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J . Brown ; pectus and coxao wifh orange jiatohes ; abdomen 

 orange above, with large brown dorsal patch on 2nd-5th segments 

 followed by dorsal spots, the terminal segment and ventral surface 

 brown. Fore wing very thickly irrorated with pale scales ; a pale 

 point on angle of discocellulars. Hind wing pale, the terminal area 

 tinged with brown, the inner with orange. 



2 . The extremity of abdomen orange ; the hind wing browner. 



Hab. Mexico, type, Jalapa (Hoege), Coatepec {BrooTcs) ; Guate- 

 mala ; Panama {Chaminon), Godman-Salvin Coll.; Colombia; 

 Bolivia, Suapi. Exp. 48-52 millim. 



1394. Elysius atriceps, n. sp. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 2.) 



S . Head and thorax yellowish white ; palpi with the 2nd joint 

 black at sides, the 3rd joint black ; antennae rufous ; vertex of head 

 with black patch with some orange behind it ; tegulse with black 

 spots, shoulders and patagia striped with black ; mesothorax with 

 black spot ; legs brown and white, the fore coxse orange ; abdomen 

 orange, with dorsal fuscous patch at base, lateral series of black 

 spots, and the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing ochreous 

 irrorated with brown ; the series of white spots with diffused dark 

 brown edges ; orange and black points at base : an antemedial very 

 oblique series of three white spots ; a medial series angled on median 

 nervure, then very oblique, the two spots towards costa small ; 

 a spot in end of cell, two small discoidal spots with one on costa 

 above them ; an oblique postmedial series of spots angled outwards 

 above vein 4, the three spots towards costa larger ; a subterminal 

 series of spots, those above veins 3 and 4 smaller, two near tornus 

 forming a <-mark. Hind wing yellowish white, the apex slightly 

 tinged with fuscous. 



Hob. Colombia, 1 <S type; Bolivia, E. Tanampaya. Exp. 

 54 millim. 



1395. Elysius melanoplaga, n. sp. (Plate XXXYIII. fig. 16.) 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale and dark brown ; patagia 

 with whitish stripes ; abdomen with some whitish hair at base. 

 Fore wing pale, suffused and striated with brown ; the costal area 

 black-brown, expanding into large basal and postmedial patches ; 

 the bands pale and defined by fine brown lines ; a subbasal curved 

 band bent round and running to the base as a whitish stripe ; an 

 antemedial pale point below costa and band from cell to inner 

 margin ; a rather irregular medial band from costa to just above 

 inner margin ; a postmedial band excurved to vein 4, then incurved 

 and interrupted beyond lower angle of cell by the dark patch ; an 

 irregularly waved and dentate subterminal band, with dark patches 

 beyond it above and below middle. Hind wing whitish, 'the veins, a 

 discoidal patch, and a terminal band narrowing to tornus brown ;, 

 veins 4, 5 from cell, 8 a spur. 



Hah. EcuADOK {Buckley), 1 c^" type. Exp. 52 millim. 



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