2() 



AECTIADJE. 



Sect. III. Antenna; of male with bristles and cilia; hind wing with veins G, 7 

 shortly stalked, 8 from just before angle of cell. 



1226. Prumala ilus. 



Koctua ilus, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 92. E (1776) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 220. 

 E/i/sms optimus, Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 61, pi. 17. f. 8 (1877); Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 219. 



S . Trcud aud thorax yellow, palpi and frons marked with 



crimson and luscous ; an- 

 tennae brown ; vertex of 

 head, tegula), and patagia 

 with crimson aunuli, the 

 two latter edged with crim- 

 son ; legs yellow, ringed 

 with crimson and fuscous ; 

 abdomen crimson, yellow 

 below. Fore wing brown, 

 with series of yellow crim- 

 son-edged and centred spots ; a spot on costa near base ; three 

 antemedial spots ; numerous spots in, below, and beyond cell ; a 

 curved series beyond the cell and postmedial and subterminal 

 series. Hind wing pale crimson. 



Bab. SuEiNAJt ; Ajiazoxs, 1{. Jurua (Trail), 1 c? type optimus. 

 Kip. 32 millim. 



Genus PREMOLIS, nov. 



Type, P. scmintfa. 



Proboscis small ; palpi upturned to vertex of head, the 3rd joint short and 

 obtuse ; antennae of t'eiuale bi pectinate, with short branches dilated at extremity 

 and eudinji in a bristle; tibia; with the spurs moderate. Fore wing with ^eins 

 3,4, 5 from angle of cell, 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell; 3 and 5 shortly 

 stalked from angle, 4 absent; the discocellulars erect ; 6, 7 coincident ; 8 very 

 short, from angle of cell, the costa being truncate near apex. 



*1227. Premolis semirufa. 



Halesidota semirvfa, Wlk. vii. 1708 C185fi) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het 

 ii. p. 373, pi. 74. f. 10 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 211. 



Fig. 18. — Premolis semirvfa, J. \. 

 $ . Head and thorax brownish yellow ; abdomen crimson, with 



