XANTITOni^INA. — AMMALO. 8JJ 



three orange points on black spots at base ; a Y-shaped medial 

 black band ending on vein 1, its inner arm thickened at base and 

 with slight orange streaks on subcostal and median nervures, its 

 outer arm curved and with slight orange streaks on the veins. 

 Hind wing fuscous. 



Hah. Colombia, Popayan (Rogers), 1 c? type t in Mus. Oxon. 

 Kvjp. 58 millim. 



Genus AMMALO. 



Type. 



A>nmalo. Wlk. iii. 622 (1855) helojys. 



Tanada,W\k.Yn. 1745 (1856) tenera. 



Paretichates, Grote, Proc. Eut. See. Phil. v. p. 245 (1865) insulata. 



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

 3rd joint short; antennae of male bipectinate, with rather long branches, of 

 female with short branches; tibiae with the spurs moderate ; abdomen dorsally 

 clothed with rough hair at base. Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of 

 cell ; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 

 3 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 from bejond middle of cell. 



A. Fore wing with white spots below and beyond the cell ... slgnata. 



B. Fore wing without white spots. 



a. Hind wing orange tinged with crimson helops. 



b. Hind wing yellowish. 



a^. Fore wing irrorated with brown bipunctata, 



h^ . Fore wing uniform ochreous yellow insutata. 



C. Hind wing white tenera. 



J). Hind wing tinged with fuscous eglenensis.. 



*1336. Ammalo signata. (Plate XLIV. fig. 1.) 



FJysius signatus, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 75 (1862) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 219. 



(S . Head and thorax orange, tinged with scarlet and slightly 

 irrorated with brown ; antennae dark brown ; abdomen scarlet, with 

 lateral series of black spots. Fore wing orange, tinged with scarlet 

 and thickly striated with diffused rufous strice; a dark-edged tri- 

 angular white spot below the cell ; dark-edged white points in end 

 of cell and above vein 3, and a larger spot below vein 5. Hiud 

 wing white ; the costa and termen suffused with brown, most 

 widely at apex, torn us, and on veins of terminal area. 

 Hah. Bbaztl, type f c? in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 42 millim. 



1337. Ainmalo helops. 



Bomhyx helops, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 72. C (1775); Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 222. 

 Ammalo fervidus, Wlk. iii. 622 (1855) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 222, 

 Halesidota megapyrrha, Wlk, xxxi. 308 (1864), 

 Halesidota chrysogaster, Wlk. xxxi. 312 (1864); Druce. Biol. Centr.-Am., 



Het. 1. p. 91 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 222. 



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