HALISIDOTA. 167 



antemedial lines ; three irregular oblique posfcraedial lines, and a 

 more prominent lunulate subterminal line ; a slightly darker fascia 

 in discal fold. Hind wing very pale yellow. 



Hah. Brazil, Leopoldina, llio Janeiro, 1 $ , Castro Parana, 1 S , 

 1 $ , Sta. Cathcrina ; Bolivia, Chaco. Exp., d 40, $ 44 millim. 



*1514. Halisidota ochracea. 



Halisidota ochracea, Moschl. Yerh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxiii. p. 337, 

 pi. 18. f. 28 (1883) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 208. 



$ . Head and thorax orange ; abdomen rather paler. Fore wing 

 orange ; the medial area with four indistinct minutely waved lines ; 

 three fine postmedial lines excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; traces of a subterminal series of dentate marks. Hind 

 wing pale yellow. 



Hah. Surinam, type f $ in Coll. Staudinger. Exp. 40 millim. 



1515. Halisidota acuta, n. sp. (Plate XLT. fig. 21.) 



S . Ochreous ; frons with blackish spots ; branches of antennae 

 brown ; tarsi tinged with fuscous above ; abdomen dorsally suffused 

 with fuscous brown except at base. Fore wing irrorated with 

 fuscous ; a black point at lower angle of cell ; very obscure post- 

 medial and subterminal series of dentate spots with dark points on 

 them ; the apex somewhat produced and acute and the termen 

 oblique. Hind wing semihyaline ochreous white, the inner area 

 clothed with pale reddish hair ; an obscure diffused fuscous strongly 

 crenulate line with a more distinct lunule below vein 2. 

 Hah. Brazil, Sta. Catherina, 1 (S type. Exp. 52 millim. 



1516. Halisidota annulosa. (Plate XLI. fig. 6.) 



Halisidota annulosa, Wlk. iii. 738 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 208. 

 Halisidota niveigiUta, Wlk. vii. 1709 (1856) ; Druce, Biol. Ceutr.-Am,, 

 Het. ii. p. 373 (part.) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 210. 



Yellow ; head and thorax slightly marked with brown ; abdomen 

 whitish below. Fore wing with fine irregularly brown lines, disposed 

 somewhat in pairs meeting on the veins and forming series of annu- 

 late, lunulate and irregular marks, the antemedial line defined on 

 outer side by a brownish mark from costa to median nervure ; an 

 almost straight oblique medial line with a silvery white point beyond 

 it at lower angle of cell ; a subterminal dark point above vein 5. 

 Hind wing yellowish white; veins 4, 5 from cell or shortly stalked, 

 or in one specimen strongly stalked and on right side crossing each 

 other before reaching termen ; 8 absent or as a short spur. 



Hah. Mexico, Tabasco, Dos Arroyos {H. H. Smith), 1 c5* , Tres 

 Marias Is. (Forrer), 1 $ , Jalapa (Hoege), 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; 

 Venezuela, 1 c^ type; Amazons, Para, 1 $ . Exp.^ ^ 32, $ 30-40 

 millim. Type niveiguita in Mus. Oxon. 



