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with Mack spot ; pectus and coxae yellow ; legs grey-brown ; abdo- 

 men brownish yellow with blackish segmental lines, the hair at 

 base yellow, the ventral surface yellow. Fore wing pale brown 

 with faint whitish discoidal spot. Hind wing whitish, the terminal 

 half suffused with brown ; the underside with the costal area tinged 

 with brown. 



Hah. Brazil, Amazons, Fonte Boa (Klages), type f 6 in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 46 millim. 



*1383 c. Elysius phantasma. (Plate L. tig. 4.) 

 Elysius phantasma, Scliaus. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 223 (1005). 



d . Head and thorax brownish white ; palpi and frons fuscous , 

 antennae brown; neck with orange ring; teguke and prothorax 

 with fuscous patch ; metathorax with fuscous spot ; pectus orange, 

 the legs greyish fuscous ; abdomen orange. Fore wing brownish 

 white, thi' terminal half suffused with purple, the base of inner 

 area yellowish ; a faint pale discoidal lunule. Hind wing brownish 

 white, the inner area yellow. 



Rab. Fr. Guiana, Maroni R., type f 6 in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 

 ',\s millim. 



# 13S4 a. Elysius magnifica. 



Elysius magnifica, Eoths. A. M. N. H. (8) iv. p. 211 (1909); id. Nov. 

 Zool. xvii! pi. 12. f. 21. 



6 ■ Head and thorax crimson mixed with dark brown ; palpi 

 crimson, the 3rd joint blackish ; antennas blackish ; patagia and 

 metathorax with blackish patches, the mesothorax with blackish 

 band; pectus crimson, legs dark brown; abdomen black with 

 yellow bands, the two basal segments and the terminal segment 

 crimson, the ventral surface red-brown. Fore wing dark red- 

 brown with rather numerous striated yellowish lines; crimson 

 patches at base of costa and inner margin; a small yellow subbasal 

 spot below the cell ; an oblique diffused yellow and crimson band 

 from below costa to submedian fold, pointed below, a patch in end 

 of cell, two faint spots below end of cell and a faint postmedial 

 patch from costa to above vein 1; some slight blackish suffusion 

 in and beyond end of cell. Hind wing brilliant crimson. Under- 

 side of fore wing with crimson suffusion in and below the cell; 

 hind wing pale rufous with some pale stria' on costa and the inner 

 area crimson. 



Hab. Peru. Tinguri {Ockenden), type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild, 

 La Oroya. Exp. 94 millim. 



*1385«. Elysius conjuncta. (Plate L. tig. 5.) 



Elysilis conjwnctus, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 43 (1910). 



d • Head and thorax crimson mixed with yellow ; palpi crimson, 

 brown at tips ; antenna' brown ; pectus and legs crimson, the tibia? 

 and tarsi brown; abdomen orange-yellow with black segmental 



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