88 ARCXIAD2E. 



patagia with whitish edges ; legs streaked with white ; ahdomen grey, 

 with subdorsal bluish-black fasciae, the extremity orange. Fore 

 wing greyish fuscous tinged with blue ; an oblique elliptical white 

 spot beyond the cell between veins 7 and 3 ; the veins with slight 

 pale streaks. Hind wing black shot with blue; a white fascia 

 from base extending from cell to vein 1 and to near termen. 



2 . Fore wing with the spot beyond the cell rather more elongate 

 and curved ; hind wing with the fascia narrower. 



Hab. Costa Rica ( Underwood), 1 ^ type romula, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. ; Brazil, type f $ in Coll. Saunders. E.v^., d 38, $ 40 

 millim. 



Genus HYPERTH.ffi]VEA, nov. 



Type, H. savguineata. 



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

 antennae of male bipectinate, of female ciliated ; tibiae with the spurs moderate ; 

 abdomen dorsally clothed with rough hair towards base. Fore wing with vein 

 3 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 6 stalked ; 8 from 

 middle of cell ; male with a fold on inner area on underside containing a tuft 

 of long hair. 



Sect, I. Fore wing with veins 4, 5 stalked, in female very shortly ; hind wing 

 with veins 6, 7 stalked. 



1344. Hyperthaema sanguineata. 



Halesidota sanguineata, Wlk. xxxi. 309 (1864); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 219. 

 Elysius cardinalis, Staud. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxv. p. 123 (1875). 

 JS^eritos orbicularis, Mssn. Stubel's Reisen S. Amer., Lep. pp. 32, 131, pi. 4. 

 f. 17 (1890) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 219. 



Fig. 64. — HyperthcBma sanguineata, c? . |. 



S . Crimson ; antennae, tibise, and tarsi brown, the latter with 

 white points at base ; abdomen with two lateral series of black spots. 

 Fore wing with black-edged white antemedial spot below the cell, 

 its outer side angled; a black- edged white spot beyond the cell. 

 Hind wing white ; the costal area black, expanding into a patch in 

 end of cell ; the termen black, emitting slight streaks on the veins 

 and expanding towards tornus, the base of inner area tinged with 

 crimson. 



$ . Head, thorax, and fore wing deeper red, the last with the 



