un 



i.miosi \ii.v. 



1544. Neritos repanda. insert (syn.) : 



Paranerita diversa, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiv. p. 178 (1917). 



Venezuela, Esteban Valley (Klages), typef 6 , $ m Coll. 

 Rothschild, Merida. 



*1544«. Neritos meialeuca. (Plate XLV. fig. 8.) 



Neritos metalewa, Dogn. Het. Noiiv. Am. Sud, iii. p. 13 (1911). 



d ■ Head and thorax purplish brown, the vertex of head with 

 yellow patch ; palpi yellow, tinged with crimson at tips ; antennae 

 white towards tips; pectus and legs white; abdomen crimson with 

 white dorsal point at base, the anal tuft and ventral surface white. 

 Fore wing purple-brown to the costa before middle and thence with 

 slightly sinuous outer edge defined by crimson to termen at sub- 

 median fold ; the apical half of wing pale yellow with a large round 

 subapical purple-brown patch with slightly waved edges denned by 

 crimson. Hind wing semihyaline white. Underside of fore wing 

 white with some brown above the costal lobe of hind wing and the 

 subapical patch brown. 



J I nit. Venezuela, Merida, typef d in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



*1544 b. Neritos chrysozona. 



Neritos chrysozona, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 220 (1905). 



c? . Antennae with serrations ending in a bristle; fore wing with 

 the fovea short; a slight longitudinal fold beyond upper angle of 

 cell and dilation of the costa above it. vein 10 bent downwards and 

 approximated to 7, 8, !>, then curved upwards to costa; vein 11 

 curved upwards to the costa; hind wing with the costal lobe about 

 half length of wing. 



Fig. 34. Nentos chrysozona, '. ]. 



Head orange, the palpi above, antennae, and spots on frons and 

 vertex of head dark brown; thorax brown, the base of tegulae and 

 shoulders orange; pectus and legs givy-hrown ; abdomen black- 

 brown, the extremity paler, the ventral surface whitish. Pore wing 

 biack-brown, the veins, submedian fold, and inner margin streaked 

 with yellow on basal area ; a broad golden yellow hand from middle 



