114 LITHOSIADiE. 



white ; legs pale yellow, the fore femora tinged with crimson 

 above. Fore wing purple-brown, extending to costa before middle 

 and thence to termen above tornus, its outer edge angled in lower 

 extremity of cell, the rest of wing yellow with a very large sub- 

 apical purple-brown patch from just below costa to below vein 5 

 where its inner edge is connected by a sinuous band with the 

 purple-brown on inner area, the inner edge of the patch rounded 

 and its outer edge trilobate, the purple-brown markings slightly 

 defined by crimson. Hind wing yellow, tinged with crimson 

 except the cilia. Underside of fore wing with the costa crimson to- 

 wards base, the fovea surrounded by white and with the tuft of 

 hair in it white, the purple-brown markings not defined by crimson ; 

 hind wing with the costal area crimson to discal fold. 



Hab. Brazil, Minas Geraes {Kennedy), type f 6 in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 30 millim. 



1551. Neritos cardinalis. 



£. Joicey, A.M.N.H. (8) xviii. p. 61 (1916). 



Fore wing with the antemedial yellow band narrower, the costal 

 spot broader, the spot on termen above tornus constricted above. 



*1551 a. Neritos carmen. (Plate XLV. fig. 1C.) 

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



9 . Head scarlet, the vertex yellow ; antennae brown ; palpi 

 vellow in front at base, then brown ; tegida? and shoulders yellow, 

 the former scarlet in front, the latter behind ; thorax brown with 

 two scarlet bars ; pectus and legs yellow tinged in parts with scarlet ; 

 abdomen vellow dorsally suffused with scarlet. Fore wing brown 

 with bright yellow markings edged with scarlet ; a broad antemedial 

 band narrowing to inner margin, its inner edge angled inwards at 

 median nervure ; a conical patch on costa just beyond middle, its 

 apex on vein 2, conjoined at costa to the antemedial band and with 

 a scarlet costal streak from it to the terminal band which is dilated 

 at apex and angled inwards below vein 5. Hind wing brown, the 

 costal and inner angles and termen towards apex yellow tinged 

 with scarlet ; the underside yellow slightly tinged with scarlet and 

 witli a brown patch on termen above middle. 



Hah. Fjt. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni. typef S in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Exp. 30 millim. 



*1552 a. Neritos tremnla. 



Keritos trernula, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 225 (1905). 

 String isvbgaudialus, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiv. p. 479 (1917). 



j. Hind wing with \eins (>, 7 coincident. 

 Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi above, antennae at base and a 

 liar on vertex of head scarlet, tegulse edged with scarlet, thorax 



