MK. H. W. BATES — CATALO&UE OF EEYCINID^. 381 



acute ; outer margin very sliglitlj'^ curved outwards. Hind wing with 

 apical angle obtuse, rounded. Above rich purplish black (nerviu-es 

 concolorous), with a belt of rich yellowish orange crossing the fore 

 wing slightly beyond the middle and very nearly touching both the 

 costa and the hind angle. 



Beneath dark brown, nervures concolorous ; belt of fore wing saffron- 

 yellow. 



Body, legs, and antennae blackish. The antennae are more slender than 

 iu L. Melander and allies. 



Hub. Banks of the Tapajos, at Altar do Chao. 



Orestia Tapajona. 



c? & 5 . Closely allied to 0. vitula (Limnas vitula, Hewits. Exot. Butt. 

 Lim. f. 5). Shape and size the same ; differs in the wing-lappets 

 being of an orange colour instead of black like the rest of the thorax. 

 The orange stripe of fore wing extends much further towards the hind 

 angle than in O. vitula. The subapical buff-coloured fascia is very 

 irregular in shape, being sometimes oblong-ovate, sometimes narrow 

 and elongate as in O. vitula, and sometimes it is quite absent. 

 Hab. Forests of the Tapajos. 0. vitula is peculiar to the Upper 

 Amazons. 



Grenus Zelotjea, nov. gen. 

 Pore wing short, broad, subtriangular, with slightly bowed costa 

 and distinct apical angles ; hind wing elongate from the base 

 to the anal angle, enter border regularly rounded. Fore-wing 

 subcostal nervure terminating at the apex of the wing, three- 

 branched — two branches before the end of the cell, and the third 

 halfway between the cell and the apex ; upper radial joining 

 the subcostal at a distance from the end of the cell; lower 

 radial midway between the subcostal and median nervures, and 

 middle discocellular nervule running obliquely to the subcostal. 

 Palpi straight, pointed, but not visible from above ( c? ) ■ An- 

 tennae short, light brown, very obscurely spotted above with 

 grey; club thick and distinct, gradually formed. Front legs 

 of c? extremely short, especially the femora and tarsi, thinly 

 clothed with scales and a few hairs; middle and hind legs 

 moderately short and thinly clothed with scales ; tarsi not per- 

 ceptibly spined. 



These species have a peculiar appearance from their pallid colora- 

 tion, whitish or grey, varied with darker grey, especially along the 

 nervures. Although similar to Fandemos in colours, the much 

 shorter legs and the extremely reduced male fore legs show that 

 there is no real or close affinity between the two genera. The 

 affinities are rather with Helicopis. 



