\ K EOMOLTS. / / 



tarsus (Hi inner side scarlet, the res! of femora on inner side brown, 

 the other tarsal joints scarlel with white rings ; mid tibia; except 

 at base and tarsi on outer side scarlet ; bind tibia; at extremity on 

 outer side and rings on tarsal joints scarlet ; abdomen crimson, the 

 2nd, .'ird, and Ith segments dorsally brown, the ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing scarlet striated with yellow and the interspaces 

 beyond the cell streaked with yellow, the costal edge white ; an 

 antemedial series of four indistinct purplish-tinged spots ; a medial 

 maculate purplish band from below costa to above inner margin 

 towards which it narrows, edged by yellow lines and angled 

 outwards below vein 3 ; a curved series of small purplish yellow- 

 edged spots from below costa to vein :> near the medial band ; cilia 

 yellow at tips. Hind wing crimson, the area covered by the fore 

 wing pale brownish, the inner margin brownish yellow. 



<j> . Abdomen wholly crimson above ; fore wing with the costal 

 area suffused with fuscous, prominent interrupted yellow streaks in 

 the interspaces, the maculate bands more distinct, the antemedial 

 bent round to base below the cell and the spot in cell separate, the 

 medial more broken up and irregular, the spots towards inner 

 margin elongate, a terminal series of brown streaks on the veins: 

 bind wing wholly crimson. 



Hub. Fr. Guiana, St. .lean Maroni (ScJians), 1 6 type, 

 type $ »n U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp., 6 30, $ 40millim. 



*1 245 J. Araeomolis nigripuncta. 

 Arseomolis nigripuiieta, Joicey, P. Z. S. 1917. p. 260, pi. 1. f. C (1918). 



$ . Head and thorax scarlet mixed with yellow ; abdomen pale 

 crimson with the tip of anal tuft white; antenna' brown at middle 

 and white at tips ; palpi white in front ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen white, the fore tibiae scarlet on inner side and 

 the mid and bind tibiae in front towards extremity, the tarsi 

 almost entirely scarlet. Fore wing scarlet mixed with yellow, the 

 costal edge white, with a slight brownish streak below it; 

 antemedial blackish points in and below the cell and above vein 1 

 with some pale brownish before them in and just below the cell ; 

 a pale brownish maculate band formed by a double series of spots 

 in and beyond end of cell, then single to tornus, with four blackish 

 points on its inner side from below subcostal nervure to below 

 vein 2 and points on its outer edge in the interspaces between 

 veins 7 and 2 ; a suhterminal series of small brownish spots defined 

 on each side by blackish points between veins 8 and 3, the spots 

 below vein (5 nearer the termen ; some slight blackish points on 

 termen from apex to vein 2. Hind wing pale crimson, the area to 

 bevond the cell semihyaline white tinged with brown from costa 

 to suhmedian fold. Underside pale crimson, tin' fore wing with 

 the costal area brownish, the bind wing with the inner area 

 whitish. 



Hah. Fr. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni, type f <5 in Coll. 

 Joicey. Exp. 36 millim. 



