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slight pale streaks; a small antemedial white spot on vein 1; a 

 wedge-shaped hyaline white patch extending on costa from middle 

 to towards apex, its lower edge curving down to vein -1 and slightly 



indented at vein 5 : it- outer edge waved and produced below 

 vein (!, some dark brown points on it and two -mall spots on vein o. 

 two small annuli often present on or just beyond its lower extremity. 

 some black suffusion beyond it: a fine curved white line just before 

 termen, the area beyond it grey and blackish : cilia chequered 

 white and blackish towards apex, the white indenting the termen 

 below apex. Hind wing semihyaline white, the inner area tinged 

 with brown and the inner margin clothed with crimson hair: a 

 slight brown discoidal >tri:_ r a. Underside of fore wing with white 

 and brown streaks, a crimson fascia in end of cell: hind wing with 

 black-brown fascia below base of costa. 



Hub. Costa Rica. Tuis [Schaus . 2 '.12. JuanYinas (Schaus). 

 1 2 ■ E*P; c? 46, 2 oO millim. 



132s a. Bertholdia crocea. (Plate XLVIT. fig. 28 



Bertholdia crocea, Scliaus, A. M. N.H. (S) vi. p. 202 (1910). 



Head and thorax purple-brown, the dorsal crest and metathorax 

 more fulvous brown; palpi white, black-brown behind; tegulae 

 edged with white expanding into a dorsal spot : pectus white with 

 brown and crimson streaks below the wings: legs white, the femora 

 at extremities and the tibia? except at extremities chocolate-brown, 

 the fore coxa? on outer side and the femora above crimson : abdomen 

 crimson, the extremity and ventral surface white, lateral ser: - 

 black spots. Fore wing brownish ochreous irrorated with blackish, 

 the costal half suffused with purple-brown; a small antemedial 

 white spot on vein 1 : faint diffused dark postmedial fascia? above 

 vein 3 and in submedian fold ; a wedge-shaped hyaline white patch 

 extending on costa from middle to towards apex, its lower edge 

 curving down to rein 1 and slightly indented at vein 5, its outer 

 edge sinuous and produced below vein 6, some black points on it 

 and two small spots on vein G : a tine curved white subterminal 

 line, the area beyond it darker, blackish at apex : cilia chequered 

 with white except towards tornus, the white below apex intersecting 

 the termen. Hind wing semihyaline white, the inner area suffused 

 with crimson. Underside of fore wing white, a crimson patch in 

 cell and a dark streak in its lower extremity, the terminal area dark 

 to vein 3 expanding into a patch at apex ; hind wing with a black 

 streak below base of costa. 



Hah. Mexico, 1 2 ; Costa Rica, Tuis (Schaus), 1 3, Juan 

 Vinas (Schaus), 2 ' ; Yknezio.a. Merida ( Bricem , 1 J . Exp. 

 44-4G millim. 



1329. Bertholdia braziliensis. insert : — 

 Bertholdia sorur. Pyar, Proc. Ent. Soe. Wash. iv. p. 391 Itfay 1901 . 

 which has precedence. 



