Genera and Species o/Avctiadas. 445 



1546 a. Neritos phceoplaga, sp. n. 



Antennse of male with bristles and cilia ; fore wing with 

 veins 10, 11 stalked, the fovea elongate; hind wing with the 

 costa moderately lobed. 



cJ . Head yellow; frons brown; thorax dark brown; 

 pectus and legs white, the fore coxae yellow in front ; abdo- 

 men crimson, the anal tuft yellow, the ventral surface white. 

 Fore wing with the basal area purple-brown from one third 

 of costa to termen above tornus, its outer edge sinuous and 

 angled at lower angle of cell and vein 3 ; a yellow spot edged 

 with scarlet on inner margin before middle ; apical area 

 yellow, with rounded purple- brown subapical patchy with 

 scarlet streak on costa above it and bidentate outer edge. 

 Hind wing crimson, with fuscous patch on middle of termen. 



? • Fore wing with the subapical patch joined to the 

 brown area by an oblique subterminal bar. 



Hah. Cayenne, St. Laurent Maroni {Schaus), 1 ^ type, 

 type $ in Coll. Scliaus. Exp. 22 mm. 



1550 a. Neritos alhicollis, sp. n. 



$ . Palpi yellow at base, brownish in front, crimson 

 behind; trons brown; vertex of head yellow, with crimson 

 line behind ; antennse brown, the basal joint yellow^ followed 

 by some crimson ; tegulae pure white ; thorax violaceous 

 brown, with small crimson spot on metathorax ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen yellow, the last dorsally crimson, with some 

 brown at base. Fore wing with the basal area brownish, 

 suffused with purple and white, extending on costa to near 

 middle and thence to termen above tornus, and bounded by a 

 crimson line; a crimson streak just below costa, with an 

 elliptical white patch below it; a crimson point at base and 

 small crimson and yellow subbasal spots on median nervure 

 and inner margin ; the apical half of wing yellow, with large 

 rounded white-suffused purple patch from apex to vein 3, 

 edged by brown and crimson and with its outer edge rather 

 waved. Hind wing yellow, suflfused with crimson, especially 

 towards apex. 



Hab. Br. Guiana, Rockstone [Kaye], 1 ? type. Exp. 

 28 mm. 



1552 a. Neritos steniptera, sp. n. 



Antennse of male serrate and fasciculate; fore wing long 

 and narrow, especially in male; hind wing with veins 6, 7 

 coincident in niaU", .strongly stalked in female. 



