EUSCniRROPTERUS. 



621 



edged with chocolate and with silvery lunule at middle ; the inner area 

 to the submedian fold and to near tornus strongly irrorated with 

 olive above vein 1 and suffused with grey below it ; oblique silvery 

 strigae on olive patches before and just beyond middle above vein 1, 

 continued at an angle to inner margin as chocolate lines ; a chocolate 

 apical patch with waved inner edge and a terminal series of points. 

 Hind wing hyaline ; the costal area clothed with chocolate and grey 

 scales to just into the cell, leaving a hyaline patch above vein 7 

 towards apex ; inner area orange-yellow ; a terminal chocolate 

 dentate band, expanding into a patch with a yellow spot on it 

 towards tornus. 



2 . Head white, with some chocolate scales on palpi and vertex ; 

 antennae ringed with brown ; thorax clothed with chocolate and 

 grey hair ; pectus and legs white, the latter irrorated with rufous ; 

 abdomen orange, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing dark 

 chocolate-brown, the costal, inner, and terminal areas irrorated with 

 white ; a silvery-white fascia from base of costa in and below cell, 

 leaving the minute chocolate orbicular and the oblique white-centred 

 reniform connected with the dark costal area, then running obliquely 



Fig. 272. — Euschirropterus poeyi, 2. \- 



to the costa before apex, the area below it strongly irrorated with 

 olive ; a terminal series of small lunules. Hind wing orange-yellow, 

 with terminal chocolate band leaving some yellow on inner side of 

 the terminal line from vein 4 to tornus ; cilia white and rufous, 

 yellow at tornus. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa, Orizaba, type in Coll. Druce; Guatemala 

 (Bodriguez), 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Jamaica ; Cuba, 1 c? ;- 

 Haiti {Tiueedie), 1 $ . Eciy., S 46, $ 52 millim. 



157. Euschirropterus discifera, n. sp. (Plate LI. fig. 9.) 



2 . Head pale yellow ; palpi, sides of frons, and antennae dark 

 brown, the last with the upperside of shaft irrorated with white; 

 thorax grey-white ; the tegulae and legs dark brown ; abdomen 

 dark brown, with broad orange subdorsal stripes connected by dorsal 

 segmental lines, the stripes not reaching extremity. Fore wing 

 grey-brown, with a large grey-white semicircular patch on costa 

 from base to towards apex, extending to below middle of cell, 

 the costal area irrorated with brown and leaving a large dark 



