11 ERTA. 585 



defined by chocolate above median nervure from near base to beyond 

 middle, crossed by an oblique chocolate striga and dilated to near 

 inner margin before middle; a small chocolate annulus with greenish 

 centre in middle of cell; a discoidal greenish bar defined by choco- 

 late and with narrower bar beyond it ; postmedial line greenish 

 defined by chocolate, oblique from below costa to vein :>, then beid 

 inwards to lower angle of cell and oblique to above inner margin, a 

 wedge-shaped greenish patch on chocolate suffusion beyond it from 

 below costa to vein land a rounded patch in submedian interspace; a 

 fine chocolate terminal line. Hind wing black-brown with a reddish 

 tinge; an orange patch in, below, and beyond the cell; cilia with line 

 white line at base and whitish tips. Underside of fore wing witli 

 the basal half orange, except at costa, with a small chocolate spot in 

 end of cell, an oblique whitish bar beyond the cell between veins 7 

 and 8 ; hind wine- orange with a small chocolate spot at upper angle 

 of cell, terminal area chocolate, broad at costa narrowing somewhat 

 below vein 3. 



$. Darker; fore wing suffused with purplish, the whitish 

 bar obsolescent; hind wing with brown streaks on the veins 

 traversing the orange patch, the terminal band broader. 



Il,ih. W. Africa, St. Thomas 1. i Mocquerys), type t c? , ? hi 

 Coll. Rothschild. A\rjK. d 40, $ 46 millim. 



loS. Tuerta platensis, insert: — 



subsp. bolivar, Jord. Nov. Zool. xv. p. 25-1 (1908). 



$ . Fore wing with the white fascia broader; the orbicular and 

 reniform larger. 



Sab. Venezuela., Bolivar, type tin Coll. Rothschild. 



158 a. Tuerta insulica. (Plate LXXI. rig. 9.) 



Tuerta insulira, Hmpsn. A. M..N. H. (S) iv. p. 365 (1909). 



0? . Head and thorax chocolate-red mixed with white; palpi 

 black, white at base and tips; frons white; antennae brown: pectus 

 white, yellow at sides ; abdomen yellow with the crests brown. 

 Fore wing white thickly irrorated with chocolate-red ; subbasal line 

 represented by a red striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 red, oblique, irregular ; orbicular and reniform represented by rather 

 diffused red patches with silvery centres, the former rather elliptical, 

 the latter somewhat quadrate, white patches between and beyond 

 them; postmedial line absent; subterminal line represented by an 

 obscure series of somewhat dentate chocolate marks with some 

 silvery scales on them and some whitish beyond them; terminal 

 area darker; cilia chocolate with a series of small white spots at base. 

 Hind wing golden yellow with a broad black-brown terminal band 

 tinged with red, its inner edge excurved at middle; cilia while. 

 Underside of fore wing with the basal half yellow, the terminal 

 half red-brown, the white bars before and beyond the reniform 

 prominent. 



Sab. Tiunidad (Iuti/f), 1 J type. Fxp. 36 millim. 



