PBEMOLIS. 



II 



Hie Fore tarsi crimson ; abdomen crimson, the extremity and ventral 

 surface white Fore wing with the basal half whitish irrorated 

 with red-brown and suffused with red-brown on costal area, its 

 outer edge defined by crimson extending on costa to well beyond 

 middle and on inner margin to near tornus, sinuous ; the basal 



Fig. 11. — Premolis flavithorax, c? 



half of costal edge pure white, a crimson streak below costa and 

 some crimson at base of inner margin ; the terminal half yellow 

 with an obliquely curved postmedial series of four small red-brown 

 spots between veins 7 and 3. Hind wing yellowish white, the 

 inner area slightly tinged with crimson. Underside white ; fore 

 wing with crimson streak in the cell, brown discoidal spot and the 

 costal area brown towards apex. 



llab. Bbazil, Amazons, Teffe, Fonte Boa (Klages), type f c? 

 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 34 miliim. 



*12!>7 d. Premolis amaryllis. 



Premolis amaryllis, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. sxix. p. 210 (1906). 



c? . Antennte with bristles and cilia ; hind wing with vein S from 

 middle of cell. 



Head and thorax mustard yellow sparsely irrorated with 

 scarlet ; palpi and irons tinged with scarlet ; antennae pale scarlet ; 

 legs tinged with scarlet; abdomen orange-yellow. Fore wing 

 mustard yellow, the costal area red-brown ; a straight red-brown 



Fig. 12. — Premolis amaryllis, cJ. t> 



band from costa beyond middle to tornus; traces of irregularly 

 waved fine scarlet subbasal, antemedial, medial, postmedial and 

 subterminal lines, the last ending on termen just above tornus and 

 with faint band beyond it from apex to vein's. Hind wing yellow 

 suffused with crimson. 



llab. Fn. Guiana, St, Jean Maroni, type f 6 in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Exp. 32 miliim. 



