138 



AECTIAD^. 



1453. Amastus mfator. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 12.) 

 Halesidota rufator, Wlk. xxxi. 312 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 213. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown ; pectus tinged with 

 vinous red ; sides of thorax and the hair at base of abdomen pink. 

 Fore wing red-brown, thickly scaled ; an obscure waved subterminal 

 line. Hind wing pale brownish semihyaline, the cilia darker. 



Hah. Colombia, Bogota (Stevens)^ 1 $ type. Exj^. 68 millim. 



*1454. Amastus medica. 



Pkcegoptera medica, Dognin, Le Nat. (2) v. p. 242 (1891); id. Lep. Loja, 

 pi. 8. f. 18 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 906. 



2 . Head dark brown, the vertex crimson ; tegulae and patagia 

 olive-yellow, the former dark at sides ; thorax and pectus crimson- 

 red ; legs dark brown ; abdomen crimson above, with dark brown 

 bands on terminal half, and the ventral surface dark brown. Fore 

 wing dark red-brown ; a blackish discoidal mark and curved diffused 

 postmedial band with slight olive-yellow marks at costa and inner 

 margin. Hind wing pale red-brown and thinly scaled, darker 

 towards term en. 



Bah. EcuADOE, Loja. Kvj). 72 millim. Type t in Coll. Dognin. 



1455. Amastus coUaris. 



Ph(egoptera collaris, Herr.-SchajBf. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 65 (1853) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 213. 



Fig. 86. — Amastus collaris, (^ . \. 



(5 . Head and thorax orange-brown ; 2nd and 3rd joints of palpi 

 and antennae black ; frons white ; tegulae and shoulders with broad 

 white band, patagia edged with white above ; legs brown, the 

 femora fringed with white ; abdomen salmon-pink, the last four 

 segments at sides and the terminal segment above black, banded 

 with white, the ventral surface white, claspers fulvous. Fore 

 wing orange-brown, the whole discal area semihyaline; a somewhat 

 darker discoidal patch ; an obscure highly sinuous subterminal pale 

 line. Hind wing hyaline, the veins, inner area, and termen tinged 

 with brownish. 



