18 ARCTIAD.E. 



E. Fore wing with vein 5 from above angle of cell; hind 

 wing with veins 7, 8 shortly stalked in male, on a long 

 stalk in female. 



a. Fore wing with crimson streak above inner margin to 



tornus pichesensis. 



b. Fore wing without crimson streak towards tornus. 



rt\ Fore wing with black and yellow streaks on base of 



costal area dacfa. 



6\ Fore wing with yellow-centred brown ocellate spots 



on basal area pandama. 



1211. Idalus pichesensis. 



Idalus pichesensis, Dyar, Psyche, viii. p. 198 (1898). 



c^ . Head white ; palpi striped with blaok ; frons yellow above ; 

 antennas brownish ; thorax white, the tegulse and metathorax edged 



with crimson, patagia 

 with 3'ellow spot with 

 fuscous streak above it ; 

 legs white, slightly 

 streaked and spotted 

 with black ; abdomen 

 crimson with slight seg- 

 mental lines, the extre- 

 mity and ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing yel- 

 ,low; the interspaces of basal area with series of blue-grey streaks 

 defined by white ; some crimson at base of inner margin ; a medial 

 band composed of blue-grey streaks defined by white, produced 

 along costa, narrowing at discocellulars and produced between veins 

 3 and 1 ; a crimson streak beyond it above inner margin to tornus ; 

 a subterminal grey stigma above vein 5. Hind wing white, with 

 slight crimson streaks near veins 1 and 2. 



2 . With two of the streaks of basal area more produced in 

 cell and the basal and medial bands more approximated on inner 

 margin. 



Hah, Peeu, Piches ; Beazil, Sao Paulo, Eio Janeiro, 1 J , 

 1 $ . E,Tp., (S 42, $ 46 millim, . 



1212. Idalus daga. 



Empusa daga, Dognin, Le Nat. 1891 , p. 125 ; id. Lep. Loja, p. 82, pi. 8. f. 3 ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 904. 



Head and thorax white ; antennae brownish ; palpi above and 

 frons tinged with fuscous ; vertex of head, tegulae, and patagia tinged 

 with orange ; metathorax with two black points ; pectus in front 

 with orange patch ; legs with black points ; abdomen orange above 

 with dorsal series of white points, the extremity and ventral surface 

 white ; wings white. Fore wing with black streaks on a brownish 

 patch at base from costa to below median nervurc, some crimson at 

 base of inner margin ; an oblique yellowish-brown irregular medial 



