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scarlet above. Fore wing bright red-brown ; some scarlet at base 

 of costa and inner margin ; an oblique conical yellow patch defined 

 by scarlet from costa to beyond lower angle of cell ; a small yellow 

 apical spot and triangular patch below extremity of vein 4 defined 

 on inner side by scarlet ; cilia yellow to below vein 2, chequered 

 with rod-brown below veins 7, 6, 5. Hind wing yellow tinged with 

 scarlet, especially on costal area. Underside of fore wing with the 

 costal area towards base and the veins scarlet, the inner area pale 

 scarlet. 



II (ib. Fe. Gutan.v, St. Jean Maroni, typet 6 in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Exp. 26 millim. 



Genus ANTAXIA, trans, from Vol. I. p. 475. 



In key differs from Ait to molts in the hind wing having vein 8 

 absent. 



1246 m. Antaxia meridionalis. (Plate XLV. fig. 21.) 

 Antaxia meridionalis, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 190 (1905). 



<S ■ Head and thorax pale yellow ; palpi and antennae red-brown ; 

 patagia edged with brown and crimson above ; brown and crimson 

 patches below the shoulders ; legs marked with brown ; abdomen 

 crimson, pale yellow at base, the extremity and ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing yellow ; the base of inner margin tinged with 

 crimson ; a red-brown antemedial band, expanding into a fascia on 

 costa and into a large somewhat quadrate patch below the cell, 

 enclosing a small yellow spot in submedian fold, the veins and sub- 

 median fold on it crimson, a somewhat wedge-shaped patch from 

 just beyond it to tornus with some crimson on the veins ; a point 

 in upper end of cell and points beyond the cell above and below 

 vein 6 and below vein 4 ; a wedge-shaped brown patch on apical 

 part of costa connected by a short band with a wedge-shaped spot 

 below vein 6, the veins crossing it crimson and with three small 

 spots between it and the patch at tornus ; a subterminal series of 

 small spots. Hind wing pale yellow, the inner area tinged with 

 crimson. 



Hub. Peru, Carabaya, 1 6 , type t 6 in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 

 48 millim. 



*1246h. Antaxia similis, (Plate LXV. fig. 18.) 



Antaxia similis. Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiv. p. 479 (1917). 



d . Head and thorax pale yellow, the shoulders with pale crimson 

 spots, the patagia with crimson upper edge, the dorsum of thorax 

 pale red-brown, the antennas. pale red-brown, the frons with some 

 fulvous below, the palpi fulvous with some crimson at sides, black 

 above and grey-brown tips ; abdomen crimson ; pectus and ventral 

 surface of abdomen white with some fulvous below the wings : lec:s 



