178 AMATID.E. 



*583 b. Psilopleura clagesi. 



Psilopleura klagesi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 36 (1911), & xx. p. 471, 

 pi. xiii. f. 41. 



J . Head and thorax chocolate-brown with a pale yellow stripe 

 tin vertex of head and dorsum of thorax except the metathorax ; 

 antennae with the shaft white at base ; palpi white at base and with 

 white ring at base of 3rd joint ; coxa? white ; tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen chocolate-brown with subdorsal orange-yellow 

 stripes except on two terminal segments, the dark dorsal stripe 

 somewhat maculate, the ventral valve creamy white except at sides, 

 the three following segments with a maculate stripe. Fore wing 

 chocolate-brown ; two small rather elongate creamy white marks in 

 cell towards extremity with a small spot below r them ; an irregular 

 creamy white postmedial patch formed by four confluent spots 

 between veins 7 and 3 ; the terminal area with slight patches 

 of whitish scales in the interspaces ; a terminal series of white 

 points. Hind wing white ; the upper part of cell, discocellulars, 

 and costal area brown ; the inner area brown with some yellow at 

 base ; a terminal brown band expanding towards apex and below 

 vein 2 ; the underside with the inner area yellowish white to 

 towards tornus. 



Hah. VENEZUELA, Chldad Bolivar (Klages), type f 6 in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 34 millini. 



*583c. Psilopleura pentheri. (Plate IX. tig. 18.) 



Psilupleuri penthera, Zerny, Iris. xxvi. p. 122 (1912). 



5 . Head and thorax chocolate-brown, the vertex of head creamy 

 white with round black spots behind antennae, which are white 

 towards base and before tips, the thorax with dorsal creamy white 

 streak ; palpi with the extremities of 1st and 2nd joints whitish ; 

 coxse white ; tibia? white at extremities, the fore tibia? with white 

 point at middle, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen black-brown 

 with broad subdorsal orange stripes formed of vertebra?-like patches 

 except at extremity, the ventral surface red-brown with broad white 

 stripe except on terminal segments. Fore wing chocolate-brown 

 slightly irrorated with grey ; a terminal series of slight whitish 

 spots. Hind wing chocolate-brown ; some white at base and some 

 orange at base of inner margin ; an elongate white spot below the 

 cell and a patch beyond the cell between veins 6 and 3. Underside 

 of fore wing with some white at base, a slight whitish spot in 

 middle of cell and patch below it, a curved postmedial series of 

 three spots between veins 7 and 4. 



Kab. Bbaztl, Bahia, Joazeiro (PentTier), type f $ in Mus. 

 Vienna. Exp. 34 millini. 



