TUERTA. IJjfli 



from base in and below cell indented by the orbicular and reniform 

 stigmata, which are olive edged with black and with leaden centres, 

 then bent up to costa before a])ex, the area below it chocolatc-brouii 

 suffused with olive ; a terminal series of black lunules. Hind wiug 

 yellow ; a broad terminal reddish-brown baud angled inwards below 

 vein 2 and with yellow terniiuul spot on it above tornus : cilia 

 white. Underside of fore wing with the disk yellow, with black 

 spot in cell ; both wings with discoidal spot. Frontal prominence 

 reniform at extremity, its lower edije produced to a point. 



Jlab. Argkxttxa, Buenos Ayres (Berg), 1 S . Exp. 34 milliin. 



loij. Tuerta chrysochlora. (Tlate LIV. fig. 9.) 



Tucrfa cl/n/socfe/ora, Wlk. Proe. ?\. IF. pSoc. Glasa;. i. p. 347, |)1. vi. I'. 7 

 (1869) ; kirby, Cat. Het. p. ;3S. 



(^ . Head and thorax very dark brown, mixed with a few Avhite 

 scales ; pectus and legs orange, fore tibitc and the tarsi ochreous 

 and brown ; abdomen orange ; the dorsal crests dark. Fore wing 

 olive-green, the inner area and terminal third of wing dai'k chocolate- 

 brown ; two obliquely placed points in the cell, a discoidal lunule, 

 some scales beyond the cell, and a short streak on base of vein 4 

 pure white : the dark inner area irrorated with white, its upper 

 edge sinuous, angled at middle, then with a short white streak on it ; 

 the terminal dark area suffused with olive-brown on its inner half 

 and irrorated with white on its outer. Hind wing orange, witli 

 broad dai'k brown terminal band emittiug a tooth on vein 1 to near 

 base. Underside of fore wing orange, with dark terminal band 

 strongly dilated below costa, then curved ; hind wing wholly oi'ange. 

 Frontal prominence very small at extremity, its lower edge ])ro- 

 duced to a point. 



Hab. Congo, 1 c? type. E:op. 42 millim. 



100. Tuerta liturata. 



F.udryas liturafa, A\wi\. Ent. Tid?kr. xiii. p. 187(1892). 

 Metagarista asiyadc, Mab. Bull. Soc. Enl. Fr. Ixi. p. cxl (1892); id. Nov. 

 Lep. pi. xvii. f. 5. 



c5' . Head and thorax chocolate- brown mixed with a few grey 

 scales ; pectus and legs orange, the fore tibia) and tarsi brown and 

 grey ; abdomen orange, with the dorsal crests dark, the anal tuft 

 black. Fore wing olive-green, the inner and terminal areas choco- 

 late-brown ; some white points in the cell, some below the extremity 

 of subcostal nervure, and others below l)asal half of median nervure, 

 a discoidal luinile, a point at lower angle of cell, and a sliort streak 

 below submedian fold just beyond middle ; the dark inner area ex- 

 tending to above vein 1 with straight edge, the inner erlge of 

 terminal area straight and oblitpie; the inner margin and termen 

 slightly irrorated with white. Hind wing orange, with broad ter- 

 minal dark brown band emil ting a tooth on vein 1 to near base. 



