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AKCTIAD^. 



fringed with scarlet. Fore wing with a little scarlet at base. 

 Hind wing with sparsely-scaled streak in and below basal part of 

 cell : a semihyaline white patch in, below, and beyond lower end 

 of cell. 



Fig. 154. — Antona subhma, c?. y. 



$ . Abdomen with scarlet patch on ventral surface of terminal 

 segment. 



Ab. 1. Larger ; the scarlet patches on patagia and base of fore 

 wing much larger ; hind wing with the hyaline streak running to 

 base. Exp. 52 millim. 



Hah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro {Sir E Belcher, Sir W. Smith), 1 cj , 

 5 $,type. Exp., d 40, $ 44 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennis with bristles and cilia ; abdomen of male with lateral tufts 

 of long hair on terminal segments ; hind wing with the tornus pro- 

 duced to an acute lobe clothed with rough hair and containing a tuft 

 of hair on underside. 



483. Antona diffinis. 



Pelochi/ta diffinis, Wit, xxxi. 105 (1864) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 173. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown, slightly shot with 

 blue ; patagia and metatborax with orange-red patches. Fore 

 wing brown, the interspaces streaked with black. Hind wing 



Fig. 155. — Antona diffinis, ^ ■ 



semihy aline, sparsely clothed with blue-black hair, leaving the 

 middle of wing almost hyaline ; the veins black. 



Hab. Trinidad ; Br. Guiana, 1 d ; Brazil, Para (Bates), 1 § 

 type, Espiritu Santo, 1 d . Exp. 32 millim. 



