HALISIDOTA. 289 



*1500</. Halisidota aurata. | Plate LI V. fig. 14.) 

 Halisidota aurata, D. Jones. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 148. 



$. Head and thorax orange-yellow shading to white on meta- 

 thorax, the prothorax with fine brown dorsal streak; pectus and 

 legs white, the fore coxae and femora orange in front; abdomen 

 orange-yellow, white at base and on ventral surface. Fore wing 

 orange-yellow; some white at base of inner margin ; a deep orange 

 point at base of cell and rather broad fuscous fascia along median 

 nervure and beyond the cell, ending in a point before termen 

 below vein ; cilia white. Hind wing pure white; the underside 

 with the costa tinged with yellow. 



Hub. Brazil, Castro Parana, type f $ in Coll. D. Jones. 

 Exp. 42 milium 



*1503tf. Halisidota similis. 



Halisidota similis, Roths. A. M. X. H.(8) iv. p. 219 (1909) ; id. Xov. Zool. 

 xvii. pi. 12. f. 37. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale yellow, the vertex of head, 

 tegulae, and outer edge of patagia with slight red-brown streaks ; 

 palpi red-brown behind; frons with brown bar; branches of 

 antennae tinged with brown ; fore femora tinged with orange on 

 inner side, the tibiae and tarsi brownish. Fore wing pale yellow 

 sparsely irrorated with rufous-, a red-brown streak along median 

 nervure to lower angle of cell, and thence oblique and rather 

 diffused to apex ; traces of a double waved antemedial line, oblique 

 to vein 1 ; small dark spots at angles of cell with a slight streak 

 beyond the lower spot ; traces of a postmedial series of hmules 

 defined by red-brown, oblique below vein 1; a subterminal series 

 of slight dentate dark marks. Hind wing yellowish white. 



II, ih. Brazil. Up. Amazons, Fonte Boa {Klaqes), type f 6 in 

 Coll. Rothschild, Corcovado; Peru, Potaro. Kqh, <S 40, £ 40 

 millim. 



1503 l>. Halisidota oruboides. 



Halisidota oruboides, Roths. A. M. X. H. (8) iv. p. 219 (1909) ; id. Xov. 



Zool. xvii. pi. 12. f. 36. 

 HaUsidota pterostomoides, Boths. Xov. Zool. xvi. p. 289 (1909). 



d . Head and thorax pale yellow, the vertex of head, tegulse, 

 patagia, and dorsum of thorax with red-brown streaks ; palpi and 

 antemue red-brown ; fore legs red-brown on inner side ; abdomen 

 orange-yellow, the anal tuft and ventral surface pale yellow. Fore 

 wing citron-yellow irrorated with rufous ; a diffused rufous streak 

 along median nervure met at lower angle of cell by an oblique 

 streak from termen below apex; an indistinct dentate rufous ante- 

 medial line with elliptical rufous-defined spots beyond it in and 

 below cell and above vein 1 ; an indistinct dentate rufous-defined 

 spot in end of cell with small rufous lunule on discocellulars and 

 some rufous on costa at middle and above end of cell; a postmedial 

 series of rufous-defined hmules from below costa. bent outwards 

 below vein •"), then very oblique: a subterminal series of rather 



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