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wing black-brown, the base and antemedial area suffused with 

 greyish ; a rather quadrate semihyaline white spot in middle of 

 cell; an oblique whitish line from near origin of vein 2 to vein 1 ; 

 postmedial semihyaline whitish spots above and below vein 6 and 

 larger spots nearer the termen above and below vein 4 ; a greyish 



Fig. 44. — Delphi/ re macella, tf . \. 



subterminal line, exeurved below vein 7, incurved below vein 2 and 

 terminating at vein 1 ; a white spot on termen and cilia below apex. 

 Hind wing nacreous white ; the submedian fold with fringe of 

 black hair; the costa black; the termen black, very narrowly 

 towards apex and expanding from vein 3 to torn us ; the underside 

 fuscous brown, the inner area white except towards termen. 



Sab. Fr. Guiana, Nouveau Chantier {Le Moult), type f J in 

 Coll. Dognin. Exp. 2-1 millim. 



*1056t-. Delphyre germana. (Plate XVI. fig. 22.) 

 Helium germana, Boths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 167 (1912). 



<3 ■ Head and thorax dark brown, the back of head with two 

 crimson spots, the patagia and dorsum of thorax with paired 

 greyish streaks; coxae and mid and hind femora and tibiae at 

 extremities white ; abdomen black-brown with a white spot at base 

 of dorsum, the ventral surface white except towards extremity with 

 brown ventral line. Fore wing dark brown tinged in parts with 

 greyish, the basal half of submedian fold with diffused greyish 

 streak ; a rather quadrate hyaline spot in middle of cell ; a greyish 

 discoidal striga and a grey medial line defined on inner side by 

 black-brown from vein 2 to inner margin ; a greyish postmedial 

 mark on costa and a series of hyaline whitish spots between veins 

 7 and 3, the spots between veins 5 and 3 elongate ; a greyish 

 subterminal line exeurved below vein 7 and incurved in submedian 

 interspace ; a small whitish apical spot. Hind wing silvery white 

 with dark brown fasciae on vein 1 and inner margin ; the termen 

 dark brown, rather broadly at tornus, narrowing to a point at 

 vein .">, and the cilia only brown towards apex. Underside of fore 

 wing dark-brown with the spots and inner area white ; hind wing 

 dark brown with the submedian interspace and inner area white 

 except towards termen. 



Huh. Surinam, Rtaroewym Valley, Aroewarwa Creek (Klt/yrs), 

 typctd in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 30 millim. 



