PACUYDOXA. — CAEATH13. 95 



modian fold streaked with black, except the veins enclosing end of 

 cell and subcostal veins. 



(S . Abdomen with some black at base on ventral surface ; hind 

 wing with the inner margin fringed with dark brown hair. 



Ilab. Colombia, Bogotii ; Venezuela, Merida ; Eccadok, St. Inez 

 {Buckleij), 1 5 , Loja. E.vj). 64 millim. 



Genus CARATHIS. 



Type. 



Carathis, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Pliilad. 7. p. 253 (1865) gortyuoides. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head ; antenn."K 

 of male bipectiiuite with moderate brandies, of female with short branches ; 

 tibi.-e with the spurs moderate; thorax and abdomen at base dorsally clothed 

 with rough liair. Fore wing witii veiu 3 from well before angle of cell; 4, .5 

 from angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with ^ein 3 from near 

 angle of cell; 4, 5 very shortly stalked ; G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 absent. 



}i . Hind wing yellow palpcdis. 



B. llind wiug fuscous. 



«. Tegulai with white spots hyblis. 



b. Tegulffi without white spots yorti/noides. 



135G. Carathis palpalis. (Plate XXXVII. fig. V2.) 

 Hcdesidota palpalis, Wlk. iii. 735 (1855); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 218. 



cJ . Black-brown ; palpi banded with yellow ; vertex of head 

 white Avith brown point, tegula3 and patagia with white patches ; 

 pectus, legs, and abdomen orange-yellow^ ; tibife and tarsi brown, the 

 tibiae with white bands. Fore wing with white patch at base from 

 costa to submedian fold formed by white spots and crossed by a 

 narrow waved yellow l)aiul defined by brown lines ; medial waved 

 yellow spots on costa and inner margin, with larger white spots on 

 each side of them ; a patch on terminal area from costa to vein 2 

 formed of small white spots with yellowish spots between them, 

 defined by fine brown lines and leaving a brown spot on termen 

 between veins 5 and 6. Hind wing orange-yellow. 



Ilab. Jamaica (G'osse), 4 c? type. Exp. 46 millim. 



*1357. Carathis byblis. 



Ameles byblis, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 279 ; id. Am. Lep. pi. ii. f. 2. 



cJ . Sepia-brown ; u[)j)or part of frons and vortex of head, large 

 medial and lateral spots on teguhc, tlie outer part of patagia, and 

 a spot on mosothorax yellowish white ; pectus and legs pale orange- 

 yellow, the latter banded with brown ; abdomen dorsally blackish, 

 laterally orange somewhat intersecting the black area, vcntrally 

 yellowish white; lateral and sublateral series of black spots, ventral 

 black points on two subterminal segments. Fore wing with a basal 

 patch formed by nine or tcMi yellowish-white spots, its outer edge 

 excurvcd at middle and followed by a point iu cell ; two medial 



