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*1407. Opharus ruficoUis. 



Opharus ruficoUis, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 102, pi. 10. f. 8 (1884) 

 Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 205. 



S . Palpi, frons, and antennye black-brown ; vertex of head, 

 tegulae, and patagia scarlet, the last two with black points ; thorax 

 brown ; base of palpi, pectus, and base of legs fulvous ; abdomen 

 pale fulvous red, with black dorsal spots on last four segments, a 

 lateral series of spots, and ventral series of patches becoming bands 

 on last four segments. Fore wing brown with a purplish tinge ; 

 the base of inner area reddish, with one basal and two subbasal black 

 points ; a fuscous subterminal band from below costa to vein 5, where 

 it is bent inwards, then continued to tornus. Hind wing pale 

 fulvous to middle of costa and tornus, the apical half brown. 



Hah. Panama, Chiriqui, type t in Coll. Staudinger. Exp, 54 

 millim. 



*1408. Opharus belus. 



OpJiarus heliis, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 382, pi. 76. f. 5 (1897). 



S . Puscous brown ; vertex of head and base of patagia bright 

 yellow ; abdomen with the last four segments orange-yellow above 

 with dorsal and lateral black spots, the 3rd and 4th segments also 

 having black lateral spots on orange patches. Fore wing with 

 the terminal half finely striated with dark brown ; antemedial, 

 medial, postmedial, and subterminal minutely waved paired lines, 

 the medial lines slightly angled on median nervure, the postmedial 

 incurved below vein 4, the subterminal irregularly dentate ; a darker 

 patch in and beyond end of cell. 



Hah. Panama, Chiriqui, type t 6 in Coll. Staudinger. Kvp. 

 48 millim. 



1409. Opharus rhodosoma. 



Phagoptcra rhodosoma, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xvi. p. 233 (1875) ; id. 111. 

 Het. B. M. i. p. .52, pi. 18. f. 3 (1877) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 205. 



2 . Head black, the vertex yellowish white ; thorax black-brown, 

 with yellowish- white patch on tegulae and prothorax ; coxae crimson ; 

 abdomen black-brown, the basal segments crimson, then with sub- 

 dorsal crimson patches almost meeting above. Fore wing red-brown, 

 with very numerous pale transverse striated lines forking and with 

 brown points on them. Hind wing dark brown, with paler patch in 

 cell and crimson patch from cell to tornus. 



Hab. Ecuador (Buckley), 1 $ type. Ex^j. 72 millim. 



1410. Opharus basalis. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 18.) 



Opharus basalis, Wlk. vii. 1704 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 205. 



Head and shoulders black ; vertex of head, tegulae, patagia, and 

 thorax yellowish white ; pectus orange ; legs brown ; abdomen 

 fuscous, with broad orange lateral fasciae meeting dorsally at 



