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I.TTltl >Si A K.V . 



abdomen crimson, the ventral surface while. Fore wing yellow, a 

 large basal brown patch extending below costa to before middle and 

 thence with irregular outer edge to termen above tornus, the veins 

 crossing it, a streak in submedian fold and two points in eell 

 crimson; a yellow spot edged with crimson on middle of inner 

 margin ; a small brown spot in end of eell ; a series beyond to cell, 

 the spot above vein 5 displaced inwards: a postmedial series with 

 the spots towards costa larger and edged with crimson; a sub- 

 terminal scries of small spots. Hind wing yellowish white suffused 

 with brown except the costal area and inner margin. 



Rah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, • Tijuca (S. 1\. Wagner), 1 J type. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



*1243a. Evius albiscripta. 

 Evius albiscripta, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat, Mus. xxix. p. 213(190(3). 



Antenna} of male bipectinate with moderate branches; abdomen 

 with tufts of very long hair from the lateral stigmata. Fore wing 

 with the lower part of cell short, the upper part very much pro- 

 duced ; hind wing with the inner area developed into a very large 

 lobe. 



d. Palpi white, crimson behind and brown in front towards 

 extremity: frons brown, white below; upper part of head white 

 with a crimson patch; antenna 1 brown, the 1st joint and basal halt 



of shaft crimson, the tips white; thorax brown: tegulae with white 

 spots edged with crimson; patagia white, crimson above; meta- 

 thorax with white bar detined by dark- brpwn and some crimson at 

 sides; pectus and legs white, the tore lec-s with some crimson in 

 front and brown behind ; abdomen white dorsal ly crimson at base and 

 beyond middle, the terminal segment red-brown with white line 

 before il and white tip. bore wing brown ; some crimson at base 

 <<[' inner margin ; a crimson streak below costa except at base; a 

 crimson and white subbasal spoi below the cell ; a short white ante- 

 medial >1 reak in the eell; a white streak edged with crimson above 

 and black below on basal balfof vein 2; a white point above middle 

 of \cin 1 : a large yellowish hyaline patch beyond the cell between 

 veins 7 and 3, it- upper edge indented, it- outer edge rounded; 

 vein 7 streaked with crimson at middle and with small white spot 

 above it and streak below it ; the extremil \ of the veins with crimson 



