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perhaps sometimes in rough clothing. Section II [Phintia) has the facies of 

 Ephialtias but R' of forewing stalke<l. Section III (Lyces = Erilyces) consists 

 in general of rather larger moths, with rather more rounded costal margin. 

 Section IV (Josia = Phalcidon) has the markings in general longitudinal, but 

 I have left at the end, without separate sectional name, a few small species 

 with transverse band {ena, etc., with R' from cell, ilaire, etc., with R' stalked) ; 

 perhaps they should be merged in Sections I and II. 

 Sect. I. — {Ephialtias). 



1. brevifascia Prout, sp. nov.* (Amazons). 



2. consueta consueta Walk., List Lep. Ins. ii. 304 (1854) (Amazons). 

 = pilarge Walk., List Lep. Ins. ii. 305 (1854) (Amazons). 



(ab. ?) hyperia Walk., List Lep. Ins. ii. 306 (1854) (Amazons). 



= lugens Feld., Beise Novara, Lep. Het. tab. 105. fig. 22 (1868) (Amazons). 



2a. consueta cassa Prout, subsp. nov.f (Colombia). 



3. abrupta Hb., Samml. Exot. Schmett. tab. [184] (1806-18) (Hypocrita) 

 (Amazons). 



(ab.) basalis Butl., Tr. Ent. Soc. Land. 1878. p. 59 (Ephialtias) (Amazons). 

 ($-ab:) icca (Walk. M.S. ?) Prout, ab. nov.J (Amazons). 



4. dorsivitta Walk., List Lep. Ins. ii. 305 (1854) (Amazons). 

 Also from Ecuador. 



Sect. II. — {Phintia). 



5. C'Soterica Prout, sp. nov.§ (Ecuador). 



6. tegyra Druce, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) iii. 298 (1899) {Phintia) (sequ. 

 form. ?) (Ecuador). 



7. simplex Walk., List Lep. Ins. vii. 1648 (1856) {Ephialtia) (Amazons). 

 Also from Bolivia. 



8. podarce Walk., List Lep. Ins. ii. 306 (1854) (Amazons). 



9. cercostis Walk., List Lep. In.s. ii. 307 (1854) (praee. form.?) (Amazons). 

 Also from French Guiana. 



* Josia brevifascia sp. nov. ^, 38 mm. Near consueta. Thorax without yellow spot in front. 

 Abdomen less white beneath. 



Forewing with terinen slightly more oblique ; colour browner ; the orange band abbreviated, 



reathing from stalk of SC^~* to just behind M^. Hindwing with slight blue-grey reflections. 



Amazons. Type in coll. Tring Mus., ex coll. Meyer. 



f Josia consueta cas.ia subsp. nov. q $. Abdomen without white dorsal marking. Wings 

 with slight dark-blue gloss. 



Forewing with band atraighter, on an average narrower. Hindioing beneath i-.hnost or 



altogether without white scaling at abdominal margin. (The white on palpus and venter varial:>le, 

 apparently chiefly sexually.) Colombia: JMuzo River. Cantinero, 400 m. (A. H. FassI). type; 

 Cundinamarea (M. de Mathan) ; in coll. Tring Mus. Also from Panama and Bogota, coil. Joicey 

 and coll. Brit, Mus. 



J Josia abrupta ab. icca ab. nov. The white of the hindwing as strongly reduced as in th? q 

 or even more so, above more or less heavily mixed with black about SM'. Abdomen with white 

 dorsal ornamentation soinetimes wanting. Para. Type in coll. Tring Mus., 2 $$ in coll. Brit. Mus., 

 labelled " icca " without elucidation. 



§ Josia esoterica sp. nov. $, 32 mm. Differs from dorsivitta in having the yellow markings 

 of thorax and tegula largely suppressed, the abdomen without white dorsal and lateral stripes, only 

 the venter dirty whitish. 



Forewing with the orange band rather short and broad, above not crossing submedian fold, 

 beneath with only a minute extension beyond it. distal edge of band rather noticeably excavated 



between K' and H-. Hindwing with the white basal costal streak of tmderside wanting ; the 



white patch ample anil roundish, as in some dorsivitta. Sarayacu. Ecuador (C. Buckley). Type in 

 coll. .Joicey. Larger than tegyra Druce. wings not so narrow. C of hindwing diverging more rapidly, 

 palpus perhaps longer. 



