366 ARCTIAD^. 



Ab. 1. Thorax without fuscous patch. — Texas. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the basal orange patch not conjoined to 

 postmedial band. — Mexico. 



Ab. 3. fenuifascia. Fore wing with the postmedial baud narrow 

 and sligbtly expanding at costa and inner margin. — Texas. 



Ab. 4. Fore wing with the postmedial band interrupted at 

 middle. — Alabama. 



Ab. 5. Fore wing with yellow fascia on costa from base to apex, 

 without expansion above the postmedial patch on inner area. 



Ab. 6. Hind wing yellow. 



Eab. U.S.A., New York, 3 S , Texas, 5 c5" , Alabama, 1 d" , 1 $ , 

 Grote Coll. ; Mexico, Guerrero (H. H. Smith), 1 § ab. 2, Durango 

 (Becker) 1 $ , Coatepec (Brooks) 1 $ , Jalapa (Hoege) 1 $ , Yucatan 

 (Gaunm^) 1^,1$, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 18-24 millim. 



771. lUice hilaris. 



Cidhene hilaris, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 139. f. 3 (1875) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. 

 p. 289. 



5 . Head and thorax fuscous brown ; palpi, lower part of frons, 

 and tegulae yellow ; legs orange-yellow marked with brown ; 

 abdomen crimson. Fore wing purplish brown ; a golden-yellow 

 patch at base of inner area, and a broad almost straight and erect 

 band just beyond middle ; the cilia yellow towards apex. Hind 

 wing crimson, with terminal dark brown band broad at costa, 

 narrowing to termen. 



Hah. Venezuela, 1 $ , Exjp. 18 millim. 



772. mice metoxia. 



Gisthene metoxia, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1898, p. 243. pi. 17. f. 8. 



Head and thorax fuscous, the vertex of head and tegulae orange- 

 yeUow ; palpi yellow at base ; legs yellow banded with fuscous ; 

 abdomen deep crimson, the ventral surface yellow to near extremity. 

 Fore wing fuscous ; an orange-yellow patch on inner area from 

 base to middle, with a crimson mark on the margin near base ; a 

 rounded patch at tornus, usually with some crimson on margin ; 

 the median and submedian nervures streaked with yellow ; the 

 costa from middle to apex and the termen yellow. Hind wing- 

 fuscous ; the inner area crimson, expanding subterminally above 

 tornus ; a slight crimson streak usually present below vein 2. 



Hah. St. Vincent, 1 ? ; Grenada, 1 d" , 1 $ (H. H. Smith), 

 type. Exp. 16 millim. 



773. Illice phaeoceps, n. sp. (Plate XXIX. fig. 16.) 



Cisthene unifascia, Druce, Biol. Oenfcr.-Ara., Het. ii. p. 395, part (nee 

 Orote). 



S . Head and thorax black-brown ; abdomen crimson. Fore 

 wing black-brown, with very slight orange streak on basal half of 



