25(5 LITHOSIADJ!. 



*145G b. Amastus scriblita. (Plate L1II. fig. 5.) 



Amastus scriblita, Dogn. Het. Nouv. Am. Sud, iii. p. 11 (1911). 



2 • Head and thorax bright rufous, the edges of patagia and 

 dorsum of thorax with crimson mixed ; palpi black-brown above 

 and at tips ; antenna? brown ; pectus crimson ; legs grey-brown ; 

 abdomen crimson, the terminal half brown, the ventral surface 

 brown except at base. Fore wing uniform bright rufous, thinly 

 scaled ; cilia brown. Hind wing semihyaline pale rufous. 



Hab. Colombia, Quindin, Tochesito, type t 2 in Coll Dognin. 

 Exp. 70 millim. 



*145(3 c. Amastus umber. 



Amastus vmber, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 279 (1909), & xviii. pi. 5. f. 25. 



2 . Head and thorax dark red-brown ; antennas black-brown ; 

 coxae pinkish ; abdomen pale crimson, the terminal segments 

 ochreous, lateral series of Ted-brown spots slightly in-orated with 

 whitish and defined by black except towards base, the ventral 

 surface red-brown. Fore wing deep red-brown ; a faint pale ante- 

 medial band ; a faint dark discoidal patch and oblique shade from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; two faint pale postmedial 

 lines, oblique below vein 5 ; a faint diffused pale subterminal line, 

 slightly incurved to costa. Hind wing semihyaline tinged with 

 red-brown, the cilia red-brown; the underside with the costa red- 

 brown. 



Hab. Venezuela, Merida (JBriceno), typef $ in Coll. Roth- 

 schild. Exp. 82 millim. 



l-t-37. Amastus flavicauda, (Plate LIII. fig. 6.) 



Amastus suffusa, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. iii. p. 139 (nee Herr.- 



Schaff.). 

 Amastus flavicauda, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 278 (1909). 



Panama, Chiriqui, type t 2 hi Coll. Bothschild. 



* 1-157 a. Amastus affinis. (Plate LIII. fig. 7.) 



Amastus ajjinis, Eotha. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 278 (1909). 



2- Head and thorax red-brown mixed with whitish; palpi 

 black-brown; neck with crimson band; tegulse with pale crimson 

 streaks defined by blackish ; dorsum of thorax with paired crimson 

 streaks; pectus ami legs greyish brown, some crimson below the 

 wings and on fore coxae; abdomen crimson with lateral and sub- 

 lateral scries of rufous spots defined by black, the ventral surface 

 rufous. Foiv win-' pale rufous, the medial area semihyaline except 

 towards costa and inner margin, the veins dark; a curved semi- 

 hvaline antcmedial band from costa to vein 1, defined by brown 

 and with some dark suffusion before it on costal area ; the disco- 



