488 Lord Rothschild on Arctiine from 
5. Melesse flavipunctata, Rothsch. 
Melesse flavipunctata, Rothschild, Novit. Zool. vol. xvi. p. 49, pl. vii. 
figs. 13, 14 (1909) (Caparo, Trinidad), 
1 3 caught, Lima, Peru. 
6. Bertholdia crocea mossi, subsp. u. 
Differs from crocea crocea, Schaus, from Costa Rica, by 
the more maroon-brown NoT orange rufous-brown of the 
uon-vitreous portions of the fore wings. 
1 ¢ bred, Lima, Peru (cocoon ovate, flattened, attached to 
surface of leaf, rough, bright sulphur-yellow). 
7. Ammalo trujillaria peruviana, subsp. n. 
Very near violitincta, Rothsch., in appearance (antea, 
p-. 479). 
&. Pectus yellowish brown-grey ; antennz brown, as 
strongly punctured as in helops, Cram.; head and thorax 
dark fuscous-grey ; abdomen  black-brown rimged with 
pinkish grey and clothed with long pinkish-grey hairs on 
basal half. 
Fore wings yellowish wood-grey, densely irrorated and 
strigillated with dark fuscous-grey. 
Hind wings pinkish cinnamon-grey, sericeous. 
? similar, but larger and with very much shorter pecti- 
nations to the antenne. 
Length of fore wing, ¢ 30 mm., ¢ 35 mm.; expanse, 
3 66 mn., 2? 76 mm. ‘ 
5 oS, 42 ¢ bred, Lima, Peru (cocoon pear-shaped, 
sooty-brown, network not dense, transparent ; pupa deep 
brown, glossy ; abdomen much smaller and rounded, trun- 
cate; cremaster consists of tiny bunch of short hairs. 
Parasite Henicospilus, var. flaviscutellatus, cocoon of parasite 
cylindrical, bluntly rounded both ends, rough, black). 
8. Ammalo helops (Cram.). 
Phalena helops, Cramer, Pap. Exot. vol. i. pt. vi. p. 118, pl. Ixxi. fig. C 
(1775) (Surinam). 
13,4 2 ? caught, Chanchamayo District. 
9. Pachydota nervosa (Feld.). 
Lophocampa nervosa, Velder, Reise Noy. Lepid. pl. ci. fig. 6 (1874) 
(Bogota). 
1 ? caught, Chanchamayo District. 
