M.oNLUITA. i-i 



red-brown, crimson at base, the ventral surface yellow. Fore wing 

 with t lie* basal area crimson suffused with purple-brown, running 

 obliquely from costa before middle to tornus, its outer edge angled 

 on subcostal ami median nervures and vein L; the terminal area 

 yellow with scattered small round searlet spots; an elliptical brown 

 patch suffused with purplish grey and edged with searlet from costa 

 before apex to below vein (>. Hind wing pale yellow, the basal 

 inner area tinged with crimson. Underside of fore wing with the 

 basal area crimson with brown fascia on costa. 



Hub. Peru, Carabaya, Agualani (Ockenden), 2 S- Limbari 

 ( Ockenden ), -5 6 . type t 6 in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 11 millim. 



Subsp. parvimacula Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 10 (1910). 



J . Fore wing with the basal area and subapieal patch slightly 

 paler, the latter somewhat smaller and more triangular. 



Hab. \Y. Colombia, h>an Antonio {Palmer), typef 6 in Coll. 

 Rothschild. 



*V>4£d. Neonerita arcifera. (Plate XLIV. lig. 14) 



Neonerita arcifera, Dogn. Mem. Soc. Ent. Bulg. xix. p. 129 (1912). 



Fore wing with veins and 11 stalked with 7, 8, 9, 10 ; hind wing 

 with veins ;> and 5 from the cell; 6, 7 coincident, 8 from lower 

 angle of cell. 



d". Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with crimson, the 

 upper edge of patagia crimson; palpi crimson; pectus and legs 

 crimson, the tibiae and tarsi yellow in front; abdomen crimson 

 suffused with dark red-brown at extremity, the ventral surface 

 yellow. Fore wing with the basal area crimson suffused with dark 

 red-brown except on inner area, its outer edge evenly incurved from 

 costa before middle to tornus; the rest of wing yellow with post- 

 medial red-brown points on veins 4, 3, and an oblique elliptical 

 red- brown patch edged with crimson from costa near apex to below 

 vein G. Hind wing pale yellow. 



Hab. Colombia, Paramo del Quiridiu, type f S in Coll. Dognin. 

 Exp. 42 millim. 



*1244e. Neonerita syrissa. 



Idalus syrissa, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xvii. p. 407 (1906); Roths. Nov. 

 Zool. xvi. pi. 4. f. 21. 



o ? . Head and teguhe dark brown tinged with greyish; palpi 

 with crimson stripe at sides; thorax pale reddish brown; pectus 

 and legs pale crimson, the tibia' dark brown, the tarsi whitish : 

 abdomen dark brown, crimson at base and with lateral crimson 

 stripes, a small dorsal white spot on 2nd segment, the ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing with the basal area crimson suffused 

 with dark brown, its outer vd^r oblique from costa to tornus and 

 slightly dentate on the veins, a pale crimson streak on base of inner 

 margin; a faint inwardly oblique greyish antemedial line from 



