68 I.TTUOsl A U.K. 



L235«. Amaxia consistens. (Plate XLIV. fig. 12.). 



Amaxia consistens, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mas. xxix. p. 212 (1905). 

 Amaxia maroniensis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiv. p. 177 (1917). 



J. Head and tegulae bright yellow ; palpi in front and behind 

 and sides of frons brown, palpi tinged with scarlet at sides ; vertex 

 of head with red spots; thorax purple-brown, the patagia yellow on 

 shoulders, then with some scarlet; legs yellow and white, the tibiae 

 with red points at extremity ; abdomen brown, the extremity scarlet 

 with a brown spot, the tip yellow, the ventral surface white. Fore 

 wing bright yellow with a large purple-brown patch from base below 

 the cell to base of vein 3 then incurved to tornus, extending into- 

 middle of cell and to just above subcostal nervure, edged with scarlet 

 and the veins and folds on it streaked with scarlet ; a scarlet spot 

 above inner margin beyond middle ; a small fuscous spot in upper 

 end of cell and slight streak above angle, four spots beyond the cell 

 between veins 7 and 3, the spot above 4 displaced outwards ; some 

 slight brown streaks edged with scarlet below costa towards apex 

 and similar obliquely placed spots above and below vein 7 followed 

 by four fuscous spots ; a subterminal series of small fuscous spots in 

 the interspaces. Hind wing brown, the margins pale yellowish, the 

 edges of the brown area tinged with pink ; the underside pale yellow 

 tinged with pink on inner half. 



Ab. 1. maroniensis. Hind wing with the brown restricted to a 

 point below vein (i and a subterminal hand between veins 2 and 1 

 interrupted at submedian fold. 



Hah. Fit. (Hiaxa, St. Jean Maroni (Schaus), 1 c?,typef d 

 maroniensis in Coll. Rothschild. E.rp. 3G millim. 



*123(i(7. Amaxia pulchra. 



Amaxia pulchra, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 34. pi. 5, f. lfi (1909). 



c$ . Head and thorax yellow ; palpi crimson behind ; frons crimson 

 at sides and with crimson bar; antenna 1 brown, white at tips and 

 with some crimson at base; vertex of head with crimson spot; 

 tegulae at base and shoulders crimson ; patagia with dark fascia 

 edged with crimson on upper edge, the prothorax with dark streak 

 edged with crimson and the inctathorax with sonic crimson ; pectus 

 an.! legs white, the Eore femora blackish above, the tibia' and tarsi 

 yellow with crimson spots at base and extremity of tibiae and 

 extremity of tarsi ; abdomen crimson, white at extremity and 

 below. Fore wing yellow; a large oblique fuscous brown patch 

 edged with crimson and the veins on it streaked with crimson from 

 middle of cell to terminal half of inner margin ; a crimson annuhis 

 at base, an elliptical subbasal annuhis below costa and annuli below 

 the cell and on inner margin, the last tilled in with fuscous; a 

 small pale red-brown spot in end of cell, small crimson annuhis at 

 upper angle, and four small red-brown spots beyond end of cell 



