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pule crimson streaks on upper edge; some crimson below shoulders; 

 extremities of femora and the tibiae suffused with grey-brown ; ab- 

 domen crimson, the base, extremity and ventral surface yellow. Fore 

 wing pale yellow ; a suhbasal brown point in cell ; an oblique ante- 

 medial brown bar formed of two spots with some whitish scales on 

 them, separated by a slight crimson streak in submedian fold, from 

 cell to just below vein 1 ; a small brown spot in middle of cell ; a 

 brown point in upper extremity of cell and four points beyond 

 and below the cell from above vein 6 to before vein 2 ; an oblique 

 postmedial series of small brownish spots with white centres, the 

 spot at costa wedge-shaped and slightly edged with crimson and a 

 large spot above vein I conjoined to a wedge-shaped patch on inner 

 margin; a subterminal series of brown points. Hind wing pale 

 yellow, the inner area tinged with crimson ; the underside yellowish 

 white. 



2 . Patagia without the streak on upper edge ; fore wing without 

 the antemedial band, the postmedial spots reduced to brown points 

 except towards inner margin, absent above vein 6, a brown spot on 

 costa just before apex. 



Rab. Venezuela, Caracas, type t 8 $ in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Exp., 6 42, 2 50 millim. 



*1204 b. Idalus Deja. (Plate XLII. fig. 22.) 

 Mains neja, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 208 (1906). 



Antenna? of male bipectinate, the apical half simple. 



<$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen chrome-yellow ; palpi whitish 

 tinged with fuscous above ; patagia with reddish brown patches ; 

 legs and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing chrome- 

 yeilow ; two pale red-brown spots below base of cell ; large conjoined 

 reddish brown spots below costa and cell and a small spot on inner 

 margin ; small spots in and below end of cell and four small spots 

 just beyond the cell ; a postmedial series of irregularly placed spots, 

 the three towards costa larger, and a large irregular patch on inner 

 margin ; a subterminal series of small spots with spot before it 

 below costa ; a terminal series of small spots. Hind wing semi- 

 hyaline whitish, the inner area and cilia yellow. 



Hab. Fr. Guiana, St. Jean Maroni, type f 6 in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Exp. 40 millim. 



*1204c. Idalus catenata. (Plate XLIII. fig. 1.) 



Idalus catenata, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 209 (1906). 



§. Head, teguhe, and base of patagia chrome-yellow; palpi, 

 frons at sides, basal joint of antennae, and a ring round neck scarlet; 

 patagia pale brownish edged with scarlet; thorax clothed with 

 yellow, brownish, and scarlet hair; fore coxas and tibiae and tarsi 

 at sides and extremities of mid and hind tarsi scarlet; the extremity 

 of" femora and base of tibiae brownish; abdomen vellow tinged with 



