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*1219 a. Prumala ocbrida. ( Plate XLIII. fig. '11.) 

 Prumala ochrida, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xli. p. 2 (1915). 



d 1 . Head and thorax yellow tinged with rufous; antennae 

 brownish; abdomen yellowish suffused with crimson. Fore wing 

 ochreous yellow, the veins streaked with red-brown, the costal 

 area suffused with rufous ; a subbasal crimson point in the cell and 

 two on median nervure and some rufous on inner area ; an elongate 

 red-brown mark in middle of cell and a rather wedge-shaped rufous 

 patch in end of cell ; a large rufous patch on medial area from the 

 cell to inner margin enclosing a small yellow spot below the cell, 

 its outer edge joined by an oblique maculate line from costa beyond 

 middle; an oblique red-brown band with sinuous edges from costa 

 to inner margin before the subterminal series of small red spots 

 in the interspaces between veins 7 and 2 ; cilia with a series of 

 red-brown spots. Hind wing yellow, the inner area tinged with 

 crimson except towards tornus. 



Hah. S.E. Brazil, Joinville. Exp. 40 milliin. This species 

 is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from typo in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. 



*1220ff. Prumala griseipenni3. 



Automolis gris&ipennis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 41, pi. 6. ff. 7, 8 (1909 



d . Head and thorax reddish brown ; pectus black-brown with a 

 blue gloss ; fore tarsi at extremities and mid and hind tarsi except 

 at base white; abdomen orange, the four terminal segments and 

 sides black glossed with metallic blue, the ventral surface orange 

 with the anal segment dark brown. Fore wing grey-brown, darker 

 from base to the ill-defined obliquely curved whitish line from 

 costa beyond middle to middle of inner margin. Hind wing 

 greyish brown ; the underside with the costal area and cell darker 

 with a wedge-shaped orange pitch in the cell. 



$ . Abdomen dorsally scarlet instead of orange ; fore wing more 

 uniform greyish brown, with the line less distinct. 



Hab. Brazil, Up. Amazons, Fonte Boa (Klages), typo f 6 , 

 $ in Coll. Rothschild. Exp., S 40, $ 44 millim. 



122 J b. Prumala ignipicta. (Plate XLIII. fig. 22.) 

 Prumala ignipicta, Hmpsn. A.M.N. H. (7) xi. p. 350 (1903). 



J . Antennae bipectinate ; hind wing with veins (J, 7 on a long 

 stalk, 8 from near end of cell. 



Head and thorax red-brown, the latter with some red hair at 

 sides ; palpi and legs brown ; abdomen scarlet, the ventral surface 

 yellow. Fore wing yellow-brown ; a small yellow patch below base 

 of costa suffused and edged with scarlet and with some dark spots 

 on it; a yellow spot suffused with red on middle of inner margin ; 

 veins tinged with red. Hind wing pale yellow tinged with scarlet. 

 Underside ochreous. 



Hab. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, Tijuca (S. B. Wagner), 1 d type. 

 Exj>. 36 millim 



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