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LITUOSIAP/K. 



*2020A. Hyponerita viola. (Plate XL1Y. fig. 31.) 



Htji oner Dogn. Ann. Sue. Ent. Belg. liii. p. 220 I L909). 



2 ■ Head and thorax violaceous white mixed with purplish brown: 

 palpi yellow at base; antenna; brown, white at tips; abdomen 

 yellow; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen white; fore femora 

 above, tibiie and tarsi yellow. Fore wing with the basal area 

 violaceous white mixed with purplish brown, its outer edge defined 

 by crimson and running obliqueh from middle of costa to termen at 

 vein '2 ; a crimson streak on inner margin towards base; traces of 

 brownish antemedial and medial lines ; the apical half yellow with a 

 large rounded violaceous whit :al patch edged with blackish 



and crimson. Hind wing yellow. Underside of fore wing with 

 the dark areas blackish brown. 



Hob. Fe. Guiana, St. Lauren! Maroni, type f $ in Coll. 

 Dognin. Exp. 34 millim. 



2020 h. Hyponerita tipolis. 



Neritos tipolis, Druce, A.M.N.H. (6) xviii.p.39 (1896) ; id. Biol. Centr.- 



Am.. Het. ii. p. 367, pi. 73. f. 27. 

 II ;,'■ ths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 298 (1909), & rvii. 



pi. 13. f. 1. 



Antenna? of male serrate: fore wing with the fovea and tuft 

 short. Hind wing with the costa strongly lobed to one half, the 

 apical area obliquely truncate to vein ">. 



Head and thorax violaceous, the vertex of head with large yellow 

 patch; palpi at base yellow: pectus, legs, and abdomen orange- 

 yellow. Fore wing violaceous to the costa just before middle and 



Fig. 28. — Hyponerita tipolis. '■ 



thence with a slight curve to termen just below vein '2. the outer 

 edge of this area darker; the resl of wing yellow with a In ■-■ 

 round subapical patch with darker edges. Mind wing yellow. 



Wab. Guatemala, type f . in Coll. Staudinger. Costa Rica, 

 Carthago ( Underwood), type f boreal is in Coll. Rothschild, 



Juan Vinas (Schaus), 2 r, 2 j> , Sitio (Schans), ] £. Exp. 38 

 millim. 



