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Sect. III. Hind wing with the costal area less strongly lobed and extending to 

 three fourths of inner area. 



A. Fore wing of male with elongate fovea and tuft below the 

 cell near base. 

 a. Fore wing of male with veins 10, 11 stalked ; antennae 

 serrate and fasciculate. 



a). Pectus yellow sanguipuncta. 



6\ Pectus white pandera. 



*1545. Neritos sanguipuncta. 



Neritos sanguipuncta, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) vii. p. 265 (1901). 



(S . Palpi scarlet above, yellow below with a dark spot at 

 extremity ; frons and antennae brown ; vertex of head yellow ; 

 thorax brown, the patagia edged with scarlet ; pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen yellow, the last dorsally scarlet except at extremity. 



Fig. 102. — Neritos sanguipuncta, (S . K 



Fore wing with the basal area purple-brown, its edge somewhat 

 dentate at the veins and running obliquely from costa before middle 

 to termen above tornus ; a short oblique scarlet striga across middle 

 of vein 1 ; the apical area yellow, with large rounded purple-brown 

 subapical patch with somewhat indented circumference, a scarlet 

 streak above it on costa. 



2 . Fore wing with the apical patch conjoined by a narrow band 

 to the basal patch. 



Hab. Venezeula, Merida; Ecuadoe, Loja, 1 <5 type t in Coll. 

 Schaus. Ex^. 32 millim. 



1546. Neritos pandera. (Plate XLI. fig. 14.) 



Trichromia pandera, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 137 (1896). 



Head and thorax greyish brown ; pectus and legs white ; abdo- 

 men orange, with crimson dorsal spot at base, the ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing with the basal area brown, shading to pale 

 silvery purple towards its outer edge, which is oblique from costa 

 before middle to termen above tornus and somewhat dentate at the 

 veins ; the apical area semihyaline yellow, with rounded purplish 

 apical patch with somewhat crenulate edge. Hind wing orange- 

 yellow. 



Bab. Venezuela, Area, 1 $ ; Amazons, Rio Negro, (5 in Coll. 

 Staudinger. Exp. 36 millim. Typef $ in Coll. Schaus. 



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