PACHTDOTA. 205 



*1352fl-. Pachydota affinis. I Plate XLV1II. fig. 13. 



Pachydota atjinis. Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 27 

 Paehydota perm Roths 



nee ' . 



" . 11 id and thorax black-brown, the vertex of head pure white : 

 coxae orange-yellow; abdomen orange-yellow with black segmental 

 lines, the hair at base orange-yellow followed by a dorsal patch of 

 black hair, the ventral surface black-brown. Fore wing purple- 

 grey with a leaden gloss; some dark brown ai b - sta ; broad 

 oblique dark bixwn antemedial and medial bands, the former ending 

 at vein 1 ; a broad discoidal bar continent with a hand from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin and both above and below with the 

 postmedial band which beyond the lower angle of cell emits an 

 obliquely curved fork to tornal part of termen ; a wedge-shaped 

 hand with sinuous outer edge from costa towards apex to the fork 

 of postmedial Viand at vein 3 ; a patch on apical part of costa with 

 irregular line from it to termen at vein 1. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown, the interspaces to beyond the cell paler and somewhat semi- 

 hyaline : the underside grey tinged with brown, the costal area 

 brown, the veins black. 



$ . Fore wing with the terminal area brown from apex narrow- 

 ing to a point at vein d. 



Wab. Colombia, Popayan {Lehmann), I in Coll. Roth- 



schild. San Ant mi i Palmer), type t < i i pal uteri, which is a " 

 in Coll. Rothschild : Venezuela, Merida (Briceno). Exp.. ' 58, 



< - >f millim. 



*1352 h. Pachydota ducasa. ( Plate XLVIII. fig. 14.) 



Pachydota ducasa, Schans, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mu>. xxir. p. 222 1905 



dota peruviana, palmer ' . ];■ ths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 37 (1910). 



(S . Head and thorax dark reddish brown, the vertex of head and 

 basal joint of antenna? white: pectus orange-yellow near has 

 legs; abdomen dorsally orange-yellow with black-brown patch on 

 2nd. 3rd. and 4th segments and smaller black patch on oth - _- 

 ment, the terminal segments and the other segments at s 

 with black lines, the extremity and ventral surface brown, the 

 ventral valve yellowish. Fore wing pale grey-brown with dark- 

 brown bands : a diffused subbasal band from costa to below cell : 

 an oblique antemedial hand widening to costa : an oblique almost 

 medial hand: a broad discoidal bar with somewhat narrower oblique 

 band frjm it to inner margin and with a narrower oblique band 

 beyond it from above vein 2 to tornus; a curved hand from costa 

 beyond middle to termen at vein 2 emitting a spur to lower an^le of 

 cell: a band from costa towards apex to near termen above vein 3, 

 its outer edge forming a hook. at vein 7: a patch at apex with 

 sinuous subterminal line from it to vein -1 expanding into a spot at 

 vein 5. Hind wing brownish white ; the veins brown ; a slight 



