] j. i.rrnosi ad.«. 



cilia vellow with a series of red-brown spots and intersected by 

 streaks at diseal and submedian folds. Hind wing pale yellow, the 

 inner area suffused with red-brown; a red-brown spot at lower 

 an--le of cell and a broad terminal band; the cilia yellow with 

 red-brown spots ; the underside with quadrate discoidal patch, the 

 band subterminal and ending at subniedial fold. 



Ab. 1. Patagia and thorax with the pale patches smaller; fore 

 wing in-orated with yellow, the yellow patches reduced to much 

 more definite series of spots ; hind wing without terminal hand. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the yellow markings still further reduced 

 to series of small spots; hind wing with the brown suffusion on 

 terminal area slight and without terminal band. 



//<//>. S.E. Peru, Carabaya, S. Domingo (Ockenden), type t d" 

 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. -12 millim. 



1205 a. Idalus costaricensis. 



Neaxia costaricensis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 269 (1909), & xviii. pi. 5. 

 f. 10. 



$ . Head, fcegulse, and shoulders bright yellow; palpi with some 

 crimson and brown at base; antennae brown, white at tips; thorax 

 brown, the patagia edged with crimson; pectus brown with some 

 crimson in front; legs yellow, the mid and hind tibia? and tarsi 

 white; abdomen crimson, the anal tuft and ventral surface yellow. 

 Fore wing yellow with a large purple-brown patch from base below 

 costa to middle and thence with oblique waved outer edge to 

 tornus, edged with crimson and with crimson streaks on base 

 of inner margin and vein 1. a yellow spot defined by crimson on it 

 at middle of inner margin; small brown spots beyond the cell 

 below veins 7, <>. and 3; an incurved series of three brown spots 

 edged with crimson between veins 8 and 5 towards apex, followed 

 by small brown spots below veins 5 and 1 ; a subterminal series of 

 small brown spots from apex to subniedian fold. Hind wing 

 yellow, the inner area suffused with crimson ; the underside with 

 the costal half whitish. 



$. Thorax yellow and crimson without any brown; fore wing 

 with the purple-brown at base reduced to an irregular subbasal 

 patch, all the spots larger especially those below end of cell and the 

 postmedial series which are prominently defined by crimson. 



//,///. Costa Kka, Juan Vinas (Schatis), 1 d, 1 ?, Sitio 

 i Schaus i, 1 J , Carablanca de Sarapique, typef 6 in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Exp., (•* :{(">, ? bS millim. 



L205 h. Idalus irrupta. ( Plate XLIII. tig. 3. ) 



AutomoUs irrupta, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 215 (1906). 

 J. Head and thorax yellow; palpi at sides and above and 

 patches on Brons, vertex of head and tegulae crimson; patagia with 

 crimson streaks and edged with crimson; thorax streaked with 

 crimson, the metathorax with pair of white spots; pectus and legs 

 whitish, the Eore legs crimson in front; abdomen crimson, the 



