AMASTUS. 135 



b'-, Pata{;;i;i edged with white above. 



«■'. Abdomeu with the terminal segments black and 



white collaris, 



h^. Abdomen with the terminal segments orange ... coccinator. 

 /''. Abdomen with lateral series of black and white spots. 

 a-. Patagia grey; abdomen without dorsal blackish 



patcl 1 suffusa. 



l)"^. Patagia white. 



«^. Abdomen with dorsal blackish patch ciimotho'e. 



b'\ Abdomen without dorsal black patch ritodator. 



D. Abdomen orange or orange-red. 



. a. Abdomen with lateral series of black and white spots... minerca, 

 b. Abdomen witiiout lateral black and white spots. 

 «'. Patagia whitish with orange stripe. 



a-. Thorax with dorsal white stripe aconia. 



b'-. Thorax without dorsal white .stripe persimilis. 



/»'. Patagia uniform whitish; thorax with black stripe, clomjata. 

 C. Patagia grey-brown with orange stripe. 



«'■'. Thorax wit !i dorsal grey stripe ochraceator. 



b'-. Thorax without dorsal stripe copropliora. 



d^. Patagia uaiform orange. 



or. Fore wing not semihyaline, a pale po.stmedial line. aka. 

 b-. Fore wing semihyaline except terminal area, no 



postmedial line conspiciia. 



E. Abdomen brown ttunhiUa. 



F. Abdomen brownish white ; thorax crimson hi/alina. 



*1445. Amastus adela. (Plate XLIV. fig. 12.) 

 Amantus adela, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) vii. p. 267 (1901). 



cJ. Black-brown; palpi crimson, the 8rd joint black with white 

 tip; frons pinki.sh white; shaft of antcnnte and streaks behind 

 them crimson ; stripes on teo;iil:c, patagia, and thorax white tinged 

 with crimson ; pectus with crimson lateral stripes ; legs banded with 

 crimson and whitish ; abdomen with crimson lateral and sublateral 

 stripes, the terminal segments crimson with dorsal blackish spots. 

 Fore wing with crimson marks at base ; a subbasal crimson-tinged 

 spot below costa ; antemedial elongate spots a])ovc and below sub- 

 costal nervure and vein 1 and a round spot below cell ; elongate spots 

 in and above end of cell ; a white discoidal spot ; a postmedial series 

 of spots which are small and curved round end of cell, then larger 

 and oblique; a subterminal series of elongate spots formed of two 

 conjoined series. Hind wing with a slight crimson tinge at base ; 

 a subterminal series of five white spots between veins 7 and 2. 



Hah. Brazil, Castro Parana, type t S in Coll. Schaus. Exit. 50 

 millira. 



144G. Amastus baucis. 



Charidca bauds, Dalm. Anal. Ent. p. oO (1823) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. DOli. 

 > GUaicopisbomhi/ciim, Forty, Del. Anim. Art. JSras. p. 1.").'^, pi. 31.1". 13 

 (1834); Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 178. 



5^ . Head and thorax crimson ; antenna? and ])atches on tegular 

 blaclv ; patagia l)lack with white stripe angled in front ; legs banded 

 witli ])l;ick ; abdomen black, with some crimson at base and the 

 terminal segments crim.son ; a sublateral stripe white ;interiorly, 



