NERITOS* 



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' $ . Fore wing with the yellow patches on costa and termen con- 

 fluent; the subapical patch reduced leaving more yellow on termen. 

 Hah. Costa liiCA, Candelaria Mts. {Underwood)^ 1 S type, God- 

 man-Salvin Coll.; Guatemala, typef? tipolis in Coll. Staudinger. 

 Kvp, 34 millim. 



B. Fore wing of male without fovea. 



«. Fore wing with veins 10, 11 from cell. 



a^. Hind wing yellow n.eretlna,^ 



//'. Hind wing crimson cardinalh. 



*1550. Neritos nere'.ina. (Plate XLII. fig. 9.) 



Trichromia neretina, Dyar, J. N. Y. Eiit. Soe. vi. p. 37 (1898). 



c^ . Head ochre-yellow; frons purplish brown; thorax purple- 

 brown ; legs pale yellow ; fore femora crimson in front ; abdomen 

 pale yellow, suffused with crimson on dorsum. Fore wing with the 

 ijiner area purple-brown from costa before middle to termen just 

 above tornus, its upper edge curved and somewhat dentate at the 

 veins; the apical half of wings yellow, with a large purple-brown 

 subapical patch extending just into cell and running down to a 

 point just below lower angle of cell. Hind wing ^^ellowish white. 



2 ' Fore wing with the projection from subapical patch confluent 

 with the dark basal area; hind wing crimson. 



Hah. Venezuela, Area, Porto Cabello ; Peru, Piches and Perene 

 Valleys, 2000-3000 feet.. L\vp. 21 millim. 



*1551. Neritos cardinalis, 



Neritos cardtnalis, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Eut. Beige, xliii. p. 327 (1899). 



(5 . Crimson ; head and thorax somewhat mixed with brown ; a 

 chrome-yellow bar between antennae ; mid and hind coxae, base of 



tibisB, the spurs, the tarsi 

 except at extremity, and the 

 ventral surface of abdomen 

 yellow. Fore wing thickly 

 mottled with purplish fus- 

 cous ; an antemedial chrome- 

 yellow band angled inwards 

 at middle and expanding at 

 Vig. lO'i.— Neritos cardinalis, ^ . \. costa; a dome-shaped spot 



on middle of costa; spots 

 on termen at apex and vein 4, and an irregularly triangular spot 

 above tornus. 



Hah. Colombia {Micay), type t d in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 36 millim. 



b. Fore wing with veins 10, 11 stalked. 



*1552. Neritos nigricoUis. 



Scepsis nigri<;ollum, Dognin, Le Nat. 1892, p. 123 ; id. Lep. Loja, pi. 8. f. 4 

 J . Black-brown ; frons and abdomen dorsally tinged with blue 



