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14G1. Amastus aconia. 



Ph(egoptera aconia, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Sclmiett. f. 64 (1853) ; 

 Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 95 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 213. 



Head and thorax white; palpi grey, the 1st joint fringed with 

 orange hair ; antennae black ; sides of frons, neck, extremity of 

 tegulae, and stripes on patagia and thorax orange ; pectus orange ; 

 femora whitish, tibiae and tarsi brown ; abdomen orange, the 

 ventral surface white, except claspers of male. Fore wing pale 

 semihyaline brown, veins 1 to 7 and the submedian fold and fold in 

 cell with dark streaks ; a pale waved subterminal line. Hind wing 

 semihyaline whitish, more thickly scaled towards margins. 



Hah. Costa Rica ( Van Paten, Underiuood), 2 c? , 3 $ , Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. ; Colombia, Bogota, 1 $ ; Venezuela ; Ecuadoe, Loja ; 

 Peed, Callanga. E.vj). 94 millim. 



1462. Amastus persimilis, n. sp. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 14.) 



2 . Head and thorax orange-fulvous ; palpi with the extremity 

 of 2nd and the 3rd joints blackish ; frons white ; antennae blackish, 

 white above ; tegulae and shoulders with white band edged by black 

 lines ; patagia with grey-white edges ; legs grey- white ; abdomen 

 orange, the ventral surface white. Fore wing pale reddish brown, 

 thinly scaled, the veins blackish ; the base obliquely grey-white ; an 

 indistinct pale curved subterminal line. Hind wing pale brownish 

 semihyaline, rather more thickly scaled towards termen. 



Bah. Ecuadoe, Loja, 6000 feet, 1 $, type. E,vjj. 84 millim. 



1463. Amastus elongata. 



Lopkocampa elongata, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 101. f. 5 (1874) : Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 211. 



Yellowish white ; palpi, frons, antennae, a stripe on vertex of 

 thorax, and upperside of legs black ; abdomen dorsally orange, a 

 slight lateral black line. Fore wing with the costal edge black 

 towards base ; a broad antemedial pale brown band from below 

 costa to inner margin, joined in submedian fold by an oblique 

 narrower band from costa above end of cell ; a slightly sinuous 

 postmedial band with waved edges ; a terminal band with irregularly 

 waved inner edge. Hind wing with some brown suffusion on 

 terminal area. 



Hab. Cayenne, type t in Coll. Eothschild ; Bea.zil, Castro Parana, 

 1 (S • Eicp' 64 milhm. 



1464. Amastus ochraceator. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 5.) 



Halesidota ochraceator, Wlk. xxxi. 310 (1864) ; Druce, Biol, Centr.-Am., 

 Het. i. p. 95 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 213. 



Head and thorax grey, antennae black : 1st joint of palpi, sides 

 of frons, neck, edge of tegulae, and stripes on patagia and thorax 



