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AECTIAD^. 



V-shaped mark on costa just beyond middle, crossed by fine streaks 

 below costa, and with black discocellular patch on it sometimes with 

 pale centre ; from the inner arm of the V at subcostal nervure is a 

 black-edged band somewhat sinuous and crossed by black streaks on 

 the veins ; a black-edged annulus on costa before apex and another 

 on inner margin ; a terminal series of fawn-coloured marks with fine 

 black line on their inner side like a series of steps. Hind wing 

 semihyaline, the inner area clothed with orange hair ; veins 4, 5 

 stalked or from cell, 8 a spur. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with a more or less complete series of irregular 

 fawn-coloured black-edged subterminal marks between the annuli 

 on costa and inner margin. 



Hah. Costa Rica ( Underwood), 1 c^ , Godman-Salvin CoU. ; 

 Brazil, 4 fj,l $ type. Exp. 50-52 millim. Ty])Q-f jucimdam 

 Coll. Staudinger. 



1497. Halisidota cinctipes. (Plate XL. fig. 15.) 



Halisidota cinctipes, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. v. p. 242 (1865) ; Druce, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 92 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 210. 



Halisidota davisil, H.-Edw. Proc. Calif. Acad. v. p. 365 (1875) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 210. 



Pale fawn ; palpi orange, with black bands with grey patches on 

 them, lower part of frons almost always black; vertex of head 

 greenish ; antennae fuscous, the base orange ; tegulae and patagia 

 edged with blue-green ; legs orange and fawn, with annulate 

 grey-centred black marks ; abdomen orange, with series of lateral 

 black points on terminal segments, the ventral surface pale. Fore 

 wing with two orange patches on basal part of costa, edged and 

 streaked with black and connected by a black-edged streak on 

 median nervure, below which is a triangular mark longitudinally 

 bisected by a fine black streak ; a sinuous black-edged medial band, 

 orange below costa, and crossed by fine black streaks below costa 

 and on veins : a U-shaped black-edged orange discocellular mark, 

 sometimes conjoined to the triangular black-streaked mark on costa 

 above it ; a subterminal black-edged patch on inner margin, and an 

 oblique irregular band from costa, where it is orange, to vein 

 3, where it is more or less conjoined to the terminal band which is 

 in the form of an irregular series of steps. Hind wing semihyaline, 

 the veins, termen, and inner area tinged with orange : veins 4, 5 

 from cell or stalked, 8 a spur. 



Ab. 1. With the subterminal band complete and sometimes 

 separate from the terminal band. 



Ab. 2. With the subterminal band interrupted above vein 5 as 

 well as below 4. 



Ab. 3. With the medial band conjoined to the costal patch above 

 the V-shaped mark. — Venezuela. 



Hah. Florida ; Mexico, Jalapa (Hoege, TrujiUo), Coatepec 

 (J^rooA-^), Yucatan (G^aifwer); Guatemala {Champion, Rodriguez) j, 



