aectiadj:. 



Sect. III. Autennre of male with bristles and cilia; hind wing with veins G, 7 

 shortly stalked, 8 from just before angle of cell. 



1226. Prumala ilns. 



Koctua ilus. Gram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 92. E (1776) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 220. 

 Elysius optimus, Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 51, pi. 17. f. 8 (1877); Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 219. 



S . Head and thorax yellow, palpi and frons marked with 



crimson and I'uscous ; an- 

 tennae brown ; vertex of 

 head, tegulse, and patagia 

 with crimson annuli, the 

 two latter edged with crim- 

 son ; legs yellow, ringtd 

 with crimson and fuscous ; 

 abdomen crimson, yellow 

 below. Eore wing brown, 

 with series of yellow crim- 

 son-edged and centred spots ; a spot on costa near base ; three 

 antemedial spots ; numerous spots in, below, and beyond cell ; a 

 curved series beyond the cell and postmedial and subterminal 

 series. Hind wing pale crimson. 



IJah. SuKiNAM ; Amazons, li. Jurua (TraiJ)^ 1 cS type ojjtimits. 

 E.A-p. 32 millim. 



Genus PREMOLIS, nov. 



Type, P. scmiriifa. 



Proboscis small ; palpi upturned to vertex of head, the 3rd joint short and 

 obtuse ; antennas of female bipectinate, with short branches dilated at extremity 

 and ending in a bristle; tibiae with the spurs moderate. Fore wing with veins 

 ^, 4, 5 from angle of cell, 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with -vein 2 from well before angle of cell ; 3 and 5 shortly 

 stalked from angle, 4 absent ; the discocellulars erect ; 6, 7 coincident ; 8 very 

 short, from angle of cell, the costa being truncate near apex. 



*1227. Premolis semirufa. 



Halesidota semirvfa,W\\. vii. 1708 Q85r)) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het 

 ii. p. 373, pi. 74. f. 10 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 211. 



Fig. \d).~Fremolis scmirofa, 2- \. 

 5 . Head and thorax brownish yellow ; abdomen crimson, with 



