164 AKCTIADJ3. 



middle suffused with purplish fuscous. Hind wing purplish fuscous, 

 the underside paler except the terminal area which has an irregular 

 inner edge ; some dark marks in cell. 



Hah. Brazil, Eio Janeiro, 1 <S type, Eio Grande do Sul, 1 S • 

 Exp, 50 millim. 



1505. Halisidota cedon. 



'Halisidota cedon, Druce, Eiol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 372, pi. 74. f. 1 1 

 (1897). 



S . Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; palpi, frons, and legs 

 browner ; abdomen brown above, ochreous below. Fore wing 

 ochreous largely suffused with reddish brown ; an indistinct ante- 

 medial band of dark-edged ochreous spots, angled in cell; some 

 small dark-edged ochreous lunules on costal area, in cell, and at 

 origin of vein 2, an oblique series from apex to inner margin before 

 middle, and another series from termen below apex to inner margin 

 beyond middle. Hind wing fuscous brown. 



2 . Pore wing more orange-yellow and less tinged with brown ; 

 hind wing with patches of ochreous, or orange-yellow with slight 

 dark patches. 



Hah. Panama, Chiriqui, 1 (S ; Brazil, Sta. Catherina, 1 S , Leo- 

 poldina ; Peru, Callanga. Eccj^. 46 millim. Typef in Coll. 

 Staudinger. 



1506. Halisidota pulverea. (Plate XL. fig. 21.) 

 Halisidota pulverea, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. ir. p. 138 (1896). 



S . Ochreous yellow ; palpi brownish at sides. Fore wing 

 irrorated with groups of blackish and brown scales ; a small black 

 spot at lower angle of cell ; traces of an oblique antemedial brownish 

 line; obscure oblique postmedial and subterminal series of V-shaped 

 spots defined by brown, the postmedial series having similar spots 

 beyond them between veins 3 and 5 ; traces of an obliqne blackish 

 streak from apex ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 pale semihyaline yellow, with a subterminal dark point above 

 vein 5. 



Hah. Brazil, Bio Janeiro, 1 (S , Castro Parana, 1 J . Exp. 44 

 millim. Typef in Coll. Schaus. 



1507. Halisidota coniota, n. sp. (Plate XLI. fig. 1.) 



Ochreous yellow ; palpi in front and frons brown ; head and 

 thorax slightly irrorated with brown ; fore coxae and femora brown 

 in front ; abdomen suffused with brown above, sometimes forming 

 bands towards extremity. Fore wing strongly irrorated with brown, 

 forming traces of dentate antemedial and medial lines and of post- 

 medial and subterminal series of lunules ; a black spot or small 

 ocellus at lower angle of cell, and sometimes a point above origin of 



