464 LITHOSTAD.E. 



fringed with pale purple hair ; abdomen pale crimson. Fore wing 

 pale olive-yellow, the costal area except at apex and the medial area 

 below the cell pale purple ; the veins and costa streaked with crimson, 

 the termen deeper yellow, the inner margin with a fine black streak 

 on medial area ; antemedial and medial fine black lines oblique from 



Fig. 96. — Palseomolis purpurascens, rf • \. 



costa to median nervure, then inwardly oblique and sinuous; a fine 

 black postmedial line, slightly excurved below costa and incurved at 

 discal fold, oblique and slightly sinuous below vein 4; cilia whitish 

 at tips. Hind wing yellowish white. Underside of fore wing 

 yellow with the costal area crimson ; hind wing yellowish white 

 with the costal area yellow. 



Hal). S.E. Peru, Agualani (Ockenden), 2 J type. IJ.rp. 

 36 millim. 



1972 q. Palseomolis metacauta. (Plate LXIV. fig. 7.) 



Palseomolis metacauta, Dogn. Het. Nouv. Am. Sud, i. p. 11 (1010). 



3. Head and thorax whitish mixed with dark brown; palpi 

 crimson, black at tips; frons black-brown; pectus brown, crimson 

 ventrally; legs brown; abdomen crimson. Fore wing purplish 

 white almost entirely suffused with dark brown, the costal edge 

 dull scarlet with some purple suffusion below it; antemedial line 

 with black spot at costa, then indistinct, angled outwards at 

 median nervure, then oblique; medial line indistinct, with blackish 

 spot at costa, angled outwards at median nervure, then oblique and 

 excurved to inner margin ; postmedial line blackish, excurved from 

 below costa to vein 4, then oblique; cilia black-brown. Hind 

 wing yellow suffused with scarlet, the cilia brown. Underside of 

 fore wing scarlet irrorated with dark brown except on inner area, 

 the base of costa black-brown, a black diseoidal spot ; hind wing 

 with slight brown irroratiou on costal area, a black diseoidal spot. 



Hah. Colombia, San Antonio (Fassl), 2 d , typet d in Coll. 

 Dognin. Exp. 30-38 millim. 



1072 It. Palseomolis hampsoni. 



PalxomobU hampsoni, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 175 (1910), & xviii. pi. 3. 



f. 1. 



cJ. Head and thorax purplish white mixed with purplish brown ; 

 palpi crimson; i'rons dark brown at sides; pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen pale crimson, the tibiae purplish white. Pore wing 



