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LITHOSTADJE. 



at middle, tlie ventral surface brown with sublateral series of 

 yellow spots. Fore wing ochreous gvvy. the veins black ; a fulvous 

 spot at bast' ; a double subbasal black line with fulvous spots 

 between the lines below costa and cell : a double antemedial black 

 line Idled in with fulvous, angled outwards below costa and on 

 median nervure and inwards in cell, incurved below the cell ; a 

 medial series of fulvous spots defined by black from costa to above 

 vein 1, the spot at costa wholly black; a fulvous spot defined by 

 black beyond the cell ; postmedial line double, black tilled in with 

 fulvous and broken up into spots at costa and below vein 5, 

 excurved from below costa to vein 4, then incurved ; a subterminal 

 series of rather diamond- shaped fulvous spots deHned by black, the 

 spot below vein 7 nearer the termen, the spot in submedian inter- 

 space tridentate ; a terminal series of triangular yellow spots 

 defined by black. Hind wing yellow with black-brown discoidal 

 lunule and terminal band expanding on apical area and narrowing 

 to tornus, with slightly waved inner edge. 



Sab. S. Brazil, Alto da Serra Santos (Ka//e), type f d in 

 Coll. Joicey. Exjo. 78 millim. 



1132 will stand as Opharus punctularis. 

 1 132 a. Opharus nexa. 



Phegoptera nexa, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schraett. f. 290(1855). 



d . Head and thorax, orange with large patches of brown on 

 bead, tegulae, patagia, and dorsum of thorax ; palpi brown with 

 yellow spot on 2nd joint and the 3rd joint yellowish ; antennae 

 brown; pectus and legs brown with orange patch on the cox*; 

 abdomen orange with large brown patches on basal half, the 

 ventral surface pale brown with whitish bands. Fore wing 

 white, the veins with dark streaks; the base brown with yellow 

 point al base and small subbasal spots below costa and cell; an 

 antemedial brown band with yellow spots on it, angled outward 

 on median nervure and ending at vein l,a spot beyond it above 

 vein 1 ; a brown patch in end of cell extending to costa and with 

 yellow spot on it in the cell; a postmedial scries of yellow spots 

 defined by brown, incurved below vein I ; a subterminal series of 

 yellow spot- defined by brown, the spot below vein 7 nearer termen 

 and the series Kent inwards below vein 1 and ending at vein 1 ; a 

 terminal series of small yellow spots defined by brown. Hind wing 

 white, the veins faintly brownish, the termen yellowish. 



§ . fore wing with medial yellow spots defined by brown above 

 and below submedian fold, some hrown suffusion beyond the post- 

 medialand subterminal maculate bands; hind wing suffused with 

 brown leaving elongate whitish spots in the interspaces below the 

 cell and subterminal spots from costa to vein 2. 



II, ih. Brazil, 2 <3, 1 <j> . ~Exp. 60 millim. Type t in Mus. 

 Berlin. 



