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towards base ; abdomen black-brown. Fore wing scarlet, turning 

 to orange on apical half of costal area ; an elongate black spot with, 

 some blue scales on it on costa be3'ond middle ; the termen tinged 

 with greyish. Hind wing black-brown, the base crimson. 



Hah. Amazons, Villa Nova (Bates), 1 $ type. Eccp. 20 millim. 



*815. Talara rufa. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 30.) 

 Talara rufa, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 214 (1899). 



2 . Head and thorax rufous ; abdomen reddish orange. Fore 

 wing pale rufous, thickly irrorated with dark rufous ; a slight 

 oblique black line from middle of cell to inner margin before middle ; 

 some dark scales representing the subterminal line ; a terminal 

 black line from vein 4 to 1 ; cilia chequered black and whitish. 

 Hind wing orange-yellow with a pinkish tinge. 



JIab. Brazil, Castro Parana (Jones), 1 $ type f in Coll. Schaus. 

 Exp. 20 millim. 



816. Talara rufibasis. 



Cisthene ritfibasis, Feld. Eels. Nov. pi. 139. f. 4 (1875) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 289. 



Head and thorax black, irrorated with grey and slightly tinged 

 with purple ; gulae and neck orange ; legs blue-black ; abdomen 

 crimson, the anal tufts ochreous, the ventral surface blue-black. 

 Fore wing fuscous black irrorated with grey, leaving slight dark 

 streaks on costa and inner margin and in discal and submedian folds, 

 and a very obscure diffused postmedial band. Hind wing fuscous, 

 with crimson patch from base extending to end of cell and tornus 

 except on costal area. 



Hah. Panama, La Chorrera (Dolhy-Tylor), 1 ($ ; Colombia, Bogota, 

 type t $ in Coll. Pothschild. Exp. 18 millim. 



817. Talara grisea. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 17.) 

 Talara grisea, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 149 (1896). 



(5 . Head and thorax fuscous grey ; abdomen pale crimson. 

 Fore wing fuscous grey. Hind wing whitish, tinged with fuscous 

 towards margins. 



Hah. Brazil, Sao Paulo (Jones), 2 c? • Exp. 18 millim. Type f 

 in Coll. Schaus. 



*818. Talara bombycia. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 27.) 



Talara bombycia, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 149 (1896). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown, the last whitish 

 at base. Fore wing fuscous brown ; a whitish antemedial line 

 slightly angled outwards below costa and acutely on median nervure, 

 and angled inwards on vein 1 ; the medial area whitish towards 



