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lypical Jp. lophocampoides from S. Brazil lias the postmedial 

 maculate band of fore wing hardly stronger in the male than in 

 the femahj j anc i -with slight scarlet streaks at the veins only. 



1218 a. Prumala alinda. (Plate XLIII. fig. 20.) 

 Prumala alinda, Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. xi. p. 20 (1909). 



<$ . Head yellow, the gen as crimson, the palpi crimson at sides, 

 brownish in front ; thorax yellow with a few crimson hairs, the 

 patagia edged above by purple ; legs Avith the tarsi crimson ; 

 abdomen yellow, dorsally suffused with crimson. Fore wing 

 yellow ; a purplish fascia on base of median nervure, expanding 

 into a large irregularly quadrate antemedial patch extending into 

 the cell and to above inner margin and connected with a broad 

 oblique band from costa just before apex, where it expands, to inner 

 margin where it expands to near tornus, its outer edge angled 

 outwards below veins 7 and 6 ; a small round discoidal spot and 

 two small spots just beyond the cell ; a subterminal series of small 

 spots in the interspaces ; the costa and veins crimson on the purple 

 areas. Hind wing semihyaline yellowish, tinged with crimson 

 except on costal area ; a faint purplish postmedial patch in sub- 

 median interspace showing through from underside. 



Hah. Mexico, Mexico City (Mutter), Zacualpan {Mutter), 2 6 . 

 Exp. 51 millim. 



1218 b. Prumala palmeri. 



Prumala palmeri, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 9, pi. 13. f. 8 (1910). 



S • Head, tegular, and base of patagia yellow; palpi, frons, and 

 base of tegulae scarlet ; antennae brown, whitish at tips ; thorax- 

 scarlet with fuscous brown fascia; on patagia and prothorax ; pectus 

 and fore legs yellow suffused with scarlet, the mid and hind leirs 

 white, the fore femora above and mid tibiae at base fuscous ; abdo- 

 men crimson, the ventral surface white. Fore wing j-ellow ; a 

 large purple-fuscous patch edged with scarlet on inner area extend- 

 ing from close to base to tornus and into middle of cell, its outer 

 edge sinuous and emitting a spur above vein 2; some scarlet and 

 yellow at base of inner margin and a postmedial spot on inner 

 margin with small scarlet spot above it in submedian fold ; small 

 brown spots with some crimson on their edges in end of cell and 

 beyond the cell above and below vein 6, and a scarlet point at 

 lower angle of cell ; a purple-fuscous lunulate subapical patch 

 edged with scarlet from below costa to vein 5 followed by brown 

 points below veins o and 4 ; a subterminal series of brown points 

 and a terminal series of slight scarlet points. Hind wing pale 

 yellow, the inner half faintly tinged with crimson. 



Hab. W. COLOMBIA, San Antonio (Palmer), 1 J. Exp. 

 11 millim. Type t in Coll. Rothschild, 



