NEACEEEA. 481 



Sect. II. Fore wing with vein 10 from the cell ; ^ with a tuft of long hair 

 protrusible from a groove on pectus behind mid cox£e. 



A. Back of head with crimson patches. 



a. Abdomen with crimson bands on 5th, Gth, and 7th 



segments rufiventris. 



b. Abdomen without crimson bands. 



a}. Fore wing with medial and postmedial hyaline 



bands dizona. 



h^ . Fore wing without hyaline bands atava. 



B. Back of head olive-yellow testacea. 



1062. Neacerea rufiventris. 



Aclytia ri/fivenfris, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 228 : Druce, Biol Centr.-Am., 

 Het. ii."p. 352, pi. 72. f. 13. 



Fuscous ; back of head and tegulae with paired crimson spots ; 

 basal joint of palpi and coxae crimson ; abdomen with narrow 

 crimson bands on 5th, Gth, and 7th segments, the ventral surface 





Fig. '-'66, — Neacerea rtifiventris 



crimson except terminal segment. Hind wing blackish, with semi- 

 hyaline streaks in, below, and beyond cell. 



Eah. Mexico, Jalapa, 1 $ ; Bolivia, Bueyes, Coll. Staudinger. 

 Exp. 46 millim. Typef in Coll. Schaus. 



*1063. Neacerea dizona. (Plate XVI. fig. 12.) 



Neacerea duotia, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 406 (1898). 



6 . Black-brown ; frons whitish at base ; 1st joint of palp 

 crimson ; back of head with two crimson spots ; throat, coxae, and 

 streaks on femora whitish ; abdomen with ventral white fascia. 

 Fore wing with medial semihyaline band from subcostals to 

 submedian fold, the veins and a streak in cell crossing it dark ; 

 a similar postmedial band from vein 7 to below 4. Hind wing- 

 hyaline, the veins l)lack ; the terminal area black, expanding widely 

 to apex and towards tornus, where its inner edge is dentate. 



Ifab. Cayenne, 1 (^ type t in Mus. Oxon. Ex2). 32 millim. 



*1064. Neacerea atava. (Plate XVI. fig. 24.) 



Heliura atava, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am,, Het. i. p. 74 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 164. 



2 . Head and thorax brownish fuscous ; back of head with two 

 crimson spots ; coxae crimson ; abdomen black, with subdorsal series 

 of metallic blue patches. Fore wing brownish fuscoub.^ Hind 



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