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*1205 e. Idalus melauopasta. 



Idalus melanopasta, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. li. p. 22G (1907). 



Hind wing of male with the costa highly arched, dilated and 

 somewhat produced at apex, a small patch of brown androconia on 

 upperside well beyond lower angle of cell; vein 8 from middle 

 of cell. 



d . Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with greyish ; 

 palpi at base white, crimson above; antennae with the basal joint 

 erinison behind, the tips whitish ; neck with crimson^ ring; pectus 

 and legs white, the fore tibiae crimson on inner side; abdomen 

 crimson with two dorsal white points at base, the extremity orange 

 with the anal tuft at tip and the ventral surface white. Fore wing 

 greyish suffused with red-brown especially at base and below costa, 

 the* costal edge white with slight crimson streak below it at base, 

 a slight crimson mark at base of inner margin ; the medial area 

 irrorated with black spots in the interspaces except towards costa 



Fig. 4. — Idalus melanopasta, J. J. 



and inner margin ; the postmedial area with diffused crimson stri;e 

 and with series of blackish points above veins 7, (i, 5; a terminal 

 yellow band slightly defined by crimson on inner side, narrowing to 

 points at apex and tornus and its inner edge angled outwards 

 to near termen at vein 5, a series of minute blackish streaks on the 

 extremities of the veins. Hind wing with the costal half oehreous 

 white with patch of brown androconia beyond lower angle of cell, 

 the inner half erinison with the cilia oehreous white, the cilia of 

 inner margin white; the underside white with the inner half, 

 except inner margin, and terminal area tinged with crimson. 



II, ih. Fk. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni, type f cJ in (/oil. 

 Dognin. Kx]i. 1<> milliin. 



*1205/. Idalus laurentia. (Plate XLIII. fig. 4-.) 

 Idalue laurentia, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 207 (1900). 



Ant. -una' of male bipectinate; hind wing with the costal area 

 greatly dilated, patches of white androconia below cell of fore wing 

 on underside and below eosta of hind wing on upperside. 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen chrome-yellow ; palpi black above 



and with black ring a1 extremity of 2nd joint ; antenna' brown at 

 middle and white at tip--, patagia with brown lino near edges; 



