18 



A-RCTJAVJE. 



E. Fore wing with vein 5 from above angle of cell ; hind 

 wing with veins 7, 8 shortly stalked in male, on a long 

 stalk in female. 



a. Fore wing with crimson streak above inner margin to 



tornus pichesensis. 



b. Fore wing without crimson streak towards tornus. 



a^. Fore wing with black and yellow streaks on base of 



costal area daga. 



h^. Fore wing with yellow-centred brown ocellate spots 



on basal area fandama. 



1211. Idalus pichesensis. 



Idalus pichesensis, Dyar, Psyche, viii. p. 198 (1898). 



J . Head white ; palpi striped with blaok ; frons yellow above ; 

 antennae brownish ; thorax white, the tegulse and metathorax edged 



with crimson, patagia 

 with yellow spot with 

 fuscous streak above it ; 

 legs white, slightly 

 streaked and spotted 

 with black ; abdomen 

 crimson with slight seg- 

 mental lines, the extre- 

 mity and ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing yel- 

 low ; the interspaces of basal area with series of blue-grey streaks 

 defined by white ; some crimson at base of inner margin ; a medial 

 band composed of blue-grey streaks defined by white, produced 

 along costa, narrowing at discocellulars and produced between veins 

 ?i and 1 ; a crimson streak beyond it above inner margin to tornus ; 

 a subterminal grey stigma above vein 5. Hind wing white, with 

 slight crimson streaks near veins 1 and 2. 



$ . With two of the streaks of basal area more produced in 

 cell and the basal and medial bands more approximated on inner 

 margin. 



Hah. Peev, Piches ; Brazil, SjJo Paulo, Eio Janeiro, 1 d , 

 1 2 . Exp., S 42, 5 46 millim. 



Fig. Q.-^Idalus pichesensis, (j" . 



1212. Idalus daga. 



Empusa daga, Dognin, Le Nat. 1891 , p. 125 ; id. Lep. Loja, p. 82, pi. 8. f. 3 : 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 904. 



Head and thorax wbite ; antennae brownish ; palpi above and 

 frons tinged with fuscous ; vertex of head, tegulae, and patagia tinged 

 with orange ; metathorax with two black points ; pectus in front 

 with orange patch ; legs witb black points ; abdomen orange above 

 with dorsal series of white points, the extremity and ventral surface 

 white ; wings white. Fore wing with black streaks on a brownish 

 patch at base from costa to below median nervure, some crimson at 

 base of inner margin ; an oblique yellowish-brown irregular medial 



