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and legs whitish tinged with brown, the fore tibise and tarsi banded 

 black and white ; abdomen grey-brown with a reddish tinge, the 

 base dorsally green, the crest on 3rd segment tipped with silvery 

 scales. Pore wing bright emerald-green with patches of white 

 irroration especially on medial area, the median nervure and veins 

 arising from it to postmedial line and vein 1 streaked with white ; 

 subbasal line indistinct, double, black, waved, from costa to median 

 nervure : antemedial line double, waved, bent outwards and obso- 

 lescent below median nervure ; claviform wdth small black spots oa 

 its upper and lower edges, otherwise undefined ; orbicular with 

 white annulus very incompletely defined by black and Avith two 

 black points in centre, elliptical ; reniform with its centre and outer 

 edge incompletely defined by black and with some white points on 

 outer edge, extending to well below cell, a black patch in cell 

 between the stigmata ; postmedial line indistinctly double, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then obli(iuely w^aved to vein 4, then incurved, 

 some white points with black streaks between them beyond it on 

 costa; a black-brown apical patch with an oblique green subter- 

 minal line on it from costa to vein 6, with black band from it 

 angled inwards to postmedial line at vein 6 and oblique to termen 

 below vein 2 ; small black- brown spots before termen on veins 4, 3 ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia black-brown, chequered 

 with green towards tornus. Hind wing deep cupreous red, the 

 basal half suffused with brown ; a broad diffused dark subterminal 

 band with some whitish beyond it on middle of termen ; a fine 

 waved black terminal line from apex to vein 2 ; cilia ochreous and 

 brown. Underside of fore wing dark reddish brown with some 

 yellowish on costal area to beyond middle and on inner area ; hind 

 wing reddish ochreous with red discoidal lunule and bar above it 

 from costa, a diffused curved postmedial line and broad terminal 

 band. Palpi with the 3rd joint long. 



Hah. Br. Guiana, Omai (Schaus), 1 5 ; Brazil, Bio Janeiro. 

 Ecp. 52 millim. 



3581. Neophaenis meterythra, n. sp. (Plate CXXIII. fig. 16.) 



J . Head and thorax light green mixed with red-brown and 

 black ; frons with slight lateral black bars ; pectus and legs red- 

 brown, the fore tibias fringed with green ; abdomen dark red-brown, 

 the crests with some green and black, the ventral surface paler. 

 Pore wing deep emerald-green largely suff'used and irrorated with 

 dark red-brown ; subbasal line represented by oblique blackish 

 striae from and below costa and points on median nervure and above 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line very indistinct, double, incurved in cell 

 and excurved below it ; claviform slightly defined by black at 

 extremity ; orbicular with faint pale annulus defined by black at 

 sides, round ; reniform with dark red-brown centre defined by black, 

 extending to below cell and angled inwards below^ median nervure, 

 a black patch in cell between the stigmata ; an indistinct diffused 

 medial black line ; postmedial line black defined by green on inner 



