124 AECTIAD^. 



ochreous. Fore wing ochreous browu, strongly irrorated and 

 striated with black-brown ; the median nervure and vein 1 with 

 blackish streaks ; some ochreous and blackish markings at base ; an 

 irregular antemedial ochreous line strongly angled on median nervure 

 and oblique towards costa and below the cell ; an ochreous cross in 

 end of cell and discoidal lunule ; a short streak on middle of vein 1 

 with some points above it ; a slight postmedial spot on costa with 

 bracket-shaped mark below it, then a series of points strongly 

 incurved below vein 3 ; a diffused blackish mark beyond the cell ; 

 a subterminal b"ne formed by very irregular spots on blackish marks 

 excurved just below costa and angled inwards on vein 1 ; a terminal 

 series of small spots intersected by short black streaks. Hind wing 

 black-brown. 



Hah. Venezuela, type f S in Coll. Staudinger; Ecuador, 1 J; 

 Bolivia, li. Suapi, 1 c? , R. Songo, Chaco ; Peru, Chanchamayo. 

 Exp. 48 millim. 



1424. Opharus granifera. 



Pheegoptera granifera, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 281 ; id. Am. Lep. 

 pi. 3. f. 4. 



5 . Head and thorax fuscous ; orange spots on sides of palpi and 

 frons, back of head, and patagia ; vertex of head and tegulas with 

 white patches, the latter edged with orange, white spots at end of 

 patagia, metathorax and coxae with orange hair ; abdomen black- 

 browu, a lateral series of orange spots, the terminal segments orange 

 above with black lines, the ventral surface whitish except at 

 extremity. Fore wing brown, with subbasal, antemedial, medial, 

 postmedial, and subterminal black-edged maculate orange-brown 

 bands, the antemedial angled outwards on median nervure and 

 inwards in submedian fold, the medial curved, the postmedial sinuous 

 with three spots on its inner side beyond the cell, the subterminal 

 angled inwards above vein 5 ; points below costa and above vein 1 

 beyond the antemedial band ; an angled white band beyond the 

 subbasal band from costa to submedian fold; a series of white points 

 beyond the medial band ; a subapical patch before the subterminal 

 band and two points bej'ond its middle ; a terminal series of orange 

 points. Hind wing fuscous brown. 



Hah. Brazil, Eio Janeiro, 1 $ , Petropolis, type t $ in Coll. 

 Schaus, Espiritu Sauto. Exp. 58 millim. 



1425. Opharus histrionica. 



Phegoptera histrionica, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 68 (18.53) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 212. 



5 . Black-brown ; 1st and 2nd joints of palpi, sides of frons, 

 vertex of head, ends of tegulae, patagia, meso- and metathorax, and 

 cosoe with orange-fulvous spots ; tegulse with white spots ; patagia 

 striped with white ; abdomen with the black-brown rounded off on 

 4th segment, the terminal part of dorsal surface orange, lateral 



