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Sect, III. Hind wing with the costal area less strongly lobed and extending to 

 three fourths of inner area. 



A. For*^ wing of male with elongate fovea and tuft below the 

 cell near base. 

 «. Fore wing of male with veins 10, 1 1 stalked ; antennae 

 serrate and fasciculate. 



a^. Peetus yellow sanguipuncta. 



b\ Pectus white ■pandora. 



*1545. Neritos sanguipuncta. 



Neritos sanguipuncta, Schaus, A.M. N. II. (7) vii. p. 265 (1901). 



6 . Palpi scarlet above, yellow below with a- dark spot at 

 extremity; frons and antenute brown; vertex of head yellow; 

 thorax brown, the patagia edged with scarlet ; pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen yellow, the last dorsally scarlet except at extremity. 



Fig. 102. — Neritos sanguipuncta, ^ . J . 



Fore wing with the basal area purple-brown, its edge somewhat 

 dentate at the veins and running obliquely from costa before middle 

 to termen above tornus ; a short oblique scarlet striga across middle 

 of vein 1 ; the apical area yellow, with large rounded purple-brown 

 subapical patch with somewhat indented circumference, a scarlet 

 streak above it on costa. 



2 . Fore wing with the apical patch conjoined by a narrow baud 

 to the basal patch. 



Hah. Venezeula, Merida ; Ecttadoe, Loja, 1 (S type t in Coll. 

 Schaus. Exj^). J32 millim. 



154G. Neritos pandera. (Plate XLI. fig. 14.) 

 Trichroviia pandera, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 137 (1890). 



Head and thorax greyish brown ; pectus and legs white ; abdo- 

 men orange, with crimson dorsal spot at base, the ventral .'surface 

 white. Fore wing with the basal area brown, shading to pale 

 silvery purple towards its outer ed^^e, which is oblique from costa 

 before middle to termen above tornus and somewhat dentate at the 

 veins ; the apical area serailiyalinc yellow, witli rounded purplisli 

 apical patch with somewhat crenulate edge. Hind wing orange- 

 yellow. 



JIdh, Venezuela, Aroa, 1 J; vVmazoxs, llio Negro, S i" Coll.- 

 l^taudinger. Krp. 30 millim. Typef $ in Coll. (Schaus. 



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