430 ARCTIAD^. 



and postmedial black spots ; the inner area greyish suffused with 

 purple, with a short black streak on middle of inner margin and a 

 curved postmedial line from submedian fold to inner margin. Hind 

 wing hyaline ; the costal area yellowish, the inner area orange 

 with black terminal point on vein 1. 



2 . Fore wing olive-ochreous suffused with purplish except the 

 subcostal area and a curved postmedial band with rather irregular 

 edges ; the ante- and postmedial spots often reduced ; the postmedial 

 curved line expanding more or less towards lower angle of cell and 

 sometimes double. Hind wing orange, with oblique irregular black 

 band from vein 3 to tornus. 



Bab. Colombia, 1 $ . E.vp., c? 46, $ 60 millim. Type t in 

 Coll. Schaus. 



Genus TESSELLOTA, nov. 



Type, T. cancdlata. 



Proboscis aborted ; palpi porrect, minute ; antennae of female with extremely 

 short branches ; tibiae with the spurs moderate ; abdomen smoothly sealed. 

 Fore wing long and narrow ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from 

 angle ; 6 from just below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



A. Fore wing with postmedial series of yellowish spots trifasciata. 



B, Fore wing with irregular postmedial brown band. 



a. Fore wing with double lines on basal area sertata. 



b. Fore wing with brown patches on basal area cancellata. 



2000. Tessellota trifasciata. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 3.) 



Halesidota trifasciata, Burm. Descr. Kep. Arg. v. p. 446 (1878) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p! 211. 



$ . Head and thorax brownish grey ; pectus and legs whitish ; 

 abdomen orange above, white at extremity and on ventral surface, 

 with dorsal and lateral series of black spots. Pore wing grey- 

 brown ; the base of inner margin whitish ; a truncate triangular 

 yellowish patch on middle of costa, with a spot below it below cell 

 and an orange-yellow spot nearer the base above vein 1 ; a post- 

 medial series of yellowish spots, dilated towards costa, oblique 

 below vein 3 ; a terminal series of patches in the interspaces 

 narrowing to a point at tornus. 



Hah. Aegentina, Goya (Perrins), 1 5 • ^^i>- 30 millim. 



2001. Tessellota sertata. (Plate XLIX. fig. 19.) 



Hah/sidota sertata, Berg, An. Soc. Arg. xiii. p. 214 (1882) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p:2ii. 



Euerythra apiola, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) iii. p. 235 (1899). 



Head and thorax white mixed with brown scales ; abdomen 

 orange, with dorsal and lateral series of black spots, the ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing white; the basal area with reticulate 

 brown markings ; oblique double lines connected in places from 



