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extremities with brown bands; abdomen yellow, dorsally tinged 

 with crimson especially ;i1 base. Fore wing yellow with pale 

 crimson streaks below base of costa and vein 1; a brown streak 

 above base of vein I, then Kent downwai'ds to inner margin at 

 postmedial line; obliquely placed subbasal black points below costa 

 and in cell : a double sinuous antemedial scries of black points 

 from below costa to vein 1 ; the discal fold with pale crimson 

 streak at middle of cell and two medial dentate marks below the cell, 

 and streak above vein L : two black' points in cell towards extremity 

 and a brown diseoidal annulus witli some crimson in centre; an 

 oblique series id' black points beyond the cell from below vein (J to 

 below submedian fold, a point further from base above vein G; the 

 extremity of median nervure and the bases of the veins beyond the 

 cell with pale crimson streaks ; a maculate brown postmedial line, 

 incurved below costa and oblique below vein 5, with black points 

 before it between veins (J and '■'> and beyond it from below costa to 

 vein 1 ; the veins of terminal area defined on each side by sub- 

 terminal and terminal series of short crimson streaks with a series 

 of small blackish spot> between them in the interspaces ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing yellow faintly tinged with red- 

 brown. Underside yellow ; fore wing with postmedial and sub- 

 terminal series of faint brown spots. 



Hah. Pr. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni in Coll. Dognin; Suri- 

 nam, Maroewym Valley, Aroewarwar Creek; Brazil, Amazons, 

 Fonte Boa, type t <5 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. :30 millim. 



1 232 c. Eriostepta beata. 



Erlnsh-pta beata, Dogn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. liii. p. 219 (1009). 



Hind \viiii>' of male with the costal area dilated into a lobe with 

 a large patch of androconia on upperside, the apical area strongly 

 truncate, the wing not clothed with long rough hair and the inner 

 area without fold and tufts of hair. 



c? . Head and tegulse yellow, the frons above and vertex of head 

 with crimson patches; palpi black and crimson above; antenna? 



blackish, crimson at base and white at tips; thorax crimson, some 

 blackish at base of teguke and blackish dorsal stripe ; abdomen 

 crimson with slight blackish mark at base ; pectus, leg's, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen yellowish white, the fore femora above and 

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