XERITOS. Ill 



dark area leaving the termen yellow expanding into a wedge- 

 shaped patch from vein fc to submedian fold. Hind wing yellow, 

 the terminal half slightly tinged with crimson. 



Hah. Brazil, Up. Amazons, Fonte Boa; Peru, Carabaya, 

 It. Huacamayo, La Union (Ockenden), type + $ in Coll. lloth- 

 schild. Exp. 30 millim. 



I 5 17 b. Neritos flavimargo. 



Neritos flavimargo. Joicey, A. M. N. H. (8) win. p. 61, pi. 14. f. 19 

 (1916). 



$. Head a lid thorax deep crimson with a slight purplish tinge; 

 antenna? white at tips; pectus and legs pale ochreous yellow; 

 abdomen crimson, the anal tuft pale ochreous yellow, the ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing bright crimson suffused with silvery 

 purple; traces of crimson antemedial, postmedial, and subterminal 

 lines ; a conical pale yellow patch from middle of costa to discal 

 fold ; the costa towards apex and termen and cilia to vein 2 

 narrowly yellow, the yellow on termen very slightly angled inwards 

 at vein 4. Hind wing yellow suffused with pale crimson. Under- 

 side of fore winy - pale crimson with the yellow on costa and termen 

 as above; hind wing yellow with a faint crimson tinge. 



Hah. Brazil, Amazons, R. Ueayali, type t $ in Coll. Joicey. 

 Exp. 28 millim. 



*1548ff. Neritos gaudialis. (Plate XLY. fig. 13.) 



Neritos gaudialis, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 225 (1905). 



S . Head yellow ; palpi behind, basal half of antenna 1 , and a bar 

 on back of head scarlet ; palpi in front, lower part of frons, and 

 terminal half of antennas brown ; thorax red-brown ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen yellow, the two latter tinged with scarlet. Pore 

 \\- i 1 1 o- brown ; a scarlet streak below base of costa, then bounding 

 the large conical yellow patch from costa beyond middle to vein 2, 

 then along costa to apex ; a terminal yellow band edged with 

 scarlet on inner side, narrow from apex to vein 3, then forming a 

 triangular patch. Hind wing yellow tinged with scarlet on apical 

 area. 



Hah. Pi;. GuiANA, St Laurent Maroni, type t <5 in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. E.rp. 32 millim. 



1549. Neritos cotes, del. Neritos tipolis. 



*1549ff. Neritos coccinea. 



Neritos coccinea, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 224 (1905). 



o . Antenna? serrate and with bristles and cilia ; fore wing with 

 vein 10 from cell, the fovea elongate ; hind wing with the costal 

 area three fourths of length of wing. 



