CORREBIA. 



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*1135 a. Correbia tristitia. 



Correbidia tristitia, Kaye, Entom. xliv. p. 145 (1911). 

 Correbia klagesi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 183 (1912). 



Fore wing of male with fringe of long hair from middle of inner 

 margin. 



<S . Head and thorax red-brown tinged with leaden grey ; frons 

 above and streaks from base of antennae to shoulders fulvous 

 palpi yellow, dark brown towards tips ; antennae dark 

 pectus and legs dark brown with yellow streaks below the 

 the fore cox*, femora near base and tarsi banded with 

 abdomen dark brown with fulvous yellow lateral stripes, 

 the basal half of ventral surface yellow. Fore wing dark brown 

 tinged with silvery leaden blue ; a broad pale yellow subbasal band 

 from costa to vein 1 ; a pale yellow band from costa beyond middle 

 to tornal part of inner margin and termen, its edges slightly 



yellow 

 brown 

 wings, 

 yellow 



Fig. 51.— Correbia tristitia, tf . \, 



excurved below middle. Hind wing pale yellow with a short 

 brown streak beyond lower angle of cell and terminal brown band 

 slightly diffused on inner side ; the underside with the costa 

 yellower, a large round brown patch from middle of costa to 

 median nervure. 



Hab. Venezuela, Caura R. (Klages) ; Br. Guiana, Kockstone 

 {Kaye), type t 6 i» Coll. Kaye; Surinam, Maroewym Valley, 

 Aroewarwar Creek (Kluyes), type f 6 Megesiin Coll. Rothschild; 

 Brazil, Amazons, Fonte Boa, (Jodaljas, Iquitos. Exp 30 millim. 



*1135 b. Correbia obscura. (Plate XX. fig. 20.) 



Correbia obscura, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 193 (1905). 



6 . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown ; palpi at base and 

 base of 3rd joint yellow ; sides of head and shoulders with orange 

 streaks ; coxa?, base of fernora, and 1st joint of tarsi yellow. Fore 

 wing black-brown, the veins with slight metallic blue streak ; a 

 minute dull orange streak below base of costa ; an erect, rather 

 narrow postmedial band, orange at costa, yellow to median nervure, 

 then dull orange. Hind wing fuscous brown, the inner area rather 

 paler, the lower part of cell and area just below and beyond it 



