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teguloe, patagia, and metathorax with paired black spots ; abdomen 

 orange, the extremity, ventral surface, and legs dirty white. Fore 

 wing greyish, the basal half with some yellowish suffusion, the 

 interspaces streaked with black. Hind wing yellowish. 



Hah. Panama, San Lorenzo (Chamjnon), 1 J type, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. E.vj). 34 millim. 



1207. Idalus hippia. 



Bomhyx hippia, StoU, Suppl. Cram. pi. 12. f. 8 (1790) ; Kirbj, Cat. Het. 



p. 197. 

 Aufomolis albicollis, Wlk. xxxi. 104 (1804) ; Kirby. Cat. Het. p. 168. 

 Idalus lemba, Druce, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 496 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 198. 



cf . Head and thorax fuscous brown ; vertex of head orange ; 

 tegulce white ; metathorax and pectus in front with slight patches 

 of crimson ; abdomen crimson with dorsal white point at base, the 



ventral surface whitish. 

 Fore wing brown, suffused 

 with plum-colour towards 

 the apical third which is 

 yellow, the costa brown to 

 apex ; a small scarlet-edged 

 yellow spot in end of cell ; 

 some scarlet at base of inner 

 margin and on edge of brown 

 area, and streaks on medial 

 part of costa and on veins of the yellow area ; a curved series of 

 four fuscous points between veins 3 and 8 ; the costal fascia 

 expanding into a small spot before apex. Hind wing yellowish 

 white. Underside with the patch of androconia on fore wing pure 

 white. 



$ . Fore wing with medial red-edged maculate yellow band from 

 subcostal nervure to inner margin ; the postmedial and subterminal 

 spots larger ; hind wing crimson. 



Hah. Panama, Bugaba {Champion), 1 6 Godman-Salvin Coll.; 

 Colombia, Bogota ; Surinam ; Brazil, Para, type t lemba in Coll. 

 Druce, Minas Geraes, 1 J . Ea'j). 34 millim. 



Fig. 6. — Idalus hippia, ($ . 



1208. Idalus ortus, 



Idalivs o'rtus, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 279; id. Am. Lep. pi. ii. f. 1. 



2 . Pure white ; palpi fuscous above ; a yellow band between 

 antennae ; abdomen with obscure pink dorsal bands. Fore wing 

 with black point below base of cell ; an oblique antemedial series 

 represented by two points in cell and one below it ; an oblique 

 medial series with small spots beyond it above veins 3, 4, 5 and 

 above and below 6 ; a small subterminal spot above vein 5. Hind 

 wing with veins 7, 8 from cell. 



J . Abdomen without trace of pink; fore wing with short black 

 streaks instead of points below vein 2, no subterminal spot. 



