BtTURYX. — NERITOS. 177 



win"; scmihyaline gre5'-white, the veins streaked with brown. 

 Hind wing hyaline white. 



Hah. Venezuela, 1 J , 1 $ type ; Curacao. Exp. 38 millim. 



*lo41. Bituryx lanceolata. (Plate XLI. fig. 8.) 

 Aha lanceolata, Wlk. vii. 1702(1856); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 205. 



c5 . Brownish white ; palpi and branches of antenna? dark brown ; 

 tegulae pink below ; pectus with some pink below base of wings ; 

 fore legs with the coxtc at sides and the femora above pink ; tibiic 

 and tarsi above brown ; abdomen pink above, with dorsal and lateral 

 series of black spots. Hind wing semihyaline. 



Hah. Haiti, type t d in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 40 millim. 



*1512. Bituryx grisea. (Plate XLI. fig. 18.) 



Biturix grisea, Dogjun, Ami. Soc. Ent. Beige, xliii. p. 2.')1 (1899). 



2 . Grey ; head, thorax, and abdomen tinged with fuscous ; 

 neck with slight orange ring; the terminal segment of abdomen 

 tinged with yellow. Fore wing irrorated with grey-brown ; the 

 veins streaked with grey-brown ; an obscure subterminal series of 

 spots excurved at middle. Rind wing white, the costal area and 

 the apical half of termen tinged with grey-brown. 



Hah. Colombia, Palmira, type f 5 iii ^oll. Dognin. Ex/J. 32 

 millim. 



Genus NERITOS. 



Type. 



Nerifos, Wlk. iii. 711 (1855) repanda. 



Trichroa, Fairm. Aim. Soc. Ent. Beige, xxxviii. p. 395 (1894)... onytcs. 



Antiloba, Weym. Stett. ent. Zeit. iv. p. 328 (1894) repanda. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of bead, the 3rd 

 joint short ; antenna; of male usually bipectiiiate with moderate branches ; 

 tibise with the .spurs moderate; abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing with 

 vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle or shortly stalked ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 

 10, 11 stalked or from cell; male usually with a fovea below middle of cell on 

 underside, a swelling on upperside, containhig a thick brush of hair. Hind 

 wing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell ; 3, 5 stalked, 4 absent ; (i, 7 

 from angle of cell or shortly stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. 



Sect. I. (Trirhroa). Hind wing of male with the costal area as long as inner 

 area, the termen deeply excised below veinG ; fore wing with the fovea 

 and tufl ehjngate, vein 2 sinuous ; female with vein It) froui the cell ; 

 antennae of male minutely serrate and ciliated. 



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1543. Neritos onytes. 



Nociua o7jy^&«, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 105, E (1777); Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 198. 

 Sphinx psamas, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 234, (1779); Kirbv, Cat. Ilet. 



p. 197. 



d . Crimson ; palpi yellow below ; antennae yellow, white at 



vol. III. N 



