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f^. Fore wing with obscure maculate subterminal band. 



a^. Abdoaien brown .' leria. 



b^. Abdomen orange-j^ollow Icda. 



g^. Fore wing without transverse markings. 



a?. Abdomen without black patch ; fore wing with 

 the veins not streaked with black. 



a*. Fore wing crimson, suffused with brown rhoda. 



V. Fore wing not crimson. 



a^. Vertex of head with black point. 



a^. Frons with black point 'pallida. 



ff. Frons without black point arenacea. 



If. Vertex of head without black point. 



rt'^. Fore wing brown ordinana. 



b^. Fore wing yellowish, the veins streaked 



with ochreous iridesceiis. 



b'^. Abdomen with the four medial segments black ; 

 fore wing with the veins streaked with black. 



a^. Tegulge not tipped with black humnsa. 



b^. Tegulte tipped with black triphylia. 



1495. Halisidota atra. 



Halisidota atra, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 92, pi. 9. f. 26 (1884) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 210. 



(S . Brown, suffused with dark fuscous ; palpi and legs orange- 

 brown, banded with black. Fore wing with the costal area rather 

 paler ; elongate black-edged vittae below base of costa and on 

 median nervure ; a triangular black-edged mark below base of cell 

 bisected longitudinally by a black line ; a medial black-edged band 

 slightly angled outwards on the veins and inwards below the cell 

 and crossed by fine black streaks below costa and on veins ; a discoidal 

 dark brown black-edged reniform mark, its centre outlined with 

 black and connected with costa by a black-edged band crossed by 

 fine streaks ; annulate spots on costa before apex and sometimes 

 also at apex and above vein 4, and a triangular mark on inner 

 margin before tornus ; veins 4, o stalked, 8 a spur. 



2 . Much less suffused with fuscous ; tegulae and patagia outlined 

 with greenish ; abdomen brownish yellow. 



Sab. Guatemala. {Champion)^ 2^,1$ type, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Exp., S 50, 2 52 millim. 



1496. Halisidota interlineata. 



Halisidota interlineata, Wlk. iii. 739 (1855) ; Druce, Biol. Centr -Am. 



Het. ii. p. 371 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 208. 

 Phegoptera jucunda, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 285 (1855). 



Pale fawn ; palpi black, with an orange band ; frons and antennae 

 black ; tegulae and patagia outlined with greenish ; legs orange, with 

 grey patches on black bands ; abdomen orange, with lateral series of 

 black spots, the ventral surface white. Fore wing with two black- 

 edged marks, centred with fulvous and black on basal part of costa, 

 sometimes conjoined and connected by a black- edged streak on 

 median nervure, below which is a triangular black-edged mark 

 longitudinally bisected by a black line ; a black-edged fulvous 



