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series of dentate semihyaline spots. Hind wing semihyaline 

 yellowish white, the margins yellower, the inner margin slightly 

 tinged with scarlet. 



Ab. 1. significans. Pore wing with the spots ill-defined, confluent, 

 forming bands crossing the veins which are only scarlet between 

 them. 



Hab. Br. Columbia, Chulukwegah (Ti^ail), 1 $ type; U.S.A., 

 California, New Mexico. E.xy. 38 millim. 



Subsp. 1. occidentalis, French, Can. Ent. xxii. p. 46 (1890); Kirbj, Cat. 

 Het. p. 209. 



The red markings replaced by ochreous. 

 Bab. Colorado. 



1556. .ffimilia rubriplaga. (Plate XLII. fig. 1.) 

 Ameles rubriplaga, Wlk. iii. 712 (1853) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 218. 



2 . Dark red-brown, upper part of frons and vertex of head 

 yellowish white with brown mark ; tegnlse and patagia with 

 yellowish-white patches ; pectus and legs yellow, the tibia3 and tarsi 

 brown with yellowish-white bands ; abdomen crimson, with brown 

 dorsal patch from base to middle, the last two segments and ventral 

 surface orange-yellow. Fore wing with white basal patch from 

 costa to vein 1, crossed by a yellowish waved band defined by fine 

 brown lines, and with slight orange points beyond it on costal area 

 and in cell ; a broad oblique band of yellow and white spots defined 

 by brown from middle of costa to vein 1 ; a terminal patch of white 

 spots with yellow ones between them defined by fine brown lines 

 from costa to vein .S, leaving a brown spot on termen between veins 

 5 and 6 ; some yellow points on cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown, 

 the base and costal area to near apex crimson ; cilia with yellow 

 spots. 



Hab. Venezuela, 1 5 type. Exp. 48 millim. 



1557. -ffimilia crassa. (Plate XLII. fig. 2.) 



Automolis crassa, Wlk. xxxi. 104 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 166. 



d . Head pale yellow ; palpi, a bar across frons, and antennae 

 brown ; neck with pink ring ; tegulse and shoulders pale yellow, the 

 former with the extremities brown, the edges of patagia and thorax 

 orange and pale pink ; pectus pink ; legs pale yellow and brown, 

 the tarsi banded with white ; abdomen fuscous brown, with pale 

 yellow segmental rings, the ventral surface yellow, the anal tuft 

 and a lateral series of spots brown. Fore wing semihyaline brown, 

 the median nervure and vein 1 streaked with orange ; yellow fulvous- 

 edged patches on middle and apical part of costa. Hind wing 

 hyaline, the costal and inner areas brown, a yellow patch on middle 

 of costa. 



Hab. Colombia, Bogota (Stevens), 1 (S type. Exp. 42 millim. 



