78 ARCTIAD^, 



Genus BERTHOLDIA. 



Type. 



Bertholdia, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 137 (1896) spectilaris. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, uot reaching vertex of head, 

 rather broadly scaled, the 3rd joint minute; frons with tuft of hair ; antenna 

 of male ciliated : abdomen dorsally clothed with rou^h hair at base. Fore 

 wintr with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell, or 3 before angle ; 6 from upper 

 an^le or shortly stalked with 7, 8, 9, 10; 11 free. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 frotn angle of cell or shortly stalked ; 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 coincident ; 

 8 from towards angle of cell ; male with a scale-like gland on underside of fore 

 wing below the cell near base. 



A. Abdomen crimson above. 



a. Fore wing with antemedial white point on vein 1. 



«!. Tegulffi with white dorsal spot ; fore wing with white 

 subterminal line. 

 a^. Fore wing with lilacine grey suffusion below the 



hyaline patch albipuncta. 



b'^. Fore wing without grey suffusion below the hyaline 



patch . myosticta. 



h^. Tegula; without white spot ; fore wing without white 



subterminal line hraziliensis. 



h. Fore wing with antemedial yellow point on vein 1. 



a}. Head and thorax dark red -brown philotera. 



b^. Head and thorax pale brown pencilled with white. 

 or. Hind wing with the termen pure white ; underside 

 of fore wing crimson, the terminal area grey to 

 vein 3, with crimson streaks on the veins. 

 a^. Fore wing with the outer edge of hyaline patch 



sinuous below vein 6 schausiana. 



b^. Fore wing with the outer edge of hyaline patch 



straight below vein 6 trigona. 



b^. Hind wing with the termen tinged with fuscous ; 

 underside of fore wing with crimson patch in cell, 

 and no crimson streaks on veins of terminal area ... specularis. 



B. Abdomen yellow above flavidorsata. 



1327. Bertholdia albipuncta. 



Bertholdia albipuncta, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 137 (1896) ; Druce, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 380, pi. 75. f. 16. 



c5' . Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi white, crimson above ; 

 tegulse edged with white and with white medial patch ; legs white, 

 femora at extremities and greater part of tibiae brown, fore coxae 

 and femora above crimson ; abdomen crimson, the ventral surface 

 white, a lateral series of black spots. Fore wing brown ; an ante- 

 medial white point on vein 1 ; a hyaline patch extending on costa 

 from middle to towards apex, its lower edge curved down to vein 

 4 and slightly sinuous, its outer edge sinuous and produced at vein 

 5, some black points on it near the veins, some lilacine grey suffusion 

 below it down to vein 2 ; the apex tinged with lilacine grey ; a fine 

 whitish subterminal line. Hind wing pure white. 



5 . Hind wing with the inner and terminal areas tinged with 

 fuscous. 



Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz, Jalapa : Panama, Chiriqui, 1 (^ ; 

 Venezuela, Aroa, type in Coll. Schaus ; Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 $ . 

 Exp. 36 millim. 



