IDALUS, 



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Ifab. VexXezpela, Aroa, ^ ; Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 $ ty 

 Coll. Schaus. Exp. 42 millim. 



,-pe t in 



bK Hind wing of male with tho costa sligluly ai-ched and without patcli 

 of aadrocoiiia ; female with veins 7, 8 strongly stalked. 



1209. Idalus adinirabilis. 



Idalus admirabilis, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 103. G (1777) ; Ilerr.-Schaff. 

 Aussereur. Suhmett. f. 474 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 198. 



d" . Head white ; palpi and aiiteunac ochrcous, some yellow 

 between autennie ; thora.x white, yellow, and crimson ; legs white 



with slight crimson mark- 

 ings ; abdomen crimson ; 

 the anal tuft and ven- 

 tral surface white. Fore 

 wing yellow ; the inter- 

 spaces of basal area with 

 series of blue-grey streaks 

 defined by white and 

 angled on median nervure; 

 some crimson at base of 



Fig. 7. — Idalus admirahilis, c?. }. 



inner margin ; the medial part of costa white ; a medial band 

 composed of blue-grey streaks in the interspaces defined by white, 

 produced along costa towards apex, nai'rowing at discocellulars, then 

 widening and almost joining the basal markings on inner margin ; 

 a subterminal blue-grey spot above vein 5. Hind wing crimson, 

 tho margins white. 



$ . With two of the basal streaks produced in cell ; the medial 

 band much more even, hardly f)roduced along costa, widely separated 

 from the basal marking at inner margin, and with a crimson spot 

 beyond it at tornus. 



Hah. Spkinam ; Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 cf Zeller Coll., 1 J . 

 Exp. 42 millim. 



b. Hind wing with veins 7, 8 shortly stalked in male, the costa slightly 

 arched and without patch of androconia. 



1210. Idalus xanthia, n. sp. 



(S . Orange; palpi black, white in front ; frons black with blue 



patches ; antenna) black ; 

 legs black stripiid with yel- 

 lowish white, the co.xse with 

 blue patches ; abdomen 

 with the last four segments 

 black with dorsal and 

 lateral blue spots, tho 

 ventral surface yellowish 

 white with black bands ; 



wings uniform orange, hind wing with very slight fuscous mark on 



tcrmen at vein 2, 



Hah. Venezuela, Palma Sol, 1 J type. Exp. 32 millim. 



VOL. HI. c 



Fig. 8. — Idalus xanlhia, (^ . 



