106 lithosiadj:. 



surface yellow. Fore wing with the basal area red-brown, extending 

 on the costa to before middle and thence to termen above torn us, its 

 outer edge darker and angled at the discocellulars and vein 3 ; some 

 crimson at base of inner margin and a small blackish spot on the 

 inner edge of the band ; the rest of wing yellow with a large round 

 red-brown patch below apex edged with blackish and with the costa 

 above it crimson. Hind wing yellow slightly tinged with crimson. 

 Underside of fore wing with the basal area yellow with dark brown 

 on its outer edge, the subapical patch dark brown ; hind wing 

 yellow. 



Hub. Brazil, Amazons, Fonte Boa (Klar/es), type t 6 in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 26 millim. 



*L5-14 e. Neritos eximia. 

 Neritos eximius, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 180, pi. 14. f. 30 (1910). 



Antenme of male with bristles and cilia ; fore wing with the 

 fovea long. 



6 ■ Head and thorax black-brown, the teguhe and patagia with 

 broad crimson stripes; cox* pale crimson; abdomen deep crimson, 

 the extremity black-brown with an orange dorsal spot on anal 

 segment, the ventral surface pale crimson with the terminal seg- 

 ments black-brown, the anal tuft ocln*eous except at tip. Fore 



Fi;, r . 37. — Neritos eximia, 3 . !• 



wing black-brown with a deep crimson patch below and beyond 

 the fovea; hyaline patches between bases of veins 5 to 2 and 

 slight semi-hyaline streaks between bases of veins 7 to 5. Hind 

 wing black-brown with the area below and beyond end of cell 

 hyaline, the inner area deep crimson to near tornus. Cnder.ude of 

 fore wing with the fovea and tuft yellow. 



Sab. Peru, La Oroya, K. [nainbari (Ockenden), typef cJ in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 26 millim. 



154 if. Neritos discophora. (Plate XLV. tig. 9.) 

 Neritos discophora, Hmpsn. Nov. Zool. xxiii. p. 231 (1916). 



Hind wing of male with the eosta lobed t.» about three-fourths 

 of wing; fore wing with veins H). 11. stalked, an elongate fovea 

 helow the cell ; antennae pectinate. 



Head, teguhe, and shoulders orange, the antennas, except at base, 

 and thorax grey-brown ; palpi black at tips; abdomen orange, the 



