NEMTOS. 



ill 



irrorated with scarlet; pectus and legs yellowish tinged in parts 

 with scarlet, fore and mid tibne with brown patches, fore tarsi 

 ringed with brown ; abdomen yellow suffused dorsally with scarlet 

 except at extremity and with a white point at base. Fore wing red- 

 brown closely reticulate with brown striae ; some scarlet at base of 

 inner margin ; a small scarlet annulus with yellow centre below the 



Fig. 43. — Neritos tremula, <3 , \. 



cell before middle; an irregularly triangular yellow patch slightly 

 edged with scarlet from middle of eosta to median nervine ; a 

 small yellow spot at apex and conical patch with brown spot on it 

 on termen between vein 4 and submedian fold, its apex nearly 

 reaching vein 5 and its inner edge irregular. Hind wing scarlet. 



Hub. Fb. Guiana, type f J in U.S. Nat. Mus., St. Jean Maroni, 

 type t 6 subgaudialis, in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 3S millim. 



1552 h. Neritos steniptera. 



Neritos steniptera, Hmpsn. A.M.N. H. (7) xv. p. 445 (1905). 

 Areomolis basalis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 35, pi. 5. ff. 20-21 (1909). 



Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate ; fore wing long and 

 narrow, especially in male, hind wing with veins (3, 7 coincident in 

 male, strongly stalked in female. 



Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi with some scarlet above ; 

 vertex of head yellow with some scarlet round it ; tegula? scarlet at 

 tips ; dorsum of thorax yellow edged with scarlet ; pectus and legs 

 yellow marked with brown and scarlet; abdomen yellow dorsally 

 suffused with scarlet. Fore wing red-brown with yellow spots 

 edged with scarlet on fulvous orange patches ; a spot at base ; an 



Fig - . 44. — Neritos steniptera, tf . }. 



anteinedial series of three conjoined spots forming a band from sub- 

 costal nervure to vein 1, excurved at middle ; a similar excurved 

 band from middle of costa to median nervure ; a series of three 

 spots from vein 5" before termen to vein 2 at termen; cilia with 

 scarlet points towards apex. Hind wing orange-yellow with 



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