new South-American Arctiadee. 55 
discal yellowish-white band, which cuts off a rounded apical 
area and extends along outer margin; distal edge of band 
deeply incurved and inner edge slightly so. Hind wing 
white, yellowish on the inner margin, cell washed with 
red. 
Underside paler than the upperside. 
Antenne yellowish brown ; palpi grey-white, red laterally ; 
head yellowish white, vertex red; tegule and _ patagia 
yellowish white marked with red; abdomen grey-white 
above with red dorsal spots on the two basal segments ; 
pectus, legs, and abdomen white below. 
Length of fore wing 11 mm. 
1 g, Yahuas Terr., Upper Amazons, Peru. 
4, Areomolis hematoneura, sp. uv. 
Allied to rhodographa, Hamps. 
dé. Upperside of fore wing grey-brown, veins striped with 
red, but 1 a, 14, 2, 10-12 only red in distal part. A sub- 
basal yellowish-white patch filling angle of median interspace 
and base of cell, also forming a small subcostal spot; a 
yellowish-white discal band from 1a to 3, filling base of 2 
and in le merged into the subbasal band, traversed by a 
thick red angled line which forms a short stripe in 16 and 
a loop at base of le; a yellow spot at base of cellule 3, one 
near base of 4,a larger oblong spot on discocellulars, a 
small spot near base of 6, and a smaller one near base of 7 ; 
nervules in cell striped with red basally and distally ; a sub- 
terminal band of three groups of spots marked with red— 
one at tornus in | 6 and 1 ¢, one in3 and 4& and not reaching 
vein 5, a dot below 3, the third group of three spots in 5-7, 
the one in 6 the largest ; marginal spots at ends of veins, 
those in 3, 4, and 6 being joined to the larger spots; some 
lighter grey scaling on each side of veins in postdiscal area. 
Hind wing crimson, paler costally ; fringes whitish. 
Underside of fore wing with basal and median area 
crimson-pink, the yellowish areas showing through from 
_above ; spots as above, but only faintly marked with red ; 
veins striped with red, except costal; base of costa red. 
Hind wing yellowish in costal area. 
Head ochreous yellow mixed with red ; palpi red, third 
segment black; antennze black, red at base; tegule and 
patagia ochre-yellow with red fringes; thorax blackish 
brown with red dorsal and lateral lines ; abdomen pale red 
above, greyish below ; thorax pale red below; legs ochreous 
marked with grey-brown, tarsi red, grey-brown at extremity. 
