\m wits. 259 



scries of slight marks on the veins and inner margin with fulvous 

 yellow marks beyond it on costa, veins, and inner margin ; an 

 irregular subtermiDal whitish patch on costa] area and patches in 

 the interspaces of terminal area ; a series of small yellow wedge- 

 shaped marks defined by black on the termen and cilia. Hind 

 wing semihyaline white, the veins, base, and inner margin tinged 

 with yellow; the underside with the costa tinged with brown. 



5. ffore wing less hyaline, more suffused with black and 

 irrorated with yellow, the antemedial, medial, and postmedial white 

 bands and the yellow postmedial band more complete; hind wing 

 with the termen and cilia brown with series of small yellow spots 

 from apex to vein 2. 



Sab. S.E. Peru, Agualani (Oclienden), 1 <S , 1 2 tvpe. Exp., 

 6 00, 2 70 milliin. 



*145S b. Amastus steinbachi. 



Amastus steinbachi, Roths. A. M. N. H. (S) iv. p. 215 (1909) ; id Nov. 

 Zool. xvii. pi. 13. f. 20. 



d . Head white, the palpi and antennae red-brown ; tegulae deep 

 crimson with broad white band ; patagia white with brown patch 

 defined by black at shoulders and black fascia with white streak 

 in centre ; dorsum of thorax deep crimson with a slight white streak ; 

 pectus crimson with white lateral patches; legs ochreous brown; 

 abdomen ochreous brown with the hair on basal half of dorsum 

 crimson, the terminal segments with slight white lines, the aijal 

 segment with pink dorsal spot, the anal tuft white, lateral series 

 of black and whitish spots. Fore wing white thickly irrorated 

 with dark brown, the disk semihyaline, the costal edge ochreous, 

 the terminal area ochreous irrorated with brown ; a curved white 

 antemedial line defined by dark brown suffusion, a small black spot 

 before it above vein 1 and a blackish patch beyond it on inner 

 margin ; an indistinct oblique minutely waved white medial line ; 

 a blackish discoidal lunule with whitish annulus, attenuate above ; 

 a postmedial lunulate brownish ochreous band with black lines at 

 edges defined by white, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, followed 

 by blackish suffusion, then another lunulate brownish ochreous band 

 edged by black lines and with some white beyond it; the veins at 

 termen and cilia brownish. Hind wing semihyaline white, the 

 extreme apex tinged with brown; the underside with the costal 

 area brownish ochreous. 



Sab. Argentina, Tucuman (Steinbach), typef tf in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 62 nidlini. 



*1460rt. Amastus vatcinsi. (Plate LXVI. fig. S.) 

 Amastus watkitisi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiii. p. 269 (1916). 



2- Head and thorax white, the head with orange-yellow band 

 behind and spots at sides of frons defined by dark brown, the 

 tegulae with orange-yellow band, the patagia with incurved band 



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