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*13.37 a. Carathis australis. 



Carathis australis, Roths. A. M. N. H. (8) iv. p. 208 (1909); id. Nov 

 Zool. xvii. pi. 12. 1'. 8. 



d 1 .-Head and tegulse yellow mixed with some brown; palpi 

 ehocolate-brown with small yellow spots at extemities of 1st and 

 2nd joints : antennae In-own; thorax chocolate-brown, the patagia 



yellow at tips: legs banded brown and yellow: abdomen ochreous 

 dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing chocolate-brown, the basal 

 area tessellated with pale yellow spots defined by rufous, the outer 

 edge of this area oblique from eosta before middle to inner margin 

 beyond middle ; a medial patch of yellow spots denned by rufous on 

 costa; the terminal area with wedge-shaped patch of pale yellow 

 spots defined by rufous, broad at eosta. nan-owing to a point at 

 vein 2 ; intersected by a dark streak at vein 5 ; cilia with yellowish 

 white spots from apex to vein 2. Hind wing whitish almost 

 wholly suffused and irrorated with cupreous brown, tin- cilia white 

 with a dark line through them ; the underside white thickly 

 irrorated with brown, a slight dark discoidal lunule and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hub. Brazil, S. Catherina, type + d in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 

 42 millim. 



*1358 a. Carathis tabaconas. 



Carathis tabaconas, Joicev. A. M.N. H. (8) xviii. p. 59. pi. 14. f. 14 

 (1916). 



d . Head pale yellow tinged with rufous and with some chocolate- 

 brown on vertex : antenna' red-brown ; palpi yellow at base, red- 

 brown at tips; thorax chocolate-brown, the teguhe at middle and 

 patagia at tips with yellow patches tinged with rufous; pectus 

 and legs crimson, the tibiae and tarsi banded with black; abdomen 

 black-brown, the sides and extremity crimson, the ventral surface 

 yellow with ventral series of small brown spots. Fore wing choco- 

 late-brown ; the basal area pale yellow mixed with some orange, 

 with the costal edge dark brown, a downcurved subbasal streak 

 below costa and two subbasal lines from below costa to vein 1 ; a 

 small round pale yellow spot in middle of cell, a similar spot 

 edged with orange in its upper extremity and an orange bar below- 

 base of vein 2 ; a subterminal yellow patch between veins 8 and 

 with two dark brown points on it, its outer edge waved and with 

 yellow spot beyond it at apex ; some orange subterminal points above 

 and below vein 4 with a rather lunulate pale yellow spot below 

 vein 4 and a yellow point on the cilia at vein 1. Hind wing hyaline 

 white; some pale yellow at base and some crimson hair on basal 

 half of inner margin ; the costa and termen narrowly dark brown ; 

 some brown suffusion at tomus. Underside of fore wing with the 

 basal area orange with irregular outer edge angled outwards below 

 costa, the spots in end of cell and on terminal area as above ; hind 

 wing with the costal area yellow towards base, then chocolate-brown 

 with a small yellow spot above end of cell. 



Hab. Peru, R. Tabaconas {Pratt), typef 6 in Coll. Joicev. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



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