NEACEKEA. 



481 



Sect. II. Fore wing with vein 1(» from the cell ; J' with a tuft of long hair 

 protrusible from a groove on pectus behind mid coxae. 



A. Back of head with crimson patclies. 



a. Abdomen with crimson bands on 5th, 6th, and 7th 



segments rufiventris. 



b. Abdomen without crimson bands. 



fli. Fore wing with medial and postmedial hyaline 



bands , dizona. 



i' . Fore wing without hyaline bands atava. 



B. Back of head olive-yellow tesfacea. 



1062, Neacerea rufiventris. 



Ach/tia rufii'enfris, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 228 ; Druce, Biol Oentr.-Am., 

 Het. ii. p. 352, pi. 72. f. 13. 



Fuscous ; back of head and tegulse with paired crimson spots ; 

 basal joint of palpi and coxae crimson ; abdomen with narrow 

 crimson bands on 5th, 6th, and 7th segments, the ventral surface 





Fig. £66, — Neacerea rufiventris, J. f. 



crimson except terminal segment. Hind wing blackish, with semi- 

 hyaline streaks in, below, and beyond cell. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa, 1 $ ; Bolivia, Bueyes, Coll. Staudinger, 

 Exp. 46 millim. Typef in Coll. Schaus, 



*1063. Neacerea dizona. (Plate XYI. fig. 12.) 

 Neacerea dizona, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 406 (1898). 



6 • Black-brown ; frons whitish at base ; 1st joint of palp 

 crimson ; back of head with two crimson spots ; throat, coxae, and 

 streaks on fomora whitish ; abdomen with ventral white fascia. 

 Fore wing with medial semihyaline band from subcostals to 

 submedian fold, the veins and a streak in cell crossing it dark ; 

 a similar postmedial band from vein 7 to below 4. Hind wing 

 hyaline, the veins black ; the terminal area black, expanding widely 

 to apex and towards tornus, where its inner edge is dentate. 

 Hah. Cayenne, 1 c? type t in Mus. Oxon, Exp. 32 millim, 



*1061. Neacerea atava. (Plate XVI. fig, 24,) 



Heliura atava, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 74 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. 

 p. 164. 



$ . Head and thorax brownish fuscous ; back of head with two 

 crimson spots ; coxa) crimson ; abdomen black, with subdorsal series 

 of metallic blue patches. Fore wing brownish fuscous. Hind 



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