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more or less imicolorous, the dark scaling usually extending to tornus; 

 some dull reddish brown shading basad of base of oblique subterminal 

 bar and beyond upper ocellate spot of postmedial band; ocellate spots 

 of postmedial band composed of basal brown crescent, median blue 

 gray line and an outer dark mark, outer dark mark of lower ocellate 

 spot nearly black, usually darker than similar mark of other ocellate 

 spot. Hindwing yellow orange, paler in male than in female, especially 

 toward base; a dark brown apical spot usually present, larger in females 

 than in males, in some females a dark subterminal spot present on 

 costa. Ventral surface of wings mostly yellowish orange, paler, 

 nearl}' white before apical dark spots; dark brown marks of forewing 

 consisting of oblique subterminal bar, two outer costal marks and 

 a dark outer mark of lower ocellate spot, oblique subterminal bar 

 with apical third much darker than remainder of bar, basal part 

 vague or absent in males. Length of forewing: male, 12 to 14 mm.; 

 female, 12 to 15 mm. 



Male and female genitalia as illustrated (figs. 27, 28). Clasper 

 of left valve of male genitalia hooked or bent dorsad, the apex of the 

 clasper variable in shape, pointed or weakly clavate; left sacculus 

 only with a costal spine. Ductus bursae of female genitaha with a 

 sclerotized groove to the right; ductus seminalis arising from a lobe 

 on the right side of bursa copulatrix. 



Type : A female from Guayaquil, Ecuador in the British Museum 

 (Natural History), London, England via the Druce collection. In 

 the original description Druce does not indicate the number of speci- 

 mens, but he indicates the specimen described was a male. The 

 statement in the original description (1896, p. 42) ". . . secondaries 

 bright chrome-3'ellow, with three black spots close to the apex. . . ." 

 proves that the specimen was a female and that Druce was in error 

 as to the sex. Males either lack an apical black spot on the hindwing 

 or have only a single spot, females maj have one, two, or three spots. 

 Examples appearing to have three spots actually have the apical spot 

 divided into two spots by yellow orange scales along vein Mj. In the 

 British Museum there are four other specimens from Guayaquil, 

 Ecuador (Dolby-Tjder collection); but they were in that collection 

 before the type (see Hampson, 1910, p. 793). 



Distribution: This species occurs in northern South America. 

 Thirty specimens from the following localities have been examined. 

 Ecuador: El Oro, Zarimia. Colombia: Pop ay an. Venezuela: Aroa; 

 Las Quiguas, Carabobo; Rancho Grande, Aragua; Alto de Yuma, 

 near Giiigiie, Carabobo; El Limon, near Maracaj^, Aragua; Maracay, 

 Aragua; and Santa Lucia, Miranda. Trinidad: Caparo. In addition 

 to the five specimens from Guaj^aquil, Ecuador, there is one female 

 from Trinidad in the British Museum (Natural History). 



