122 " N0CTU1D.E. 



$ . Fore wing witliout the black spot above inner margin and 

 dark suffusion beyond the antemedial line and on middle o£ inner 

 margin, the postmedial line oblique and almost straight, with slight 

 dark suffusion beyond it, the subterminal line reduced to a series 

 of dark points ; hind wing paler brown, with faint oblique pale line 

 from vein 4 to tornus, the underside nearly uniform reddish brown. 



Hah. Mexico, 1 5 , Jalapa {Ti-iijillo), 4 S , Vera Cruz, Atoyac 

 (Schumann), 1 S ; Honduras (Di/son), 1 d type optabilis, Limas 

 (Broclcholes), 1 5 type hasiletica ; Guatemala, Zapote {Cham- 

 pion), 1 6 ; Panama, Chiriqui (Bibhe), 1 <S , Grodman-Salvin 

 Coll., La Chorrera {Bolhy-Tyler), 1 <S \ Fk. GtUiana, type f ^ 

 coactilis in Coll. Rothschild; Brazil, Itapariea (Meade- Waldo), 

 1 $, Espiritu Santo, 1 c? , 1 $; PARAauAY, Sapucay (Foster), 

 1 c? ; Peru, Huancabamba, 1 $, Rio Coloi'ado (Waflcins S{ Tom- 

 Unson), 1 6 • Fa-j) 44-54 millim. 



7899. NymMs prolixa. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 16.) 

 Vkurys ■proUxa, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 117. f. 6 (1874). 



c? . Head, tegulse, and pro thorax deep red-broAvn, the rest of 

 thorax red-browii tinged with grey ; abdomen red-broAvn slightly 

 mixed with greyish. Fore wing bright red-brown ; a slight curved 

 pale subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 pale defined on outer side by chocolate-brown, oblique, a small 

 black spot before it above inner margin, the inner margin beyond 

 it chocolate-brown, with a slight pale streak on the margin ; a 

 white point defined by dark brown in middle of cell ; reniform with 

 whitish annulus, ellij)tical, some chocolate-brown suffusion beyond 

 it ; a slight sinuous brown medial line ; postmedial line whitish, 

 incurved, the area beyond it suffused with chocolate-brown ; sub- 

 terminal line whitish, defined on outer side by dark brown, straight ; 

 cilia with a fine w^hitish line at base and wdiitish tips. Hind Aving 

 dark reddish broAvn ; cilia whitish at tips ; the underside clothed 

 Avith rough blackish scales to beyond middle, the terminal area 

 Avith grey scales. 



5 . Fore wing much greyer, two indistinct sinuous lines beyond 

 the cell, the postmedial line straight and oblique, the subterminal 

 line represented by a series of blackish points ; hind wang greyish 

 bi'own, the terminal area darker ; underside of both Avings greyish 

 broAvn with the terminal area darker. 



Hab. Br. GtUIAKA (Bod way), 2 S , 1 § ; Brazil, Amazons, 

 type t c? in Coll. Rothschild. JE.iy., 6 50, ? 52 millim. 



b. Hind wing of male on underside with tbe basal and inner 

 areas clothed with silky hair. 

 «i. Fore wing of male with tho antemedial line arising 

 from beyond upper angle of cell and not crossing 

 tlie cell. 

 u". Fore wing of male with triangular patch of black- 

 brown suffusion beyond tlie antemedial line- below 

 the cell gar not i. 



