478 STNTOMID^. 



by paired white spots on next two segments. Fore wing black- 

 brown ; the veins brown ; a very highly dentate antemedial line 

 defined by obscure streaks of olive-yellow before and beyond it ; a 

 triangular olive-greyish spot in middle, and quadrate spot in end of 

 cell ; two conjoined wedge-shaped spots beyond the cell, with a 

 small rounded spot between them nearer termen, their outer edges 

 formed by the obscure brown postmedial line, which becomes crenu- 

 late and runs very obliquely to inner margin before middle ; a 

 terminal series of diamond-shaped marks edged with brown. Hind 

 wing semihyaline white, the veins black ; the terminal area black 

 tinged with blue ; the tuft of hair ochreous. 



5 . Fore wing with a wedge-shaped subterminal greyish spot 

 below the small rounded spot above vein 3. 



Hah. Vekezuela, Aroa, 1 $ . Exp. 54 millim. Typef in Coll. 

 Schaus. 



Genus NEACEREA., nov. 



Type, N. rufiventris. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to just above vertex of head, the 

 3rd joint minute ; antenna of male with moderate branches dilated at extremity 

 and ending in a bristle ; tibire with the spurs moderate. Fore wing with vein 

 3 from near angle of cell ; 4 from angle ; 6 from or from below upper angle ; 

 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, or 10 from cell ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell very 

 long ; vein 2 from towards angle ; 3 and 5 from angle ; 4 absent ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 sometimes present as an aborted fragment. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with vein 10 stalked with 7, 8, 9. 



A. Fore wing with veins 3, 4 stalked, 6 from below angle of cell. Hind 

 wing of male with the tornus produced to a pointed lobe, the inner 

 area with a fold containing a tuft of hair. 



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*1056. Neacerea brunnea. 



Keaccrea brunnea, Druce, ined. 



c? . Dark red-broAvn ; palpi 

 in front and pectus greyish. 

 Fore wing with faint traces 

 of sinuous antemedial and 

 postmedial lines and of dis- 

 coidal lunule. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown, with diffused 

 Tig. 2Qi.—]^eacerea brminea, (S . |. semihyaline streak below 



median nervure. 

 Hah. Beazil, Espiritu Santo, 1 d typef in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



B. Fore wing with veins 3, 4 from cell ; 6 from upper angle. 



a. Abdomen banded above with crimson and black rubricineta. 



b. Abdomen crimson, with the terminal segment black minufa. 



c. Abdomen orange, with dorsal patch and spots and lateral 



series of spots maculosa. 



Abdomen fuscous above. 



a'. Fore wing whitish with fuscous spots pusilla. 



b'. Fore wing black, with oblique white baud across end 



of cell to vein 2 albiventus. 



