84 tjthostad.t;. 



*2017/. Paranerita peninsulata. (Plate XL1V. fig. 19.) 

 Paranerita peninsulata, Dogn. Het. Nouv. Am. Sud, vii. p. 19 (191 1). 



6 . Head yellow; antennae black with some crimson at base and 

 yellow tips ; thorax purple-brown ; pectus and legs yellowish white ; 

 abdomen crimson, the anal tuft and ventral surface white. Fore 

 wing purple-brown, the inner margin tinged with crimson; a rather 

 oblique triangular yellow patch edged with black-brown from costa 

 just beyond middle to vein 3, its inner edge indented ; the termen 

 yellow expanding into a patch from vein 3 to tornus and defined 

 on inner side by black-brown, thus leaving a rounded subapical 

 patch of the ground colour with crimson streak above it on the 

 costa and slightly waved outer edge connected by an oblique 

 isthmus with the basal area. Hind wing crimson. 



Rob. Venezuela, Esteban Valley, Las Quiguas, type t 6 in 

 Coll. Dognin. Exp. 24millim. 



*20l7.y. Paranerita carminata. (Plate LX1. fig. 24.) 



Paranerita carminata, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 227 (1905). 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen crimson, the last with dorsal 

 white point at base and the extremity white ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen white, the fore legs crimson in front. 

 Fore wing crimson with rather narrow yellow band from the costa 

 just beyond middle to termen above tornus, white at costal edge 

 and its outer edge somewhat excurved between veins 5 and 4. 

 Hind wing vellow tinged with crimson. 



JIab. Fk. Guiana, St. Jean Maroni, type f $ in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Exp. 23 millim. 



*2017 Jc. Paranerita lophosticta. (Plate XLIV. fig. 20.) 

 Paranerita lophosticta, Schaus. A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 014 (1911). 



6 • Head and thorax crimson, a white band between antennae 

 which are brown except towards base ; pectus and legs white, the 

 fore legs tinged with crimson in front; abdomen crimson, a fan of 

 white >eales at base, the anal tuft and ventral surface white. Pore 

 wing crimson slightly irrorated with brown ; a small yellow 

 antemedial spot on base of the fovea below the cell ; an indistinct 

 curved medial crimson line from origin of vein 2 to inner margin ; 

 a downcurved pale yellow fascia from costa beyond middle to 

 termen above submedian fold, expanding towards the costa and at 

 termen, constricted before the termen, its upper edge excurved below 

 vein 5, crossed by a diffused crimson streak below the costa. and 

 the costal edge white before it ; cilia white at tips from apex to the 

 fascia. Hind wing pale crimson. Underside of fore wing with 

 the tuft of hair in the fovea white. 



$ . Fore wing without the antemedial yellow spot, the yellow 



