1042 CATALOGUE OF 



dilated ; a diffuse black streak extending from the interior border to 

 the disk on the inner side of the line ; submarginal line undulating, 

 indicated by a few black points ; under side brown-speckled, with a 

 zigzag postmedial brown line, and with a black whitish-bordered 

 point, which represents the reniform mark. Fore wings subfalcate, 

 acute, with a diffuse zigzag black line near the base ; a diffuse 

 oblique black streak between the costa and the reniform mark, 

 which is black-bordered and contains a transverse black streak ; 

 orbicular forming a black white-bordered point ; four pale cinereous 

 costal points near the tip. Hind wings with a black point, which 

 represents the reniform mark. 



Allied to T. sigillata, from which it may be distinguished by 

 the subfalcate fore wings and by the reniform mark. 



a. St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



Thermesia conficita. 



Fcem. Rvfescente-fusca ; caput et thorax aniicus nigricante- 

 fusca; fasciculus frontalis <porrectus ; palpi porrecti, capitis 

 latitadine multo longiores, articulis 2o 3oque fasciculatis, So 

 lineari ; alee elongata:, nigro conspersce, nebula media ferru- 

 ginea, linea recta obliqua cinerea ferrugineo marginata apud 

 costam retracta, linea submarginali e punctis albis nigro 

 notatis ; anticce vix falcatce, lineis duabus ferrugineis undu- 

 latis, reniformi ferrugineo marginata ; posticus reniformi e 

 gutta nigricante* 



Female. Reddish brown, tinged with cinereous, brownish 

 cinereous beneath. Head, palpi and fore part of the thorax blackish 

 brown; frontal tuft porrect. Palpi compressed, porrect, very much 

 longer than the breadth of the head ; second and third joints 

 slightly tufted above ; third linear, full half the length of the second. 

 Antennae setulose. Abdomen not extending beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs smooth, rather slender; spurs with a whitish band and with 

 whitish tips. Wings elongate, minutely black-speckled ; middle 

 part clouded with ferruginous; a straight cinereous ferruginous- 

 bordered line extending from somewhat beyond the middle of the 

 interior border of the hind wings towards the tips of the fore wings, 

 near which it is abruptly retracted to the costa ; submarginal line 

 indicated by a few white black-marked points ; under side brown- 

 speckled, with the reniform mark iudicated by a black white-bor- 



