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808. Talara ditis. 

 Mcepha ditis, Butl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 385 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 291. 



Orange ; palpi, antennge, tegulee, and patagia tinged with scarlet ; 

 extremities of tibite and tarsi ringed with black. Fore wiug with 

 the veins streaked with scarlet ; diffused black streaks on base of 



costa and subcostal nervure 

 and some diffused scales 

 before the fine medial black 

 line, which is angled out- 

 wards below costa and on 

 median nervure and inwards 

 in submedian fold, then 

 bent outwards to inner mar- 

 gin ; the postmedial line 

 waved and produced to a 

 tooth above vein -5 ; a sub- 

 terminal series of small diffused spots, curved from costa to vein 5, 

 then almost conjoined to the postmedial line. Hind wing tinged 

 with crimson. 



Hab. Brazil, Espiritu Santo, tj-pe S ? Sao Paulo (Jones), 3 S , 

 2 2 . £^^V2). 14-16 millim. 



Fig. 295. — Talara ditis, J. 



*809. Talara harema. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 21.) 



Talara barema, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. See. iv. p. 149 (1896). 



c? . Head and thorax whitish tinged with brown : abdomen 

 yellow. Fore wing whitish, suffused with brown and irrorated with 

 black ; a patch of blackish suffusion in and below cell just beyond 

 middle, and traces of a similar patch beyond the discocellulars. 

 Hind wing pale yellow. 



Hah. Brazil, Sao Paulo (Jones), 1 cS type in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 

 18 millim. 



*810. Talara leucocera. (Plate XXYIII. fig. 22.) 



Talara leucocera, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) iii. p. 467 (1899). 



S • Head and thorax yellowish white tinged with brown ; antennae 

 almost white ; abdomen crimson. Fore wing pale ochreous, irrorated 

 and suffused with red-brown ; traces of a dark discoidal spot. Hind 

 wing pale crimson. 



Hah. Brazil, Espiritu Santo, 2 c? , type t in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 

 18 millim. 



811. Talara niveata. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 28.) 

 Cisthene niveata, Butl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 384 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 289. 



S . Head and thorax white, with some fuscous on frons, tegulae, 

 thorax, and shoulders ; palpi and fore legs fuscous ; abdomen pale 



