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L546. Neritos pandera, insert (syn.) : — 

 Paranerita ampla, Dogn. Hut. Nouv. Am. Sud. iii. p. 14 (1011). 



Fit. (iiiA.NA, St. Laurent Maroni (Lc Moult), type f 6 in 

 Coll. Dognin. 



*1546a. Neritos purpureotincta. 

 Nmfos pw-pureotincta, Joicey, P. Z. S. 1917, p. 269, pi. 1. f. 13 (1918). . 



cf . Head and thorax greyish tinged with chocolate-brown, the 

 metathorax deep chocolate with oblique crimson streaks at sides; 

 antennae dark brown with some crimson at base; abdomen pale 

 crimson with a white spot at base of dorsum and the anal tuft 

 white at tip; palpi scarlet, white in front towards base, the base ol 

 3rd joint brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 white, the fore legs yellow in front. Fore wing purple-grey tinged 

 with chocolate-brown to middle of costa and to termen above 

 tornus, its outer edge oblique and faintly edged with scarlet ; a 

 .scarlet streak below costa, and some scarlet at base of inner 

 margin; the gland defined at sides by dark brown and with a 

 scarlet point before it ; an ill-defined waved dark brown medial 

 line from subcostal nervure to inner margin with some scarlet 

 suffusion on its inner side and another dark line beyond it below the 

 submedian fold; the rest of wing nacreous white with an ochreous 

 tinge at costa and on cilia ; an elliptical apical patch purple-grey 

 at middle and scarlet at edges, extending to vein -1. Hind wine- 

 whitish tinged with pale brownish crimson especially on inner area. 

 Underside of fore wing with the basal area crimson at costa and 

 outer edge, the rest of it whitish with some dark brown in the cell, 

 the gland and a patch beyond it pure white, the apical patch 

 crimson with three conjoined elongate dark brown spots on it in 

 the interspaces and sonic dark brown at apex. Hind wing with the 

 costa crimson. 



ILab. Fe. Guiasa {Le Moult), type t 6 in Coll. Joicey. 

 tSccp. 30 millim. 



*15dG b. Neritos abdominalis. 



Nerita abdominalis. Roths. A. M. N. II. (8) iv. p. 228 (1909). A Nov. Zool. 

 xviii. pi. 6. f. 17. 



d. Head yellow, the antennae grey, yellow at base and whitish 

 at extremity; thorax grey ; fore coxa' yellow, the base of legs 

 clothed with rough yellow scales; abdomen grey-brown, the ter- 

 minal half and ventral surface yellow. Fore wing brownish grey 

 with grey-white streaks on the veins and in diseal and submedian 

 folds; a diffused whitish patch below lower angle of cell. Hind 

 wing pale brown with a greyish tinge, the inner margin. whitish; 

 the underside with the whole inner area whitish, 



ILab. Brxzil, Upper Ania/.ons, Fonte Boa (Klages), type f 6 

 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 30 millim. 



