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*V2'26b. Prumala intensa. 



Prumala intensa, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 51, pi. 4. f. 19 (1909). 



c? . Head and thorax yellow ; palpi suffused with crimson and 

 banded with red-brown ; irons with red-brown band above; antennae 

 red-brown, the basal joint yellow and crimson; tegulae with some 

 crimson at base and red-brown tips; patagia with crimson annulus 

 and edged with crimson ; vertex of thorax with crimson reticula- 

 tions and red-brown V-shaped mark on metathorax ; pectus yellow, 

 the legs banded crimson and brown ; abdomen crimson, the ventral 

 surface yellow. Fore wing yellow, the veins and short streaks and 

 irrorated patches in interspaces crimson; an oblique red-brown 

 fascia from base of costa to tornus ; a subbasal bar from costa to 

 the fascia, an oblique striga beyond it from costa to fascia, and a 

 striga rather further from base from the cell to the fascia; ante- 

 medial line red-brown, angled outwards below costa, then oblique 

 and sinuous, with a silvery white spot before it below the cell and 

 another beyond it above inner margin ; a red-brown annulus from 

 middle of costa to median nervure, connected with the antemedial 

 line, and giving off an oblique sinuous line to inner margin and 

 striga to vein 2, a silvery white spot beyond the line below sub- 

 median fold; a discoidal bar connected with the annulus; post- 

 medial line slightly excurved below costa, angled inwards at discal 

 fold to the discoidal bar, oblique and slightly sinuous below vein 4 ; 

 a subterminal brown band from costa to vein 5, expanding at costa 

 and vein 5 and giving off at the latter point from its inner edge an 

 oblique line to vein 2 just beyond the postmedial line ; a series of 

 brown lunules just before termen, connected with termen by streaks 

 in the interspaces and a spot on termen at vein 5 ; cilia red-brown. 

 Hind wing yellowish white tinged with crimson. Underside of 

 fore wing, except apical area, and costa and inner margin of hind 

 wing suffused with crimson. 



g . Fore wing with the brown fascia above inner margin ex- 

 panding into a patch to vein 2 beyond middle and the curved band 

 on apical area broader. 



Hah. Fit. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni in Coll. Dognin ; Brazil, 

 Amazons, Fonte Boa (Klages), type t ? in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Exj). 32 millim. 



1226 c. Prumala similis. 



Pnimala similis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 268 (1909), & xviii. pi. 5. f. 8. 



c? . Head and thorax red-brown, the vertex of head white with 

 scarlet annulus and streak behind it ; palpi yellow and scarlet with 

 brown spots on 2nd and 3rd joints ; antenna? yellow and scarlet at 

 base ; teguke and patagia with white patches with scarlet annuli 

 on them, the dorsum of thorax with confluent white patches marked 

 with scarlet ; pectus yellow ; legs scarlet banded with brown ; 



