128 ARCTIAD^. 



median fold and ending at vein 1, greyish black-edged spots beyond 

 it in submedian interspace and below vein 1 ; a patch from middle 

 of costa to above median nervure with irregular edges, constricted 

 at subcostal nervure and angled inwards on discal fold ; a post- 

 medial series of conjoined somewhat triangular spots, the spot 

 above vein 5 with a spot on its inner side, and the spots above 

 veins 4 and 2 and above and below 1 with short black streaks from 

 them ; a subterminal series of somewhat diamond-shaped spots, the 

 spot above vein 6 close to the termen, and the three spots from vein 

 4 to 1 obliquely placed from the postmedial series to above tornus, 

 the lowest spot lunulate ; a terminal series of small spots on the 

 veins. Bind wing fuscous black, with diffused white in the inter- 

 spaces towards costa and on terminal area from vein 3 to costa. 



Hah. Brazil, Espiritu Santo, 1 $ ; N. Friburgo, Petropolis. Exp. 

 76 millim. 



1432. Opharus nexa. 



Phego'ptera nexa, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 290 (1855) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 212. 

 Pheqoptera pimctularis, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 291 (1855) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 212. 

 Halesidota jiavopunctata, Wlk. iii. 740 (1855), nee Herr.-Schaff. ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 212. 



(5* . Head and thorax black-brown ; palpi and frons at sides, 

 vertex of head, tegulse at extremities, patagia, meso- and metathorax, 

 and C0X8B with orange spots, the tegulae and patagia sometimes with 

 more or less developed white spots ; abdomen orange, with black- 

 brown dorsal patch rounded oft' on 4th segment, the ventral surface 

 black-brown with sublateral series of orange points and obscure 

 whitish bands on basal segments. Pore wing white, the veins, cell, 

 and submedian fold streaked with brown ; a basal brown patch with 

 two orange points on it ; an antemedial waved band with small 

 orange spots on it, oblique from costa to median nervure and 

 strongly incurved in submedian interspace ; a medial patch with 

 one or two orange points on it from costa to or to above median ner- 

 vure ; a postmedial maculate band with yellow spots on it excurved 

 from costa to vein 3, then incurved, often developed into a patch on 

 costa, sometimes with two extra yellow points on it, some slight 

 streaks from the outer edge of band; an irregular subterminal 

 series of brown spots with orange spots on them bent outwards to 

 join the terminal band above vein 6 and inwards to the postmedial 

 band above vein 3 : a terminal brown band with triangular orange 

 spots on the veins. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins and 

 termen pale brown. 



$ , Hind wing more or less completely suffused with fuscous 

 brown, leaving white patches below the cell and an irregular sub- 

 terminal series. 



Hah. Brazil, 5 d,3 $. Exp., S 48-56, $ 50-62 millim. 

 Type t and ty])Q "f punctularis in Coll. Staudinger. 



