NEAXIA. 63 



*1231 J. Neaxia gnosia. 



Neaxia gnosia, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 211 (1906). 



Hind wing of male with the costa very strongly lobed ; veins 2 and 

 5 from angle of cell. 



d . Head and thorax chrome-yellow ; palpi tinged with scarlet 

 above ; f rons with scarlet bar ; neck with scarlet ring ; patagia 

 with brownish patches edged with scarlet ; pro-, meso-, and meta- 

 thorax with paired scarlet spots ; pectus crimson in front ; legs 

 mostly white : abdomen dorsally crimson, yellow at extremity, the 

 ventral surface white. Fore wing chrome-yellow ; a purple fuscous 

 patch on middle of inner margin extending to middle of cell, edged 



Fig. 15. — Neaxia gnosia, <^ . A. 



with scarlet and with curved scarlet streak in submedian fold ; 

 some small scarlet annuli on basal area ; a small brown annulus 

 edf ed with reddish in end of cell and four beyond the cell ; a post- 

 medial series of similar spots with the three towards costa larger 

 and more elongate ; a subterminal series of similar small annuli. 

 Hind wing white suffused with crimson except on costal area, the 

 cilia yellow. 



Jiab. Br. Guiana, Omai, type t J in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



*1231 e. Neaxia cennedyi. (Plate XLIV. fig. 10.) 

 Neaxia kennedyi, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 269 (1909). 



cJ . Head and thorax yellow, the dorsum of thorax and upper 

 edge of patagia suffused with red-brown and crimson ; palpi at tips 

 and antennae red-brown ; frons with crimson bars at middle and 

 between antennae ; pectus and legs white, the fore and mid tibiae 

 suffused with brown ; abdomen crimson, the extremity and ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing yellow ; a brown spot edged with crim- 

 son at base of cell and subbasal spots in and below the cell and above 

 inner margin ; the medial area with large patch with irregularly 

 waved edge from below costa to terminal part of inner margin, 

 edged with crimson and the veins on it streaked with crimson ; a 

 small pale red-brown spot in upper extremity of cell, four spots 

 just beyond the cell, a postmedial series from below costa to below 

 vein 3, the spots between veins 8 and 5 large, and with small spots 

 beyond them above and below vein 7, and two subterminal series of 

 small spots from costa to below vein 2 ; a terminal series of points. 

 Hind wing white tinged with crimson ; the underside white. 



Hub. Brazil, Minas Geraes {Kennedy), type t J in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 34 millim. 



