382 AECTIAD^. 



crimson, the ventral surface -whitish. Pore wing white, irrorated 

 with a few blackish scales which form diffused patches below base 

 of cell and on inner margin beyond middle. Hind wing fuscous, 

 with pale crimson patch on inner area from base to beyond middle. 

 Hah. Beazil, Espiritu Santo, 1 d" type. Exp. 18 millim. 



812. Talara cinerea, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 24.) 



5 . Puscous suffused with grey. Fore wing irrorated with black 

 scales. Abdomen and hind wing dark fuscous. 



Hah. Colombia, Sta. Marta {Bouchard), 1 $ type. Exp. 18 

 millim. 



Sect. II. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from cell. 



A. Fore wing scarlet. 



a. Fore wing with large black patches before middle and 



at torn us megasjnla. 



b. Fore wing without black antemedial and terminal 



patches coccinea. 



B. Fore wing rufous rufa. 



C. Fore wing fuscous grey. 



a. Hind wing with the basal half crimson rufihasis. 



b. Hind wing without crimson grisea. 



D. Fore wing fuscous, with antemedial and subterminal 



whitish lines. 



a. Fore wing with the subterminal line acutely angled 



on vein 6 hoinhycia. 



b. Fore wing with the subterminal line escurved at 



middle phcsella. 



813. Talara megaspila. 



Talara megasjnla, Wlk. xxxv. 1891 (1866) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 291. 



(S . Head, thorax, and first segment of abdomen orange-red, the 

 rest of abdomen brown ; legs banded with brown. Pore wing 

 orange-red ; a large conical black patch before middle from inner 



margin to just below costa 

 with deep blue streaks in 

 cell and submedian fold ; an 

 elongate spot on costa towards 

 apex ; a la,rge patch on ter- 

 men from vein 6 to tornus 

 extending nearly to the cell, 

 Fig. 296. — Talara viegaqnla, c^ . |. and with some deep blue 



suffusion near its upper angle. 

 Hind wing black-brown, with the base crimson. 



Bab. Amazons, Ega {Bates), 1 c? type. E.xj>. 20 millim. 



S14. Talara coccinea. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 18.) 



Talara coccinea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 329 ; Kirby, Oat Het 

 p. 291. 



$ . Head and thorax bright crimson ; antennae blackish except 



