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it ; an irregular baud from costa before apex to vein 5.; a subter- 

 minal series of spots and a termiual series of points on the veins. 

 Hind wing hyaline, the veins aud the terminal area broadly and 

 irregularly suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. Amazons, Santarem {Bates) ^ 1 S type. Exp. 28 millim. 



1067. Heliura rhodophila. 



Eiicerca rhodopJiila, Wlk. vii. 1638 (lSr)()) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 200. 

 Heliura jpyrrho&oma, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 418 (1876); 



Druce, Biol, Oentr.-Am., Het. ii. pi. 72. f. 19; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 164. 

 Heliura solicauda, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 418; id. 111. Het. 



i. p. 44, pi. 9. f. 4 (1876) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 164. 



(5 . Head and thorax dull black ; palpi reddish at base ; back of 

 head with two reddish marks ; shoulders, patagia, and metathorax 

 with ochreous marks ; coxse and femora ochreous : abdomen crimson, 

 the 1st segment black, the next three with pale lateral patches ; 

 lateral black lines and the terminal segment black. Fore wing 



whitish ; the veins streaked 

 with red ; some black spots 

 on costa ; a black patch at 

 base of inner area ; a spot 

 at middle of cell and ante- 

 ''%^ medial spots on each side of 



Sj) vein 1 ; a black bar across 



Fig. I&l.— Heliura rhodophila, S • f- ^^^^ ^f cell, two spots beyond 



the cell and three beyond 

 lower angle, with two spots below them in submedian interspace and 

 one above vein 2 ; a postmcdial series of spots between costa and 

 vein 5, and a terminal series. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and the 

 terminal area broadly and irregularly fuscous black. 

 5 . Abdomen without the whitish lateral patches. 

 Hob. Honduras, 1 S , type solicauda ; Costa E.ica( Underwood), 2 $ , 

 Godman-Salvin Coll ; Amazons, Para (Bates), 1 cT , type pyrrhosoma. 

 Exp. 38 millim. Typef from Amazons in Mus. Oxon. 



*1068. Heliura hecale. 



Aclytia hecale, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 277 ; id. Am. Lep. pi. i. f. 18. 



5 . Black-brown ; back of head with paired crimson spots ; coxae 

 crimson ; abdomen with lateral metallic blue patches. Fore wing 

 with slight semihyaliue patches in, below, and beyond end of cell, 

 leaving a rounded discoidal patch. Hind wing hyaline, the veins 

 and margins broadly black ; the terminal band expanding towards 

 tornus. 



Hah. Peru. Exp. 42 millim. Type f in Coll. Schaus. 



Sect. II. Hind wing of male with the tornus not produced and without tuft of 

 hair. 



A. Fore wing yellowish white with black spots. 



a. Abdomen with the terminal segments crimson, with 



dorsal black spots thyshe. 



h. Abdomen with the dorsal segments black pierus. 



B. Fore wing hyaline with black margins sanguipalpia. 



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