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1381. Elysius soteria. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 10.) 

 Mazaras soteria, Druce, A. M. N. 11. (7) v. p. 509 (1900). 



cJ . Deep red-brown ; head, tegulue, and front of thorax dull 

 crimson ; 3rd joint of palpi, lower part of fron.s, antennae, and spots 

 on teguUe blackish ; pectus, coxie, and femora above crimson ; 

 abdomen orange, the hair at base erimson ; dorsal and lateral series 

 of black spots, tlie ventral surtace brown. Pore wing with the base 

 of inner margin crimson ; cilia yellow-brown at tips. Hind wing 

 whitish, the veins and margins tinged with crimson, the inner area 

 broadly so. 



$ . Uind wing uniform pale crimson. 



Hah. AuoENiiNA, 1 (S . E^i). 5-1 millim. Type t in Coll. 

 Druce. 



*1382. Elysixis thrailkilli. 



Ammalo thrailkilli, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 280; Druce, Biol. Ceutr.-Am., 

 Het. ii. p. 3i59, pi. 74. f. 21. 



2 . Head and thorax dark brown ; palpi behind and vertex of 

 head reddish brown ; tegula? with black points ; patugia with black 

 patches ; attdomen dull red with dorsal black bands, the ventral 

 snrface brown. Fore wing dark brown mottled with pale brown. 

 Hind wing ochreous tinged with crimson. 



//ah. Mexico, Vera Cruz, 1 2 type t in Coll. Schaus. Exj). 60 

 millim. 



1383. Elysius ochrota, n. sp. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 3.) 



c5' . Head and thorax ochreous yellow tinged with brown ; ])alpi 

 brown at sides ; tibiie and tarsi brown ; abdomen with dorsal black 

 bauds. Fore wing ochreous yellow, slightly tinged with brown on 

 terminal area. Hind wing yellowish white, thinly scaled, the 

 terminal area tinged with brown. 



Jla/j. iJOLiviA, Chaco, 1 J type. Exj). 60 millim. 



♦1384. Elysius cingulata. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 13.) 

 Halesidota civgulata, Wlk. vii. 1710 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 211. 



Head and thorax crimson and orange; palpi black at tips; 

 antenna) brown; patagia and metathorax with blackish spots; 

 tibicE and tarsi black ; abdomen orange, clothed with ciirnson hair 

 towards base and with black dorsal bands, the ventral surface 

 brown. Fore wing biown obscurely mottled with red; a short 

 crimson fascia at base of inner margin ; some orange and crimson 

 maiks at base followed by an oblujue band from costa to vein I 

 with waved edges ; a spot in end of cell and one below vein 2 ; a 

 point or patch beyond discocellulars ; a rather obscure sublerminal 

 series ot spots, those above veins 5 and 7 displaced inwards. Hind 



