an orange-yellow fascia 

 in cell from base to the curved medial band ; an almost or quite 

 terminal band incurved to costa ; cilia fuscous. Hind wing orange- 

 yellow with teimiual fuscons band, its inner edge somewhat angled 

 at middle, sometimes indistinct and sutf.ised with orange. 



Hah. Colombia, Bogotii (NoMcen), 1^,1$ type. Ea^jo., J 24, 

 2 28 millim. 



512. Cisthene pnisias. 



Euscino pri/sias. Druce, A. M. N. IT. (6) xiii. p. 176 (1894) ; id. Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 397, pi. 78. f. 2. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange ; palpi black at tips ; 

 antennas and legs black. Fore wing black, with very broad orange 

 band occupying the median half of wing : a curved subteiminal 

 band from just below costa to vein 1, attenuate at extremities. 

 Hind wing orange, with fuscous spot on base of costa ; the terminal 

 third black. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalisco (ScJmmann), 1 5 type, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Esep. 30 millim. 



This may be an extreme form of menea. 



513. Cisthene menea. 



Arctia menea, Driiry, 111. Exot. Ent. iii. pi. iii. f. 2 (1782); Druce, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 127 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 294. 

 Buscino Icpfifera, Wlk. xxxi. 264 (1864) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. 



p. 127 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 294. 

 miKcino latifasciatus, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xv. p. 841 (1875) ; Druce, 



Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 127, pi. 12. f. 24 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 293. 

 Euscino arctifafcia, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 330 ; Druce, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 127 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 293. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen orange ; palpi, antennas, and legs 



black ; abdomen with 

 the ventral surface en- 

 tirely black except at 

 base, M'ith black patch 

 beyond middle, or en- 

 tirely orange. Pore 

 wingblack to grey-black ; 

 an almost medial orange 

 Fig. im.-Ci^thene menea, d. }. ^^^^ typically broad, 



sometimes with its outer edge expanding below middle, sometimes 

 contracting at middle and sometimes narrow except towards inner 

 margin ; a subterminal band erpanding towards costa, where it 

 arises well before apex, bent out to near termen between vein 4 



