i'.vk r.(!(Hi:i;.\. 



AI'TIIODIIS. 



surface whitish, b'ore wing chocolate-red sparsely irrorated with 

 white scales excepl al base; subbasal line while, xrry oblique from 

 costa tn vein 1 when: it joins (he oblique white anteraedial band, 

 arising just below costa and ending al vein l ; orbicular represented 

 by an oblique silver bar surrounded, excepl above, hj a Large 

 U-shaped white mark extending from subcostal nervine to sub- 

 median fold; an oblique silvery discoidal bar; a large white patch 

 beyond the cell from jusl below eosta to vein I. oblique above and 



Fig. 109. — Parasgocem lycaon, ,-_". }. 



rounded below, a slight diffused whitish bar beyond il from costa; 

 cilia white at tips. Hind wing orange-yellow with a dark chocolate- 

 brown terminal band, broad at eosta, narrowing to tornus ; cilia 

 white at tips. Underside of fore wing chocolate-red with a large 

 white basal patch, except on costal area, enclosing the round brown 

 orbicular and with oblique outer edge, the posthiedial wdiite patch 

 triangular, from below costa to above vein 2. 



Sab. Brazil, Amazons, Fonte Boa (Klages), ,-' in Coll. Roth- 

 schild; Ecuador. Sarayacu {Buckley), typef 2 in Coll. Joicey. 

 Exp. 50 millim. 



Genus AETHODES. 



lytic 

 .! odes, Hmpsn. Nov. Zool. xxv. p. 216 (1918) angusti^ 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 to about middle of frons and fringed with long hair in front produced to a 

 point at extremity, the 3rd long and thickly scaled below ; frons with small 

 pointed conical process at middle; eyes large, smooth; antcnn;e slightly 

 diluted towards extremity; tibia; slightly fringed with hair and without 

 spines ; abdomen with hairy crests on basal segments. Fore wing very 

 narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved ; vein 3 from well before 

 angle of cell; 5 from just above angle; 6 from uppi ; 9 from 10 



anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 fr< m 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



In key differs from Pat < ; ra in the frons having a small pointed conical. 

 prominence, the fore wing very narrow. 



134 b. Aethodes angustipemus. 

 Aethodes wngustvpennis, Hmpsn. Nov. Zool. mv. p. 217 (1918). 



S . Head and thorax purplish red mixed with white; antenna' 

 brown; frons white; palpi white with a dark blown hand on 

 2nd joint, the 3rd joint brown; pectus ami hind legs yellowish ; 



