G54 



AGAElSTIDj;. 



on each side by chocolate-brown, strongly incurved from below 

 costa to vein 3, then very obliquely incurved. Hind w ing black, 

 ■with elliptical oblique orange patch beyond the cell from below 

 vein 8 to 2. Underside of fore wing with oblique orange post- 

 medial band from below costa to below vein 2, attenuate at 

 extremities. 

 5 darker. 



llah. Surinam ; Brazil, Sta. Catherina, 1 J , 1 $ . Exj)., d 50, 

 § 56 millim. 



Genus SCHALIFRONTIA, nov. 



Type, S.furcifer. 



Pruboscis fully developed; palpi oblique, the 2nd joint fringed with long 

 liair in front, tlie 3rd small, naked ; frons with a three-grooved conical spine 

 ending in a minute fork, the lower part of frons produced into lateral Avails ; 

 eyes hairy ; antennas almost simple, slightly dilated towards extremity ; tibiae 

 smoothly scaled. Fore wing with vein '6 from near angle of cell ; 6 from well 

 above angle ; 6 from just below upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 

 8 to form the areola ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before 

 angle of cell ; 3 from just before angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle. 



211. Schalifrontia furcifer, n. sp. 



5 . Black ; tegitlae with orange patches ; coxie with some yellow 

 hair ; abdomen with narrow lateral and broad ventral yellow stripes 

 not quite reaching extremity. Fore wing Avith orange-yeUow 

 .stripe from base to origin of vein 2, extending to submedian fold 

 and into middle of cell ; an oblique band beyond the cell from below 



Fig. 28S. — Hchalifrontia furcifer, 2. t- 



costa to above vein 2 near termen, rounded at extremities. Hind 

 wing with w^edge-shaped orange-yellow fascia widening from base 

 to near termen, where it extends from just below vein 2 to 7, at 

 base confluent with a fascia on inner area extending to near tornus. 

 Hah. Brazil, Sta. Catherina (Schmidt), 1 $ type. E.V2). -16 

 millim. 



Genus PAROTHRIA, nov. 



Type, P. ccvadorina. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, not reaching vertex of head, 

 fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd joint short and clothed with hair; frons 

 with small truncate conical prominence with raised rim at extremity ; antennae 



