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ARCTIAD^. 



side, the Isfc joint crimson, the 2nd ochreous at extremity; legs 

 crimson, fringed with ochreous, the tarsal joints ringed with black : 

 abdomen pale crimson above, ochreous below. Pore wing dark 





Fig. 177. — Metacrisia courregesi, (^ . \. 



brown ; with an ochreous patch at base, on which is an obscure 

 brown-edged band and some pink on inner margin ; an ochreous 

 spot in end of cell and spot below base of vein 2 ; an oblique post- 

 medial band with series of paler brown-edged spots on each edge ; 

 cilia chequered brown and yellow. Hind wing yellow, the inner 

 area tinged with crimson. 



Jjab. Ecuador, Loja. Exy. 44millim. T^-pe f in Coll. Dognin. 



Genus CALIDOTA. 

 Calidoia, Dyar, P. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1900, p. 268 '. 



Type. 

 strigosa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi slender, the 2nd joint oblique, the 3rd long 

 and porrect ; antenna; rather long with moderate branches ia male, short 

 branches in female ; tibiae with the spurs moderate ; abdomen dorsally clothed 

 with rough hair at base. Fore wing rather long and narrow ; vein 3 from 

 near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 7,8 to form a long narrow areole ; 11 free. Hind wing with 

 vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 0, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from 

 middle of cell. 



A. Abdomen crimson. 



a. Fore wing with dark streaks in the interspaces strigosa. 



b. Fore wing without dark streaks in the interspaces divma. 



B. Abdomen orange. 



a. Abdomen with dorsal and lateral series of black spots. 

 a\ Fore wing with curved maculate white antemedial 



band phri^ganoides. 



h^. Fore wing without antemedial band. 



«'-. Fore wing with pale spots beyond the cell obscurata. 



6^. Fore wing with black spots beyond the cell. 



a?. Fore wing with dark irroration and striation... euchatiformis. 

 h^. Fore wing without dark irroration or striation. 

 «^. Fore wing with four black points beyond 



lower angle of cell rema. 



b*. Fore wing with one black point beyond the 



cell gemma. 



C-. Fore wing without spots beyond the cell muricolor. 



b. Abdomen with black segmental bands. 



a^. Back of head with pair of yellow points 9^9^'^- 



b^. Vertex of head with yellow patch similis. 



c. Abdomen with fine black dorsal line alhiccps. 



C. Abdomen brown and whitish morosa. 



