380 ARC'iiADji;. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown ; vertex of head and a 

 stripe on tegulae and thorax orange ; tarsi with the 1st joint 

 whititih. Fore wing orange ; the costa streaked with black towards 

 base ; the interspaces suffused with fuscous ; the terminal third 

 strongly suffused with black ; veins 5 and (5 streaked with orange. 

 Hind wing black-brown. 



Antennse with the shaft strongly dilated with scales. 



Hab. Porto Rico, tj^pe fumata in Coll. Staudinger ; Brazil, 

 Espiritu Santo, 1 $ type, ISao Paulo (Jones), 1 c^ . Exj). 18 millim. 



807. Lycomorphodes sordida. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 31.) 



Leptidule sordida, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 369 ; Druce, Biol. Centr.- 



Am., Het. i. p. 138 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 355. 

 Tcdara coccinea, Druce, Eiol. Centr.-Ain., Het. i. p. 125 (uec Butl.). 



S . Head and thorax orange ; palpi, frons, antennae, and stripes 

 on legulse and patagia black ; legs blackish, the 1st joint of mid and 

 hind tarsi whitish ; abdomen blackish, the genital tufts ochreous. 

 Pore wing orange, the termen slightly tinged with black or with 

 prominent dentate marks. Hind wing fuscous, with orange fascia 

 ou costa to near apex and a slight streak on median nervure, 

 or orange with diffused fuscous streaks on inner and terminal 

 areas. 



5 . Head, thorax, and fore wing orange-red, the last with the 

 interspaces tinged with fuscous and with blue-black spot ou middle 

 of costa. 



Hah. Mexico, Vera Cruz {H. H. Smith), 1 S ; Gttatemala, 

 Caldera {Champion), Id, 1$ ; Costa Rica (Undertvood), 1 $ ; 

 Panama, Bugaba (C'7^«^W2^^o?^) 1 (5 , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Colombia, 

 Sta. Marta (Bouchard), 1 S type. Exji., ^ 20-22, $ 26 millim. 



Genus TALARA. 



Type. 



Talara, Wlk. xxxv. 1891 (1866) megaspila. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending just bej'ond the frons; 

 antennffi of male ciliated ; tibiai with the spurs moderate ; abdomen clothed 

 with rough hair. Fore wing long and narrow ; vein 2 from beyond middle of 

 cell ; 3 from well before angle ; 4, 5 from angle or separate ; 6 from below 

 upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10 free; 11 anastomosing with 12. Hind wing 

 with vein 2 from well beyond middle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle or stalked ; 

 absent ; 6, 7 coincident ; 8 from or from beyond middle of cell. 



Sect. I. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked. 



A. Fore wing yellow, with ante- and postmedial black lines, 



the veins streaked with crimson ditis. 



B. Fore wing without transverse lines. 



a. Hind wing yellow ... ba.rema. 



b. Hind wing crimson leucocera. 



c. Hind wing with the basal half crimson, the terminal 



half fuscous; fore wing white niveaia. 



d. Hind wing wholly fuscous cinerea. 



