314 AMATID.H. 



white in front ; tegulae white at base and outer edge ; patagia 

 white at shoulders and base of upper edge and with white streak ; 

 thorax whitish behind ; fore femora white towards base, the mid 

 and hind coxae and the femora towards base pink, the mid tibise 

 with pink patch ; abdomen crimson towards extremity, the anal 

 segment white with a black band, the ventral surface pink except 

 at extremitjr. Fore wing creamy white ; a subbasal semicircular 

 black mark on costa, rounded spot below the cell and Avedge-shaped 

 mark on inner margin ; a black antemedial mark on costa, small 

 round spot in cell, and spots above and below vein 1, the upper 

 spot round, the lower oblique ; an oblique black bar in end of cell 

 conjoined to a spot on costa, a spot beyond the cell and point 

 beyond upper angle ; a postmedial series of spots in the interspaces, 

 interrupted at vein 5, then strongly incurved to below end of cell ; 

 subterminal spots between veins 4 and 2 and a terminal series 

 conjoined into a patch at apex. Hind wing whitish, the area 

 below the cell tinged with fuscous ; a large apical fuscous black 

 patch extending to the cell and vein 4 and a patch between veins 

 2 and 1 ; the underside with the costal area black. 



Ab. 1. flava. The crimson markings replaced by yellow. 



Hab. Fr. Guiana (Le Moult), type f 6 in Coll. Dognin. 

 Exp. 3(5 milliin. 



*1071 e. Heliura perexcavata. (Plate XVIII. fig. 3.) 



Eucereon perexcavatum, Roths. Nov, Zool. xix. p. 171 (1912). 



c? . Head and thorax grey ; palpi and frons black, the former 

 yellow at tips ; antennae black, the shaft whitish above towards 

 base ; vertex of head with black spot, the back of head with two 

 crimson spots ; tegulae with black patches, the patagia striped 

 with black, the dorsum of thorax suffused with black ; pectus and 

 legs black, the coxae and base of femora crimson ; abdomen black 

 with white dorsal bar before extremity and the extremity white. 

 Fore wing brownish white ; subbasal black spots on costa, below 

 the cell and on inner margin ; an antemedial black mark on costa, 

 a round spot in middle of cell, and a series of three bars between 

 origin of vein 2 and inner margin, angled inwards at vein 1 ; 

 a black mark on costa above end of cell, a bar in end of cell, a spot 

 beyond the cell and small spots above veins 6 and 4, two spots 

 above veins 3 and 2 and three small spots between vein 2 and 

 inner margin ; a postmedial series of spots from costa to vein 5 

 separated by bluish white from the series of black spots in inter- 

 spaces of terminal area. Hind wing fuscous black, the cell 

 white; the cilia whitish at tips. Underside of fore wing black, 

 a white patch in cell towards extremity, an elongate mark below 

 the cell, postmedial spots above and below vein 6 conjoined to 

 spots nearer the termen above and below vein 4. 



5 . Abdomen without the white bar before extremity. 



Hab. Brazil, Amazons, Fonte Boa (Klages), type f J, $ in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 34 millim. 



