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series of orange points and whitish spots, a sublateral series of 

 whitish patches. Pore wing with snbbasal orange points below 

 costa and cell ; an antemedial series of small orange spots acutely 

 angled on median nervure and strongly incurved in submedian 

 interspace, with a whitish spot before it below costa, a streak in 

 cell, and oblique bar and streak in submedian interspace, its outer 

 edge defined by an oblique white band from costa to median nervure 

 and angled band from below cell to inner margin ; an orange point in 

 end of cell ; an oblique whitish band from costa beyond middle to 

 lower angle of cell, then angled inwards to join the antemedial band, 

 then excurved to the inner side of the postmedial series of orange 

 points, which is excurved from costa to vein 3, then sinuous ; a sub- 

 terminal whitish band giving off a fork to apex, bent outwards 

 round an orange point between veins 3, 4, and angled inwards in 

 submedian fold ; a whitish fascia on inner margin except towards 

 base ; an orange mark on costa towards apex, two points between 

 veins 6, 7, and a terminal series of small spots on the veins ; cilia 

 white towards tornus. Hind wing- with whitish spots below base 

 and end of cell and beyond the cell between veins 3 and 6 ; some 

 obscure subterminal spots between veins 2 and 6. Underside with 

 some orange marks at base of fore wing and on base of costa of 

 hind wing. 



Hab. Beaztl, 1 5 . Ea;p. 78 millim. Type t in Coll. Staudinger. 



*1426. Opharus schaefferi. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 13.) 



Phcsgoptera schqff'eri, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 280. 



Ph(sgoptera nexoides, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 140 (1896). 



S . Head and thorax brown ; palpi, upper part of frons, sides of 

 vertex of head, tegulae, patagia, meso- and metathorax with orange 

 spots ; coxae and extremity of spurs orange ; abdomen orange, with 

 triangular dorsal brown patch extending to 5th segment, the ventral 

 surface brown with sublateral series of orange points. Eore wing 

 whitish, the veins brown, the series of orange spots placed on diffused 

 brown bands, conjoined diffused brown patches on medial area ; 

 an orange point at base ; two snbbasal spots above and below cell ; 

 an antemedial series oblique from costa to below cell, where it is 

 angled, then incurved ; two spots in end of cell and one beyond it : 

 the postmedial series excurved from below costa to vein 3 ; a sub- 

 terminal series bent outwards at vein 7 ; a terminal series on the 

 veins. Hind wing brownish white, the veins and inner, costal, and 

 terminal areas suffused with brown ; a terminal series of orange 

 points on the veins. 



$ . Patagia with curved white fascia above the orange spots ; 

 fore wing with one orange spot in end of cell and no spot beyond 

 the cell. 



Hah. Venezuela ; Brazil, Petropolis, type f and type t nexoides 

 cJ $ in Coll. Schaus. Exp., J QQ, 5 56 millim. 



