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1021. Diospage rhebus. 



Sjnuiiw rhebus, Cram. Pan. Exot. iii. pi. 2;}4, F (1779); Kirbv, Cat. Het. 

 p. 1(51). 



S • lilack ; head, thorax, and legs with ])atchcs of metallic blue- 

 j^reen : abdomen with golden-green dorsal stripe; lateral blue-green 

 spots on first five segments ; a ventral yellowish and blue line on 1st 

 Segment and sublateral spots on 2nd, the next four segments with 

 crimson bands. Fore wing with a golden-green fascia on basal half 

 in cell and two in submediau interspace ; small hyaline spots 



Fig. 121. — Diospage rhebus, S- \- 



between veins 3 and o and above and below G. Hiud wins' with 

 brilUant blue patch in and below cell with irregular outer edge. 

 Underside of fore wing with brilliant blue fascia in and below cell ; 

 the basal half of hind wing blue with irregular outer edge, a small 

 spot at upper angle and large spot at lower angle : veins 4, 5 on a 

 short stalk. 



Hab. Brazil, Upper Amazons, Olivencas (Michelli), 1 d , !Sao 

 Faulo. E.ri^. 44 millim. 



Genus BELEMNIASTIS, nov. 



Type, IJ. vhiteleyi. 



Troboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending as far as frons; antennte 

 bipectinafce in both sexes, the apical part serrate, the shaft expanding some- 

 what beyond middle, the branches dilated at extremity ; tibiie with the i^piirs 

 short ; abdomen smoothly scaled, with lateral tubercles at base. Fore wing 

 witli vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; o from just above angle ; 6 from below 

 upper angle; 10 shortly stalked with 7, 8, 9 ; 11 free. Hind wing with veins 

 :\ 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell, not 

 quite reaching costa. 



A. Fore wing witli <;riinson postmedial band attidafes. 



E. Fore wing with orange postmedial baiul trotncki. 



C Fore wing with oehreous white postmedial band vhitekyi. 



1622. Belemniastis attidates. (Plate XLIII. fig. 14.) 



lidcmnia attidates, Druce, A. M. N. II. (7) v. p. 508 (1900). 



cJ . Black ; head and thorax marked with brilliant metallic blue ; 

 l^gs slightly streaked with white ; abdomen with dorsal and lateral 

 series of metallic blue spots ; the ventral surface crimson except 

 at base and extremity. Uore wing with brilliant metallic blue 

 interrupted streak on basal area below costa, and a broader better 



