36 AECIIADiE. 



with crimson and fuscous above ; patagia and thorax with rufous 

 spots ; tibia and tarsi with fuscous points ; abdomen crimson, the 

 extremity yellow, the ventral surface white. Pore wing bright 



yellow with crimson-edged 

 basal and three subbasal 

 spots ; an antemedial 

 series of irregular con- 

 joined spots connected 

 with toruus by a similar 

 series; two discoidal points 

 and a series beyond cell 

 Fig. 28.— Amaxia pardalis, c^ . \. between veins 3 and 8; 



a postmedial obliquely 

 curved series, of which three below costa are large and elongate 

 and with some oblique spots beyond them from apex ; a subterminal 

 series of small spots. Hind wing white, tinged with crimson 

 towards inner margin and yellow towards termen. 



Hah, Amazons, Ega (Bates), 1 d* type. Exp. 38 millim. 



*1242. Amaxia ? divisa. 



Creatonotus divisu?, Herr.-SchaiF. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 282 (1850) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 197. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen deep crimson. Fore wing deep 

 crimson, a white point at base ; two sinuous darker lines arising 

 from middle of cell, the 1st incurved, the 2nd excurved; the crimson 

 extends on costa to well beyond middle and to termen at submedian 

 fold, its edge being strongly incurved between those points ; the 

 terminal area pale yellow, with a crimson apical patch extending to 

 vein 5. Hind wing with the costal half hyaline, the inner half red, 

 with two short hyaline postmedial streaks below vein 2. 



Hah. ignotus. Exp. 38 millim. This species is unknown to 

 me. 



Genus EVIUS. 



Type. 

 Evius, Wlk. iii. 639 (1855) aurococcinea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, the 3rd 

 joint nunute ; antennse of male fasciculate, tibiae with the spurs short ; abdomen 

 dorsally clothed with rough hair at base. Fore wing with vein 3 from well 

 before angle of cell ; 4, 5 separate at origin ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 

 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from long before angle of cell ; 

 3, 5 stalked ; 4 absent ; 6, 7 coincident ; 8 from middle of cell and strongly 

 curved ; the costa very strongly lobed in male. 



1243. Evius aurococcinea. 



Evius auTOCoccineus, Wlk. iii. 640 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 197. 



cT. Palpi and antennae fuscous, striped with crimson above, 

 white at tips ; head orange, frons crimson at sides ; tegulae, patches 

 on patagia, and mesothorax orange edged with crimson ; thorax 



