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LITHOSIAD.i:. 



femora clothed with yellowish hair ; abdomen with the basal half 

 yellowish suffused with scarlet, the terminal half fuscous brown. 

 Pore wing fuscous brown. Hind wing fuscous brown, the basal 

 and inner areas yellowish suffused with scarlet. 



Hah. Fit. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni, type t 6 in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Exp. 30 milium 



*1546/. Neritos maculosa. 



Neritos maculosa, Scliaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 225 (1905). 



d . Antenna' serrate ; hind legs with the femora, tibiae, and 

 1st joint of tarsi dilated and thickly fringed with scales and hair; 

 fore wing with veins 10, 11 stalked, the fovea elongate ; hind wing 

 with the costal lobe extending to three fourths length of wing. 



Head fuscous with an orange patch on back of head ; thorax grey 

 suffused with fuscous brown : pectus and legs brownish orange ; 

 abdomen orange with some fuscous hair at base. Fore wing 

 yellowish white, some brown at base ; an antemedial brown streak 

 above vein 1 ; two streaks below medial part of costa and shorter 



Pig. 40. — Neritos maculosa, <3. !• 



streaks below origin of vein 2 and above inner margin ; two streaks 

 in end of cell and one below the extremity ; a series of streaks from 

 costa beyond middle to tornus, towards which they decrease in 

 length; some slight streaks on extremities of the veins. Hind 

 wing yellow with slight fuscous irroration below the cell. 



Hub. Fr. (xUIANA, St. dean Maroni, type t S in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Exp. 36 millim. 



*1517 a. Neritos sardinapalus. 

 Hyponerita mr&ina'pal'us, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 51, pi. 7. f. 21 (1909). 



9 . Head and thorax deep purplish crimson, the vertex of head 

 with yellow patch; palpi yellow tinged with crimson; antenme 

 white towards tips; pectus and legs yellow, the fore femora tinged 

 with crimson above ; abdomen crimson, the medial segments 

 suffused with brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface yellow. 

 Pore wing deep crimson suffused with purple; a small deep crimson 

 antemedial spot above vein 1 : a triangular yellow patch from 

 middle of costa to middle of discocellulars, edged with deep crimson 

 which then runs along the costa and defines the outer edge of the 



