AMASTUS, 141 



140J. Amastus aconia. 



PJueqoptem acoi/iu, IIcrr.-S>cli;itl'. Ausserciir. Seliiiietl. f. G4 (1803); 

 Di-iice, Biol. Centi-.-Am., Hot. i. p. il.j : Kirby, Cut. llct. p. 213. 



Head and thorax white; palpi grey, the 1st joint fringed with 

 orange hair ; antenna) black ; sides of frons, neck, extremity of 

 teguhe, and stripes on patagia and thorax orange ; pectus orange ; 

 femora whitish, tibitc and tarsi brown ; abdomen orange, the 

 ventral surface white, except claspers of male. Fore wing pale 

 sernihyaline brown, veins 1 to 7 and the submedian fold and fold in 

 cell with dark streaks : a pale waved subterminal line. Hind wing 

 sernihyaline whitish, more thickly scaled towards margins. 



Hab. Costa Rica ( Van Paten, Undenvood), 2 c? , 3 5 i Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. ; Colojibia, liogota, 1 $: Venezuela; Ecuador, Loja ; 

 Pkku, Callanga. E:rp. 04 millim. 



. 1462. Amastus persimilis, n. sp. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 14.) 



? . Head and thorax orange-fulvous ; ])alpi with the extremity 

 of 2nd and the 3rd joints blackish ; frons white ; antennae blackish, 

 white above ; tegul^e and shoulders with -w bite ])and edged by black 

 lines ; patagia with grey-Avhitc edges ; legs grey-white ; abdomen 

 orange, the ventral surface white. Fore wing pale reddish brown, 

 thinly sealed, the veins blackish ; the base obliiiuely grey-white ; an 

 indistinct pale curved subterminal line. Hind wing pale brownish 

 sernihyaline, rather more thickly scaled towards termen. 



Iliih. Ecuador. Loja, 6000 feet, 1 $ , type. Eccp. 84 millim. 



1463. Amastus elongata. 



Ljphocampa elongata, FelA. Reis. Nov. pi. 101. f. a (1874): Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 211. 



Yellowish white ; palpi, frcujs, antenna), a stripe on vertex of 

 thorax, and upperside of legs black ; abdomen dorsally orange, a 

 slight lateral black line. Fore wing with the costal edge black 

 towards base ; a broad antemedial pale brown band from below 

 costa to inner margin, joined in submedian fold by an obli(]ue 

 narrower band from costa above end of cell ; a slightly sinuous 

 postmedial band with waved edges ; a terminal band with irregularly 

 waved inner edge. Kind wing with some brown suffusion on 

 terminal area. 



fJal>. Cayknxi:, 1 ype t in Coll. Rothschild ; Bkazil, Castro Parana, 

 1 J . Exp. 64 millim. 



1464. Amastus ochraceator. ( I'latc XX\1\. tig. o.) 



Halesidofa rKkracmtor, \\'\k. \\\i. ;il(> (1864); Driioo, Biol. Ceiiir-\in, 

 n.-l. i. p. It.'j; Kirby, Cat. Ilii. p. 21:;. 



Jlf.'id and thorax grey, anliinne black; 1st joint of palj)!, sides 

 of Irons, neck, edge of teguhi', and stiijics on patagia and thorax 



