40 ltthostadjE. 



crimson suffused with brown except .it base and with darker 

 segmental lines, the ventral surface white. Fore wing with 

 the basal half crimson red ; the costal area fuscous brown except at 

 base ; the rest of wing semihyaline white with a few brown points 

 on veins 6 and 4 ; an inwardly oblique greyish antemedial line 

 from below costa to inner margin defined on each side by fuscous 

 brown suffusion ; a slight brown bar with white centre in end of 

 cell and a trifid white spot defined by dark brown below origin of 

 vein 2 with oblique dark line from it to lower angle of cell and two 

 oblique lines from it to inner margin ; the dark costal area emitting 

 a bar on termen to vein 6. Hind wing semihyaline white, the 

 inner area tinged with crimson. 



Hind wing with vein 8 from before angle of cell. 



Hab. Peri*, La Oroya {Ockenden), type f in Coll. Joicey. 

 Exp. 44 millim. 



*1227 b. Premolis ridenda. (Plate XLIII. fig. 27.) 

 Iclahis ridenda, Dogii. Hot. Ncrav. Am. Sud, ii. p. 13 (1911). 



<S . Head and thorax crimson-red, the tegulte at sides and patagia 

 suffused with grey-brown ; palpi white in front towards base, 

 brown at tips; antenna' brown except the shaft towards base; 

 pectus and legs pure white, the fore femora above and base of tibiae 

 crimson red. the tarsi black at tips; abdomen pale crimson, the 

 terminal half suffused with brown, the ventral surface pure white, the 

 extremity brown-red. Fore wing with the basal half crimson-red, 

 the terminal half semihyaline white with the costal area chocolate- 

 brown extending on termen to below vein 6, the outer edge of the 

 red area incurved and slightly sinuous, the white area with two red 

 points on vein G and one on vein 4 ; an oblique greyish antemedial 

 line from below costa to inner margin, defined on outer side by 

 brown; slight whitish spots in lower end of cell and middle of 

 submedian fold. Hind wing semihyaline white with some diffused 

 pale crimson along vein 1 to beyond middle and a slight tinge at 

 lower extremity of cell. Underside of fore wing with the cell and 

 area just below and beyond it crimson red, the costal area brown. 



1 1 nil. Fit. Guiana, Nouveau Chantier (Le Ifoal/), type f 6 in 

 Coll. Dognin. Exp. 34 millim. 



*1227c. Premolis flavithorax. 

 Demolig flavithorax, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 269, (1909), & xviii.pl. 5. f. 9. 



Antennae of male minutely serrate and fasciculate; hind wing 

 with the costa strongly lobed with large patch of androconia below 

 it on upper side, 8 from middle of cell and strongly curved! 



cJ . Head and thorax pale yellow; palpi crimson, black behind 

 and brown towards tips ; tegulae with crimson spots on outer edge, 

 patagia with the outer*edge crimson, some crimson scales on 

 mi tathora \ : pectus and legs white, some crimson below the wings, 



