142 ARCTIADiE. 



orange-fulvous ; pectus fulvous ; legs grey ; abdomen orange-fulvous, 

 the ventral surface grey. Fore wing pale purplish brown, thinly 

 scaled ; veins 1 to 6 and the fold in cell and submedian fold with 

 dark streaks ; the terminal area rather darker with a pale waved 

 submedial line. Hind wing brownish semihyaline, more thickly 

 scaled towards margins. 



The form from Ecuador is darker. 



Hub. Mexico, Orizaba {Botteri), 1 5 type, Misantla {Trnjillo), 

 1 $; GvATTiMALA. {Champion), 4 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Ecuadok, 

 Loja ; EoLTViA, Chaeo, ^ay. 92 millim. 



1465. Amastus coprophora. 



Plmgvptcru cojyro'phora, Herr.-Scbaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 63 (1853) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 213. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen fulvous yellow ; palpi brown ; 

 antennae black ; frons, front of tegulae, and edges of patagia pale 

 brown ; legs and ventral surface of abdomen pale brown. Fore 

 wing pale red-brown, the inner area yellowish ; the veins rather 

 dark ; a. pale sinuous postmedial line. Hind wing semihyaline 

 white, tinged with brownish ochreous towards termen. 



Hah. Venezuela, 1 ^ co-type. Exp. 70 millim. Type f in CoU, 

 Staudiuger. 



1466. Amastus alsa. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 9.) 

 Phcegoptera alsa, Druce, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 497 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 207. 



2 . Yellow-brown ; antennae with the shaft blackish. Fore wing 

 thinly scaled and thickly irrorated with small black scales ; a very 

 indistinct pale curved subterminal line expanding into a very obscure 

 spot on vein 5. Hind wing with the basal half semihyaline. 



Hah. Dominica {Angus), type t $ in Coll. Druce. Exp. 58 

 millim. 



*1467. Amastus ? conspicua. 



Lopfwcam2Ja conspicua, Maass. Stiibel's Eeisen S. Amer., Lep. p. 131, pi. 4. 

 f. 31 (1890) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 906. 



(S . Ochreous brown, irrorated with dark scales. Fore wing 

 semihyaline, except the costa, inner margin, and terminal area. 

 Hind wing semihyaline, witla a dark irrorated ochreous-brown apical 

 patch narrowing from costa to a point at submedian fold. 



Hab. Peru, Chacapoyas. Exy. 68 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me. 



*1468. Amastus tnmhilla. (Plate XL. fig. 13.) 



Phcsffoptera tumbUla, Dogniu, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xli. p. 25 (lcS97). 



S . Head and thorax chestnut-brown ; upper part of frons 

 orange ; patagia with orange streak ; abdomen darker, with the 

 hair at base chestnut ; a lateral series of orange points and some 



