24 AECTIAD^. 



tarsi fuscous ; abdomen with slight dorsal fuscous marks on terminal 

 segments. Hind wing paler. 



$ . Abdomen with large purple-fuscous dorsal patches on four 

 terminal segments. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Tnijillo), 1 (S type, Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 JiJa^jp. 38 millim. 



*1223. Prumala saturata. 



Automolis saturata, Wlk. vii. 1635 (1856); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 170. 

 Eucyrfa prcetexfa, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 102. f. 5 (1874) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. 

 p. 167. 



S . Palpi orange, blackish behind ; frons blue ; vertex of head 

 orange with a blue spot ; antennae brown, the upperside of shaft 

 orange towards base ; thorax brown, with a broad orange stripe on 

 tegulas and upper edge of patagia ; legs orange with slight black 

 streaks, the fore coxae blue and black at sides ; abdomen black with 

 broad orange band on 2nd and 3rd segments, the terminal segments 

 with metallic-blue dorsal and lateral spots, the ventral surface with 

 orange bands. Fore wing with the veins streaked with orange ; an 

 oblique rather irregular band from vein 6 beyond the cell to above 

 inner margin near base ; an oblique subapical fascia, the termen 

 and cilia thickened by large greyish-brown scales narrowing to 

 apex. Hind wing orange, the tornal area brown, its upper edge 

 curved from inner margin near base to termen at vein 4 ; the under- 

 side with a blackish postmedial spot on costa and the tornal patch 

 reduced by orange on termen and inner area. 



Hah. Amazons, Para, type in Mus. Oxon., type f S 'prcetexta in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 40 millim. 



B. Hind wing with vein 8 from just before end of cell. 



*1224. Prumala albicollis. 



Eucyrta albicollis, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 102. f. 4 (1874) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 171. 



2 . Palpi dark brown, crimson at base and at extremity behind ; 

 frons and antennae dark brown; vertex of head rufous ; tegulae and 

 shoulders pure white ; thorax rufous ; pectus and legs white, the 

 fore coxae and streaks on fore tibiae and below the wings crimson, 

 the mid and hind femoro-tibial joints dark brown ; abdomen 

 crimson, with white dorsal spot on 1st segment and points on the 

 other segments, the ventral surface white. Fore wing purplish 

 brown to costa beyond middle and termen above tornus ; some 

 crimson at base of inner area; the edge of brown area angled 



