AUCULA. — VESPOLA. 



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line forming a slight fork above vein 1, and with another triangular 

 projection beyond the cell extending to below vein 4 and with its 

 extremity strongly recurved. Hind wing orange, the costal and 

 terminal areas broadly black, the inner area black narrowing to a 



Fig. 201. — Aucula Janeiro,, <$ . {. 



point near base, the upper extremity of the orange area arched. 

 Underside of fore wing black-brown with large yellow patch on 

 basal half in and below cell, and broad oblique postmedial band 

 from below costa to termen between veins 4 and 2. 

 JIab. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 J . Exp. 52 millim. 



4895. Aucula sublata. (Plate CXLYI. fig. 6.) 

 Bepara sublata, Wlk. xxxi. p. 143 (1864); Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 400. 



$ . Head and thorax deep chocolate-red mixed with whitish ; 

 abdomen blackish. Fore wing deep chocolate-red irrorated with 

 blue- white ; two indistinct antemedial lines, widely separated and 

 oblique from costa to submedian fold, then incurved and approxi- 

 mate ; an indistinct double waved postmedial line, excurved from 

 costa to vein 4, then incurved ; a dentate blue subterminal line from 

 costa to vein 6 and a similar terminal line to vein 3, Hind wing 

 orange-yellow, the costal and inner areas to near base and a ter- 

 minal band black, the orange area arched above. Underside of 

 fore wing with oblique orange postmedial patch from below costa 

 to below vein 2. 



Hdb. Brazil, Amazons, Ega (Bates), 1 3 type. Exp. 32 

 millim. 



Genus VESPOLA. 



Type 



Vespola, Wlk. Journ. Lino. Soc, Zool. ix. p. 185 (1868) cceruleifera. 



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

 to vertex of head, the 3rd long arid dilated at extremity ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; antenna; of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly with 

 scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibife moderately fringed 

 with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with 



