NERITOS. 



1(1!) 



1 .*> ! 6 c. Neritos pliaoplaga. 



V, ritos plmopUiga, Kmpsn. \. M. N. II. (7) xv. p. I 15 ( 1905). 



Antenna; of male with bristles anil cilia ; fore wing with veins 

 10. 11 stalked, the fovea elongate; hind wing with the eosta 

 moderately lobed. 



(S . Head yellow; frons brown ; thorax dark brown ; pectus and 

 legs white, the fore coxa; yellow in front ; abdomen crimson, the 

 anal tuft yellow, the ventral surface white. Fore wing with the 

 basal area purple-brown from one-third of eosta to termen above 



Fig. 39. Nt ritos phseoplaga. 



tornus. it- outer 



sinuous and angled at lower angle of cell and 

 n :>. a yellow spot edged with scarlet on inner margin before 

 middle 



vein .), a \eiiow simh eugtu niui m.mhi mi mini maigui ..mm. 



middle: apical area yellow with roun led purple-brown subapical 

 patch with scarlet streak on eosta above it and hidentate outer edge. 

 Hind wing crimson with a fuscous patch on middle of termen. 



§. Fore wing with the subapical patch joined to the brown 

 area by an oblique suhterminal bar. 



Rah. Fr. Guiaxa, St. Laurent Maroni (Sclunts), 1 6 type, 

 type V in U.S. Nat.Mus. Exp. 22 millim. 



*1546 d. Neritos drucei. 



Neritos drucei, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 294 (1909), <& xviii. pi. 1, f. 8. 



<$ . Head and thorax deep crimson slightly mixed with brown; 

 1st joint of palpi white in front: abdomen greyish, dorsally 

 suffused with crimson except towards extremity: pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing deep crimson slightly 

 tinged with brown ; a broad oblique semihyaline yellow hand from 

 eosta beyond middle to termen between veins 4 and 2 ; cilia yellow 

 at tips from below apex to the hand. Hind winy' yellow, the inner 

 area and termen slightly tinged with crimson ; the underside with 

 the eosta suffused with crimson. 



Hah. Fr. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni, in Coll. Dognin ; 

 Si kin \m. Maroewym Valley, Aroewarwar Creek ( Klages), type 

 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 30 millim. 



L546<?. Neritos prophsea. 1 Plate XLV. fig. L2. 1 

 Neritos prophsea, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 22G il" 

 6 ■ Head and thorax fuscous brown, the hack of head and a 

 ring round neck scarlet ; fore coxa 1 yellowish ; hind coxae and 



