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shoulders; abdomen flesh-pink, the three basal segments with sub- 

 dorsal black spots, the -1th with subdorsal bars, the 5th and 6th 

 with dorsal bands ; pectus pale rufous; legs pale grey-brown, the 

 fore coxae flesh-white, crimsonat sides and with black spots in front, 

 the femora crimson above; ventral surface of abdomen pale rufous 

 with lateral series of black spots and sublatera] series of slight 

 marks. Fore wing pale rufous, the basal area ochreous with a 

 minute Mack spot at base of costa and obliquely curved series of 

 three spots from subcostal nerviye to base of inner margin ; a whitish 

 antemedial bar tinged with rufous from submedian fold to above 

 inner margin, a narrow medial band slightly bent outwards to inner 

 margin, similar postmedial band slightly bent inwards to costa, 

 oblique subterminal band from below costa to above vein 4. and 

 oblique bar between veins i and 2. Hind wing ochreous vellow, 

 semihyaline except the veins and marginal areas. 



Hub. Brazil. Sao Paulo, Bahuru, type + $ in Coll. '.Rothschild. 

 Exp. SO millim. 



13S0. Elysius franci, insert (syn.) : — 

 Elysius franchi, castrensis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiv. p. 481 (1917). 



Brazil, ('astro Parana \I). Jones), type f $ in Coll. Roth- 

 schild. 



*1381ff. Elysius jonesi. (Plate L. fig. 1.) 



Elysius jonesi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. to (1910). 



$ . Head and thorax pale red-brown ; palpi with some yellowish 

 at extremity of 2nd joint in front, the lower part of frons yellow- 

 ish : abdomen vellow with dorsal and lateral series of black spots, 

 the ventral surface red-brown. Fore wing uniform pale red-brown! 

 Hind wing whitish tinged with red-brown, the terminal area suf- 

 fused with red-brown, narrowing to submedian fold, the underside 

 with the costal area suffused with red- brown. 



Hah. Brazil, Sao Paulo I J). Jones), type f : : in Coll. Roth- 

 schild. Kxp. ~>A millim. 



*1381 h. Elysius mediofasciata. 



Elysius mediofascinta, Joicey, A.M.N. H. (8) xviii. d 60 i,l it f i- 



(1916). l ' " l ' #1 ' 



6. Head and thorax .orange-scarlet mixed with red-brown; 

 antennae blackish; tibiae and tarsi blackish; abdomen orange with 

 large dorsal crimson patch on basal segments and lateral black bars 

 except at base and extremity. Fore wing red-brown striated with 

 orange and the veins dark brown; some pale scarlet at base of 

 inner margin; an orange subbagal spot irrorated with red below 

 base ot costa and an antemedial patch below the cell, a small spot 

 in cell towards extremity, a maculate postmedial band from costa 



