36 LITHOSIADJE. 



*1224«. Prumala pyrostrota. (Plate XLIII. fig. 24.) 



Prumala 'pyrostrota, Dogxrin, Aim. Soc. Ent. Belg. lii. p. 153 (1908). 



§ . Head red-brown, the vertex crimson ; tegulre silvery white 

 tipped with red-brown ; thorax red-brown mixed with crimson ; 

 pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae and the base of mid tibiae red- 

 brown ; abdomen crimson, the ventral surface white. Fore wing 

 grey-brown extending on costa to beyond middle and on inner area 

 to tornus, the apical "third of wing yellow, the veins crimson ; an 

 ill-defined antemedial crimson band from below costa to inner 

 margin, where it is diffused to base ; a medial band of yellow spots 

 defined by diffused crimson from below costa to inner margin ; an 

 incurved postmedial line from vein 3 to inner margin ; a double 

 curved subterminal series of small grey-brown spots from costa to 

 vein 4. Hind winy crimson with the costa yellow ; the underside 

 yellow tinged with crimson. 



Hab. Fe. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni, type f $ in Coll. 

 Dognin. Exp. 34 millim. 



1225. Prumala fogra. (Plate XLII. fig. 18.) 



122G. del. Noctua Hits, the species will stand as Prumala optima, 

 Butl. 



*1220 a. Prumala hieroglyphica. (Plate XLIII. fig. 25.) 



Prumala hieroglyphica, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 209 (190G). 



$. Head and thorax yellow irrorated with scarlet; palpi with 

 the 2nd and 3rd joints brown in front at extremity, lower part of 

 frons and antennae brown ; tegul* at middle and patagia in front 

 nl^fd with brown, the mesot borax with brown bar, the m eta thorax 

 with brown triangle ; fore femora and the tibia' and tarsi banded with 

 brown ; abdomen ochreous dorsally suffused with scarlet. Fore 

 wring yellow thickly in-orated with scarlet forming obscure anima- 

 tions; a purple-brown Fascia from base of costa to middle of inner 

 margin, where it joins the terminal band ; an oblique In-own striga 

 from costa near base; the medial area reticulate with fine blown 



lines forming an annulus below COSta before middle and two just 

 beyond middle and an X-shaped mark in and helnv, the cell; small 

 obliquely placed postmedial brown annuli on veins 6 and 5 ; post- 

 medial line minutely waved, oblique from costa to vein ">, where it 

 is connected by a fascia with the terminal band, then inwardly 

 oblique, obsolet* below vein 2; a curved, waved, subterminal line. 

 Hind wing pale scarlet. 



Uab. hi:. Gl [ANA, St. Laurent Maroni, type f ? in U.S. Nat. 

 .Mus. /•.'.'/'. lit millim. 



