AMASTUS. 



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broad oblique medial band from subcostal ncrvure to inner mar^n, 

 towards which it is obsolescent and includes a black discoidal 

 lunule ; a black-edged red-brown maculate postmedial band, ex- 

 curved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; a diffused dentate 

 subterminal black line with red-brown point on it below costa. 

 Hind wing pale semihyaline, the veins and marginal areas tin<2jed 

 with yellow-brown. 



Hah. Bolivia, Chaco {GarJepp), 1 S type. E.vp. 66 millim. 



1450. Amastus mesorhoda. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 11.) 



Amastus mesorhoda, Wlk. vii. 1704 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 213. 



Head and thorax grey-brown ; antennsB pale red-brown ; palpi 

 and back o£ head black ; tegulse with black band, dark brown at 

 tips ; patagia with black stripe ; pectus mixed with red-brown hair : 

 abdomen black, dorsally clothed with pale crimson hair to beyond 

 middle, the extremity and ventral surface grey-brown. Fore wing 

 with the disk semihyaline, thickly irrorated with fuscous black 

 scales ; the veins, costal, inner, and terminal areas brown irrorated 

 with dark brown : the discocellulars blackish with whitish mark 

 above them on costa ; an obscure irregular subterminal line with 

 blackish suffusion on its inner side. Hind wing pale semihyaline 

 brown. 



Hab. Colombia, Bogota, type t in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 66-70 

 millim. 



*1451. Amastus ambrosia. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 2.) 



Phagoptera ambrosia, Druce, P. Z, S. 1890, p. 498 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 214. 



2 . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with black and pinkish ; 

 abdomen black, the dorsum clothed with crimson hair, the two sub- 

 terminal segments with crimson dorsal bands and the terminal with 

 a pair of spots. Fore wing dark brown, mottled and striated with 

 pale yellow-brown ; the veins black ; an irregularly dentate sub- 

 terminal fine yellow line, the area beyond it reddish brown. Hind 

 wing semihyaline brown, with a series of obscure dentate yellowish 

 marks on termen. 



Ilab. Colombia, Antioquia, Frontino {Salmon), type t $ in Coll. 

 Druce. Exp. 88 millim. 



1452. Amastus erebella. 



Lophocampa erebella, Maass. Stiibel's Eeisen S. Amer., Lep. p. 131, pi iv, 

 f. 29 (1890) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 906. 



9 . Head and thorax pale and dark brown ; patagia tipped with 

 crimson ; pectus and coxge with some crimson hair ; abdomen brown, 

 dorsally clothed with pale crimson hair towards base. Fore wing 

 hyaline, thickly irrorated with dark brown scales. Hind wing 

 hyaline, sparsely clothed with brownish-white scales, the inner 

 area with brown hair. 



Hah. Colombia, Bogota, 1 5 . Exp. 60 millim. 



