78 AKCTIAD^. 



Genus BERTHOLDIA. 



Type. 



Bertholdia, Schaus, J.N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 137 (1896) specularis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, not reaching vertex of head, 

 rather broadly scaled, the 3rd joint minute; frons with tuft of hair ; antennge 

 of male ciliated ; abdomen dorsally clothed with rough hair at base. Fore 

 wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell, or 3 before angle ; 6 from upper 

 angle or shortly stalked with 7, 8, 9, 10; 11 free. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell or shortly stalked ; 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 coincident ; 

 8 from towards angle of cell ; male with a scale-like gland on underside of fore 

 wing below the cell near base. 



A. Abdomen crimson above. 



a. Fore wing with antemedial white point on vein 1. 



a^. Tegulse with white dorsal spot ; fore wing with white 

 siibterminal line. 

 a^. Fore wing with lilacine grey suifusion below the 



hyaline patch , albipuncta. 



b^. Fore wing without grey suffusion below the hyaline 



patch myostwta. 



h^, Tegnlse without white spot ; fore wing without white 



subterminal line hraziliensis. 



h. Fore wing with antemedial yellow point on vein 1 . 



d^. Head and thorax dark red -brown philotera. 



v. Head and thorax pale brown pencilled with white. 

 a^. Hind wing with the ternien pure white ; underside 

 of fore wing crimson, the terminal area grey to 

 vein 3, with crimson streaks on the veins. 

 a^. . Fore wing with the outer edge of hyaline patch 



sinuous below vein 6 sehausiana. 



b^. Fore wing with the outer edge of hyaline patch 



straight below vein 6 trigona. 



h'^. Hind wing with the termen tinged with fuscous ; 

 underside of fore wing with crimson patch in cell, 

 and no crimson streaks on veins of terminal area . . . specularis. 



B. Abdomen yellow above flavidorsata. 



1327. Bertholdia albipuncta. 



Bertholdia albipuncta, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 137 (1896) ; Druce. 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 380, pi. 75. f. 16. 



(5 . Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi white, crimson above ; 

 tegulse edged with white and with white medial patch ; legs white, 

 femora at extremities and greater part of tibiae brown, fore coxse 

 and femora above crimson ; abdomen crimson, the ventral surface 

 white, a lateral series of black spots. Fore wing brown ; an ante- 

 medial white point on vein 1 ; a hyaline patch extending on costa 

 from middle to towards apex, its lower edge curved down to vein 

 4 and slightly sinuous, its outer edge sinuous and produced at vein 

 5, some black points on it near the veins, some lilacine grey suffusion 

 below it down to vein 2 ; the apex tinged with lilacine grey ; a fine 

 whitish subterminal line. Hind wing pure white. 



2 . Hind wing with the inner and terminal areas tinged with 

 fuscous. 



Bab. Mexico, Vera Cruz, Jalapa ; Panama, Chiriqui, 1 cS ; 

 Venezuela, Aroa, type in Coll. Schaus ; Bkazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 $ . 

 Rvp. 36 millim. 



