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cT . Head crimson, the frona grey except at sides ; teguke crimson, 

 grey at base and sides : patagia orange at base, then grey with some 

 crimson scales and crimson outer edge ; thorax grey in front, orange 

 and crimson behind ; pectus and legs crimson, the femora and tibise 

 striped with grey, the tarsi whitish ; abdomen orange, dorsallv 

 suffused with crimson except at extremity. Fore wing fuscous 

 brown faintly striated with crimson and with tine crimson streak 

 below costa ; some orange-red at base of inner margin ; an irregular 

 crimson-edged orange medial band from cell to inner margin some- 

 times with a slight bar before it; a rather quadrate spot in end of 

 cell, a small spot beyond the cell and triangular spot below end; a 

 triangular crimson-edged whitish pbstmedial spot above vein 5 with 

 crimson-edged yellow spot above it and incurved band from it to 

 inner margin ; the apical part of terminal area bright yellow to 

 below vein 4, its inner edge somewhat dentate. Hind wing 

 yellowish white, the inner area tinged with crimson. 



5 . Fore wing with the hyaline spot beyond the cell smaller and 

 more rounded ; the terminal yellow band narrow ; hind wing wholly 

 suffused with pink. 



Hab. Surinam ; Fu. Guana, St. Jean Marbni (Schaus), 3 8 , 

 St. Laurent ATaroni, 4 8 ■ Exp., 8 34, $ 4b' milliin. 



Larva. Black with yellow subdorsal, lateral, and sublateral 

 stripes; the warts blue with tufts of long black hairs. 



31. cm <nt a. Sepp, is probably a distinct species. 



1326 h. Melese drucei. 



Mi est drucei, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 271 (1909),* rviii.pl. 5. ff. 37, 38. 



8 • Head scarlet with grey-brown patch on frons ; antenna? grey- 

 brown except the basal joint: thorax grey-brown, the tegulte and 

 metathorax with large scarlet patches ; the patagia and dorsum of 

 thorax with scarlet streaks ; pectus scarlet, legs grey, the femora 

 scarlet above, the tibise streaked with scarlet and the tarsi whitish ; 

 abdomen crimson. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with scarlet ; 

 a slight scarlet streak below costa; an irregular antemedial patch 

 edged with scarlet from cell to inner margin, followed by spots in 

 middle of cell and above base of vein 2 ; a minute spot in end of 

 cell and three spots between lower angle of cell and inner margin ; 

 a triangular white spot edged with scarlet below base of vein <> and 

 small scarlet-edged yellow spot above vein 6; a terminal yellow 

 hand with minutely dentate scarlel inner edge from apex to vein 4. 

 Hind wing semihyaline white, the inner area slightly tinged with 

 crimson; the underside with the costal area tinged with scarlet. 



$. Fore win<f with the markings on inner half scarlet, the spot 

 in middle of cell minute, the terminal yellow band absent ; hind 

 wing wholly tinged with crimson. 



Hah. Venezuela, 1 '; Be. Guiana, Ornai, Potaro; Surinam, 

 Maroewym Valley, A^roewarwar Creek (Klages), typef 8 in Coll. 

 Rothschild; Brazil, Amazons, Fonte Boa; Peru, Carabaya, 

 K. Huacamayo, La Union. Exp., 8 38, $ 44 millim. 



