306 AMATIDJS. 



yellow at base ; basal joint of antennae yellow in front ; coxa? 

 yellow tinged with crimson, tbe femora streaked with yellowish, 

 the tibiae at extremities and 1st joint of tarsi ringed with yellow; 

 abdomen scarlet with large black-brown dorsal patch on basal 

 segments followed by small spots, the anal segment black, the 

 ventral surface yellow except towards extremity. Fore wing 

 fuscous brown ; an indistinct highly dentate greyish antemedial 

 line ; a round blackish spot in middle of cell denned by greyish ; a 

 blackish patch faintly defined by greyish at end of cell, extending 

 to well below it ; an indistinct interrupted greyish postmedial line, 

 excurved below costa and at middle, below vein 3 bent inwards to 

 below end of cell ; a dentate greyish subterminal line with blackish 

 streaks beyond it in the interspaces defined at extremities by 

 greyish ; cilia chequered greyish and fuscous. Hind wing semi- 

 hyaline white, the veins and terminal area blackish, the latter 

 expanding at apex and below vein 2. 



Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz, Santa Bosa (Sehaus), 2 c? cotype. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



1003(7. Heliura phaeosoma. (Plate XVII. fig. 18.) 



Helium pJi&osoma, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 464 (1905). 



<5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown, the back of head, 

 shoulders, and a patch on mctatborax crimson; coxae and parts of 

 femora white ; abdomen with the base of ventral surface white 

 followed by bands on the other segments. Fore wing black, the 

 veins crimson ; antemedial, medial, and postmedial crimson patches 

 on costa and an antemedial patch above vein 1 ; a round black 

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

 an elongate white mark below middle of cell ; two white spots 

 beyond the cell conjoined to two spots nearer termen between veins 

 5 and 3 ; an irregular crimson subterminal line and more or less 

 crimson on termen. Hind wing black with hyaline patch in and 

 below the cell and on inner area. 



Hab. Venezuela, Caura Valley (Klages), 4 6 . Exp. 30 

 millim. 



1068 e. Heliura suffusa. (Plate XVII. fig. 19.) 



Neacerea suffusa, Lathy, Entom. xxxii. p. 120 (1899). 



S . Black-brown ; back of head with two crimson spots ; coxae 

 crimson ; abdomen with lateral series of metallic blue spots. Fore 

 wing with semihyaline quadrate patch in end of cell and ill-defined 

 streaks below middle of cell and above base of vein 2 ; semihyaline 

 spots beyond the cell above and below vein 6. Hind wing hyaline, 

 the veins and margins black ; the terminal band expanding widely 

 and rather irregularly on apical area and from vein 2 to tornus. 



Hab. Be. Guiana, Demerara, 1 6 type. Exp. 38 millim. 



