EITPSEUDOSOMA. — NEAXIA. 01 



*1230 c. Eupseudosoma affinis. 



Antaxia affinis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 26, pi. iv. f. 20 (1909). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen fiery red slightly tinged with 

 brown ; pectus and legs yellow, the fore and mid tibiae slightly 

 banded with red-brown ; ventral surface of abdomen yellow, suf- 

 fused with red-brown on basal half. Fore wing fiery red tinged 

 with brown extending to apex and tornus and leaving a large 

 semihyaline pale } r ellow semicircular patch on terminal area, its 

 inner edge indented by a triangular patch before apex and slightly 

 angled at vein 0, beyond lower angle of cell and at submedian fold ; 

 a rather oblique dark antemedial line and sinuous medial line ; a 

 postinedial red point on vein 3 and three sub-terminal points on and 

 between veins -4 and 3. Hind wing bright pink, some whitish at 

 base of eosta and inner margin ; a semihyaline yellowish white 

 patch on terminal area from apex to submedian fold, its inner edge 

 angled inwards beyond lower angle of cell ; the underside with the 

 pink area white slightly tinged with pink except at costa. 



Hind wing with vein 7 represented by a short spur from angle 

 of cell. 



Hab. S.E. Peru, Carabaya, Huacamayo. type f $ in Coll. 

 Rothschild, La Union, in Coll. Dognin. Mxp. 32 millim. 



1231 a. Neaxia bella. (Plate XLIV. fig. 9.) 

 Neaxia bella, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 212 (1906). 



d . Head and thorax chrome-yellow ; palpi above brown ; frons 

 with brown bar; antenna? brown, yellow at base and whitish at 

 tips ; patagia and dorsum of thorax with paired brown patches 

 edged with scarlet, meta thorax with similar spots ; legs banded 

 with brown, their bases and pectus white ; abdomen crimson, the 

 base, extremity, and a dorsal spot on 2nd segment yellow, the 

 ventral surface white. Fore wing chrome-yellow with purple- 

 brown markings, the larger ones edged with scarlet ; a spot below 

 base of cell confluent with an antemedial series of irregular patches 

 which again are confluent with elongate spots above and below 

 submedian fold and below vein 1 extending to tornus, a small 

 spot in end of cell with short streak above it and four small spots 

 beyond the cell, a postmedial series of spots, those towards costa 

 larger and the spot above vein 5 bidentate and placed nearer the 

 termen, a subapical spot and a series of small spots just before 

 termen and below costa towards apex. Hind wing yellow suffused 

 with crimson and with large elliptical brown patch on middle of 

 terminal area. 



Hab. Fr. Guiana, St. Jean Maroni, type t 6 in U.S. Nat. Mus., 

 St. Laurent Maroni, 1 d" . JSxp. 32 millim. 



*1231 b. Neaxia cccendeni. 



Neaxia ockendeni, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 26, pi. 4. f. 26 (1909). 



3 . Head and thorax yellow ; palpi brown behind and at tips ; 

 frons with brown bar above ; antenna? brown, whitish at tips ; 



