RH0ST7S. -11-' 5 



wedge-shaped ochreous white patch from middle of cell to beyond 

 its extremity and more or less developed streaks in submedian fold 



Fig. 195. — Rkosus postica, rf . f. 



and on inner area from near base to beyond middle ; the underside 

 with white streak on basal half of costa. 



2 . Hind wing without the whitish streaks in submedian fold 

 and on inner area on upperside ; the cilia white tipped at apex and 

 towards tornus ; coxae and ventral surface of abdomen with hardly 

 a trace of yellow. 



Hah. Brazil, Bio Janeiro, 2^,2 £, type and types clavigera 

 and aeruginosa. Exp. 42 millim. 



4879. Ehosus colombiana, n. sp. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 1.) 



Head and thorax deep chocolate-red irrorated with yellowish 

 white ; proboscis yellow ; abdomen black with slight dorsal yel- 

 lowish irroration, the extremity orange, the ventral surface with 

 pale yellow bands in male. Fore wing chocolate-red sparsely 

 irrorated with pale yellow; an oblique yellowish white band beyond 

 the cell between Vtins 7 and 2. Hind wing black-brown, the female 

 with black-irrorated yellowish patch just beyond the cell running 

 obliquely from vein 6 to 3 ; cilia yellowish at tips ; the underside 

 with slight streak in end of cell, and the patch below the cell present 

 in both sexes. 



Ilah. Colombia, 1 $ type, J in Mas. Berlin. Exp. J 40, £ 44 

 millim. 



*4880. Rhosus aguirreri. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 2.) 



Alypia aguirreri, Berg. An. Soc. Arg. xiii. p. 174 (1882) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. 

 Het. p. 3(>. 



5 . Black-brown irrorated with grey-white ; anal tuft orange. 

 Fore wing with red streaks on base of costa, in cell, and above sub- 

 median fold, the last extending from base to the terminal baud, 

 which is somewhat maculate, expands slightly at apex, is angled 

 inwards at vein 5, and ends at submedian fold ; a yellowish medial 

 spot above vein 1 and a large spot beyond the cell from vein 8 to 

 below 3, somewhat oblique and constricted -at middle. Hind wing 

 dark chocolate-brown. 



Hah. Argentina, Buenos Ayres, type f in Mus. Buenos Ayres. 

 Exp. 38 millim. 



