PACHTDOTA. — CAEATHIS. 05 



median fold streaked with black, except the veins enclosing end of 

 cell and subcostal veins. 



S . Abdomen with some black at base on ventral surface ; hind 

 win^ -with the inner margin fringed with dark brown hair. 



Ilab, Colombia, Bogota ; Venezuela, Merida ; Ecuador, St. Inez 

 {Buckley)^ 1 $ , Loja. Exp. 64 millim. 



Genus CARATHIS. 



Type. 



Carathis, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. v. p. 253 (1865) gortynoides. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head ; antennaj 

 of male bipectinate with moderate branches, of female with short branches ; 

 tibia with the spurs moderate ; thorax and abdomen at base dorsally clothed 

 with rough hair. Fore wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 5 

 from angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with vein 3 from near 

 angle of cell ; 4, 5 very shortly stalked ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 absent. 



A . Hind wing yellow palpalis. 



B. Hind wing fuscous. 



a. Tegulai with white spots hyhlis. 



b. Tegulse without white spots gortynoides. 



1356. Carathis palpalis. (Plate XXXYII. fig. 12.) 



Halesidota paljpalis, Wlk. iii. 735 (1855); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 218. 



(5 . Black-brown ; palpi banded with yellow ; vertex of head 

 white with brown point, tegulee and patagia with white patches ; 

 pectus, legs, and abdomen orange-yellow ; tibiae and tarsi brown, the 

 tibiae with white bands. Eore wing with white patch at base from 

 costa to submedian fold formed by white spots and crossed by a 

 narrow waved yellow band defined by brown lines ; medial waved 

 yellow spots on costa and inner margin, with larger white spots on 

 each side of them ; a patch on terminal area from costa to vein 2 

 formed of small white spots with yellowish spots between them, 

 defined by fine brown lines and leaving a brown spot on termen 

 between veins 5 and 6. Hind wing orange-yellow. 



Hah. Jamaica (Gosse), 4 cS type. Exp. 46 millim. 



*1357. Carathis byblis. 



Ameles byblis, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 279 ; id. Am. Lep. pi. ii. f. 2. 



(^ . Sepia-brown ; upper part of frons and vertex of head, large 

 medial and lateral spots on tegulse, the outer part of patagia, and 

 a spot on mesothorax yellowish white ; pectus and legs pale orange- 

 yellow, the latter banded with brown ; abdomen dorsally blackish, 

 laterally orange somewhat intersecting the black area, ventrally 

 yellowish white ; lateral and sublateral series of black spots, ventral 

 black points on two subterminal segments. Fore wing with a basal 

 patch formed by nine or ten yellowish-white spots, its outer edge 

 excurved at middle and followed by a point in cell ; two medial 



