294 amatid.i;. 



*1057 a. Delphyre meridionalis, (Plate XVI. fig. 23.) 



Helium lilagesi, meridionalis, Roths. Nov. Zool, xix. p. 167 (1912). 



8 • Head and thorax black-brown ; the back of head with pair 

 of yellow spots, the metathorax with yellow bar ; a grey bar above 

 frons, the edges of tegulse and patagia and streaks on thorax grey ; 

 coxae yellow ; femora streaked with white ; abdomen black-brown, 

 the 4th, 5th, and 6th segments with crimson segmental lines, the 

 ventral surface whitish at base. Fore wing black-brown ; some 

 grey at base of costa and the veins streaked with greyish ; obliquely 

 placed greyish antemedial marks below costa and in cell ; a semi- 

 hyaline whitish patch below middle of cell with sinuous greyish line 

 from its outer edge to inner margin ; a small quadrate semihyaline 

 spot in upper part of middle of cell with bar from it to median 

 nervure ; a postmedial series of semihyaline whitish spots from 

 costa to vein 3, excurved below vein 5 ; a sinuous grey subtenninal 

 line from costa to the excurved spots and from them to inner 

 margin ; cilia whitish between veins 3 and 2. Hind wing black- 

 brown, the cell and area below it and just beyond its lower angle 

 hyaline. Underside of fore whig black-brown with the white spots 

 prominent. 



Hah. Surinam, Marcewym Yalley, Arcewarwar Creek (Khtges), 

 type t 8 in Coll. Rothschild ; Brazil, Amazons, R. Madeira, 

 Calama ; Peiu", Carabaya, R. Huacamayo, La Union. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



1057 h. Delphyre rliodocrypta. (Plate XVI. fig. 24.) 



Nearerea rhodocrypta, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 463 (1905). 

 Heliura klagesi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 167 (1912). 



8 ■ Head and thorax blackish with grey streaks ; back of head 

 with two slight crimson marks ; metathorax with whitish patch ; 

 coxa? whitish tinged with crimson ; abdomen black, the ventral 

 surface pinkish white at base, some specimens with traces of crimson 

 lateral segmental lines. Fore wing black, the veins grey, some 

 grey at base, the antemedial area suffused with grey leaving a slight 

 black streak below the cell and an oblique streak above vein 1 and 

 obliquely placed antemedial spots above and below vein 1 ; a round 

 black spot in middle of cell followed by a small triangular white 

 spot ; an elongate whitish mark below middle of cell ; two white 

 spots beyond the cell, and white spots nearer termen between veins 

 5 and 3 ; an irregular subterminal grey line. Hind wing black- 

 brown, the cell, area below it, and inner area hyaline. 



2 . Abdomen with distinct lateral segmental crimson lines. 



Hah. Venezuela, Caura Valley (Klagrs), 3 8 , 1 2 , La Union 

 (Klages), type f 8 , 2 ftlagesi, in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 

 34 millim. 



