MALLODETA. 195 



epots ; abdomen with dorsal and lateral series of white points, the 

 last two segments with larger dorsal spots, the 2nd segment with 

 orange subdorsal and paired ventral white spots ; wings hyaline, the 

 veins and margins black. Fore wing with faint traces of orange 

 streaks below costa and above base of inner margin ; the terminal 

 band narrow, slightly dentate at vein 2. 



Hob. Brazil, 1 J type, Casa Branca, 1 6 • Exp. 36 millim. 

 Type t norma in Coll. Staudinger. 



B. Abdomen of male without ventral valve. 



400. Mallodeta clavata. (Plate YII. fig. 5.) 



Glaucopis clavata, Wlk. i. 192 (1S54) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 149. 



S . Black ; wings hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly black. 

 Fore wing with slight traces of orange streak below costa ; the 

 terminal band expanding slightly to apex. 



Hah. Brazil, 1 S type. Exp. 34 millim. 



Sect. II. Palpi not reaching vei-tex of head, the 3rd joint minute ; abdomen 

 of male with small ventral valve covering basal segment. 



401. Mallodeta partheni. 



Zygmia parthenii, Fabr. Ent. Sjst. iii. p. 402 (1793) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 ■p. 142. 

 Glaucopis rmtUicincta, Wlk. i. 163 (1854); Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 35, pi. 11. 

 f. 11 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 140. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black, banded with fine white 

 rings ; tegulte and patagia edged with white, the former spotted, 



the latter striped with crim- 

 son ; palpi at base and coxse 

 white ; abdomen with sub- 

 dorsal crimson patches on 

 1st segment, a lateral series 

 of spots, and the tufts and 

 anal tuft crimson ; the ven- 

 Yig. ^2.— Mallodeta partheni, cJ. \. tral surface white, with black 



bar before anal tuft ; wings 

 hyaline, the veins and margins black. Fore wing with white streaks 

 on costa and inner margin ; a metallic blue line on discoidal spot ; 

 the terminal band very wide on apical area and with some white 

 scales on it, some blue on costa and inner margin below. Hind 

 wing with the terminal band slightly expanding at apex and 

 tornus. 



Hah. Haiti, 1 (S (SalU), type multicincta, 1 J (Ttveedie), Exp. 

 38 millim. Type in Mus. Copenhagen, examined by Prof. 

 Aurivillius. 



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