SERITOS. 



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$ . Fore wing with the yellow patches on costa and tcrmcn con- 

 fluent; the subapical patch reduced leaving more yellow on terraen. 



Hah. Costa Riga, Caudelaria Mts. ( Underwood), 1 S type, God- 

 man-yalvin Coll.; Guatemala, type t 2 tii)olls in Coll. iStaudinger. 

 Exp. 34 millim, 



B. Fore wing of lualc without fovea. 



«. Fore wing with veins 10, 11 from cell. 



a>. Ilind wing yellow ucretiiia. 



■ A'. Hind wing crimson cardinali<. 



*15o0. Neritos nere'.ina. (Plate XLII. fig. 9.) 

 TricAromia neretim, Dyar, J. N. Y. Ent Soc. vi. p. 37 (1898). 



J. Head ochre-yellow; froiis purplish brown; thorax purple- 

 brown ; legs pale yellow ; fore femora crimson iu front ; abdomen 

 pale yellow, suffused with ciimsou on dorsum. Fore wing with the 

 inner area purple-browu from costa before middle to termcn just 

 above tornus, its upper edge curved and somewhat dentate at the 

 veins; the apical half of wings yellow, with a large purple-brown 

 subapical patch extending just into cell and running down to a 

 point just below lower angle of cell. Hind wing yellowish whitxj. 



2 . Fore wing with the projection from subapical patch confluent 

 with the dark basal area; hind wing crimson. 



JJali. Venezuela, Area, Porto Cabello; Peeu, Piches and Perenc 

 Valleys, 2(jOO-300U feet. Eap. 27 millim. 



*1551. Neritos cardinalis. 



Neritos cardiual'ui, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Eut. Beige, xliii. p. 327 (1899). 



S . Crimson ; head and thorax somewhat mixed with brown ; a 

 chi'ome-yellow bar between antennae ; mid and hind coxa^, base of 



tibiae, the spurs, the tarsi 

 except at extremity, and the 

 ventral surface of abdomen 

 yellow. Fore wing thickly 

 mottled with purplish fus- 

 cous ; an antemedial chrome- 

 yellow band angled inwards 

 at middle and expanding at 



¥\g.\m:.— Neritos cardmalig,(S- f- costa; a dome-shaped spot 



on middle of costa ; spots 

 on termen at apex and xf'in 4, and an irregularly triangular spot 

 above tornus. 



JIah. CoLOMDiA (Micaif), tyjxj f 6 hi Coll. Dognin. Exp. 36 millim. 



b. Fore wing witli veins 10, 11 stalked. 



*1552. Neritos nigricoUis. 

 f<ce/)sis niffricoUum, Dognin, Le Nat. 1892, p. 123 ; id. L6p. Loja, pi. 8. f. 4 

 d . lilack-brown ; frons and abdomen doreally tinged with blue 



