LEUCOTME.UIS. 



221 



ventral surface yellowish white ; wings hyaline yellow, the veins 

 yellow ; the costa and inner margin streaked with yellow ; a large 

 black discoidal spot with patches of metallic blue on it ; both wings 

 with a large area at apex and smaller one at tornus black. 

 Hah. Amazons, Para, 1 ? {Bates), type. Exp. 34 millim. 



462. Leucotmemis pleiiraemata, n. sp. (Plate VIII. fig. 6.) 



Black-brown ; palpi white at base ; tegulae with crimson spots ; 

 coxee yellowish white ; abdomen yellowish laterally at base, then 

 with broad lateral crimson stripes, the ventral surface yellowish 

 white. Fore wing with wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell, an 

 elongate patch below the cell, and four streaks beyond the cell 

 between veins 3 and 7. Hind wing hyaline ; the veins and margins 

 brown ; a brown patch in cell ; the terminal band expanding to apex 

 and slightly below vein 2. 



In the fore wing vein 2 arises rather near 3 and the end of the cell. 



Hah. Brazil, 1 c^ (Dohrn), type Zell. Coll., St. Catharina, 1 S ^ 

 E(vp. 26 millim. 



463. Leucotmemis tenthredoides. 



Ili]}a tenthredoides, Wlk. vii. 1610 (ISoCi) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 145. 



cJ . Head black and blue ; frons whitish . thorax orange ; tegula? 

 blue and black ; patagia tipped with black ; abdomen orange, a 



black dorsal spot on 3rd seg- 

 ment and patch on 4th, the 

 last three segments black with 

 subdorsal blue spots. Fore wing 

 hyaline, the margins black ; a 

 blue spot at base of costa ; two 

 orange streaks above inner 

 Fig. 105. margin, and a slight streak 



Leucotmemia tenthredoides, 6 . \. i.i ^ i.iii ji? 



' ^ ' below costa ; a black band from 



costa on discocellulars to inner margin, dentate inwards on median 

 nervure, the veins beyond the cell orange ; the terminal band very 

 wide on apical area. Hind wing with the base orange ; two hyaline 

 streaks beyond the cell ; the terminal black band wide on apical 

 area and towards tornus. 



$ . Without the black spot on 3rd segment of abdomen ; anal 

 tuft orange ; fore wing with a prominent orange streak below costa. 

 Hah. Amazons, Ega, 1 c5" , 1 $ (Bates) ; type t in Mus. Oxon. 

 Eo'p. 30 millim. 



464. Leucotmemis hemileuca. (Plate VIII. fig. 7.) 



Dycladia hemileuca, Butl. Joiirn. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 303 (187' ; Kirb^ 

 Cat. Het. p. 145. 



(S . Head black, with a little blue on vertex ; frons greyish 



