12 LITIIOS1AD.E. 



Bcarlel a1 base of dorsum. Fore wing chrome-yellow; the sub- 

 median interspace pale brown edged with scarlet, expanding into 

 the cell near base and at middle and to inner margin before middle 

 and towards tornus, some scarlet in medial part of submedian fold; 

 two small scarlet-edged brown spots in end of cell and two beyond 

 the end ; an oblique series of conjoined brown spots intersected by 

 scarlet streaks on the veins from eosta towards apex to vein 2, the 

 spots above veins 7 and 5 rather more elongate; a subterminal 

 series of small round brown spots from apsx to vein 2. Hind 

 wing yellow, the inner area tinged with scarlet. 



J. Fore wing with the postniedial series of spots reduced and 

 well separated ; hind wing white faintly tinged with yellow. 



Huh. Brazil, Castro Parana, type t $ in U.S. Nat. Mus., 

 J in Coll. I>. Jones. ~Exp; 11 millim. 



*120W. Idalus tetroionta. (Plate XLIII. fig. 2.) 



Tdalus tetrodonta, Dogn. Mem. Soc. Eat. Balg. xviii. p. 151 (1911). 



c? . Head and thorax yellow; palpi crimson at sides and brown 

 above; frons with lateral crimson spots; antennae brown with the 

 basal joint crimson; neck with crimson ring; patagia with their 

 upper edge crimson and brown ; pectus in front and at sides crimson, 

 the Eore and mid legs with the femora and tibiae streaked with 

 crimson and brown; abdomen crimson, the ventral surface white. 

 Foiv wing yellow; the base of inner margin suffused with crimson; 

 a purple-brown triangular patch edged with crimson and the veins 

 on it streaked with crimson from costa before middle to vein 1 

 near base and to tornus, leaving a yellow spot edged with crimson 

 on middle of inner margin, the outer edge of the patch dentate at 



i lian nervure and above vein 2 ; slight purplish grey spots in upper 



angle of cell and beyond the cell between veins (! and 3; a purple- 

 brown band edgi'd with crimson from eosta to vein 5, its outer edge 

 produced on eosta to apex, then indented, with small purplish grey 

 spois below veins 5 and I between it and the triangular patch; 

 a subterminal series of small purplish grey spots from below vein 7. 

 Hind \\ni!_ r pale yellow, the inner area tinged with crimson, a 

 purplish grey tinge on termen between veins 2 and 1. 



Rah. Venezuela, Merida, typef 6 in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 

 5 I millim. 



*1204e. Idalus affinis. 



Amaxia affinis, Both . Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 34j pi. 5. f. 15 (1909). 



J. Head, tegulae, and shoulders yellow; palpi crimson, yellow 

 in front towards tips and black behind; antenna' red-brown, white 

 towards tips; base of tegulae crimson; thorax red-brown with 

 crimson streaks on upper edge of patagia; pectus and legs yellow, 



the tore coxa', tibiae on inner side and tarsi at extremities crimson, 

 the femora blackish above; abdomen crimson, the extremity and 



