90 Linm.siAD.r.. 



*2018y. Paranerita niobe. (Plate XLIV. fig. -2:].) 



Paranerita niobe, Schaus, A. M.N.H. (8) vii. p. 187 (1911). 



cJ. Head yellow; palpi tinged with crimson towards tips; frons 

 violaceous brown; antennae In-own. white towards tips; thorax 

 violaceous brown ; pectus ami legs yellow: abdomen crimson, the 

 ventral surface yellow. Fore wing violaceous brown : some yellow 

 tinned with crimson at has" of inner margin : a yellow streak on 

 medial part of costa expanding into a rounded patch on diseo- 

 cellulars ami slightly edged with scarlet ; a small yellow wedge- 

 shaped spot on apieal part of costa ami a terminal series of conjoined 

 lunulate spots expanding into a wedge-shaped patch below vein 4, 

 slightly edged on inner side by scarlet. Hind wing yellow suffused 

 with crimson except on costalarea ; the underside yellow, the inner 

 half faintly tinged with crimson. 



Hah. 0»si v Rica, Juan Vinas (Sckaus), type t 6 in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. E.rp. 8G millim. 



*2018 /. Paranerita grandis. 



Hypomrita grandis. Ruths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 51, pi. 7. f. 20 (1909). 



$ . Head and thorax dark reddish brown, the vertex of head with 

 vellow patch : palpi yellow, brown towards tips; antennas white at 

 tips: pectus and legs yellow: abdomen crimson, the anal tuft 

 vellow. the ventral surface white. Fore wing dark reddish brown : 

 a conical yellow patch from middle of costa to just above lower 

 ancle of cell, slightly edged with crimson and expanding at costa, 

 the costal edge beyond it yellow tinged with crimson, a triangular 

 vellow patch on costa at apex : the termen with yellow spots slightly 

 edged with crimson above and below vein 5 and a wedge-shaped 

 patch with sinuous inner edge from vein -i to just above tornus. 

 Hind wing yellow. 



Kab. Peetj, Carabaya, S Domingo (Ockenden), typef £ in 

 foil. Rothschild. Exp. 1_» millim. 



*2019ff. Paranerita nietapyrioides. i Flat.- LXV. fig. !». i 

 Para apyrioides, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiii. p. 266 I L916 . 



Hind wing of male with the costa stronghj arched throughout, 

 the tornus strongly lobed and the inner area on underside clothed 

 with rough -calf-. 



". Head and thorax pale yellow mixed with sonic rufous; 

 antenna? tinged with brown; frons and palpi red-brown; abdomen 

 deeper vellow ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen creamy 

 white, the tore and mid legs yellow. For.' wing with the basal 

 and inner areas to tin' costa before middle and termen at vein '2 

 violaceous white tinged with flesh colour shading to red-brown at 

 the costa and its outer edge, v hich is defined by an orange Line; two 

 waved flesh-coloured antemedial lines Erom cell to inner margin 



