440 



AKCTIAD^. 



Sect. II. Fore wing of male without patch of androcouia ; hiud wing with the 

 costal lobe only extending to middle. 



2019. Paranerita polyxena. 



Evius polyxenus, Druce, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 383, pi. 40. f. 6 ; Kirby, Oat. 

 Het. p. 197. 



S . Head and thorax dark red-brown ; palpi at base and tip 

 and vertex of head yellow; antennae white at tips; abdomen 



crimson ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen 

 yellow, fore legs tinged with 

 crimson. Fore wing dark 

 red - brown ; a triangular 

 yellow patch on middle of 

 costa, a spot at apex, and a 

 small triangular patch on 

 middle of termen. Hind 

 wing with the basal half 

 yellow, the terminal half blackish, the yellow on inner margin 

 extending almost to tornus, and the black on costa nearly to base. 



Hah. Ecuador, Sarayacu {Buchley), type t d in Coll. Druce. 

 Ex]i. 30 millim. 



Subsp. 1. S . Hind wing with the black extending up below the 

 cell on upperside to the base leaving the inner margin narrowly 

 yellow. 



Hah. Bolivia, Sougo {Garlepp\ 1 S . 



Fig. 181. — Faranerita polyxe7ia, ^. 



Genus HYPONERITA, nov. 



Type, H. lavinia. 



Proboscis fully dereloped ; palpi upturned, and not reaching vertex of head ; 

 anlenr.se of male minutely serrate and fasciculate; tibiae with the spurs short ; 

 abdomen dorsally clothed with rough hair at base. Fore wing with vein 3 

 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 6 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8 

 stalked ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 1 1 free ; male 

 with an elliptical patch of androcouia below the cell. Hind wing of male with 

 the costal area strongly lobed to neaT apex ; veins 3 and 5 froui angle of cell ; 

 4 absent ; 6 from upper angle, 7 from before angle ; 8 curved from middle of 

 cell. 



*2020. Hyponerita lavinia. 



Iclalus lavinia, Druce, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 49G, pi. 42. f. (> ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 198. 



Fig. 182. — Hyponerita lavinia, (J. J. 

 cJ. Head, thorax, and abdomen crimson ; tips of palpi, spots on 



