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1421. Opharus piperita. 



Pheqoptera piperita, Herr.-SchafF. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 293 (1855) ; 

 i)ruce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 93 ; Xirby, Cat. Het. p. 212. 



2 . Black-brown ; head and thorax irrorated with white scales ; 

 palpi with crimson spot at side of 2nd joint; irons, vertex of head, 

 teguloe, patagia, meso- and metathorax with pairs of pale yellow 

 spots ; fore femora crimson above ; tibiae irrorated with yellow ; 

 abdomen crimson with brown bands, the hair on dorsum towards 

 base brown, the ventral surface yellow with brown bands. Fore 

 wing irrorated with small white spots ; some yellow points at base ; 

 a subbasal spot in cell and small spot below it : an antemedial series 

 angled in cell, then oblique, the two spots below the cell larger ; two 

 medial series interrupted in cell, the outer with the spot above vein 2 

 displaced outwards ; two discoidal spots ; a postmediaj series slightly 

 angled above veins 6 and 4, then incurved; a subterminal series with 

 the spots on costa and above vein 6 displaced outwards. Hind wing 

 pale yellow ; conjoined brown patches on costa at middle of cell and 

 a terminal band broad at costa, narrowing to tornus, irrorated with 

 white points ; the inner area tinged with brown. 



Hah. Costa Rica {Rogers)^ 1 $ Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Panama, 

 Chiriqui ; Brazil. Exp. 66 millim. 



*1422. Opharus aurogutta. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 9.) 



Phegoptera aurogutta, Schaus, J. N, Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 141 (1896). 



S . Black-brown ; antennse reddish brown ; metathorax and 

 pectus with paired crimson patches ; mid femora crimson above ; 

 abdomen with orange bands on four terminal segments. Fore 

 wing with orange spots at base ; an antemedial series of five small 

 spots, angled in cell, with two spots beyond them in submedian 

 interspace ; a medial point on costa ; a spot in end of cell, followed 

 by a series of five small spots from costa to below vein 2 ; post- 

 medial and subterminal series of spots, the spots above vein 5 

 displaced inwards, the postmedial series incurved below vein 4 ; a 

 cilial series of spots. Hind wing yellowish suff'used with fuscous ; 

 a discoidal blackish spot and a patch at apex; some obscure terminal 

 black spots ; cilia yellower ; underside with an inverted Y-shaped 

 black mark on middle of costa. 



Hah. Colombia, type t d' in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 48 millim. 



1423. Opharus decrepida. 



Phegoptera decrepida, Herr.-Schaflf. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 287 (1855) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 207. 



(S . Head and thorax brown irrorated with ochreous, palpi at 

 sides, frons, and vertex of head with blackish marks, tegulae and 

 patagia with black-edged annulate markings ; abdomen orange, the 

 long hair at base black-brown, dorsal and lateral series of black 

 spots ending in a patch on terminal segment, the ventral surface 



