mOSPAGE. BELEMNIASTIS. 213 



1621. Diospage rhe"biis. 



SpJiinx rhehns, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 234, F (1770) ; Kirbv, Cat. Het. 

 p. 161). 



d . 131ack ; head, thorax, and legs with patches of metallic blue- 

 green ; abdomen with golden-green dorsal stripe ; lateral blue-green 

 sp' ts on first five segments ; a ventral yellowish and blue line on 1st 

 segment and sublateral spots on 2nd, the next four segments with 

 crimson bands. Fore wing with a golden-green fascia on basal half 

 in cell and two in submedian interspace ; small hyaline spots 



Fig. 121. — Diospage rkebus, ^ . }, 



between veins 3 and 5 and above and below 6. Hiud wing with 

 brilliant blue patch in and below eeli with irregular outer edge. 

 Underside of fore wing with brilliant blue fascia in and below cell ; 

 the basal half of hind wing blue with irregular outer edge, a small 

 spot at upper angle and large spot at lower angle : veins 4, 5 on a 

 short stalk. 



Hah. Brazil, Upper Amazons, Olivencas (Ilichelli), 1 S , Sao 

 Paulo, Exp. 44 millim. 



Genus BELEMNIASTIS, nov. 



Type, B. vhitdeyi. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, extending as far as frons; antennas 

 bipectinate in both sexes, the apical part serrate, the shaft expanding some- 

 what beyond middle, the branches dilated at extremity ; tibiis with the spurs 

 short ; abdomen smoothly scaled, with lateral tubercles at base. Fore wing 

 with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from below 

 upper angle; 10 shortly stalked with 7, 8, 9 ; 11 free. Hind wing with veins 

 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell, not 

 quite reaching costa. 



A. Fore wing with crimson postmedial band attidates. 



E. Fore wing with orange postmedial band trotschi. 



C. Fore wing with ochreous white postmedial band vhiteUyi, 



1622. Belemniastis attidates. (Plate XLIII. fig. 14.) 



Belemnia attidates, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) v. p. 508 (1900). 



(S . Black ; head and thorax marked with brilliant metallic blue ; 

 legs slightly streaked with white ; abdomen with dorsal and lateral 

 series of metallic blue spots ; the ventral surface crimson except 

 at base and extremity. Fore wing with brilliant metallic blue 

 interrupted streak on basal area below costa, and a broader better 



