234 



ARCTIAD.i;. 



h^. Fore wing with the orange band reaching costa. 



r,'-. Fore wing with oblique subapical orange bar bafesi. 



b'-. Fore wing without subapical orange bar celena. 



484. Josiodes myrrha, 



Nodua fulvia, Clerck, Icones, pi. 65. f. 5 (1764), $, nee Linn.; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 294. 

 Geo7netra myrrha, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 29. G (1775). 



cJ . Bright orange ; palpi, frons, antennae, and legs bluish Mack ; 

 abdomen with dorsal black fascia expanding towards extremity and 

 patch on anal tuft below. Fore wing with black costal fascia ; the 

 apical area black, narrowing to a point at tornus, with an orange 



Fig. 156. — Josiodes myrrha, (^ . \. 



triangular siibapical patch on it leaving a narrow curved black band 

 on its inner side. Hind wing with terminal black band with 

 sinuous inner edge excurved at median nervules. 



Hah. StriUNAM, Onoribo (Ellacombe), 2 S . Exp. 34 millim. 



485. Josiodes indecisa. (Plate XXIV. fig. 13.) 



Josiodes indecisa, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p.. 332 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 294. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; frons shot with blue ; 

 tegulae with orange patches ; abdomen with lateral orange fascise 

 except on last two segments. Fore wing orange, with black fascia 

 below basal third terminating in a point below costa ; a few black 

 scales in submedian fold ending in a prominent streak above middle 

 of vein 1 ; a black fascia on inner margin to beyond middle ; the 

 apical area black from costa beyond middle to near tornus, where 

 it is retracted to inner margin, and with a curved orange band on 

 it between veins 3 and 4. Hind wing orange, with difFused black 

 fascia in cell ; some black scales on the veins near and beyond end of 

 cell ; a broad black fascia below the cell leaving the inner margin 

 orange ; a broad terminal black band expanding widely on apical 

 area. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with more distinct fascia below the cell and 

 no streak above middle of vein 1 ; the fascia on inner margin much 

 narrower. 



Hah. Amazons, Para {Bates), 1 $ type, Serpa {Trail), 1 $ . 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



