430 ARCTIAD^. 



and postmcdial black spots ; the inner area greyish suffused with 

 ])urple, with a short black streak on middle of inner margin and a 

 curved postmedial line from submedian fold to inner margin. Hind 

 wing hj'aline ; the costal area j'ellowish, the inner area' orange 

 with black terminal point on vein 1. 



5 . Fore wing olive-ochreous suffused with purplish except the 

 subcostal area and a curved postmedial band with rather irregular 

 edges ; the ante- and postmedial spots often reduced ; the postmedial 

 curved line expanding more or less towards lower angle of cell and 

 sometimes double. Hind wing orange, with oblique irregular black 

 band from vein 3 to tornus. 



Hah. Colombia, 1 5 . Exp., S 46, $ 60 millim. Type t in 

 Coll. Schaus. 



Genus TESSELLOTA, nov. 



Type, T. cancellata. 



Prohoseis aborted ; palpi porrect, minute ; antennre of female with extremely 

 short branches; tibite with the spurs moderate; abdomen smoothly scaled. 

 Fore winor long and narrow ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from 

 angle ; from just below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 frotn cell. Hind 

 wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



A. Fore wing with postmedial series of yellowish spots trifasciata. 



B. Fore wing with irregular postmedial bi-own band. 



a. Fore wiug with double lines ou basal area fcrfata. 



b. Fore wing with brown patches on basal area cancellata. 



2000. Tessellota trifasciata. (Plate XLYIII. fig. 3.) 



Hnhsidofa trifasciata, Burm. Descr. Rep. Arg. v. p. 446 (1878) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p! 211. 



5 . Head and thorax brownish grey ; pectus and legs whitish ; 

 abdomen orange above, white at extremity and on ventral surface, 

 with dorsal and lateral series of black spots. Fore wing grey- 

 brown ; the base of inner margin whitish ; a truncate triangular 

 yellowish patch on middle of costa, with a spot below it below cell 

 and an orange-yellow spot nearer the base above vein 1 ; a post- 

 medial series of yellowish spots, dilated towards costa, oblique 

 below vein 3 ; a terminal series of patches in the interspaces 

 narrowing to a point at tornus. 



Ilab. AEGENXiifA, Goya {Perrins), 1 5 . Exjy. 30 millim. 



2001. Tessellota sertata. (Plate XLIX. fig. 19.) 



Halysidota sertata, Berg, An. Soc. Arg. xiii. p. 214 (1882) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 211. 

 Euerythra apiola, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) iii. p. 235 (1899). 



Head and thorax white mixed with brown scales ; abdomen 

 orange, with dorsal and lateral series of black spots, the ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing white ; the basal area with reticulate 

 brown markings ; oblique double lines connected in places from 



