226 LITHOSIAD.T-. 



bands except at base and extremity, tbe hair on basal half of 

 dorsum crimson, tbe ventral surface yellow tinged with crimson 

 and with fuscous spot on 2nd segment. Fore wing yellow very 

 thickly striated with crimson ; a blackish streak with brown shade 

 above it on inner margin except at base ; the veins with slight dark 

 streaks; an obliquely curved subbasal brown line from costa to 

 vein 1 ; slight brownish marks on costa before middle and at origin 

 of vein 2 ; a quadrate brownish discoidal patch and the area between 

 veins 1, '■] brownish ; faint postmedial and subterminal lines formed 

 of brown stria? from below costa to vein 4; tbe terminal area on 

 costal half and tbe postmedial and terminal areas on inner half 

 brownish; cilia black-brown. Hind wing whitish faintly tinged 

 witli crimson, the inner area and termen more strongly tinged ; tbe 

 underside with the costal area tinged with crimson. 



Uti/i. Venezuela, Caura, Maripan ; Brazil, Sta. Catherina, 

 type t d in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 60 millim. 



1386 a. Elysius hermia. 

 Bombyx hermia, ('nun. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 185. f. F. (1779). 



J. Head and thorax fiery red mixed with some yellow; abdo- 

 men yellow dorsally suffused with crimson. Fore wing yellow 

 almost completely covered with purple-broWn stria'; a yellow basal 

 patch suffused with scarlet : a yellow antemedial band suffused with 

 scarlet, its inner edge indented in cell and submedian fold, it> 

 outer curved; a medial yellow patch in-orated with scarlet from 

 costa to median nervure ; a postmedial maculate band strongly in- 

 curved below angle of cell; a subterminal series of spots, those 

 above veins 5 and 2 displaced inwards. Hind wing pale yellow 

 suffused with crimson especially on termen. 



Hub. VenezuelAj ("aura Valley (Klages), 2 6 ; Surinam; 

 Brazil, 1 J. Exp. 52 54 millim. 



L386. Elysius pyrosticta. (Plate L. fig. 6.) 



Elysius hermia, Empsn. Cat. Lep. Plial. B.M. Hi. p. 110 (1901) nee 



< 'ram. 

 Elysius pyrosticta, Hmpsn. A. M. N. II. (7) xv. p. 413 (1905). 



Brazil, Rio Grand do Sul, 1 6, 1 $ type> Rio Janeiro, Tijuca 

 ( Wagner), 1 6 . 



■ L389 a. Elysius subterra. (Plate LXV. fig. 13.) 

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



cj . Head, tegulae, and shoulders dee], orange; the last with 

 three black points, the antenna' Mack, the palpi with black spots 

 on 1st and 2nd joints and the 3rd joint black; thorax and abdomen 

 glossy black, the latter with orange hand at base, lateral orange 

 -tripes and the extremity orange except above; pectus and coxa 1 

 orange, the Fore coxae with black spots; legs black. Fore wine- 



