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abdomen black-brown, the four terminal segments crimson with 

 slight dark segmental lines and the anal tuft blackish, the ventral 

 surface crimson. Fore wing pale red-brown, the veins, discal and 

 submedian fold slightly darker ; a faint diffused discoidal patch; 

 the apical area with faint diffused patch. Hind wing black-brown 

 with hyaline streaks in, below, and just be} r ond the cell and on basal 

 inner area. 



Sab. Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, 1 $ ; Paraguay, Sapucay 

 (Foster), 1 d type. Exp. 42 millim. 



1062 b. Delphyre hampsoni. (Plate XVII. fig. 10.) 



Delphire rufiventris, hampsoni, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 165 (1912). 

 Delphire rufiventris, orientalis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 165 (1912). 

 Delphire rufiventris meridensis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 165 (1912). 



Head and thorax grey-brown, the back of head and sides of 

 tegulae with paired crimson spots ; palpi at base and coxae crimson ; 

 abdomen black-brown, the base grey-brown ; the 4th, 5th, and 6th 

 segments with crimson segmental lines, the ventral surface crimson 

 except the anal tuft. Fore wing grey-brown, the cell towards 

 extremity and area below it and the interspaces beyond the cell 

 between veins 7 and 2 thinly scaled and somewhat semibvaline 

 leaving a rounded darker discoidal patch. Hind wing dark-brown, 

 the cell, a fascia below it, and the interspaces just beyond it hvaline. 

 Underside of fore wing with the thinly scaled areas paler and more 

 prominent. 



Hrib. Colombia, Jiminez, 1^,1$; Venezuela, Merida 

 (JBriceno), type f 6 , 2 meridensis in Coll. Rothschild ; Brazil, 

 It. Madeira, Allianca {Hoffmanns), type t 6 orientalis in Coll. 

 Rothschild; Peru, Carabaya, San Domingo (OcTcenden), type f 6 

 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 40-44 millim. 



1063 a. Delphyre discalis. (Plate XVII. fig. 11.) 



Neaeerea discaUs, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 463 (1905). 

 Delphire infra-alba, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 166 (1912). 



c?. Head and thorax greyish black; back of head with two 

 crimson spots; coxae whitish; abdomen black, the base greyish, 

 the ventral surface white except anal segment. Fore wing greyish 

 black with more or less prominent semihyaline streaks in end of 

 cell, below the cell, and above base of vein 2, and series of short 

 streaks beyond the cell between veins 7 and 3. Hind wing black 

 with hyaline streaks in lower part of cell, below the cell, and beyond 

 the cell above bases of veins 2 and 3. 



Hnt). Venezuela, Caura Valley (Klages), 3d 1 , La Union 

 (Klages), type f 6 , $ infra-alba in Coll. Rothschild.. Exp. 

 36 millim. 



